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Open field behavior in the house cricket (Acheta domesticus): effect of illumination, sex differences and individual consistency

Vossen, L. E.; Nilsson, E.; Jansson, A.; Roman, Erika

Part of JOURNAL OF INSECTS AS FOOD AND FEED, p. 317-324, 2023.

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Optimizing zebrafish rearing-Effects of fish density and environmental enrichment

Sen Sarma, Oly; Frymus, Natalia; Axling, Fredrik; Thörnqvist, Per-Ove et al.

Part of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023.

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Effects of gastric bypass surgery on brain connectivity responses to hypoglycemia

Fanni, Giovanni; Kagios, Christakis; Roman, Erika; Sundbom, Magnus et al.

Part of Endocrine, p. 304-312, 2023.

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The glycine receptor alpha 3 subunit mRNA expression shows sex-dependent differences in the adult mouse brain

Ceder, Mikaela M.; Weman, Hannah M.; Johansson, Ebba; Henriksson, Katharina et al.

Part of BMC Neuroscience, 2023.

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Fasting increases shelter use in house crickets (Acheta domesticus)

Vossen, L. E.; Roman, Erika; Jansson, A.

Part of JOURNAL OF INSECTS AS FOOD AND FEED, p. 5-8, 2022.

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Behavioral Profiles of Adolescent Alcohol-Preferring/Non-preferring (P/NP) and High/Low Alcohol-Drinking (HAD/LAD) Rats Are Dependent on Line but Not Sex

Lundberg, Stina; Roman, Erika; Bell, Richard L.

Part of Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022.

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The zebrafish Multivariate Concentric Square Field: A Standardized Test for Behavioral Profiling of Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Vossen, Laura E.; Brunberg, Ronja; Raden, Pontus; Winberg, Svante et al.

Part of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022.

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Sex-Specific Effects of Acute Ethanol Exposure on Locomotory Activity and Exploratory Behavior in Adult Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Vossen, Laura E.; Brunberg, Ronja; Rådén, Pontus; Winberg, Svante et al.

Part of Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022.

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Behavioral profiling of SLC38A10 knockout mice using the multivariate concentric square field™ test

Lindberg, Frida A; Roman, Erika; Fredriksson, Robert

Part of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022.

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Exploring decision-making strategies in the Iowa gambling task and rat gambling task

Hultman, Cathrine; Tjernström, Nikita; Vadlin, Sofia; Rehn, Mattias et al.

Part of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022.

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Individual strategies in the rat gambling task are related to voluntary alcohol intake, but not sexual behavior, and can be modulated by naltrexone

Tjernström, Nikita; Roman, Erika

Part of Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022.

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Functional connectivity in reward-related networks is associated with individual differences in gambling strategies in male Lister hooded rats

Tjernström, Nikita; Li, Tie-Qiang; Holst, Sarah; Roman, Erika

Part of Addiction Biology, 2022.

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Lessons, insights and newly developed tools emerging from behavioral phenotyping core facilities

Bikovski, Lior; Robinson, Lianne; Konradsson-Geuken, Åsa; Kullander, Klas et al.

Part of Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 2020.

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Behavioral profiling in early adolescence and early adulthood of male Wistar rats after short and prolonged maternal separation

Lundberg, Stina; Nylander, Ingrid; Roman, Erika

Part of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020.

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Effects of pair housing on voluntary alcohol intake in male and female Wistar rats

Scott, Hayden; Tjernström, Nikita; Roman, Erika

Part of Alcohol, p. 121-128, 2020.

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Bold zebrafish (Danio rerio) express higher levels of delta opioid and dopamine D2 receptors in the brain compared to shy fish

Thörnqvist, Per-Ove; McCarrick, Sarah; Ericsson, Maja; Roman, Erika et al.

Part of Behavioural Brain Research, p. 927-934, 2019.

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The aggressive spiegeldanio, carrying a mutation in the fgfr1a gene, has no advantage in dyadic fights with zebrafish of the AB strain

Mustafa, Arshi; Thörnqvist, Per-Ove; Roman, Erika; Winberg, Svante

Part of Behavioural Brain Research, 2019.

