Anthony R. West Publications

Faculty Directory

Marjorie A. Ariano, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies
Room 1.330
Telephone (847) 578-3412

Lise S. Eliot, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Room 2.274
Telephone (847) 578-3416

Robert Marr, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Room 2.212
Telephone (847) 578-8541

Daniel A. Peterson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Room 2.217B
Telephone (847) 578-3411

Grace E. Stutzmann (Beth), Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Room 2.216
Telephone (847) 578-8540

Anthony R. West, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Room 2.217A
Telephone (847) 578-8658

Marina E. Wolf, Ph.D
Professor and Chair, Room 2.262
Telephone (847) 578-8659

Anthony R. West, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Research Projects • Publications • Lab Members • Service Participation • West Home

Recent Peer Reviewed Publications

Sammut, S., Dec, A., Mitchell, D., Linardakis, J., Ortiguela, M., and West, A.R. (2006). Phasic Dopaminergic transmission increases NO efflux in the rat dorsal striatum via a neuronal NOS and a dopamine D_1/5 receptor-dependent mechanism. Neuropsychopharmacology, (published online, 9 June, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.npp.1300826), 31: 493-505.

Sammut, S., Bray, K.E., and West, A.R. (2007). Dopamine D₂ receptor-dependent modulation of striatal NO synthase activity. Psychopharmacology, (published online, January, 2007; doi: 10.1007/s00213-006-0681-z), 191: 793-803.

Sammut, S., Park, D.J., and West, A.R. (2007). Frontal cortical afferents facilitate striatal nitric oxide transmission in vivo via a NMDA receptor and neuronal nitric oxide synthase-dependent mechanism. Journal of Neurochemistry, (published online, July 2007; doi: 10.1111/j. 1471-4159.2007.04811.x), 103: 1145-1156.

Ondracek, J.M., Dec, A., Hoque, K.E., Lim, S.A., Rasouli, G., Indorkar, R.P., Linardakis, J., Klika, B., Mukherji, S., Burnazi, S., Threlfell, S., Sammut, S., and West, A.R. (2008). Feed-forward excitation of striatal neuron activity by frontal cortical activation of nitric oxide signaling in vivo. European Journal of Neuroscience, (published online, March, 2008; doi:10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06157.x) 27: 1739-1754.

Sammut, S., and West, A.R. (2008). Acute cocaine administration increases NO efflux in the rat prefrontal cortex via a neuronal NOS-dependent mechanism. Synapse, 62(9):710-713. PMID: 18566976

Threlfell, S., Sammut, S., Menniti, F.S., Schmidt, C.J., and West, A.R. (2009). Inhibition of phosphodiesterase 10A increases the responsiveness of striatal projection neurons to stimulation of frontal cortical afferents. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 328(3): 785-795. Published ahead of print Dec 4.PMID: 19056933.

Park, D., and West, A.R. (2009). Regulation of striatal NO synthesis by local dopamine and glutamate interactions. Journal of Neurochemistry, 111: 1457-1465.

Hoque, K.E., Indorkar, R.P., Sammut, S. and West, A.R. (2010). Impact of dopamine-glutamate interactions on striatal neuronal nitric oxide synthase activity. Psychopharmacology, 207: 571-581.

Sammut, S., Threlfell, S., and West, A.R. (2010). Nitric oxide-soluble guanylyl cyclase-cGMP signaling regulates corticostriatal transmission and short-term synaptic plasticity of striatal projection neurons recorded in vivo. Neuropharmacology, 58: 624-631.

Ondracek, J.M., Wiluhn, I., and Steiner, H., and West, A.R. (2010). Interactions between procedural learning and cocaine exposure alter spontaneous and cortically-evoked spike activity in the dorsal striatum. Front. Neurosci., 4:206. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2010.00206.

West, A.R. and Tseng, KY. (2011). Nitric oxide-soluble guanylyl cyclase signaling in the striatum: New targets for the treatment of Parkinson's disease? Front. Neurosci., 5:1-9. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2011.00055.

Tseng, KY., Caballero, A., Dec, A., Cass, D.K., Simak, N., Sunu, E., Park, M.J., Blume, S.R., Sammut, S., Park, D.J. and West, A.R. (2011). Inhibition of striatal soluble guanylyl cyclase-cGMP signaling reverses basal ganglia dysfunction and akinesia in experimental parkinsonism. PLoS ONE, 6(11): e27187. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0027187.

Hoque, K.E., and West, A.R. (2011). Dopaminergic modulation of nitric oxide synthase activity in subregions of the rat nucleus accumbens. Synapse. (published online, 27 November, 2011; doi: 10.1002/syn.21503).

Book Chapters

Liu, D-T., Sammut, S., and West, A.R. (2005). Nitric oxide signaling modulates the responsiveness of striatal medium spiny neurons to electrical stimulation of the substantia nigra: Striatal nitrergic signaling. In: The Basal Ganglia VIII (Editors: Bolam, J.P., Ingham, C.A. and Magill, P.J.) Springer Science and Business Media, New York. pp 503-512.

West, A.R., Sammut, S., and Ariano, M.A. (2009). Striatal Nitric Oxide-Guanylyl Cyclase Signaling in an Animal Model of Parkinson’s Disease. In: Cortico-subcortical Dynamics in Parkinson’s Disease. (Ed. K.Y. Tseng) Humana Press. Pp 171-184.

Grace, A.A., Rosenkranz, J.A. and West, A.R. (2009). Electrophysiology. In: American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Psychopharmacology, Fourth Edition. (Ed. C.B. Nemeroff and A.F. Schatzberg). American Psychiatric

Press, Washington, D.C. pp 135-151.

West, A.R. (2010). Nitric Oxide Signaling in the Striatum. In: Handbook of Basal Ganglia Structure and Function, a Decade of Progress. (Ed. H. Steiner and K.Y. Tseng) Elsevier Inc. Academic Press, London, UK. pp 187-196.