Representative Publications

• Currás, M. C., S. R. Kelso, and J. A. Boulant. 1991. Intracellular analysis of inherent and synaptic activity in hypothalamic thermosensitive neurones in the rat.  Journal of Physiology 440:257-271. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1991.sp018707

• Currás, M. C. and R. J. Dingledine. 1992. Selectivity of amino acid transmitters acting at  NMDA and AMPA receptors.  Molecular Pharmacology 41:520-526. PMID: 1372086

• Currás, M. C. and B. S. Pallotta. 1996.  Single-channel evidence for glycine and NMDA requirement in NMDA receptor activation.  Brain Research 740:27-40.

• Decavel, C. and M. C. Currás.1997. Increased expression of the NMDA receptor subunit, NR1, in immunohistochemically identified magnocellular hypothalamic neurons during dehydration.  Neuroscience 78(1):191-202.

• Currás, M. C., P. Rack and R. B. Meeker. 1998. Channel properties of NMDA glutamate  receptors on magnocellular neuroendocrine cells cultured from the rat supraoptic nucleus.  Brain Research 789:181-193.  (cover article)

• Khan, A.M., M.C. Currás, J. Dao, F.A. Jamal, C.A. Turkowski, R.K. Goel, E. Gillard,  S.D. Wolfsohn and B. G. Stanley.  1999. Lateral hypothalamic NMDA receptor subunits NR2A and/or NR2B mediate eating: immunochemical/behavioral evidence. American Journal of Physiology 45:R880-R891.   doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.1999.276.3.R880

• Meeker, R.B., M.C. Currás, J. Stewart, A. Serje and W. Al-Ghoul.  1999. Functional activation of punch-cultured magnocellular neuroendocrine cells by glutamate receptor subtypes.  Journal of Neuroscience Methods 89:57-67. doi: 10.1016/s0165-0270(99)00042-4

• Currás-Collazo, M.C., U. Patel and M. O. Hussein. 2002. Reduced susceptibility of rat magnocellular neuroendocrine nuclei to transient focal ischemia produced by middle cerebral artery occlusion.  Experimental Neurology 178(2): 268-279.

• Coburn, C.G., Gillard, E.R. and M.C. Currás-Collazo. 2005. Dietary exposure to Aroclor 1254 alters central and peripheral vasopressin release in response to dehydration in the rat. Toxicological Sciences, 84 (1):149-56.

• Qiu, S., Pak, C.-W. and M.C. Currás-Collazo. 2006. Sequential involvement of distinct glutamate receptors in domoic acid-induced neurotoxicity in rat mixed cortical cultures: effect of multiple dose/duration paradigms, chronological age and repeated exposure.  Toxicological Sciences 89(1):243-56. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfj008. Epub 2005 Oct 12

• Gillard, E.R., M. Leon-Olea, S. Mucio-Ramirez, C. Coburn, A. DeLeon, H. Mussenden, L. Bauce, Q. Pittman, and M. C. Currás-Collazo. 2006. A novel role for endogenous pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide in the magnocellular neuroendocrine system. Endocrinology 147(2):791-803.

• Gillard, E.R., Coburn, C.G., de Leon, A., Snissarenko, E.P., Bauce, L.G., Pittman, Q.J., Hou, B. and M.C. Currás-Collazo. 2007. Vasopressin autoreceptors and nitric oxide-dependent glutamate release are required for somatodendritic vasopressin release from rat magnocellular neuroendpcrine cells responding to osmotic stimuli. Endocrinology 148(2):479-89.

• Obenaus, A., Galloway, N., Robbins, M., Blanco, G., Snissarenko, E., Gillard, E., Lee, S. and M. Currás-Collazo. 2007. Multi-modal resonance imaging alterations in two rat models of mild neurotrauma. J Neurotrauma. 24(7):1147-60.

• Coburn, C.G., Currás-Collazo, M.C. and P. R. S. Kodavanti. 2007. Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) and Ortho-substituted Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) as Neuroendocrine Disruptors of Vasopressin Release: Effects during Physiological Activation in vitro and Structure-Activity Relationships. Toxicol. Sci. 98(1): 178-186.

• Coburn, C.G., Currás-Collazo, M.C., and P.S. Kodavanti. 2008. In vitro effects of environmentally relevant polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) congeners on calcium buffering mechanisms in rat brain. Neurochem. Res. 33(2):355-64. doi: 10.1007/s11064-007-9430-x. (Special issue honoring Dr. Frode Fonnum)

• Qiu, S., Jebelli, A.K., Ashe, J. H. and Currás-Collazo, M.C. 2009. Domoic acid induces a long-lasting enhancement of CA1 field responses and impairs tetanus-induced long-term potentiation in rat hippocampal slices. Toxicol. Sci., Vol. 111(1):140-50. (Best Publication Award, UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program, 2009)

• Shah, A, Coburn, C., Watson-Siroboe, A., Whitley, R., Shahidizadeh, A., Gillard, E.R., Nichol, R., Leon-Olea, M., Gaertner, M., Kodavanti, P.R. and M.C. Currás-Collazo. 2011. Altered cardiovascular reactivity and osmoregulation during hyperosmotic stress in adult rats developmentally exposed to PBDEs. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, Vol. 256: 103-113.