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Boldness in Male and Female Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Is Dependent on Strain and Test

Mustafa, Arshi; Roman, Erika; Winberg, Svante

Part of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019.

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Adolescent Exploratory Strategies and Behavioral Types in the Multivariate Concentric Square Field (TM) Test

Lundberg, Stina; Högman, Cecilia; Roman, Erika

Part of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019.

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Prevalence and influence of cys407* Grm2 mutation in Hannover-derived Wistar rats: mGlu2 receptor loss links to alcohol intake, risk taking and emotional behaviour.

Wood, Christian M.; Nicolas, Celine S.; Choi, Sun-Lim; Roman, Erika et al.

Part of Neuropharmacology, p. 128-138, 2017.

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Altered corticosterone levels and social play behavior after prolonged maternal separation in adolescent male but not female Wistar rats

Lundberg, Stina; Martinsson, My; Nylander, Ingrid; Roman, Erika

Part of Hormones and Behavior, p. 137-144, 2017.

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Few long-term consequences after prolonged maternal separation in female Wistar rats

Lundberg, Stina; Abelson, Klas; Nylander, Ingrid; Roman, Erika

Part of PLOS ONE, 2017.

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Response: Commentary: Supplier-dependent differences in intermittent voluntary alcohol intake and response to naltrexone in Wistar rats

Segerström, Lova; Roman, Erika

Part of Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2016.

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Dose-dependent effects of alcohol administration on behavioral profiles in the MCSF test.

Karlsson, Oskar; Roman, Erika

Part of Alcohol, p. 51-56, 2016.

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Neuronal and neuroendocrine mechanisms of social rank and stress coping in teleost fish

Winberg, Svante; Thörnqvist, Per-Ove; Dahlbom, Josefin; Roman, Erika et al.

Part of The FASEB Journal, 2015.

Low copulatory activity in selectively bred Sardinian alcohol-nonpreferring (sNP) relative to alcohol-preferring (sP) rats

Karlsson, Oskar; Colombo, Giancarlo; Roman, Erika

Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, p. 181-189, 2015.

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Supplier-dependent differences in intermittent voluntary alcohol intake and response to naltrexone in Wistar rats

Momeni, Shima; Segerström, Lova; Roman, Erika

Part of Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2015.

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Altered explorative strategies and reactive coping style in the FSL rat model of depression

Magara, Salvatore; Holst, Sarah; Lundberg, Stina; Roman, Erika et al.

Part of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2015.

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Single housing during early adolescence causes time-, area- and peptide-specific alterations in endogenous opioids of rat brain

Granholm, Linnea; Roman, Erika; Nylander, Ingrid

Part of British Journal of Pharmacology, p. 606-614, 2015.

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Neurobiological and behavioural studies on early life stress and adolescent alcohol drinking in a translational initiative

Nylander, Ingrid; Palm, Sara; Daoura, Loudin; Granholm, Linnea et al.

Part of Alcohol, p. 160-161, 2014.

Subgroup-dependent effects of voluntary alcohol intake on behavioral profiles in outbred Wistar rats

Momeni, Shima; Roman, Erika

Part of Behavioural Brain Research, p. 288-296, 2014.

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Individual Differences In Risk-Related Behaviors And Voluntary Alcohol Intake In Wistar Rats

Momeni, Shima; Roman, Erika

Part of Alcoholism, p. 242A-242A, 2014.

Early Life Stress Causes Long Term Effects On Neuropeptides, Alcohol Consumption And Behaviour: Results From A Translational Initiative

Nylander, Ingrid; Palm, Sara; Daoura, Loudin; Granholm, Linnea et al.

Part of Alcoholism, p. 355A-355A, 2014.

Individual differences in risk-related behaviors and voluntary alcohol intake in outbred Wistar rats

Momeni, Shima; Sharif, Mana; Ågren, Greta; Roman, Erika

Part of Behavioural Pharmacology, p. 206-215, 2014.

