Recent Publications (with links to Medline Pub Med abstracts [Medline] and some pdf files)

• Blaustein, JD. Estrogen receptor-immunoreactivity in rat brain: rapid effects of estradiol injection, Endocrinology, 1993, 132: 1218-1224. [Medline]
  
• Blaustein, JD. and DH Olster. Colchicine-induced accumulation of estrogen receptor-and progestin receptor-immunoreactivity in atypical areas in guinea pig brain. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 1993, 5: 63-70. [Medline]
  
• Blaustein, JD, Olster, DH and MJ Tetel. Heterogeneous regulation of steroid hormone receptors in the brain, American Zoologist, 1993, 33: 219-228.
  
• Turcotte, JC and JD Blaustein. Immunocytochemical localization of midbrain estrogen receptor- and progestin receptor-containing cells in female guinea pigs. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 1993, 328: 76-87. [Medline]
  
• Tetel, MJ, MJ Getzinger, and JD Blaustein.  Fos Expression in the rat brain following vaginal-cervical stimulation by mating and manual probing.  Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 1993, 5: 397-404. [Medline]
  
• Delville, Y and JD Blaustein. Estrogen receptor-immunoreactive forebrain neurons project to the ventrolateral hypothalamus in female guinea pigs. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 1993, 334: 571-589. [Medline]
  
• Wade, GN., Gray, JM and JD Blaustein. Estrogens and antiestrogens: Effects on eating behavior, metabolism, and energy balance. Oncology, 1993, 7, number 11 (supplement): 61-68.
  
• Blaustein, JD.  Estrogen receptors in neurons: new subcellular locations and functional implications.  Endocrine Journal, 1994, 2: 249-258.
  
• Ricciardi, KHN and JD Blaustein. Projections from ventrolateral hypothalamic neurons containing progestin receptor- and substance P-immunoreactivity to specific forebrain and midbrain areas in female guinea pigs. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 1994, 6: 135-144. [Medline]
  
• Li, H-Y, Blaustein, J. D., DeVries, G. J., Wade, G. N. Estrogen receptor-immunoreactivity in hamster brain: preoptic area, hypothalamus and amygdala. Brain Research, 1993, 631: 304-312. [Medline]
  
• Wade, GN, Blaustein, JD, Gray, JM, Meredith, JM. ICI 182,780: A pure antiestrogen that affects behaviors and energy balance in rats without acting in the brain. American Journal of Physiology (Regulatory Integrative Comparative Physiology), 1993, 265: R1392-R1398. [Medline]
  
• Wade, GN, Powers, JB, Blaustein, JD, Green, DE. ICI 182,780 antagonizes the effects of estradiol on estrous behavior and energy balance in Syrian hamsters. American Journal of Physiology, (Regulatory Integrative Comparative Physiology), 1993, 265: R1399-R1403. [Medline]
  
• Tetel, MJ, Celentano, DC, and JD Blaustein. Intraneuronal convergence of environmental and hormonal stimuli associated with female reproduction. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 1994, 6: 211-216. [Medline]
  
• Blaustein, JD, Tetel, MJ, Ricciardi, KHN, Delville, Y and JC Turcotte. Hypothalamic ovarian steroid hormone-sensitive neurons involved in female sexual behavior. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 1994, 19: 505-516. [Medline]
  
• Zhou, L, Blaustein, JD and GJ DeVries. Distribution of androgen receptor immunoreactivity in vasopressin-immunoreactive and oxytocin-immunoreactive neurons in the male rat brain. Endocrinology, 1994, 134: 2622-2627. [Medline]
  
• Tetel, MJ, Getzinger, MJ, and JD Blaustein. Estradiol and progesterone influence the response of ventromedial hypothalamic neurons to tactile stimuli associated with female reproduction. Brain Research, 1994, 646: 267-272. [Medline]
  
• Li, H-Y, GN Wade, and JD Blaustein. Manipulations of metabolic fuel availability alter estrous behavior and neural estrogen-receptor immunoreactivity in Syrian hamsters.  Endocrinology, 1994, 135: 240-247. [Medline]
  
• Mani, SK, JMC Allen, JH Clark, JD Blaustein and BW O'Malley.  Convergent pathways for steroid hormone- and neurotransmitter-induced rat sexual behavior.  Science, 1994, 265: 1246-1249. [Medline]
  
• Mani, SK, JD Blaustein, JMC Allen, SW Law, BW O'Malley, and JH Clark. Inhibition of rat sexual behavior by antisense oligonucleotides to the progesterone receptor. Endocrinology, 1994, 135: 1409 - 1414. [Medline]
  
