Animal Behavior Core

Rivero-Quiles C, Abdelmesih B, & Kong A, et al. (2026). Appetitive maternal behavior in mice is resistant to perinatal chronic variable stress and perinatal chronic corticosterone treatment. Hormones and Behavior, 177, 105855. PMID: 41253068.

Supported by: NIH R00HD085188, NIH R01HD113787, NIH P50 HD105352, T32HD098067, R00HD085188-S.

Oostland M, Kislin M, & Chen Y, et al. (2026). Cerebellar acceleration of learning in an evidence-accumulation task. Cell Reports, 45(4).

Supported by: NIH R01 NS045193, R01 MH115750, U19 NS104648.

Cheng B, Mishra A, & Zhang X, et al. (2026). Iron chelation targets lipid metabolism to reduce white matter injury in germinal matrix hemorrhage. Cell Death & Disease.

Supported by: NIH R01 NS110760, R01 NS117390, R01 NS136615, P50 HD105352, P30 DK020541, HD104599, and 1S10 OD021798-01A1.

Sidoli S, Kislin M, & Poojari A, et al. (2025). Altered Metabolism in Heterozygous Mice With a Mutation in the Motor Domain of Cytoplasmic Dynein, DYNC1H1 (AAA4; c9052C>T(P3018S)). Proteomics, 25(16), 9–16. PMID: 40766986.

Supported by: IDDRC, NIH P50 HD105352.

Xu C, Gulinello M, & Frenette PS. (2021). Nociceptors protect sickle cell disease mice from vaso-occlusive episodes and chronic organ damage. Journal of Experimental Medicine, 218(1), e20200065. PMID: 33045060.

Mike EV, Makinde HM, & Gulinello M, et al. (2019). Lipocalin 2 is a pathogenic determinant and biomarker of neuropsychiatric lupus. Journal of Autoimmunity, 96, 59–73. PMID: 30174216.

Gulinello M, Mitchell HA, & Chang Q, et al. (2019). Rigor and reproducibility in rodent behavioral research. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 165, 106780. PMID: 29307548.

Mike EV, Makinde HM, & Der E, et al. (2018). Neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus is dependent on sphingosine-1-phosphate signaling. Frontiers in Immunology, 9, 2189. PMID: 30319641.

Li Y, Sanchez C, & Gulinello M. (2017). Distinct antidepressant-like and cognitive effects of antidepressants with different mechanisms of action in middle-aged female mice. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 20(6), 510–515. PMID: 28158336.

Wen J, Chen CH, & Stock A, et al. (2016). Intracerebroventricular administration of TNF-like weak inducer of apoptosis induces depression-like behavior and cognitive dysfunction in nonautoimmune mice. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 54, 27–37. PMID: 26721417.

Sikora J, Leddy J, & Gulinello M, et al. (2016). X-linked Christianson syndrome: heterozygous female Slc9a6 knockout mice develop mosaic neuropathological changes and related behavioral abnormalities. Disease Models & Mechanisms, 9(1), 13–23. PMID: 26515654.

Tomé WA, Gökhan Ş, & Brodin NP, et al. (2015). A mouse model replicating hippocampal sparing cranial irradiation in humans: A tool for identifying new strategies to limit neurocognitive decline. Scientific Reports, 5, 14384. PMID: 26399509.

Wen J, Doerner J, & Weidenheim K, et al. (2015). TNF-like weak inducer of apoptosis promotes blood brain barrier disruption and increases neuronal cell death in MRL/lpr mice. Journal of Autoimmunity, 60, 40–50. PMID: 25911200.

Chitu V, Gokhan S, & Gulinello M, et al. (2015). Phenotypic characterization of a Csf1r haploinsufficient mouse model of adult-onset leukodystrophy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia. Neurobiology of Disease, 74, 219–228. PMID: 25497733.

Brodkin J, Frank D, & Grippo R, et al. (2014). Validation and implementation of a novel high-throughput behavioral phenotyping instrument for mice. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 224, 48–57. PMID: 24384067.

Wen J, Xia Y, & Stock A, et al. (2013). Neuropsychiatric disease in murine lupus is dependent on the TWEAK/Fn14 pathway. Journal of Autoimmunity, 43, 44–54. PMID: 23578591.

Gulinello M, Wen J, & Putterman C. (2012). Neuropsychiatric symptoms in lupus. Psychiatric Annals, 42(9), 322–328. PMID: 25620816.

Gulinello M, & Putterman C. (2011). The MRL/lpr mouse strain as a model for neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus. Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, 2011, 207504. PMID: 21331367.

Gulinello M, Gertner M, & Mendoza G, et al. (2009). Validation of a 2-day water maze protocol in mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 196(2), 220–227. PMID: 18831990.

Gao H-X, Campbell SR, & Cui M-H, et al. (2009). Depression is an early disease manifestation in lupus-prone MRL/lpr mice. Journal of Neuroimmunology, 207(1–2), 45–56. PMID: 19121871.

Gulinello M, Chen F, & Dobrenis K. (2008). Early deficits in motor coordination and cognitive dysfunction in a mouse model of the neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disorder, Sandhoff disease. Behavioural Brain Research, 193(2), 315–319. PMID: 18611415.

Gulinello M, Lebesgue D, & Jover-Mengual T, et al. (2006). Acute and chronic estradiol treatments reduce memory deficits induced by transient global ischemia in female rats. Hormones and Behavior, 49(2), 246–260. PMID: 16125703.