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Journal articles
2016, 'Paternal high fat diet in rats leads to renal accumulation of lipid and tubular changes in adult offspring', Nutrients, 8, pp. 521, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu8090521
,2016, 'Head to head comparison of short-term treatment with the NAD+ precursor nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) and 6 weeks of exercise in obese female mice', Frontiers in Pharmacology, 7, pp. 258, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2016.00258
,2016, 'Daily access to sucrose impairs aspects of spatial memory tasks reliant on pattern separation and neural proliferation in rats', Learning and Memory, 23, pp. 386 - 390, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.042416.116
,2016, 'A diet high in fat and sugar reverses anxiety-like behaviour induced by limited nesting in male rats: Impacts on hippocampal markers', Psychoneuroendocrinology, 68, pp. 202 - 209, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.03.007
,2016, 'Short-term exposure to a diet high in fat and sugar, or liquid sugar, selectively impairs hippocampal-dependent memory, with differential impacts on inflammation', Behavioural Brain Research, 306, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2016.03.018
,2016, 'The impact of poor diet and early life stress on memory status', Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 9, pp. 144 - 151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2016.04.002
,2016, 'Niclosamide blocks glucagon phosphorylation of Ser552 on β-catenin in primary rat hepatocytes via PKA signalling', Biochemical Journal, 473, pp. 1247 - 1255, http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/BCJ20160121
,2016, 'Daily Exposure to Sucrose Impairs Subsequent Learning About Food Cues: A Role for Alterations in Ghrelin Signaling and Dopamine D2 Receptors', Neuropsychopharmacology, 41, pp. 1357 - 1365, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npp.2015.287
,2016, 'Differential motivational profiles following adolescent sucrose access in male and female rats', Physiology and Behavior, 157, pp. 13 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.01.038
,2016, 'Environmental enrichment delays limbic epileptogenesis and restricts pathologic synaptic plasticity', Epilepsia, 57, pp. 484 - 494, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/epi.13299
,2016, 'Sugar consumption produces effects similar to early life stress exposure on hippocampal markers of neurogenesis and stress response', Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2015.00086
,2016, 'Sugar Consumption Produces Effects Similar to Early Life Stress Exposure on Hippocampal Markers of Neurogenesis and Stress Response', FRONTIERS IN MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.5589/fnmol.2015.00086
,2016, 'Lipids, lipoprotein distribution and depressive symptoms: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis', Translational Psychiatry, 6, pp. e962 - e962, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/tp.2016.232
,2015, 'Integration of reward signalling and appetite regulating peptide systems in the control of food-cue responses', British Journal of Pharmacology, 172, pp. 5225 - 5238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bph.13321
,2015, 'Why is obesity such a problem in the 21st century? The intersection of palatable food, cues and reward pathways, stress, and cognition', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 58, pp. 36 - 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.12.002
,2015, 'The effect of early-life stress and chronic high-sucrose diet on metabolic outcomes in female rats', Stress, 18, pp. 524 - 537, http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10253890.2015.1079617
,2015, 'Maternal obesity regulates gene expression in the hearts of offspring', Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, 25, pp. 881 - 888, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.numecd.2015.05.011
,2015, 'Diet-induced cognitive deficits: The role of fat and sugar, potential mechanisms and nutritional interventions', Nutrients, 7, pp. 6719 - 6738, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu7085307
,2015, 'Glucagon phosphorylates serine 552 of β-catenin leading to increased expression of cyclin D1 and c-Myc in the isolated rat liver', Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry, 121, pp. 88 - 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/13813455.2015.1048693
,2015, 'Hypoxic postconditioning reduces microglial activation, astrocyte and caspase activity, and inflammatory markers after hypoxia-ischemia in the neonatal rat brain', Pediatric Research, 77, pp. 757 - 764, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/pr.2015.47
,2015, 'Effects of maternal diet and exercise during pregnancy on glucose metabolism in skeletal muscle and fat of weanling rats', PLoS ONE, 10, pp. e0120980, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120980
,2015, 'Impact of adolescent sucrose access on cognitive control, recognition memory, and parvalbumin immunoreactivity', Learning and Memory, 22, pp. 215 - 224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.038000.114
,2015, 'Effects of long-term cycling between palatable cafeteria diet and regular chow on intake, eating patterns, and response to saccharin and sucrose', Physiology and Behavior, 139, pp. 80 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.11.006
,2015, 'Dietary-induced obesity disrupts trace fear conditioning and decreases hippocampal reelin expression', Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 43, pp. 68 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2014.07.005
