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Sondra T. Bland is affiliated with the University of Colorado Denver in the United States. Their research activity spans multiple fields and subfields within medical and biological sciences, contributing to literature primarily in medicine and neuroscience.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

The subfields where their work is concentrated are:

  • Epidemiology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Molecular Biology
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Pharmacology

Bland's research topics cover a variety of areas, with a focus on infections and metabolism-related studies. These include:

  • Fungal Infections and Studies
  • Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Nail Diseases and Treatments
  • Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior

The scientist has contributed to several recent papers, each published in peer-reviewed journals. Notable works include:

  • "Fructose and uric acid as drivers of a hyperactive foraging response: A clue to behavioral disorders associated with impulsivity or mania?" (2020) published in Evolution and Human Behavior
  • "Acute exercise enhances fear extinction through a mechanism involving central mTOR signaling" (2020) published in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • "A novel social fear conditioning procedure alters social behavior and mTOR signaling in differentially housed adolescent rats" (2020) published in Developmental Psychobiology
  • "Features of cryptococcosis among 652 HIV-seronegative individuals in France: a cross-sectional observational study (2005-2020)" (2024) published in Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • "Chemical incidents" (2021) published in BJA Education

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Esteban C. Loetz
  • Richard J. Johnson
  • Miguel A. Lanaspa
  • Richard Montoya
  • Benjamin N. Greenwood

The scientist has published across various journals, with repeated contributions to these venues:

  • Evolution and Human Behavior
  • Developmental Psychobiology
  • Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Best Publications

  • CNS plasticity and assessment of forelimb sensorimotor outcome in unilateral rat models of stroke, cortical ablation, parkinsonism and spinal cord injury.

    Timothy Schallert;Sheila M Fleming;J.Leigh Leasure;Jennifer L Tillerson

  • Medial prefrontal cortex determines how stressor controllability affects behavior and dorsal raphe nucleus.

    J Amat;M V Baratta;E Paul;S T Bland

  • Opioid-induced glial activation: mechanisms of activation and implications for opioid analgesia, dependence, and reward.

    Mark R. Hutchinson;Sondra T. Bland;Kirk W. Johnson;Kenner C. Rice

  • Opioid Activation of Toll-Like Receptor 4 Contributes to Drug Reinforcement

    M. R. Hutchinson;A. L. Northcutt;T. Hiranita;X. Wang

  • Early Exclusive Use of the Affected Forelimb After Moderate Transient Focal Ischemia in Rats Functional and Anatomic Outcome

    Sondra T. Bland;Timothy Schallert;Roger Strong;Jaroslaw Aronowski

  • Minocycline suppresses morphine-induced respiratory depression, suppresses morphine-induced reward, and enhances systemic morphine-induced analgesia.

    Mark R. Hutchinson;Alexis L. Northcutt;Lindsey W. Chao;Jeffrey J. Kearney

  • Stressor controllability modulates stress-induced dopamine and serotonin efflux and morphine-induced serotonin efflux in the medial prefrontal cortex.

    Sondra T Bland;David Hargrave;Julie L Pepin;Jose Amat

  • Use-Dependent Exaggeration of Brain Injury: Is Glutamate Involved?

    J. Leigh Humm;Dorothy A. Kozlowski;Sondra T. Bland;Debra C. James

  • Enduring consequences of early-life infection on glial and neural cell genesis within cognitive regions of the brain.

    Sondra T. Bland;Jacob T. Beckley;Sarah Young;Verne Tsang

  • Microinjection of urocortin 2 into the dorsal raphe nucleus activates serotonergic neurons and increases extracellular serotonin in the basolateral amygdala.

    J. Amat;J.P. Tamblyn;E.D. Paul;S.T. Bland

  • Expression of c-fos and BDNF mRNA in subregions of the prefrontal cortex of male and female rats after acute uncontrollable stress

    Sondra T. Bland;Megan J. Schmid;Andre Der-Avakian;Linda R. Watkins

  • Isolation rearing attenuates social interaction-induced expression of immediate early gene protein products in the medial prefrontal cortex of male and female rats.

    Vanessa L. Wall;Eva K. Fischer;Sondra T. Bland

  • The glial activation inhibitor AV411 reduces morphine-induced nucleus accumbens dopamine release.

    Sondra T. Bland;Mark R. Hutchinson;Steven F. Maier;Linda R. Watkins

  • Exercise increases mTOR signaling in brain regions involved in cognition and emotional behavior.

    Brian A. Lloyd;Holly S. Hake;Takayuki Ishiwata;Caroline E. Farmer

  • Early overuse and disuse of the affected forelimb after moderately severe intraluminal suture occlusion of the middle cerebral artery in rats

    Sondra T. Bland;Rathi N. Pillai;Jaroslaw Aronowski;James C. Grotta

  • Expression of fibroblast growth factor-2 and brain-derived neurotrophic factor mRNA in the medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus after uncontrollable or controllable stress.

    Sondra T. Bland;Julie P. Tamlyn;Ruth M. Barrientos;Benjamin N. Greenwood

  • Inescapable shock activates serotonergic neurons in all raphe nuclei of rat.

    Luiz F Takase;Maria Ines Nogueira;Michael Baratta;Sondra T Bland

  • Prostaglandins are necessary and sufficient to induce contextual fear learning impairments after interleukin-1 beta injections into the dorsal hippocampus.

    A.M. Hein;D.L. Stutzman;S.T. Bland;R.M. Barrientos

  • A novel immune-to-CNS communication pathway: cells of the meninges surrounding the spinal cord CSF space produce proinflammatory cytokines in response to an inflammatory stimulus.

    Julie Wieseler-Frank;Brian M. Jekich;John H. Mahoney;Sondra T. Bland

  • Corpus callosum damage and interhemispheric transfer of information following closed head injury in children.

    Debra A. Benavidez;Jack M. Fletcher;H. Julia Hannay;Sondra T. Bland

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven F. Maier
Steven F. Maier University of Colorado Boulder
Linda R. Watkins
Linda R. Watkins University of Colorado Boulder
Mark R. Hutchinson
Mark R. Hutchinson University of Adelaide
Benjamin N. Greenwood
Benjamin N. Greenwood University of Colorado Denver
Timothy J Schallert
Timothy J Schallert The University of Texas at Austin
Robert L. Spencer
Robert L. Spencer University of Colorado Boulder
John F. Neumaier
John F. Neumaier University of Washington
Casimir A. Fornal
Casimir A. Fornal Princeton University
Barry L. Jacobs
Barry L. Jacobs Princeton University
Jack M. Fletcher
Jack M. Fletcher University of Houston

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