PUBLICATIONS
Salinas AG, Lee JO, Augustin SM, Zhang S, Patriarchi T, Tian L, Morales M, Mateo Y, Lovinger DM (2023) Distinct sub-second dopamine signaling in dorsolateral striatum measured by a genetically-encoded fluorescent sensor. Nature Communications 14(1):5915. PMID: 37739964.
Augustin SM, Gracias AL, Luo G, Anumola RC, Lovinger DM (2023) Striatonigral direct pathway 2-arachidonoylglycerol contributes to ethanol effects on synaptic transmission and behavior. Neurobiology of Disease. PMID: 37528221.
Salinas AG, Nadel JA, Mateo Y, Huynh T, Augustin SM, Pacak K, Lovinger DM (2022) Chronic ethanol consumption alters presynaptic regulation of dorsal striatal dopamine release. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(19), 10994. PMCID: PMC957017.
Augustin SM, Lovinger DM (2022) Synaptic changes induced by cannabinoid drugs and cannabis use disorders. Neurobiology of Disease 167:105670. PMID: 35219856.
Augustin SM, Loewinger GC, O’Neal TJ, Kravitz AV, Lovinger DM. (2020) Dopamine D2 receptor signaling on iMSNs is required for initiation and vigor of learned actions. Neuropsychopharmacology 45: 2087-2097. PMCID: PMC7547091.
Liput DJ, Nguyen TA, Augustin SM, Lee JO, Vogel SS. (2020) A guide to fluorescence lifetime microscopy and Förster’s resonance energy transfer in Neuroscience. Current Protocols in Neuroscience 94(1): e108. PMCID: PMC8274369.
Augustin SM, Chancey JH, Lovinger DM. (2018) Dual dopaminergic regulation of corticostriatal plasticity by cholinergic interneurons and indirect pathway medium spiny neurons. Cell Reports, 24(11):2883-2893. PMCID: PMC6182771.
Augustin SM, Lovinger DM. (2018) Functional relevance of endocannabinoid-dependent synaptic plasticity in the central nervous system. ACS Chemical Neuroscience 9(9): 2146-2161. PMCID: PMC6720113.
Shonesy BC, Parrish WP, Haddad H, Stephenson JR, Báldi R, Bluett RJ, Marks CR, Centanni SW, Folkes OM, Spiess K, Augustin SM, Mackie K, Lovinger DM, Winder DG, Patel S, Colbran RJ. (2018) Role of striatal direct pathway 2-archidonoylglycerol signaling in sociability and repetitive behavior. Biological Psychiatry, 84(4): 304-315. PMCID: PMC6023784.
Augustin SM, Beeler JA, McGehee DS, Zhuang X. (2014) Cyclic AMP and afferent activity govern bidirectional synaptic plasticity in striatopallidal neurons. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(19):6692-9. PMCID: PMC4012319.
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