Amanda C. Kentner

Martz J, Shelton MA, Langen TJ, Srinivasan S, Seney ML, Kentner AC. Peripubertal antagonism of corticotropin-releasing factor receptor 1 results in sustained, sex-specific changes in behavioral plasticity and the transcriptomic profile of the amygdala. [preprint]. 2024 August. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.14.607957.

 

Pando, P., Langen, T.J., Kentner, A.C. (in press). Neighborly Influence: Intrauterine position accounts for individual variability in a mouse model of maternal immune activation. Brain Behav Immun. 2024 Jul 21;121:72-73. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2024.07.029. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39043343.

 

Martz, J., Shelton, M.A., Geist, L., Seney, M.L., Kentner, A.C. (2024). Sex differences in offspring risk and resilience following 11β-hydroxylase antagonist in a rodent model of maternal immune activation. Neuropsychopharmacology, 49, 1078-1090. Paper available at:  https://rdcu.be/drZRD.

 

Wijenayake, S., Martz, J., Lapp, H.E., Storm, J.A., Champagne, F.A., Kentner, A.C. (2023). The contributions of parental lactation on offspring development: it's not udder nonsense! Hormones and Behavior, 153: 105375. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2023.105375. 

 

DeRosa, H., Smith, A., Geist, L., Cheng, A., Hunter, R.G., Kentner, A.C. (2023). Maternal immune activation alters placental histone-3 lysine-9 tri-methylation, offspring sensorimotor processing, and hypothalamic transposable element expression in a sex-specific manner. Neurobiol Stress, 24:100538. doi: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2023.100538.

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DeRosa, H., Caradonna, S.G., Tran, H., Marrocco, J., Kentner, A.C. (2022). Got Milk? Maternal immune activation during the mid-lactational period affects nutritional milk quality and adolescent offspring sensory processing in male and female rats. Molecular Psychiatry, 27, 4829-4842. doi: 10.1038/s41380-022-01744-y. Paper available at: https://rdcu.be/cUP3e

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DeRosa, H., Caradonna, S.G., Tran, H., Marrocco, J., Kentner, A.C.  (2022). Milking it for all it’s worth: The effects of environmental enrichment on maternal nurturance, lactation quality, and offspring social behavior. eNeuro, 9, ENEURO.0148-22.2022. Paper available at: https://www.eneuro.org/content/9/4/ENEURO.0148-22.2022. 

 

Maganga-Bakita, I., Aiken, A.A., Puracchio, M.J., Kentner, A.C., Hunter, R.G. (2022). Regulatory effects of maternal immune activation and environmental enrichment on glucocorticoid receptor and FKBP5 expression in stress-sensitive regions of the offspring brain. Neuroscience, 505, 51-58. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2022.09.010

 

Kaki, S., DeRosa, H., Timmerman, B., Brummelte, S., Hunter, R.G., Kentner A.C. (2023). Developmental Manipulation-Induced Changes in Cognitive Functioning. Curr Top Behav Neurosci., 63, 241-289. doi: 10.1007/7854_2022_389

 

Zhao, X., Ericson, M., Mohammed, R., Kentner, A.C. (2022). Maternal immune activation accelerates puberty initiation and alters mechanical allodynia in male and female C57BL6/J mice. Developmental Psychobiology, 64, e22278, https://doi-org.ezproxymcp.flo.org/10.1002/dev.22278.

 

Butler-Struben H.M., Kentner A.C., Trainor B.C. (in press). What's wrong with my experiment?: The impact of hidden variables on neuropsychopharmacology research. Neuropsychopharmacology, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-022-01309-1. 

 

Zhao, X., Tran, H., DeRosa, H., Roderick, R.C., Kentner, A.C. (2021). Hidden Talents: Poly (I:C)-induced maternal immune activation improves mouse visual discrimination performance and reversal learning in a sex-dependent manner. Genes, Brain, and Behavior, 20 (7), e12755, doi: 10.1111/gbb.12755.

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Strzelewicz, A.R., Vecchiarelli, H.A., Rondón-Ortiz, A., Raneri, A., Hill, M.N., Kentner, A.C. (2021). Interactive effects of compounding multidimensional stressors on maternal and male and female rat offspring outcomes. Hormones & Behavior, 134, 105013, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2021.105013 .

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Zhao, X., Mohammed, R., Tran, H., Erickson, M., Kentner AC. (2021). Poly (I:C)-induced maternal immune activation modifies ventral hippocampal regulation of stress reactivity: prevention by environmental enrichment. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 95, 203-215, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2021.03.018.

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Kentner, A.C., Speno, A.V., Doucette, J., Roderick, R.C. (2021). The contribution of environmental enrichment to phenotypic variation in mice and rats. eNeuro, 8(2):ENEURO.0539-20.2021, https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0539-20.2021.

 

Núñez Estevez, K., Rondón-Ortiz, A., Nguyen, J., Kentner, A.C. (2020). Environmental influences on placental programming and offspring outcomes following maternal immune activation. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 83, 44-55,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2019.08.192  

 

Zhao, X., Rondón-Ortiz, A., Lima, E.P., Puracchio, M., Roderick, R., Kentner, A.C. (2020). Therapeutic efficacy of environmental enrichment on behavioral, endocrine, and synaptic alterations in an animal model of maternal immune activation. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity – Health, 3, 100043, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2020.100043.

