🎉 new research w\ Julia Clarke 🎉 textbooks say birds excreted urine is uric acid. Across a range of species we show that its not! and use previous research on avian caeca to demonstrate how it is modified prior to excretion link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Happy to announce our newest special issue on “Alcohol and Neural Plasticity” guest-edited by Dr. Kimberly Nixon (KN moved to bluer skies): bit.ly/BPL6-1 #openaccess #brainplasticity

Kevin Sanchez, a fourth year Pharmaceutical Sciences doctoral candidate in the Fonken Lab (@FonkenLaura), was awarded the prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) F31 National Research Service Award predoctoral fellowship.

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In a recent issue (6:1) of the #openaccess #BPLjournal, Nickell et al. report that, in adult male rats, temozolomide inhibits reactive neurogenesis induced by ethanol without impairing recovery acquisition of spatial learning in the Morris Water Maze. content.iospress.com/articles/brain…

First author review with KN moved to bluer skies and @FonkenLaura is in press! If you're an old rat that drinks alcohol and want to know what's happening to your brain's immune system then this one's for you. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…