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"When I started working with ANY-maze I was pleasantly surprised by how much more user-friendly and versatile it is than other more expensive systems."

Ramiro Salas, PhD
Division of Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine

ANY-maze publications

Below is a sample of the research being performed with ANY-maze.
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Munguba H. et al. (2011)Pre-training anandamide infusion within the basolateral amygdala impairs plus-maze discriminative avoidance task in rats. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory [epub ahead of press]
 

Frye CA & Walf A (2011) Progesterone, administered before kainic acid, prevents decrements in cognitive performance in the Morris Water Maze. Developmental Neurobiology 71: 142-152
 

Filali M et al. (2011) Subchronic memantine administration on spatial learning, exploratory activity, and nest-building in an APP/PS1 mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Neuropharmacology 60: 930-936
 

Cunningham C (2011) Influence of Enriched Environment on Viral Encephalitis Outcomes: Behavioral and Neuropathological Changes in Albino Swiss Mice. PLoS ONE 6
 

Wang XD et al. (2011) Forebrain CRHR1 deficiency attenuates chronic stress-induced cognitive deficits and dendritic remodeling. Neurobiology of Disease [epub ahead of print]
 

Varadarajulu J et al. (2011) Increased anxiety-related behaviour in Hint1 knockout mice. Behavioural Brain Research 220:305-311
 

Ciobica A et al. (2011) Inhibition of Central Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Exerts Anxiolytic Effects by Decreasing Brain Oxidative Stress. Journal of Medical Biochemistry 1-6
 

Wang YJ et al. (2011) p75NTR Regulates Aβ Deposition by Increasing Aβ Production But Inhibiting Aβ Aggregation with Its Extracellular Domain. The Journal of Neuroscience 31: 2292-2304
 

Ciobica C et al. (2011) Effects of angiotensin II receptor antagonists on anxiety and some oxidative stress markers in rat. Central European Journal of Medicine 6: 331-340
 

Markham JA et al. (2010) Characterization of the cognitive impairments induced by prenatal exposure to stress in the rat. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 4:173
 

Bertges KR et al. (2011) Effects of acute topiramate dosing on open field behavior in mice. Rev Neurosci [epub ahead of print]
 

Sashidhara KV et al. (2011) Discovery and synthesis of novel 3-phenylcoumarin derivatives as antidepressant agents. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 21: 1937-1941
 

de Sousa AA et al. (2011) Influence of Enriched Environment on Viral Encephalitis Outcomes: Behavioral and Neuropathological Changes in Albino Swiss Mice. PLoS ONE 6
 

Martins-Silva C et al. (2011) Novel Strains of Mice Deficient for the Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter: Insights on Transcriptional Regulation and Control of Locomotor Behavior. PLoS ONE 6
 

Tomić M et al. (2011) Pharmacological Evaluation of Halogenated and Non-halogenated Arylpiperazin-1-yl-ethyl-benzimidazoles as D2 and 5-HT2A Receptor Ligands. Archiv der Pharmazie 344
 

Kwon SKC et al. (2011) Stress and Traumatic Brain Injury: A Behavioral, Proteomics, and Histological Study. Front Neurol. 2: 12
 

Shin MK et al. (2011) A novel trimeric peptide, Neuropep-1-stimulating brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression in rat brain improves spatial learning and memory as measured by the Y-maze and Morris water maze. Journal of Neurochemistry 116: 205-216
 

Palanisamy A et al. (2011) Rats Exposed to Isoflurane In Utero during Early Gestation Are Behaviorally Abnormal as Adults. Anesthesiology 114:521-528
 

Satou T et al. (2011) Relationship between duration of exposure and anxiolytic-like effects of essential oil from Alpinia zerumbet. Flavour and Fragrance Journal [epub ahead of print]
 

Schlosburg JE et al. (2011) CB1 receptors mediate rimonabant-induced pruritic responses in mice: investigation of locus of action. Psychopharmacology [epub ahead of print]
 

Antunes FD et al. (2011) Automation of the free-exploratory paradigm. Journal of Neuroscience Methods [epub ahead of print]
 

Cope ZA et al. (2010) Neonatal quinpirole treatment enhances locomotor activation and dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens core in response to amphetamine treatment in adulthood. Synapse 64: 289-300
 

Faturi CB et al. (2010) Anxiolytic-like effect of sweet orange aroma in Wistar rats. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry 34: 605–609
 

