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Publications

Professor Marco Bortolato, Faculty of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Utah

Publications

2022

November 2022

Acute stress impairs sensorimotor gating via the neurosteroid allopregnanolone in the prefrontal cortex

Neurobiology of Stress

Roberto Cadeddu, Laura J. Mosher, Peter Nordkild, Nilesh Gaikwad, Gian Michele Ratto, Simona Scheggi, Marco Bortolato

Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352289522000649

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August 2022

Allopregnanolone: The missing link to explain the effects of stress on tic exacerbation? 

Journal of Endocrinology 

Marco Bortolato, Barbara J Coffey,Vilma Gabbay, Simona Scheggi

Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34423500/

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2019

Isoallopregnanolone reduces tic-like behaviours in the D1CT-7 mouse model of Tourette syndrome 

Journal of Endocrinology 

Roberto Cadeddu, Torbjörn Bäckström, Gabriele Floris, Peter Nordkild, Märta Segerdahl, Marco Bortolato

Link:  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31175669/

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2017

Allopregnanolone mediates the exacerbation of Tourette-like responses by acute stress in mouse models

Scientific Reports

Laura J. Mosher, Sean C. Godar1, Marianela Nelson, Stephen C. Fowler, Graziano Pinna, Marco Bortolato

Link:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-03649-1

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2013

The implication of neuroactive steroids in Tourette syndrome pathogenesis: a role for 5α-reductase?

Journal of Neuroendocrinology 

Marco Bortolato, Roberto Frau, Sean C Godar, Laura J Mosher, Silvia Paba, Francesco Marrosu, Paola Devoto

Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3849218/

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