Darlene D. Francis - Publications

Affiliations: 
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States 
Area:
Stress & Development

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Year Citation  Score
2015 Sakhai SA, Saxton K, Francis DD. The influence of early maternal care on perceptual attentional set shifting and stress reactivity in adult rats. Developmental Psychobiology. PMID 26289990 DOI: 10.1002/Dev.21343  0.796
2015 Beery AK, McEwen LM, MacIsaac JL, Francis DD, Kobor MS. Natural variation in maternal care and cross-tissue patterns of oxytocin receptor gene methylation in rats. Hormones and Behavior. PMID 26122287 DOI: 10.1016/J.Yhbeh.2015.05.022  0.707
2015 Sakhai SA, Saxton K, Francis DD. The influence of early maternal care on perceptual attentional set shifting and stress reactivity in adult rats Developmental Psychobiology. DOI: 10.1002/dev.21343  0.797
2014 Chetty S, Friedman AR, Taravosh-Lahn K, Kirby ED, Mirescu C, Guo F, Krupik D, Nicholas A, Geraghty AC, Krishnamurthy A, Tsai MK, Covarrubias D, Wong AT, Francis DD, Sapolsky RM, et al. Stress and glucocorticoids promote oligodendrogenesis in the adult hippocampus. Molecular Psychiatry. 19: 1275-83. PMID 24514565 DOI: 10.1038/Mp.2013.190  0.749
2013 Sakhai SA, Preslik J, Francis DD. Influence of housing variables on the development of stress-sensitive behaviors in the rat. Physiology & Behavior. 120: 156-63. PMID 23948671 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2013.08.003  0.819
2012 Beery AK, Lin J, Biddle JS, Francis DD, Blackburn EH, Epel ES. Chronic stress elevates telomerase activity in rats. Biology Letters. 8: 1063-6. PMID 23054915 DOI: 10.1098/Rsbl.2012.0747  0.753
2011 Saxton KB, John-Henderson N, Reid MW, Francis DD. The social environment and IL-6 in rats and humans. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. 25: 1617-25. PMID 21640816 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2011.05.010  0.354
2011 Beery AK, Francis DD. Adaptive significance of natural variations in maternal care in rats: a translational perspective. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 35: 1552-61. PMID 21458485 DOI: 10.1016/J.Neubiorev.2011.03.012  0.736
2011 Sakhai SA, Kriegsfeld LJ, Francis DD. Maternal programming of sexual attractivity in female Long Evans rats. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 36: 1217-25. PMID 21458163 DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2011.02.016  0.793
2011 Caldji C, Liu D, Sharma S, Diorio J, Francis D, Meaney MJ, Plotsky PM. Development of Individual Differences in Behavioral and Endocrine Responses to Stress: Role of the Postnatal Environment Comprehensive Physiology. 271-292. DOI: 10.1002/Cphy.Cp070413  0.642
2011 Francis D, Kaufer D. Beyond nature vs. nurture Scientist. 25.  0.581
2008 Francis DD, Kuhar MJ. Frequency of maternal licking and grooming correlates negatively with vulnerability to cocaine and alcohol use in rats. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior. 90: 497-500. PMID 18508115 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2008.04.012  0.509
2008 Beery AK, Lacey EA, Francis DD. Oxytocin and vasopressin receptor distributions in a solitary and a social species of tuco-tuco (Ctenomys haigi and Ctenomys sociabilis). The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 507: 1847-59. PMID 18271022 DOI: 10.1002/Cne.21638  0.655
2007 Moffett MC, Vicentic A, Kozel M, Plotsky P, Francis DD, Kuhar MJ. Maternal separation alters drug intake patterns in adulthood in rats. Biochemical Pharmacology. 73: 321-30. PMID 16962564 DOI: 10.1016/J.Bcp.2006.08.003  0.486
2006 Vicentic A, Francis D, Moffett M, Lakatos A, Rogge G, Hubert GW, Harley J, Kuhar MJ. Maternal separation alters serotonergic transporter densities and serotonergic 1A receptors in rat brain. Neuroscience. 140: 355-65. PMID 16530973 DOI: 10.1016/J.Neuroscience.2006.02.008  0.742
