Books, Chapters, and Commentaries:

 

Schwarz, JM and Bilbo, SD.  (2011) The Immune System and the Developing Brain.  McCarthy’s The Developing Brain Series.  Morgan & Claypool Life Sciences.

 

 

Bilbo, SD. (2011) How cytokines leave their mark: The role of the placenta in developmental programming of brain and behavior.  Brain, Behavior, & Immunity, 25(4): 602-3.  Invited Commentary

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Schwarz, JM & Bilbo SD.  (2012) Sex, Glia, and Development: Potential Interactions in Health and Disease.  Hormones and Behavior, in press.

Williamson, LL, Chao, A, & Bilbo SD.  (2012) Environmental enrichment alters glial antigen expression and neuroimmune function in the adult rat hippocampus.  Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, in press.

 

Schwarz, JM, Sholar, P, & Bilbo SD.  (2012) Sex differences in microglial colonization and gene expression of the developing rat brain. Journal of Neurochemistry, in press.

Schwarz, JM, Hutchinson, MR, & Bilbo SD.  (2011) Early-life experience decreases reinstatement of morphine CPP in adulthood via microglial-specific epigenetic programming of anti-inflammatory IL-10 expression.  Journal of Neuroscience, 31(49): 17835-47.

 

Bilbo, SD, Smith, SH, Schwarz, JM. (2011) A lifespan approach to neuroinflammatory and cognitive disorders:  A critical role for glia.  Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology, in press.

 

Williamson, LL, Sholar, PW, Mistry RS, Smith, SH, and Bilbo, SD.  (2011) Microglia and memory: modulation by early-life infection. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(43): 15511-21.

 

Bilbo, SD, Wray, G, Perkins, SE, & Parker, W.  (2011) Reconstitution of the human biome as the most reasonable solution for epidemics of allergic and autoimmune diseases.  Medical Hypotheses, 77(4); 494-504.

 

Schwarz, JM, & Bilbo SD. (2011) LPS elicits a much larger and broader inflammatory response than E. coli infection within the brains of neonatal rats.  Neuroscience Letters, 497(2); 110-115.

Bilbo, SD. (2010) Early-life infection is a vulnerability factor for aging-related immune changes and cognitive decline.  Neurobiology of Learning & Memory, 94(1); 57-64.

Bland, ST, Beckley JT, Watkins LR, Maier SF, & Bilbo SD. (2010) Neonatal E. coli infection alters glial, cytokine, and neuronal gene expression in response to acute amphetamine in adolescent rats.  Neuroscience Letters, 474(1); 52-57.

 

Bilbo, SD & Tsang, V. (2010) Enduring consequences of maternal obesity for brain inflammation and behavior of offspring.  The FASEB J, 24(6); 2104-15.

 

Bland, ST, Beckley JT, Young S, Tsang V, Watkins LR, Maier SF, & Bilbo SD. (2010) Enduring consequences of early-life infection on glial and neural cell genesis within cognitive regions of the brain.  Brain, Behavior, & Immunity, 24, 329-338.

 

Bilbo, SD, Wieseler, J, Barrientos, RM, Watkins, LR, & Maier, SF. (2010) Neonatal bacterial infection alters fever to live and simulated infections in adulthood. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 35, 369-381.

 

Bilbo, SD & Schwarz, JM. (2009) Early-Life Programming of Later-Life Brain and Behavior:

A Critical Role for the Immune System.  Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 3, 14, 1-14.

 

Bilbo, SD, Yirmiya, R, Amat, J, Paul, ED, Watkins, LR, & Maier, SF.  (2008) Bacterial infection early in life protects against stressor-induced depressive-like symptoms in adult rats.  Psychoneuroendocrinology, 33, 261-269.

 

Bilbo, SD, Barrientos, RM, Eads, A, Northcutt, A, Watkins, LR, Rudy, JR, & Maier, SF. (2008) Early-life infection leads to altered BDNF and IL-1 mRNA expression in rat hippocampus following contextual learning in adulthood. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 22, 451-455.

 
Zala, SM, Chan, B, Bilbo, SD, Potts, WK, Nelson^, RJ, & Penn, DJ.  (2008) Genetic resistance to infection influences a male's sexual attractiveness and modulation of testosterone. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 22, 381-387.

 

Bowers, SL, Bilbo, SD, Dhabhar, FS, & Nelson, RJ. (2008) Stressor specific alterations in corticosterone and immune function in mice. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 22, 105-113.

 

Bilbo, SD, Newsum, NJ, Sprunger, DB, Watkins, LR, Rudy, JW, & Maier, SF. (2007) Differential effects of neonatal handling on early life infection-induced alterations in cognition in adulthood. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 21, 332-342.

 

Bilbo, SD, Rudy, JW, Watkins, LR, & Maier, SF.  (2006) A behavioral characterization of neonatal infection-facilitated memory impairment in adult rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 169, 39-47.

 

Bilbo, SD, Biedenkapp, JC, Der-Avakian, A, Watkins, LR, Rudy, JW, & Maier, SF.  (2005) Neonatal infection-induced memory impairment following lipopolysaccharide in adulthood is prevented via caspase-1 inhibition.  The Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 8000-8009. 

