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Barbara A Horwitz is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within medicine and neuroscience, with a particular focus on neural dynamics, brain function, memory mechanisms, immunodeficiency, autoimmune disorders, and inflammatory bowel disease.

The main fields of study covered by their work include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

Within these broader fields, their subfields of study comprise:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Surgery
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Immunology
  • Genetics

The major research topics addressed in their publications are:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies
  • Trauma Management and Diagnosis

Barbara A Horwitz has contributed to several peer-reviewed papers, including the following:

  • Temperature Dependence of Hippocampal Short-term Facilitation (STF) in Syrian Hamsters, a Hibernating Species, 2020, published in The FASEB Journal
  • OP28 Defective STAT3 signaling in refractory Very Early Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease is associated with a transcriptional signature which predicts response to anti-IL23-based therapies, 2024, published in Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
  • DOP072 The IL1-dependent transcription factor MEOX1 as a driver of differentiation programs in ACKR1+ endothelial cells of inflammatory bowel disease granulation tissue, 2025, published in Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
  • Non-Traumatic Thyroid Cartilage Fracture from Sudden Neck Motion: Clinical Insights, 2025, published in American Journal of Case Reports

Their work frequently appears in the following journals:

  • Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
  • The FASEB Journal
  • American Journal of Case Reports

Barbara A Horwitz has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

  • Vanessa Mitsialis
  • Alal Eran
  • Jared Barends
  • Aleixo M. Muise
  • Christoph Klein

Best Publications

  • Brown fat and thermogenesis.

    Robert Emrie Smith;Barbara A. Horwitz

  • Effect of adrenalectomy and glucocorticoid replacement on development of obesity.

    Marjorie R. Freedman;B. A. Horwitz;J. S. Stern

  • Prolactin stimulates food intake in a dose-dependent manner

    T. Gerardo-Gettens;B. J. Moore;J. S. Stern;Barbara A Horwitz

  • Undergraduates’ understanding of cardiovascular phenomena

    Joel A. Michael;Mary Pat Wenderoth;Harold I. Modell;William Cliff

  • Hyperprolactinemia stimulates food intake in the female rat.

    Barbara J. Moore;Theresa Gerardo-Gettens;Barbara A. Horwitz;Judith S. Stern

  • Undergraduate students' misconceptions about respiratory physiology.

    Joel A. Michael;Daniel Richardson;Allen Rovick;Harold Modell

  • Animal models of obesity: genetic aspects.

    Patricia R. Johnson;M. R. C. Greenwood;Barbara A. Horwitz;Judith S. Stern

  • Uncoupling proteins-2 and 3 influence obesity and inflammation in transgenic mice

    T. L. Horvath;S. Diano;S. Miyamoto;S. Barry

  • Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis During Aging and Senescence

    Roger B. McDonald;Barbara A. Horwitz

  • Longevity in obese and lean male and female rats of the Zucker strain: prevention of hyperphagia

    Patricia R. Johnson;Judith S. Stern;Barbara A Horwitz;Robert E. Harris

  • Ouabain-sensitive component of brown fat thermogenesis.

    Barbara A Horwitz

  • T3 stimulates resting metabolism and UCP-2 and UCP-3 mRNA but not nonphosphorylating mitochondrial respiration in mice

    Mika B. Jekabsons;Francine M. Gregoire;Nancy A. Schonfeld-Warden;Craig H Warden

  • Norepinephrine-induced depolarization of brown fat cells

    Barbara A Horwitz;J. M. Horowitz;R. E. Smith

  • Alterations of lipolysis and lipoprotein lipase in chronically nicotine-treated rats.

    Carole Sztalryd;Jock Hamilton;Barbara A Horwitz;Patricia Johnson

  • Effect of age and gender on thermoregulation

    R. B. McDonald;C. Day;K. Carlson;J. S. Stern

  • How accurate are our assumptions about our students' background knowledge?

    Allen A. Rovick;Joel A. Michael;Harold I. Modell;David S. Bruce

  • Cold- and norepinephrine-induced thermogenesis in younger and older Fischer 344 rats.

    R. B. McDonald;Barbara A Horwitz;J. S. Hamilton;J. S. Stern

  • Functional and anatomical characteristics of the nerve-brown adipose interaction in the rat

    Kathryn E. Flaim;John M. Horowitz;Barbara A. Horwitz

  • Circadian rhythms of temperature and activity in obese and lean Zucker rats

    D. M. Murakami;Barbara A Horwitz;C. A. Fuller

  • Meal patterns associated with the age-related decline in food intake in the Fischer 344 rat

    Cynthia A. Blanton;Barbara A. Horwitz;Carol Murtagh-Mark;Dorothy W. Gietzen

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Pomp
Daniel Pomp University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kelly D. Brownell
Kelly D. Brownell Duke University
Philip McGuire
Philip McGuire University of Oxford
Robin G. Morris
Robin G. Morris King's College London
Sabrina Diano
Sabrina Diano Columbia University
Michael Brammer
Michael Brammer King's College London

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