Publications

April 18, 2025 | 40264791

GABAAR-δ-subunit mediates increased GABAergic inhibition in cardiac DMV neurons after high-fat diet

Yoko Brigitte Wang, Kaylie E. Dow, Carie R. Boychuk

December 12, 2024 | 39665212

Insulin activates parasympathetic hepatic-related neurons of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus through mTOR signaling

Karoline Martins Dos Santos, Sandy E. Saunders, Vagner R. Antunes, and Carie R. Boychuk

December 2, 2024 | 39618396

Definitive Evidence for the Identification and Function of Renin-Expressing Cholinergic Neurons in the Nucleus Ambiguus

Éva M. Fekete, Javier Gomez, Mina Ghobrial, Kathren Kaminski, Patricia C. Muskus, Carie R. Boychuk, Ana Hantke Guixa, Ibrahim Vazirabad, Michelle Xie, Azeez Ganiyu, Daria Golosova, Natalia M. Mathieu, Yoko B. Wang, Ko-Ting Lu, Kelsey K. Wackman, Daniel T. Brozoski, Gary C. Mouradian, Matthew R. Hodges, Jeffrey L. Segar, Justin L. Grobe, Curt D. Sigmund, and Pablo Nakagawa

July 10, 2024

Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis Dysfunction Elevates SUDEP Risk in a Sex-Specific Manner.

Basu, T, Antonoudiou, P, Weiss, G, Coleman, E, David, J, Friedman, D, Laze, J, Strain, MM, Devinsky, O, Boychuk, CR, and Maguire, J.

July 1, 2024

Feeding Behavior Modifies the Circadian Variation in RR and QT intervals by Distinct Mechanisms in Mice.

Ono, M, Burgess, D, Johnson, S, Elayi, C, Esser. K, Seward, T, Boychuk, CR, Carreno, A, Stalcup, R, Prabhat, A, Schroder. E, and Delisle. B.

March 15, 2024

Dorsal motor vagal neurons can elicit bradycardia and reduce anxiety-like behavior.

Strain, MM*, Conley, NJ*, Kauffman, LS*, Espinoza, L, Fedorchak, S, Martinez, PC, Crook, MC, Jalil, M, Hodes, GE, Abbott, SBG, Guler, AD, Campbell, JN#. and Boychuk, CR#.

April 21, 2023

Early central cardiovagal dysfunction after high fat diet in a murine model.

Strain, MM*, Espinoza, L*, Fedorchak, S, Littlejohn, EL, Andrade, M, Toney, GM and Boychuk, CR.

October 25, 2021

PKC-dependent effects of neurosteroids on synaptic GABAA receptor inhibition require the δ-subunit.

Littlejohn, EL, and Boychuk, CR.

March 11, 2021

Interplay between systemic metabolic cues and autonomic output: Connecting cardiometabolic function and parasympathetic circuits.

Espinoza, L, Fedorchak, S. and Boychuk, CR.

July 24, 2020

Diabetes, and its treatment, as an effector of autonomic nervous system circuits and its functions.

Espinoza, L, and Boychuk, CR.,

July 1, 2020

Sex-dependent plasticity of brainstem autonomic circuits.

Littlejohn, EL*, Fedorchak, S* and Boychuk, CR.

April 7, 2020

Perlecan domain-V enhances neurogenic brain repair after stroke in mice.

Trout Al, Kahle MP, Roberts JM, Marcelo A, de Hoog L, Boychuk JA, Grupke SL, Berretta A, Gowing EK, Boychuk CR, Gorman AA, Edwards DN, Rutkai I, Biose IJ, Ishibashi-Ueda H, Ihara M, Smith BN, Clarkson AN, Bix GJ.

November 10, 2019

GABAA receptor currents in the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus in females: influence of ovarian cycle and 5α-reductase inhibition.

Littlejohn, EL*, Espinoza, L*, Lopez, M, Smith, BN, and Boychuk, CR.

February 25, 2019

A hindbrain inhibitory microcircuit mediates vagally-coordinated glucose regulation.

Boychuk, CR, Smith, KC, Peterson, LE, Boychuk, JA, Butler, CR, Derera, ID, McCarthy, JJ, and Smith, BN.

November 1, 2017

Functional and molecular plasticity of γ and α1 GABAA receptor subunits in the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus after experimentally induced diabetes.

Boychuk, CR, Smith, KCs, and Smith, BN.

July 6, 2016

Glutamatergic drive facilitates synaptic inhibition in dorsal vagal motor neurons after experimentally-induced diabetes.

Boychuk, CR and Smith, BN.

August 1, 2015

Glucose sensing by GABAergic neurons in the mouse nucleus tractus solitarius.

Boychuk, CR*, Gyarmati, P*, Xu, H, and Smith, BN.

July 21, 2015

Diabetes induces GABA receptor plasticity in murine vagal motor neurons.

Boychuk, CR, Halmos, K, and Smith, BN.

February 15, 2015

Nicotine enhances inhibition of the mouse vagal motor neurons by modulating excitability of premotor GABAergic neurons in the nucleus tractus solitaries.

Xu, H, Boychuk, JA, Boychuk, CR, Uteshev, VV and Smith, BN.

August 1, 2013

Developmental changes in GABAergic neurotransmission to pre-sympathetic and cardiac parasympathetic neurons in the brainstem.

Dergacheva, O, Boychuk, CR and Mendelowitz, D.

January 31, 2013

Rapid glucocorticoid-induced activation of TRP and CB1 receptors causes biphasic modulation of glutamate release in gastric-related hypothalamic preautonomic neurons.

Boychuk CR*, Zsombok A*, Tasker, JG, Smith, BN.

October 29, 2012

Modulation of bulbospinal RVLM neurons by hypoxia/hypercapnia but not medullary respiratory activity.

Boychuk CR, Woerman, AL, Mendelowitz, D.

May 25, 2012

“β adrenergic receptor modulation of neurotransmission to cardiac vagal neurons in the nucleus ambiguus. Neuroscience.”

Bateman RJ, Boychuk CR, Philbin KE, Mendelowitz D.

December 1, 2011

“Prenatal nicotine exposure alters postnatal cardiorespiratory integration in young male but not female rats.”

Boychuk CR, Hayward LF.

October 13, 2011

α1-adrenergic receptors facilitate inhibitory neurotransmission to cardiac vagal neurons in the nucleus ambiguus.

Boychuk CR, Bateman RJ, Philbin KE, Mendelowitz D.

May 16, 2011

Sex differences in heart rate variability during sleep following prenatal nicotine exposure in rat pups.

Boychuk CR, Fuller DD, Hayward LF.

December 31, 2009

Prenatal nicotine exposure alters respiratory long-term facilitation in neonatal rats.

Fuller DD, Dougherty BJ, Sandhu MS, Doperalski NJ, Reynolds CR, Hayward LF.