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Debra A. Bangasser
Researcher at Temple University
Publications - 64
Citations - 4190
Debra A. Bangasser is an academic researcher from Temple University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sex characteristics & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 58 publications receiving 3263 citations. Previous affiliations of Debra A. Bangasser include Children's Hospital of Philadelphia & Rutgers University.
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Sex differences in stress-related psychiatric disorders: neurobiological perspectives.
TL;DR: Clinical studies that identify sex differences within the activity of these circuits, as well as preclinical studies that demonstrate cellular and molecular sex differences in stress responses systems, reveal sex differences from the molecular to the systems level that increase endocrine, emotional, and arousal responses to stress in females.
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Sex Differences in Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Receptor Signaling and Trafficking: Potential Role in Female Vulnerability to Stress-Related Psychopathology
Debra A. Bangasser,Andre L. Curtis,Beverly A.S. Reyes,Thelma Bethea,Ioannis Parastatidis,Harry Ischiropoulos,E.J. Van Bockstaele,Rita J. Valentino +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the receptor for corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), the neuropeptide that orchestrates the stress response, signals and is trafficked differently in female rats in a manner that could result in a greater response and decreased adaptation to stressors.
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Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor-Induced Gene Expression Reveals Novel Actions of VGF in Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity
Janet Alder,Smita Thakker-Varia,Debra A. Bangasser,May Kuroiwa,Mark R. Plummer,Tracey J. Shors,Ira B. Black +6 more
TL;DR: Increased expression in vitro predicted elevations in vivo: VGF and the IEGs increased after trace eyeblink conditioning, a hippocampal-dependent learning paradigm, which suggested that the VGF neuropeptides may regulate synaptic function.
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Trace Conditioning and the Hippocampus: The Importance of Contiguity
TL;DR: The design of a “contiguous trace conditioning” (CTC) paradigm in which CS–US contiguity is restored by re-presenting the CS simultaneously with the US suggests that rats with hippocampal lesions can form a memory of a trace CS– US association when contiguit is restored.
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The Neuropeptide VGF Produces Antidepressant-Like Behavioral Effects and Enhances Proliferation in the Hippocampus
Smita Thakker-Varia,Jennifer Jernstedt Krol,Jacob Nettleton,Parizad M. Bilimoria,Debra A. Bangasser,Tracey J. Shors,Ira B. Black,Janet Alder +7 more
TL;DR: Chronic VGF treatment enhances proliferation of hippocampal progenitor cells both in vitro and in vivo with survival up to 21 d, and it is demonstrated that VGF increases the number of dividing cells that express neuronal markers in vitro.