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Risk-assessment and risk-taking behavior predict potassium- and amphetamine-induced dopamine response in the dorsal striatum of rats

Palm, Sara; Momeni, Shima; Lundberg, Stina; Nylander, Ingrid et al.

Part of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, p. 236-, 2014.

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Increased anxiety-like behavior but no cognitive impairments in adult rats exposed to constant light conditions during perinatal development

Roman, Erika; Karlsson, Oskar

Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, p. 222-227, 2013.

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Is the rodent maternal separation model a valid and effective model for studies on the early-life impact on ethanol consumption?

Nylander, Ingrid; Roman, Erika

Part of Psychopharmacology, p. 555-569, 2013.

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Qualitative differences in pup-retrieval strategies in a maternal separation paradigm

Daoura, Loudin; Nylander, Ingrid; Roman, Erika

Part of Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science, p. 603-616, 2013.

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A Rank-Order Procedure Applied to an Ethoexperimental Behavior Model—The Multivariate Concentric SquareField™ (MCSF) Test

Meyerson, Bengt J; Jurek, Betty; Roman, Erika

Part of Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science, p. 350-361, 2013.

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Neurotoxin-Induced Neuropeptide Perturbations in Striatum of Neonatal Rats

Karlsson, Oskar; Kultima, Kim; Wadensten, Henrik; Nilsson, Anna et al.

Part of Journal of Proteome Research, p. 1678-1690, 2013.

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Effects of Rearing Conditions on Behaviour and Endogenous Opioids in Rats with Alcohol Access during Adolescence

Palm, Sara; Daoura, Loudin; Roman, Erika; Nylander, Ingrid

Part of PLOS ONE, p. e76591-, 2013.

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Neuropeptides as mediators of the early-life impact on the brain: implications for alcohol use disorders

Nylander, Ingrid; Roman, Erika

Part of Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2012.

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Differences in basal and ethanol-induced levels of opioid peptides in Wistar rats from five different suppliers

Palm, Sara; Roman, Erika; Nylander, Ingrid

Part of Peptides, p. 1-8, 2012.

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Neurotoxin-induced fibril formation and protein changes in rodents

Brittebo, Eva; Karlsson, Oskar; Andersson, Malin; Berg, Anna-Lena et al.

Part of Toxicology Letters, p. S193-193, 2012.

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Behavioral profiling of multiple pairs of rats selectively bred for high and low alcohol intake using the MCSF test

Roman, Erika; Stewart, Robert B; Bertholomey, Megan L; Jensen, Meredith L et al.

Part of Addiction Biology, p. 33-46, 2012.

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Neonatal Exposure to the Cyanobacterial Toxin BMAA Induces Changes in Protein Expression and Neurodegeneration in Adult Hippocampus

Karlsson, Oskar; Berg, Anna-Lena; Lindström, Anna-Karin; Hanrieder, Jorg et al.

Part of Toxicological Sciences, p. 391-404, 2012.

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Do men with excessive alcohol consumption and social stability have an addictive personality?

Berglund, Kristina; Roman, Erika; Balldin, Jan; Berggren, Ulf et al.

Part of Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, p. 257-260, 2011.

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Differences in voluntary ethanol consumption in Wistar rats from five different suppliers

Palm, Sara; Roman, Erika; Nylander, Ingrid

Part of Alcohol, p. 607-614, 2011.

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Endogenous opioid peptides as mediators of the early environmental influence on ethanol consumption

Nylander, Ingrid; Daoura, Loudin; Palm, Sara; Roman, Erika

Part of Alcohol, p. 284-284, 2011.

RISK BEHAVIORS IN THE MULTIVARIATE CONCENTRIC SQUARE FIELD ASSOCIATED WITH ALCOHOL PREFERENCE IN CHROMOSOME 4 RECIPROCAL CONGENIC (P. NP, NP. P) RATS

Stewart, Robert B; Jensen, Meredith L; Roman, Erika; Lumeng, Lawrence et al.

Part of Alcoholism, p. 199A-199A, 2011.