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Rodent Behavioral Core

Publications

The NIMH Rodent Behavioral Core (RBC) was founded in February 2017. Its mission is to support and facilitate researchers across NIH to provide an in-depth characterization of rodent behavior. Below is a list of publications resulting from using support services of the RBC.

2024

Iba M, Kwon S, Kim C, Szabo M, Horan-Portelance L, Lopez-Ocasio M, Dagur P, Overk C, Rissman RA, Masliah E.  (2024) Immunotherapy with an antibody against CD1d modulates neuroinflammation in an α-synuclein transgenic model of Lewy body like disease. J Neuroinflammation. 21(1):93. doi: 10.1186/s12974-024-03087-7 .

Lazzerini Ospri L, Zhan JJ, Thomsen MB, Wang H, Komal R, Tang Q, Messanvi F, du Hoffmann J, Cravedi K, Chudasama Y, Hattar S, Zhao H . (2024) Light affects the prefrontal cortex via intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells. Sci Adv. 10(13):eadh9251. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adh9251 

Nagarajan G, Matrov D, Pearson AC, Yen C, Bradley SP, Chudasama Y. Cingulate cortex shapes early postnatal development of social vocalization (2024) bioRxiv 2024.02.17.580738 

Beas S, Khan S, Gao C, McDonnald E, Bashford A, Rodriguez-Gonzalez S, Penzo MA. (2024) Dissociable encoding of motivated behavior by parallel thalamo-striatal projections. Curr Biol. 34(7):1549-1560.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.02.037. 

Wang H, Flores RJ, Yarur HE, Limoges A, Bravo-Rivera H, Casello SM, Loomba N, Enriquez-Traba J, Arenivar M, Wang Q, Ganley R, Ramakrishnan C, Fenno LE, Kim Y, Deisseroth K, Or G, Dong C, Hoon MA, Tian L, Tejeda HA. (2024) Prefrontal cortical dynorphin peptidergic transmission constrains threat-driven behavioral and network states. Neuron. 112, 1–17. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.03.015 

2023

Adegbesan KA, Tomassoni Ardori F, Yanpallewar S, Bradley SP, Chudasama Y, Vera E, Briceno N, King AL, Tessarollo L, Gilbert MR, Guedes VA, Smart DK, Armstrong TS, Shuboni-Mulligan DD . (2023) The sex-dependent impact of PER2 polymorphism on sleep and activity in a novel mouse model of cranial-irradiation-induced hypersomnolence . Neurooncol Adv. 5(1):vdad108. doi: 10.1093/noajnl/vdad108 .

Messanvi KF, Berkun K, Perkins A, Chudasama Y. (2023) Parallel Pathways Provide Hippocampal Spatial Information to Prefrontal Cortex. J Neurosci. 43(1):68-81. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0846-22.2022. 

Penzo MA Ma J, O’Malley J, Kreiker M, Leng Y, Khan I. (2023) Non-canonical cortico-thalamic dynamics gate avoidance decisions. Research Square preprint. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2787982/v1 

Wlaschin JJ, Donahue C, Gluski J, Osborne JF, Ramos LM, Silberberg H, Le Pichon CE . (2023) Promoting regeneration while blocking cell death preserves motor neuron function in a model of ALS. Brain. 146(5):2016-2028. doi:  10.1093/brain/awac415 

Xiao L, Yang X, Sharma VK, Abebe D, Loh YP . (2023) Hippocampal delivery of neurotrophic factor-α1/carboxypeptidase E gene prevents neurodegeneration, amyloidosis, memory loss in Alzheimer's Disease male mice. Mol Psychiatry. doi: 10.1038/s41380-023-02135-7 

Naik AA, Munyeshyaka M, Ma X, Leibenluft E, Li Z.  (2023) A New Behavioral Paradigm for Studying Frustrative Non-reward in Juvenile Mice. BioRxiv preprint doi:  https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.28.530477 

Iba M, Kim C, Kwon S, Szabo M, Horan-Portelance L, Peer CJ, Figg WD, Reed X, Ding J, Lee SJ, Rissman RA, Cookson MR, Overk C, Wrasidlo W, Masliah E.  (2023) Inhibition of p38α MAPK restores neuronal p38γ MAPK and ameliorates synaptic degeneration in a mouse model of DLB/PD. Sci Transl Med.15(695):eabq6089. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abq6089 