,2015, 'Early life stress induced by limited nesting material produces metabolic resilience in response to a high-fat and high-sugar diet in male rats', Frontiers in Endocrinology, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2015.00138
,2015, 'Leptin's metabolic and immune functions can be uncoupled at the ligand/receptor interaction level', Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 72, pp. 629 - 644, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00018-014-1697-x
,2015, 'The Relative Value of Measures of Omega-3 Index, Perceived Stress, Cortisol and Sleep Time in Identifying Depression Among a Cohort of Australian Adolescents', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHILD HEALTH AND NUTRITION, 4, pp. 40 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-4247.2015.04.01.4
,2015, 'Diet on the Brain. The effect of food on cognition', Independence (Journal of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia, 40, pp. 58 - 63
,2015, 'Effects of High Fat Diet Induced Obesity on Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Function – Impact of Exercise or Nicotinamide Mononucleotide (NMN)', The FASEB Journal, 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.29.1_supplement.777.8
,2014, 'The effect of bariatric surgery on serum TRAIL and osteoprotegerin levels in obesity complicated by glucose disorders', e-SPEN Journal, 9, pp. e210 - e214, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clnme.2014.09.004
,2014, 'Cafeteria diet impairs expression of sensory-specific satiety and stimulus-outcome learning', FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00852
,2014, 'Extended exposure to a palatable cafeteria diet alters gene expression in brain regions implicated in reward, and withdrawal from this diet alters gene expression in brain regions associated with stress', Behavioural Brain Research, 265, pp. 132 - 141, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2014.02.027
,2014, 'Rats eat a cafeteria-style diet to excess but eat smaller amounts and less frequently when tested with chow', PLoS ONE, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093506
,2014, 'Acute effect of carbamazepine on corticothalamic 5-9-Hz and thalamocortical spindle (10-16-Hz) oscillations in the rat', European Journal of Neuroscience, 39, pp. 788 - 799, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn.12441
,2014, 'Early life maternal separation stress augmentation of limbic epileptogenesis: The role of corticosterone and HPA axis programming', Psychoneuroendocrinology, 42, pp. 124 - 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.01.009
,2014, 'Early-life stress, HPA axis adaptation, and mechanisms contributing to later health outcomes', Frontiers in Endocrinology, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2014.00073
,2014, 'Effect of diet-induced obesity on BK
2014, 'Gene expression in rat models for inter-generational transmission of islet dysfunction and obesity', Genomics Data, 2, pp. 351 - 353, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gdata.2014.09.013
,2014, 'Maternal obesity impairs brain glucose metabolism and neural response to hyperglycemia in male rat offspring', Journal of Neurochemistry, 129, pp. 297 - 303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jnc.12623
,2014, 'Paternal high-fat diet consumption induces common changes in the transcriptomes of retroperitoneal adipose and pancreatic islet tissues in female rat offspring', FASEB Journal, 28, pp. 1830 - 1841, http://dx.doi.org/10.1096/fj.13-244046
,2014, 'Postprandial oxidative stress is increased after a phytonutrient-poor food but not after a kilojoule-matched phytonutrient-rich food', Nutrition Research, 34, pp. 391 - 400, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nutres.2014.04.005
,2014, 'Changes in Gut Microbiota in Rats Fed a High Fat Diet Correlate with Obesity-Associated Metabolic Parameters.', PLoS One, 10, pp. e0126931, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126931
,2014, 'Exendin-4 is effective against metabolic disorders induced by intrauterine and postnatal overnutrition in rodents', Diabetologia, 57, pp. 614 - 622, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00125-013-3132-5
,2014, 'Short exposure to a diet rich in both fat and sugar or sugar alone impairs place, but not object recognition memory in rats', Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 37, pp. 134 - 141, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2013.11.016
,2013, 'The lung inflammation and skeletal muscle wasting induced by subchronic cigarette smoke exposure are not altered by a high-fat diet in mice', PLoS ONE, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080471
,2013, 'On the TRAIL of obesity and diabetes', Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, 24, pp. 578 - 587, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tem.2013.07.001
,2013, 'Late-onset exercise in female rat offspring ameliorates the detrimental metabolic impact of maternal obesity', Endocrinology, 154, pp. 3610 - 3621, http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/en.2013-1059
,2013, 'Long-Term Valproate Treatment Increases Brain Neuropeptide Y Expression and Decreases Seizure Expression in a Genetic Rat Model of Absence Epilepsy', PLoS ONE, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073505
,2013, 'Enduring Effects of Early Life Stress on Firing Patterns of Hippocampal and Thalamocortical Neurons in Rats: Implications for Limbic Epilepsy', PLoS ONE, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066962
,2013, 'Altered Feeding Patterns in Rats Exposed to a Palatable Cafeteria Diet: Increased Snacking and Its Implications for Development of Obesity', PLoS ONE, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0060407
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