A list of recent publications of researchers contributing to the INF.

2005

Grote HE, Bull ND, Howard ML, van Dellen A, Blakemore C, Bartlett PF, Hannan AJ.  Cognitive disorders and neurogenesis deficits in Huntington's disease mice are rescued by fluoxetine. Eur J Neurosci. 2005 Oct;22(8):2081-8.

Mazarakis NK, Cybulska-Klosowicz A, Grote H, Pang T, Van Dellen A, Kossut M, Blakemore C, Hannan AJ.  Deficits in experience-dependent cortical plasticity and sensory-discrimination learning in presymptomatic Huntington's disease mice. J Neurosci. 2005 Mar 23;25(12):3059-66.

Lawrence AJ, Parish CL, Chen F, Lodge DJ, Krstew EV, Card K, Finkelstein DI, Horne MK. Chronic corticotropin-releasing factor type 1 receptor antagonism with antalarmin regulates the dopaminergic system of Fawn-Hooded rats.  J Neurochem. 2005 Sep;94(6):1523-34. 

McPherson CS, Lawrence AJ. Exposure to amphetamine in rats during periadolescence establishes behavioural and extrastriatal neural sensitization in adulthood.  Int J Neuropsychopharmacol. 2005 Sep 5;:1-16

Cowen MS, Adams C, Kraehenbuehl T, Vengeliene V, Lawrence AJ. The acute anti-craving effect of acamprosate in alcohol-preferring rats is associated with modulation of the mesolimbic dopamine system.  Addict Biol. 2005 Sep;10(3):233-42.

Cowen MS, Djouma E, Lawrence AJ. The metabotropic glutamate 5 receptor antagonist 3-[(2-methyl-1,3-thiazol-4-yl)ethynyl]-pyridine reduces ethanol self-administration in multiple strains of alcohol-preferring rats and regulates olfactory glutamatergic systems. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2005 Nov;315(2):590-600.

Parish CL, Nunan J, Finkelstein DI, McNamara FN, Wong JY, Waddington JL, Brown RM, Lawrence AJ, Horne MK, Drago J. Mice lacking the alpha4 nicotinic receptor subunit fail to modulate dopaminergic neuronal arbors and possess impaired dopamine transporter function.  Mol Pharmacol. 2005 Nov;68(5):1376-86.

Liang J-H, Chen F, Krstew E, Cowen MS, Carroll F, Crawford D, Beart PM & Lawrence AJ.  The GABAB receptor allosteric modulator CGP7930, like baclofen, reduces operant self-administration of ethanol in alcohol-preferring rats.  Neuropharmacology. 2006 Jan 6; in press.

Boon WC, Diepstraten J, van der Burg J, Jones ME, Simpson ER, van den Buuse M. Hippocampal NMDA receptor subunit expression and watermaze learning in estrogen deficient female mice.  Brain Res Mol Brain Res.  2005 Oct 31;140(1-2):127-32      

Garner B, Pariante CM, Wood SJ, Velakoulis D, Phillips L, Soulsby B, Brewer WJ, Smith DJ, Dazzan P, Berger GE, Yung AR, van den Buuse M, Murray R, McGorry PD, Pantelis C. Pituitary volume predicts future transition to psychosis in individuals at ultra-high risk of developing psychosis.  Biol Psychiatry.  2005 Sep 1;58(5):417-23.  

van den Buuse M, Garner B, Gogos A, Kusljic S. Importance of animal models in schizophrenia research.  Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2005 Jul;39(7):550-7. Review

Gogos A, Kusljic S, van den Buuse M. 8-OH-DPAT-induced effects on prepulse inhibition: pre- vs. post-synaptic 5-HT1A receptor activation.  Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2005 Jul;81(3):664-72.  

