Min Qiao

Oct 22, 2024 | medrxiv.org | Yuexuan Xu |Min Qiao |Tamil Iniyan Gunasekaran |Yian Gu

The authors have declared no competing interest. Data collection for this project was supported by the Genetic Studies of Alzheimers disease in Caribbean Hispanics (EFIGA) funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (R01 AG067501).

Aug 2, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Aida Mohammadkhani |Min Qiao |Stephanie L. Borgland

AbstractDopamine (DA) neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) respond to motivationally relevant cues and circuit-specific signaling drives different aspects of motivated behavior. Orexins (ox; also known as hypocretin) and dynorphin (dyn) are co-expressed lateral hypothalamic (LH) neuropeptides that project to the VTA. These peptides have opposing effects on the firing activity of VTADA neurons via orexin 1 (Ox1R) or kappa opioid (KOR) receptors, respectively.

Dec 28, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Duncan Noble |Aida Mohammadkhani |Min Qiao |Stephanie L. Borgland

AAV adeno-associated virus ANOVA analysis of variance AUC area under the curve BNST bed nucleus of the stria terminalis ChR2 channelrhodopsin 2 CTB cholera toxin B DAT dopamine transporter DRN dorsal raphe nucleus eYFP enhanced yellow fluorescent protein FSCV fast-scan cyclic voltammetry HDCV high-definition cyclic voltammetry mPFC medial prefrontal cortex NAc nucleus accumbens NAcc nucleus accumbens core NAcsh nucleus accumbens shell OFC orbitofrontal cortex ROI region of interest VTA...