Hart PC et al. (2010) Experimental Models of Anxiety for Drug Discovery and Brain Research. Methods in Molecular Biology 602: 299-321
 

Sterlemann V et al. (2010) Chronic social stress during adolescence induces cognitive impairment in aged mice. Hippocampus 4: 540-549
 

Hambsch B et al. (2010) Methylglyoxal-mediated anxiolysis involves increased protein modification and elevated expression of glyoxalase 1 in the brain. Journal of Neurochemistry 113: 1240-1251
 

Botton PH et al. (2010) Caffeine prevents disruption of memory consolidation in the inhibitory avoidance and novel object recognition tasks by scopolamine in adult mice. Behavioural Brain Research (article in press)
 

Seibt KJ et al. (2010) Antipsychotic drugs prevent the motor hyperactivity induced by psychotomimetic MK-801 in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Behavioural Brain Research (article in press)
 

Graham DR & Sidhu A (2010) Mice expressing the A53T mutant form of human alpha-synuclein exhibit hyperactivity and reduced anxiety-like behavior. Journal of Neuroscience Research 88: 1777-1783
 

Savic MM et al. (2010) Novel positive allosteric modulators of GABAA receptors: Do subtle differences in activity at α1 plus α5 versus α2 plus α3 subunits account for dissimilarities in behavioral effects in rats?. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry 34: 376-386
 

Guan J et al. (2010) NNZ-2591, a novel diketopiperazine, prevented scopolamine-induced acute memory impairment in the adult rat. Behavioural Brain Research 210: 221-228
 

De Viti S. et al. (2010) The Rho GTPase activating CNF1 improves associative working memory for object-in-place. Behavioural Brain Research 212:78-83
 

Bailoo JD et al. (2010) The precision of video and photocell tracking systems and the elimination of tracking errors with infrared backlighting. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 188: 45-52
 

Bilbo SD & Tsang V (2010) Enduring consequences of maternal obesity for brain inflammation and behavior of offspring. The FASEB Journal 24: 2104-2115
 

Clement BW (2010) Object and spatial recognition in the ischemic gerbil. Thesis submitted to the faculty of Montana State University
 

Lauritzen KH et al. (2010) Mitochondrial DNA Toxicity in Forebrain Neurons Causes Apoptosis, Neurodegeneration, and Impaired Behavior. Molecular and Cellular Biology 30: 1357-1367
 

Wang YJ et al. (2010) Intramuscular delivery of a single chain antibody gene prevents brain Aβ deposition and cognitive impairment in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity (article in press)
 

Bordukalo-Niksic T et al. (2010) 5HT-1A receptors and anxiety-like behaviours: Studies in rats with constitutionally upregulated/downregulated serotonin transporter. Behavioural Brain Research 213: 238-245
 

Jiang Z et al. (2010) eIF2 Phosphorylation-Dependent Translation in CA1 Pyramidal Cells Impairs Hippocampal Memory Consolidation without Affecting General Translation. The Journal of Neuroscience 30: 2582-2594
 

Rehberg K et al. (2010) Disruption of fear memory consolidation and reconsolidation by actin filament arrest in the basolateral amygdala. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (article in press)
 

Lucchina L et al. (2010) Evaluating the interaction between early postnatal inflammation and maternal care in the programming of adult anxiety and depression-related behaviors. Behavioural Brain Research 213:56-65
 

Savic MM et al. (2010) Behavioural characterization of four endemic Stachys taxa. Phytotherapy Research (article in press)
 

Newmyer BA et al. (2010) Neuropeptide AF Differentially Affects Anorexia in Lines of Chickens Selected for High or Low Body Weight. Journal of Neuroendocrinology 22: 593-598
 

Marrone DF et al. (2010) Increased pattern separation in the aged fascia dentata. Neurobiology of Aging (article in press)
 

Sarret P et al. (2010) Direct Application of siRNA for In Vivo Pain. Research Methods in Molecular Biology 623: 1064-3745
 

Walff AA & Frye CA (2010) Raloxifene and/or estradiol decrease anxiety-like and depressive-like behavior, whereas only estradiol increases carcinogen-induced tumorigenesis and uterine proliferation among ovariectomized rats. Behavioural Pharmacology 21: 231-240
 

Cline MA et al. (2010) Both calcitonin and calcitonin gene-related peptides' thresholds of hypophagia are considerably lower in chicks selected for high rather than low juvenile body weight. Physiology & Behavior (article in press)
 

