Michelle M. Nicolle, PhD

Publications


Book Chapters (3):

1.

Bizon, J.L and Nicolle, M.M. (2005) “Rat Models of Age-related Cognitive Decline” In P. Micheal Conn (Ed.) Handbook of Models for Human Aging, (pp. 379-391).  Elsevier Press Inc. 

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Nicolle, M.M., Zhang, H.Y., Bizon, J.L. (2007) “Assessment of Second Messenger Function in the Hippocampus of Aged Rats with Cognitive Impairment” In D.R. Riddle (Ed). Brain Aging: Models, Methods & Mechanisms, (pp213-228). CRC Press.

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LaSarge, C. & Nicolle, M.M. (2009) “Comparison of Different Cognitive Rat Models of Human Aging” In Bizon & Wood (Eds) Animal Models of Human Cognitive Aging, (pp 73-112). Humana Press.

Journal Articles (22):

1.

Stanton, M.E. and Nicolle, M.M. (1989) Taste discrimination learning in preweanling rats. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 28:319‑322.

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Nicolle, M.M., Barry, C.C., Veronesi, B., and Stanton, M.E. (1989) Fornix transections disrupt the ontogeny of latent inhibition in the rat. Psychobiology 17:349‑357.

3.

Nagahara, A.H., Nicolle, M.M. and Gallagher, M. (1993) Alterations in [3H]-kainate receptor binding in the hippocampal formation of aged Long-Evans rats. Hippocampus 3:269-277.

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Gallagher, M. and Nicolle, M.M. (1993) Animal models of normal aging: Relationship between cognitive decline and markers in hippocampal circuitry. Behavioral Brain Research 57:155-162.

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Nagahara, A.H., Gill, T.M., Nicolle, M.M., Gallagher, M. (1996) Alterations in opiate receptor binding in the hippocampus of aged Long-Evans rats. Brain Research 707(1):22-30.

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Nicolle, M.M., Bizon, J., and Gallagher, M. (1996) Ionotropic glutamate receptors in the hippocampus and striatum of aged rats: Relationship to cognitive decline. Neuroscience74 (3): 741-756.

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Nicolle, M.M., Shivers, L.A., Gill, T.M. and Gallagher, M. (1997) Hippocampal N-methyl-D-aspartate and kainate binding in response to entorhinal cortex aspiration or 192 IgG-saporin lesions of the basal forebrain. Neuroscience.77 (3): 649-659.

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Nicolle, M.M., Colombo, P., Gallagher, M., and McKinney, M. (1999) Metabotropic glutamate receptor-mediated hippocampal phosphoinositide turnover is blunted in spatial learning impaired aged rats. Journal of Neuroscience19 (21): 9604-9610.

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Nicolle, M.M., Gallagher, M. and McKinney, M. (1999) No loss of synaptic proteins in the hippocampus of aged, behaviorally-impaired Long Evans rats. Neurobiology of Aging 20: 343-348.

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Nicolle, M.M., Gallagher, M. and McKinney, M. (1999) Analyses of hippocampal circuitry in aging. Neurobiology of Aging 20: 359-360.

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Nicolle, M.M., Gallagher, M. and McKinney, M. (2001) Visualization of muscarinic receptor-mediated phosphoinositide turnover in the hippocampus of young and aged, learning-impaired Long Evans rats. Hippocampus. 11:741-746

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Nicolle, M.M., Gonzales, J., Sugaya, K., Bryan, D., Lund, K., Gallagher, M. and McKinney, M. (2001) Signatures of hippocampal oxidative stress in aged spatial learning-impaired rodents. Neuroscience.107:415-431.

13.

Nicolle, M.M. and Baxter, M.G. (2003)Glutamate receptor binding in the frontal cortex of aged rats with impaired attentional set shifting. European Journal of Neuroscience. 18:1-8.

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 Nicolle, M.M., Prescott, S., and Bizon, J. (2003) Emergence of a cue strategy on the water maze task in aged B6xSJL F1 hybrid mice. Learning and Memory. 10:520-524.

15.

Gluck, M.A., Myers, C.E., Nicolle, M.M., Johnson, S. (2006) Computational Models of the Hippocampal Region: Implications for Prediction of Risk for Alzheimer's Disease in Non-demented Elderly. Current Alzheimer Research. 3(3):247-57.

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Shi, L., Adams, M.M., Long, A., Carter, C.C., Benett, C., Sonntag, W.E., Nicolle, M.M., Robbins, M., D’Agostino, R., Brunso-Bechtold, J. (2006) Spatial learning and memory deficits after whole-brain irradiation are associated with changes in NMDA receptor subunits in the hippocampus. Radiation Research 166:892-899.

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Baskerville, K.A., Kent, C., Nicolle, M.M., Gallagher, M., McKinney, M. (2006) Aging causes partial loss of basal forebrain but no loss of pontinereticular cholinergic neurons. Neuroreport 17(17): 1819-1823.

18.

Zhuo, J.M, Prescott, S.L., Murray, M.E, Zhang, H.-Y., Baxter, M.G., Nicolle M.M. (2007) Early discrimination reversal learning impairment and preserved spatial learning in a longitudinal study of Tg2576 APP mice. Neurobiology of Aging 28:1248-1257.

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Bizon, J., Prescott, S., Nicolle, M.M. (2007)Intact spatial learning in adult Tg2576 mice. Neurobiology of Aging 28(3):440-446.

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Zhang H., Watson M., Gallagher M., Nicolle M.M. (2007) Muscarinic receptor-mediated GTP-Eu binding in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex is correlated with spatial memory impairment in aged rats. Neurobiology of Aging 28(4): 619-626.

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Kukar, T. Prescott, S., Eriksen, J.L., Holloway, V., Murphy, M.P., Koo, E.H., Golde, T.E., Nicolle, M.M. (2007): Chronic administration of R-flurbiprofen attenuates cognitive learning impairments in transgenic amyloid precursor protein mice. BMC Neuroscience, 8:54

22.

Zhuo, J.M., Prakasam, A., Murray, M.E., Zhang, H.-Y., Baxter, M.G., Sambamurti, K., Nicolle, M.M. (2008)  An increase in Ab42 in the prefrontal cortex is associated with a reversal learning. Current Alzheimer’s Research. 5(4): 385-391.

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