Kusljic S, Brosda J, Norman TR, van den Buuse M.   Brain serotonin depletion by lesions of the median raphe nucleus enhances the psychotomimetic action of phencyclidine, but not dizocilpine (MK-801), in rats.  Brain Res. 2005 Jul 12;1049(2):217-26.

van den Buuse M, Zheng TW, Walker LL, Denton DA. Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) interacts with dopaminergic mechanisms in the brain to modulate prepulse inhibition in mice.  Neurosci Lett. 2005 May 20-27;380(1-2):6-11.

Short JL, Ledent C, Drago J, Lawrence AJ. Receptor Crosstalk: Characterization of Mice Deficient in Dopamine D(1) and Adenosine A(2A) Receptors.  Neuropsychopharmacology. 2006 Mar;31(3):525-34.

Parish CL, Drago J, Stanic D, Borrelli E, Finkelstein DI, Horne MK. Haloperidol treatment reverses behavioural and anatomical changes in cocaine-dependent mice.  Neurobiol Dis. 2005 Jun-Jul;19(1-2):301-11.  

Crompton KE, Prankerd RJ, Paganin DM, Scott TF, Horne MK, Finkelstein DI, Gross KA, Forsythe JS. Morphology and gelation of thermosensitive chitosan hydrogels.  Biophys Chem. 2005 Aug 22;117(1):47-53. 

Henderson JM, Stanic D, Tomas D, Patch J, Horne MK, Bourke D, Finkelstein DI. Postural changes after lesions of the substantia nigra pars reticulata in hemiparkinsonian monkeys.  Behav Brain Res. 2005 May 28;160(2):267-76.

A S, D S, DI F, M I, Jm W, Pc D. Alterations in the proportions of skeletal muscle proteins following a unilateral lesion to the substantia nigra pars compacta of rats.  J Muscle Res Cell Motil. 2005;26(2):149-55.

Roulston CL, Lawrence AJ, Widdop RE, Jarrott B. Minocycline treatment attenuates microglia activation and non-angiotensin II [(125)I] CGP42112 binding in brainstem following nodose ganglionectomy.  Neuroscience. 2005;135(4):1241-53.

Cowen MS, Adams C, Kraehenbuehl T, Vengeliene V, Lawrence AJ. The acute anti-craving effect of acamprosate in alcohol-preferring rats is associated with modulation of the mesolimbic dopamine system.  Addict Biol. 2005 Sep;10(3):233-42. 

Cowen MS, Djouma E, Lawrence AJ. The mGlu5 antagonist MTEP reduces ethanol self-administration in multiple strains of alcohol-preferring rats and regulates olfactory glutamatergic systems.  J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2005 Nov;315(2):590-600

Yao ST, Lawrence AJ. A comparative autoradiographic study of the density of [(3)H]SR95531, [(3)H]MK-801 and [(3)H]cGMP binding in the locus coeruleus and central pontine grey of spontaneously hypertensive and Wistar-Kyoto rats.  Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol. 2005 May;371(5):434-9. Epub 2005 Jun 4.   PMID: 15937680 [PubMed - in process] 

Yao ST, Lawrence AJ. Purinergic modulation of cardiovascular function in the rat locus coeruleus.
Br J Pharmacol. 2005 Jun;145(3):342-52.  

van den Buuse M, Wegener N. Involvement of serotonin1A receptors in cardiovascular responses to stress: a radio-telemetry study in four rat strains. Eur J Pharmacol. 2005 Jan 10;507(1-3):187-98.

van den Buuse M, van Driel IR, Samuelson LC, Pijnappel M, Martin S. Reduced effects of amphetamine on prepulse inhibition of startle in gastrin-deficient mice. Neurosci Lett. 2005 Jan 20;373(3):237-42.

Ingram N, Martin S, Wang JH, van der Laan S, Loiacono R, van den Buuse M. Interaction of corticosterone and nicotine in regulation of prepulse inhibition in mice. Neuropharmacology. 2005 Jan;48(1):80-92.

