Publications

Zhu H, Pleil KE, Urban DJ, Moy SS, Kash TL, Roth BL.  2014.  Chemogenetic inactivation of ventral hippocampal glutamatergic neurons disrupts consolidation of contextual fear memory. Neuropsychopharmacology. 39(8):1880-92.

Masneuf S, Lowery-Gionta E, Colacicco G, Pleil KE, Li C, Crowley N, Flynn S, Holmes A, Kash T.  2014.  Glutamatergic mechanisms associated with stress-induced amygdala excitability and anxiety-related behavior. Neuropharmacology. 85:190-7.

Jennings JH, Sparta DR, Stamatakis AM, Ung RL, Pleil KE, Kash TL, Stuber GD.  2013.  Distinct extended amygdala circuits for divergent motivational states. Nature. 496(7444):224-8.

McCall NM, Sprow GM, Delpire E, Thiele TE, Kash TL, Pleil KE.  2013.  Effects of sex and deletion of neuropeptide Y2 receptors from GABAergic neurons on affective and alcohol drinking behaviors in mice. Front Integr Neurosci. 7:100.

Sparrow AM, Lowery-Gionta EG, Pleil KE, Li C, Sprow GM, Cox BR, Rinker JA, Jijon AM, Peňa J, Navarro M et al..  2012.  Central neuropeptide Y modulates binge-like ethanol drinking in C57BL/6J mice via Y1 and Y2 receptors. Neuropsychopharmacology. 37(6):1409-21.

Holmes A, Fitzgerald PJ, MacPherson KP, DeBrouse L, Colacicco G, Flynn SM, Masneuf S, Pleil KE, Li C, Marcinkiewcz CA et al..  2012.  Chronic alcohol remodels prefrontal neurons and disrupts NMDAR-mediated fear extinction encoding. Nat Neurosci. 15(10):1359-61.

Pleil KE, Lopez A, McCall N, Jijon AM, Bravo JPeña, Kash TL.  2012.  Chronic stress alters neuropeptide Y signaling in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in DBA/2J but not C57BL/6J mice. Neuropharmacology. 62(4):1777-86.

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.

Li C, Pleil KE, Stamatakis AM, Busan S, Vong L, Lowell BB, Stuber GD, Kash TL.  2012.  Presynaptic inhibition of gamma-aminobutyric acid release in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis by kappa opioid receptor signaling. Biol Psychiatry. 71(8):725-32.

Pleil KE, Glenn MJ, Williams CL.  2011.  Estradiol alters Fos-immunoreactivity in the hippocampus and dorsal striatum during place and response learning in middle-aged but not young adult female rats. Endocrinology. 152(3):946-56.

Pleil KE, Cordes S, Meck WH, Williams CL.  2011.  Rapid and acute effects of estrogen on time perception in male and female rats. Front Integr Neurosci. 5:63.

Pleil KE, Williams CL.  2010.  The development and stability of estrogen-modulated spatial navigation strategies in female rats. Horm Behav. 57(3):360-7.

Williams CL, Pleil KE.  2008.  Toy story: why do monkey and human males prefer trucks? Comment on "Sex differences in rhesus monkey toy preferences parallel those of children" by Hassett, Siebert and Wallen. Horm Behav. 54(3):355-8.