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Early life undernutrition alters the level of reduced glutathione but not the activity levels of reactive oxygen species enzymes or lipid peroxidation in the mouse forebrain (with G. Partadiredja and S. Worrall), Brain research (2009)
Diet restriction of rodents during adult life is known to cause an increased life span....
Ethanol neurotoxicity and dentate gyrus development (with Takanori Miki, Toshifumi Yokoyama, Kazunori Sumitani, Takashi Kusaka, Katsuhiko Warita, Yoshiki Matsumoto, Zhi-Yu Wang, Peter A. Wilce, Susumu Itoh, and Yoshiki Takeuchi), Health Sciences & Medicine papers (2008)
Maternal alcohol ingestion during pregnancy adversely affects the developing fetus, often leading to fetal alcohol...
Pre-weaning undernutrition alters the expression levels of reactive oxygen species enzymes but not their activity levels or lipid peroxidation in the rat brain (with G. Partadiredja, S. Worrall, and R. Simpson), Health Sciences & Medicine papers (2008)
It has been hypothesised that the increased life span commonly observed in rodents that have...
Early postnatal ethanol exposure induces fluctuation in the expression of BDNF mRNA in the developing rat hippocampus (with Takanori Miki, Hiromi Kuma, Toshifumi Yokoyama, Kazunori Sumitani, Yoshiki Matsumoto, Takashi Kusaka, Katsuhiko Warita, Zhi-Yu Wang, Naohisa Hosomi, Tomohiro Imagawa, Susumu Itoh, Yu Nakamura, and Yoshiki Takeuchi), Acta neurobiologiae experimentalis (2008)
Effects of early postnatal ethanol exposure on brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) mRNA expression in the...
Rats exposed to cocaine during late gestation and early postnatal life show deficits in hippocampal pyramidal and granule cells in later life (with Zul Izhar Mohd Ismail), Journal of Anatomy (2007)
In humans, the offspring of maternal cocaine misusers are known to have subtle cognitive and...
Undernutrition during early life increases the level of apoptosis in the dentate gyrus but not in the CA2+CA3 region of the hippocampal formation (with Sani Jahnke), Brain Research (2007)
We have previously shown that undernutrition during early life causes a permanent deficit in the...
Oligodendrocyte myelin glycoprotein (OMgp) in rat hippocampus is depleted by chronic ethanol consumption (with Hanayo Okamoto, Takanori Miki, Kyoung-Youl Lee, Toshifumi Yokoyama, Hiromi Kuma, Zhi-Yu Wang, He Gu, Hong-Peng Li, Yoshiki Matsumoto, Satriotomo Irawan, Yu Nakamura, and Yoshiki Takeuchi), Health Sciences & Medicine papers (2006)
The hippocampal formation has been shown to be particularly vulnerable to the neurotoxic effects of...
Dose determination of haloperidol, risperidone and olanzapine using an in vivo dopamine D2-receptor occupancy method in the rat (with Dineshree V. Naiker, Stanley V. Catts, Vibeke S. Catts, and Lesley J. Bryan-Lluka), Health Sciences & Medicine papers (2006)
The purpose of the present study was to determine antipsychotic doses that achieve 80% striatal...
Ethanol prevents NMDA receptor reduction by maternal separation in neonatal rat hippocampus (with Frederick P. Bellinger, Mark S. Davidson, and Peter A. Wilce), Health Sciences & Medicine papers (2006)
We measured the effects of ethanol on glutamate receptor levels in the hippocampus of neonatal...
Adult CNS explants as a source of neural progenitors (with Hiram Chipperfield, Simon M. Cool, and Victor Nurcombe), Brain Research Protocols (2005)
Adult neural progenitors have been isolated from diverse regions of the CNS using methods which...
Application of the physical disector to the central nervous system: Estimation of the total number of neurons in subdivisions of the rat hippocampus (with Takanori Miki, Irawan Satriotomo, Hong-Peng Li, Yoshiki Matsumoto, He Gu, Toshifumi Yokoyama, Kyoung-Youl Lee, and Yoshiki Takeuchi), Anatomical Science International (2005)
Stereology is a group of mathematical and statistical methods that allows the extrapolation of three-dimensional...