Welge-Lussen A, Drago J, Wolfensberger M, Hummel T Gustatory stimulation influences the processing of intranasal stimuli. Brain Res. 2005 Mar 15;1038(1):69-75.

Mercer LD, Kelly BL, Horne MK, Beart PM. Dietary polyphenols protect dopamine neurons from oxidative insults and apoptosis: investigations in primary rat mesencephalic cultures. Biochem Pharmacol. 2005 Jan 15;69(2):339-45.

Williams SM, Sullivan RK, Scott HL, Finkelstein DI, Colditz PB, Lingwood BE, Dodd PR, Pow DV. Glial glutamate transporter expression patterns in brains from multiple mammalian species. Glia. 2005 Mar;49(4):520-41.

McDougall SJ, Widdop RE, Lawrence AJ. Differential gene expression in WKY and SHR brain following acute and chronic air-puff stress. Brain Res Mol Brain Res. 2005 Feb 18;133(2):329-36.

McDougall SJ, Lawrence AJ, Widdop RE. Differential cardiovascular responses to stressors in hypertensive and normotensive rats. Exp Physiol. 2005 Jan;90(1):141-50.

2004

Lazartigues E, Lawrence AJ, Lamb FS, Davisson RL. Renovascular Hypertension in Mice With Brain-Selective Overexpression of AT1a Receptors Is Buffered by Increased Nitric Oxide Production in the Periphery. Circ Res. 2004 Jul 29

Roulston CL, Lawrence AJ, Jarrott B, Widdop RE. Non-angiotensin II [(125)I] CGP42112 binding is a sensitive marker of neuronal injury in brainstem following unilateral nodose ganglionectomy: Comparison with markers for activated microglia. Neuroscience. 2004;127(3):753-67.

Huang XF, Huang X, Han M, Chen F, Storlien L, Lawrence AJ. 5-HT(2A/2C) receptor and 5-HT transporter densities in mice prone or resistant to chronic high-fat diet-induced obesity: a quantitative autoradiography study. Brain Res. 2004 Aug 27;1018(2):227-35.

Kobayashi M, Iaccarino C, Saiardi A, Heidt V, Bozzi Y, Picetti R, Vitale C, Westphal H, Drago J, Borrelli E. Simultaneous absence of dopamine D1 and D2 receptor-mediated signaling is lethal in mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Aug 3;101(31):11465-70. Epub 2004 Jul 22.

Salminen O, Murphy KL, McIntosh JM, Drago J, Marks MJ, Collins AC, Grady SR. Subunit composition and pharmacology of two classes of striatal presynaptic nicotinic acetylcholine receptors mediating dopamine release in mice. Mol Pharmacol. 2004 Jun;65(6):1526-35.

Chen F, Lawrence AJ. Chronic antidepressant treatment causes a selective reduction of {micro}-opiod receptor binding and functional coupling to G-proteins in the amygdala of fawn-hooded rats. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2004 Apr 30

Snell BJ, Day A, Ledent C, Lawrence AJ. [(3)H]Adenosine uptake in brainstem membranes of CD-1 mice lacking the adenosine A(2a) receptor. Life Sci. 2004 May 28;75(2):225-35.

Van Den Buuse M., Morris M, Chavez C, Martin S, Wang J. Effect of adrenalectomy and corticosterone replacement on prepulse inhibition and locomotor activity in mice. Br J Pharmacol. 2004 May 17

Cowen MS, Chen F, Lawrence AJ. Neuropeptides: implications for alcoholism. J Neurochem. 2004 Apr;89(2):273-85.

Tomiyama K, McNamara FN, Clifford JJ, Kinsella A, Drago J, Fuchs S, Grandy DK, Low MJ, Rubinstein M, Tighe O, Croke DT, Koshikawa N, Waddington JL. Comparative phenotypic resolution of spontaneous, D2-like and D1-like agonist-induced orofacial movement topographies in congenic mutants with dopamine D2 vs. D3 receptor "knockout". Synapse. 2004 Jan;51(1):71-81.