• Martins-Green, M., Frankos, M., Adhami, N., Valdez, M., Goodwin, B., Garcia, M., Egiebor, I., Martinez, B., Dhall, S., Jacob III, P. Havel, C., Yu, L. and M.C. Currás-Collazo. 2014. Cigarette smoke toxins on surfaces: implications for human health.  PLoS One 9(1):e86391. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086391. eCollection 2014.

• Coburn, C.G., Watson-Siriboe, A., Hou, B., Cheetham, C.C., Lin, L., Gillard, E.R., Lin, L., M. León-Olea, E. Sánchez-Islas, S. Mucio-Ramírez and M.C. Currás-Collazo. 2015. Permanently compromised NADPH-diaphorase activity within the osmotically activated supraoptic nucleus after in utero but not adult exposure to Aroclor 1254. NeuroToxicology, 47C:37-46. doi: 10.1016/j.neuro.2014.12.009.

• Mucio-Ramírez, S., Sánchez-Islas, E., Sánchez-Jaramillo, E., Currás-Collazo, M., Romero, F., Juárez-González, V.R., Álvarez-González, M.Y., Quiros, F., Hou, B., Pellicer, F., Kodavanti, P.R.S. and Martha León-Olea. 2017. Perinatal exposure to organohalogen pollutants decreases vasopressin content and its mRNA expression in magnocellular neuroendocrine cells activated by osmotic stress in adult rats. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 329:173–189.

• Kozlova, EV, Carrillo, V, Vazquez, B, Stapleton, H and Currás-Collazo, M.C.  2019. Neurotoxic effects of developmental exposure to DE-71 on forebrain social peptides, social behavior, and olfaction in C57BL/6 mice. Organohalogen Compounds 81: 203-206.

• Deol, P., Kozlova, E., Valdez, M., Wang, E-W, Ho, C., Yang, E.-W., Richardson, H., Gonzalez, G., Truong, E., Reid, J., Valdez, J., Dean, J.R., Martinez-Lomeli, J., Evans, J.R., T.Y, Jiang, T., Sladek, F.M., and M.C. Currás-Collazo. 2020. Dysregulation of hypothalamic gene expression and the oxytocinergic system by soybean oil diets in male mice.  Endocrinology 161(2):bqz044. doi:10.1210/endocr/bqz044

• Kozlova, E.V., Bhuvaneswari Devi, C, Perez, P.A., DiPatrizio, N.V., Argueta, D.A., Phillips, A.L., Stapleton, H.M., Gonzalez, G., Krum, J.M., Carrillo, V., Bishay, A.E., Basappa, K.R. and M.C. Currás-Collazo. 2020. Maternal transfer of environmentally relevant polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) produces a diabetic phenotype and disrupts glucoregulatory hormones and hepatic endocannabinoids in mouse female offspring. Scientific Reports 10: 18102. 

• Kozlova EV, De Angelis M, Denys ME, Schramm K-W, and MC Curras-Collazo. 2021. Sex and Time Dependent Effects of Developmental PBDE on Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Thyroid Axis are Partially Restored by Maternal Levothyroxine Supplementation in C57BL/6 Mice. Organohalogen Compounds 82: 215-219 (https://dioxin20xx.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/2021/D2021_93736.pdf)

• Kozlova EV, Valdez MC, Denys ME, Bishay AE, Krum JM, Rabbani KM, Carrillo V, Gonzalez GM, Lampel G, Tran JD, Vazquez BM, Anchondo LM, Uddin SA, Huffman NM, Monarrez E, Olomi DS, Chinthirla BD, Hartman RE, Kodavanti PRS, Chompre G, Phillips AL, Stapleton HM, Henkelmann B, Schramm KW, Curras-Collazo MC. 2021. Persistent autism-relevant behavioral phenotype and social neuropeptide alterations in female mice offspring induced by maternal transfer of PBDE congeners in the commercial mixture DE-71. Archives of Toxicology 2022 Jan;96(1):335-365. doi: 10.1007/s00204-021-03163-4. Epub 2021 Oct 23. PMID: 34687351; PMCID: PMC8536480.

• Kozlova EV, Carabelli B, Bishay AE, Denys ME, Chinthirla DB, Tran JD, Hsiao A, Zur Nieden NI, Currás-Collazo MC. 2022. Persistent exercise fatigue and associative learning deficits in combination with transient glucose dyshomeostasis in a mouse model of Gulf War Illness. Life Sci. 289:120094. doi: 10.1016/j.lfs.2021.120094. Epub 2021 Oct 26. PMID: 34710444; PMCID: PMC9053767.

• Kozlova EV, Carabelli B, Bishay AE, Liu R, Denys ME, Macbeth JC, Piamthai V, Crawford MS, McCole DF, Zur Nieden NI, Hsiao A, Curras-Collazo MC. 2022. Induction of distinct neuroinflammatory markers and gut dysbiosis by differential pyridostigmine bromide dosing in a chronic mouse model of GWI showing persistent exercise fatigue and cognitive impairment. Life Sci. 288:120153. doi: 10.1016/j.lfs.2021.120153. Epub 2021 Nov 18. PMID: 34801513; PMCID: PMC9048156.