Luxem K, Sun JJ, Bradley SP, Krishnan K, Yttri E, Zimmermann J, Pereira TD, Laubach M.  (2023) Open-source tools for behavioral video analysis: Setup, methods, and best practices. Elife. 12:e79305. doi: 10.7554/eLife.79305 

Enriquez-Traba J, Yarur-Castillo HE, Flores RJ, Weil T, Roy S, Usdin TB, LaGamma CT, Arenivar M, Wang H, Tsai VS, Moritz AE, Sibley DR, Moratalla R, Freyberg ZZ, Tejeda HA  (2023) Dissociable control of motivation and reinforcement by 2 distinct ventral striatal dopamine receptors. BioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.27.546539 

Inacio AR, Lam KC, Zhao Y, Pereira F, Gerfen CR, Lee S. (2023) Distinct brain-wide presynaptic networks underlie the functional identity of individual cortical neurons. BioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.25.542329 

Fernando N, Gopalakrishnan J, Behensky A, Reich L, Liu C, Bass V, Bono M, Montgomery W, De Pace R, Mattapallil M, Nagarajan V, Brooks S, Maric D, Caspi RR, McGavern DB, Shih H-Y . (2023) Single-cell multiomic analysis reveals the involvement of Type I interferon-responsive CD8+ T cells in amyloid beta-associated memory loss. BioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.18.533293 

Ma X, Zheng C, Chen Y, Pereira F, Li Z.  (2023) Working memory and reward increase the accuracy of animal location encoding in the medial prefrontal cortex. Cereb Cortex. 33(5):2245-2259. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhac205 

Guedj F, Kane E, Bishop LA, Pennings JLA, Herault Y, Bianchi DW.  (2023) The Impact of Mmu17 Non-Hsa21 (2023) Orthologous Genes in the Ts65Dn Mouse Model of Down Syndrome: The Gold Standard Refuted. Biol Psychiatry. 94(1):84-97. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.02.012 

2022

Qi J, Ye C, Naskar S, Inácio AR, Lee S. (2022) Posteromedial thalamic nucleus activity significantly contributes to perceptual discrimination. PLoS Biol. 20(11):e3001896. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001896

Ji YR, Tona Y, Wafa T, Tourney E, Jiang T, Ohta S, Fitzgerald T, Fritzsch B, Jones SM, Cullen K, Wu D.  (2022) Function of bidirectional sensitivity in the otolith organs established by transcription factor Emx2. Nat Commun. 2022 Oct 24;13(1):6330. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-33819-3.

Jiang SZ, Shahoha M, Tejeda HA, Ashery U, Eiden LE (2022) Hippocampal cAMP-dependent synaptic potentiation, ERK-dependent immediate-early gene activation, and context-dependent fear conditioning in mice are linked through dependence on the guanine nucleotide exchange factor RapGEF2. BioRxiv preprint. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.30.490162 

Zhu PP, Hung HF, Batchenkova N, Nixon-Abell J, Henderson J, Zheng P, Renvoisé B, Pang S, Xu CS, Saalfeld S, Funke J, Xie Y, Svara F, Hess HF, Blackstone C.  (2022) Transverse endoplasmic reticulum expansion in hereditary spastic paraplegia corticospinal axons. Hum Mol Genet. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddac072.

Beier C, Bocchero U, Levy L, Zhang Z, Jin N, Massey SC, Ribelayga CP, Martemyanov K, Hattar S, Pahlberg J.  (2022) Divergent outer retinal circuits drive image and non-image visual behaviors. Cell Rep. 39(13):111003. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111003.

Liu Z, Yang N, Dong J, Tian W, Chang L, Ma J, Guo J, Tan J, Dong A, He K, Zhou J, Cinar R, Wu J, Salinas AG, Sun L, Kumar M, Sullivan BT, Oldham BB, Pitz V, Makarious MB, Ding J, Kung J, Xie C, Hawes SL, Wang L, Wang T, Chan P, Zhang Z, Le W, Chen S, Lovinger DM, Blauwendraat C, Singleton AB, Cui G, Li Y, Cai H,  Tang B. (2022) Deficiency in endocannabinoid synthase DAGLB contributes to early onset Parkinsonism and murine nigral dopaminergic neuron dysfunction. Nat Commun. 13(1):3490. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31168-9.

