IntelliCage: the development and perspectives of a mouse-and user-friendly automated behavioral test system

HP Lipp, S Krackow, E Turkes, S Benner… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
IntelliCage for mice is a rodent home-cage equipped with four corner structures harboring
symmetrical double panels for operant conditioning at each of the two sides, either by …

descSPIM: an affordable and easy-to-build light-sheet microscope optimized for tissue clearing techniques

K Otomo, T Omura, Y Nozawa, SJ Edwards… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite widespread adoption of tissue clearing techniques in recent years, poor access to
suitable light-sheet fluorescence microscopes remains a major obstacle for biomedical end …

Homeostatic NREM sleep and salience network function in adult mice exposed to ethanol during development

P Shah, A Kaneria, G Fleming, CRO Williams… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Developmental exposure to ethanol is a leading cause of cognitive, emotional and
behavioral problems, with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) affecting more than 1: 100 …

Neural Network Connectivity Following Opioid Dependence is Altered by a Common Genetic Variant in the µ-Opioid Receptor, OPRM1 A118G

Y Xie, JK Brynildsen, K Windisch… - Journal of …, 2024 - Soc Neuroscience
Opioid use disorder is a chronic, relapsing disease associated with persistent changes in
brain plasticity. A common single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the µ-opioid receptor …

Activation of trace amine‐associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) transiently reduces alcohol drinking in socially housed mice

BA Frycz, K Nowicka, A Konopka, MC Hoener… - Addiction …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Alcohol dependence is characterized by the abnormal release of dopamine in the brain
reward‐related areas. Trace amine‐associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) is a G protein‐coupled …

Effects of social housing on alcohol intake in mice depend on the non-social environment

MC Johnson, JA Zweig, Y Zhang… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background Excessive alcohol consumption leads to serious health problems. Mechanisms
regulating the consumption of alcohol are insufficiently understood. Previous preclinical …

Classification of psychedelics and psychoactive drugs based on brain-wide imaging of cellular c-Fos expression

F Aboharb, PA Davoudian, LX Shao, C Liao… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Psilocybin, ketamine, and MDMA are psychoactive compounds that exert behavioral effects
with distinguishable but also overlapping features. The growing interest in using these …

Unlocking the potential of large-scale 3D imaging with tissue clearing techniques

EA Susaki - Microscopy, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The three-dimensional (3D) anatomical structure of living organisms is intrinsically
linked to their functions, yet modern life sciences have not fully explored this aspect …

[HTML][HTML] Sex Differences in Neural Networks Recruited by Frontloaded Binge Alcohol Drinking

CE Ardinger, Y Chen, A Kimbrough, NJ Grahame… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Frontloading is an alcohol drinking pattern where intake is skewed toward the onset of
access. The goal of the current study was to identify brain regions involved in frontloading …

Sex differences in nucleus accumbens core circuitry engaged by binge-like ethanol drinking

AE Chan, JQ Anderson, KB Grigsby, BE Jensen… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Graphical Summary: Binge-like ethanol drinking engages more regions and NAcc inputs in
female relative to male mice. Left: Comparison of regions with both greater c-Fos expression …