Publications

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• Antunes C, Da Silva JD, Guerra-Gomes S, Alves ND, Ferreira F, Loureiro-Campos E, Branco MR, Sousa N, Reik Pinto L, Marques CJ (2022) Tet3 deletion in adult brain neurons of female mice results in anxiety-like behavior and cognitive impairments, accepted for publication at Molecular Neurobiology;

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• Machado-Santos AR*, Loureiro-Campos E*, Patricio P, Araújo B, Alves ND, Mateus-Pinheiro A, Correia JS, Morais M, Bessa JM, Sousa N, Rodrigues AJ, Oliveira J*, Pinto L* (2022) Beyond new neurons in the adult hippocampus: Imipramine acts as a pro-astrogliogenic factor and rescues cognitive impairments induced by stress exposure, Cells;

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• Silveira-Rosa T, Mateus-Pinheiro A, Correia JS, Silva JM, Martins-Macedo J, Araújo B, Machado-Santos AR, Alves ND, Silva M, Loureiro-Campos E, Sotiropoulos I, Bessa JM, Rodrigues AJ, Sousa N, Patricio P, Pinto L (2021) Suppression of adult cytogenesis in the rat brain leads to sex-differentiated disruption of the HPA axis activity, Cell Proliferation;

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• Patricio P, Mateus-Pinheiro A, Machado-Santos AR, Alves ND, Correia JM, Morais M, Bessa JM, Rodrigues AJ, Oliveira JF, Sousa N, Pinto L (2021) Cell Cycle Regulation of Hippocampal Progenitor Cells in Experimental Models of Depression and after Treatment with Fluoxetine, Int. J. Mol. Sci.;

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• Mateus-Pinheiro A*, Patricio P*, Alves ND, Martins-Macedo J, Caetano I, Silveira-Rosa T, Araújo B, Mateus-Pinheiro M, Correia J, Sardinha VM, Loureiro-Campos E, Rodrigues AJ, Oliveira JF, Bessa JM, Sousa N, Pinto L. (2021) Hippocampal cytogenesis abrogation impairs inter-regional communications between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex and promotes the time-dependent manifestation of emotional and cognitive deficits, Mol Psychiatry, (*equal contributors);

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• Antunes C, Da Silva JD, Guerra-Gomes S, Alves ND, Ferreira F, Loureiro-Campos E, Branco MR, Sousa N, Reik W, Pinto L, Marques J (2021) Tet3 ablation in adult brain neurons increases anxiety-like behavior 2 and regulates cognitive function in mice. Mol Psychiatry, 26(5), 1445-1457 - selected for the issue cover image;

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• Patrício P, Mateus-Pinheiro A, Alves ND, Morais M, Bessa JM, Sousa N, Pinto L (2020) miR-409 and miR-411 modulation in the adult brain of a rat model of depression and after fluoxetine treatment. Front Behav Neurosci, 14:136;

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• Duarte J, Gaspar R, Caetano L, Patrício P, Soares-Cunha C, Mateus-Pinheiro A, Alves ND, Machado-Santos AR, Ferreira SG, Sardinha VM, Oliveira JF, Sousa N, Cunha RA, Ambrósio AF, Rodrigues AJ, Pinto L, Gomes CA (2019) Region-specific control of microglia by adenosine A2A receptors: uncoupling anxiety and associated cognitive deficits in female rats. Glia, 67(1);

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• Caetano L*, Pinheiro H*, Patrício P, Mateus-Pinheiro A, Alves ND, Henriques SN, Baptista FI, Cunha C, Machado-Santos AR, Ferreira SG, Sardinha VM, Oliveira JF, Ambrósio AF, Sousa N, Cunha RA, Rodrigues AJ, Pinto L#, Gomes CA# (2017) Adenosine A2A receptor regulation of microglia morphologic remodelling - gender bias in physiology and in a model of chronic anxiety. Mol Psychiatry, 22(7), 1035–1043. (*/# equal contributors);​

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• Morais M, Patrício P, Mateus-Pinheiro A, Alves ND, Machado-Santos AR, Correia JS, Pereira J, Pinto L, Sousa N, Bessa JM (2017) The modulation of adult neuroplasticity is involved in the mood improving actions of atypical antipsychotics in an animal model of depression. Transl Psychiatry, 7(6), 21146;

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• Félix L, Oliveira MM, Videira R, Maciel E, Alves ND, Nunes, FM, Alves A, Almeida JM, Domingues MRM, Peixoto FP (2016) Carvedilol exacerbate gentamicin-induced kidney mitochondrial alterations in adult rat. Exp Toxicol Pathol, 69(2), 83-92;

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• Patrício P, Mateus-Pinheiro A, Irmler M, Alves ND, Machado-Santos AR, Morais M, Correia JS, Korostynski M, Piechota M, Stoffel R, Beckers J, Bessa JM, Almeida OF, Sousa N, Pinto L (2015) Differential and Converging Molecular Mechanisms of Antidepressants' Action in the Hippocampal Dentate Gyrus. Neuropsychopharmacology, 40(2), 338-49;

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• Mateus-Pinheiro A*, Patrício P*, Alves ND, Machado-Santos AR, Morais M, Bessa JM, Sousa N, Pinto L. (2014) The Sweet Drive Test: Refining phenotypic characterization of anhedonic behavior in rodents. Front Behav Neurosci, 8, 74 (*equal contributors);

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• Mateus-Pinheiro A*, Pinto L*, Bessa JM, Morais M, Alves ND, Monteiro S, Patrício P, Almeida OF, Sousa N, (2013) Sustained remission from depressive-like behavior depends on hippocampal neurogenesis. Transl Psychiatry, 3, e210 (*equal contributors);