Monday, 18th August The International Congress of Neuroendocrinology 2014

Iain Clarke, Monash University

• The cyclooxygenase-eicosanoid pathway and stress-induced spatial learning deficits - Denovan P Begg
• The functional relationship between histamine and neurosecretory protein GM in the chick hypothalamus - Yuki Bessho
• Behavioral characterization of the psychiatric phenotype in the BACHD mouse model of Huntington’s disease - Rachel Y Cheong
• Stress exacerbates chemotherapy-induced neuroinflammation and behavioral deficits - A. Courtney DeVries
• Food fight: searching for novel and conserved neuroendocrine mechanisms of aggression during bouts of food insecurity. - H. Bobby Fokidis
• Seasonal plasticity of catecholaminergic innervation of central and peripheral auditory circuitry in a vocal fish - Paul M Forlano
• Examining the effect of raloxifene and tamoxifen in an animal model of schizophrenia - Andrea Gogos
• Antidepressant Effects of Resveratrol in an Animal Model of Depression - Laura Hurley
• Exogenous ovarian hormone exposure and risk for binge eating - Kelly L. Klump
• Aggressive experience increases PSD-95 in the nucleus accumbens of female hamsters via the fragile X mental retardation protein signaling pathway - Kelsey M Moore
• High fat diet restored anxiety-like behaviour induced by early life adversity but induced long-term deficits in hippocampal genes related to plasticity and mitochondrial biogenesis - Margaret J Morris
• Juvenile play-induced Fos expression in dopaminergic neurons of the VTA is context dependent in males - Katharine V Northcutt
• The BDNF gene Val66Met single nucleotide polymorphism interacts with chronic CORT exposure to determine affective- and anxiety-related behavior - Michael Notaras
• Mouse pup retrieval and crouching behavior following social isolation in virgin male mice - Chitose Orikasa
• Behavioral consequences of exposure to a high fat diet during the post-weaning period in rats - Cristina Rabasa
• Sex specific sensitivity to early intervention strategies in a mouse model of schizophrenia - Udani Ratnayake
• Glucocorticoid receptors mediate the rapid effects of intra-prelimbic prefrontal cortex injections of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist and corticosterone on the expression of contextual conditioned fear in rats - Fernando MCV Reis
• Development of an integrative neuromolecular and neurophysiological curriculum for the Neural Systems & Behavior course at MBL - Suzy CP Renn
• Interleukin-1 signaling is not necessary for the induction and propagation of aromatase expression in the chronically injured mouse brain. - Colin J Saldanha
• A role for the medial preoptic area in mediating a response to cocaine - Daniel J Tobiansky
• Anabolic-androgenic steroids impair decision making on a rodent version of the Iowa Gambling Task - Kathryn G Wallin
• Food hoarding, but not food intake, is attenuated by acute diazepam treatment in female Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) - Dehua Wang
• Diesel engine exhaust origin secondary organic aerosol affects novel object recognition ability and maternal behavior in BALB/c mice - Tin-Tin Win-Shwe
• Anatomical and functional characterisation of the relaxin-3/RXFP3 system in mice: Modulation of feeding, stress and anxiety - Cary Zhang