 

Kentner A.C., Lambert K.G., Hannan A.J., Donaldson S.T. (2019). Editorial: Environmental Enrichment: Enhancing Neural Plasticity, Resilience and Repair. Frontiers Behavioral Neuroscience, 13, 75, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00075

 

Strzelewicz A.R., Sanchez E.O., Rondón-Ortiz A.N., Raneri A., Famularo S.T., Bangasser D.A., Kentner A.C. (2019). Access to a high resource environment protects against accelerated maturation following early life stress: A translational animal model of high, medium and low security settings. Hormones and Behavior, 11, 46-59,    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.01.003 .

 

Roderick, R.C., Kentner, A.C. (2019).  Building a framework to optimize animal models of maternal immune activation: Like your ongoing home improvements, it's a work in progress. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 75, 6-7,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2018.10.011.

 

Kentner, A.C., Bilbo, S.D., Brown, A.S., Hsiao, E.Y., McAllister, A.K., Meyer, U., Pearce, B.D., Pletnikov, M.V., Yolken, R.H., Bauman, M.D. (2019). Maternal immune activation: reporting guidelines to improve the rigor, reproducibility, and transparency of the model. Neuropsychopharmacology, 44, 295-258, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-018-0185-7. 

 

Kentner, A.C., Scalia, S., Shin, J., Migliore, M.M., Rondon-Ortiz, A.N. (2018). Targeted sensory enrichment interventions protect against behavioral and neuroendocrine consequences of early life stress.  Psychoneuroendocrinology, 98, 74-85,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.07.029.

 

Speno, A.V., Kentner, A.C. (2018). Do gut reactions to antibiotics lead to sex dependent changes in behavior following neonatal immune challenge? Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 73, 165-166,   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2018.08.007.

 

Kentner, A.C., Cryan, J.F., Brummelte, S. (2019). Resilience priming: translational models for understanding resiliency and adaptation to early-life adversity. Developmental Psychobiology, 31, 350-375,  https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21775.  

                                           

Kentner, A.C., Khan, U., MacRae, M., Dowd, S.E., Yan, S. (2018). The effects of antibiotics on social aversion following early life inflammation. Physiology & Behavior, 194, 311-318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.06.006.

                                                              

Kovacs, A.H., Grace, S.L., Kentner, A.C., Nolan, R.P., Silversides, C.K., Irvine, M.J. (2018). Feasibility outcomes in a pilot randomized controlled trial of a psychosocial intervention for adults with congenital heart disease. Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 34, 766-773,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjca.2018.02.023.   

                                                                                             

Kentner, A.C., Lima, E., Migliore, M.M., Shin, J., Scalia, S. (2018). Complex environmental rearing enhances social salience and affects hippocampal corticotropin releasing hormone receptor expression in a sex specific manner.  Neuroscience, 369, 399-411, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.11.035.                                                                                                                                                                                

Kentner, A.C., Grace, S.L. (2017). Between mind and heart: sex-based cognitive bias in cardiovascular disease treatment. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 45, 18-24; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yfrne.2017.02.002.

        

Honeycutt, J., Nguyen, J., Kentner, A.C., Brenhouse, H.C. (2017). Effects of water bottle materials and filtration on Bisphenol-A content in laboratory animal drinking water. Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, 56, 269-272, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28535862.  

                    

Yan, S., Kentner, A.C., (2017). Mechanical allodynia corresponds to Oprm1 downregulation within the descending pain network of male and female rats exposed to neonatal immune challenge. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 63, 148-159, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2016.10.007. 

 

Kentner, A.C., Khoury, A., Lima Queiroz, E., MacRae, M. (2016). Environmental enrichment rescues the effects of early life inflammation on markers of synaptic plasticity. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 57, 151-160, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2016.03.013. 

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Kentner, A.C. (2015). Neuroprotection and recovery from early-life adversity: considerations for environmental enrichment. Neural Regeneration Research, 10, 1545-1547,   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26692834.

 

Kovacs AH, Bandyopadhyay M, Grace SL, Kentner AC, Nolan RP, Silversides CK, Jane Irvine M.(2015).  Adult Congenital Heart Disease-Coping And REsilience (ACHD-CARE): Rationale and methodology of a pilot randomized controlled trial. Contemp Clin Trials, S1551-7144(15)30113-0. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2015.11.002. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26546067.

 

MacRae, M., Macrina, T.,  Khoury, A., Migliore, M.M., Kentner, A.C. (2015). Tracing the trajectory of behavioral impairments and oxidative stress in an animal model of neonatal inflammation. Neuroscience, 298,  455-466. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25934038.

 

MacRae, M., Kenkel, W., Kentner, A.C. (2015). Social rejection following neonatal inflammation is mediated by olfactory scent cues.  Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 49,43-48. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25744105.

