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Selected Publications

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2025

Sturgeon H, Castillo-Ruiz A, Ukpong E, Praveen L, Leyva G, Chassaing B, Forger NG. Effects of a highly simplified microbiota on postnatal intestinal, immune, and brain development. Brain, Behavior and Immunity 130:106085.

Milligan YC, Peters NV, West G, Cortes LR, Chassaing B, de Vries GD, Castillo-Ruiz A. The microbiota shapes the development of the mouse hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus. Hormones and Behavior 172:105742.

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2024

Gray JM, Major KM, Castillo-Ruiz A, Shipley M, Gangappa S, Forger NG (2024). The inflammatory response to birth requires MyD88 and is driven by both mother and offspring. Brain, Behavior and Immunity 115:617-630.

2023

Castillo-Ruiz A, Gars A, Sturgeon H, Ronczkowski NM, Pyaram DN, Dauriat CJG, Chassaing B, Forger NG (2023). Brain effects of gestating germ-free persist in mouse neonates despite acquisition of a microbiota at birth. Frontiers in Neuroscience 17:1130347.

2022

Castillo-Ruiz A, Cisternas CD, Sturgeon H, Forger NG (2022). Birth triggers an inflammatory response in the neonatal periphery and brain. Brain, Behavior and Immunity 104: 122-136.

2021

Ramlall EK, Hall MAL, Forger NG, Castillo-Ruiz A (2021). Cesarean birth elicits long-term effects on vasopressin and oxytocin neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of mice. Hormones and Behavior 136: 105080.

Gars A, Ronczkowski N, Chassaing B, Castillo-Ruiz A, Forger NG (2021). First encounters: effects of the microbiota on neonatal brain development. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 15: 682505.

2020

Castillo-Ruiz A, Hite TA, Yakout DW, Rosen TJ, Forger NG (2020). Does birth trigger cell death in the developing brain? eNeuro 7(1):ENEURO.0517-19.2020.

2018

Castillo-Ruiz A, Mosley M, Jacobs AJ, Hoffiz Y, Forger NG (2018). Birth delivery mode alters perinatal cell death in the mouse brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 115: 11826-11831.

Castillo-Ruiz A, Mosley M, George AJ, Mussaji LF, Fullerton EF, Ruszkowski EM, Jacobs AJ, Gewirtz AT, Chassaing B, Forger NG (2018). The microbiota influences cell death and microglial colonization in the perinatal mouse brain. Brain, Behavior and Immunity 67:218-229.

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