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The First Brain: The Neuroscience of Planarians. 2014. 9780199965045_lowres_jacket_pagan_firstbrain_1.pdf (149.79 KB)
“Why do Plants Contain Biologically Active Compounds? ”, in Kratom and Other Mitragynines: The Chemistry and Pharmacology of Opioids from a Non-Opium Source, CRC Press, 2014.
, “Planarians require an intact brain to behaviorally react to cocaine, but not to react to nicotine.”, Neuroscience, vol. 246, pp. 265-70, 2013.
, “Planarians in pharmacology: parthenolide is a specific behavioral antagonist of cocaine in the planarian Girardia tigrina.”, Int J Dev Biol, vol. 56, no. 1-3, pp. 193-6, 2012.
, “Minimal structural requirements of alkyl γ-lactones capable of antagonizing the cocaine-induced motility decrease in planarians.”, Pharmacol Biochem Behav, vol. 100, no. 1, pp. 174-9, 2011.
, “Parthenolide Blocks Cocaine's Effect on Spontaneous Firing Activity of Dopaminergic Neurons in the Ventral Tegmental Area.”, Curr Neuropharmacol, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 17-20, 2011.
, “Minimal RNA aptamer sequences that can inhibit or alleviate noncompetitive inhibition of the muscle-type nicotinic acetylcholine receptor.”, J Membr Biol, vol. 233, no. 1-3, pp. 1-12, 2010.
, “Actions of octocoral and tobacco cembranoids on nicotinic receptors.”, Toxicon, vol. 54, no. 8, pp. 1174-82, 2009.
, “A cembranoid from tobacco prevents the expression of nicotine-induced withdrawal behavior in planarian worms.”, Eur J Pharmacol, vol. 615, no. 1-3, pp. 118-24, 2009.
, “The flatworm planaria as a toxicology and behavioral pharmacology animal model in undergraduate research experiences.”, J Undergrad Neurosci Educ, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. A48-52, 2009.
, “Parthenolide prevents the expression of cocaine-induced withdrawal behavior in planarians.”, Eur J Pharmacol, vol. 583, no. 1, pp. 170-2, 2008.
, “Reversal of cocaine-induced planarian behavior by parthenolide and related sesquiterpene lactones.”, Pharmacol Biochem Behav, vol. 89, no. 2, pp. 160-70, 2008.
, “Molecular properties of local anesthetics as predictors of affinity for nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.”, J Neurosci Res, vol. 85, no. 13, pp. 2943-9, 2007.
, “Toxicity and behavioral effects of dimethylsulfoxide in planaria.”, Neurosci Lett, vol. 407, no. 3, pp. 274-8, 2006.
, “Cembranoid and long-chain alkanol sites on the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and their allosteric interaction.”, Biochemistry, vol. 40, no. 37, pp. 11121-30, 2001.
, “Tobacco cembranoids block behavioral sensitization to nicotine and inhibit neuronal acetylcholine receptor function.”, J Neurosci Res, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 18-25, 2001.
, “Characterization of cembranoid interaction with the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor.”, J Pharmacol Exp Ther, vol. 287, no. 1, pp. 253-60, 1998.
, “In vitro selection of RNA molecules that displace cocaine from the membrane-bound nicotinic acetylcholine receptor.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 95, no. 24, pp. 14051-6, 1998.
, “The 9-arginine residue of alpha-conotoxin GI is responsible for its selective high affinity for the alphagamma agonist site on the electric organ acetylcholine receptor.”, Biochemistry, vol. 36, no. 29, pp. 9051-6, 1997.
, “Differential effects of dimethyl sulfoxide on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors from mouse muscle and Torpedo electrocytes.”, Neurosci Lett, vol. 230, no. 3, pp. 163-6, 1997.
, “The alpha-conotoxins GI and MI distinguish between the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonist sites while SI does not.”, Biochemistry, vol. 33, no. 47, pp. 14058-63, 1994.
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