Efrain C. Azmitia

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Best Publications

• Structure and function of the brain serotonin system.

  B. L. Jacobs;E. C. Azmitia

  3209
  Citations

• An autoradiographic analysis of the differential ascending projections of the dorsal and median raphe nuclei in the rat

  Efrain C. Azmitia;Menahem Segal

  2323
  Citations

• Modern views on an ancient chemical: serotonin effects on cell proliferation, maturation, and apoptosis.

  Efrain C Azmitia

  628
  Citations

• The Serotonin-Producing Neurons of the Midbrain Median and Dorsal Raphe Nuclei

  Efrain C. Azmitia

  437
  Citations

• Microcultures of Dissociated Primary Central Nervous System Neurons

  Efrain C. Azmitia

  433
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• The primate serotonergic system: a review of human and animal studies and a report on Macaca fascicularis.

  Azmitia Ec;Gannon Pj

  369
  Citations

• Stimulation of astroglial 5-HT1A receptors releases the serotonergic growth factor, protein S-100, and alters astroglial morphology.

  Patricia M. Whitaker-Azmitia;Randall Murphy;Efrain C. Azmitia

  359
  Citations

• Cellular localization of the 5-HT1A receptor in primate brain neurons and glial cells.

  Efrain C. Azmitia;Patrick J. Gannon;Nancy M. Kheck;Patricia M. Whitaker-Azmitia

  354
  Citations

• Corticosterone Regulation of Tryptophan Hydroxylase in Midbrain of the Rat

  Efrain C. Azmitia;Bruce S. McEwen

  290
  Citations

• S-100B but not NGF, EGF, insulin or calmodulin is a CNS serotonergic growth factor.

  E.C. Azmitia;K. Dolan;P.M. Whitaker-Azmitia

  287
  Citations

• The substituted amphetamines 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, methamphetamine, p-chloroamphetamine and fenfluramine induce 5-hydroxytryptamine release via a common mechanism blocked by fluoxetine and cocaine.

  Urs V. Berger;Xi F. Gu;Efrain C. Azmitia

  272
  Citations

• Awakening the sleeping giant: anatomy and plasticity of the brain serotonergic system.

  E C Azmitia;P M Whitaker-Azmitia

  268
  Citations

• Serotonin Neurons, Neuroplasticity, and Homeostasis of Neural Tissue

  Efrain Charles Azmitia

  259
  Citations

• Adrenalcortical influence on rat brain tryptophan hydroxylase activity

  Efrain C. Azmitia;Bruce S. McEwen

  228
  Citations

• MDMA (ecstasy) inhibition of MAO type A and type B: comparisons with fenfluramine and fluoxetine (Prozac).

  Efthimia T. Kokotos Leonardi;Efrain C. Azmitia

  223
  Citations

• Autoregulation of fetal serotonergic neuronal development: Role of high affinity serotonin receptors

  Patricia M. Whitaker-Azmitia;Efrain C. Azmitia

  208
  Citations

• Serotonin and Brain: Evolution, Neuroplasticity, and Homeostasis

  Efrain C. Azmitia

  200
  Citations

• Transgenic mice overexpressing the neurotrophic factor S-100β show neuronal cytoskeletal and behavioral signs of altered aging processes: implications for Alzheimer's disease and Down's syndrome

  Patricia M Whitaker-Azmitia;Michael Wingate;Alice Borella;Robert Gerlai

  193
  Citations

• Prenatal cocaine exposure disrupts the development of the serotonergic system.

  H.M. Akbari;H.K. Kramer;P.M. Whitaker-Azmitia;L.P. Spear

  182
  Citations

• Structural and functional restoration by collateral sprouting of hippocampal 5-HT axons.

  Efrain C. Azmitia;Alastair M. Buchan;Jonathan H. Williams

  179
  Citations

• Localization of 5-HT1A receptors to astroglial cells in adult rats : implications for neuronal-glial interactions and psychoactive drug mechanism of action

  Patricia M. Whitaker-Azmitia;Colin Clarke;Efrain C. Azmitia

  177
  Citations