Brooks PJ: Brain atrophy and neuronal loss in alcoholism: a role for DNA damage? Neurochem Int. 2000;37:403-12. Review.
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Brooks PJ, Lipsky RH. Future directions in alcoholism research. Genomics and gene transfer. Alcohol Res Health 2000;24:189-92.
Brooks PJ, Wise DS, Berry DA, Kosmoski JV, Smerdon MJ, Somers RL, Mackie H, Spoonde AY, Ackerman EJ, Coleman K, Tarone RE, Robbins JH: The oxidative DNA lesion 8,5'-(S)-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine is repaired by the nucleotide excision repair pathway and blocks gene expression in mammalian cells. J Biol Chem 2000;275:22355-62. pdf
Brooks PJ: Detection of excision nuclease in cell-free extracts from the adult mammalian brain. Mutat Res-DNA Repair 1998;408:37-46.
Brooks PJ: DNA damage, DNA repair and alcohol toxicity. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 1997;21:1073-82.
Brooks PJ, Kleopoulos SP, Funabashi T, Moobs CV, Pfaff DW: Widespread expression and estrogen regulation of PPEIA-3' nuclear RNA in the rat brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci. U S A. 1997;94:14037-41.
Brooks PJ, Marietta C, Goldman D: DNA mismatch repair and DNA methylation in adult brain neurons. J Neurosci. 1996 Feb 1;16:939-45.
Cardozo-Pelaez F, Brooks PJ, Stedeford T, Song S, Sanchez-Ramos J. DNA damage, repair, and antioxidant systems in brain regions: a correlative study. Free Radic Biol Med 2000;28:779-85. pdf
Carey G, Goldman D: Genetics of antisocial behavior. In: Stoff D, Brelling J., Demiser J. (eds). Handbook of Antisocial Personality. New York:Wiley:1997, pp. 243-54.Douglas AJ, Meeren HKM, Johnstone LE, Pfaff DW, Russell JA, Brooks PJ: Stimulation of expression of the oxytocin gene in rat supraoptic neurons at parturition. Brain Res 1998;782:167-74.
Funabashi T, Kleopoulos SP, Brooks PJ, Kimura F, Pfaff DW, Shinohara K, Mobbs CV. Changes in estrogenic regulation of estrogen receptor alpha mRNA and progesterone receptor mRNA in the female rat hypothalamus during aging: an in situ hybridization study. Neurosci Res 2000;38:85-92. pdf
Holtzman DA, Brooks PJ, Pfaff DW, et al.: Preproenkephalin mRNA is regulated by an interaction between steroid hormones and nociceptive stimulation. J Neuroendocrinol 1997;9:913-22 .
Johnstone LE, Brown CH, Meeren HK, Vuijst CL, Brooks PJ, Leng G, Russell JA. Local morphine withdrawal increases c-fos gene, Fos protein, and oxytocin gene expression in hypothalamic magnocellular neurosecretory cells. J Neurosci 2000;20:1272-80. pdf
Marietta C, Palombo F, Gallinari P, Jiricny J, Brooks PJ: Expression of long-patch and short-patch DNA mismatch repair proteins in the embryonic and adult mammalian brain. Brain Res Mol Brain Res. 1998;53:317-20.
McCarthy MM, McDonald CH, Brooks PJ, Goldman D: An anxiolytic action of oxytocin is enhanced by estrogen in the mouse. Physiol Behav 1996;60:1209-15.
Randerath K, Zhou GD, Somers RL, Robbins JH, Brooks PJ. A 32P-postlabeling assay for the oxidative DNA lesion 8,5'-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine in mammalian tissues: evidence that four type II I-compounds are dinucleotides containing the lesion in the 3' nucleotide. J Biol Chem 2001;276:36051-36057.
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