The gut microbiome regulates the increases in depressive-type behaviors and in inflammatory processes in the ventral hippocampus of stress vulnerable rats

Jiah Pearson-Leary, Chunyu Zhao, Kyle Bittinger, +5

Molecular Psychiatry

PsychoneuroimmunologyStress Vulnerable RatsDysbiosisStress HormonePsychiatry +13

Orexins Mediate Sex Differences in the Stress Response and in Cognitive Flexibility

Laura A. Grafe, Amanda D. Cornfeld, Sandra Luz, +2

Biological Psychiatry

Stress HormoneBehavioral NeuroscienceStressAffective NeuroscienceSocial Sciences +5

Orexins/Hypocretins Act in the Posterior Paraventricular Thalamic Nucleus During Repeated Stress to Regulate Facilitation to Novel Stress

Willem Heydendael, Kanika Sharma, Vikram Iyer, +4

Endocrinology

Ppvt CellsNeurotransmissionNovel StressHypothalamic CircuitsPhysiological Regulation +19

Social isolation in adolescence alters behaviors in the forced swim and sucrose preference tests in female but not in male rats

Suzie S. Hong, B. Flashner, Melissa Chiu, +3

Physiology & Behavior

Social IsolationBehavioral SciencesForced SwimHealth SciencesBehavioral Neuroscience +12

MicroRNAs as biomarkers of resilience or vulnerability to stress

R.J. Chen, Gregory M. Kelly, Abhishek Sengupta, +7

Neuroscience

StressGeneticsGene ExpressionMicrorna DetectionSmall Rna +5

Short-term and long-term effects of repeated social defeat during adolescence or adulthood in female rats

Elizabeth S. Ver Hoeve, Greg Kelly, Sandra Luz, +2

Neuroscience

Behavioral SciencesLong-term EffectsStress HormoneBehavioral NeuroscienceSocial Behavior +11

Social defeat induces changes in histone acetylation and expression of histone modifying enzymes in the ventral hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and dorsal raphe nucleus

Charles Kenworthy, Abhishek Sengupta, Sandra Luz, +4

Neuroscience

Ventral HippocampusHistone AcetylationBrain MechanismPrefrontal CortexNeurobiological Factor +6

Sex differences in circuits activated by corticotropin releasing factor in rats

Madeleine Salvatore, Kimberly Wiersielis, Sandra Luz, +3

Hormones and Behavior

NeurophysiologyPhysiologyNeuroendocrine MechanismSex DifferencesSex Difference +7

Orexin 2 receptor regulation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) response to acute and repeated stress

Laura A. Grafe, Darrell Eacret, Sandra Luz, +4

Neuroscience

Adrenal GlandStress HormoneStressPhysiologyNeuroendocrine Mechanism +8

Sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 3 in the medial prefrontal cortex promotes stress resilience by reducing inflammatory processes

Brian F. Corbett, Sandra Luz, Jay Arner, +6

Nature Communications