1991), who designed it to study dominance hierarchies in Long-Evans rats. Relative to standard laboratory cages, the VBS ... For example, dominant as well as subordinate Long-Evans rats exhibit stress-related reductions in dendritic length and ... these studies and our results are likely caused by the fact that Sprague Dawley rats are less aggressive than Long-Evans rats. ... a time sufficient for establishing dominance hierarchies in Long-Evans rats (Blanchard et al., 1995). ...

Male Long-Evans rats (∼90 d of age at the beginning of the experiment; Harlan Laboratories) were housed singly in a temperature ... Each rat was given three tests. Rats were hungry for the first and last test, but were sated on food before the middle test, ... rats were given their daily allotment of food in the home cage shortly after test 1 was complete. On the following day, rats ... Rats received three test sessions on separate days using an ABA design. The first and last tests were conducted when the rats ...

2016) Clozapine N-oxide administration produces behavioral effects in Long-Evans rats: implications for designing DREADD ... 2006) Gap detection deficits in rats with tinnitus: a potential novel screening tool. Behav Neurosci 120:188-195. doi:10.1037/ ... 2018) Acoustic trauma changes the parvalbumin-positive neurons in rat auditory cortex. Neural Plast 2018:9828070. doi:10.1155/ ... 2006) Long-term assessment of auditory changes resulting from a single noise exposure associated with non-occupational ...

Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima fatty rats, and tubby mice (Guan et al., 1998; Beck, 2006). Moreover, similar to the effect of ... 1998) Food intake in free-feeding and energy-deprived lean rats is mediated by the neuropeptide Y5 receptor. J Clin Invest 102: ... 1995) Induction of Fos protein in the rat hypothalamus elicited by insulin-induced hypoglycemia. Neurosci Res 23:361-364. ... 2004) Adenovirus-mediated chronic "hyper-resistinemia" leads to in vivo insulin resistance in normal rats. J Clin Invest 114: ...

Seventeen male Long-Evans rats (Harlan) were individually housed and kept on a 12 h light/dark cycle with lights on at 7:00 A.M ... four rats received bilateral medial implants, two rats received bilateral ventral implants, and eight rats received one medial ... Rats were trained on blocks of familiar discrimination pairs for ∼4 months (∼75 sessions per rat). In any pair, one stimulus ... During recordings, rats performed the task with a median accuracy of 83% (IQR 81-86%, 28 sessions, 2 sessions per rat, one ...

Four experimentally naive male Long-Evans rats (450-550 g) were housed in a facility with a 12 h light/dark cycle, with all ... B, Example of a test day on which the rat had to perform a minimum of 10 trials on each of the 3 sequence blocks, which were ... An area of 25 × 13 inches was left for the rat to move freely. On the opposing-side wall, a food cup was located at the center ... Rats were trained in an experimental apparatus which contained a panel with three retractable levers located on one wall (Fig. ...

2005) Environmental enrichment increases paired-pulse depression in rat auditory cortex. J Neurophysiol 94:3590-3600. ... Evans AC, *Schlaug G. (2009) Musical training shapes structural brain development. J Neurosci 29:3019-3025. ... A Little Goes a Long Way: How the Adult Brain Is Shaped by Musical Training in Childhood. Erika Skoe and Nina Kraus ... 2012) Early exercise promotes positive hippocampal plasticity and improves spatial memory in the adult life of rats. ...

Subjects and surgery. We used male Long-Evans rats provided by a commercial supplier (Harlan Sprague Dawley, Indianapolis, IN) ... revealed that freezing in NO-EXT rats was greater than that in EXT and HAB rats, and freezing in EXT rats was greater than that ... revealed that CS-evoked firing was greatest in the NO-EXT rats, intermediate in the EXT rats, and lowest in the HAB rats. As ... Rats may have received the INCON or CON test first on each of those days. Importantly, each rat in the EXT group served as its ...