Gogos A, Van den Buuse M. Estrogen and progesterone prevent disruption of prepulse inhibition by the serotonin-1A receptor agonist 8-hydroxy-2-dipropylaminotetralin. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2004 Apr;309(1):267-74.

2003

Lodge DJ, Lawrence AJ. The effect of chronic CRF1 receptor blockade on the central CCK systems of Fawn-Hooded rats. Regul Pept. 2003 Nov 15;116(1-3):27-33.

Lodge DJ, Roques BP, Lawrence AJ. Atypical behavioural responses to CCK-B receptor ligands in Fawn-Hooded rats. Life Sci. 2003 Nov 21;74(1):1-12.

Yao ST, Gourine AV, Spyer KM, Barden JA, Lawrence AJ. Localisation of P2X2 receptor subunit immunoreactivity on nitric oxide synthase expressing neurones in the brain stem and hypothalamus of the rat: a fluorescence immunohistochemical study. Neuroscience. 2003;121(2):411-9.

Crossley KJ, Nitsos I, Walker DW, Lawrence AJ, Beart PM, Hirst JJ. Steroid-sensitive GABAA receptors in the fetal sheep brain. Neuropharmacology. 2003 Sep;45(4):461-72.

Wang JH, Short J, Ledent C, Lawrence AJ,Buuse M. Reduced startle habituation and prepulse inhibition in mice lacking the adenosine A2A receptor. Behav Brain Res. 2003 Aug 14;143(2):201-7.

Lodge DJ, Lawrence AJ. Comparative analysis of hepatic ethanol metabolism in Fawn-Hooded and Wistar-Kyoto rats. Alcohol. 2003 May;30(1):75-9.

Stanic D, Parish CL, Zhu WM, Krstew EV, Lawrence AJ, Drago J, Finkelstein DI, Horne MK. Changes in function and ultrastructure of striatal dopaminergic terminals that regenerate following partial lesions of the SNpc. J Neurochem. 2003 Jul;86(2):329-43. Erratum in: J Neurochem. 2003 Nov;87(4):1056.

Chen F, Lawrence AJ. The effects of antidepressant treatment on serotonergic and dopaminergic systems in Fawn-Hooded rats: a quantitative autoradiography study. Brain Res. 2003 Jun 20;976(1):22-9.

Lodge DJ, Lawrence AJ. The effect of isolation rearing on volitional ethanol consumption and central CCK/dopamine systems in Fawn-Hooded rats. Behav Brain Res. 2003 May 15;141(2):113-22.

McGregor IS, Clemens KJ, Van der Plasse G, Li KM, Hunt GE, Chen F, Lawrence AJ. Increased anxiety 3 months after brief exposure to MDMA ("Ecstasy") in rats: association with altered 5-HT transporter and receptor density. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2003 Aug;28(8):1472-84.

Lodge DJ, Lawrence AJ. The neurochemical effects of anxiolytic drugs are dependent on rearing conditions in Fawn-Hooded rats. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2003 May;27(3):451-8.

Callaway JK, Lawrence AJ, Jarrott B. AM-36, a novel neuroprotective agent, profoundly reduces reactive oxygen species formation and dopamine release in the striatum of conscious rats after endothelin-1-induced middle cerebral artery occlusion. Neuropharmacology. 2003 May;44(6):787-800.

Roulston CL, Lawrence AJ, Jarrott B, Widdop RE. Localization of AT(2) receptors in the nucleus of the solitary tract of spontaneously hypertensive and Wistar Kyoto rats using [125I] CGP42112: upregulation of a non-angiotensin II binding site following unilateral nodose ganglionectomy. Brain Res. 2003 Apr 4;968(1):139-55.

Lodge DJ, Lawrence AJ. The CRF1 receptor antagonist antalarmin reduces volitional ethanol consumption in isolation-reared fawn-hooded rats. Neuroscience. 2003;117(2):243-7.

