Jean-Christophe Cassel

A comparison of the effects of fimbria-fornix, hippocampal, or entorhinal cortex lesions on spatial reference and working memory in rats: short versus long postsurgical recovery period.

Septal grafts and evoked acetylcholine release in the rat hippocampus after 192 IgG-saporin lesions.

Combined 192 IgG-saporin and 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine lesions in the male rat brain: a neurochemical and behavioral study.

5,7-DHT-induced hippocampal 5-HT depletion attenuates behavioural deficits produced by 192 IgG-saporin lesions of septal cholinergic neurons in the rat.

Effects of 192 IgG-saporin on acetylcholinesterase histochemistry in male and female rats.

Selective immunolesions of CH4 cholinergic neurons do not disrupt spatial memory in rats.

Raphé grafts and 3,4-diaminopyridine-evoked overflow of serotonin in the rat hippocampus after 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine lesions: evidence for 5-HT1A autoreceptors.

5,7-Dihydroxytryptamine lesions enhance and serotonergic grafts normalize the evoked overflow of acetylcholine in rat hippocampal slices.

Baseline and 8-OH-DPAT-induced release of acetylcholine in the hippocampus of aged rats with different levels of cognitive dysfunction.

Homotopic septal grafts combined with a hydrogel bridge promote functional recovery in rats with fimbria-fornix lesions: A unit recording study.

Effects of septal grafts on acetylcholine release from rat hippocampus after 192 IgG-saporin lesion.

Morphological alterations in the occipital cortex of aged rats with impaired memory: a Golgi-Cox study.

Transplantation of neurospheres after granule cell lesions in rats: cognitive improvements despite no long-term immunodetection of grafted cells.

3,4-DAP-evoked transmitter release in hippocampal slices of aged rats with impaired memory.

Intraseptal injection of the 5-HT1A/5-HT7 agonist 8-OH-DPAT and working memory in rats.

Modulation of photic resetting in rats by lesions of projections to the suprachiasmatic nuclei expressing p75 neurotrophin receptor.

Whole-body exposure to 2.45 GHz electromagnetic fields does not alter radial-maze performance in rats.

Whole-body exposure to 2.45 GHz electromagnetic fields does not alter anxiety responses in rats: a plus-maze study including test validation.

No facilitation of amphetamine- or cocaine-induced hyperactivity in adult rats after various 192 IgG-saporin lesions in the basal forebrain.

Hebb-Williams performance and scopolamine challenge in rats with partial immunotoxic hippocampal cholinergic deafferentation.

Cognitive deficits in aged rats correlate with levels of L-arginine, not with nNOS expression or 3,4-DAP-evoked transmitter release in the frontoparietal cortex.

The ventral midline thalamus (reuniens and rhomboid nuclei) contributes to the persistence of spatial memory in rats.

Ethanol, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) and their combination: long-term behavioral, neurochemical and neuropharmacological effects in the rat.

Locomotor and pyretic effects of MDMA-ethanol associations in rats.

Blood-brain barrier and electromagnetic fields: effects of scopolamine methylbromide on working memory after whole-body exposure to 2.45 GHz microwaves in rats.

Whole-body exposure to 2.45 GHz electromagnetic fields does not alter 12-arm radial-maze with reduced access to spatial cues in rats.

MDMA (ecstasy) effects in pubescent rats: Males are more sensitive than females.

Letter to the editor concerning "Radial arm maze performance of rats following repeated low-level microwave radiation exposure" by Cobb et al. [BEMS, 2004, 25:49-57] and "letter to the editor" by Lai [BEMS, 2005, 26:81].

Polyamine and aminoguanidine treatments to promote structural and functional recovery in the adult mammalian brain after injury: a brief literature review and preliminary data about their combined administration.

Ethanol-ecstasy (MDMA) interactions in rats: preserved attenuation of hyperthermia and potentiation of hyperactivity by ethanol despite prior ethanol treatment.

Presynaptic serotonergic modulation of 5-HT and acetylcholine release in the hippocampus and the cortex of 5-HT1B-receptor knockout mice.