• The effect of L-arginine on appetite and GLP-1 and PYY release in rodents.  - Amin Alamshah
• A new concept of insulin-regulated Aminopeptidase in Adipocytes - Rafaela F Alponti
• Investigating the contribution of altered metabolic gene expression in obese Kiss1r KO mice. - Julie-Ann P De Bond
• Genetic differences at the cholecystokinin  A receptor  locus  result in changes in agouti related protein expression in the hypothalamus and differences in growth rate. - Ian C Dunn
• Seasonal regulation of FGF21 production in Siberian hamsters - Francis J P Ebling
• Fatty acid metabolism in the hypothalamic parenchyma of mice: a novel role for medium-chain fatty acids? - Vanessa R Haynes
• Thermogenesis and mitochondrial DNA haplotypic clustering aligns with differences in body composition of genetically lean and obese sheep - Belinda Henry
• Title: Crif1-deficiency causes progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons and Parkinsonian behavioral abnormalities with loss of appetite in mice . - Jun Young Heo
• High Cortisol response to adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) is associated with an increased propensity to obesity through reduced melanocortin signalling - Sakda D Hewagalamulage
• Skeletal muscle-derived natriuretic peptide family protein acts in hypothalamus for regulating appetite - Yunseon Jang
• Effect of TonEBP on the hypothalamic regulation of energy balance   - Han Rae Kim
• Obesity during pregnancy alters Fetal Immune responses and Hypothalamic Astrocytes in the mouse - Thomas Kim
• Thyroid hormone (T3) represses VGF endogenous expression and promoter activity: a possible mechanism for the seasonal regulation of appetite.  - J E Lewis
• Physiological glucose availability mediates feeding in response to ghrelin - Sarah H Lockie
• Low bodyweight, but not diet-induced obesity, impacts on thermogenesis in adipose tissue and skeletal muscle. - Rachael Loughnan
• Beta-catenin is stabilised by exendin4 and facilitates GLP-1 receptor induced hypothalamic neuroendocrine cell secretions. - Hayden J L McEwen
• Peripheral and central alterations in a mouse model of food restriction: role of ghrelin - Mathieu Mequinion
• Effect of thyroid transcription factor-1 on the streptozotocin-induced diabetic hyperphagia - Il Seong Nam-Goong
• Metabolic sensing by Carnitine acyltranserafse in AgRP  neurons regulates feeding behaviour and liver function during negative energy balance - Alexander Reichenbach
• Pancreatic PYY regulates energy and glucose homeostasis - Yan-Chuan Shi
• Effects of Exenatide on representative metabolic parameters in rats with “central” obesity - Paulo F Silveira
• The marvel of intermittent feeding for weight loss maintenance, despite a phenotypic propensity for obesity - Mark E Smyers
• Low intraperitoneal doses of PYY and GLP-1 reduce appetite without causing feelings of visceral illness in rodents. - Eleanor Spreckley
• Acyl ghrelin acts in the brain to control liver function and peripheral glucose homeostasis - Romana Stark
• Ghrelin-derived peptides: what to assay and how to assay ? - Virginie Tolle
• Important role of Neuropeptide FF receptor-2 signalling in the regulation of energy homeostasis - Lei Zhang

• Activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-growth hormone axis is a determinant of seasonal body mass in the Siberian hamster - Perry Barrett
• Photoperiodic regulation of WNT signaling in the arcuate nucleus of the Djungarian hamster, Phodopus sungorus - Alisa Boucsein
• Amyloid beta peptide impairs the melatonergic system – from melatonin synthesis to melatonin signaling - Erika Cecon
• Androgen can affect photic response of the Suprachiasmatic nucleus via actions on neural androgen receptors in male mice - Lindsay A Coome
• Development of fluorescent ligands to study MT1 and MT2 melatonin receptors. - Laurence Dufourny
• A GABAergic mechanism is necessary for Per2-suppressing effect in the rat SCN by sevoflurane - Izumi Matsuo
• Sex differences in Circadian clock function in hamsters and mice - Eric M Mintz
• Acute dim light at night increases body mass, alters metabolism, and shifts core body temperature circadian rhythms - Randy J. Nelson
• Trpv1 function in the mechanism of entrainment by temperature of peripheral clocks - Maristela Poletini
• In utero photoperiodic history is established via regulation of pituitary-hypothalamic gene expression in Siberian hamsters - Cristina Saenz de Miera
• Seasonal and gonadal regulation of mechanisms underlying microvasculature remodelling in the equine pituitary gland - Nichol Thompson

• Prenatal glucocorticoids exposure induces depressive behavior and upregulation of CRH and CRHR1in hippocampus of offspring.  - Xin Ni
• Leptin inhibits dopaminergic neurite outgrowth from the developing ventral midbrain in mice - Naomi Penfold