Chen F, Rezvani AH, LawrenceAJ. Autoradiographic quantification of neurochemical markers of serotonin, dopamine and opioid systems in rat brain mesolimbic regions following chronic St John's wort treatment. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol. 2003 Feb;367(2):126-33.

Stanic D, Finkelstein DI, Bourke DW, Drago J, Horne MK. Timecourse of striatal re-innervation following lesions of dopaminergic SNpc neurons of the rat. Eur J Neurosci. 2003 Sep;18(5):1175-88.

Drago J, McColl CD, Horne MK, Finkelstein DI , Ross SA. Neuronal nicotinic receptors: insights gained from gene knockout and knockin mutant mice. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2003 Jul;60(7):1267-80. Review.

Wong JY, Clifford JJ, Massalas JS, Finkelstein DI, Horne MK, Waddington JL, Drago J. Neurochemical changes in dopamine D1, D3 and D1/D3 receptor knockout mice. Eur J Pharmacol. 2003 Jul 4;472(1-2):39-47.

Tripanichkul W, Stanic D, Drago J, Finkelstein DI, Horne MK. D2 Dopamine receptor blockade results in sprouting of DA axons in the intact animal but prevents sprouting following nigral lesions. Eur J Neurosci. 2003 Mar;17(5):1033-45.

Wong JY, Clifford JJ, Massalas JS, Kinsella A, Waddington JL, Drago J. Essential conservation of D1 mutant phenotype at the level of individual topographies of behaviour in mice lacking both D1 and D3 dopamine receptors. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2003 May;167(2):167-73. Epub 2003 Mar 22.

McColl CD, Horne MK, Finkelstein DI, Wong JY, Berkovic SF, Drago J. Electroencephalographic characterisation of pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures in mice lacking the alpha 4 subunit of the neuronal nicotinic receptor. Neuropharmacology. 2003 Feb;44(2):234-43.

McNamara FN, Clifford JJ, Tighe O, Kinsella A, Drago J, Croke DT, Waddington JL. Congenic D1A dopamine receptor mutants: ethologically based resolution of behavioural topography indicates genetic background as a determinant of knockout phenotype. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2003 Jan;28(1):86-99.

Stanic D, Parish CL, Zhu WM, Krstew EV, Lawrence AJ, Drago J,Finkelstein DI, Horne MK. Changes in function and ultrastructure of striatal dopaminergic terminals that regenerate following partial lesions of the SNpc. J Neurochem. 2003 Jul;86(2):329-43. Erratum in: J Neurochem. 2003 Nov;87(4):1056.

Gogos A, van den Buuse M. Castration reduces the effect of serotonin-1A receptor stimulation on prepulse inhibition in rats. Behav Neurosci. 2003 Dec;117(6):1407-15.

Martin S, Jones M, Simpson E, van den Buuse M. Impaired spatial reference memory in aromatase-deficient (ArKO) mice. Neuroreport. 2003 Oct 27;14(15):1979-82.

Wang JH, van den Buuse M, Tian SW, Ma YY. Effect of paradoxical sleep deprivation and stress on passive avoidance behavior. Physiol Behav. 2003 Sep;79(4-5):591-6.

Van den Buuse M, Garner B, Koch M. Neurodevelopmental animal models of schizophrenia: effects on prepulse inhibition. Curr Mol Med. 2003 Aug;3(5):459-71. Review.

Kusljic S, Copolov DL, van den Buuse M. Differential role of serotonergic projections arising from the dorsal and median raphe nuclei in locomotor hyperactivity and prepulse inhibition. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2003 Dec;28(12):2138-47.

van den Buuse M, Simpson ER, Jones ME. Prepulse inhibition of acoustic startle in aromatase knock-out mice: effects of age and gender. Genes Brain Behav. 2003 Apr;2(2):93-102.

van den Buuse M. Deficient prepulse inhibition of acoustic startle in Hooded-Wistar rats compared with Sprague-Dawley rats. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol. 2003 Apr;30(4):254-61.

van den Buuse M. Acute effects of antipsychotic drugs on cardiovascular responses to stress. Eur J Pharmacol. 2003 Mar 7;464(1):55-62.