Kindling induces the long-lasting expression of a novel population of NMDA receptors in hippocampal region CA3 JE Kraus, GC Yeh ... Axotomy results in delayed death and apoptosis of retinal ganglion cells in adult rats M Berkelaar, DB Clarke, YC Wang, GM Bray ... RC Coghill, JD Talbot, AC Evans, E Meyer, A Gjedde, MC Bushnell and GH Duncan ... Embryonic neural cell adhesion molecule (N-CAM) is elevated in the denervated rat dentate gyrus PD Miller, SD Styren, CF ...

2000) Distribution of mRNAs encoding CRF receptors in brain and pituitary of rat and mouse. J Comp Neurol 428:191-212, doi: ... Evans blue dye was used (50 μl, 0.02%) to verify ventricular cannula placement, and the amygdala and prefrontal cortex (PFC) ... The EPM was composed of two open and two closed arms (48 cm long × 15 cm wide × 38 cm height of closed arms) and elevated 48 cm ... Male Sprague Dawley rats (65-70 d old; Charles River) were pair-housed with food and water available ad libitum (12 h light/ ...

Spike Timing-Dependent Synaptic Depression in the In Vivo Barrel Cortex of the Rat Vincent Jacob, Daniel J. Brasier, Irina ... The Spatial Organization of Long-Term Synaptic Plasticity at the Input Stage of Cerebellum Jonathan Mapelli and Egidio DAngelo ... Evans, J. Keith Smith, Robert M. Hamer, Jeffrey A. Lieberman and Guido Gerig ... Differential Spatial Representation of Taste Modalities in the Rat Gustatory Cortex Riccardo Accolla, Brice Bathellier, Carl C ...

2009) MRI structural brain changes associated with sensory and emotional function in a rat model of long-term neuropathic pain ... 1994) Quantitative assessment of tactile allodynia in the rat paw. J Neurosci Methods 53:55-63. doi:10.1016/0165-0270(94)90144- ... 2015) Assessing cognitive function following medial prefrontal stroke in the rat. Behav Brain Res 294:102-110. doi:10.1016/j. ... 2011) Short- and long-term plasticity at the axon initial segment. J Neurosci 31:16049-16055. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4064- ...

Rats were handled for 4 consecutive days before the experiment. On the day of the experiment, rats were randomly assigned to ... Evans DC. (2002) Comparison of the potency of MDL 100, 907 and SB 242084 in blocking the serotonin (5-HT)2 receptor agonist- ... 1993) Long-term treatment with the antidepressants fluoxetine and desipramine potentiates endocrine responses to the serotonin ... Male Sprague Dawley rats (225-275 gm) were purchased from Harlan Sprague Dawley (Indianapolis, IN). Before surgery, the rats ...

Evans RM. (1997) Nuclear receptor coactivator ACTR is a novel histone acetyltransferase and forms a multimeric activation ... Although the expression pattern of SRC-1 in the mouse brain is similar to that observed in the rat brain (Meijer et al., 2000 ... In the Morris water maze, SRC-1−/−mice exhibited significantly longer escape latencies when compared with WT mice, which was ... 1997) Comparative distribution of estrogen receptor-alpha and -beta mRNA in the rat central nervous system. J Comp Neurol 388: ...

Nissl (B)- and NeuN (C, D, labeled in green)-stained sections from a rat that received focal injections of anti-rat p75- ... These results mirror previous results in cat that were obtained after much longer post-ablation periods (Kanold et al., 2003) ... Evans M, *Cang J, *Stryker M, *McQuillen P. (2006) Impaired cortical plasticity after early hypoxia-ischemia. Soc Neurosci ... Anti-rat p75-toxin and control toxin injections in overlaying cortical layers that did not reach the subplate (n = 2 anti-rat ...

2014) Phasic dopamine release in the rat nucleus accumbens symmetrically encodes a reward prediction error term. J Neurosci 34: ... Finally, due to our a priori hypothesis regarding more severe impairments as a function of longer current abstinence length and ... Evans BE, *Huizink AC, *Franken IH. (2013) Blunted feedback processing during risky decision making in adolescents with a ... 2004) Cocaine-experienced rats exhibit learning deficits in a task sensitive to orbitofrontal cortex lesions. Eur J Neurosci 19 ...