• Adolescent testosterone and postnatal Hippocampal Neurogenesis in male rats - Katie M Allen
• Sex difference in pubertal cytogenesis in the ventromedial hypothalamus of mice. - Jenny L. Kim
• Influence of Microglia during Tuberal Hypothalamic development - Candace Marsters
• Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in the brain of the spiny mouse: ontogeny and regional distribution. - Tracey A Quinn
• Increases in cyclin D1 expression and in cell proliferation within omasal epithelium are regulated by systemic EGF in goats fed on a peanut straw diet - Zanming Shen
• The effect of maternal obesity on developmental gene expression in the fetal arcuate nucleus     - Hannah Twigg
• Endocannabinoid-induced phagocytosis in the developing amygdala mediates a sex difference in cell genesis - Jonathan W VanRyzin

• Neuronal luteinizing hormone receptor activation affects synaptic plasticity - Jeff Blair
• Glucocorticoid pattern-dependent gene regulation in the rat hippocampus - Becky L Conway-Campbell
• The effect of Oestrogen on Human Brain Tryptophan metabolism  - Josien de Bie
• The estrogen receptor β modulates the expression of cell cycle regulators in pituitary cells - Silvina Gutierrez
• The effects of the selective estrogen receptor modulator, raloxifene, on dopamine-induced locomotion depends on sex steroid background - Tertia D Purves-Tyson
• Influence of menstrual cycle on heart rate changes elicited by affective visual stimuli - Osvaldas Ruksenas
• Failure of thyroid hormone treatment to prevent inflammation-induced white matter injury in the immature brain - Anne-Laure Schang
• Neurosteroids as potential markers for the diagnosis of normal pressure hydrocephalus - Lucie Sosvorova
• Puberty-induced changes in neuron number in the male and female rat medial prefrontal cortex - Jari Willing
• Oral contraceptive androgenicity impacts cognitive performance in multiple sexually-dimorphic domains - Roisin Worsley
• Higher Testosterone Levels Are Correlated with Poorer Verbal Memory in Women with Chronic Schizophrenia - Roisin Worsley

• Novel oscillation (burst rhythm) in ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus may mediate the sympathetic nerve activity - Kamon Iigaya
• Evaluation of the effect of Dapsone administered alone or in combination with Phenobarbital on functional recovery of rats with traumatic spinal cord injury. - Angel Solana Rojas

