| Name |
Keywords |
Research Interests |
| Crews, Fulton |
ethanol, alchohol, stem cells, excitatory amino acids, behavior, physiology, addiction, neurodegeneration |
Role of excitatory amino acid receptors in the behavioral and physiological consequences of ethanol abuse. Neurodegenerative disease mechanisms. |
| Deshmukh, Mohanish |
apoptosis, cell death, neurodegeneration, development, survival, nerve growth factor, transgenic mice |
Molecular mechanism of apoptosis in neurons. |
| Farel, Paul |
regeneration, development, spinal cord, motoneuron, cell death |
Developmental neurobiology of spinal motor function. |
| Howard, James |
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Physiology of the neuromuscular junction in clinical myasthenic conditions |
| Lund, P Kay |
peptides, growth factors |
Regulation of the biosynthesis and expression of neuropeptides; function of growth factors in the CNS |
| Matsushima, Glenn |
myelin, glia, cytokines, demyelination |
Cytokines and MHC genes in the processes of neuronal myelination and demyelination |
| Perl, Edward |
pain, nocioception, brain slices, spinal cord, sensory processing |
Specificity of sensory systems; cellular and molecular correlates of nociceptive function in mammals |
| Pevny, Larysa |
stem cells, development, cell fate, genetics, Neural induction, neurogenesis, SOX proteins |
Studies of neural stem cells and cell differentiation during early embrygenesis. Focus on the SOX family of transcription factors and their role in specifying neurons. |
| Snider, William |
neurotrophins, growth factors, sensory neurons, axon growth, nociceptors, transgenic mice, spinal cord development |
Growth factor regulation of axonal morphology, Growth factor regulation of nociceptor development |
| Ting, Jenny |
neuroimmunology, genetics, neurodegeneration |
Regulation of transplantation genes in the CNS during neurodegenerative disease states |
