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Graduate Student Georgia Gleason (middle) successfully defends her thesis

Bortolozzi A, Castan J, Semakova A, Santana N, Alvarado G, Corte´s R,, Ferre´s-Coy A, Ferna´ndez G, Carmona MC, Toth M, Perales JC, Montefeltro A, Artigas F. Selective siRNA-mediated suppression of 5-HT1A autoreceptors evokes strong anti-depressant-like effects. Mol. Psychiatry. 2011. advance online publication 2 August 2011.

Gleason G, Liu B, Bruening S, Zupan B, Auerbach A, Mark W, Oh JE, Gal-Toth J, Lee F, Toth M. The serotonin1A receptor gene as a genetic and prenatal maternal environmental factor in anxiety. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Apr 20;107(16):7592-7.

Zupan B, Toth M. “Wild type male offspring of fmr-1+/- mothers exhibit characteristics of the fragile x phenotype.”  Neuropsychopharmacology. 2008 Oct;33(11):2667-75.

Weisstaub NV, Zhou M, Lira A, Lambe E, González-Maeso J, Hornung JP, Sibille E, Underwood M, Itohara S, Dauer WT, Ansorge MS, Morelli E, Mann JJ, Toth M, Aghajanian G, Sealfon SC, Hen R, Gingrich JA. Cortical 5-HT2A Receptor Signaling Modulates Anxiety-Like Behaviors in Mice. Science, 313(5786):536-40, 2006.

Kushnir-Sukhov NM, Gilfillan AM, Coleman JW, Brown JM, Bruening S, Toth M, and Metcalfe DD. 5-hydroxytryptamine induces mast cell adhesion and migration. J. Immunology, 177:6422-6432, 2006.

Chen ZY, Jing D, Bath KG, Ieraci A, Khan T, Siao CJ,. Herrera DG, Toth M, Yang C, McEwen BS, Hempstead BL, Lee FS. Genetic Variant BDNF (Val66Met) Polymorphism Alters Anxiety-related Behavior. Science, 314:140-3, 2006.

Bailey, SJ., Toth, M. Variability in the benzodiazepine response of serotonin 5-HT1A receptor null mice displaying anxiety-like phenotype: evidence for genetic modifiers in the 5-HT mediated regulation of GABAA receptors. J. Neuroscience. 24:6343-6351, 2004. PMID: 15254090.

Liu, W., Seto, J., Donovan, G., and Toth, M. Jerky, a protein deficient in a mouse epilepsy model, is associated with translationally inactive mRNA in neurons. J. Neuroscience 22: 176-182, 2002. PMID: 11756500.

Sibille E., Pavlides C., Benke D. and Toth M. Genetic inactivation of the 5-HT1A receptor in mice results in down-regulation of major GABAA receptor • subunits, reduction of GABAA receptor binding, and benzodiazepine-resistant anxiety. J. Neuroscience 20, 2758-2765, 2000. PMID: 10751426.

Sarnyai, Z., Sibille, E., Pavlides, C., McEwen, B., and Toth, M. Functional abnormalities in the hippocampus and impaired hippocampal-dependent learning in mice lacking the 5HT1A receptors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 97, 14731-14736, 2000. PMID: 11121072.

Parks, C., Sibille, E., Robinson, T., Shenk, T, Toth, M. Anxiety of mice lacking the serotonin1A receptor. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 95,10734-10739, 1998. PMID: 9724773.

Grimsby, J., Toth, M., Chen, K., Karoum, Kumazawa, T., F.F., Klaidman, J. D., Adams, J. D., Gal, J. and Shih, J.C. Mice lacking MAOB show marked increases in ß-phenylethylamine, stress responsiveness, and resistance to MPTP toxicity. Nature Genetics 17, 206-210, 1997. PMID: 9326944.

Toth, M., Grimsby, J., Buzsaki, Gy., Donovan, G. Inactivation of a novel gene related to CENP-B is associated with neuronal hyperexcitability and seizure in transgenic mice. Nature Genetics 11, 71-75, 1995. PMID: 7550318.

Kochanek, S., Toth, M., Dehmel, A., Rehr, O., and Doerfler, W. Interindividual concordance of methylation profiles in human genes for tumor necrosis factors alpha and beta. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 87: 8830-8834, 1990. PMID: 2247453.

Toth, M., Lichtenberg, U., and Doerfler, W. Genomic sequencing reveals a 5-methyldeoxycytosine-free domain in active promoters and the spreading of preimposed methylation patterns. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 86: 3728-3732, 1989. PMID: 2524831.