2006 Moffett MC, Harley J, Francis D, Sanghani SP, Davis WI, Kuhar MJ. Maternal separation and handling affects cocaine self-administration in both the treated pups as adults and the dams. The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 317: 1210-8. PMID 16517692 DOI: 10.1124/jpet.106.101139  0.466
2005 Priebe K, Romeo RD, Francis DD, Sisti HM, Mueller A, McEwen BS, Brake WG. Maternal influences on adult stress and anxiety-like behavior in C57BL/6J and BALB/cJ mice: a cross-fostering study. Developmental Psychobiology. 47: 398-407. PMID 16284964 DOI: 10.1002/Dev.20098  0.762
2005 Jaworski JN, Francis DD, Brommer CL, Morgan ET, Kuhar MJ. Effects of early maternal separation on ethanol intake, GABA receptors and metabolizing enzymes in adult rats. Psychopharmacology. 181: 8-15. PMID 15830234 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-005-2232-4  0.502
2003 Champagne FA, Francis DD, Mar A, Meaney MJ. Variations in maternal care in the rat as a mediating influence for the effects of environment on development. Physiology & Behavior. 79: 359-71. PMID 12954431 DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(03)00149-5  0.696
2003 Francis DD, Szegda K, Campbell G, Martin WD, Insel TR. Epigenetic sources of behavioral differences in mice. Nature Neuroscience. 6: 445-6. PMID 12665797 DOI: 10.1038/nn1038  0.625
2002 Francis DD, Diorio J, Plotsky PM, Meaney MJ. Environmental enrichment reverses the effects of maternal separation on stress reactivity. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience. 22: 7840-3. PMID 12223535 DOI: 10.1523/Jneurosci.22-18-07840.2002  0.622
2002 Francis DD, Young LJ, Meaney MJ, Insel TR. Naturally occurring differences in maternal care are associated with the expression of oxytocin and vasopressin (V1a) receptors: gender differences. Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 14: 349-53. PMID 12000539 DOI: 10.1046/j.0007-1331.2002.00776.x  0.806
2000 Francis DD, Champagne FC, Meaney MJ. Variations in maternal behaviour are associated with differences in oxytocin receptor levels in the rat. Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 12: 1145-8. PMID 11106970 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2826.2000.00599.x  0.685
2000 Liu D, Diorio J, Day JC, Francis DD, Meaney MJ. Maternal care, hippocampal synaptogenesis and cognitive development in rats. Nature Neuroscience. 3: 799-806. PMID 10903573 DOI: 10.1038/77702  0.562
2000 Meaney MJ, Diorio J, Francis D, Weaver S, Yau J, Chapman K, Seckl JR. Postnatal handling increases the expression of cAMP-inducible transcription factors in the rat hippocampus: the effects of thyroid hormones and serotonin. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience. 20: 3926-35. PMID 10804232 DOI: 10.1523/Jneurosci.20-10-03926.2000  0.55
2000 Brake WG, Flores G, Francis D, Meaney MJ, Srivastava LK, Gratton A. Enhanced nucleus accumbens dopamine and plasma corticosterone stress responses in adult rats with neonatal excitotoxic lesions to the medial prefrontal cortex. Neuroscience. 96: 687-95. PMID 10727787 DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(00)00002-6  0.728
2000 Caldji C, Francis D, Sharma S, Plotsky PM, Meaney MJ. The effects of early rearing environment on the development of GABAA and central benzodiazepine receptor levels and novelty-induced fearfulness in the rat. Neuropsychopharmacology : Official Publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. 22: 219-29. PMID 10693149 DOI: 10.1016/S0893-133X(99)00110-4  0.581
1999 Francis DD, Champagne FA, Liu D, Meaney MJ. Maternal care, gene expression, and the development of individual differences in stress reactivity. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 896: 66-84. PMID 10681889 DOI: 10.1111/J.1749-6632.1999.Tb08106.X  0.628
1999 Francis DD, Caldji C, Champagne F, Plotsky PM, Meaney MJ. The role of corticotropin-releasing factor--norepinephrine systems in mediating the effects of early experience on the development of behavioral and endocrine responses to stress. Biological Psychiatry. 46: 1153-66. PMID 10560022 DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(99)00237-1  0.738
