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David Mendelowitz is affiliated with George Washington University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a significant focus on subfields such as Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's work extensively covers various topics related to the neuroscience of respiration and sleep, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, and the regulation of appetite and obesity. Additional areas of study include sleep and wakefulness research, heart rate variability and autonomic control, obstructive sleep apnea research, and photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

David Mendelowitz has contributed to numerous publications in several venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Physiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Physiology
  • SLEEP
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Among the recent papers are:

  • Evidence of Superior and Inferior Sinoatrial Nodes in the Mammalian Heart (2020), published in JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology
  • Activation of Oxytocin Neurons Improves Cardiac Function in a Pressure-Overload Model of Heart Failure (2020), published in JACC Basic to Translational Science
  • Intranasal Leptin Prevents Opioid-induced Sleep-disordered Breathing in Obese Mice (2020), published in American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
  • Leptin receptor expression in the dorsomedial hypothalamus stimulates breathing during NREM sleep in db/db mice (2021), published in SLEEP
  • Persistent Feeding and Swallowing Deficits in a Mouse Model of 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome (2020), published in Frontiers in Neurology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David Mendelowitz include:

  • Matthew W. Kay
  • Vsevolod Y. Polotsky
  • Joan B. Escobar
  • Olga Dergacheva
  • Mateus R. Amorim

Best Publications

  • Advances in Parasympathetic Control of Heart Rate and Cardiac Function

    David Mendelowitz

  • Synaptic and neurotransmitter activation of cardiac vagal neurons in the nucleus ambiguus.

    Jijiang Wang;Mustapha Irnaten;Robert A. Neff;Priya Venkatesan

  • Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia: Endogenous Activation of Nicotinic Receptors Mediates Respiratory Modulation of Brainstem Cardioinhibitory Parasympathetic Neurons

    Robert A. Neff;Jijiang Wang;Sunit Baxi;Cory Evans

  • A- and C-type rat nodose sensory neurons: Model interpretations of dynamic discharge characteristics

    J. H. Schild;J. W. Clark;M. Hay;D. Mendelowitz

  • Localization and retention in vitro of fluorescently labeled aortic baroreceptor terminals on neurons from the nucleus tractus solitarius

    David Mendelowitz;Mingyong Yang;Michael C. Andresen;Diana L. Kunze

  • Firing properties of identified parasympathetic cardiac neurons in nucleus ambiguus

    D. Mendelowitz

  • Stimulation of NTS activates NMDA and non-NMDA receptors in rat cardiac vagal neurons in the nucleus ambiguus

    R.A Neff;M Mihalevich;D Mendelowitz

  • GLP-1 receptor stimulation depresses heart rate variability and inhibits neurotransmission to cardiac vagal neurons

    Kathleen J. Griffioen;Ruiqian Wan;Eitan Okun;Xin Wang

  • Respiratory modulation of premotor cardiac vagal neurons in the brainstem.

    Olga Dergacheva;Kathleen J. Griffioen;Robert A. Neff;David Mendelowitz

  • Optogenetic Stimulation of Locus Ceruleus Neurons Augments Inhibitory Transmission to Parasympathetic Cardiac Vagal Neurons via Activation of Brainstem α1 and β1 Receptors

    Xin Wang;Ramón A. Piñol;Peter Byrne;David Mendelowitz

  • Evidence that BDNF regulates heart rate by a mechanism involving increased brainstem parasympathetic neuron excitability

    Ruiqian Wan;Letitia A. Weigand;Ryan Bateman;Kathleen Griffioen

  • Prenatal Nicotine Exposure Alters Central Cardiorespiratory Responses to Hypoxia in Rats: Implications for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

    Robert A. Neff;Samuel J. Simmens;Cory Evans;David Mendelowitz

  • Visualization of Oxytocin Release that Mediates Paired Pulse Facilitation in Hypothalamic Pathways to Brainstem Autonomic Neurons

    Ramón A. Piñol;Heather Jameson;Anastas Popratiloff;Norman H. Lee

  • Identification and dissociation of cardiovascular neurons from the medulla for patch clamp analysis

    David Mendelowitz;Diana L. Kunze

  • Characteristics of spontaneous and evoked GABAergic synaptic currents in cardiac vagal neurons in rats.

    Jijiang Wang;Mustapha Irnaten;David Mendelowitz

  • Fentanyl inhibits GABAergic neurotransmission to cardiac vagal neurons in the nucleus ambiguus

    Kathleen J.S. Griffioen;Priya Venkatesan;Zheng Gui Huang;Xin Wang

  • Optogenetic approaches to characterize the long-range synaptic pathways from the hypothalamus to brain stem autonomic nuclei.

    Ramón A. Piñol;Ryan Bateman;David Mendelowitz

  • Propofol enhances both tonic and phasic inhibitory currents in second-order neurons of the solitary tract nucleus (NTS)

    Stuart J. McDougall;Timothy W. Bailey;David Mendelowitz;Michael C. Andresen

  • Oxytocin neuron activation prevents hypertension that occurs with chronic intermittent hypoxia/hypercapnia in rats

    Heather Jameson;Ryan Bateman;Peter Byrne;Jhansi Dyavanapalli

  • Respiratory sinus arrhythmia in freely moving and anesthetized rats

    Evguenia Bouairi;Robert Neff;Cory Evans;Allison Gold

  • Endogenous Acetylcholine and Nicotine Activation Enhances GABAergic and Glycinergic Inputs to Cardiac Vagal Neurons

    Jijiang Wang;Xin Wang;Mustapha Irnaten;Priya Venkatesan

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael C. Andresen
Michael C. Andresen Oregon Health & Science University
Diana L. Kunze
Diana L. Kunze Case Western Reserve University
Norman H. Lee
Norman H. Lee George Washington University
Mark P. Mattson
Mark P. Mattson Johns Hopkins University
Akihiro Yamanaka
Akihiro Yamanaka Chinese Academy of Sciences
Meredith Hay
Meredith Hay University of Arizona
Kirsteen N. Browning
Kirsteen N. Browning Pennsylvania State University
Arthur D. Loewy
Arthur D. Loewy Washington University in St. Louis
Luiz G.S. Branco
Luiz G.S. Branco Universidade de São Paulo

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