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List of works by Mary Kay Lobo

A Role for Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma Coactivator-1α in Nucleus Accumbens Neuron Subtypes in Cocaine Action

scientific article published on 28 October 2016

A novel role for the actin-binding protein drebrin in regulating opiate addiction

scientific article published on 12 September 2019

A role for repressive histone methylation in cocaine-induced vulnerability to stress

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Antidepressant effect of optogenetic stimulation of the medial prefrontal cortex

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BDNF is a negative modulator of morphine action

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Beyond Neuronal Activity Markers: Select Immediate Early Genes in Striatal Neuron Subtypes Functionally Mediate Psychostimulant Addiction

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Biology and Bias in Cell Type-Specific RNAseq of Nucleus Accumbens Medium Spiny Neurons

scientific article published on 06 June 2019

Cell type-specific loss of BDNF signaling mimics optogenetic control of cocaine reward

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Cell-type-specific role for nucleus accumbens neuroligin-2 in depression and stress susceptibility.

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Cocaine-induced adaptations in D1 and D2 accumbens projection neurons (a dichotomy not necessarily synonymous with direct and indirect pathways).

scientific article published on 18 February 2013

Coding the direct/indirect pathways by D1 and D2 receptors is not valid for accumbens projections

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Convergence of Reinforcing and Anhedonic Cocaine Effects in the Ventral Pallidum.

scientific article published on 15 September 2016

Decreased Nucleus Accumbens Expression of Psychiatric Disorder Risk Gene Cacna1c Promotes Susceptibility to Social Stress

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Decreased Taurine and Creatine in the Thalamus May Relate to Behavioral Impairments in Ethanol-Fed Mice: A Pilot Study of Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

scientific article published in January 2018

Dendritic remodeling of D1 neurons by RhoA/Rho-kinase mediates depression-like behavior

scientific article published on 17 August 2018

Dendritic spine density is increased on nucleus accumbens D2 neurons after chronic social defeat

scientific article published on 24 July 2020

Differential mitochondrial morphology in ventral striatal projection neuron subtypes

scientific article published on 07 August 2019

Dopamine Is Differentially Encoded by D2 Receptors in Striatal Subregions

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Dopamine receptor D2, but not D1, mediates descending dopaminergic pathway-produced analgesic effect in a trigeminal neuropathic pain mouse model

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Dopamine reduction of GABA currents in striatal medium-sized spiny neurons is mediated principally by the D(1) receptor subtype

scientific article published on 22 September 2006

Drp1 Mitochondrial Fission in D1 Neurons Mediates Behavioral and Cellular Plasticity during Early Cocaine Abstinence

scientific article published in December 2017

Emerging Role for Nucleus Accumbens Medium Spiny Neuron Subtypes in Depression

scientific article published on 15 September 2016

Enduring consequences of perinatal fentanyl exposure in mice

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Enduring consequences of perinatal fentanyl exposure in mice

Enduring effects of adolescent ketamine exposure on cocaine- and sucrose-induced reward in male and female C57BL/6 mice

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Epigenetic basis of opiate suppression of Bdnf gene expression in the ventral tegmental area

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Essential role of the cAMP-cAMP response-element binding protein pathway in opiate-induced homeostatic adaptations of locus coeruleus neurons

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FACS-array profiling of striatal projection neuron subtypes in juvenile and adult mouse brains

scientific article published on 19 February 2006

Fluoxetine exposure during adolescence alters responses to aversive stimuli in adulthood

scientific article published on January 2014

G9a influences neuronal subtype specification in striatum

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Genetic control of instrumental conditioning by striatopallidal neuron-specific S1P receptor Gpr6.

