Publications

2024
Sawant-Pokam P and Metcalf C. Getting Excited About Chloride Cotransporters: Neuroinflammation and Inhibition. Epilepsy Currents. 2024.

2023
Suryavanshi Pratyush, Sawant Pokam Punam, Clair Sarah, Brennan KC. Increased presynaptic excitability in a migraine with aura mutation. Brain, 147(2): 680-697, 2023. PMID: 37831655.

2021
Parker Patrick, Suryavanshi Pratyush, Melone Marcello, Sawant-Pokam Punam, Reinhart Katelyn, Kaufmann Dan, Theriot Jeremy, Pugliese Arianna, Conti Fiorenzo, Shuttleworth C. William, Pietrobon Daniela, Brennan K.C. (2021). Non-canonical glutamate signaling in a genetic model of migraine with aura. Neuron, 109(4), 611-628.

2020
Sawant-Pokam Punam, Vail Tyler, Metcalf Cameron, Maguire Jamie, McKean Thomas, McKean Nick, and Brennan KC. Preventing neuronal edema increases network excitability after traumatic brain injury. The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 130(11), 6005–6020, 2020.

Pratyush Suryavanshi, Punam Sawant Pokam, KC Brennan (2020). Altered synaptic adaptation and gain in sensory circuits of the casein kinase 1 delta (CK1dT44A) mouse model of migraine.

2017
Sawant-Pokam PM., Suryavanshi P., Mendez JM., Dudek FE., Brennan KC. Mechanisms of neuronal silencing after cortical spreading depression. Cerebral Cortex, 2017; 1-15.

2014
Tang YT, Mendez JM, Theriot JJ, Sawant PM, Lopez-Valdes HE, Ju YS, Brennan KC (2014). Minimum conditions for the induction of cortical spreading depression in brain slices. J Neurophysiol, 112(10), 2572-9.

2011
Vranyac-Tramoundanas A, Harrison JC, Sawant PM, Kerr DS, Sammut IA (2011). Ischemic cardiomyopathy following seizure induction by domoic Acid. Am J Pathol, 179(1), 141-54.

2010
Sawant PM, Tyndall JDA, Holland PT, Peake BM, Mountfort DO, Kerr DS. In vivo seizure induction and affinity studies of domoic acid and isodomoic acids-D, -E and –F. Neuropharmacology, 2010b; 59: 129-138. Special Issue.

Sawant PM, Mountfort DO, Kerr DS. Spectral analysis of electrocorticographic activity during pharmacological preconditioning and seizure induction by intrahippocampal domoic acid. Hippocampus, 2010a; 20: 994-1002.

2008
Sawant PM, Holland PT, Mountfort DO, Kerr DS (2008). In vivo seizure induction and pharmacological preconditioning by domoic acid and isodomoic acids A, B and C. Neuropharmacology, 55(8), 1412-8.

2007
Sawant PM, Weare BA, Holland PT, Selwood AI, King KL, Mikulski CM, Doucette GJ, Mountfort DO, Kerr DS (2007). Isodomoic acids A and C exhibit low KA receptor affinity and reduced in vitro potency relative to domoic acid in region CA1 of rat hippocampus. Toxicon, 50(5), 627-38.

Hesp BR, Clarkson AN, Sawant PM, Kerr DS (2007). Domoic acid preconditioning and seizure induction in young and aged rats. Epilepsy Res, 76(2-3), 103-12.