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Kacper Łukasiewicz

Medical University of Bialystok
Verified email at ucsc.edu
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[HTML][HTML] An analog of psychedelics restores functional neural circuits disrupted by unpredictable stress

J Lu, M Tjia, B Mullen, B Cao, K Lukasiewicz… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Psychological stress affects a wide spectrum of brain functions and poses risks for many mental
disorders. However, effective therapeutics to alleviate or revert its deleterious effects are …

[HTML][HTML] Serotonergic psychedelics in neural plasticity

K Lukasiewicz, JJ Baker, Y Zuo, J Lu - Frontiers in molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Psychedelics, compounds that can induce dramatic changes in conscious experience, have
been used by humans for centuries. Recent studies have shown that certain psychedelics …

[HTML][HTML] Phosphorylation of PSD-95 at serine 73 in dCA1 is required for extinction of contextual fear

…, M Nalberczak-Skóra, MA Śliwińska, K Łukasiewicz… - Plos …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The updating of contextual memories is essential for survival in a changing environment.
Accumulating data indicate that the dorsal CA1 area (dCA1) contributes to this process. …

[HTML][HTML] Stress induces microglia-associated synaptic circuit alterations in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex

T Liu, J Lu, K Lukasiewicz, B Pan, Y Zuo - Neurobiology of stress, 2021 - Elsevier
The mammalian dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) receives diverse inputs and plays
important roles in adaptive behavior and cognitive flexibility. Stress, a major risk factor for …

[HTML][HTML] Whole-body clearing, staining and screening of calcium deposits in the mdx mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

L Bozycki, K Łukasiewicz, P Matryba, S Pikula - Skeletal muscle, 2018 - Springer
Background Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a fatal, X-linked genetic disorder.
Although DMD is the most common form of muscular dystrophy, only two FDA-approved drugs …

Autophosphorylation of alpha isoform of calcium/calmodulin‐dependent kinase II regulates alcohol addiction‐related behaviors

Z Mijakowska, K Łukasiewicz, M Ziółkowska… - Addiction …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The development of addiction is associated with a dysregulation of glutamatergic transmission
in the brain reward circuit. α isoform of calcium/calmodulin‐dependent kinase II (αCaMKII) …

[HTML][HTML] Total absence of dystrophin expression exacerbates ectopic myofiber calcification and fibrosis and alters macrophage infiltration patterns

…, N Chira, L Bozycki, P Matryba, K Łukasiewicz… - The American Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) causes severe disability and death of young men
because of progressive muscle degeneration aggravated by sterile inflammation. DMD is also …

PSD-95 in CA1 area regulates spatial choice depending on age

…, M Ziółkowska, K Łukasiewicz… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Cognitive processes that require spatial information rely on synaptic plasticity in the dorsal
CA1 area (dCA1) of the hippocampus. Since the function of the hippocampus is impaired in …

[HTML][HTML] Stressors Length and the Habituation Effect—An EEG Study

…, D Wacewicz, M Schab, B Romanowski, K Łukasiewicz… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The research described in this paper aimed to determine whether people respond differently
to short and long stimuli and whether stress stimuli repeated over time evoke a habituation …

Simultaneous two-photon in vivo imaging of synaptic inputs and postsynaptic targets in the mouse retrosplenial cortex

K Łukasiewicz, M Robacha, Ł Bożycki… - JoVE (Journal of …, 2016 - jove.com
This video shows the craniotomy procedure that allows chronic imaging of neurons in the
mouse retrosplenial cortex (RSC) using in vivo two-photon microscopy in Thy1-GFP transgenic …