• Meredith, JM, CJ Auger, and JD Blaustein.  Down-regulation of estrogen receptor immunoreactivity by 17beta-estradiol in the guinea pig forebrain.  Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 1994, 6: 639- 648. [Medline]
  
• Tetel, MJ, DC Celentano, JD Blaustein.  Intraneuronal convergence of tactile and hormonal stimuli associated with female reproduction in rats.  Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 1994, 6: 211-216. [Medline]
  
• Auger, AP and JD Blaustein.  Progesterone enhances an estradiol-induced increase in Fos immunoreactivity in localized regions of female rat forebrain. Journal of Neuroscience, 1995, 15: 2272-2279. [Medline]
  
• Blaustein, JD, MJ Tetel, and JM Meredith.  Neurobiological regulation of hormonal response by progestin and estrogen receptors In: "Neurobiological effects of sex steroid hormones", Micevych, PE, RP Hammer, Jr., eds., Cambridge University Press; New York, NY, 1995, pp. 324-349.
  
• King, JC, Tai, DW, Hanna, IK, Pfeiffer, A, Haas, P, Ronsheim, PM, Mitchell, SC, Turcotte, JC, and JD Blaustein. A subgroup of LHRH neurons in guinea pigs with progestin receptors is centrally positioned within the total population of LHRH neurons. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 1995, 61: 265-275. [Medline]
  
• de la Iglesia, HO, Blaustein, JD and Bittman, EL. The suprachiasmatic area in the female hamster projects to neurons containing estrogen receptors and gnRH. Neuroreport, 1995, 6: 1715-1722. [Medline]
  
• Mani, SK, JMC Allen, JP Lydon, JD Blaustein, FJ DeMayo, O Conneely and BW O'Malley. Dopamine requires the unoccupied progesterone receptor to induce sexual behavior in mice. Molecular Endocrinology, 1996, 10:  1728-1737. [Medline]
  
• Auger, AP, CA Moffatt and JD Blaustein.  Reproductively-relevant stimuli induce Fos-immunoreactivity within progestin receptor-containing neurons in localized regions of female rat forebrain.  Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 1996, 8: 831-838. [Medline]
  
• Blaustein, JD.  Ovarian steroid hormone receptors in the brain:  Localization, action and behavioral function.  In: Infertility and Reproductive Medicine Clinics of North America, Premenstrual Syndrome and Related Disorders, (ed. by KA Ginsburg), WB Saunders, Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, 1996, 7: 243 - 265.
  
• Du Y, Wade, GN and JD Blaustein.  Effects of food deprivation on induction of neural progestin receptors by estradiol in Syrian hamsters.  American Journal of Physiology, 1996, 270: R978-R983. [Medline]
  
• Ricciardi, KHN, JC Turcotte, JD Blaustein and GJ DeVries.  Identification of efferent projections from the steroid receptor-containing area of the ventrolateral hypothalamus in female guinea pigs.  Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 1996, 8: 673 - 685. [Medline]
  
• Turcotte, JC and JD Blaustein. Convergence of Substance P and estrogen receptor immunoreactivity in the midbrain central gray in female guinea pigs. Neuroendocrinology, 1997, 66: 28 - 37. [Medline]
  
• Auger, AP and JD Blaustein. Progesterone treatment increases fos-immunoreactivity within some progestin receptor-containing neurons in localized regions of female rat forebrain. Brain Research, 1997, 746: 164 - 170. [Medline]
  
• Le, W-W, Attardi, B, Berghorn, KA, Blaustein, JD and GE Hoffman. Progesterone blockade of a luteinizing hormone surge blocks luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone Fos activation and activation of its preoptic area afferents. Brain Research, 1997, 778: 272 - 280. [Medline]
  
• Meredith, JM, AP Auger, and JD Blaustein. D₁ dopamine receptor agonist (SKF-38393) induction of Fos immunoreactivity in progestin receptor-containing areas of female rat brain.  Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 1997, 9: 385-394. [Medline]
  
• Auger, AP, CA Moffatt and JD Blaustein.  Progesterone-independent activation of rat brain progestin receptors by reproductive stimuli.  Endocrinology, rapid communication, 1997, 138: 511-514. [Medline]
  
• Wade, GN, RL Lempicki, AK Panicker, RM Frisbee, and JD Blaustein.  Leptin facilitates and inhibits sexual behavior in female hamsters.  American Journal of Physiology, 1997, 41: R1354-R1358. [Medline]
  
