Publications by authors named "Ashley J Craig"

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  • Nicotine, a key ingredient in tobacco, is known to affect the immune system and may have both suppressive and inflammatory effects, particularly relevant for women's health during various life stages.
  • There is conflicting evidence about nicotine’s potential health benefits in certain diseases, and its prevalence is high among individuals with comorbid conditions that can impact immune function, which disproportionately affects women.
  • The review emphasizes the need to understand how nicotine influences women's immune health, especially during menopause, and suggests that quitting nicotine should be prioritized in clinical care for women, despite any possible health benefits it may have.
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Existing maze apparatuses used in rodents often exclusively assess spatial discriminability as a means to evaluate learning impairments. Spatial learning in such paradigms is reportedly spared by moderate prenatal alcohol exposure in rats, suggesting that spatial reinforcement alone is insufficient to delineate executive dysfunction, which consistently manifests in humans prenatally-exposed to alcohol. To address this, we designed a single-session continuous performance task in the T-maze apparatus that requires rats to discriminate within and between simultaneously-presented spatial (left or right) and tactile (sandpaper or smooth) stimuli for food reinforcement across four sequential discrimination stages: simple discrimination, intradimensional reversal 1, extradimensional shift, and intradimensional reversal 2.

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Although hybridization in plants has been recognized as an important pathway in plant speciation, it may also affect the ecology and evolution of associated communities. Cottonwood species ( and ) and their naturally occurring hybrids are known to support different plant, animal, and microbial communities, but no studies have examined community structure within the context of phylogenetic history. Using a community composed of 199 arthropod species, we tested for differences in arthropod phylogenetic patterns within and among hybrid and parental tree types in a common garden.

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