Recent Publications:
Harrod SB, Lacy RT, Zhu J, Hughes BA, Perna MK, Brown RW. (2011).
Gestational IV nicotine produces elevated brain-derived neurotrophic
factor in the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system of adolescent rat
offspring. Synapse. 65:1382-92
Brown, R. W., Perna, M. K.,
Noel, D. M., Whittemore, J. D., Lehmann, J., Smith, M. L. (2011).
Amphetamine locomotor sensitization and conditioned place preference in
adolescent male and female rats neonatally treated with quinpirole.
Behav Pharmacol.
22:374-8.
Brown RW, Noel DM, Smith JJ, Smith ML, Huggins KN, Szebeni K, Szebeni A,
Duffourc M, Chandley M, Ordway GA. (2011). Eszopiclone facilitation of
the antidepressant efficacy of fluoxetine using a social defeat stress
model. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 99:648-58
Perna, M. K., Henderson, Y. O., Bruner, C. L., Brown, R. W. (2011). An
analysis of nicotine conditioned place conditioning in early
postweanling and adolescent rats neonatally treated with quinpirole.
Behav Brain Res. 220:254-61
Sheppard, B., Lehmann, J.,
Cope, Z. A., Brown, R. W. (2010). .Sex differences in nicotine
sensitization and conditioned hyperactivity in adolescent rats
neonatally treated with quinpirole: role of D2 and D3 receptor subtypes.
Behavioral Neuroscience 123:1296-308.
Cope, Z. A., Huggins, K.
N., Sheppard, A. B., Noel, D. M.,
Roane, D. S., Brown, R. W.(2009). 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.
Correll, J. A., Noel, D. M., Sheppard, A. B.,
Thompson, K. N., Li, Y., Yin, D., Brown. R. W. (2009). Nicotine
sensitization and analysis of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in
adolescent
b arrestin-2 knockout mice.
Synapse.
63:510-9.