Search Results - "FERRARO, Thomas N"
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Postmortem toxicology findings from the Camden Opioid Research Initiative
Published in PloS one (01-11-2023)“…The United States continues to be impacted by decades of an opioid misuse epidemic, worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic and by the growing prevalence of highly…”
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Cross-sectional analysis of plasma and CSF metabolomic markers in Huntington’s disease for participants of varying functional disability: a pilot study
Published in Scientific reports (24-11-2020)“…Huntington’s Disease (HD) is a progressive, fatal neurodegenerative condition. While generally considered for its devastating neurological phenotype,…”
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An exploratory metabolomic comparison of participants with fast or absent functional progression from 2CARE, a randomized, double-blind clinical trial in Huntington’s disease
Published in Scientific reports (11-01-2024)“…Huntington’s disease (HD) is increasingly recognized for diverse pathology outside of the nervous system. To describe the biology of HD in relation to…”
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Deletion of the vesicular monoamine transporter 1 (vmat1/slc18a1) gene affects dopamine signaling
Published in Brain research (01-06-2019)“…•VMAT1 has recently been identified as target for neuropsychiatric disorders.•This study investigated null-mutant VMAT1 animals for effects on monoamine…”
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Single nucleus transcriptomic analysis of rat nucleus accumbens reveals cell type-specific patterns of gene expression associated with volitional morphine intake
Published in Translational psychiatry (08-09-2022)“…Opioid exposure is known to cause transcriptomic changes in the nucleus accumbens (NAc). However, no studies to date have investigated cell type-specific…”
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Author Correction: Cross-sectional analysis of plasma and CSF metabolomic markers in Huntington’s disease for participants of varying functional disability: a pilot study
Published in Scientific reports (05-05-2021)“…An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper…”
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BMAL1 controls the diurnal rhythm and set point for electrical seizure threshold in mice
Published in Frontiers in systems neuroscience (26-06-2014)“…The epilepsies are a heterogeneous group of neurological diseases defined by the occurrence of unprovoked seizures which, in many cases, are correlated with…”
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Analysis of single-cell transcriptome data from a mouse model implicates protein synthesis dysfunction in schizophrenia
Published in Genes & genomics (01-09-2024)“…Background Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that causes considerable morbidity, whose risk largely results from genetic factors. Setd1a is a gene implicated…”
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The Molecular Genetic Interaction Between Circadian Rhythms and Susceptibility to Seizures and Epilepsy
Published in Frontiers in neurology (23-06-2020)“…Seizure patterns observed in patients with epilepsy suggest that circadian rhythms and sleep/wake mechanisms play some role in the disease. This review…”
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MOR is not enough: identification of novel mu-opioid receptor interacting proteins using traditional and modified membrane yeast two-hybrid screens
Published in PloS one (28-06-2013)“…The mu-opioid receptor (MOR) is the G-protein coupled receptor primarily responsible for mediating the analgesic and rewarding properties of opioid agonist…”
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Potassium channel activity and glutamate uptake are impaired in astrocytes of seizure‐susceptible DBA/2 mice
Published in Epilepsia (Copenhagen) (01-09-2010)“…Summary Purpose: KCNJ10 encodes subunits of inward rectifying potassium (Kir) channel Kir4.1 found predominantly in glial cells within the brain. Genetic…”
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Patient Perceptions and Potential Utility of Pharmacogenetic Testing in Chronic Pain Management and Opioid Use Disorder in the Camden Opioid Research Initiative
Published in Pharmaceutics (01-09-2022)“…Pharmacogenetics (PGx) has the potential to improve opioid medication management. Here, we present patient perception data, pharmacogenetic data and medication…”
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Genetics and prescription opioid use (GaPO): study design for consenting a cohort from an existing biobank to identify clinical and genetic factors influencing prescription opioid use and abuse
Published in BMC medical genomics (26-10-2021)“…Prescription opioids (POs) are commonly used to treat moderate to severe chronic pain in the health system setting. Although they improve quality of life for…”
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The Genomics of Opioid Addiction Longitudinal Study (GOALS): study design for a prospective evaluation of genetic and non-genetic factors for development of and recovery from opioid use disorder
Published in BMC medical genomics (07-01-2021)“…The opioid use disorder and overdose crisis in the United States affects public health as well as social and economic welfare. While several genetic and…”
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Consensus clustering of single-cell RNA-seq data by enhancing network affinity
Published in Briefings in bioinformatics (05-11-2021)“…Elucidation of cell subpopulations at high resolution is a key and challenging goal of single-cell ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequencing (scRNA-seq) data analysis…”
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Association between the catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158Met polymorphism and cocaine dependence
Published in Neuropsychopharmacology (New York, N.Y.) (01-12-2008)“…Dopaminergic brain systems have been documented to have a major role in drug reward, thus making genes involved in these circuits plausible candidates for…”
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The relevance of inter- and intrastrain differences in mice and rats and their implications for models of seizures and epilepsy
Published in Epilepsy & behavior (01-08-2017)“…It is becoming increasingly clear that the genetic background of mice and rats, even in inbred strains, can have a profound influence on measures of seizure…”
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In vitro and ex vivo analysis of CHRNA3 and CHRNA5 haplotype expression
Published in PloS one (12-08-2011)“…Genome-wide association studies implicate variations in CHRNA5 and CHRNA3 as being associated with nicotine addiction (NA). Multiple common haplotypes ("risk",…”
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Epidemiological study of Trichosporon asahii infections over the past 23 years
Published in Epidemiology and infection (2020)“…Trichosporon is a yeast-like basidiomycete, a conditional pathogenic fungus that is rare in the clinic but often causes fatal infections in immunocompromised…”
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Association between variation in the vesicular monoamine transporter 1 gene on chromosome 8p and anxiety-related personality traits
Published in Neuroscience letters (21-03-2008)“…Vesicular monoamine transporters are involved in the presynaptic packaging of norepinephrine, dopamine and serotonin into storage vesicles. The vesicles…”
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