Section: Publications

Postdoctoral Position Available

Ann Rittenhouse, Ph.D.

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Faculty Appointment(s) In:
   Physiology

Other Affiliation(s):
   Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
   Program in Neuroscience

Representative Publications:

Zhao, R., L. Liu and A.R. Rittenhouse (2007) Ca²⁺ influx through both L- and N-type Ca²⁺ channels increases c-fos expression by electrical stimulation of sympathetic neurons.  European J. Neuroscience, 25(4): 1127-1135.

Liu, L., R. Zhou, Y. Bai, L.F. Stanish, J.E. Evans, M.J. Sanderson, J.V. Bonventre, and A.R. Rittenhouse (2006) M₁ muscarinic receptors inhibit L-type Ca²⁺ current and M-current by divergent signal transduction cascades.  The J. Neuroscience,  26(45): 11588-11598.

Liu, L. and A.R. Rittenhouse  (2003) Arachidonic Acid Mediates Muscarinic-Induced Inhibition and Enhancement of N-type  Ca²⁺  Current. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 100: 295-300.

‡Liu, L. and A.R. Rittenhouse (2003) Pharmacological discrimination between mus­carinic receptor signal transduction cascades with bethanechol chloride. Br. J. Pharmacol., 138: 1259-1270.

‡See Commentary: Andrew Constanti (2003) Can Bethanechol Distinguish Between Different Muscarinic Signalling Pathways in Neurons? Br. J. Pharmacol., 138: 1185-1187.

Liu, L., C.F. Barrett and A.R. Rittenhouse (2001) Arachidonic Acid both Enhances and Inhibits Calcium Currents in Sympathetic Neurons. American J. Physiol. (Cell Physiol.), 280: C1293-C1305.

Barrett, C.F., L. Liu and A.R. Rittenhouse (2001) Arachidonic Acid Reversibly Enhances N-Type Calcium Currents at an Extracellular Site.  American J. Physiol. (Cell Physiol.), 280: C1306-C1318.

†Barrett, C.F. and A.R. Rittenhouse (2000) Modulation of N-type Calcium Channel Activity by G-Proteins and Protein Kinase C.  J. General Physiol., 115:1-11.

† See Commentary: Bruce Bean (2000) Modulating Modulation. J. General Physiol., 115: 273-276.

Liu, L. and A.R. Rittenhouse  (2000) Effects of Arachidonic Acid on Unitary Calcium Currents in Rat Sympathetic Neurons.  J. Physiol., 525: 391-404.

Rittenhouse, A.R. and R.E. Zigmond (1999) The role of N - and L- type calcium channels in the depolarization- induced activation of tyrosine hydroxylase and release of norepinephrine by sympathetic cell bodies and nerve terminals.  J. Neurobiol.  40: 137-148.

Rittenhouse, A.R. and P. Hess (1994) Microscopic heterogeneity in unitary N-type calcium currents in rat sympathetic neurons.  J. Physiol., 474: 87-99.

Office: S4-216
Phone: 508-856-3735
Fax: 508-856-5997
E-mail: Ann.Rittenhouse@umassmed.edu
Keywords: Signal Transduction, Synapses, Electrophysiology, Neural Plasticity, Ion Channels

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