Kristen A. McLaurin

This study investigates how EcoHIV affects microglial proliferation and gene expression, revealing a sex-dependent transcriptional response and a significant role for the Trem2/Dap12 signaling complex.

This study evaluates the HIV-1 transgenic rat model for age-related neurocognitive impairments, finding significant deficits linked to neuronal dysfunction and amyloid beta accumulation.

This study investigates how adolescent oxycodone self-administration affects neurocognitive development by examining sex-dependent changes in dendritic spine morphology and glutamatergic signaling in the anterior cingulate cortex.

This study investigates S-Equol's effect on cocaine-maintained responding in HIV-1 Tg rats, finding microbiome alterations and genotype-specific interactions.

This study uses chemogenetics to show that activation of the VTA-AcbSh circuit induces sex-dependent changes in reward-seeking behavior in rodents.

This study shows SARS-CoV-2 RNA persists in the CNS of recovered non-human primates, with ACE2 and TMPRSS2 downregulation and pericyte infection linked to PASC.

This study investigates microglia proliferation in HIV-1 infection and its link to synaptic dysfunction in the prefrontal cortex, finding that microglia proliferation accounts for significant variance in synaptic dysfunction.

This study shows that EcoHIV inoculation disrupts decision-making in rats with a history of cocaine use, indicating frontal-striatal circuit dysfunction.

This study investigates how chronic exposure to HIV-1 viral proteins disrupts neurodevelopmental processes in the prefrontal cortex of rats, leading to synaptic and dendritic abnormalities.

This study examines HIV-1 associated apathy in rats by analyzing goal-directed behaviors and synaptic dysfunction in the nucleus accumbens.

This study evaluates the effects of S-equol on apathy and drug-seeking behavior in HIV-1 transgenic rats, finding it mitigates these issues.

This study investigates HIV-1 persistence in the brain using HIV-1 transgenic rats and a novel EcoHIV model, showing microglia as the primary cell type expressing HIV-1 mRNA and linking infection to neurocognitive impairments.