In 5 × 10−7m CCAP, the LP neuron fired at a higher spike frequency (p , 0.041, paired t test) and for a longer duration (p , ... 1988) Agonists at mu-opioid, M2-muscarinic and GABAB-receptors increase the same potassium conductance in rat lateral ... Evans CG, *Weiss KR. (1994a) Enhancement of Ca current in the accessory radula closer muscle of Aplysia californica by ... These values are averages over longer portions of the traces shown. In this experiment, the number of spikes per burst of the ...

Kevin F. Casey, Mariya V. Cherkasova, Kevin Larcher, Alan C. Evans, Glen B. Baker, Alain Dagher, Chawki Benkelfat and Marco ... Lateralized Odor Preference Training in Rat Pups Reveals an Enhanced Network Response in Anterior Piriform Cortex to Olfactory ... Enhanced Excitability of Thalamic Sensory Neurons and Slow-Wave EEG Pattern after Stimuli That Induce Spinal Long-Term ... Neuregulin-1 Impairs the Long-term Depression of Hippocampal Inhibitory Synapses by Facilitating the Degradation of ...

Evans DG, Baser ME, McGaughran J, Sharif S, Howard E, Moran A (2002) Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumours in ... Corfas G, Rosen KM, Aratake H, Krauss R, Fischbach GD (1995) Differential expression of ARIA isoforms in the rat brain. Neuron ... In contrast, PSCs are essential for the long-term maintenance of synaptic structure and function (Reddy et al., 2003). One week ... Wilson GF, Chiu SY (1993) Mitogenic factors regulate ion channels in Schwann cells cultured from newborn rat sciatic nerve. J ...

ShA rats), (2) cocaine self-administration (0.5 mg/kg/inf) during daily 6 h sessions (long-access; LgA rats), and (3) saline ... Evans RT, *Seasholtz AF. (2009) Novel expression of type 1 corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor in multiple endocrine cell ... ShA rats, n = 6; LgA rats, n = 10; Sal rats, n = 7) or under shock-free conditions (ShA rats, n = 7; LgA rats, n = 7; Sal rats ... Male rats with a history of daily long-access (LgA; 14 × 6 h/d) but not short-access (ShA; 14 × 2 h/d) self-administration ...

Cb, Rat cerebellum; Hp, rat hippocampus; CG, extracts from primary cultures of rat cerebellar granule cells grown in medium ... 9A). Remarkably, the D283med cell xenografts were no longer detectable at 7 d after PHCCC withdrawal (Fig. 9B). We then tested ... Evans AE, Schut L (1994) Outcome for children with medulloblastoma treated with radiation and cisplatin, CCNU, and vincristine ... High expression levels of mGlu4 receptors were found in the rat cerebellum and hippocampus used as positive controls (Fig. 3B). ...

Evans CJ. (2010) Opioid pharmaceuticals and addiction: the issues, and research directions seeking solutions. Drug Alcohol ... 1991) Transient homologous μ-opioid receptor desensitization in rat locus coeruleus neurons. J Neurosci 11:2574-2581. pmid: ... After microinjection, the wound was sutured and animals were left to recover for a minimum of 7 d, but no longer than 21 d ... 1983) Autoradiographic distribution of mu and delta opiate receptors in rat brain using highly selective ligands. Life Sci 33 [ ...

Evans RM. (2008a) A role for adult TLX-positive neural stem cells in learning and behaviour. Nature 451:1004-1007, doi:10.1038/ ... 2004) For the long run: maintaining germinal niches in the adult brain. Neuron 41:683-686, doi:10.1016/S0896-6273(04)00111-4, ... Maturation of Spontaneous Firing Properties after Hearing Onset in Rat Auditory Nerve Fibers: Spontaneous Rates, Refractoriness ... D, Quantification of the DCX+/BrdU+ cells in the long-term period following Ezh2 deletion. E, The number of surviving BrdU- ...