Selected Publications (1999-present)

In Utero Cocaine Exposure:

Morgan, R.E., Garavan, H.P., Mactutus, C.F., Levitsky, D.A., Booze, R.M., and Strupp, B.J.: Enduring effects of prenatal cocaine exposure on attention and reaction to errors. Behav. Neurosci., 2002 Aug; 116(4) 624-633.

Bayer, L.E., Kakumanu, S., Mactutus, C.F., Booze, R.M., and Strupp, B.J.: Prenatal cocaine exposure alters sensitivity to the effects of idazoxan in a distraction task. Behav Brain Res., 2002 Jul 18;133(2):185-196.

Snow, D.M., Smith, J.D., Booze, R.M., Welch, M.A., and Mactutus, C.F.: Cocaine inhibits cell adhesion and neurite elongation in locus coeruleus neurons in vivo and in vitro. Neurotoxicology & Teratology, 23:225-234, 2001.

Mactutus, C.F., Booze, R.M., and Dowell, R.T.: The influence of route of administration on the acute cardiovascular effects of cocaine in conscious unrestrained pregnant rats. Neurotoxicol. Teratol., 2000 May-Jun;22(3):357-368.

Bayer, L.E., Brown, A., Mactutus, C.F., Booze, R.M., and Strupp, B.J.: Prenatal cocaine exposure increases sensitivity to the attentional effects of the dopamine D1 agonist SKF81297. J. Neurosci., 2000 Dec 1;20(23):8902-8908. http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/20/23/8902.

Garavan, H., Morgan, R.E., Mactutus, C.F., Levitsky, D.A., Booze, R.M., and Strup, B.J.: Prenatal cocaine exposure impairs selective attention: evidence from serial reversal and extradimensional shift tasks. Behav. Neurosci., 2000 Aug;114(4):725-738.

Mactutus, C.F.: Prenatal intravenous cocaine adversely affects attentional processing in preweanling rats. Neurotoxicol. Teratol., 1999 Sep-Oct;21(5):539-550.

Addiction Processes and Sensitization:

Booze, R.M., Welch, M.A., Wood, M.L., Billings, K.A., Apple, S.R., and Mactutus, C.F.: Behavioral sensitization following repeated intravenous nicotine administration: gender differences and gonadal hormones. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav., 1999 Dec;64(4):827-839.

Booze, R.M., Wood, M.L., Welch, M.A., Berry, S., and Mactutus, C.F.: Estrous cyclicity and behavioral sensitization in female rats following repeated intravenous cocaine administration. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav., 1999 Nov;64(3):605-610.

NeuroAIDS:

Aksenov, M.Y., Bansal, A.K., Wu, G., Nath, A., Anderson, C., Mactutus, C.F., and Booze, R.M.: Oxidative damage induced by the injection of HIV-1 Tat protein in the rat striatum. Neuroscience Letters, 305:5-8, 2001.

Bansal, A.K., Mactutus, C.F., Nath, A., Maragos, W., Hauser, K.F., and Booze, R.M.: Neurotoxicity of HIV-1 proteins gp120 and tat in the rat striatum. Brain Res., 2000 Oct 6;879(1-2):42-49.

Bansal, A.K., Mactutus, C.F., Nath, A., Andersen, C., and Booze, R.M.: Intravenous cocaine abuse: A rodent model for potential interactions with HIV proteins. In: Friedman, H., Klein, T.W., and Madden J.J. (Eds.) Neuroimmune Circuits and Infectious Disease, Plenum Press, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Volume 493, Chapter 29, 2001.

Nath, A., Anderson, C., Jones, M., Maragos, W., Booze, R.M., Mactutus, C.F., Bell, J., Hauser, K.F., and Mattson, M.: Neurotoxicity and dysfunction of dopaminergic systems associated with AIDS dementia. J. Psychopharmacol., 2000;14(3):222-227.

Nath, A., Booze, R.M., Hauser, K.F., Mactutus, C.F., Bell, J.E., Cass, W.A., Maragos, W., and Berger, J.R.: Critical Questions for Neuroscientists in Interactions of Drugs of Abuse and HIV infection. NeuroAIDS, Vol. 2, issue 10, 1999 (http://aidscience.com/neuroaids/zones/articles/1999/11/Drugabuse/index.asp).

Other:

Carman, H.M. and Mactutus, C.F.: Proximal versus distal cue utilization in spatial navigation: The role of visual acuity? Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, in press.

Carman, H.M., Booze, R.M., Mactutus, C.F.: Long-term retention of spatial navigation by preweanling rats.

Carman, H.M., Mactutus, C.F.: Ontogeny of Spatial Navigation in Rats: A Role for Response Requirements. Behavioral Neuroscience, 2001;115(4):870-879.

Wallace, D.R., Mactutus, C.F., Booze, R.M.: Sigma binding sites identified by [(3)H] DTG are elevated in aged Fischer-344 x Brown Norway (F1) rats. Synapse, 2000 Mar 15;35(4):311-3.

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