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Overview

Donald P. Cain was affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their academic work primarily involved research in Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

The main fields of study addressed in their publications included Neuroscience with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, and Genetics. Their research topics covered Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, and Memory and Neural Mechanisms.

Throughout their career, Donald P. Cain contributed to the following frequent publication venue:

  • Behavioural Brain Research

One of the recent papers authored by Donald P. Cain was titled "Examining the non-spatial pretraining effect on a water maze spatial learning task in rats treated with multiple intracerebroventricular (ICV) infusions of propionic acid: Contributions to a rodent model of ASD," published in 2021 in Behavioural Brain Research.

Frequent collaborators included:

  • Jennifer Mepham
  • Derrick F. MacFabe
  • Francis Boon
  • Kelly A. Foley
  • Klaus-Peter Ossenkopp

Best Publications

  • Neurobiological effects of intraventricular propionic acid in rats: possible role of short chain fatty acids on the pathogenesis and characteristics of autism spectrum disorders.

    Derrick F. MacFabe;Donald P. Cain;Karina Rodriguez-Capote;Andrew E. Franklin

  • Effects of the enteric bacterial metabolic product propionic acid on object-directed behavior, social behavior, cognition, and neuroinflammation in adolescent rats: Relevance to autism spectrum disorder.

    Derrick F. MacFabe;Nathan E. Cain;Francis Boon;Klaus-Peter Ossenkopp

  • Spatial learning without NMDA receptor-dependent long-term potentiation.

    Deborah Saucier;Donald P. Cain

  • Partial reversal of the effect of maternal care on cognitive function through environmental enrichment.

    T.W Bredy;R.A Humpartzoomian;D.P Cain;M.J Meaney

  • Long-term potentiation and kindling: How similar are the mechanisms?

    Donald P. Cain

  • Contribution of sex differences in the acute stress response to sex differences in water maze performance in the rat.

    Jason Beiko;Rebecca Lander;Elizabeth Hampson;Francis Boon

  • Intracerebroventricular Injection of Propionic Acid, an Enteric Bacterial Metabolic End-Product, Impairs Social Behavior in the Rat: Implications for an Animal Model of Autism

    Sandy R. Shultz;Derrick F. MacFabe;Klaus Peter Ossenkopp;Shannon Scratch

  • Detailed behavioral analysis of water maze acquisition under systemic NMDA or muscarinic antagonism: nonspatial pretraining eliminates spatial learning deficits.

    Deborah Saucier;Eric L. Hargreaves;Francis Boon;C. H. Vanderwolf

  • Repeated mild lateral fluid percussion brain injury in the rat causes cumulative long-term behavioral impairments, neuroinflammation, and cortical loss in an animal model of repeated concussion.

    Sandy Richard Shultz;Feng Bao;Vanessa Omana;Charlotte Chiu

  • Detailed behavioral analysis of water maze acquisition under APV or CNQX: contribution of sensorimotor disturbances to drug-induced acquisition deficits.

    Donald Peter Cain;Deborah Saucier;Jeff Hall;Eric L. Hargreaves

  • Intracerebroventricular injections of the enteric bacterial metabolic product propionic acid impair cognition and sensorimotor ability in the Long-Evans rat: further development of a rodent model of autism.

    Sandy R. Shultz;Derrick F. MacFabe;Samantha Martin;Jordana Jackson

  • Testing the NMDA, Long-term Potentiation, and Cholinergic Hypotheses of Spatial Learning

    Donald Peter Cain

  • Behavioural, physiological and morphological analysis of a line of apolipoprotein E knockout mouse

    R. Anderson;J.C. Barnes;T.V.P. Bliss;D.P. Cain

  • The role of the olfactory bulb in limbic mechanisms.

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  • Retardation of amygdala kindling by antagonism of NMD-aspartate and muscarinic cholinergic receptors: evidence for the summation of excitatory mechanisms in kindling.

    Donald P. Cain;Kathryn A. Desborough;Douglas J. McKitrick

  • Sub-concussive brain injury in the Long-Evans rat induces acute neuroinflammation in the absence of behavioral impairments

    Sandy R. Shultz;Derrick F. MacFabe;Kelly A. Foley;Roy Taylor

  • Hyperactivity, hyper-reactivity, and sensorimotor deficits induced by low doses of the N-methyl-d-aspartate non-competitive channel blocker MK801

    Eric L. Hargreaves;Donald P. Cain

  • Olfactory bulbectomy and mucosal damage: effects on copulation, irritability, and interspecific aggression in male rats.

    Donald P. Cain;George Paxinos

  • A Novel Rodent Model of Autism: Intraventricular Infusions of Propionic Acid Increase Locomotor Activity and Induce Neuroinflammation and Oxidative Stress in Discrete Regions of Adult Rat Brain

    Derrick F. MacFabe;Karina Rodríguez-Capote;Jennifer E. Hoffman;Andrew E. Franklin

  • LTP, NMDA, genes and learning

    Donald Peter Cain

  • Epileptiform effects of met-enkephalin, β-endorphin and morphine: Kindling of generalized seizures and potentiation of epileptiform effects by handling

    Donald P. Cain;Michael E. Corcoran

Frequent Co-Authors

Sandy R. Shultz
Sandy R. Shultz Monash University
Klaus-Peter Ossenkopp
Klaus-Peter Ossenkopp University of Western Ontario
Martin Kavaliers
Martin Kavaliers University of Western Ontario
Lynne C. Weaver
Lynne C. Weaver University of Western Ontario
Juhn A. Wada
Juhn A. Wada University of British Columbia
Eric R. Kandel
Eric R. Kandel Columbia University
Elizabeth Hampson
Elizabeth Hampson University of Western Ontario
Seth G. N. Grant
Seth G. N. Grant University of Edinburgh
C.H. Vanderwolf
C.H. Vanderwolf University of Western Ontario
Richard W. J. Neufeld
Richard W. J. Neufeld University of Western Ontario

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