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2024
Oliveira, G. F., Nguyen, A. T., Carreras-Simons, L., Niepsuj, T., Gadelhak, S. H., Johnson, A. K., Abdalla, A., Lev, E., Torres Román, S. G., Fuchs, S. N., Jorgensen, J. S., Farhat, W. A., & Auger, A. P. (2024). Puberty Blocker, Leuprolide, Reduces Sex Differences in Rough-and-Tumble Play and Anxiety-like Behavior in Juvenile Rats. Endocrinology, 165(5), bqae046. https://doi.org/10.1210/endocr/bqae046
Kigar, S. L., Cuarenta, A., Zuniga, C. L., Chang, L., Auger, A. P., & Bakshi, V. P. (2024). Brain, behavior, and physiological changes associated with predator stress-An animal model for trauma exposure in adult and neonatal rats. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 17, 1322273. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2024.1322273
2023
Diaz, J. C., Dunaway, K., Zuniga, C., Sheil, E., Sadeghian, K., Auger, A. P., & Baldo, B. A. (2023). Delayed estrogen actions diminish food consumption without changing food approach, motor activity, or hypothalamic activation elicited by corticostriatal µ-opioid signaling. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 48(13), 1952–1962. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-023-01711-3
Cuarenta, A., Kigar, S. L., Keese, A. P., Guagliardo, S. E., Chang, L., Bakshi, V. P., & Auger, A. P. (2023). DNA topoisomerase Top3β is impacted by early life stress in the developing female and male rat brain. Brain research, 1809, 148339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2023.148339
2021
Cuarenta, A., Kigar, S. L., Henion, I. C., Chang, L., Bakshi, V. P., & Auger, A. P. (2021). Early life stress during the neonatal period alters social play and Line1 during the juvenile stage of development. Scientific reports, 11(1), 3549. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82953-3
2020
Cuarenta, A., Kigar, S. L., Henion, I. C., Karls, K. E., Chang, L., Bakshi, V. P., & Auger, A. P. (2020). Early life stress increases Line1 within the developing brain in a sex-dependent manner. Brain research, 1748, 147123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2020.147123
Zhao, C., Chang, L., Auger, A. P., Gammie, S. C., & Riters, L. V. (2020). Mu opioid receptors in the medial preoptic area govern social play behavior in adolescent male rats. Genes, brain, and behavior, 19(7), e12662. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbb.12662
2019
Chang, L., Kigar, S. L., Ho, J. H., Cuarenta, A., Gunderson, H. C., Baldo, B. A., Bakshi, V. P., & Auger, A. P. (2019). Early life stress alters opioid receptor mRNA levels within the nucleus accumbens in a sex-dependent manner. Brain research, 1710, 102–108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2018.12.040
2018
Asimes, A., Kim, C. K., Cuarenta, A., Auger, A. P., & Pak, T. R. (2018). Binge Drinking and Intergenerational Implications: Parental Preconception Alcohol Impacts Offspring Development in Rats. Journal of the Endocrine Society, 2(7), 672–686. https://doi.org/10.1210/js.2018-00051
2017
Kigar, S. L., Chang, L., Guerrero, C. R., Sehring, J. R., Cuarenta, A., Parker, L. L., Bakshi, V. P., & Auger, A. P. (2017). N6-methyladenine is an epigenetic marker of mammalian early life stress. Scientific reports, 7(1), 18078. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18414-7
2016
Kigar, S. L., Chang, L., Hayne, M. R., Karls, N. T., & Auger, A. P. (2016). Sex differences in Gadd45b expression and methylation in the developing rodent amygdala. Brain research, 1642, 461–466. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2016.04.031
Dosch, N. C., Guslits, E. F., Weber, M. B., Murray, S. E., Ha, B., Coe, C. L., Auger, A. P., & Kling, P. J. (2016). Maternal Obesity Affects Inflammatory and Iron Indices in Umbilical Cord Blood. The Journal of pediatrics, 172, 20–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2016.02.023
2014
Phillips, A. K., Roy, S. C., Lundberg, R., Guilbert, T. W., Auger, A. P., Blohowiak, S. E., Coe, C. L., & Kling, P. J. (2014). Neonatal iron status is impaired by maternal obesity and excessive weight gain during pregnancy. Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 34(7), 513–518. https://doi.org/10.1038/jp.2014.42
2013
Kigar, S. L., & Auger, A. P. (2013). Epigenetic mechanisms may underlie the aetiology of sex differences in mental health risk and resilience. Journal of neuroendocrinology, 25(11), 1141–1150. https://doi.org/10.1111/jne.12074
Auger, C. J., & Auger, A. P. (2013). Permanent and plastic epigenesis in neuroendocrine systems. Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 34(3), 190–197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yfrne.2013.05.003
2011
Jessen, H. M., & Auger, A. P. (2011). Sex differences in epigenetic mechanisms may underlie risk and resilience for mental health disorders. Epigenetics, 6(7), 857–861. https://doi.org/10.4161/epi.6.7.16517
Auger, C. J., Coss, D., Auger, A. P., & Forbes-Lorman, R. M. (2011). Epigenetic control of vasopressin expression is maintained by steroid hormones in the adult male rat brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(10), 4242–4247. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1100314108
2010
Schuler, L. A., & Auger, A. P. (2010). Psychosocially influenced cancer: diverse early-life stress experiences and links to breast cancer. Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.), 3(11), 1365–1370. https://doi.org/10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-10-0238.
2009
Auger, A. P., & Jessen, H. M. (2009). Corepressors, nuclear receptors, and epigenetic factors on DNA: a tail of repression. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 34 Suppl 1(Suppl 1), S39–S47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2009.05.012
Auger, A. P., & Olesen, K. M. (2009). Brain sex differences and the organisation of juvenile social play behaviour. Journal of neuroendocrinology, 21(6), 519–525. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2826.2009.01871.x
Tetel, M. J., Auger, A. P., & Charlier, T. D. (2009). Who’s in charge? Nuclear receptor coactivator and corepressor function in brain and behavior. Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 30(3), 328–342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yfrne.2009.04.008
