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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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Alcohol consumption habits and associations with anxiety or depressive symptoms postpartum in women with high socioeconomic status in Sweden.

Lager, Susanne; Gidén, Karin; Axfors, Cathrine; Sigvardsson, Frida et al.

Part of Archives of Women's Mental Health, 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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DNA methylation of Vesicular Glutamate Transporters in the mesocorticolimbic brain following early-life stress and adult ethanol exposure-an explorative study

Vrettou, Maria; Yan, Liying; Nilsson, Kent W.; Wallén-Mackenzie, Åsa et al.

Part of Scientific Reports, 2021.

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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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VGLUT2 rs2290045 genotype moderates environmental sensitivity to alcohol-related problems in three samples of youths

Vrettou, Maria; Nilsson, Kent W.; Tuvblad, Catherine; Rehn, Mattias et al.

Part of European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, p. 1329-1340, 2019.

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Early life stress and voluntary alcohol consumption in relation to Maoa methylation in male rats.

Bendre, Megha; Granholm, Linnea; Drennan, Ryan; Meyer, Ann et al.

Part of Alcohol, p. 7-16, 2019.

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Constitutive serotonin transporter reduction resembles maternal separation with regard to stress-related gene expression

Comasco, Erika; Schijven, Dick; de Maeyer, Hanne; Vrettou, Maria et al.

Part of ACS Chemical Neuroscience, p. 3132-3142, 2019.

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Episodic Ethanol Exposure in Adolescent Rats Causes Residual Alterations in Endogenous Opioid Peptides

Granholm, Linnea; Segerström, Lova; Nylander, Ingrid

Part of Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2018.

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Evidence for a Link Between Fkbp5/FKBP5, Early Life Social Relations and Alcohol Drinking in Young Adult Rats and Humans

Nylander, Ingrid; Todkar, Aniruddha; Granholm, Linnea; Vrettou, Maria et al.

Part of Molecular Neurobiology, p. 6225-6234, 2017.

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Maoa Methylation: A Molecular Mechanism Behind The Effect Of Early Life Stress And Voluntary Alcohol Consumption On Maoa Expression In Wistar Rats

Bendre, Megha; Nillson, Kent W.; Granholm, Linnea; Nylander, Ingrid et al.

Part of Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2017.

Vgluts In The Mesocorticolimbic Brain Of Adolescent Outbred Rats Exposed To Alcohol And Nicotine

Vrettou, Maria; Nordenankar, Karin; Segerström, Lova; Wallén-Mackenzie, Åsa et al.

Part of Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2017.

The expression of opioid genes in non-classical reward areas depends on early life conditions and ethanol intake

Granholm, Linnea; Todkar, Aniruddah; Bergman, Sofia; Nillson, Kent et al.

Part of Brain Research, p. 36-45, 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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Ethanol affects limbic and striatal presynaptic glutamatergic and DNA methylation gene expression in outbred rats exposed to early-life stress

Vrettou, Maria; Granholm, Linnea; Todkar, Aniruddha; Nilsson, Kent W. et al.

Part of Addiction Biology, p. 369-380, 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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HPA Axis Gene Expression and DNA Methylation Profiles in Rats Exposed to Early Life Stress, Adult Voluntary Ethanol Drinking and Single Housing

Todkar, Aniruddha; Granholm, Linnea; Aljumah, Mujtaba; Nilsson, Kent W et al.

Part of Frontiers in Molecular 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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Minimizing Postsampling Degradation of Peptides by a Thermal Benchtop Tissue Stabilization Method.

Segerström, Lova; Gustavsson, Jenny; Nylander, Ingrid

Part of Biopreservation and Biobanking, p. 172-179, 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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Alpha 2a-Adrenoceptor Gene Expression and Early Life Stress-Mediated Propensity to Alcohol Drinking in Outbred Rats

Comasco, Erika; Todkar, Aniruddha; Granholm, Linnea; Nilsson, Kent W. et al.

Part of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, p. 7154-7171, 2015.

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A ghrelin receptor (GHS-R1A) antagonist attenuates the rewarding properties of morphine and increases opioid peptide levels in reward areas in mice

Engel, Jorgen A.; Nylander, Ingrid; Jerlhag, Elisabet

Part of European Neuropsychopharmacology, p. 2364-2371, 2015.

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Expression of Stress and DNA Methylation Regulatory Genes in the Hypothalamus and Pituitary of Rats Exposed to Early Life Stress and Adult Voluntary Ethanol Drinking

Todkar, Aniruddha; Granholm, Linnea; Aljumah, M.; Nilsson, Kent W. et al.

Part of Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2015.

EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF A LINK BETWEEN THE alpha 2A-ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR GENE, EARLY LIFE STRESS, AND ETHANOL DRINKING

Comasco, Erika; Todkar, Aniruddha; Mujtaba, A.; Granholm, Linnea et al.

Part of Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2015.

Early Life Stress and Voluntary Alcohol Consumption in Adulthood Affect Maoa Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens of Outbred Rats

Bendre, Megha; Comasco, Erika; Nylander, Ingrid; Nilsson, Kent W.

Part of Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2015.

Ethanol Affects Limbic and Striatal Expression of Vesicular Glutamate Transporters in Outbred Rats Exposed to Early Life Stress

Vrettou, Maria; Granholm, Linnea; Todkar, Aniruddha; Nilsson, Kent W. et al.

Part of Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2015.

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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Asymmetry of the Endogenous Opioid System in the Human Anterior Cingulate: a Putative Molecular Basis for Lateralization of Emotions and Pain

Watanabe, Hiroyuki; Fitting, Sylvia; Hussain, Muhammad; Kononenko, Olga et al.

Part of Cerebral Cortex, p. 97-108, 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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Impact of adolescent ethanol exposure and adult amphetamine self-administration on evoked striatal dopamine release in male rats

Granholm, Linnea; Rowley, S.; Ellgren, M.; Segerström, Lova et al.

Part of Psychopharmacology, p. 4421-4431, 2015.

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Effect of voluntary alcohol consumption on Maoa expression in the mesocorticolimbic brain of adult male rats previously exposed to prolonged maternal separation.: Maoa,ELS and alcohol

Bendre, Megha; Comasco, Erika; Nylander, Ingrid; Nilsson, Kent W

Part of Translational Psychiatry, 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.