Dr. Laura O'Dell's Publications
Publications since arrival at UTEP:
- Concha, J.B., Umucu, E., Duarte-Gardea, M., Gonzalez, A.L., Solis, G.R., Loya, A.M., O’Dell, L.E., Mathew, R. (2024). Hispanic serving institution contributing to the training and diversity of the public health and health care workforce. American Journal of Public Health, in press.
- Ortegon S., Giner, P., Cruz, B., Carcoba, L.M., Clapp, B., Clegg, D.J., and O’Dell L.E. (2023). Effectiveness of pharmacotherapies for diabetes on nicotine, food, and water intake in insulin-resistant rats. Advances in Drug and Alcohol Research, 3: 11812. PMID: 38389818.
- Martínez, M., Espinoza, V.E., Garcia, V., Uribe, K.P., Negishi, K., Estevao, I.L., Carcoba, L.M., O’Dell, L.E., Khan, A.M., Mendez, I.A. (2023). Withdrawal from repeated nicotine vapor exposure increases somatic signs of physical dependence, anxiety-like behavior, and brain reward thresholds in adult male rats. Neuropharmacology, 240: 109681. PMID: 37611823.
- Vargas-Medrano, J., Carcoba, L.M., Vidal Martinez., G., Mulla, Z.D., G., Diaz, V., Ruiz-Velasco, A., Alvarez-Primo, F., Colina, G., Iñiguez, S., Thompson, P.M., O’Dell, L.E., and Gadad, B.S. (2023). Sex and diet-dependent gene alterations in human and rat brains with a history of nicotine exposure. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14: 1104563. PMID: 36846236.
- Hamdan, J.N., Fonseca, J.S., Flores R.J., Saucedo, S., Miranda-Arango, M., O’Dell, L.E., and Gosselink, K.L. (2022). Early-life adversity increases anxiety-like behavior and modifies synaptic protein expression in a region-specific manner. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16: 1008556. PMID: 36338879.
- Cruz, B., Castaneda, K.A., Aranda, M., Hinojosa, C.A., Castro-Gutierrez, R., Flores, R.J., Spencer, C.T., Vozella, V., Roberto, M., Gadad, B.S., and O’Dell, L.E. (2022). Alcohol self-administration and nicotine withdrawal alter biomarkers of stress and inflammation and prefrontal cortex changes in Gβ subunits. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 7: 1-12. PMID:36206520.
- Espinoza, V.E., Giner, P., Liano, B., Mendez, I.A., and O’Dell, L.E. (2022). Sex and age differences in approach behavior toward a port that delivers nicotine vapor. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1-11. PMID:35338651.
- Cruz, B., Ortegon, S., Giner, P., Matos-Ocasio, F.M., Rodriguez-Crespo, A., Uribe, K.P., Galindo, K.I., Serafine, K.M., Nazarian, A., and O'Dell, L.E. (2021). The emergence of insulin resistance coincides with an increase in the reinforcing effects of nicotine in a sex-dependent manner. Neuropharmacology, 200: 108787. PMID:34571112.
- Carcoba, L.M., Uribe, K.P., Ortegon, S., Mendez, I.A., DeBiasi, M., and O’Dell, L.E. (2021). Amino acid systems in the interpeduncular nucleus modulate nicotine withdrawal in a sex-dependent manner. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 24826: 1-12. PMID:33751631.
- O’Dell, L.E., Koob, G.F., and Nazarian, A. (2021). Vulnerability to substance abuse: A consideration of allostatic loading factors. Editorial for a Special Issue of Neuropharmacology, 199: 108767. PMID:34454910.
- Flores, R.J., Alshbool, F., Giner, P., O’Dell, L.E., and Mendez, I.A. (2021). Exposure to nicotine vapor produced by an electronic nicotine delivery system causes short-term increases in impulsive choice in adult male rats. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 141: 1-8. PMID:34232312.
- Serafine, K.M., O’Dell, L.E., and Zorrilla, E. (2021). Converging vulnerability factors for compulsive food and drug use. Neuropharmacology, 196: 108556. PMID:33862029.
- Matos, F.M., Espinoza, V.E., Correa-Alfonzo, P., Khan, A.M., and O’Dell, L.E. (2021). Female rats display greater nicotine withdrawal-induced cellular activation of a central portion of the interpeduncular nucleus versus males: A study of Fos immunoreactivity within provisionally assigned interpeduncular subnuclei. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 221: 108640. PMID:33640680.
- Cruz, B., Carcoba, L.M., Flores, R.J., Espinoza, E.J., Nazarian, A., and O'Dell, L.E. (2021). Insulin restores the neurochemical effects of nicotine in the mesolimbic pathway of diabetic rats. Journal of Neurochemistry, 156(2):200-211. PMID:32562571.
