Research in Neuroscience at Davidson College

Here you will some examples of published research projects recently completed in the Neuroscience laboratories of Davidson College. Undergraduate Neuroscience students will often serve as co-authors to papers published by Neuroscience faculty.

Lom, B., Cogen, J., Lontock Sanchez, AY., Vu, T., Cohen-Cory, S. (2002). Local and target-derived brain-derived neurotrophic factor exert opposing effects on the dendritic arborization of retinal ganglion cells in vivo. Journal of Neuroscience, 22(17): 7639-49.

Lom, B., & Cohen-Cory, S. (1999). Brain-derived neurotrophic factor differentially regulates retinal ganglion cell dendritic and axonal arborization in vivo. Journal of Neuroscience, 19: 9928-9938.

Smith, M.A., & French, A.M. (2002). Age-related differences in sensitivity to the antinociceptive effects of kappa opioids in adult male rats. Psychopharmacology, 166: 255-264.

Smith, M.A., & Gray, J.D. (2001). Age-related differences in sensitivity to the antinociceptive effects of opioids in male rats: Influence of nociceptive intensity and intrinsic efficacy at the mu receptor. Psychopharmacology, 156: 445-453.

Ramirez, J.J., Bulsara, K., Moore, S.C., Ruch, K., & Abrams, W. (1999). Progressive unilateral damage to the entorhinal cortex enhances synaptic efficacy of the crossed entorhinal afferent to dentate gyrus. The Journal of Neuroscience, 19:RC42, 1-6.

Ramirez, J.J., McQuilkin, M., Carrigan, T., MacDonald, K., & Kelley, M.S. (1996). Progressive entorhinal cortex lesions accelerate hippocampal sprouting and spare spatial memory in rats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 93, 15512-15517.

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