1999 Francis D, Diorio J, Liu D, Meaney MJ. Nongenomic transmission across generations of maternal behavior and stress responses in the rat. Science (New York, N.Y.). 286: 1155-8. PMID 10550053 DOI: 10.1126/Science.286.5442.1155  0.631
1999 Francis DD, Meaney MJ. Maternal care and the development of stress responses. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 9: 128-34. PMID 10072372 DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(99)80016-6  0.628
1998 Caldji C, Tannenbaum B, Sharma S, Francis D, Plotsky PM, Meaney MJ. Maternal care during infancy regulates the development of neural systems mediating the expression of fearfulness in the rat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 95: 5335-40. PMID 9560276 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.9.5335  0.822
1997 Liu D, Diorio J, Tannenbaum B, Caldji C, Francis D, Freedman A, Sharma S, Pearson D, Plotsky PM, Meaney MJ. Maternal care, hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors, and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responses to stress. Science (New York, N.Y.). 277: 1659-62. PMID 9287218 DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5332.1659  0.825
1996 Francis D, Diorio J, LaPlante P, Weaver S, Seckl JR, Meaney MJ. The role of early environmental events in regulating neuroendocrine development. Moms, pups, stress, and glucocorticoid receptors. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 794: 136-52. PMID 8853600 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1996.tb32517.x  0.583
1996 Meaney MJ, Diorio J, Francis D, Widdowson J, LaPlante P, Caldji C, Sharma S, Seckl JR, Plotsky PM. Early environmental regulation of forebrain glucocorticoid receptor gene expression: implications for adrenocortical responses to stress. Developmental Neuroscience. 18: 49-72. PMID 8840086 DOI: 10.1159/000111395  0.627
1995 Francis DD, Zaharia MD, Shanks N, Anisman H. Stress-induced disturbances in Morris water-maze performance: interstrain variability. Physiology & Behavior. 58: 57-65. PMID 7667428 DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(95)00009-8  0.488
1995 O'Donnell D, Francis D, Weaver S, Meaney MJ. Effects of adrenalectomy and corticosterone replacement on glucocorticoid receptor levels in rat brain tissue: a comparison between western blotting and receptor binding assays. Brain Research. 687: 133-42. PMID 7583298 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)00479-A  0.509
1994 Shanks N, Francis D, Zalcman S, Meaney MJ, Anisman H. Alterations in central catecholamines associated with immune responding in adult and aged mice. Brain Research. 666: 77-87. PMID 7889370 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(94)90284-4  0.596
1994 Meaney MJ, Diorio J, Francis D, LaRocque S, O'Donnell D, Smythe JW, Sharma S, Tannenbaum B. Environmental regulation of the development of glucocorticoid receptor systems in the rat forebrain. The role of serotonin. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 746: 260-73; discussion 2. PMID 7825882 DOI: 10.1111/J.1749-6632.1994.Tb39243.X  0.774
1994 Meaney MJ, Tannenbaum B, Francis D, Bhatnagar S, Shanks N, Viau V, O'Donnell D, Plotsky PM. Early environmental programming hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responses to stress Seminars in Neuroscience. 6: 247-259. DOI: 10.1006/Smns.1994.1032  0.791
1993 Meaney MJ, Bhatnagar S, Diorio J, Larocque S, Francis D, O'Donnell D, Shanks N, Sharma S, Smythe J, Viau V. Molecular basis for the development of individual differences in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal stress response. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology. 13: 321-47. PMID 8252606 DOI: 10.1007/Bf00711576  0.765
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