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2023

Prenatal methadone exposure leads to disruption in adult-born dentate granule cell survival and female persistent fear responding. (2023) - Addiction Neuroscience, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addicn.2023.100120

Gamble MR and Diaz MR

2022

Moderate prenatal alcohol exposure produces sex-specific social impairments and attenuates prelimbic excitability and amygdala-cortex modulation of adult social behavior. (2022) - Addiction Biology, doi: 10.1111/adb.13252

Przybysz, KR, Spodnick MB, Johnson JM, Varlinskaya EI, Diaz, MR

Prenatal methadone exposure leads to long-term memory impairments and disruptions of dentate granule cell function in a sex-dependent manner. (2022) - Addiction Biology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/adb.13215

Gamble MR, Marfatia R, Diaz MR

Moderate prenatal alcohol exposure modifies sex-specific CRFR1 activity in the central amygdala and anxiety-like behavior in adolescent offspring. (2022) - Neuropsychopharmacology, doi: 10.1038/s41386-022-01327-z

Rouzer SK and Diaz MR

2021

Factors of sex and age dictate the regulation of GABAergic activity by corticotropin-releasing factor receptor 1 in the medial sub-nucleus of the central amygdala (2021) - Neuropharmacology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2021.108530

Rouzer SK and Diaz MR

Moderate adolescent chronic intermittent ethanol exposure sex-dependently disrupts synaptic transmission and kappa opioid receptor function in the basolateral amygdala of adult rats (2021) - Neuropharmacology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2021.108512

Pryzbysz KR, Gamble ME, Diaz MR

2020

Moderate Adolescent Ethanol Vapor Exposure and Acute Stress in Adulthood: Sex-Dependent Effects on Social Behavior and Ethanol Intake in Sprague-Dawley Rats (2020) - Brain Sciences, doi: 10.3390/brainsci10110829

Gamble ME and Diaz MR

Increased Ethanol Intake is Associated with Social Anxiety in Offspring Exposed to Ethanol on Gestational Day 12 (2020) - Behavioral Brain Research doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112766

Diaz MR, Johnson JM, Varlinskaya EI

Adolescent forced swim stress increases social anxiety-like behaviors and alters kappa opioid receptor function in the basolateral amygdala of male rats (2020) - Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2019.109812

Varlinskaya EI, Johnson JM, Przybysz KR, Deak T, Diaz MR

Age and Sex Regulate Kappa Opioid Receptor-Mediated Anxiety-like Behavior in Rats (2020) - Behavioral Brain Research, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112379

Przybysz KR, Varlinskaya EI, Diaz MR

2019

(pre-print) Adolescent forced swim stress increases social anxiety-like behaviors and alters the dynorphin/kappa opioid receptor system in the basolateral amygdala of males (2019) - bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/512350

Varlinskaya EI, Johnson JM, Deak T, Diaz MR

2018

Stress alters social behavior and sensitivity to pharmacological activation of kappa opioid receptors in an age-specific manner in Sprague Dawley rats (2018) - Neurobiology of Stress; doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2018.09.003

Varlinskaya EI, Spear LP, Diaz MR

(pre-print) Stress alters social behavior and sensitivity to pharmacological activation of kappa opioid receptors in an age-specific manner in Sprague Dawley rats (2018) - bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/399758

Varlinskaya EI, Spear LP, Diaz MR

Age as a factor in stress and alcohol interactions: a critical role for the kappa opioid system (2018) - Alcohol, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcohol.2017.10.002

Diaz MR, Przysbysz KR, Rouzer SK

2017

Moderate maternal alcohol exposure on gestational day 12 impacts anxiety-like behaviors in offspring (2017) - Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience; doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00183.

Rouzer SK, Cole JM, Johnson JM, Varlinskaya EI, Diaz MR

Age-dependent regulation of GABA transmission by kappa opioid receptors in the basolateral amygdala of Sprague-Dawley rats (2017) - Neuropharmacology; Feb 2. pii: S0028-3908(17)30035-7. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2017.01.036.

Przybysz, KR, Werner, DF, Diaz MR

2016

Acute prenatal exposure to ethanol elicits social deficits and social anxiety-like alterations in Sprague-Dawley rats (2016) – Behavioural Brain Research; 310:11-9. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.05.003.

Diaz MR, Mooney, SM, Varlinskaya, EI

Inhibitors of calcium activated anion channels modulate sedative-hynoptic ethanol responses in adult Sprague-Dawley rats (2016) – Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research; Feb;40(2):301-8. doi: 10.1111/acer.12957

Carter, JM, Landin, JD, Gigante, ED, Rieger, SP, Diaz MR, Werner DF

Sensitivity of GABAergic tonic currents to acute ethanol in cerebellar granule neurons is not age- or δ subunit-dependent in developing rats (2016) Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research; Jan;40(1):83-92. doi: 10.1111/acer.12940.

Diaz MR and Valenzuela CF

2015

Exposure of Rats to Ethanol during the Equivalent to the Last Trimester of human Pregnancy Increases Anxiety-like Behavior and Glutamatergic Transmission in the Basolateral Amygdala (2015) Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, pii: S0091-3057(15)30046-0. doi: 10.1016/j.pbb.2015.08.009

Baculis B, Diaz MR, Valenzuela CF

2014

Moderate alcohol exposure during the rat equivalent to the third trimester of human pregnancy triggers homeostatic changes in the dopaminergic system of the basolateral amygdala (2014) Front. Pediatr., doi: 10.3389/fped.2014.00046

Diaz, M.R., Jotty, K., Locke, J.L., Jones, S.A., Valenzuela, C.F.

Repeated intermittent alcohol exposure during the third trimester-equivalent increases expression of the GABAA receptor δ subunit in cerebellar granule neurons and delays motor development in rats (2014) Neuropharmacology, 274 Apr;79:262-74

Diaz, M.R., Vollmer C., Zamudio-Bulcock, P.A., Vollmer, W., Blomquist, S., Morton, R.A., Everett, J.C., Zurek, A.A., Yu, J., Orser, B.A., Valenzuela, C.F.

2013

Ethanol Untangles the Amygdala-Anxiety Circuit through Tonic GABA Inhibition (2013) Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research; DOI: 10.1111/acer.12298

Diaz, M.R. and Morton, R.A.

Na+/K+-ATPase Inhibition Partially Mimics the Ethanol-induced Increase of the Golgi Cell-dependent Component of the Tonic GABAergic Current in Rat Cerebellar Granule Cell (2013) PloS One; 2013;8(1):e55673. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055673. Epub 2013 Jan 31

Diaz M.R., Wadleigh, A., Kumar, S., Schutter E.D., Valenzuela, C.F.

Moderate prenatal alcohol exposure reduced plasticity and alters NMDA receptor subunit composition in the dentate gyrus (2013) J Neurosci. Jan 16;33(3):1062-7.

Brady, M.L., Diaz, M.R., Iuso, A., Everett, J.C., Valenzuela, C.F., Caldwell, K.K.

2012

Thalamic Glutamatergic Afferents into the Rat Basolateral Amygdala Exhibit Increased Presynaptic Glutamate Function Following Withdrawal from Chronic Intermittent Ethanol (2012) Neuropharmacology; Sep 13. pii: S0028-3908(12)00476-5

Christian, D.T., Alexander, N.A., Diaz, M.R., McCool, B.A.

Does moderate drinking harm the fetal brain? Insights from animal models (2012) TINS Review.

Valenzuela, C.F., Morton, R.A., Diaz, M.R., Topper, L.