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D-Index
45
Citations
7733
World Ranking
6928
National Ranking
2992

Best Publications

  • Efferent projections of the suprachiasmatic nucleus: I. Studies using anterograde transport of Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin in the rat

    Alan G. Watts;Larry W. Swanson;Graciela Sanchez‐Watts

  • Efferent projections of the suprachiasmatic nucleus: II. Studies using retrograde transport of fluorescent dyes and simultaneous peptide immunohistochemistry in the rat

    Alan G. Watts;Larry W. Swanson

  • Basic organization of projections from the oval and fusiform nuclei of the bed nuclei of the stria terminalis in adult rat brain.

    Hong-Wei Dong;Gorica D. Petrovich;Alan G. Watts;Larry W. Swanson

  • Glucocorticoid regulation of peptide genes in neuroendocrine CRH neurons: a complexity beyond negative feedback.

    Alan G. Watts

  • Sweet talk in the brain: glucosensing, neural networks, and hypoglycemic counterregulation.

    Alan G. Watts;Casey M. Donovan

  • Immunotoxin lesion of hypothalamically projecting norepinephrine and epinephrine neurons differentially affects circadian and stressor-stimulated corticosterone secretion.

    Sue Ritter;Alan G. Watts;Thu T. Dinh;Graciela Sanchez-Watts

  • Comparison of melanin-concentrating hormone and hypocretin/orexin mRNA expression patterns in a new parceling scheme of the lateral hypothalamic zone

    Larry W. Swanson;Graciela Sanchez-Watts;Alan G. Watts

  • The Impact of Physiological Stimuli on the Expression of Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone (CRH) and Other Neuropeptide Genes

    Alan G. Watts

  • Diurnal variations in the content of preprocorticotropin-releasing hormone messenger ribonucleic acids in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of rats of both sexes as measured by in situ hybridization.

    A. G. Watts;L. W. Swanson

  • Characterization of corticotropin-releasing hormone neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus of Crh-IRES-Cre mutant mice.

    Jaclyn I. Wamsteeker Cusulin;Tamás Füzesi;Alan G. Watts;Jaideep S. Bains

  • Understanding the neural control of ingestive behaviors: helping to separate cause from effect with dehydration-associated anorexia.

    Alan G. Watts

  • Corticotropin-releasing hormone and arginine vasopressin gene transcription in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of unstressed rats: Daily rhythms and their interactions with corticosterone

    Alan G. Watts;Susan Tanimura;Graciela Sanchez-Watts

  • Distinct Patterns of Neuropeptide Gene Expression in the Lateral Hypothalamic Area and Arcuate Nucleus Are Associated with Dehydration-Induced Anorexia

    Alan G. Watts;Graciela Sanchez-Watts;Andrea B. Kelly

  • The Physiological Control of Eating: Signals, Neurons, and Networks

    Alan G Watts;Scott E Kanoski;Graciela Sanchez-Watts;Wolfgang Langhans

  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function in the Zucker obese rat.

    P M Plotsky;K V Thrivikraman;A G Watts;R L Hauger

  • Dehydration-associated anorexia: development and rapid reversal.

    Alan G Watts

  • Peripheral and central glucose sensing in hypoglycemic detection.

    Casey M. Donovan;Alan G. Watts

  • Corticosterone can facilitate as well as inhibit corticotropin-releasing hormone gene expression in the rat hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus.

    Susan M. Tanimura;Alan G. Watts

  • The functional architecture of dehydration-anorexia.

    Alan G. Watts;Christina N. Boyle

  • Loss of dorsomedial hypothalamic GLP-1 signaling reduces BAT thermogenesis and increases adiposity

    Shin J. Lee;Graciela Sanchez-Watts;Jean-Philippe Krieger;Angelica Pignalosa

  • Salt-Inducible Kinase Is Involved in the Regulation of Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Transcription in Hypothalamic Neurons in Rats

    Ying Liu;Victoria Poon;Graciela Sanchez-Watts;Alan G. Watts

  • Physiological regulation of peptide messenger RNA colocalization in rat hypothalamic paraventricular medial parvicellular neurons

    Alan G. Watts;Graciela Sanchez-Watts

  • Catecholaminergic Control of Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Signaling in Paraventricular Neuroendocrine Neurons In Vivo and In Vitro: A Proposed Role during Glycemic Challenges

    Arshad M. Khan;Todd A. Ponzio;Graciela Sanchez-Watts;B. Glenn Stanley

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Larry W. Swanson University of Southern California
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Jaideep S. Bains University of Calgary
James W. Simpkins
James W. Simpkins West Virginia University
Victor D. Ramirez
Victor D. Ramirez University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Susan E. Fahrbach
Susan E. Fahrbach Wake Forest University
Roger A.H. Adan
Roger A.H. Adan Utrecht University
Richard J. Bodnar
Richard J. Bodnar Queens College, CUNY
Joan I. Morrell
Joan I. Morrell Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Bernhard Horsthemke
Bernhard Horsthemke University of Duisburg-Essen

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