2002

Fong AY, Krstew EV, Barden J, Lawrence AJ. Immunoreactive localisation of P2Y1 receptors within the rat and human nodose ganglia and rat brainstem: comparison with [alpha 33P]deoxyadenosine 5'-triphosphate autoradiography. Neu roscience. 2002;113(4):809-23.

Djouma E, Lawrence AJ. The effect of chronic ethanol consumption and withdrawal on mu-opioid, dopamine D1 and D2 receptor density in Fawn-Hooded rat brain. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 2002; 302: 551-559.

Lawrence AJ, Krstew EV, Dautzenberg FM, Ruhmann A. A. The highly selective CRF2 receptor antagonist K41498 binds to presynaptic CRF2 receptors in rat brain. Br. J. Pharmacol. 2002; 136: 896-904.

Hollon TR, Bek MJ, Lachowicz JE, Ariano MA, Mezey E, Ramachandran R, Wersinger SR, Soares-da-Silva P, Liu ZF, Grinberg A, Drago J, Young WS 3rd, Westphal H, Jose PA, Sibley DR. Mice lacking D5 dopamine receptors have increased sympathetic tone and are hypertensive. J Neurosci. 2002 Dec 15;22(24):10801-10.

Parish CL, Stanic D, Drago J, Borrelli E, Finkelstein DI, Horne MK. Effects of long-term treatment with dopamine receptor agonists and antagonists on terminal arbour size. Eur J Neurosci. 2002 Sep;16(5):787-94.

Parish CL, Finkelstein DI, Tripanichkul W, Satoskar AR, Drago J,HorneMK. The role of interleukin-1, interleukin-6, and glia in inducing growth of neuronal terminal arbours in mice. J Neurosci. 2002 Sep 15;22(18):8034-41.

Clifford JJ, Drago J, Natoli AL, Wong JY, Kinsella A, Waddington JL, Vaddadi KS. Essential fatty acids given from conception prevent topographies of motor deficit in a transgenic model of Huntington's disease. Neuroscience. 2002;109(1):81-8.

McNamara FN, Clifford JJ, Tighe O, Kinsella A, Drago J, Fuchs S, Croke DT, Waddington JL.. Phenotypic, ethologically based resolution of spontaneous and D(2)-like vs D(1)-like agonist-induced behavioural topography in mice with congenic D(3) dopamine receptor "knockout". Synapse. 2002 Oct;46(1):19-31.

Tomiyama K, McNamara FN, Clifford JJ, Kinsella A, Drago J, Tighe O, Croke DT, Koshikawa N, Waddington JL. Phenotypic resolution of spontaneous and D1-like agonist-induced orofacial movement topographies in congenic dopamine D1A receptor 'knockout' mice. Neuropharmacology. 2002 Apr;42(5):644-52.

Wong JY, Ross SA, McColl C, Massalas JS, Powney E, Finkelstein DI, Clark M, Horne MK, Berkovic SF, Drago J. Proconvulsant-induced seizures in alpha(4) nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit knockout mice. Neuropharmacology. 2002 Jul;43(1):55-64.

McManamny P, Chy HS, Finkelstein DI, Craythorn RG, Crack PJ, Kola I, Cheema SS, Horne MK, Wreford NG, O'Bryan MK, De Kretser DM, Morrison JR. A mouse model of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy. Hum Mol Genet. 2002 Sep 1;11(18):2103-11.

