Uncovering the mechanisms of estrogen effects on hippocampal function

JL Spencer, EM Waters, RD Romeo, GE Wood… - Frontiers in …, 2008 - Elsevier
Estrogens have direct effects on the brain areas controlling cognition. One of the most
studied of these regions is the dorsal hippocampal formation, which governs the formation of …

The Genome of the Natural Genetic Engineer Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58

DW Wood, JC Setubal, R Kaul, DE Monks, JP Kitajima… - science, 2001 - science.org
The 5.67-megabase genome of the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58
consists of a circular chromosome, a linear chromosome, and two plasmids. Extensive …

Stress facilitates classical conditioning in males, but impairs classical conditioning in females through activational effects of ovarian hormones

GE Wood, TJ Shors - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 1998 - National Acad Sciences
Exposure to restraint and brief intermittent tailshocks facilitates associative learning of the
classical conditioned eyeblink response in male rats. Based on evidence of sex differences …

Update in epidemiology and management of Mycoplasma genitalium infections

GE Wood, CS Bradshaw, LE Manhart - Infectious Disease Clinics, 2023 - id.theclinics.com
Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) is a sexually transmitted bacterial pathogen whose role in
reproductive tract disease has, until recently, been underappreciated in the United States. It …

The role of the hippocampus in trace conditioning: temporal discontinuity or task difficulty?

AV Beylin, CC Gandhi, GE Wood, AC Talk… - Neurobiology of learning …, 2001 - Elsevier
It is well established that the hippocampal formation is critically involved in the acquisition of
trace memories, a paradigm in which the conditioned (CS) and unconditioned stimuli (US) …

Origins of orienting and defensive responses: An evolutionary perspective

BA Campbell, G Wood, T McBride - Attention and orienting, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
How did the autonomic nervous system evolve into the role it now plays in human emotions,
attention, and information processing? When and in what form did the autonomic nervous …

Chronic restraint stress up-regulates GLT-1 mRNA and protein expression in the rat hippocampus: reversal by tianeptine

LP Reagan, DR Rosell, GE Wood… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
Excitatory amino acids play a key role in stress-induced remodeling of dendrites in the
hippocampus as well as in suppression of neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus. The regulation …

The modulation of Pavlovian memory

TJ Shors, AV Beylin, GE Wood, E Gould - Behavioural brain research, 2000 - Elsevier
Exposure to stressful experiences as well as sex differences in the brain are known to
influence the acquisition of new memories. This review focuses on acquisition of two types of …

Stress-induced structural remodeling in hippocampus: prevention by lithium treatment

GE Wood, LT Young, LP Reagan… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
Chronic restraint stress, psychosocial stress, as well as systemic or oral administration of the
stress-hormone corticosterone induces a morphological reorganization in the rat …

The contribution of adrenal and reproductive hormones to the opposing effects of stress on trace conditioning males versus females.

GE Wood, AV Beylin, TJ Shors - Behavioral neuroscience, 2001 - psycnet.apa.org
Exposure to an acute stressful experience facilitates classical conditioning in male rats but
impairs conditioning in female rats (TJ Shors, C. Lewczyk, M. Paczynski, PR Mathew, & J …