• Kozlova Kozlova EV, Denys ME, Benedum J, Valdez MC, Enriquez D, Bishay AE, Chinthirla BD, Truong E, Krum JM, DiPatrizio NV, Deol P, Martins-Green M, Curras-Collazo MC. 2022. Developmental exposure to indoor flame retardants and hypothalamic molecular signatures: Sex-dependent reprogramming of lipid homeostasis. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). Sep 30;13:997304. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2022.997304. PMID: 36277707; PMCID: PMC9580103.

• DeAngelis, M., Maity-Kumar, G., Schriever, S.C., Kozlova, E.V., Muller, T.D., Pfluger, P.T., Curras-Collazo, M.C. and Karl-Werner Schramm. 2022. Development and validation of an LC-MS/MS methodology for the quantification of thyroid hormones in dko MCT8/OATP1C1 mouse brain. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 221:115038. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2022.115038

• Kozlova, E.V.*, Denys, M.E.*, Piamthai, V., Bishay, A.E., Hsiao, A. and M.C. Curras-Collazo. 2022. Maternal Probiotic Therapy Protects Against DE-71-Induced Neurodevelopmental Delays in a Sex-Dependent Manner. Organohalogen Compounds 83, pp 209-214, https://dioxin20xx.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/2022/OHC%2083_ToxRisk06.pdf

• Kozlova EV, Chinthirla, BD, Bishay, AE, Perez, PA, Denys, ME, Krum, JM, DiPatrizio, NV and M.C. Curras-Collazo. 2022. Glucoregulatory disruption in male mice offspring induced by maternal transfer of endocrine-disrupting brominated flame retardants mixture DE-71. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 14:1049708, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2023.1049708/full

• Kozlova EV, Bishay, AE, Denys, ME, Chinthirla, BD, Valdez, MC, Spurgin, KA, Krum, JM, Basappa, KR, and M.C. Curras-Collazo. 2023. Gene Deletion of the PACAP/VIP Receptor, VPAC2R, alters glycemic responses during metabolic and psychogenic stress in adult female mice. Journal of Neuroendocrinology 2023 Nov;35(11):e13354, doi: 10.1111/jne.13354

• Denys ME*, Kozlova EV*, Liu R, Bishay AE, Do EA, Piamthai V, Korde YV, Luna CN, Lam AA, Hsiao, A, and M.C. Curras-Collazo. 2024. Maternal Limosilactobacillus reuteri Improves DE-71 Toxicant-Induced Neurodevelopmental Delays, Repetitive Behavior and Metabolic Alterations in a Sex-Dependent Manner. Archives of Toxicology 2024 Nov 9. doi: 10.1007/s00204-024-03882-4. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39520540. *co-first authors

Reviews/Book Chapters

• Mucio-Ramírez, S., Miller-Pérez, C., Currás-Collazo, M.C. and M. León-Olea. 2004. El polipéptido activador de la adenilato ciclasa de la pituitaria (PACAP): actualización de conocimientos. Salud Mental 27(2):55-69 (in Spanish, abstract in English).

• Kodavanti, P.R.S. and M.C. Currás-Collazo. 2010. Neuroendocrine Actions of Organohalogens: Thyroid Hormones, Arginine Vasopressin, and Neuroplasticity. Front. Neuroendocrinol., 31(4):479-96, doi.org/10.1016/j.yfrne.2010.06.005

• Currás-Collazo, M. 2011. Nitric Oxide as a central target of neuroendocrine disruption and neurotoxicity by organohalogens. J. Toxicol. Environ. Health, Current Issues, 14(5-7):495-536, tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10937404.2011.578564?needAccess=true   

• Kodovanti, P.R.S., Valdez, M.C., Yang, J-H., Currás-Collazo, M. 2018. Polychlorinated biphenyls, polybrominated biphenyls, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, and polychlorinated dibenzofurans. In Veterinary Toxicology: Basic and Clinical Principles, Section IX: Gases, Solvents and Other Industrial Toxicants, Chapter 51, 3rd ed, edited by Gupta, R. C., Academic Press, Elsevier, pp 675-690, doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-811410-0.00051-9

• Kodavanti, PRS, Stoker, TE, Fenton, SE, and M.C. Curras-Collazo. 2022. Brominated Flame Retardants. Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology, Chapter 36, 3rd ed. Edited by R.C. Gupta. Elsevier, San Diego, CA; pp 691-726. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-89773-0.00036-9

• Gore, AC, Zoeller, RT, and MC Currás-Collazo, Chapter Three - Neuroendocrine effects of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), In: Neurotoxicity of halogenated Organic Compounds. Eds PRS Kodavanti, M. Aschner, LG Costa, Advances in Neurotoxicology book series, Academic Press, Vol. 10, 2023, pp 81-135, ISSN 2468-7480, ISBN 9780443133404, https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.ant.2023.08.003. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468748023000279)