Knapman A et al. (2010) Increased stress reactivity is associated with cognitive deficits and decreased hippocampal brain-derived neurotrophic factor in a mouse model of affective disorders. Journal of Psychiatric Research 44: 566-575
 

Kolber BJ et al. (2010) Transient Early-Life Forebrain Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Elevation Causes Long-Lasting Anxiogenic and Despair-Like Changes in Mice. The Journal of Neuroscience 30: 2571-2581
 

Mamczarz J. et al. (2010) An acute exposure to a sub-lethal dose of soman triggers anxiety-related behavior in guinea pigs: Interactions with acute restraint. NeuroToxicology 31: 77-84
 

Kohtz AS et al. (2010) Low doses of cocaine decrease, and high doses increase, anxiety-like behavior and brain progestogen levels among intact rats. Hormones and Behavior 57: 474-480
 

Gustin RM (2010) The role of CA2+/calmodulin-dependent kinase II in normal and abnormal early postnatal development. Dissertation presented to the faculty of Vanderbilt University
 

Bianchi P et al. (2010) Early Pharmacotherapy Restores Neurogenesis and Cognitive Performance in the Ts65Dn Mouse Model for Down Syndrome. The Journal of Neuroscience 30: 8769-8779
 

Arias-Cavieres A et al. (2010) MDMA (“ecstasy”) impairs learning in the Morris Water Maze and reduces hippocampal LTP in young rats. Neuroscience Letters 469: 375-379
 

Pang KCH et al. (2010) Damage of GABAergic neurons in the medial septum impairs spatial working memory and extinction of active avoidance: Effects on proactive interference. Hippocampus (article in press)
 

Cline MA et al. (2010) The threshold of amylin-induced anorexia is lower in chicks selected for low compared to high juvenile body weight. Behavioural Brain Research 208: 650-654
 

Capsoni S et al. (2010) Peripheral Neutralization of Nerve Growth Factor Induces Immunosympathectomy and Central Neurodegeneration in Transgenic Mice. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 20: 527-546
 

Brunzell DH et al. (2010) α-Conotoxin MII-Sensitive Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in the Nucleus Accumbens Shell Regulate Progressive Ratio Responding Maintained by Nicotine. Neuropsychopharmacology 35: 665–673
 

Baldissarelli LA (2010) Efeitos do arsênio sobre as atividades ectonucleotidásicas e parâmetros comportamentais em peixe zebra (Danio rerio). Dissertation presented to the Faculdade de Biociencias of Pontifica Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande Do Sul
 

Faturi CB et al. (2010) Disruptions of the mother–infant relationship and stress-related behaviours: Altered corticosterone secretion does not explain everything. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 6: 821-834
 

Danet M et al. (2010) A cognitive deficit induced in rats by chronic intermittent cold stress is reversed by chronic antidepressant treatment. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology (article in press)
 

Grace CE et al. (2010) Effects of inhibiting neonatal methamphetamine-induced corticosterone release in rats by adrenal autotransplantation on later learning, memory, and plasma corticosterone levels. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience 28: 331-342
 

Scopinho AA et al. (2010) Acute reversible inactivation of the ventral medial prefrontal cortex induces antidepressant-like effects in rats. Behavioural Brain Research (article in press)
 

Schmidt MV et al. (2010) A novel chronic social stress paradigm in female mice. Hormones and Behavior 57: 415-420
 

Bilbo SD (2010) Early-life infection is a vulnerability factor for aging-related glial alterations and cognitive decline. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 94: 57-64
 

Fitz NF et al. (2010) Liver X Receptor Agonist Treatment Ameliorates Amyloid Pathology and Memory Deficits Caused by High-Fat Diet in APP23 Mice. The Journal of Neuroscience 30: 6862-6872
 

Gustavsson M et al. (2010) Maternal supplementation with a complex milk lipid mixture during pregnancy and lactation alters neonatal brain lipid composition but lacks effect on cognitive function in rats. Nutrition Research 30: 279-289
 

McQuibban AG et al. (2010) A Drosophila mutant of LETM1, a candidate gene for seizures in Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome. Human Molecular Genetics 19: 987-1000
 

Medeiros R et al. (2010) The role of TNF-α signaling pathway on COX-2 upregulation and cognitive decline induced by β-amyloid peptide. Behavioural Brain Research 209: 165-173
 

