Long-Term Effects of Adolescent 5F-MDMB-PICA Intravenous self-administration: Neurobehavioral Consequences and medial Prefrontal Cortex Dysfunction in Adult Mice

Francesca Caria, Avraham Libster, Shane Desfor, Francesca Telese, Gaetano Di Chiara, Maria Antonietta De Luca (2025). bioRxiv 2025.06.26.661592; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.26.661592

Perinatal Fentanyl Exposure Drives Enduring Addiction Risk and Central Amygdala Gene Dysregulation

Courtney P. Wood, Yeji Shin, Maria G. Balaguer, Paola Campo, Selen Dirik, Bryan A. Montoya, Gregory M. R. Cook, Gabrielle M. Palermo, Parsa K. Naghshineh, Alex Morgan, Sara R. M. U. Rahman, Abraham A. Palmer, Francesca Telese, Giordano de Guglielmo. (2025). Neuropharmacology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2025.110581.

Perinatal Fentanyl Exposure Drives Enduring Addiction Risk and Central Amygdala Gene Dysregulation

Courtney P. Wood, Yeji Shin, Maria G. Balaguer, Paola Campo, Selen Dirik, Bryan A. Montoya, Gregory M. R. Cook, Gabrielle M. Palermo, Parsa K. Naghshineh, Alex Morgan, Sara R. M. U. Rahman, Abraham A. Palmer, Francesca Telese, Giordano de Guglielmo. (2025). bioRxiv; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.20.655167

Single-Nucleus Transcriptomics Identifies Neuroblast Migration Programs Sensitive to Reelin and Cannabis in the Adolescent Nucleus Accumbens.

Yanning Zuo, Numaan Formoli, Avraham Libster, Daimeng Sun, Andrew Turner, Attilio Iemolo, Francesca Telese. (2025). bioRxiv; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.03.646846

TM7SF3 controls TEAD1 splicing to prevent MASH-induced liver fibrosis

Isaac R, Bandyopadhyay G, Rohm TV, Kang S, Wang J, Pokhrel N, Sakane S, Zapata R, Libster AM, Vinik Y, Berhan A, Kisseleva T, Borok Z, Zick Y, Telese F, Webster NJG, Olefsky JM. (2024). Cell Metabolism

A revamped rat reference genome improves the discovery of genetic diversity in laboratory rats

de Jong TV, Pan Y, Rastas P, Munro D, Tutaj M, Akil H, Benner C, Chen D, Chitre AS, Chow W, Colonna V, Dalgard CL, Demos WM, Doris PA, Garrison E, Geurts AM, Gunturkun HM, Guryev V, Hourlier T, Howe K, Huang J, Kalbfleisch T, Kim P, Li L, Mahaffey S, Martin FJ, Mohammadi P, Ozel AB, Polesskaya O, Pravenec M, Prins P, Sebat J, Smith JR, Solberg Woods LC, Tabakoff B, Tracey A, Uliano-Silva M, Villani F, Wang H, Sharp BM, Telese F, Jiang Z, Saba L, Wang X, Murphy TD, Palmer AA, Kwitek AE, Dwinell MR, Williams RW, Li JZ, Chen H. (2024). Cell Genomics

Genetic architecture distinguishes tinnitus from hearing loss

Clifford RE, Maihofer AX, Chatzinakos C, Coleman JRI, Daskalakis NP, Gasperi M, Hogan K, Mikita EA, Stein MB, Tcheandjieu C, Telese F, Zuo Y, Ryan AF, Nievergelt CM. (2024). Nature Communications

Nuclear receptor 5A2 regulation of Agrp underlies olanzapine-induced hyperphagia

Zapata RC, Zhang D, Libster A, Porcu A, Montilla-Perez P, Nur A, Xu B, Zhang Z, Correa SM, Liu C, Telese F, Osborn O. (2023). Molecular Psychiatry

The long non-coding RNA MALAT1 regulates intestine host-microbe interactions and polyposis

Long T, Hernandez JE, Ma S, Steele S, Luo C, Li Y, Xie Q, Telese F, Zhou B, Huang WJM. (2023). Frontiers in Cell and Developmental  Biology

Strain and sex-related behavioral variability of oxycodone dependence in rats

Doyle MR, Martinez AR, Qiao R, Dirik S, Di Ottavio F, Pascasio G, Martin-Fardon R, Benner C, George O, Telese F, de Guglielmo G. (2023). Neuropharmacology

Single-nucleus genomics in outbred rats with divergent cocaine addiction-like behaviors reveals changes in gene amygdala GABAergic inhibition

Zhou JL, de Guglielmo G, Ho AJ, Kallupi M, Pokhrel N, Li HR, Chitre AS, Munro D, Mohammadi P, Carrette LLG, George O, Palmer AA, McVicker G, Telese F. (2023). Nature Neuroscience

Genome-Wide Association Study of Chronic Dizziness in the Elderly Identifies Loci Implicating MLLT10, BPTF, LINC01224, and ROS1

Clifford R, Munro D, Dochtermann D, Devineni P, Pyarajan S, Million Veteran Program, Telese F, Palmer AA, Mohammadi P & Friedman R. (2023). Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Chronic adolescent exposure to cannabis in mice leads to sex-biased changes in gene expression networks across brain regions

Zuo Y, Iemolo A, Montilla-Perez P, Li HR, Yang X, Telese F. (2022). Neuropsychopharmacology

Opiate responses are controlled by interactions of Oprm1 and Fgf12 loci in rodents: Correspondence to human GWAS findings

Lemen PM, Zuo Y, Hatoum AS, Dickson PE, Mittleman G, Agrawal A, Reiner BC, Berrettini W, Ashbrook DG, Hakan Gunturkun M, Mulligan MK, Williams RW, Telese F, Chen H. (2022).  bioRxiv

The cannabinoid receptor agonist, WIN-55212-2, suppresses the activation of proinflammatory genes induced by interleukin 1 beta in human astrocytes

Fields JA, Swinton MK, Montilla-Perez P, Ricciardelli E, Telese F. (2022). Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research

Glucocorticoid receptor-regulated enhancers play a central role in the gene regulatory networks underlying drug addiction

Duttke SH, Montilla-Perez P, Chang MW, Li H, Chen H, Carrette LLG, de Guglielmo G, George O, Palmer AA, Benner C, Telese F. (2022). Frontiers in Neuroscience

Reelin deficiency exacerbates cocaine-induced hyperlocomotion by enhancing neuronal activity in the dorsomedial striatum

de Guglielmo G, Iemolo A, Nur A, Turner A, Montilla-Perez P, Martinez A, Crook C, Roberts A, Telese F. (2022). Genes, Brain and Behavior

Reelin deficiency contributes to long-term behavioral abnormalities induced by chronic adolescent exposure to Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol in mice

Iemolo A, Montilla-Perez P, Nguyen J, Risbrough VB, Taffe MA, Telese F. (2021). Neuropharmacology

Functional validation of a finding from a mouse genome-wide association study shows that Azi2 influences the acute locomotor stimulant response to methamphetamine

Zhou X, Barkley-Levenson AM, Montilla-Perez P, Telese F, Palmer AA. (2021). Genes, Brain and Behavior

A cell type-specific expression map of NCoR1 and SMRT transcriptional co-repressors in the mouse brain

Iemolo A, Montilla-Perez P, Lai IC, Meng Y, Nolan S, Wen J, Rusu I, Dulcis D, Telese F. (2020). Journal of Comparative Neurology