Sanutha Shetty, Amir Farmanbar, Pamela Toh, Ramazan Yildiz, YoungUK Jang, Samuel Duesman, Aidan Warnock, Diego Espinoza, Sarah A. Stanley, Prashant Rajbhandari, Abha K. Rajbhandari. Disruption of Pre-Bötzinger Complex neuropeptidergic tonality controls fear and metabolic response. Under revision. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.01.697304v1

J. R. E. Carty, K. Devarakonda, R. M. O’Connor, A. Krek, D. Espinoza, M. Jimenez-Gonzalez, A. Alvarsson, R. F. Hampton, R. Li, Y. Qiu, S. Petri, A. Shtekler, A. Rajbhandari, Conner, M. Bayne, D. Garibay, J. Martin, V. Lehmann, L. Wang, K. Beaumont, I. Kurland, G. C. Yuan, P. J. Kenny & S. A. Stanley. Amygdala–liver signaling orchestrates glycaemic responses to stress. 2025. Nature.

 

Shetty S, Duesman SJ, Patel S, Huyhn P, Shroff S, Das A, Chowhan D, Sebra R, Beaumont K, McAlpine CS, Rajbhandari P, Rajbhandari AK. Sexually dimorphic role of diet and stress on behavior, energy metabolism, and the ventromedial hypothalamus. Biology of Sex Differences. doi: 10.1101/2023.11.17.567534. PubMed PMID: 39010139. *Corresponding author

Duesman SJ, Shetty S, Patel S, Ogale N, Mohamed F, Sparman N, Rajbhandari P, Rajbhandari AK. Sexually dimorphic role of the locus coeruleus PAC1 receptors in regulating acute stress-associated energy metabolism. Front Behav Neurosci. 2022;16:995573. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.995573. eCollection 2022. PubMed PMID: 36275856; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9580361. *Corresponding author
Rajbhandari AK, Octeau CJ, Gonzalez S, Pennington ZT, Mohamed F, Trott J, Chavez J, Ngyuen E, Keces N, Hong WZ, Neve RL, Waschek J, Khakh BS, Fanselow MS. A Basomedial Amygdala to Intercalated Cells Microcircuit Expressing PACAP and Its Receptor PAC1 Regulates Contextual Fear. J Neurosci. 2021 Apr 14;41(15):3446-3461. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2564-20.2021. Epub 2021 Feb 26. PubMed PMID: 33637560; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8051692. *Corresponding author
Nagai J, Rajbhandari AK, Gangwani MR, Hachisuka A, Coppola G, Masmanidis SC, Fanselow MS, Khakh BS. Hyperactivity with Disrupted Attention by Activation of an Astrocyte Synaptogenic Cue. Cell. 2019 May 16;177(5):1280-1292.e20. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.03.019. Epub 2019 Apr 25. PubMed PMID: 31031006; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6526045.

Rajbhandari AK, Gonzalez ST, Fanselow MS. Stress-Enhanced Fear Learning, a Robust Rodent Model of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. J Vis Exp. 2018 Oct 13;(140). doi: 10.3791/58306. PubMed PMID: 30371665; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6235522.

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