2021

Mamais A, Kluss JH, Bonet-Ponce L, Landeck N, Langston RG, Smith N, Beilina A, Kaganovich A, Ghosh MC, Pellegrini L, Kumaran R, Papazoglou I, Heaton GR, Bandopadhyay R, Maio N, Kim C, LaVoie MJ, Gershlick DC, Cookson MR.  (2021) Mutations in LRRK2 linked to Parkinson disease sequester Rab8a to damaged lysosomes and regulate transferrin-mediated iron uptake in microglia. PLoS Biol. 19(12):e3001480. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001480.

Zhang Z, Beier C, Weil T, Hattar S.  (2021) The retinal ipRGC-preoptic circuit mediates the acute effect of light on sleep.Nat Commun. 12(1):5115. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25378-w.

Beier C, Zhang Z, Yurgel M, Hattar S . (2021) Projections of ipRGCs and conventional RGCs to retinorecipient brain nuclei. J Comp Neurol.529(8):1863-1875. doi: 10.1002/cne.25061.

Pathak P, Blech-Hermoni Y, Subedi K, Mpamugo J, Obeng-Nyarko C, Ohman R, Molloy I, Kates M, Hale J, Stauffer S, Sharan SK, Mankodi A.  (2021) Myopathy associated LDB3 mutation causes Z-disc disassembly and protein aggregation through PKCα and TSC2-mTOR downregulation. Commun Biol. 4(1):355. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-01864-1.

Ma J, du Hoffmann J, Kindel M, Beas BS, Chudasama Y, Penzo MA (2021) Divergent projections of the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus mediate the selection of passive and active defensive behaviors. Nat Neurosci. 24(10):1429-1440. doi: 10.1038/s41593-021-00912-7.

Jiang SZ, Sweat S, Dahlke SP, Loane K, Drossel G, Xu W, Tejeda HA, Gerfen CR, Eiden LE. Cocaine-Dependent Acquisition of Locomotor Sensitization and Conditioned Place Preference Requires D1 Dopaminergic Signaling through a Cyclic AMP, NCS-Rapgef2, ERK, and Egr-1/Zif268 Pathway. (2021) J Neurosci. 41(4):711-725. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1497-20.2020.

Do J, Perez G, Berhe B, Tayebi N, Sidransky E.  (2021) Behavioral Phenotyping in a Murine Model of GBA1-Associated Parkinson Disease. Int J Mol Sci. 22(13):6826. doi: 10.3390/ijms22136826.

Naskar S, Qi J, Pereira F, Gerfen CR, Lee S. Cell-type-specific recruitment of GABAergic interneurons in the primary somatosensory cortex by long-range inputs. (2021) Cell Rep. 34(8):108774. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108774.

Landeck N, Conti Mazza M, Duffy M, Bishop C, Sortwell CE, Cookson MR  . (2021) Stereotaxic Intracranial Delivery of Chemicals, Proteins or Viral Vectors to Study Parkinson's Disease. J Vis Exp. doi: 10.3791/62128.

Mazza MC, Nguyen V, Beilina A, Karakoleva E, Coyle M, Ding J, Bishop C, Cookson MR.  (2021) Combined Knockout of Lrrk2 and Rab29 Does Not Result in Behavioral Abnormalities in vivo. J Parkinsons Dis. 11(2):569-584. doi: 10.3233/JPD-202172.

2020

Sofia Beas B, Gu X, Leng Y, Koita O, Rodriguez-Gonzalez S, Kindel M, Matikainen-Ankney BA, Larsen RS, Kravitz AV, Hoon MA, Penzo MA. (2020) A ventrolateral medulla-midline thalamic circuit for hypoglycemic feeding. Nat Commun. 11(1):6218. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19980-7 .

Ono K, Keller J, López Ramírez O, González Garrido A, Zobeiri OA, Chang HHV, Vijayakumar S, Ayiotis A, Duester G, Della Santina CC, Jones SM, Cullen KE, Eatock RA, Doris K. Wu  (2020) Retinoic acid degradation shapes zonal development of vestibular organs and sensitivity to transient linear accelerations. Nat Commun. 11, 63.doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-13710-4.

Chen X, Xie C, Tian W, Sun L, Wang Z, Hawes S, Chang L, Kung J, Ding J, Chen S, Le W, Cai H.  (2020) Distinct Connectivity and Functionality of Aldehyde Dehydrogenase 1a1-Positive Nigrostriatal Dopaminergic Neurons in Motor Learning. Mol Neurodegener. 19;15(1):12. doi: 10.1186/s13024-020-00360-0.