Vickers MH et al. (2009) Supplementation with a mixture of complex lipids derived from milk to growing rats results in improvements in parameters related to growth and cognition. Nutrition Research 29: 426-435
 

Godinho M et al. (2009) A rodent model of appetitive discrimination with concomitant evaluation of anxiety-like behavior. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 185: 82-88
 

Passos GF et al. (2009) Involvement of phosphoinositide 3-kinase γ in the neuro-inflammatory response and cognitive impairments induced by β-amyloid 1–40 peptide in mice. Brain Behavior and Immunity 24: 493-501
 

Tang J & Dani JA (2009) Dopamine Enables In Vivo Synaptic Plasticity Associated with the Addictive Drug Nicotine. Neuron 63: 673-682
 

Imbimbo BP et al. (2010) CHF5074, a Novel γ-Secretase Modulator, Restores Hippocampal Neurogenesis Potential and Reverses Contextual Memory Deficit in a Transgenic Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease 20: 159–173
 

Moore AH et al. (2009) Sustained expression of interleukin-1β in mouse hippocampus impairs spatial memory. Neuroscience 64:1484-95.
 

Pathipati P et al. (2009) Delayed and chronic treatment with growth hormone after endothelin-induced stroke in the adult rat. Behavioural Brain Research 204:93-101
 

Smith ML et al. (2009) Gamma(2)-melanocyte stimulating hormone decreases food intake in chicks. Neuroscience Letters 465:210-213
 

Frye CA and Walf AA (2009) Progesterone reduces depression-like behavior in a murine model of Alzheimer's Disease. AGE 31:143-153
 

Epp JR and Galea LAM (2009) Hippocampus-dependent strategy choice predicts low levels of cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 91:437-446
 

Frye CA and Paris JJ (2009) Infusions of bicuculline to the ventral tegmental area attenuates sexual, exploratory, and anti-anxiety behavior of proestrous rats. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior 93:474-481
 

Cline MA et al. (2009) LPLRFamide causes anorexigenic effects in broiler chicks and Bobwhite quail. General and Comparative Endocrinology 165:315-320
 

Layne JE et al. (2009) Central calcitonin exerts anoretic effects via the hypothalamus in chicks. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior 92:433-438
 

Llaneza DC and Frye CA (2009) Progestogens and estrogen influence impulsive burying and avoidant freezing behavior of naturally cycling and ovariectomized rats. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior 93:337-342
 

Janes AC et al. (2009) The involvement of type IV phosphodiesterases in cocaine-induced sensitization and subsequent pERK expression in the mouse nucleus accumbens. Psychopharmacology 206:177-185
 

Peric-Mataruga V (2009) Effects of ghrelin on the feeding behavior of Lymantria dispar L. (Lymantriidae) caterpillars. Appetite 53:147-150
 

Walf AA and Frye CA (2009) Using the Elevated Plus Maze as a Bioassay to Assess the Effects of Naturally Occurring and Exogenously Administered Compounds to Influence Anxiety-Related Behaviors of Mice. Neuromethods 42:225-246
 

Gould T et al. (2009) The open field test. Neuromethods 42:1-20
 

Booker L et al. (2009) Evaluation of prevalent phytocannabinoids in the acetic acid model of visceral nociception. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 105:42-47
 

Thomas MB et al. (2009) Sex-specific susceptibility to cocaine in rats with a history of prenatal stress. Physiology & Behavior 97:270-277
 

Capsoni S et al et al. (2009) Delivery of NGF to the Brain: Intranasal versus Ocular Administration in Anti-NGF Transgenic Mice. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 16:371-388
 

Cline MA et al. (2009) Satiety induced by central stresscopin is mediated by corticotrophin-releasing factor receptors and hypothalamic changes in chicks. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior 92:663-669
 

Walf AA and Frye CA (2009) Effects of two estradiol regimens on anxiety and depressive behaviors and trophic effects in peripheral tissues in a rodent model. Gender Medicine 6:300-311
 

Kourrich S and Thomas MJ (2009) Similar neurons, opposite adaptations: psychostimulant experience differentially alters firing properties in accumbens core versus shell. J Neuroscience 29:12275-12283
 

Covaceuszach Sonia et al. (2009) Development of a Non Invasive NGF-Based Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease. Current Alzheimer Research 6:158-170
 

Zhao W and Becker JB (2009) Sensitization enhances acquisition of cocaine self-administration in female rats: Estradiol further enhances cocaine intake after acquisition. Hormones and Behavior In Press
 