Combined damage to entorhinal cortex and cholinergic basal forebrain neurons, two early neurodegenerative features accompanying Alzheimer's disease: effects on locomotor activity and memory functions in rats.

Spatial reference- (not working- or procedural-) memory performance of aged rats in the water maze predicts the magnitude of sulpiride-induced facilitation of acetylcholine release by striatal slices.

Long-term effects of immunotoxic cholinergic lesions in the septum on acquisition of the cone-field task and noncognitive measures in rats.

Ethanol and MDMA: a comment on the paper by Izco et al.

Ethanol-MDMA interactions in rats: the importance of interval between repeated treatments in biobehavioral tolerance and sensitization to the combination.

Immunotoxic cholinergic lesions in the basal forebrain reverse the effects of entorhinal cortex lesions on conditioned odor aversion in the rat.

Structural and functional recovery elicited by combined putrescine and aminoguanidine treatment after aspirative lesion of the fimbria-fornix and overlying cortex in the adult rat.

The behavioral effects of enriched housing are not altered by serotonin depletion but enrichment alters hippocampal neurochemistry.

Attenuation of MDMA-induced hyperthermia by ethanol in rats depends on ambient temperature.

Activation of septal 5-HT1A receptors alters spatial memory encoding, interferes with consolidation, but does not affect retrieval in rats subjected to a water-maze task.

The modulation of striatal dopamine release correlates with water-maze performance in aged rats.

Interactions between ethanol and cocaine, amphetamine, or MDMA in the rat: thermoregulatory and locomotor effects.

Reflections on the use of the concept of plasticity in neurobiology. Translation and adaptation by Bruno Will, John Dalrymple-Alford, Mathieu Wolff and Jean-Christophe Cassel from J. Paillard, J Psychol 1976;1:33-47.

The concept of brain plasticity--Paillard's systemic analysis and emphasis on structure and function (followed by the translation of a seminal paper by Paillard on plasticity).

Effects of ethanol and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) alone or in combination on spontaneous and evoked overflow of dopamine, serotonin and acetylcholine in striatal slices of the rat brain.

Anterior but not intralaminar thalamic nuclei support allocentric spatial memory.

Neuroanatomical and behavioral effects of a novel version of the cholinergic immunotoxin mu p75-saporin in mice.

Environmental cue saliency influences the vividness of a remote spatial memory in rats.

Modulation of cholinergic functions by serotonin and possible implications in memory: general data and focus on 5-HT(1A) receptors of the medial septum.

Involvement of the basal cholinergic forebrain in the mediation of general (propofol) anesthesia.

Increased expression of 5-HT(1B) receptors by Herpes simplex virus gene transfer in septal neurons: New in vitro and in vivo models to study 5-HT(1B) receptor function.

Coexisting cholinergic and parahippocampal degeneration: a key to memory loss in dementia and a challenge for transgenic models?

Differential sensitivity of recent vs. remote memory traces to extinction in a water-maze task in rats.

Noradrenergic denervation facilitates the release of acetylcholine and serotonin in the hippocampus: towards a mechanism underlying upregulations described in MCI patients?

Ethanol and MDMA: a comment on the paper by Dumont et al.

Ethanol increases the distribution of MDMA to the rat brain: possible implications in the ethanol-induced potentiation of the psychostimulant effects of MDMA.

Synthesis and rheological properties of hydrogels based on amphiphilic alginate-amide derivatives.

Hippocampal-dependent spatial memory functions might be lateralized in rats: An approach combining gene expression profiling and reversible inactivation.

The intralaminar thalamic nuclei contribute to remote spatial memory.

Attention and memory in aged rats: Impact of lifelong environmental enrichment.

Interactions between 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine and ethanol in humans and rodents.

Combined lesions of GABAergic and cholinergic septal neurons increase locomotor activity and potentiate the locomotor response to amphetamine.

Septohippocampal pathways contribute to system consolidation of a spatial memory: sequential implication of GABAergic and cholinergic neurons.

