Zul Merali

Overview

Best Publications

• Do early-life events permanently alter behavioral and hormonal responses to stressors?

  Hymie Anisman;Marilee D. Zaharia;Michael J. Meaney;Zul Merali

  864
  Citations

• Dysregulation in the Suicide Brain: mRNA Expression of Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Receptors and GABAA Receptor Subunits in Frontal Cortical Brain Region

  Zul Merali;Lisheng Du;Pavel Hrdina;Miklos Palkovits

  510
  Citations

• The pathogenesis of clinical depression: stressor- and cytokine-induced alterations of neuroplasticity.

  Shawn Hayley;M.O. Poulter;Z. Merali;Hymie Anisman;Hymie Anisman

  488
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• Neurotransmitter, peptide and cytokine processes in relation to depressive disorder: comorbidity between depression and neurodegenerative disorders.

  Hymie Anisman;Zul Merali;Shawn Hayley

  428
  Citations

• Cytokines, stress and depressive illness: brain-immune interactions.

  Hymie Anisman;Zul Merali

  410
  Citations

• Endocrine and cytokine correlates of major depression and dysthymia with typical or atypical features

  Hymie Anisman;A.V. Ravindran;J. Griffiths;Z. Merali

  410
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• Aversive and appetitive events evoke the release of corticotropin-releasing hormone and bombesin-like peptides at the central nucleus of the amygdala.

  Zul Merali;Judy McIntosh;Pamela Kent;David Michaud

  387
  Citations

• GABAA receptor promoter hypermethylation in suicide brain: implications for the involvement of epigenetic processes

  Michael O. Poulter;Michael O. Poulter;Lisheng Du;Ian C.G. Weaver;Miklós Palkovits

  384
  Citations

• SHORT- AND LONG-PERIODS OF NEONATAL MATERNAL SEPARATION DIFFERENTIALLY AFFECT ANXIETY AND FEEDING IN ADULT RATS : GENDER-DEPENDENT EFFECTS

  Judy McIntosh;Hymie Anisman;Zul Merali

  360
  Citations

• Therapeutic and protective effect of environmental enrichment against psychogenic and neurogenic stress.

  Cosette Fox;Zul Merali;Catherine Harrison

  355
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• Inhibition of calpains prevents neuronal and behavioral deficits in an MPTP mouse model of Parkinson's disease.

  Stephen J. Crocker;Patrice D. Smith;Vernice Jackson-Lewis;Wiplore R. Lamba

  338
  Citations

• Functional interactions between dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine neurons: an in-vivo electrophysiological study in rats with monoaminergic lesions

  Bruno P. Guiard;Mostafa El Mansari;Zul Merali;Pierre Blier

  332
  Citations

• Cytokines as a precipitant of depressive illness: animal and human studies.

  Hymie Anisman;Zul Merali;Michael O. Poulter;Shawn Hayley

  306
  Citations

• Synergistic Effects of Interleukin-1β, Interleukin-6, and Tumor Necrosis Factor-α: Central Monoamine, Corticosterone, and Behavioral Variations

  Karen Brebner;Shawn Hayley;Robert Zacharko;Zul Merali

  286
  Citations

• An assessment of the effects of central interleukin-1β, -2, -6, and tumor necrosis factor-α administration on some behavioural, neurochemical, endocrine and immune parameters in the rat

  T.J Connor;C Song;B.E Leonard;Z Merali

  283
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• Anhedonic and Anxiogenic Effects of Cytokine Exposure

  Hymie Anisman;Zul Merali

  251
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• Stress, coping, uplifts, and quality of life in subtypes of depression: a conceptual frame and emerging data.

  Arun V Ravindran;Kimberly Matheson;Jenna Griffiths;Zul Merali;Zul Merali

  238
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• Evaluation of anxiolytic properties of Gotukola--(Centella asiatica) extracts and asiaticoside in rat behavioral models.

  P. Wijeweera;P. Wijeweera;J.T. Arnason;D. Koszycki;Z. Merali

  233
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• Evaluation of the effects of chronic mild stressors on hedonic and physiological responses: sex and strain compared

  Anne T.M. Konkle;Stephanie L. Baker;Amanda C. Kentner;Lisa Santa-Maria Barbagallo

  232
  Citations

• Psychogenic, neurogenic, and systemic stressor effects on plasma corticosterone and behavior: mouse strain-dependent outcomes.

  Hymie Anisman;Shawn Hayley;Owen Kelly;Thomas Borowski

  230
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