Belforte JE et al. (2009) Postnatal NMDA receptor ablation in corticolimbic interneurons confers schizophrenia-like phenotypes. Nature Neuroscience (advanced online publication)
 

Carvalho MC et al. (2008) Anxiolytic-like effects of substance P administration into the dorsal, but not ventral, hippocampus and its influence on serotonin. Peptides 29:1191-1200
 

Schlosburg JE et al. (2009) Endocannabinoid modulation of ccratching response in an acute allergenic model: a new prospective neural therapeutic target for Pruritus. Journal of Pharmacology And Experimental Therapeutics 329:314-323
 

Parkinson PF et al. (2009) Cognition, learning behaviour and hippocampal synaptic plasticity are not disrupted in mice over-expressing the cholesterol transporter ABCG1. Lipids in Health and Disease 8:5
 

Guzmán CB et al. (2009) Sex-dependent effect of cyclooxygenase-2 inhibition on mouse spatial memory. Behavioural Brain Research 99:355-9
 

Savic MM et al. (2009) The differential role of α1- and α5-containing GABAA receptors in mediating diazepam effects on spontaneous locomotor activity and water-maze learning and memory in rats. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 12:1179-1193
 

Walf AA et al. (2009) Chronic estradiol replacement to aged female rats reduces anxiety-like and depression-like behavior and enhances cognitive performance. Psychoneuroendocrinology 34:909-916
 

Wise LE et al. (2009) Hippocampal CB1 Receptors Mediate the Memory Impairing Effects of 9-Tetrahydrocannabinol. Neuropsychopharmacology 34:2072-2080
 

Osborne DM et al. (2009) Chronic administration of androgens with actions at estrogen receptor beta have anti-anxiety and cognitive-enhancing effects in male rats. Age 31:119-126
 

Schlosburg JE et al. (2009) Inhibitors of Endocannabinoid-Metabolizing Enzymes Reduce Precipitated Withdrawal Responses in THC-Dependent Mice. The AAPS Journal, 11
 

Newmyer BA & Cline MA (2009) Neuropeptide SF is associated with reduced food intake in chicks. Behavioral Brain Research 205:311-314
 

Cline MA et al. (2009) The Anorectic Effect of Neuropeptide AF is Associated with Satiety-Related Hypothalamic Nuclei. Journal of Neuroendocrinology 21:595-601
 

McCallum SE & Glick SD (2009) 18-Methoxycoronaridine blocks acquisition but enhances reinstatement of a cocaine place preference. Neuroscience Letters 458:57-59
 

Faure et al. (2009) Impaired neurogenesis, neuronal loss, and brain functional deficits in the APPxPS1-Ki mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiology of Aging In Press
 

Schweizer MC et al. (2009) Chronic Mild Stress (CMS) in Mice: Of Anhedonia, 'Anomalous Anxiolysis' and Activity. PLoS ONE. 4: e4326
 

Bunck M et al. (2009) A Hypomorphic Vasopressin Allele Prevents Anxiety-Related Behavior. PLoS ONE. 4: e5129
 

Gangitano D. et al. (2009) Progesterone modulation of alpha5 nAChR subunits influences anxiety-related behavior during estrus cycle. Genes Brain Behav [epub ahead of print]
 

Salas R. et al. (2008) Nicotine relieves anxiogenic-like behavior in mice that overexpress the read-through variant of acetylcholinesterase but not in wild-type mice. Mol Pharmacol 74:1641-1648.
 

Bohlen MA et al. (2009) Calibration of rotational acceleration for the rotarod test of rodent motor coordination. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, in press
 

Suvorov A. et al. (2009) Perinatal Exposure to Low-Dose BDE-47, an Emergent Environmental Contaminant, Causes Hyperactivity in Rat Offspring. Neonatology 95:203-209
 

Brenes JC et al. (2009) A detailed analysis of open-field habituation and behavioral and neurochemical antidepressant-like effects in postweaning enriched rats Behavioural Brain Research 197:125-137
 

Vorhees CV et al. (2009) Developmental treatment with the dopamine D2/3 agonist quinpirole selectively impairs spatial learning in the Morris water maze Neurotoxicology and Teratology 31:1-10
 

Goes TC et al. (2009) Trait and state anxiety in animal models: Is there correlation? Neuroscience Letters 450:266-269
 

Lapiz-Bluhm MDS et al. (2008) Behavioural Assays to Model Cognitive and Affective Dimensions of Depression and Anxiety in Rats Journal of Neuroendocrinology 20:1115-1137
 