Spatial memory consolidation is associated with induction of several lysine-acetyltransferase (histone acetyltransferase) expression levels and H2B/H4 acetylation-dependent transcriptional events in the rat hippocampus.

Tuning acetylation levels with HAT activators: therapeutic strategy in neurodegenerative diseases.

Spatial memory alterations by activation of septal 5HT 1A receptors: no implication of cholinergic septohippocampal neurons.

The double-H maze test, a novel, simple, water-escape memory task: acquisition, recall of recent and remote memory, and effects of systemic muscarinic or NMDA receptor blockade during training.

Electrical high frequency stimulation in the dorsal striatum: Effects on response learning and on GABA levels in rats.

Context-dependent modulation of hippocampal and cortical recruitment during remote spatial memory retrieval.

The ventral hippocampus is necessary for expressing a spatial memory.

MDMA: interactions with other psychoactive drugs.

The match/mismatch of visuo-spatial cues between acquisition and retrieval contexts influences the expression of response vs. place memory in rats.

Lesions of the anterior thalamic nuclei and intralaminar thalamic nuclei: place and visual discrimination learning in the water maze.

Lifelong environmental enrichment in rats: impact on emotional behavior, spatial memory vividness, and cholinergic neurons over the lifespan.

Detecting spatial memory deficits beyond blindness in tg2576 Alzheimer mice.

Early deficits in declarative and procedural memory dependent behavioral function in a transgenic rat model of Huntington's disease.

ApoE4 confers better spatial memory than apoE3 in young adult hAPP-Yac/apoE-TR mice.

Detection of histone acetylation levels in the dorsal hippocampus reveals early tagging on specific residues of H2B and H4 histones in response to learning.

A comprehensive behavioral evaluation in the lithium-pilocarpine model in rats: effects of carisbamate administration during status epilepticus.

The ventral midline thalamus contributes to strategy shifting in a memory task requiring both prefrontal cortical and hippocampal functions.

Reduced plasticity and mild cognitive impairment-like deficits after entorhinal lesions in hAPP/APOE4 mice.

Interactions between the lateral habenula and the hippocampus: implication for spatial memory processes.

A novel activator of CBP/p300 acetyltransferases promotes neurogenesis and extends memory duration in adult mice.

The reuniens and rhomboid nuclei: neuroanatomy, electrophysiological characteristics and behavioral implications.

Clusters of cerebellar Purkinje cells control their afferent climbing fiber discharge.

Attention and executive functions in a rat model of chronic epilepsy.

Defective response inhibition and collicular noradrenaline enrichment in mice with duplicated retinotopic map in the superior colliculus.

PDE9A inhibition rescues amyloid beta-induced deficits in synaptic plasticity and cognition.

Environmental Enrichment Duration Differentially Affects Behavior and Neuroplasticity in Adult Mice.

Optimization of touchscreen-based behavioral paradigms in mice: implications for building a battery of tasks taxing learning and memory functions.

Anxiety and locomotion in Genetic Absence Epilepsy Rats from Strasbourg (GAERS): inclusion of Wistar rats as a second control.

Dorsal hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex each contribute to the retrieval of a recent spatial memory in rats.

Noradrenergic influences in the basolateral amygdala on inhibitory avoidance memory are mediated by an action on α2-adrenoceptors.

From Augustine of Hippo's Memory Systems to Our Modern Taxonomy in Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience of Memory: A 16-Century Nap of Intuition before Light of Evidence.

St. Augustine's Reflections on Memory and Time and the Current Concept of Subjective Time in Mental Time Travel.

The nonspecific thalamus: A place in a wedding bed for making memories last?

γ-Hydroxybutyrate (Xyrem) ameliorates clinical symptoms and neuropathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.

The cognitive thalamus: A bridal chamber not to forget.

Touchscreen tasks in mice to demonstrate differences between hippocampal and striatal functions.

Excitatory Transmission to the Lateral Habenula is Critical for Encoding and Retrieval of Spatial Memory.

Importance of the ventral midline thalamus in driving hippocampal functions.