Search filters

List of works by Maria Giuseppina Pisu

2-Phenyl-imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine compounds containing hydrophilic groups as potent and selective ligands for peripheral benzodiazepine receptors: synthesis, binding affinity and electrophysiological studies.

scientific article published on 4 October 2008

A decrease of reelin expression as a putative vulnerability factor in schizophrenia

scientific article

A rapid method for obtaining finasteride, a 5alpha-reductase inhibitor, from commercial tablets.

scientific article published in April 2002

Allopregnanolone modulation of HPA axis function in the adult rat.

scientific article published on September 2014

Altered stress responsiveness and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function in male rat offspring of socially isolated parents.

scientific article published on 9 May 2013

Anticipation and consumption of food each increase the concentration of neuroactive steroids in rat brain and plasma

scientific article published on 28 August 2006

Binding of [3H]CB 34, a selective ligand for peripheral benzodiazepine receptors, to rat brain membranes.

scientific article published in December 2001

Brain steroidogenesis mediates ethanol modulation of GABAA receptor activity in rat hippocampus.

scientific article published on July 2004

Changes in expression of the neuropeptide Y Y1 receptor gene in the medial amygdala of transgenic mice during pregnancy and after delivery.

scientific article published in September 2002

Changes in neuroactive steroid secretion associated with CO2-induced panic attacks in normal individuals

scientific article published on 20 May 2013

Changes in stress-stimulated allopregnanolone levels induced by neonatal estradiol treatment are associated with enhanced dopamine release in adult female rats: reversal by progesterone administration

scientific article

Down-regulation of hippocampal BDNF and Arc associated with improvement in aversive spatial memory performance in socially isolated rats.

scientific article published on 21 March 2011

Effects of voluntary ethanol consumption on emotional state and stress responsiveness in socially isolated rats.

scientific article

Failure of Chronic Treatment with Abecarnil to Induce Contingent and Noncontingent Tolerance in Pentylenetetrazol-Kindled Rats

scientific article published on 01 April 1996

Increased expression of the gene for the Y1 receptor of neuropeptide Y in the amygdala and paraventricular nucleus of Y1R/LacZ transgenic mice in response to restraint stress.

scientific article

Increased expression of the neuropeptide Y receptor Y(1) gene in the medial amygdala of transgenic mice induced by long-term treatment with progesterone or allopregnanolone.

scientific article published in October 2001

Increased neuroactive steroid concentrations in women with bipolar disorder or major depressive disorder

scientific article published in August 2006

Inhibition by miltirone of up-regulation of GABAA receptor alpha4 subunit mRNA by ethanol withdrawal in hippocampal neurons

scientific article

Juvenile social isolation affects maternal care in rats: involvement of allopregnanolone.

scientific article published on 16 June 2017

Long-term treatment with clozapine does not affect morning circulating levels of allopregnanolone and THDOC in patients with schizophrenia: a preliminary study

scientific article

Low tolerance and dependence liabilities of etizolam: molecular, functional, and pharmacological correlates

scientific article

Maternal separation attenuates the effect of adolescent social isolation on HPA axis responsiveness in adult rats

scientific article published on 5 April 2014

Modulation of neuropeptide Y and Y1 receptor expression in the amygdala by fluctuations in the brain content of neuroactive steroids during ethanol drinking discontinuation in Y1R/LacZ transgenic mice.

scientific article published on 22 November 2007

NPY-Y1 coexpressed with NPY-Y5 receptors modulate anxiety but not mild social stress response in mice.

scientific article

Neuroactive steroids after estrogen exposure in depressed postmenopausal women treated with sertraline and asymptomatic postmenopausal women.

scientific article

Neuroactive steroids and GABAA receptor plasticity in the brain of the WAG/Rij rat, a model of absence epilepsy

scientific article published on 4 July 2008

Neuroanatomical and pharmacological evidence for a functional interaction between GABAergic and NPY-Y1 transmission in the amygdala of Y1R/LacZ transgenic mice.

scientific article

Neurosteroid secretion in panic disorder

scientific article

Novel anellated pyrazoloquinolin-3-ones: synthesis and in vitro BZR activity

scientific article published in May 2005

Opposite effects of short- versus long-term administration of fluoxetine on the concentrations of neuroactive steroids in rat plasma and brain

scientific article published in October 2001

Plasma concentrations of anxiolytic neuroactive steroids in men with panic disorder

scientific article published in June 2005

Plasma concentrations of anxiolytic neurosteroids in men with normal anxiety scores: a correlation analysis

scientific article

Prevention of the stress-induced increase in frontal cortical dopamine efflux of freely moving rats by long-term treatment with antidepressant drugs.

scientific article

Progesterone enhances ethanol-induced modulation of mesocortical dopamine neurons: antagonism by finasteride.

scientific article published in December 2002

Ret, GFRalpha-1, GFRalpha-2 and GFRalpha-3 receptors in the human hippocampus and fascia dentata.

scientific article published on August 2005

Reversal of a selective decrease in hippocampal acetylcholine release, but not of the persistence of kindling, after discontinuation of long-term pentylenetetrazol administration in rats

scientific article

Sex differences in the outcome of juvenile social isolation on HPA axis function in rats

scientific article published on 8 February 2016

Simultaneous detection of glutamic acid decarboxylase and reelin mRNA in adult rat neurons using in situ hybridization and immunofluorescence

scientific article published in November 1998

Social isolation increases the response of peripheral benzodiazepine receptors in the rat.

scientific article published in July 2004

Social isolation-induced changes in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in the rat.

scientific article published in December 2005

Social isolation-induced decreases in both the abundance of neuroactive steroids and GABA(A) receptor function in rat brain

scientific article published in August 2000

Social isolation-induced increase in alpha and delta subunit gene expression is associated with a greater efficacy of ethanol on steroidogenesis and GABA receptor function

scientific article published in July 2006

Steroidogenesis in rat brain induced by short- and long-term administration of carbamazepine

scientific article published on 01 September 2000

Structure-activity relationships and effects on neuroactive steroid synthesis in a series of 2-phenylimidazo[1,2-a]pyridineacetamide peripheral benzodiazepine receptors ligands.

scientific article published in January 2005

Valproic acid-hydrophilic cyclodextrin complexes and valproic acid-solid dispersions: evaluation of their potential pharmaceutical use.

scientific article

Paulina is supported by:

About Paulina

Help