• KISS1R signals independently of Gɑ_q/11 and triggers LH secretion via the ß-arrestin pathway in the male mouse - Andy V Babwah
• The role of the novel reproductive peptide phoenixin-20 amide in GnRH and Kiss hypothalamic cell models. - Denise D Belsham
• NO as a “volume transmitter” of neuroendocrine signals in the hypothalamic area - Konstantina Chachlaki
• Hypothalamic kisspeptin neurons co-express glutamate and GABA in a sexually dimorphic manner - Katja Czieselsky
• Plasma Kisspeptin levels are positively correlated with LH in women with polycystic ovary syndrome - Maha H Daghestani
• Increased hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity may facilitate transition into active breeding - Molly J Dickens
• Perception of food affects Corticosterone and behavior but not reproductive hormones in the zebra finch - Darcy K Ernst
• Identification of novel estrogen receptor β variants in the human. - Yujiro Hattori
• Involvement of KNDy neurons in luteinizing hormone surges induced by steroids - Andrea M Stathopoulos
• Acute modulation of the kiss1 expression in the lactating rat hypothalamus mediated by the suckling stimulus and prolactin. - Shimpei Higo
• Cell-to-cell communication via gap junctions may play a role in controlling synchronized activities of KNDy neurons regulating pulsatile secretion of gonadotropin-releasing hormone - Kana Ikegami
• Characterization of alternative promoter usage and alternative splicing profiles of the estrogen receptor β gene in the human. - Hirotaka Ishii
• Effect of androgen on kisspeptin expression and luteinizing hormone release in female rats - Kinuyo Iwata
• Kisspeptin neurons in the preoptic area of the adult male rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) - Bruna Kalil
• Differences between plasmatic concentrations of 7-hydroxylated metabolites of DHEA in healthy men and oligospermic or asthenospermic men - Jana Kubatova
• Interactions between kisspeptin neurons and hypothalamic tuberoinfundibular dopaminergic neurons in aged female rats - Yuyu Kunimura
• Perinatal kisspeptin is required for suppression of female sexual behavior in male rats - Sho Nakamura
• Testosterone modulates directionality of axonal transport: an in vitro study - Marzia Pesaresi
• Time-dependent effects of noradrenaline on Kisspeptin synthesis: role of the biological clock - Maristela Poletini
• Serotonergic regulation of reproduction through Kisspeptin in the male zebrafish                                - Parvathy Prasad
• Prolactin-regulating dopaminergic neurons in the hypothalamus express neurokinin-B receptor and are innervated by neurokinin B- and kisspeptin-immunopositive fibers in rodents. - Nobuhiko Sawai
• Estrogen-related receptor β reduces subnuclear mobility of estrogen receptor α and suppresses estrogen-dependent cellular function - Takashi Tanida
• Metabolic alterations in ovarian NGF overexpressing mice - Jenny L Wilson
• Circadian regulation of hypothalamic Kiss1 and Kiss1r during mouse pregnancy - Cassandra C Yap
• Elucidating the projections of arcuate nucleus kisspeptin cells to GnRH neurons with viral tract tracing - Siew Hoong Dr Yip
• The study of acute effect of systemic administration of human kisspeptin-10 on secretion of reproductive hormones in obese men - Muhammad Shahab

• Evidence that Prolactin acts on a relatively small subpopulation of RFRP-3 Neurons to suppress their activity and stress responses - Caroline Ancel
•  Inactivation of corticotropin releasing hormone-induced insulinotropic role by high-altitude hypoxia - Xue-Qun Chen
• Control of neurosteroid production by corticotrophin-releasing hormone : possible implication in the regulation of the stress response - Jean Luc do Rego
• Corticotropin releasing hormone is a biomarker for high-altitude hypoxia and a predictor of acute mountain sickness - Ji-Zeng Du
• Suppression of basal HPA axis activity in the late pregnant and lactating mouse. - Papillon Gustafson
• Prolactin actions in the mouse mediobasal hypothalamus - Siobhan E Kirk
• Exposure to acute stress induces dynamic changes in neuronal corticosteroid-binding globulin in the rat brain - Xiaoxiao Qian
• The mouse adrenal medulla is responsive to interleukin-6 in vivo - Danielle E Tranter
• Vitamin D deficiency during mouse development increases placental and fetal glucocorticoid exposure and alters fetal neural genes. - Caitlin Wyrwoll

• Characterization and evaluation of the anti-apoptotic effect of Dapsone in a model of traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in rats. - Angel Solana Rojas

