Vinuta Rau
University of California, San Francisco
17 Papers
100 Citations
Vinuta Rau is an academic researcher from University of California, San Francisco. The author has contributed to research in topics: Isoflurane & Hippocampal formation. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 17 publications. Previous affiliations of Vinuta Rau include University of California, Los Angeles.
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Papers
Stress-induced enhancement of fear learning: an animal model of posttraumatic stress disorder.
TL;DR: A model in which pre-exposure to a stressor of repeated footshock enhances conditional fear responding to a single context-shock pairing is developed, which predicts why in PTSD patients, mild stressors cause reactions more appropriate for the original traumatic stressor and why new fears are so readily formed in these patients.
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Isoflurane Differentially Affects Neurogenesis and Long-term Neurocognitive Function in 60-day-old and 7-day-old Rats
Greg Stratmann,Jeffrey W. Sall,Laura D. V. May,Joseph S. Bell,Kathy R. Magnusson,Vinuta Rau,Kavel Visrodia,Rehan S. Alvi,Ban Ku,Michael T. Lee,Ran Dai +10 more
TL;DR: Isoflurane improved spatial reference memory of P60 rats long-term, but it caused a delayed-onset, progressive, persistent hippocampal deficit in P7 rats in fear conditioning and spatialreference memory tasks.
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Induction and Expression of Fear Sensitization Caused by Acute Traumatic Stress
Jennifer N. Perusini,Edward M. Meyer,Virginia A Long,Vinuta Rau,Nathaniel A. Nocera,Jacob Avershal,James Maksymetz,Igor Spigelman,Michael S. Fanselow +8 more
TL;DR: Exposure to a 15-shock stressor nonassociatively enhances subsequent fear conditioning training with only a single trial and western blot analysis of the basolateral amygdala revealed an increase in the GluA1 AMPA receptor subunit that correlated with SEFL, suggesting CORT is permissive to trauma-induced changes in BLA function.
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Distinct long-term neurocognitive outcomes after equipotent sevoflurane or isoflurane anaesthesia in immature rats
T. M. Ramage,F. L. Chang,Jennifer Shih,Rehan S. Alvi,G. R. Quitoriano,Vinuta Rau,Kyle Barbour,S. A. Elphick,C. L. Kong,Nicole K. Tantoco,D. Ben-Tzur,H. Kang,M. S. McCreery,P. Huang,A. Park,J. Uy,Meghan Rossi,C. Zhao,R. T. Di Geronimo,Greg Stratmann,Jeffrey W. Sall +20 more
TL;DR: Isoflurane might be more detrimental than sevoflurane in very young animals and cause a deficit in short-term memory, and sev of lurane-treated animals had a deficits in both short- term and early long- term memory.
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Slowing of the hippocampal θ rhythm correlates with anesthetic-induced amnesia
Misha Perouansky,Vinuta Rau,Tim Ford,S. Irene Oh,Mark Perkins,Edmond I. Eger,Robert A. Pearce +6 more
TL;DR: At subhypnotic amnestic concentrations, &thGr;-oscillation frequency was the parameter most consistently affected by these three anesthetics, consistent with the hypothesis that modulation of the &thgr; rhythm contributes to anesthetic-induced amnesia.
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