Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center

Petruska, J.C., Kitay, B., Boyce, V.S., Kaspar, B.K., Pearse, D.D., Gage, F.H., Mendell, L.M. Intramuscular AAV delivery of NT-3 alters synaptic transmission to motoneurons in adult rats. (2010) European Journal of Neuroscience (in press; Epub Sept 9, 2010)

Bevan, A.K., Hutchinson, K.R., Foust, K.D., Braun, L., McGovern, V.L., Schmelzer, L., Ward, J.G., Petruska, J.C., Lucchesi, P.A., Burghes, A.H.M., Kaspar, B.K. Early heart failure in the SMN delta-7 model of spinal muscular atrophy and correction by postnatal scAAV9-SMN delivery. Human Molecular Genetics (in press; Epub July 16, 2010) PMID: 20639395

Hill, C.E., Harrison, B.J., Rau, K.K., Hougland, M.T., Bunge, M.B., Mendell, L.M., Petruska, J.C. Skin incision induces expression of axonal regeneration-related genes in adult rat spinal sensory neurons. (2010) Journal of Pain (in press; Epub June 1, 2010) PMID: 20627820

Petruska, J.C. and Mendell, L.M. Nerve Growth Factor. (2009) In: Squire, L.R. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, volume 6, pp. 71-78. Oxford: Academic Press.

Petruska, J.C., Ichiyama, R.M., Jindrich, D., Crown, E.D., Tansey, K.E., Roy, R.R., Edgerton, V.R., Mendell, L.M. Changes in motoneuron properties and synaptic inputs related to step training following spinal cord transection in rats. (2007) Journal of Neuroscience 27:4460-4471

Tan, A.M., Petruska, J.C., Mendell, L.M. Levine, J.M. Sensory afferents regenerated after spinal cord injury remain in a chronic pathophysiological state. (2007) Experimental Neurology 206:257-268

Zhu, W., Galoyan, S.M., Petruska, J.C., Oxford, G.S., Mendell, L.M. A developmental switch in acute sensitization of small dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons to capsaicin or noxious heating by NGF. (2004) Journal of Neurophysiology 92:3148-3152

Arvanian, V.L., Bowers, W.J., Petruska, J.C., Motin, V., Manuzon, H., Narrow, W.C., Federoff, H.J., Mendell, L.M. Viral delivery of NR2D subunits reduces Mg²⁺ block of NMDA receptor and restores NT-3-induced potentiation of AMPA/kainate responses in maturing rat motoneuron. (2004) Journal of Neurophysiology 92:2394-2404

Aimone, J.B., et al. (Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation Research Consortium). Spatial and temporal gene expression profiling of the contused rat spinal cord. (2004) Exp. Neurology 189:204-21

Petruska, J.C. and Mendell, L.M. The many functions of nerve growth factor: Multiple actions on nociceptors. (2004) Neuroscience Letters 361:168-171

Garraway, S., Petruska, J.C., Mendell, L.M. BDNF sensitizes the response of lamina II neurons to high threshold primary afferent inputs. (2003) European Journal of Neuroscience 18:2467-2476

Galoyan, S.M., Petruska, J.C., Mendell, L.M. Mechanisms of sensitization of the responses of single dorsal root ganglion cells from adult rat to noxious heat. (2003) European Journal of Neuroscience 18:535-541

Petruska, J.C., Napaporn, J., Johnson, R. D., Cooper, B.Y.  Chemical responsiveness and histochemical phenotype of electrophysiologically classified cells of the adult rat dorsal root ganglion. (2002) Neuroscience 115:15-30

Hubscher, C.H., Petruska, J.C., Rau, K.K., Johnson, R.D. Co-expression of P2X receptor subunits on rat nodose neurons that bind the isolectin GS-I-B₄. (2001) NeuroReport 12:2995-2997

Petruska, J.C., Napaporn, J., Johnson, R. D., Gu J.G. and Cooper, B.Y. Subclassified acutely dissociated cells of rat DRG:  Histochemistry and patterns of capsaicin, proton and ATP activated currents (2000) Journal of Neurophysiology 84(5):2365-2379

Petruska, J.C., Cooper, B.Y., Gu, J.G, Rau, K.K., Johnson, R.D. Distribution of P2x1, P2x2, and P2x3 receptor subunits in rat DRG: Relation to population markers and specific cell types. (2000) Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy 20(2):141-162

Petruska, J.C., Mena, N., Naktasuka, T., Cooper, B.Y., Johnson, R.D., Gu, J.G. P2x1 receptor subunit immunoreactivity and ATP-evoked fast currents in adult rat dorsal root ganglia neurons. (2000) NeuroReport 11(16):3589-92

Petruska, J.C., Cooper, B.Y., Johnson, R.D., Gu, J.G. Distribution patterns of different P2x receptor phenotypes in acutely dissociated dorsal root ganglion neurons of adult rats. (2000) Experimental Brain Research 134(1):126-32

Petruska, J.C., Hubscher, C.H., Johnson, R.D. Anodally-focussed polarization of peripheral nerve allows discrimination of myelinated and unmyelinated fiber input to caudal brainstem nuclei. (1998) Experimental Brain Research 121(4):379-390

Petruska, J.C., Streit, W.J., Johnson, R.D. Localization of unmyelinated axons in rat skin and mucocutaneous tissue utilizing the isolectin GS-I-B₄. (1997) Somatosensory and Motor Research 14(1):17-26