 

Riazi, K., Galic, M.A., Kentner, A.C., Reid, A.Y., Sharkey, K.A., Pittman, Q.J. (2015). Microglia-dependent alteration of glutamatergic transmission and plasticity in the hippocampus during peripheral inflammation. Journal of Neuroscience, 35,  4942-4952. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25810524.

 

Kovacs, A., Kentner, A.C., Grace, S.L., Nolan, R., Silversides, C., Bandyopadhyay, M., Irvine, J. (2015). Initial feasibility results of a group coping and resilience program for adults with congenital heart disease. Journal of the American College of Cardiology,  65, A550.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2015.11.002.

Connors, E.J., Migliore, M.M., Pillsbury, S.L., Shaik, A.N., Kentner, A.C. (2015). Environmental enrichment models a naturalistic form of maternal separation and shapes the anxiety response patterns of offspring. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 52, 153-167,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.10.021.

Connors, E.J., Shaik, N.A., Migliore, M.M., Kentner, A.C. (2014). Environmental enrichment mitigates the sex-specific effects of gestational inflammation on social engagement and the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis-feedback system. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 42, 178-190,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2014.06.020.

 

Pourhabib, S., Kentner, A.C., Grace, S.L. (2014). The impact of patient-healthcare provider discussions on enrollment in cardiovascular rehabilitation. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 46, 924-931. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25102939.

 

Kentner, A.C., Kovacs, A. H., Grace, S.L. (2014). Chapter  9: Cardiovascular Disease. In Fundamentals of Health Psychology.Hadjistavropoulos, T., & Hadjistavropoulos, H.D., (Eds).Oxford University Press. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199002757.do.

 

Beckstead, J., Pezzo, M., Beckie, T., Shahraki, F., Kentner, A.C., & Grace, S.L. (2014). Physicians’ tacit and stated policies for determining patient benefit and referral to cardiac rehabilitation. Medical Decision Making, 34, 63-74. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23784848.

Kentner, A.C., & Pittman, Q.J. (2010). Mini-review: Early life programming by inflammation of the neuroendocrine system. Endocrinology,151, 4602-4606. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20668021. 

 

Kentner, A.C., McLeod, S., Field, E., & Pittman, Q.J. (2010). Sex-dependent effects of neonatal inflammation on adult inflammatory markers and behavior. Endocrinology, 151, 2689-2699. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20392837.

 

Konkle, A.T.M., Kentner, A.C., Baker, S.L., Stewart, A., & Bielajew, C. (2010). Environmental-enrichment-related variations in behavioral, biochemical, and physiologic responses of Sprague-Dawley and Long Evans rats.  Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science. 49, 427-436. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20819388.

 

Kentner, A.C., Abizaid, A., & Bielajew C. (2010). Modeling Dad: animal models of paternal behavior. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 34, 438-451. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19744516.

 

Kentner, A.C., Takeuchi, A., Miki, T., James, J.S., Hayley, S., Seino, S., & Bielajew, C. (2008). Exploring the endogenous cytokine responses to LPS: the effects of brain stimulation reward and environmental enrichment in Sprague-Dawley rats. Brain Research, 1217, 50-61. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18511025.

 

Kentner, A.C., James, J.S., Miguelez, M., & Bielajew, C. (2007). Investigating the hedonic effects of interferon-α on female rats using brain-stimulation reward. Behavioural Brain Research, 177, 90-99. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17126922.

 

Kentner, A.C., Miguelez, M., James, J.S., & Bielajew, C. (2006). Behavioural and metabolic effects of interferon-α on male Sprague-Dawley rats. Brain Research, 1095, 96-106. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16712809.

 

Baker, S.L., Kentner A.C., Konkle, A.T.M, Barbagallo L, & Bielajew, C. (2006). Evaluation of the effects of chronic mild stress in Sprague-Dawley and Long Evans female rats. Physiology & Behavior, 87, 314-22. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16386277.

 

Miguelez, M., Lacasse, M., Kentner, A.C., Rizk, I., Fouriezos, G., & Bielajew, C. (2004).  Short-and long-term effects of interleukin-2 on weight, food intake, and hedonic mechanisms in the rat. Behavioural Brain Research, 154, 311-319. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15313018.

 

Miguelez, M., Kentner, A.C., Deslauriers, K., Fouriezos, G., Parkinson, M., & Bielajew, C. (2004). Interhemispheric involvement of the anterior cortical nuclei of the amygdala in the circuit underlying brain stimulation reward. Brain Research, 1003, 138-150. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15019573.

 

Bielajew, C., Konkle, A.T.M., Kentner, A.C., Baker, S.L., Stewart, A., Hutchins, A.A., Santa-Maria Barbagallo, L., & Fouriezos, G. (2003).  Strain and gender specific effects in the forced swim test: effects of previous stress exposure. Stress, 6, 269-280. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14660059.

 

Konkle, A.T.M., Baker, S.L., Kentner, A.C., Barbagallo,  L., Merali, Z., & Bielajew C. (2003). Evaluation of the effects of chronic mild stressors on hedonic and physiological responses: sex and strain compared. Brain Research, 992, 227-328. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14625061.