Publications

Zallar LJ, Rivera-Irizarry JK, Hamor PU, Pigulevskiy I, Rozo A-SRico, Mehanna H, Liu D, Welday JP, Bender R, Asfouri JJ et al..  2024.  Rapid nongenomic estrogen signaling controls alcohol drinking behavior in mice. Nat Commun. 15(1):10725.

Levine OB, Skelly MJane, Miller JD, Rivera-Irizarry JK, Rowson SA, DiBerto JF, Rinker JA, Thiele TE, Kash TL, Pleil KE.  2021.  The paraventricular thalamus provides a polysynaptic brake on limbic CRF neurons to sex-dependently blunt binge alcohol drinking and avoidance behavior in mice. Nat Commun. 12(1):5080.

Pleil KE, Skelly MJane.  2018.  CRF modulation of central monoaminergic function: Implications for sex differences in alcohol drinking and anxiety. Alcohol. 72:33-47.

Rinker JA, S Marshall A, Mazzone CM, Lowery-Gionta EG, Gulati V, Pleil KE, Kash TL, Navarro M, Thiele TE.  2017.  Extended Amygdala to Ventral Tegmental Area Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Circuit Controls Binge Ethanol Intake. Biol Psychiatry. 81(11):930-940.

Pleil KE, Rinker JA, Lowery-Gionta EG, Mazzone CM, McCall NM, Kendra AM, Olson DP, Lowell BB, Grant KA, Thiele TE et al..  2015.  NPY signaling inhibits extended amygdala CRF neurons to suppress binge alcohol drinking. Nat Neurosci. 18(4):545-52.

Lowery-Gionta EG, Navarro M, Li C, Pleil KE, Rinker JA, Cox BR, Sprow GM, Kash TL, Thiele TE.  2012.  Corticotropin releasing factor signaling in the central amygdala is recruited during binge-like ethanol consumption in C57BL/6J mice. J Neurosci. 32(10):3405-13.