Julia Dziabis

Journal article Neuropharmacology · November 2026 Neuroimmune signaling is increasingly implicated in alcohol use disorder (AUD). Microglia, the brain's resident immune cells, signal in part through the adaptor protein myeloid differentiation primary response 88 (MyD88), a key mediator of innate immune re ... Full text Cite

Sex-specific regulation of microglial MyD88 in HMGB1-Induced anxiety phenotype in mice.

Journal article Neurobiol Stress · May 2025 Stress is a significant risk factor for the development and recurrence of anxiety disorders. Stress can profoundly impact the immune system, and lead to microglial functional alterations in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), a brain region involved in th ... Full text Link to item Cite

Microglial MyD88-dependent pathways are regulated in a sex-specific manner in the context of HMGB1-induced anxiety.

Journal article bioRxiv · July 1, 2024 Chronic stress is a significant risk factor for the development and recurrence of anxiety disorders. Chronic stress impacts the immune system, causing microglial functional alterations in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), a brain region involved in the ... Full text Link to item Cite

Microglia and Sensitive Periods in Brain Development.

Journal article Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · January 2022 From embryonic neuronal migration to adolescent circuit refinement, the immune system plays an essential role throughout central nervous system (CNS) development. Immune signaling molecules serve as a common language between the immune system and CNS, allo ... Full text Cite

Traumatic Brain Injury Causes Chronic Cortical Inflammation and Neuronal Dysfunction Mediated by Microglia.

Journal article The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · February 2021 Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can lead to significant neuropsychiatric problems and neurodegenerative pathologies, which develop and persist years after injury. Neuroinflammatory processes evolve over this same period. Therefore, we aimed to determine the c ... Full text Cite

Neonatal immune challenge induces female-specific changes in social behavior and somatostatin cell number.

Journal article Brain, behavior, and immunity · November 2020 Decreases in social behavior are a hallmark aspect of acute "sickness behavior" in response to infection. However, immune insults that occur during the perinatal period may have long-lasting consequences for adult social behavior by impacting the developme ... Full text Cite

Comparison between midline and lateral fluid percussion injury in mice reveals prolonged but divergent cortical neuroinflammation.

Journal article Brain research · November 2020 Animal models are critical for determining the mechanisms mediating traumatic brain injury-induced (TBI) neuropathology. Fluid percussion injury (FPI) is a widely used model of brain injury typically applied either midline or parasagittally (lateral). Midl ... Full text Cite

Sleep Disruption Exacerbates and Prolongs the Inflammatory Response to Traumatic Brain Injury.

Journal article Journal of neurotrauma · August 2020 Traumatic brain injury (TBI) alters stress responses, which may influence neuroinflammation and behavioral outcome. Sleep disruption (SD) is an understudied post-injury environmental stressor that directly engages stress-immune pathways. Thus, we predicted ... Full text Cite

Traumatic brain injury-induced neuronal damage in the somatosensory cortex causes formation of rod-shaped microglia that promote astrogliosis and persistent neuroinflammation.

Journal article Glia · December 2018 Microglia undergo dynamic structural and transcriptional changes during the immune response to traumatic brain injury (TBI). For example, TBI causes microglia to form rod-shaped trains in the cerebral cortex, but their contribution to inflammation and path ... Full text Cite