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Spanswick lab publications

Selected highlight publications

1. Brown RM, Kupchik YM, Spencer S, Garcia-Keller C, Spanswick D, Lawrence AJ, Simonds SE, Schwartz DJ, Jordan KA, Jhou TC, Kalivas PW. 2015. Addiction-like Synaptic Impairments in Diet-Induced Obesity. Biol Psychiatry pii: S0006-3223(15)00996-8.

2. Hebeisen S, Pires, N, Loureiro AI, Bonifácio MJ, Palma N, Whyment A, Spanswick D, Soares-da-Silva P. 2015. Eslicarbazepine and the enhancement of slow inactivation of voltage-gated sodium channels: A comparison with carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine and lacosamide. Neuropharmacology 89, 122-135.

3. Simonds SE, Pryor JT, Ravussin E, Greenway FL, Dileone R, Allen AM, Bassi J, Elmquist JK, Keogh JM, Henning E, Myers MG Jr, Licinio J, Brown RD, Enriori PJ, O’Rahilly S, Sternson SM, Grove KL, Spanswick DC, Farooqi IS, Cowley MA. 2014. Leptin mediates the increase in blood pressure associated with obesity. Cell, 159, 1404-1416.

4. Van den Top M, Lee K, Whyment A, Blanks A, Spanswick D. 2004. Orexigensensitive NPY/AgRP pacemaker neurons in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus. Nature Neuroscience 7, 493-494.

5. Spanswick D, Smith MA, Mirshamsi S, Routh VH, Ashford MLJ. 2000. Insulin activates ATP-sensitive potassium channels in hypothalamic neurones of lean, but not obese rats. Nature Neuroscience 3, 757-758.

Additional publications

A full list of Spanswick Lab publications can be viewed on PubMed.