Christine M Side

Attenuated conditioned taste aversion for sucrose in female mice with a history of chronic low-dose ethanol exposure.

This study shows that chronic low-dose ethanol exposure blocks conditioned taste aversion in female mice but not males.

Developmental Alcohol Exposure Alters Domains of Executive Function in Rodents

This study shows that developmental exposure to alcohol both prenatally and during adolescence leads to more severe deficits in executive function domains like disinhibition, working memory, and behavioral flexibility in rodents.

Chronic pain increases sensitivity to pain-induced reinstatement of ethanol seeking in male mice

The paper investigates how chronic pain affects ethanol seeking behavior in male mice, finding that pain increases susceptibility to reinstatement of ethanol seeking.

Chemogenetic Activation of Medial Prefrontal Cortex Projections to the Nucleus Accumbens Shell Suppresses Cocaine-Primed Reinstatement in EcoHIV Infected Mice

This study shows that HIV infection increases cocaine-primed reinstatement in mice and that activating the mPFC-NAc circuit can reverse this effect.

Dissociating the incubation of appetitive and consummatory behavior in a model of oral cocaine self-administration

This study uses an oral cocaine self-administration model to dissociate appetitive and consummatory behaviors, finding incubation of lever pressing for cocaine and magazine entries for saccharin after abstinence.

Morphine-induced hyperalgesia impacts small extracellular vesicle miRNA composition and function

This study shows that morphine alters miRNA composition in small extracellular vesicles, which may influence pain responses and suggest sEVs as a potential non-opioid therapeutic.

Astrocytic Regulation of Cocaine Locomotor Sensitization in EcoHIV Infected Mice

This study shows that HIV infection enhances cocaine locomotor sensitization in mice and that activating astrocytic Gq signaling in the nucleus accumbens can reverse this effect.

Impaired extinction of cocaine seeking in HIV-infected mice is accompanied by peripheral and central immune dysregulation

This study shows HIV-infected mice show impaired extinction of cocaine-seeking behavior and associated immune dysregulation in both peripheral and central systems.