The State University of New Jersey

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Medicine

Bio-energetics Investigation of Candida albicans Using Real-time Extracellular Flux Analysis

Sundararajan Venkatesh^*1, Manju Chauhan^*2, Carolyn Suzuki¹, Neeraj Chauhan^1,2

¹Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, ²Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Here, we present a stepwise protocol to investigate the mitochondrial respiration and glycolytic function in Candida Albicans using an extra flux analyzer.

Behavior

Chronic Stress Shifts Effort-Related Choice Behavior in a Y-Maze Barrier Task in Mice

Andrew Dieterich^1,2, Christine N. Yohn¹, Benjamin Adam Samuels^1,2

¹Department of Psychology, Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience Area, The State University of New Jersey, ²Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

The Y-maze barrier task is a behavior test that examines motivation to expend effort for reward. Here, we discuss testing multiple well-validated chronic stressors including chronic corticosterone and social defeat stress with this behavior, as well as the novel chronic non-discriminatory social defeat stress (CNSDS), which is effective in females.