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The manuscript titled “A Preclinical Alcohol Biobank: Samples from Behaviorally Characterized HS Rats for AUD Research” was accepted in eNeuro.
Authors: Michelle Doyle, Paola Campo, Selen Dirik, Maria Balaguer, Angelica Martinez, Marsida Kallupi, Abraham Palmer, and Giordano de Guglielmo
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A new U01 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) was awarded to Dr. Pejman Mohammadi and Dr. Abraham Palmer.
The grant is titled “Deep Analysis of Transcriptome to Understand the Genetics of Substance Use Disorders in Rats” (U01DA060443) and it will start July 1, 2025 and end on March 31, 2030.
A new R21 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) was awarded to Dr. Marsida Kallupi, with Dr. Abraham Palmer as co-investigator.
The 2-year grant is titled “Enhancing Addiction Severity Prediction by Modulating GABAergic Activity in the Central Amygdala of RATTACA Rats” and it will start July 15, 2025 and end on June 30, 2027.
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The manuscript titled “RatXcan: A framework for cross-species integration of genome-wide association and gene expression data” was accepted in PLOS Genetics.
Authors: Natasha Santhanam, Sandra Sanchez-Roige, Sabrina Mi, Yanyu Liang, Apurva S. Chitre, Daniel Munro, Denghui Chen, Riyan Cheng, Festus Nyasimi, Jianjun Gao, Anthony M. George, Alexander F. Gileta, Wenyan Han, Katie Holl, Alesa Hughson, Christopher P. King, Alexander C. Lamparelli, Connor D. Martin, Angel Garcia-Martinez, Celine L. St. Pierre, Sarah Sumner, Jordan Tripi, Tengfei Wang, Hao Chen, Shelly Flagel, Keita Ishiwari, Paul Meyer, Oksana Polesskaya, Laura Saba, Leah C. Solberg Woods, Abraham A. Palmer, Hae Kyung Im.
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The manuscript titled “Distinct Behavioral Profiles and Neuronal Correlates of Heroin Vulnerability Versus Resiliency in a Multi-Symptomatic Model of Heroin Use Disorder in Rats” was published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Authors: Brittany N. Kuhn, Nazzareno Cannella, Ayteria D. Crow, Veronica Lunerti, Arkobrato Gupta, Stephen J. Walterhouse, Carter Allen, Reda M. Chalhoub, Eric Dereschewitz, Analyse T. Roberts, Mackenzie Cockerham, Angela Beeson, Rusty W. Nall, Abraham A. Palmer, Gary Hardiman, Leah C. Solberg Woods, Dongjun Chung, Roberto Ciccocioppo, Peter W. Kalivas
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