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Housing conditions during self-administration determine motivation for cocaine in mice following chronic social defeat stress

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Impaired adult myelination in the prefrontal cortex of socially isolated mice

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Individual differences in stereotypy and neuron subtype translatome with TrkB deletion

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

Lighting up the brain's reward circuitry

scientific article published on January 13, 2012

Long-Term Potentiation Requires a Rapid Burst of Dendritic Mitochondrial Fission during Induction

scientific article published on 11 October 2018

Loss of BDNF signaling in D1R-expressing NAc neurons enhances morphine reward by reducing GABA inhibition

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Maturation of silent synapses in amygdala-accumbens projection contributes to incubation of cocaine craving

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Methyl supplementation attenuates cocaine-seeking behaviors and cocaine-induced c-Fos activation in a DNA methylation-dependent manner

scientific article published on June 2015

Molecular profiling of striatonigral and striatopallidal medium spiny neurons past, present, and future

scientific article published on January 2009

NMDA receptor alterations in neurons from pediatric cortical dysplasia tissue

scientific article published on 28 March 2004

Neural integration of reward, arousal, and feeding: recruitment of VTA, lateral hypothalamus, and ventral striatal neurons

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Neuropathic pain after chronic nerve constriction may not correlate with chloride dysregulation in mouse trigeminal nucleus caudalis neurons

scientific article published on 18 April 2017

New insights into the specificity and plasticity of reward and aversion encoding in the mesolimbic system

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Nuclear Arc Puts a Brake on Cocaine-Induced Chromatin Remodeling and Behaviors.

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Nucleus accumbens medium spiny neuron subtypes mediate depression-related outcomes to social defeat stress

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Nucleus accumbens-specific interventions in RGS9-2 activity modulate responses to morphine

scientific article published on 24 February 2014

Opposing role for Egr3 in nucleus accumbens cell subtypes in cocaine action

scientific article published on May 2015

Optogenetic inhibition of D1R containing nucleus accumbens neurons alters cocaine-mediated regulation of Tiam1.

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Optogenetic insights into striatal function and behavior

scientific article published on April 28, 2013

Overexpression of DeltaFosB in nucleus accumbens mimics the protective addiction phenotype, but not the protective depression phenotype of environmental enrichment

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Pivotal role of early B-cell factor 1 in development of striatonigral medium spiny neurons in the matrix compartment

scientific article published in August 2008

Potential Utility of Optogenetics in the Study of Depression

scientific article published on 08 February 2012

Rac1 is essential in cocaine-induced structural plasticity of nucleus accumbens neurons

scientific article published on June 2012

Rapid regulation of depression-related behaviours by control of midbrain dopamine neurons

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Reduced Slc6a15 in Nucleus Accumbens D2-Neurons Underlies Stress Susceptibility.

scientific article published on 2 June 2017

Reduced nucleus accumbens enkephalins underlie vulnerability to social defeat stress

scientific article published on 27 May 2019

Reward behaviour is regulated by the strength of hippocampus-nucleus accumbens synapses.

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Sex-Specific Role for Egr3 in Nucleus Accumbens D2-Medium Spiny Neurons Following Long-Term Abstinence From Cocaine Self-administration

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Shining light on motivation, emotion, and memory processes

scientific article published on 20 January 2015

The Individualized Powerhouse: Mitofusin-2 Regulates Nucleus Accumbens Mitochondrial Influence on Individual Differences in Trait Anxiety

scientific article published in 2021

The Selective RhoA Inhibitor Rhosin Promotes Stress Resiliency Through Enhancing D1-Medium Spiny Neuron Plasticity and Reducing Hyperexcitability

scientific article published on 13 February 2019

The Striatal Balancing Act in Drug Addiction: Distinct Roles of Direct and Indirect Pathway Medium Spiny Neurons

scientific article published on July 18, 2011

The molecular and cellular mechanisms of depression: a focus on reward circuitry

scientific article published on 09 April 2019

Trk B signaling in dopamine 1 receptor neurons regulates food intake and body weight

scientific article published on May 31, 2013

Upregulation of hippocampal extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK)-2 induces antidepressant-like behavior in the rat forced swim test

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Vicarious Social Defeat Stress Induces Depression-Related Outcomes in Female Mice.

scientific article published on 29 July 2017

ΔFosB induction in striatal medium spiny neuron subtypes in response to chronic pharmacological, emotional, and optogenetic stimuli

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