Hardman CD, Henderson JM, Finkelstein DI, Horne MK, Paxinos G, Halliday GM. Comparison of the basal ganglia in rats, marmosets, macaques, baboons, and humans: volume and neuronal number for the output, internal relay, and striatal modulating nuclei. J Comp Neurol. 2002 Apr 8;445(3):238-55.

van den Buuse M. Effect of atropine or atenolol on cardiovascular responses to novelty stress in freely-moving rats. Stress. 2002 Sep;5(3):227-31.

van den Buuse M, van Acker SA, Fluttert MF, de Kloet ER. Involvement of corticosterone in cardiovascular responses to an open-field novelty stressor in freely moving rats. Physiol Behav. 2002 Feb 1-15;75(1-2):207-15.

2001

Yao ST, Barden JA, Lawrence AJ. . On the immunohistochemical distribution of ionotropic P2X receptors in the nucleus tractus solitarius of the rat. Neuroscience. 2001;108(4):673-85.

Cowen MS, Lawrence AJ. Alterations in central preproenkephalin mRNA expression after chronic free-choice ethanol consumption by fawn-hooded rats. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2001 Aug;25(8):1126-33.

Sweerts BW, Jarrott B, Lawrence AJ. The effect of acute and chronic restraint on the central expression of prepro-neuropeptide Y mRNA in normotensive and hypertensive rats. J Neuroendocrinol. 2001 Jul;13(7):608-17.

Lodge DJ, Lawrence AJ. Comparative analysis of the central CCK system in Fawn Hooded and Wistar Kyoto rats: extended localisation of CCK-A receptors throughout the rat brain using a novel radioligand. Regul Pept. 2001 Jun 15;99(2-3):191-201.

Aprico K, Beart PM, Lawrence AJ, Crawford D, O'Shea RD. [(3)H](2S,4R)-4-Methylglutamate: a novel ligand for the characterization of glutamate transporters. J Neurochem. 2001 Jun;77(5):1218-25.

Montague DM, Striplin CD, Overcash JS, Drago J, Lawler CP, Mailman RB. Quantification of D1B(D5) receptors in dopamine D1A receptor-deficient mice. Synapse. 2001 Mar 15;39(4):319-22.

Ryan RE, Ross SA, Drago J, Loiacono RE. Dose-related neuroprotective effects of chronic nicotine in 6-hydroxydopamine treated rats, and loss of neuroprotection in alpha4 nicotinic receptor subunit knockout mice. Br J Pharmacol. 2001 Apr;132(8):1650-6.

Lahoud MH, Ristevski S, Venter DJ, Jermiin LS, Bertoncello I, Zavarsek S, Hasthorpe S, Drago J, de Kretser D, Hertzog PJ, Kola I. Gene targeting of Desrt, a novel ARID class DNA-binding protein, causes growth retardation and abnormal development of reproductive organs. Genome Res. 2001 Aug;11(8):1327-34.

Cullen-McEwen LA, Drago J, Bertram JF. Nephron endowment in glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) heterozygous mice. Kidney Int. 2001 Jul;60(1):31-6.

Kha HT, Finkelstein DI, Tomas D, Drago J, Pow DV, Horne MK. Projections from the substantia nigra pars reticulata to the motor thalamus of the rat: single axon reconstructions and immunohistochemical study. J Comp Neurol. 2001 Nov 5;440(1):20-30.

Parish CL, Finkelstein DI, Drago J, Borrelli E, Horne MK. The role of dopamine receptors in regulating the size of axonal arbours. J Neurosci. 2001 Jul 15;21(14):5147-57.

van den Buuse M, Eikelis N. Estrogen increases prepulse inhibition of acoustic startle in rats. Eur J Pharmacol. 2001 Aug 3;425(1):33-41.

van den Buuse M, Van Acker SA, Fluttert M, De Kloet ER. Blood pressure, heart rate, and behavioral responses to psychological "novelty" stress in freely moving rats. Psychophysiology. 2001 May;38(3):490-9.