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List of works by Ruth M. Barrientos

Aging and a peripheral immune challenge interact to reduce mature brain-derived neurotrophic factor and activation of TrkB, PLCgamma1, and ERK in hippocampal synaptoneurosomes

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Aging and an Immune Challenge Interact to Produce Prolonged, but Not Permanent, Reductions in Hippocampal L-LTP and mBDNF in a Rodent Model with Features of Delirium.

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Aging and infection reduce expression of specific brain-derived neurotrophic factor mRNAs in hippocampus

scientific article published on 9 September 2011

Aging sensitizes rapidly isolated hippocampal microglia to LPS ex vivo

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BDNF mRNA expression in rat hippocampus following contextual learning is blocked by intrahippocampal IL-1beta administration

scientific article published in October 2004

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor mRNA downregulation produced by social isolation is blocked by intrahippocampal interleukin-1 receptor antagonist

scientific article published in January 2003

Characterization of the sickness response in young and aging rats following E. coli infection

scientific article published on 06 February 2009

Diminished circadian rhythms in hippocampal microglia may contribute to age-related neuroinflammatory sensitization

scientific article published in August 2016

Divergent effects of brain interleukin-1ß in mediating fever, lethargy, anorexia and conditioned fear memory

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Early-life infection leads to altered BDNF and IL-1beta mRNA expression in rat hippocampus following learning in adulthood

scientific article published on 7 November 2007

Food for thought: how nutrition impacts cognition and emotion

scientific article published on 06 December 2017

Glucocorticoids Mediate Short-Term High-Fat Diet Induction of Neuroinflammatory Priming, the NLRP3 Inflammasome, and the Danger Signal HMGB1

scientific article published on July 2016

Greater glucocorticoid receptor activation in hippocampus of aged rats sensitizes microglia

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High-fat diet and aging interact to produce neuroinflammation and impair hippocampal- and amygdalar-dependent memory

scientific article published on 24 June 2017

High-fat diet consumption disrupts memory and primes elevations in hippocampal IL-1β, an effect that can be prevented with dietary reversal or IL-1 receptor antagonism

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High-fat diet worsens the impact of aging on microglial function and morphology in a region-specific manner

IL-1 receptor type I gene expression in the amygdala of inflammatory susceptible Lewis and inflammatory resistant Fischer rats

scientific article published in December 2001

IL-1RA blocks E. coli-induced suppression of Arc and long-term memory in aged F344xBN F1 rats

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IL-1RA injected intra-cisterna magna confers extended prophylaxis against lipopolysaccharide-induced neuroinflammatory and sickness responses

scientific article published on 4 August 2012

Identification of a novel inflammation-protective locus in the Fischer rat

scientific article published on 01 April 1999

Intracisternal interleukin-1 receptor antagonist prevents postoperative cognitive decline and neuroinflammatory response in aged rats

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Little exercise, big effects: reversing aging and infection-induced memory deficits, and underlying processes

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Memory for context is impaired by a post context exposure injection of interleukin-1 beta into dorsal hippocampus

scientific article published in August 2002

Memory for context is impaired by injecting anisomycin into dorsal hippocampus following context exploration

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Microglia inflammatory responses are controlled by an intrinsic circadian clock

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Neonatal bacterial infection alters fever to live and simulated infections in adulthood

scientific article published on 13 August 2009

Neuroinflammation in the normal aging hippocampus

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Peripheral infection and aging interact to impair hippocampal memory consolidation

scientific article published in May 2006

Prior laparotomy or corticosterone potentiates lipopolysaccharide-induced fever and sickness behaviors

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Prostaglandins are necessary and sufficient to induce contextual fear learning impairments after interleukin-1 beta injections into the dorsal hippocampus.

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Reductions in frontocortical cytokine levels are associated with long-lasting alterations in reward valuation after methamphetamine

scientific article published on 13 March 2015

Snake venom phospholipase A2s (Asp49 and Lys49) induce mechanical allodynia upon peri-sciatic administration: involvement of spinal cord glia, proinflammatory cytokines and nitric oxide

scientific article published in March 2004

Spinal gap junctions: potential involvement in pain facilitation

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Stable, long-term, spatial memory in young and aged rats achieved with a one day Morris water maze training protocol

scientific article published on 15 November 2016

Synaptic correlates of increased cognitive vulnerability with aging: peripheral immune challenge and aging interact to disrupt theta-burst late-phase long-term potentiation in hippocampal area CA1

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The Alarmin HMGB1 Mediates Age-Induced Neuroinflammatory Priming

scientific article published on July 2016

The role of hepatic and splenic macrophages in E. coli-induced memory impairments in aged rats

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The role of microglia in neurogenesis: exercise and aging as cofactors

The role of the dorsal hippocampus in the acquisition and retrieval of context memory representations.

scientific article published in March 2004

Time course of hippocampal IL-1 beta and memory consolidation impairments in aging rats following peripheral infection

scientific article published on 11 July 2008

Voluntary exercise as an anti-neuroinflammatory therapeutic

scientific article published on 24 May 2011

mRNA up-regulation of MHC II and pivotal pro-inflammatory genes in normal brain aging

scientific journal article