McAfoose J et al. (2009) The effects of TNF deficiency on age-related cognitive performance. Psychoneuroendocrinology Article in Press
 

Girard S et al. (2009) Developmental motor deficits induced by combined fetal exposure to lipopolysaccharide and early neonatal hypoxia/ischemia: A novel animal model for cerebral palsy in very premature infants. Neuroscience 158:673-682
 

Pawluski JL et al. (2009) Offspring-exposure reduces depressive-like behaviour in the parturient female rat. Behavioural Brain Research 197:55-61
 

Lee JY et al. (2009) Neurotoxic autoantibodies mediate congenital cortical impairment of offspring in maternal lupus. Nature Medicine 15:91-96
 

Walf AA et al. (2009) Proestrous compared to diestrous wildtype, but not estrogen receptor beta knockout, mice have better performance in the spontaneous alternation and object recognition tasks and reduced anxiety-like behavior in the elevated plus and mirror maze. Behavioural Brain Research 196:254-260
 

Salas R et al. (2008) Nicotine relieves anxiogenic-like behavior in Acetylcholinesterase-R overexpressing mice but not in wild-type mice. Molecular Pharmacology 74:1641-1648
 

Frye CA et al. (2008) Androgens with activity at estrogen receptor beta have anxiolytic and cognitive-enhancing effects in male rats and mice. Hormones and Behavior 54:726-734
 

Harloe JP et al. (2008) Differential endocannabinoid regulation of extinction in appetitive and aversive Barnes maze tasks. Learning and Memory 15:806-809
 

Goel N. and Bale TL (2008) Organizational and activational effects of testosterone on masculinization of female physiological and behavioral stress responses. Endocrinology 149:6399-6405
 

Kumar P et al. (2008) Beneficial effects of pioglitazone on cognitive impairment in MPTP model of Parkinson's disease. Behavioural Brain Research 197:398-403
 

Ferreira FR et al. (2008) Antidepressant-like effects of N-acetyl-L-cysteine in rats. Behavioural Pharmacology 19:747-750
 

Prall CA and Cline MA (2008) Anorexigenic effects of central neuropeptide K are associated with hypothalamic changes in juvenile Gallus gallus. General and Comparative Endocrinology 159:130-135
 

Cline MA et al. (2008) Central visfatin causes orexigenic effects in chicks. Behavioural Brain Research 186:293-297
 

Cline MA et al. (2008) Effect of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) on avian appetite-related processes. Behavioural Brain Research 196:242-247
 

Hutchinson MR et al. (2008) Minocycline suppresses morphine-induced respiratory depression, suppresses morphine-induced reward, and enhances systemic morphine-induced analgesia. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 22:1248-1256
 

Popik P et al. (2008) Lack of persistent effects of ketamine in rodent models of depression. Psychopharmacology 198:421-430
 

Klenerova V et al. (2008) Rozdily v ucinckh oxytocinu a karbetocinu na stresem indukovani zmeny v chovani potkana. Psychiatrie 12:44
 

Siuciak JA et al. (2007) Behavioral and neurochemical characterization of mice deficient in the phosphodiesterase 1B (PDE1B) enzyme. Neuropharmacology 53:113-124.
 

Sun Y et al. (2008) Neurological deficits and glycosphingolipid accumulation in Saposin B deficient mice. Human Mol. Genet. 17:2345-2356.
 

Dielenberg RA et al. (2006) A method for tracking rats in a complex and completely dark environment using computerized video analysis. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 158:279-286
 

McAuliffe JJ et al. (2008) Metallothionein I,II deficient mice do not exhibit significantly worse long-term behavioral outcomes following neonatal hypoxia-ischemia: MT I,II deficient mice have inherent behavioral impairments. Brain Res. 1190:175-185.
 

Sun, Yl et al. (2008) Gene expression profiling and neurobehavioral assessment in prosaposin deficient mice: Molecular alterations precede neuronal deficits. BMC Neurosci. (In press).
 