- Flores, R.J., Cruz, B., Uribe, K.P., Correa, V.L., Arreguin, M.C., Carcoba, L.M., Mendez, I.A, and O’Dell, L.E. (2020). Estradiol promotes and progesterone reduces anxiety-like behavior produced by nicotine withdrawal in rats. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 119: 104694. PMID:32540678.
- Richardson, J.R., O'Dell, L.E., and Nazarian, A. (2020). Examination of nicotine and saccharin reward in the Goto-Kakizaki diabetic rat model. Neuroscience Letters. 721: 134802. PMID:32036029.
- Uribe, K., Correa, V.L., Pinales, B.E., Flores, R.J., Cruz, B., Shan, Z., Bruijnzeel, A.W., Khan, A.M., and O’Dell, L.E. (2020). Overexpression of corticotropin releasing factor in the nucleus accumbens enhances the reinforcing effects of nicotine in female versus male rats. Neuropsychopharmacology, 45: 394-403. PMID:31614362.
- Correa, V.L., Flores, R.J., Carcoba, L.M., Garcia-Arreguin, M., and O’Dell, L.E. (2019). Sex differences in cholinergic systems in the interpeduncular nucleus following nicotine exposure and withdrawal. Neuropharmacology, 158: 1-10. PMID:31325431.
- Geste, J., Levin, B., Wilks, I., Pompilus, M., Zhang, X., Esster, K., Febo, M., O'Dell, L.E., and Bruijnzeel, A.W. (2019). Relationship between nicotine intake and reward function in rats with intermittent short versus long access to nicotine. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 22: 213-223. PMID:30958557.
- Cruz, B., Flores, R.J., Uribe, K.P., Espinosa, E.J., Spencer, C.T., Serafine, K.M., Nazarian, A., and O'Dell, L.E. (2019). Insulin modulates the strong reinforcing effects of nicotine and changes in insulin biomarkers in a rodent model of diabetes. Neuropsychopharmacology, 44: 1141-1151. PMID:30647447.
- Flores, R.J., Uribe, K.A, and O’Dell, L.E. (2019). Sex differences in nicotine intravenous self-administration: A meta-analytic review. Physiology and Behavior, 203: 42-50. PMID:29158125
- Ibias, J., O'Dell, L.E., and Nazarian, A. (2018). Insulin dependent and independent normalization of blood glucose levels reduces the enhanced rewarding effects of nicotine in a rodent model of diabetes. Behavioural Brain Research, 351: 75-82. PMID:29803655.
- Carcoba, L.M., Flores, R.J., Natividad, L.A., and O’Dell, L.E. (2017). Amino acid modulation of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens mediates sex differences in nicotine withdrawal. Addiction Biology, 23: 1046-1054. PMID:28940989.
- Pipkin, J.A., Cruz, B., Hinojosa, C.A., Flores, R.J., Carcoba, L.M., Ibarra, M., Francis, W., Nazarian, A., and O’Dell, L.E. (2017). Both nicotine reward and withdrawal are enhanced in a rodent model of diabetes. Psychopharmacology, 234: 1615-1622. PMID:28342091.
- Gosselink, K.L., D’Arcy, and O’Dell, L.E. (2016). Intermittent vibration increases methamphetamine intake in rats. Journal of Alcoholism, Drug Abuse and Substance Dependence, 2: 5-8.
- Carcoba, L.M., Torres, O.V., Pipkin, J.A., Ontiveros, T., and O’Dell, L.E. (2016). Insight into the potential factors that promote tobacco use in vulnerable populations. Current Addiction Reports, 3: 27-36.
- Flores, R.J., Pipkin, J.A., Uribe, K.P., Perez, A., and O’Dell, L.E. (2016). Estradiol promotes the rewarding effects of nicotine in female rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 307: 258-263. PMID:27059334.
- D’Arcy, C., Luevano, J.E., Miranda, M.M., Pipkin, J.A., Jackson, J.A., Castañeda, E., Gosselink, K.L., and O’Dell, L.E. (2016). Extended access to methamphetamine self-administration up-regulates dopamine transporter levels 72 hours after withdrawal in rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 296: 125-128. PMID:26367473.
- O’Dell, L.E. and Nazarian, A. (2016). Enhanced vulnerability to tobacco use in persons with diabetes: A behavioral and neurobiological framework. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 65: 288-296. PMID:26092247.
- Torres, O.V. and O’Dell, L.E. (2016). Stress is a principal factor that promotes tobacco use in females. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 65: 260-268. PMID:25912856.
- Torres, O.V., Pipkin, J.A., Ferree, P., Carcoba, L.M., and O’Dell, L.E. (2015). Nicotine withdrawal increases stress-associated genes in the nucleus accumbens of female rats in a hormone-dependent manner. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 17: 422-430. PMID:4432401.
