The evaluation of the efficacy of alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor ligands in rat models of autism
2016/23/B/NZ7/01131
Keywords
Descriptors
- NZ7_14: Farmacja, farmakoterapia, farmakologia
Panel
NZ7 – Diagnostic tools, therapies and public health: public health, epidemiology, environmental health risks and occupational medicine, medical ethics, drug discovery and therapies, pharmacology
Host institution
Instytut Farmakologii PAN
Voivodeship: małopolskie
Principal investigator (from the host institution)
dr hab. Agnieszka Anna Nikiforuk
Number of co-investigators in the project: 7
Call
OPUS 12 – announced on 2016-09-15
- Amount awarded
- 937 600 PLN
- Project start date
- 2017-07-25
- Project end date
- 2022-07-24
- Project duration
- 60 months (the same as in the proposal)
- Project status
- Project settled
Project description
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Equipment purchased [PL]
- zestaw do nagrywania i analizy wokalizacji ultradżwiękowych Avisoft Bioacoustics. Cost: 70 000 PLN
- zestaw do nagrywania i analizy zachowań zwierząt EthoVision XT (Noldus). Cost: 85 000 PLN
Information in the final report
Publication in academic press/journals (8)
-
Astroglia in Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Authors:
- Kinga Gzielo, Agnieszka Nikiforuk
- Academic press:
- Int J Mol Sci (year: 2021, volume: 22, pages: 11544), Publisher: MDPI
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.3390/ijms222111544 – link to the publication
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The Effect of Maternal Immune Activation on Social Play-Induced Ultrasonic Vocalization in Rats
- Authors:
- Kinga Gzielo, Agnieszka Potasiewicz , Ewa Litwa, Diana Piotrowska, Piotr Popik, Agnieszka Nikiforuk
- Academic press:
- Brain Sci (year: 2021, volume: 11(3), pages: 344), Publisher: MDPI
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.3390/brainsci11030344 – link to the publication
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Effects of prenatal exposure to valproic acid or poly(I:C) on ultrasonic vocalizations in rat pups: The role of social cues
- Authors:
- Agnieszka Potasiewicz, Kinga Gzielo , Piotr Popik , Agnieszka Nikiforuk
- Academic press:
- Physiology & Behavior (year: 2020, volume: 225, pages: 113113), Publisher: Elsevier
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.113113 – link to the publication
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Valproic acid exposure impairs ultrasonic communication in infant, adolescent and adult rats
- Authors:
- Kinga Gzielo, Agnieszka Potasiewicz, Małgorzata Hołuj, Ewa Litwa, Piotr Popik, Agnieszka Nikiforuk
- Academic press:
- European Neuropsychopharmacology (year: 2020, volume: 41, pages: 52-62), Publisher: Elsevier
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2020.09.006 – link to the publication
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Social dysfunction in the neurodevelopmental model of schizophrenia in male and female rats: Behavioural and biochemical studies
- Authors:
- Agnieszka Potasiewicz, Malgorzata Holuj, Ewa Litwa, Kinga Gzielo, Lucyna Socha, Piotr Popik, Agnieszka Nikiforuk
- Academic press:
- Neuropharmacology (year: 2020, volume: 170, pages: 108040), Publisher: Elsevier
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2020.108040 – link to the publication
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Desformylflustrabromine, a positive allosteric modulator of α4β2-containing nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, enhances cognition in rats.
- Authors:
- Agnieszka Nikiforuk, Ewa Litwa, Martyna Krawczyk, Piotr Popik, Hugo Arias
- Academic press:
- Pharmacological Reports (year: 2020, volume: 72(3), pages: 589-599), Publisher: Springer
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s43440-020-00092-4 – link to the publication
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Repeated treatment with alpha 7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor ligands enhances cognitive processes and stimulates Erk1/2 and Arc genes in rats
- Authors:
- Agnieszka Potasiewicz, Agata Faron-Gorecka, Piotr Popik , Agnieszka Nikiforuk
- Academic press:
- Behav Brain Res (year: 2021, volume: 409, pages: 113338), Publisher: Elsevier
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113338 – link to the publication
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Procognitive effects of varenicline in the animal model of schizophrenia depend on α4β2- and α 7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
- Authors:
- Potasiewicz A, Golebiowska J, Popik P, Nikiforuk A
- Academic press:
- J Psychopharmacol (year: 2019, volume: brak, pages: brak), Publisher: SAGE Journals
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.1177/0269881118812097. – link to the publication
Articles in post-conference publications (2)
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Social play behavior of rats in the model of autism induced by prenatal exposure to polyinosinic: polycytidylic acid
- Authors:
- K Gzielo, M Holuj, P Popik, A Nikiforuk
- Conference:
- 14 th International Congress of the Polish Neuroscience Society, Katowice (year: 2019, pages: 79 (Suppl. 1): XLVI-XLVII), Publisher: Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis 79 (Suppl. 1)
- Date:
- conference 43705
- Status:
- Published
-
Pups' altered ultrasonic vocalisation in the poly I: C rat model of autism spectrum disorder: results from the mother isolation test
- Authors:
- D Piotrowska, J Sopel, A Potasiewicz, P Popik, A Nikiforuk
- Conference:
- 14 th International Congress of the Polish Neuroscience Society, Katowice (year: 2019, pages: 79 (Suppl. 1):LXXIV-LXXV), Publisher: Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis 79 (Suppl. 1)
- Date:
- conference 43705
- Status:
- Published