The effects of pre-weaning undernutrition on the expression levels of free radical deactivating enzymes in the mouse brain (with G Partadiredja and R Simpson), Nutritional Neuroscience (2005)
A mild degree of undernutrition brought about by restricting the amount of food in the...
Early maternal deprivation induces alterations in brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression in the developing rat hippocampus (with Hiromi Kuma, Takanori Miki, Yoshiki Matsumoto, He Gu, Hong-Peng Li, Takashi Kusaka, Irawan Satriotomo, Hanayo Okamoto, Toshifumi Yokoyama, Shoju Onishi, Hiroshi Suwaki, and Yoshiki Takeuchi), Neuroscience Letters (2004)
The effects of maternal deprivation (MD) during early postnatal life on the brain-derived neurotrophic factor...
Effects of age and alcohol exposure during early life on pyramidal cell numbers in the CA1-CA3 region of the rat hippocampus (with Takanori Miki, Simon J. Harris, Peter A. Wilce, and Yoshiki Takeuchi), Hippocampus (2004)
We have previously shown that exposing rats to a relatively high dose of ethanol during...
Effects of alcohol exposure during early life on neuron numbers in the rat hippocampus. I. Hilus neurons and granule cells (with Takanori Miki, Simon J. Harris, Peter A. Wilce, and Yoshiki Takeuchi), Hippocampus (2003)
We previously showed that 16-day-old rats exposed to a relatively high dose of ethanol at...
Nutritional effects on neuron numbers, Nutritional Neuroscience (2003)
Undernutrition during early life is known to cause deficits and distortions of brain structure although...
X-irradiation of adult spinal cord increases its capacity to support neurite regeneration in vitro (with Danny Pinjuh), International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience (2003)
Previous in vitro studies have shown that X-irradiation during early postnatal life can change the...
Axonal regeneration of retinal ganglion cells after optic nerve pre-lesions and attachment of normal or pre-degenerated peripheral nerve grafts (with Si-Wei You, Henry K. Yip, and Kwok-Fai So), Visual Neuroscience (2002)
Axonal regeneration of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) into a normal or pre-degenerated peripheral nerve graft...
Long-lasting synaptic modification in the rat hippocampus resulting from NMDA receptor blockade during development (with Frederick P. Bellinger, Peter A. Wilce, and Peter Wilson), Synapse (2002)
Recent reports have suggested that proper maturation of synapses in the hippocampus requires activation of...
Cryosections of pre-irradiated adult rat spinal cord tissue support axonal regeneration in vitro (with N Wilson and E Esfandiary), International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience (2000)
Neonatal X-irradiation of central nervous system (CNS) tissue markedly reduces the glial population in the...
Changes in the numbers of neurons and astrocytes during the postnatal development of the rat inferior olive (with J J. Cunningham, R M. Sherrard, G M. Renshaw, and A J. Bower), The Journal Of Comparative Neurology (1999)
In the developing nervous system, cell death is an important component of refining axonal projections....
Ethanol exposure during the third trimester equivalent results in long-lasting decreased synaptic efficacy but not plasticity in the CA1 region of the rat hippocampus (with Frederick P. Bellinger, Peter Wilson, and Peter A. Wilce), Synapse (1999)
Fetal alcohol syndrome is a major cause of mental retardation. We investigated possible long-lasting effects...
Spatial learning ability of rats following differing levels of exposure to alcohol during early postnatal life (with D Tomlinson and P Wilce), Physiology & Behavior (1998)
Rats exposed to a relatively high dose (7.5 g/kg body weight) of alcohol on either...
Unilateral enucleation of adult rats does not effect the synapse-to-neuron ratio within the stratum griseum superficiale of the superior colliculi (with S A. Smith), Vision Research (1998)
Ninety-day-old hooded male rats were anaesthetised with an intraperitoneal injection of a mixture of xylazine...
Spatial learning ability of rats following acute exposure to alcohol during early postnatal life (with J Pauli and P Wilce), Physiology & Behavior (1995)
Previous research has indicated that the developing brain is vulnerable to the effects of alcohol...