Preclinical Psychopharmacology and Neurobiology
Lithium, Antidepressants, and ECT
Gur, E., Lerer, B., Newman, M.E.: Acute or chronic lithium does not affect agonist stimulated inositol triphosphate formation in rat brain in vivo. NeuroReport 7:393-396, 1996.
Gur, E., Berman, E., Lerer, B., Newman, M.E.: In vivo cyclic AMP responses in rat brain are not modified by chronic electroconvulsive shock. European Neuropsychopharmacology 7: 189-193, 1997.
Gur, E., Lerer, B., Newman, M.E.: Chronic electroconvulsive shock and 5-HT autoreceptor activity in rat brain: An in vivo
microdialysis study. Journal of Neural Transmission 104: 795-804,1997.
Newman, ME., Gur, E., Shapira, B., Lerer, B.: Neurochemical mechanisms of action of ECS: Evidence from in vivo studies. Journal of Electroconvulsive Therapy 14: 153-171, 1998.
Gur, E., Lerer, B., Newman, M.E.: Chronic clomipramine and triiodothyronine increase 5-HT levels in rat frontal cortex in vivo: Relationship to 5-HT autoreceptor activity. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 288: 81-87, 1999.
Gur, E., Dremencov, E., Lerer, B., Newman, M.E.: Venlafaxine: Acute and chronic effects on 5-HT levels in rat brain in vivo. European Journal of Pharmacology 272: 17-24, 1999.
Dremencov, E., Gur, E., Lerer, B., Newman, M.E.: Subchronic fluoxetine administration to rats: Effects on 5-HT autoreceptor activity as measured by in vivo microdialysis. European Neuropsychopharmacology 10: 229-236, 2000.
Newman, M.E., Agid, O., Gur, E., Lerer, B.: Pharmacological mechanisms of T3 augmentation of antidepressant action. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 3:187-191, 2000.
Newman, M.E., Gur, E., Dremencov, E., Garcia, F., Lerer, B., Van de Kar, L.D.: Chronic clomipramine alters presynaptic 5-HT-1B and postsynaptic 5-HT-1A receptor sensitivity in rat hypothalamus and hippocampus respectively. Neuropharmacology 39: 2309-2317, 2000.
Gur, E., Lerer, B., Dremencov, E., Newman, M.E.: Chronic repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation induces subsensitivity of presynaptic serotonergic autoreceptor activity in rat brain. Neuroreport (In Press).
Other Preclinical Research
Abu-Roumi, M., Newman, M.E., Yanai, J.: Inositol phosphate formation in mice prenatally exposed to drugs: relation to muscarinic receptors and post-receptor effects. Brain Research Bulletin 40: 183-186,1996.
Feldman, S., Newman, M.E., Weidenfeld, J.: Role of serotonin in the amygdala in hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical responses. NeuroReport 9: 2007-2009, 1998.
Feldman, S., Newman, M.E., Weidenfeld, J. Effects of adrenergic and serotonergic agonists in the amygdala on the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis. Brain Research Bulletin (In Press)