 

Bilbo, SD, Levkoff, LH, Mahoney, JH, Watkins, LR, Rudy, JR, & Maier, SF. (2005) Neonatal infection induces memory impairments following an immune challenge in adulthood.  Behavioral Neuroscience, 119, 293-301. 

 

Prendergast, BJ, Bilbo, SD, Nelson, RJ.  (2005) Short day lengths enhance skin immune responses in gonadectomized Siberian hamsters.  Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 17, 18-21. 

 

 Neigh, GN, Glasper, EL, Bilbo, SD, Traystman, RJ, & DeVries, AC.  (2005) Cardiac arrest/ cardiopulmonary resuscitation augments cell-mediated immune function and transiently suppresses humoral immune function. J of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 25, 1424-32.  

 

Prendergast, BJ, Bilbo, SD & Nelson, RJ.  (2004) Photoperiod controls the induction, retention and retrieval of antigen-specific immunological memory.  American Journal of Physiology, 286, R54-60. 

 

Bilbo, SD & Nelson, RJ. (2004) Photoperiod influences the effects of exercise and food restriction on an antigen-specific immune response in Siberian hamsters.  Endocrinology, 145, 556-564. 

 

Prendergast, BJ, Hotchkiss, AH, Bilbo, SD & Nelson, RJ.  (2004) Peripubertal immune challenges attenuate reproductive development in male Siberian hamsters.  Biology of Reproduction, 70, 813-820. 

 

Prendergast, BJ, Bilbo, SD, Dhabhar, FS & Nelson, RJ.  (2004) Effects of photoperiod history on immune responses to intermediate day lengths in Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus).  Journal of Neuroimmunology, 149, 31-39. 

 

Neigh, GN, Bilbo, SD, Hotchkiss, AH, & Nelson, RJ.  (2004) Exogenous pyruvate prevents stress-evoked suppression of mitogen-stimulated proliferation.  Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 18, 425-433. 

 

Bilbo, SD, Hotchkiss, AH, Chiavegatto, S, & Nelson, RJ. (2003) Blunted stress responses in delayed type hypersensitivity in mice lacking the neuronal isoform of nitric oxide synthase. Journal of Neuroimmunology, 140, 41-48. 

 

Bilbo, SD, Quan, N, Prendergast, BJ, Bowers, SL, & Nelson, RJ.  (2003) Photoperiod alters the time course of brain cyclooxygynase-2 expression in Siberian hamsters.  Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 15, 958-964.   

 

Bilbo, SD, Dhabhar, FS, Viswanathan, K, Light, A & Nelson, RJ.  (2003) Photoperiod affects the expression of sex and species differences in leukocyte number and leukocyte trafficking of congeneric hamsters. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 28, 1027-1043.   

 

Bilbo, SD & Nelson, RJ.  (2003) Sex differences in photoperiodic and stress-induced enhancement of immune function in Siberian hamsters.  Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 17, 462-472.  

 

Prendergast, BJ, Hotchkiss, AH, Bilbo, SD, Kinsey, SG & Nelson, RJ. (2003) Photoperiodic adjustments in immune function protect Siberian hamsters from lethal endotoxemia.  Journal of Biological Rhythms, 18, 51-62.   

 

Bilbo, SD, Drazen, DL, Quan, N, He, L & Nelson, RJ. (2002).  Short day lengths attenuate the symptoms of infection in Siberian hamsters.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Biological Sciences, 269, 447-454.    

 

Bilbo, SD, Dhabhar, FS, Viswanathan, K, Saul, A, Yellon, SM & Nelson, RJ. (2002). Short day lengths augment stress-induced leukocyte trafficking and stress-induced enhancement of skin immune function.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99, 4067-4072.    

 

Bilbo, SD & Nelson, RJ. (2002).  Melatonin regulates energy balance and attenuates fever in Siberian hamsters.  Endocrinology, 143, 2527-2533.  

Bilbo, SD & Nelson, RJ. (2001).  Sex steroid hormones enhance immune function in male and female Siberian hamsters.  American Journal of Physiology, 280, R207-213.  

 

Bilbo, SD & Nelson, RJ. (2001).  Behavioral phenotyping of transgenic and knockout animals: A cautionary tale.  Lab Animal, 30, 24-29.  

 

Drazen, DL, Bilu, D, Bilbo, SD & Nelson, RJ. (2001).  Melatonin enhancement of splenocyte proliferation is attenuated in mice by luzindole, a melatonin receptor antagonist. American Journal of Physiology, 280, R1476-1482.   

 

Bilbo, SD, Day, LB, & Wilczynski, W. (2000).  Anticholinergic effects in frogs in a Morris water maze analog.  Physiology & Behavior, 69, 351-357.    

 

Bilbo, SD, Klein, SL, DeVries, AC, & Nelson, RJ. (1999). Lipopolysaccharide facilitates partner preference behaviors in female prairie voles.  Physiology & Behavior, 68, 151-156.