- O’Dell, L.E., Natividad, L.A., Pipkin, J.A., Roman, F., Torres, I.D., Juardo, J., Torres, O.V., Friedman, T.C., Tenayuca, J.M., and Nazarian, A. (2014). Enhanced nicotine self-administration and suppressed dopaminergic systems in a rat model of diabetes. Addiction Biology, 19: 1006-1019. PMID:23834715.
- Richardson, J.R, Pipkin, J.A., O’Dell, L.E., and Nazarian, A. (2014). Insulin-resistant rats display enhanced nicotine reward following a high-fat diet regimen. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 140: 205-207. PMID:24774962.
- Carcoba, L.M., Orfila, J.E., Natividad, L.A., Torres, O.V., Pipkin, J.A., Ferree, P.L., Castañeda, E., Moss, D., and O’Dell, L.E. (2014). Cholinergic transmission during nicotine withdrawal is influenced by age and pre-exposure to nicotine: Implications for teenage smoking. Developmental Neuroscience, 36: 347-355. PMID:4125457.
- Torres, O.V., Walker, E.M., Beas, B.S., and O’Dell, L.E. (2014). Female rats display enhanced rewarding effects of ethanol that are hormone dependent. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 38:108-115. PMID:23909760.
- O’Dell, L.E. and Torres, O.V. (2014). A mechanistic hypothesis of the factors that enhance vulnerability to nicotine use in females. Neuropharmacology, 76:566-580. PMID:23684991.
- Natividad, L.A., Torres, O.V., Friedman, T.C., and O’Dell, L.E. (2013). Adolescence is a period of development characterized by short- and long-term vulnerability to the rewarding effects of nicotine and reduced sensitivity to the anorectic effects of this drug. Behavioural Brain Research, 257:275-285. PMID:24120402.
- Torres, O.V., Gentil, L., Natividad, L.A., Carcoba, L.M., and O’Dell, L.E. (2013). Behavioral, biochemical and molecular indices of stress are enhanced in female versus male rats experiencing nicotine withdrawal. Frontiers in Addictive Disorders and Behavioral Dyscontrol, 4:1-12. PMID:23730292.
- Natividad, L.A., Buczynski, M.W., Parsons, L.H., Torres, O.V., and O’Dell, L.E. (2012). Adolescent rats are resistant to adaptations in excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms that modulate mesolimbic dopamine during nicotine withdrawal. Journal of Neurochemistry, 123:578-588. PMCID:3472122.
- Tejeda, H.A., Natividad, L.A., Orfila, J.E., Torres, O.V., and O’Dell, L.E. (2012). Dysregulation of kappa-opioid receptor systems by chronic nicotine modulate the nicotine withdrawal syndrome in an age-dependent manner. Psychopharmacology, 224:289-301. PMID:22659976.
- Mangubat M., Lutfy, K., Lee, M.L., Pulido, L., Stout, D., Davis, R., Seasholtz, S., Sinha-Hikim, A., Sinha-Hikim, I., O’Dell, L.E., Lyzlov, A., Liu, Y., and Friedman, T.C. (2012). Effect of nicotine on body composition. Journal of Endocrinology, 212:317-326. PMCID:3444240.
- O’Dell, L.E. (2011). Nico-teen: Neural substrates that mediate adolescent tobacco abuse. Neuropsychopharmacology, Hot Topics issue, 36:356-357. PMCID:3055509.
- Vuong, C., Van Uum, S.H.M., O’Dell, L.E., Lutfy, K., and Friedman, T.C. (2010). The effects of opioids and opioid analogues on animal and human endocrine systems. Endocrine Reviews, 31:98–132. PMID:19903933.
- Natividad, L.A., Tejeda, H.A., Torres, O.V., and O’Dell, L.E. (2010). Nicotine withdrawal produces a decrease in extracellular levels of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens that is lower in adolescent versus adult male rats. Synapse. 64:136-145. PMID:19771590.
- Abdallah, L., Bonasera, S.J., Hopf, W., O’Dell, L.E., Giorgetti, M., Jongsma, M., Carra, S., Esposito, E., Parsons, L.H., Bonci, A., and Tecott, L.H. (2009). Impact of 5-HT2C receptor null mutation on physiology and behavior associated with nigrostriatal dopamine pathway function. The Journal of Neuroscience, 29:8156-8165. PMID:3077993.
- Torres, O.V., Natividad, L.A., Tejeda, H.A., Van Weelden, S.A., and O’Dell, L.E. (2009). Female rats display dose-dependent differences to the rewarding and aversive effects of nicotine in an age-, hormone-, and sex-dependent. Psychopharmacology, 206:303–312. PMID:19629450.