Sun YG et al. (2008) Involvement of P311 in the affective, but not in the sensory component of pain. Molecular Pain 4:23
 

Meis S et al. (2008) Identification of a Neuropeptide S Responsive Circuitry Shaping Amygdala Activity via the Endopiriform Nucleus. PLoS ONE 3: e2695
 

Wu TJ (2008) Improving Performance Efficiency in the Warfighter. Storming Media E-publication
 

Harloe HP (2008) Endocannabinoid Modulation of Spatial Memory in Aversively and Appetitively Motivated Barnes Maze Tasks. Dissertation presented to the faculty of Virginia Commonwealth University
 

McEuen JG et al. (2008) Failure to Mount Adaptive Responses to Stress Results in Dysregulation and Cell Death in the Midbrain Raphe. J Neuroscience 28:8169-8177
 

Jung WR et al. (2008) Ganglioside GQ1b improves spatial learning and memory of rats as measured by the Y-maze and the Morris water maze tests. Neuroscience Letters 439:220-225
 

Lenck-Santini PP and Holmes GL (2008) Altered Phase Precession and Compression of Temporal Sequences by Place Cells in Epileptic Rats. J Neuroscience 28:5053-5062
 

Nandar W et al. (2008) Mechanisms of xenin-induced anorectic response in chicks (Gallus gallus). General and Comparative Endocrinology 157:58-62
 

Touma C et al. (2008) Mice selected for high versus low stress reactivity: A new animal model for affective disorders. Psychoneuroendocrinology 33:839-862
 

Frye CA et al. (2008) Exploratory, anti-anxiety, social, and sexual behaviors of rats in behavioral estrus is attenuated with inhibition of 3alpha,5alpha-THP formation in the midbrain ventral tegmental area. Behav Brain Res. 193:269-276
 

Walf AA et al. (2008) Adult female wildtype, but not oestrogen receptor {beta} knockout, mice have decreased depression-like behaviour during pro-oestrus and following administration of oestradiol or diarylpropionitrile. J Psychopharmacol [Epub ahead of print]
 

Teixeira-Silva F et al. (2008) Benzodiazepine-like effects of the alcohol extract from Erythrina velutina leaves: memory, anxiety, and epilepsy. Pharmaceutical Biology 46:321-328
 

Ryan A and Frye CA (2008) Antiseizure effects of 5alpha-androstane-3alpha,7beta-diol may be independent of actions at estrogen receptor beta. Epilepsy Behavior [Epub ahead of print]
 

Frye CA and Walf AA (2008) Progesterone to ovariectomized mice enhances cognitive performance in the spontaneous alternation, object recognition, but not placement, water maze, and contextual and cued conditioned fear tasks. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory [Epub ahead of print]
 

Burgess BL et al. (2008) ABCG1 influences the brain cholesterol biosynthetic pathway but does not affect amyloid precursor protein or apolipoprotein E metabolism in vivo. Journal of Lipid Research [Epub ahead of print]
 

Walf AA and Frye CA (2008) Conjugated equine estrogen enhances rats' cognitive, anxiety, and social behavior. Neuroreport 19:789-792
 

Savic MM et al. (2008) PWZ-029, a compound with moderate inverse agonist functional selectivity at GABAA receptors containing 5 subunits, improves passive, but not active, avoidance learning in rats. Brain Research [Epub ahead of print]
 

Frye CA and Walf AA (2008) Progesterone enhances performance of aged mice in cortical or hippocampal tasks. Neuroscience Letters 437:116-20
 

Krishnamoorthy V et al. (2008) Intravitreal Injection of Fluorochrome-Conjugated Peanut Agglutinin Results in Specific and Reversible Labeling of Mammalian Cones in vivo. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science [Epub ahead of print]
 

Gasbarria A et al. (2008) Effect of 5-HT7 antagonist SB-269970 in the modulation of working and reference memory in the rat. Behavioural Brain Research [Epub ahead of print]
 

Walf AA et al. (2008) Estradiol or diarylpropionitrile administration to wild type, but not estrogen receptor beta knockout, mice enhances performance in the object recognition and object placement tasks. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 89:513-521
 

Sterlemann V et al. (2008) Long-term behavioral and neuroendocrine alterations following chronic social stress in mice: Implications for stress-related disorders. Hormones and Behavior 53:386-394
 

Frye CA, Rhodes ME (2008) Infusions of 3[alpha],5[alpha]-THP to the VTA enhance exploratory, anti-anxiety, social, and sexual behavior and increase levels of 3[alpha],5[alpha]-THP in midbrain, hippocampus, diencephalon, and cortex of female rats. Behavioural Brain Research 187:88-99
 

Ben-Shahar O et al. (2008) Heightened drug-seeking motivation following extended daily access to self-administered cocaine. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry 32:863-869
 

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