RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Werner DF, Blednov YA, Ariwodola OJ, Silberman Y, Logan E, Berry RB, Borghese CM, Matthews D, Weiner JL, Harrison NL, Harris RA, Homanics GE (2006) Knock-in mice with ethanol-insensitive alpha1-containing GABA_A receptors display selective alterations in behavioral responses to ethanol, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, in press.

 Dubois D, Perlegas A, Floyd D, Weiner J, McCool B (2006) Distinct functional characteristics of the lateral/basolateral amygdala GABAergic system in C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, in press.

 Weiner JL, Valenzuela CF (2006) Ethanol modulation of GABAergic inhibition: The view from the slice, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, in press.

 Crowder TL, Ariwodola OJ, Weiner JL (2006) Kainate receptor activation potentiates GABAergic synaptic transmission in the nucleus accumbens core, Brain Research, 1088: 73-82.

 Roberto M, Treistman SN, Pietrykowski AZ, Weiner JL, Galindo MM, Valenzuela CF, Zhu P, Lovinger D, Zhang TA, Hendricson AH, Morrisett R and Siggins GR (2006) Actions of acute and chronic ethanol on presynaptic terminals, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics, 30: 222-232.

Ramsey, MM, Ariwodola OJ, Sonntag WE, Weiner JL (2005) Functional characterization of DES-IGF-1 action at excitatory synapses in the CA1 region of rat hippocampus. Journal of Neurophysiology, 94: 247-254.

Ariwodola OJ, Weiner JL (2004) Ethanol potentiation of GABAergic synaptic transmission may be self-limiting: role of presynaptic GABA_B receptors. Journal of Neuroscience, 24: 10679-10686.

Ramsey MM, Weiner JL, Moore TP, Carter CS, Sonntag WE (2004) Growth hormone treatment tenuates age-related changes in hippocampal short-term plasticity and spatial learning. Neuroscience, 129: 119-127.

Ariwodola OJ, Crowder TL, Grant KA, Daunais JB, Friedman DP, Weiner JL (2003) Ethanol modulation of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission in rat and monkey dentate granule neurons. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 27: 1632-1639.

Carta M, Ariwodola OJ, Weiner JL, Valenzuela CF (2003) Alcohol potently inhibits the kainate receptor-dependent excitatory drive of hippocampal interneurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100: 6813-6818.

Hampson RE, Zhuang SY, Weiner JL, Deadwyler SA (2003) Functional significance of cannabinoid-mediated, depolarization induced suppression of inhibition (DSI) in the hippocampus. Journal of Neurophysiology, 90: 55-64. 

Crowder TL, Ariwodola OJ, Weiner JL  (2002) Ethanol reduces kainate receptor-mediated depression of GABAergic synaptic transmission in rat hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 303: 937-944.

Crowder TL, Weiner JL (2002) Functional characterization of kainate receptors in the rat nucleus accumbens core region. Journal of Neurophysiology, 88(1): 41-48.

Weiner JL (2002) Electrophysiological assessment of synaptic transmission in brain slices. In: Methods in Alcohol Related Neuroscience Research.  Y. Liu & D.M. Lovinger, Eds., pp 191-218.