LMCN - Section on Physiology (SP)

Mission Statement:

Plans and conducts research investigation of the molecular and cellular physiology of nervous tissue in experimental animals; and
investigates the effects of acute and chronic alcohol administration and withdrawal on the physiological properties of nervous tissue.

Staff:

Name	Title	E-Mail	Phone
Forrest F. Weight, PhD	Chief	fweight@mail.nih.gov	301.443.2888
Kara Moyer	Administrative Lab Manager	Karam@mail.nih.gov	301.443.5174

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Selected Publications:

Xiong K, Stewart RR, Hu X-Q, Werby E, Peoples RW, Weight FF, Li C: Role of extracellular histidines in agonist sensitivity of the rat P2X4 receptor. Neurosci Lett 2004;365:195-9. [ PDF ]

Xiong K, Stewart RR, Weight FF, Li C: Role of extracellular histidines in antagonist sensitivity of the rat P2X4 receptor. Neurosci Lett 2004;367:197-200. [ PDF ]

Xiong K, Hu X-Q, Stewart RR, Weight FF, Li C: The mechanism by which ethanol inhibits rat P2X4 receptors is altered by mutation of histidine 241. Br J Pharmacol 2005;145:576-86. [ PDF ]

Zhu PJ, Stewart RR, McIntosh JM, Weight FF: Activation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors increases the frequency of spontaneous GABAergic IPSCs in rat basolateral amygdala neurons. J Neurophysiol 2005, July 20 [ePub ahead of print].

Alcohol publications can also be found using ETOH Database

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NIH Research and Training Opportunities

Updated: October 2005