Hu JH, Malloy C, Tabor GT, Gutzmann JJ, Liu Y, Abebe D, Karlsson RM, Durell S, Cameron HA, Hoffman DA . (2020) Activity-dependent isomerization of Kv4.2 by Pin1 regulates cognitive flexibility. Nat Commun. 11(1):1567. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15390-x.

Dorien A. Roosen, Natalie Landeck, Melissa Conti, Nathan Smith, Sara Saez-Atienzar, Jinhui Ding, Aleksandra Beilina, Ravindran Kumaran, Alice Kaganovich, Johann du Hoffmann, Chad D. Williamson, David C. Gershlick, Luis Bonet-Ponce, Luciana Sampieri, Christopher K. E. Bleck, Chengyu Liu, Juan S. Bonifacino, Yan Li, Patrick A. Lewis, Mark R. Cookson . (2020) Mutations in Auxilin cause parkinsonism via impaired clathrin-mediated trafficking at the Golgi apparatus and synapse. BioRxiv preprint. doi: 10.1101/830802

Fernandez DC, Komal R, Langel J, Ma J, Duy P, Penzo M, Zhao H, Hattar S . (2020) Retinal innervation tunes circuits that drive non-photic entrainment to food. Nature. 581(7807):194-198. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2204-1.

Messanvi F, Perkins A, du Hoffmann J, Chudasama Y  (2020) Fronto-temporal galanin modulates impulse control. Psychopharm. 237:291-303. 237(2):291-303. doi: 10.1007/s00213-019-05365-2

Sathyamurthy A, Barik A, Dobrott CI, Matson KJE, Stoica S, Pursley R, Chesler AT, Levine AJ.  (2020) Cerebellospinal Neurons Regulate Motor Performance and Motor Learning. Cell Rep. 31(6):107595. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107595.

Nordman J, Ma X, Li Z . (2020) Traumatic stress induces prolonged aggression increase through synaptic potentiation in the medial amygdala circuits eNeuro.0147-20.2020. doi:10.1523/ENEURO.0147-20.

Shen H, Zhu H, Panja D, Gu Q, Li Z.  (2020) Autophagy controls the induction and developmental decline of NMDAR-LTD through endocytic recycling. Nat Commun. 11(1):2979. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-16794-5

Nordman JC, Ma X, Gu Q, Potegal M, Li H, Kravits AV, Li Z . (2020) Potentiation of Divergent Medial Amygdala Pathways Drives Experience-Dependent Aggression Escalation. J Neurosci. 40(25):4858-4880. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0370-20.2020

2019

Wu J, Kung J, Dong J, Chang L, Xie C, Habib A, Hawes S, Yang N, Chen V, Liu Z, Evans R, Liang B, Sun L, Ding D, Yu J, Saez-Atienzar S, Tang B, Khaliq Z, Lin D-T, Le W, and Cai H  (2019) Distinct connectivity and functionality of aldehyde dehydrogenase 1A1-positive nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons in motor learning” Cell Rep. 28(5):1167-1181.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.06.095.

Tona R, Chen W, Nakano Y, Reyes LD, Petralia RS, Want Ya-X, Starost MF, Wafa TT, Morell RJ, Cravedi KD, du Hoffmann J, Miyoshi T, Munasinghe JP, Fitzgerald TS, Chudasama Y, Omori K, Pierpaoli C, Banfi B, Dong L, Belyantseva IA, Friedman TB . (2019) The Phenotypic Landscape of a Tbc1d24 Mutant Mouse Includes Convulsive Seizures Resembling Human Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy. Human Molecular Genetics. 28:1530-1547

Han TU, Root J, Reyes LD, Huchinson EB, Hoffmann JD, Lee WS, Barnes TD, Drayna D . (2019) Human GNPTAB stuttering mutations engineered into mice cause vocalization deficits and astrocyte pathology in the corpus callosum. PNAS;116(35):17515-17524. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1901480116.

Zhan J, Komal R, Keenan WT, Hattar S,  Fernandez DC (2019) Non-invasive Strategies for Chronic Manipulation of DREADD-controlled Neuronal Activity. J Vis Exp. (2019) Aug 25;(150). doi: 10.3791/59439.

2018

Lin L, Murphy JG, Karlsson RM, Petralia RS, Gutzmann JJ, Abebe D, Wang YX, Cameron HA, Hoffman DA.  (2018) DPP6 Loss Impacts Hippocampal Synaptic Development and Induces Behavioral Impairments in Recognition, Learning and Memory. Front Cell Neurosci. 12:84. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2018.00084. eCollection 2018.