Lenz Lab publications:
Maternal allergic inflammation in rats impacts the offspring perinatal neuroimmune milieu and the development of social play, locomotor behavior, and cognitive flexibility. Brain Behav Immun. 2021 Mar 30:S0889-1591(21)00155-0. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2021.03.025. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33798637
Microglia Regulate Cell Genesis in a Sex-dependent Manner in the Neonatal Hippocampus.Neuroscience. 2021 Jan 15;453:237-255. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.10.009. Epub 2020 Oct 28.PMID: 33129890
Sex differences in the effects of early life stress exposure on mast cells in the developing rat brain. Horm Behav. 2019 Jul;113:76-84. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.04.012. Epub 2019 May 10.PMID: 31054843
Neuroimmunology of the female brain across the lifespan: Plasticity to psychopathology. Brain Behav Immun. 2019 Jul;79:39-55. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2019.03.010. Epub 2019 Mar 11.PMID: 30872093
Small cells with big implications: Microglia and sex differences in brain development, plasticity and behavioral health. Prog Neurobiol. 2019 May;176:103-119. doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2018.09.002. Epub 2018 Sep 5.PMID: 30193820
Mast Cells in the Developing Brain Determine Adult Sexual Behavior. J Neurosci. 2018 Sep 12;38(37):8044-8059. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1176-18.2018. Epub 2018 Aug 7.PMID: 30093566
Microglia and Beyond: Innate Immune Cells As Regulators of Brain Development and Behavioral Function. Front Immunol. 2018 Apr 13;9:698. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.00698. eCollection 2018.PMID: 29706957
Neuroimmunology and neuroepigenetics in the establishment of sex differences in the brain. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2017 Aug;18(8):471-484. doi: 10.1038/nrn.2017.61. Epub 2017 Jun 22.PMID: 28638119
Sex differences in microglial phagocytosis in the neonatal hippocampus. Brain Behav Immun. 2017 Aug;64:11-22. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2017.03.010. Epub 2017 Mar 22.PMID: 28341582
Microglia depletion in early life programs persistent changes in social, mood-related, and locomotor behavior in male and female rats. Behav Brain Res. 2017 Jan 1;316:279-293. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.09.006. Epub 2016 Sep 6.PMID: 27613230