2015
How Animal Models Inform Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Stevens HE, Vaccarino FM. How Animal Models Inform Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Journal Of The American Academy Of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2015, 54: 352-359. PMID: 25901771, PMCID: PMC4407022, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2015.01.019.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsConceptsRisk factorsPsychiatric disordersAnimal modelsImportance of doseChildhood psychiatric disordersAdolescent psychiatryAnimal model systemsAnimal model workChild psychiatryPsychiatric pathophysiologyBrain developmentChildhood disordersChild psychiatristsBrain functioningBasis of recoveryDisordersBehavioral problemsChildrenClinical workPsychiatryField of childPathophysiologyFactorsDoseNeurochemistry
1995
Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor Increases the Number of Excitatory Neurons Containing Glutamate in the Cerebral Cortex
Vaccarino F, Schwartz M, Hartigan D, Leckman J. Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor Increases the Number of Excitatory Neurons Containing Glutamate in the Cerebral Cortex. Cerebral Cortex 1995, 5: 64-78. PMID: 7719131, DOI: 10.1093/cercor/5.1.64.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBasic fibroblast growth factorNerve growth factorGlutamate-containing neuronsCerebral cortexFibroblast growth factorGrowth factorAspartate-containing neuronsDifferent neurotransmitter phenotypesNumber of GABARatio of glutamateStem cellsNeurotransmitter phenotypeExcitatory neuronsInhibitory neuronsRat telencephalonVentricular zoneBFGF mRNAGABANeuronsCortexGlutamateDiffusible factorsThreefold increaseCellsFactors