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Kelly T. Dineley is affiliated with The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with particular focus areas including Neurology, Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, and Biological Psychiatry.

Their main research topics cover:

  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Infectious Encephalopathies and Encephalitis
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol

Dineley has contributed to a range of publications in several scientific journals, including multiple papers in Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health and Brain Behavior and Immunity. Other venues include Nature Communications, Neuroscience, and Brain and Behavior.

Significant papers by Kelly T. Dineley include:

  • "Soluble pathogenic tau enters brain vascular endothelial cells and drives cellular senescence and brain microvascular dysfunction in a mouse model of tauopathy" (2023, Nature Communications)
  • "Long-term, West Nile virus-induced neurological changes: A comparison of patients and rodent models" (2020, Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health)
  • "Fentanyl self-administration impacts brain immune responses in male Sprague-Dawley rats" (2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity)
  • "Maternal Opioid Exposure Culminates in Perturbed Murine Neurodevelopment and Hyperactive Phenotype in Adolescence" (2021, Neuroscience)
  • "Enhancement of select cognitive domains with rosiglitazone implicates dorsal hippocampus circuitry sensitive to PPARγ agonism in an Alzheimer's mouse model" (2020, Brain and Behavior)

Frequent collaborators working alongside Dineley include Irma E. Cisneros, Kathryn A. Cunningham, Slobodan Paessler, Chanida Fongsaran, and Stacy A. Hussong.

Best Publications

  • β-Amyloid Activates the Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascade via Hippocampal α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors:In Vitro and In Vivo Mechanisms Related to Alzheimer's Disease

    Kelly Dineley;M. Westerman;D. Bui;K. Bell

  • Nicotinic ACh receptors as therapeutic targets in CNS disorders

    Kelly T. Dineley;Anshul A. Pandya;Jerrel L. Yakel

  • Accelerated plaque accumulation, associative learning deficits and up-regulation of α7 nicotinic receptor protein in transgenic mice co-expressing mutant human presenilin 1 and amyloid precursor proteins

    Kelly T. Dineley;Xuefeng Xia;Duy Bui;J. David Sweatt

  • Passive immunization with tau oligomer monoclonal antibody reverses tauopathy phenotypes without affecting hyperphosphorylated neurofibrillary tangles

    Diana L. Castillo-Carranza;Urmi Sengupta;Marcos J. Guerrero-Muñoz;Cristian A. Lasagna-Reeves

  • The A-type potassium channel Kv4.2 is a substrate for the mitogen-activated protein kinase ERK.

    J. Paige Adams;Anne E. Anderson;Andrew W. Varga;Kelly T. Dineley

  • Loss of α7 Nicotinic Receptors Enhances β-Amyloid Oligomer Accumulation, Exacerbating Early-Stage Cognitive Decline and Septohippocampal Pathology in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease

    Caterina M. Hernandez;Rakez Kayed;Hui Zheng;J. David Sweatt

  • β-Amyloid Peptide Activates α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Expressed in Xenopus Oocytes

    Kelly T. Dineley;Karen A. Bell;Duy Bui;J. David Sweatt

  • Septal Cholinergic Neuromodulation Tunes the Astrocyte-Dependent Gating of Hippocampal NMDA Receptors to Wakefulness

    Thomas Papouin;Jaclyn M. Dunphy;Michaela Tolman;Kelly T. Dineley

  • Intermediate- and long-term recognition memory deficits in Tg2576 mice are reversed with acute calcineurin inhibition.

    Giulio Taglialatela;Dale Hogan;Wen Ru Zhang;Kelly T. Dineley

  • Presenilin 1 familial Alzheimer's disease mutation leads to defective associative learning and impaired adult neurogenesis.

    R. Wang;Kelly Dineley;J. D. Sweatt;H. Zheng

  • Research update: Alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease

    H. Rheinallt Parri;Caterina M. Hernandez;Kelly T. Dineley

  • Collapsin response mediator protein‐2 hyperphosphorylation is an early event in Alzheimer’s disease progression

    Adam R. Cole;Wendy Noble;Lidy Van Aalten;Florian Plattner

  • Acute inhibition of calcineurin restores associative learning and memory in Tg2576 APP transgenic mice

    Kelly T. Dineley;Dale Hogan;Wen Ru Zhang;Giulio Taglialatela

  • Neurological Sequelae Resulting from Encephalitic Alphavirus Infection.

    Shannon E. Ronca;Kelly T. Dineley;Slobodan Paessler

  • Tau immunotherapy modulates both pathological tau and upstream amyloid pathology in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model.

    Diana L. Castillo-Carranza;Marcos J. Guerrero-Muñoz;Urmi Sengupta;Caterina Hernandez

  • Insulin resistance in Alzheimer's disease

    Kelly T. Dineley;Jordan B. Jahrling;Larry Denner

  • Cognitive Enhancement with Rosiglitazone Links the Hippocampal PPARγ and ERK MAPK Signaling Pathways

    Larry A. Denner;Jennifer Rodriguez-Rivera;Sigmund J. Haidacher;Jordan B. Jahrling

  • Amyloid‐β oligomers impair fear conditioned memory in a calcineurin‐dependent fashion in mice

    Kelly T. Dineley;Rakez Kayed;Volker Neugebauer;Yu Fu

  • α‐Synuclein oligomers oppose long‐term potentiation and impair memory through a calcineurin‐dependent mechanism: relevance to human synucleopathic diseases

    Zane S. Martin;Volker Neugebauer;Kelly T. Dineley;Rakez Kayed

  • MAPK recruitment by β-amyloid in organotypic hippocampal slice cultures depends on physical state and exposure time

    Karen A. Bell;Karen A. Bell;Kenneth J. O'Riordan;J. David Sweatt;Kelly T. Dineley

  • Rosiglitazone reversal of Tg2576 cognitive deficits is independent of peripheral gluco-regulatory status.

    Jennifer Rodriguez-Rivera;Larry Denner;Kelly T. Dineley

Frequent Co-Authors

Giulio Taglialatela
Giulio Taglialatela The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
J. David Sweatt
J. David Sweatt University of Alabama at Birmingham
Scott D. Lane
Scott D. Lane The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Volker Neugebauer
Volker Neugebauer The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Salvatore Oddo
Salvatore Oddo Arizona State University
Hui Zheng
Hui Zheng Baylor College of Medicine
Jerrel L. Yakel
Jerrel L. Yakel National Institutes of Health
Anne E. Anderson
Anne E. Anderson Baylor College of Medicine
F. Gerard Moeller
F. Gerard Moeller Virginia Commonwealth University
Joy M. Schmitz
Joy M. Schmitz The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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