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Victor Viau
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Research
Latest papers
The NE/AAT/CBG axis regulates adipose tissue glucocorticoid exposure.
Nature communications · 2025
Corticosteroid-Binding Globulin (SERPINA6) Consolidates Sexual Dimorphism of Adult Rat Liver.
Endocrinology · 2023 · senior author
Analysis of a genetic region affecting mouse body weight.
Physiological genomics · 2023
Latest funding
- $100,000
Sex differences in inflammatory, neuroendocrine and behavioural responses: Impact of corticosteroid-binding globulin deficiency.
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
- $875,925
Sex differences in inflammatory, neuroendocrine and behavioural responses: Impact of corticosteroid-binding globulin deficiency.
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
- $692,325
Pannexin1 mediation of stroke recovery responses: Sex and sex steroid influences
CIHR · 2017 · Principal investigator
33 publications.
The NE/AAT/CBG axis regulates adipose tissue glucocorticoid exposure.
Boyle LD, Miguelez-Crespo A, Paul M, Villalobos E, Toews JNC, Ivatt L, Nagy B, Magennis M, Homer NZM, Andrew R, Viau V, Hammond GL, Stimson RH, Walker BR, Nixon M
Corticosteroid-Binding Globulin (SERPINA6) Consolidates Sexual Dimorphism of Adult Rat Liver.
Toews JNC, Philippe TJ, Dordevic M, Hill LA, Hammond GL, Viau V
Analysis of a genetic region affecting mouse body weight.
Leung CLK, Karunakaran S, Atser MG, Innala L, Hu X, Viau V, Johnson JD, Clee SM
Activity in a prefrontal-periaqueductal gray circuit overcomes behavioral and endocrine features of the passive coping stress response.
Johnson SB, Lingg RT, Skog TD, Hinz DC, Romig-Martin SA, Viau V, Narayanan NS, Radley JJ
Sex Differences in Serotonin 5-HT 1A Receptor Responses to Repeated Restraint Stress in Adult Male and Female Rats.
Philippe TJ, Bao L, Koblanski ME, Viau V
Corticosteroid-binding Globulin (SERPINA6) Establishes Postpubertal Sex Differences in Rat Adrenal Development.
Toews JNC, Philippe TJ, Hill LA, Dordevic M, Miguelez-Crespo A, Homer NZM, Nixon M, Hammond GL, Viau V
Cellular and serotonergic correlates of habituated neuroendocrine responses in male and female rats.
Goel N, Philippe TJ, Chang J, Koblanski ME, Viau V
Liver at the nexus of rat postnatal HPA axis maturation and sexual dimorphism.
Toews JNC, Hammond GL, Viau V
Prefrontal-Bed Nucleus Circuit Modulation of a Passive Coping Response Set.
Johnson SB, Emmons EB, Lingg RT, Anderson RM, Romig-Martin SA, LaLumiere RT, Narayanan NS, Viau V, Radley JJ
Pannexin1 knockout and blockade reduces ischemic stroke injury in female, but not in male mice.
Freitas-Andrade M, Bechberger JF, MacVicar BA, Viau V, Naus CC
Sex differences in inflammatory, neuroendocrine and behavioural responses: Impact of corticosteroid-binding globulin deficiency.
Principal investigators: Viau, Victor
Keywords: Genetically-Modified Rat Model; Glucocorticoids; Inflammation; Sex Differences; Stress Response
Sex differences in inflammatory, neuroendocrine and behavioural responses: Impact of corticosteroid-binding globulin deficiency.
Principal investigators: Viau, Victor
Keywords: Genetically-Modified Rat Model; Glucocorticoids; Inflammation; Sex Differences; Stress Response
Pannexin1 mediation of stroke recovery responses: Sex and sex steroid influences
Principal investigators: Naus, Christian C; Viau, Victor
Keywords: Inflammation; Mice; Pannexin 1; Sex Differences; Stroke
Molecular mechanism of a gene-stress-sex interaction on obesity
Principal investigators: Clee, Susanne M; Viau, Victor
Keywords: Flies; Gene-Environment Interaction; Genetics; Humans; Mice; Molecular Mechanism; Obesity; Sex; Stress
Sex differences in stress, neuroendocrine and serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine) 5-HT1A receptor responses.
Principal investigators: Viau, Victor
Keywords: Glucocorticoid Steroid Hormones; Hybridization- And Immuno-Histochemistry; Microscopy; Neuroanatomy; Neuroendocrinology; Serotonin Behavioral Syndrome; Serotonin Receptor Pharmacology; Sex Differences; Sex Steroid Hormones; Tract Tracing And Stereotaxic Surgery
Androgen sensitive pathways to the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus.
Principal investigators: Viau, Victor
Keywords: Arginine Vasopressin (Avp); Avp-V1a Receptor Subtype; Coping Behavior; Habituation; Hypothalamus; Limbic-Related Brain Regions; Mood Disorders; Stress; Testosterone
Critical influence of neonatal testosterone on stress pathways in the adult brain.
Principal investigators: Viau, Victor
Molecular mechanism of a gene-stress interaction on obesity
Principal investigators: Clee, Susanne M; Viau, Victor
Keywords: Chronic Mild Stress; Diabesity; Gene-Stress Interaction; Mice
Sex differences in stress, neuroendocrine and serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine) 5-HT1A receptor responses.
Principal investigators: Viau, Victor
Keywords: Glucocorticoid Steroid Hormones; Hybridization- And Immuno-Histochemistry; Microscopy; Neuroanatomy; Neuroendocrinology; Serotonergic Drugs; Serotonin Receptor Pharmacology; Sex Differences; Sex Steroid Hormones; Tract Tracing And Stereotaxic Surgery
The effect of Arginine Vasopressin transmission antagonism on defensive burying behavior respones in Long Evans and Sprague Dawley adult male rats.
Principal investigators: Anonuevo, Adam M
Keywords: Defensive Burying; Hpa; Long Evans; Sprague Dawley; Testosterone; V1a; V1b; Vasopressin
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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