• Estrogen receptor-α and progestin receptor modulate the effect of kisspeptin on TIDA neurons and prolactin secretion - Raphael E. Szawka
• The role of the melanocortin system in regulating food intake via reward pathways in the ventral tegmental area (VTA)  - Katherine A Banks
• Early adversity and individual differences in the endogenous oxytocin system - Femke T.A. Buisman-Pijlman
• Possible involvement of cerebral endomorphin-1 and endomorphin-2 in physiopathology of anxiety and depression - Jean Claude do Rego
• The melanocortin receptor system in suppressing neuro-inflammatory events post ischemia reperfusion - Paul M Holloway
• In vitro and in vivo analysis of novel neuropeptide FF receptor antagonists - Joon S Kim
• Neuropeptide galanin is an immunomodulator - Barbara Kofler
• Induction of melanin-concentrating hormone expression in the medial preoptic area of lactating rats: possible role of prolactin - Ilona C Kokay
• Retinoic Acid (RA) and Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) induce VGF endogenous expression and promoter activity in SH-SY5Y cells. - J E Lewis
• Morphological analysis of novel small neurosecretory protein, NPGL and NPGM, derived from novel genes in the rat hypothalamus - Sho MAEJIMA
• Effect of Oestradiol on Neurotrophin receptor expression in Cholinergi neurons in Vivo - Michael R Milne
• Impact of postnatal bisphenol A exposure on exploratory behaviors and related neuroendocrine pathways in prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) - Heather B Patisaul
• Disruptions in the Oxt system contribute to altered sensorimotor gating - Megan Rich
• Modulation of stress- and arousal-related behaviour by relaxin-3/RXFP3 systems: Impact on innate anxiety and learned fear in the rat - Valeria Rytova
• Visualization of a three-dimensional ultrastructure of neuropeptide in the axon terminals by 3view-scanning electron microscopy - Keiko Takanami
• Vasopressin effects on behavioral responses to same - and other-sex faces in men and women - Richmond Thompson
• Distribution of prolactin-sensitive GABAergic neurones in the mouse hypothalamus - Amanda K Wyatt
• Large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the gall bladder complicating a case of calculous Chronic Cholecystitis: A case report and review of the literature - Anjana Kaur

• Hypothalamic tanycytes are an ERK-gated conduit for leptin into the brain - Eglantine Balland
• Surge-like LH secretion induced by retrochiasmatic area NK3R activation is mediated by kisspeptin/GPR54 signaling in ovary-intact ewes. - Pasha Grachev
• Reproductive experience alters the effects of estrogens on hippocampus-dependent working and reference memory and neurogenesis in middle-aged female rats. - Cindy K Barha

• Effects and mechanism of action of estren on beta amyloid-induced cholinergic and behavioural deficits - Andrea Kwakowsky
• A novel pathway by which 17β-estradiol modulates spatial memory via regulation of parvalbumin positive interneurons is disrupted in BDNF heterozygous mice. - Rachel A Hill
• Social and endocrine factors guide postpartum neuroplasticity in the midbrain dorsal raphe - Allie Holschbach
• Adolescence, gonadal hormones and anxiety-like behaviour in rats - Gillian Brown
• Cocaine rewires excitatory inputs onto lateral hypothalamic orexin neurons - Christopher V Dayas
• Imaging conditioned fear circuitry in awake mice using fMRI: implications for stress associated disorders. - Megan C Holmes
• Genetic deletion of ghrelin O-acyltransferase (GOAT) reveals that acylated ghrelin regulates learning and anxiety behaviour - Vanessa Valgas dos Santos
• High fat / high sugar diet consumption reduces neuroplasticity and impairs hippocampus-dependent fear memories - Margaret Morris

• The thermogenic effect of leptin is dependent on a distinct population of prolactin-releasing peptide (PrRP) neurons in the dorsomedial hypothalamus - Simon M. Luckman
• A novel role for kisspeptin signaling in obesity and glucose homeostasis: analysis of developmental onset and sex steroid-independence - Alexander S Kauffman
• Central chemerin administration modulates control of feeding in seasonal animals - Gisela Helfer
• FTO influences the ability of a high fat diet to induce central leptin resistance - Yi-Chun L Tung
• Carnitine metabolism through carnitine acyltransferase (crat) in POMC neurons regulates energy metabolism in response to high fat diet. - Zane B Andrews
• CART function on energy homeostasis is controlled by the NPY system - Jackie Lau
• The role of the central insulin-NPY pathway in the regulation of energy balance - Kim Loh
• Inhibitory effects of GnIH on NPY neurons in the arcuate nucleus of the mouse - Harold A Coleman

Presenters:
Ken Ho - Clinical aspects of growth hormone biology
Michael Waters -  GH receptors and signal transduction
Robert Baxter - IGF and binding proteins
Chen Chen - Pulsatility of GH secretion in mice)