List of publications

Pathak SS, Maitra S, Chakravarty S, Kumar A. Histone Lysine Demethylases of JMJD2 or KDM4 Family are Important Epigenetic Regulators in Reward Circuitry in the Etiopathology of Depression.Neuropsychopharmacology. 2016 Oct 26. doi: 10.1038/npp.2016.231

Chakravarty S, Jhelum P, Bhat UA, Rajan WD, Maitra S, Pathak SS, Patel AB, Kumar A. Insights into the epigenetic mechanisms involving histone lysine methylation and demethylation in ischemia induced damage and repair has therapeutic implication.Biochim Biophys Acta. 2016 Sep 21. pii: S0925-4439(16)30238-1. doi: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2016.09.014

Veeraiah P, Noronha JM, Maitra S, Bagga P, Khandelwal N, Chakravarty S, Kumar A, Patel AB (2013). Dysfunctional Glutamatergic and GABAergic Activities in Prefrontal Cortex of Mice in Social Defeat Model of Depression. Biol Psychiatry 2014 Aug 1;76(3):231-8. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.09.024. Epub 2013 Oct 3

Chakravarty S, Reddy BR, Sudhakar SR, Saxena S, Das T, Meghah V, Brahmendra Swamy BV, Kumar A, Idris MM (2013). Chronic Unpredictable Stress (CUS)-Induced Anxiety and Related Mood Disorders in a Zebrafish Model: Altered Brain Proteome Profile Implicates Mitochondrial Dysfunction. PLoS ONE 8(5): e63302. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063302

Suri, D., et al., Early stress evokes age-dependent biphasic changes in hippocampal neurogenesis, BDNF expression, and cognition. Biological psychiatry, 2013. 73(7): p. 658-666.

Chakravarty S, Kumar A (2012). Insight into cocaine-induced neural and behavioral adaptations using genome-wide expression profiling and epigenomic analysis. Curr Psychopharm, 1(4): 332-345.

Poornima V, Madhupriya M, Kootar S, Sujatha G, Kumar A, Bera AK (2012). P2X7 receptor - Pannexin 1 hemichannel association: effect of extracellular calcium on membrane permeabilization. J Mol Neurosci. 46(3):585-94.

Winstanley, C., et al., Increased impulsivity during withdrawal from cocaine self-administration: role for DeltaFosB in the orbitofrontal cortex. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2009. 19(2): p. 435-444.

Wilkinson, M., et al., Imipramine treatment and resiliency exhibit similar chromatin regulation in the mouse nucleus accumbens in depression models. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2009. 29(24): p. 7820-7832.

Wallace, D., et al., CREB regulation of nucleus accumbens excitability mediates social isolation-induced behavioral deficits. Nature neuroscience, 2009. 12(2): p. 200-209.

Russo, S., et al., Nuclear factor kappa B signaling regulates neuronal morphology and cocaine reward. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2009. 29(11): p. 3529-3537.

Renthal, W., et al., Genome-wide analysis of chromatin regulation by cocaine reveals a role for sirtuins. Neuron, 2009. 62(3): p. 335-348

LaPlant, Q., et al., Role of nuclear factor kappaB in ovarian hormone-mediated stress hypersensitivity in female mice. Biological psychiatry, 2009. 65(10): p. 874-880.

Wallace, D., et al., The influence of DeltaFosB in the nucleus accumbens on natural reward-related behavior. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2008. 28(41): p. 10272-10277.

Renthal, W., et al., Delta FosB mediates epigenetic desensitization of the c-fos gene after chronic amphetamine exposure. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2008. 28(29): p. 7344-7349.

Pulipparacharuvil, S., et al., Cocaine regulates MEF2 to control synaptic and behavioral plasticity. Neuron, 2008. 59(4): p. 621-633.

Jiang, Y., et al., Epigenetics in the nervous system. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2008. 28(46): p. 11753-11759.

Tsankova, N., et al., Epigenetic regulation in psychiatric disorders. Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2007. 8(5): p. 355-367.

Russo, S., et al., IRS2-Akt pathway in midbrain dopamine neurons regulates behavioral and cellular responses to opiates. Nature neuroscience, 2007. 10(1): p. 93-99.

Renthal, W., et al., Histone deacetylase 5 epigenetically controls behavioral adaptations to chronic emotional stimuli. Neuron, 2007. 56(3): p. 517-529.

Krishnan, V., et al., Molecular adaptations underlying susceptibility and resistance to social defeat in brain reward regions. Cell, 2007. 131(2): p. 391-404.

Carle, T., et al., Proteasome-dependent and -independent mechanisms for FosB destabilization: identification of FosB degron domains and implications for DeltaFosB stability. The European journal of neuroscience, 2007. 25(10): p. 3009-3019.

Zachariou, V., et al., An essential role for DeltaFosB in the nucleus accumbens in morphine action. Nature neuroscience, 2006. 9(2): p. 205-211.

Tsankova, N., et al., Sustained hippocampal chromatin regulation in a mouse model of depression and antidepressant action. Nature neuroscience, 2006. 9(4): p. 519-525.

Green, T., et al., Induction of inducible cAMP early repressor expression in nucleus accumbens by stress or amphetamine increases behavioral responses to emotional stimuli. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2006. 26(32): p. 8235-8242.

Kumar, A., et al., Chromatin remodeling is a key mechanism underlying cocaine-induced plasticity in striatum. Neuron, 2005. 48(2): p. 303-314.

Colvis, C., et al., Epigenetic mechanisms and gene networks in the nervous system. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2005. 25(45): p. 10379-10389.

Tsankova, N., A. Kumar, and E. Nestler, Histone modifications at gene promoter regions in rat hippocampus after acute and chronic electroconvulsive seizures. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2004. 24(24): p. 5603-5610.