• Mani, SK, JD Blaustein, and BW O'Malley.  Progesterone receptor function from a behavioral perspective.  Hormones and Behavior, 1997, 31: 244-255. [Medline]
  
• Mangels, RA, Powers, JB and JD Blaustein. Effect of photoperiod on neural estrogen and progestin receptor immunoreactivity in female syrian hamsters. Brain Research, 1998, 796: 63-74. [Medline]
  
• Moffatt, CA, Rissman, EF, Shupnik, MA and JD Blaustein. Induction of neural progestin receptors by estradiol in estrogen receptor-alpha gene disrupted mice. Journal of Neuroscience, 1998, 18: 9556 - 9563. [Medline]
  
• Meredith, JM, Moffatt, CA, Auger, AP, Snyder, GL, Greengard, P and JD Blaustein. Mating-related stimulation induces phosphorylation of DARPP-32 in progestin receptor-containing areas in the female rat brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 1998, 18: 10189 - 10195. [Medline]
  
• Turcotte, JC and JD Blaustein. Projections of the estrogen receptor-immunoreactive hypothalamus to other estrogen receptor-immunoreactive sites in the female guinea pig brain. Neuroendocrinology, 1999, 69: 63-76. [Medline]
• de la Iglesia, H.O., Blaustein, J.D. and Bittman, E.L. Estrogen receptor-immunoreactive neurons project to the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the female Syrian hamster. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 1999, 11: 481 - 490. [Medline]
• Auger, A.P., LaRiccia, L.M., Moffatt, C.A. and Blaustein, J.D. Progesterone-induced, but not progesterone-independent activation of progestin receptors decreases progestin receptor immunoreactivity within the forebrain of female rats. Hormones and Behavior, 2000, 37: 135-144. [Medline]
• Donahue, J.E., Stopa, E.G., Chorsky, R.L., King, J.C., Schipper, H.M., Tobet, S.A., Blaustein, J.D. and Reichlin, S. Cells containing immunoreactive estrogen receptor-" in the human basal forebrain. Brain Research, 2000, 856: 142-151. [Medline]
• Lonstein, J.S., Greco, B., DeVries, G.J., Stern, J.M. and Blaustein, J.D. Maternal behavior stimulates c-fos activity within estrogen receptor alpha-containing neurons in lactating rats. Neuroendocrinology, 2000, 72: 91-101. [Medline]
• Bennett, A.L., Blasberg, M.E. and Blaustein, J.D. Sensory cues mediating mating-induced potentiation of sexual receptivity in female rats. Hormones and Behavior, 2001, 40: 77 - 83.[Medline]
• Auger, A.P., Meredith, J.M., Snyder, G.L. and Blaustein, J.D. Estradiol increases phosphorylation of a dopamine and cyclic AMP-regulated phosphoprotein (DARPP-32) in female rat brain. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 2001, 13: 761 - 768.[Medline]
• Greco, B., Allegretto, E.A., Tetel, M.J. and Blaustein, J.D. Coexpression of estrogen receptor-b with estrogen receptor-a and progestin receptor proteins in neurons of the female rat forebrain: Effects of estradiol treatment. Endocrinology, 2001, 242: 5172 - 5181.[Medline]
• Quysner, A. and Blaustein, J.D. A dopamine antagonist blocks vaginocervical stimulation-induced neuronal responses in the rat forebrain. Brain Research, 2001, 921: 173 - 182.[Medline]
• Blaustein, J.D. and Greco, B. A progestin antagonist blocks vaginocervical stimulation-induced Fos expression in neurons containing progestin receptors in the rostral medial preoptic area. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 2002, 14: 1 - 12.[Medline]
• Blaustein, J.D. and Erskine, M.S. Feminine sexual behavior: cellular integration of hormonal and afferent information in the rodent forebrain. In: (Pfaff, DW, ed.) Hormones, Brain and Behavior, Academic Press: New York, 2002, 139 - 214.
• Bennett, A.L., Greco, B., Blasberg, M.E. and Blaustein, J.D. Response to male odours in progestin receptor- and oestrogen receptor-containing cells in female rat brain. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 2002, 14: 442 - 449.[Medline]
• Bennett, A.L., Blasberg, M.E. and Blaustein, J.D. Mating stimulation required for mating-induced estrous abbreviation in female rats: effects of repeated testing. Hormones and Behavior, 2002, 42: 206 - 211.