PUBLICATIONS
          PAST 4 YEARS
  1. White, D., de Sousa Abreu R.P., Blake, A., Murphy, J., Showell, S., Kitamoto, T., Lawal, H.O. 2020. Deficits in the vesicular acetylcholine transporter alter lifespan and behavior in adult Drosophila melanogaster. Neurochem Int. 137:104744. PMID: 32315665
  2. Showell, S.S., Martinez, Y., Gondolfo, S., Boppana, S., Lawal, H.O. 2020. Overexpression of the vesicular acetylcholine transporter disrupts cognitive performance and causes age-dependent locomotion decline in Drosophila. Mol Cell Neurosci. 105:103483. PMID: 32217162
  3. Deshpande, S.A., Freyberg, Z., Lawal, H.O., Krantz, D.E. 2020. Vesicular neurotransmitter transporters in Drosophila melanogaster. Biochim Biophys Acta Biomembr. 1862(12):183308. PMID: 32305263
  4. Lawal, H., and Krantz, D.E. 2018. Drosophila as a Neurobiological Model. Neurotoxicology. Springer Protocols “in press”
  5. Boppana, S., and Lawal. H. 2017. Data on the Specificity of an Antibody to Drosophila Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter. Data in Brief.  15:257-261. PMID: 29034290
  6. Sanders, L.H., Paul, K.C., Howlett, E.H., Lawal, H., Boppana, S., Bronstein, J., Ritz, B., and Greenamyre, J.T. 2017. Base Excision Repair Variants and Pesticide Exposure Increase Parkinson’s disease Risk. Toxicol. Sci, 158(1):188-198 PMID: 28460087
  7. Boppana, S., Kendall, N., Akinrinsola, O., White, D., Patel, K. and Lawal, H. 2017. Immunolocalization of the vesicular acetylcholine transporter in larval and adult Drosophila neurons. Neurosci Letters. 643:76-83. PMID: 28188850
          OLDER PAPERS
  1. Grygoruk, A., Chen, A., Martin, C.A., Lawal, H. O., Fei, H., Guitierrez, G., Biedermann, T., Najibi, R., Hadi, R., Chouhan, A. K., Murphy, N., Schweizer, F., Macleod, G. T., Maidment, N. and Krantz, D. E. 2014. Redistribution of Drosophila vesicular monoamine transporter mutants from synaptic vesicles to large dense-core vesicles impairs amine-dependent behaviors. J. Neuroscience 34(20):6924-37 PMID: 24828646
  2. Martin, C.A., Barajas, A., Lawless, G., Lawal, H.O., Assani, K., Lumintag, Y.P., Nunez, V., Krantz, D.E. 2014. Synergistic effects on dopamine cell death in a Drosophila model of chronic toxin exposure. Neurotoxicology 44:344-51. PMID: 25160001
  3. Chen A., Ng, F., Lebestky, T., Grygoruk, A., Djapri, C., Lawal, H. O.,Zaveri, H. A., Mehanzel, F., Najibi, R., Sedman, G., Ackerson, L. C., Maidment, N., Jackson, R. and Krantz, D.E. 2013. Dispensable, Redundant, Complementary, and cooperative role of dopamine, octopamine and serotonin in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 193(1):159-76. PMID: 23086220
  4. Lawal, H.O. and Krantz, D. E. 2013. SLC18: Vesicular neurotransmitter transporters for monoamines and acetylcholine. Molecular Aspects of Medicine, 34(2-3):360-72. PMID: 23506877
  5. Lawal H. O., Terrell, A., Jang, J., Hadi, R. S., Roberts, L., Shahi, V., Chou, M-T, Huang, B., Simon, A. F. and Krantz, D.E. 2014. In vivo screening using a Drosophila vesicular monoamine transporter mutant identifies a new class of aminergic drugs. Mol Psychiatry. 19(2):235-42. doi: 10.1038/mp.2012.170. Epub 2012 Dec 11. PMID: 23229049
  6. Wang, Z*., Ferdousy, F*., Lawal, H., Izevbaye, I., Chaudhuri, A., Lackey, K., Burton, D., Rasco, J., Roberts, D.,  Williams, C., Stathakis, D., and O’Donnell, J. 2011 Catecholamines up regulates dopamine synthesis and synaptic trafficking in Drosophila melanogaster. J. Neurochemistry 119(6):1294-305. PMID: 21985068  
  7. Lawal H. O., Chang, H-Y., Terrell, A. N., Brooks., E. S., Pulido, D., Simon, A. F. and Krantz., D. E. 2010. The Drosophila vesicular monoamine transporter reduces pesticide-induced loss of dopaminergic neurons. Neurobiol. Dis. 40(1):102-12. PMID: 20472063
  8. Bahadorani, S., Cho, J., Lo, T., Contreras, H., Lawal, H. O., Krantz, D. E., Bradley, T. J., and Walker, D. W. 2010. Neuronal expression of a single-subunit yeast NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase (Ndi1) extends Drosophila lifespan. Aging Cell. 9(2):191-202. PMID: 20089120