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Ellen M. Unterwald

Ellen M. Unterwald

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Neuroscience

D-Index
47
Citations
7506
World Ranking
6485
National Ranking
2818

Overview

Ellen M. Unterwald is affiliated with Temple University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to cellular and molecular neuroscience as well as molecular biology.

The scientist's work spans topics such as neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, receptor mechanisms and signaling, and neuroscience and neuropharmacology research. Additional areas of study include neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, psychedelics and drug studies, coagulation-related molecular processes, and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.

Unterwald has published numerous articles in various scientific journals with repeated publications in notable venues including:

  • Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Recent publications by Ellen M. Unterwald illustrate the breadth of their research interests. Titles include:

  • Essential requirement for JPT2 in NAADP-evoked Ca 2+ signaling (2021), published in Science Signaling
  • Assessing the effects of methodological differences on outcomes in the use of psychedelics in the treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2021), Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • Centrally Acting Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor Suppresses Type I Interferon Responses and Decreases Inflammation in the Periphery and the CNS in Lupus-Prone Mice (2020), Frontiers in Immunology
  • Glycogen synthase kinase-3 signaling in cellular and behavioral responses to psychostimulant drugs (2020), Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research
  • Sex differences in the effect of the FKBP5 inhibitor SAFit2 on anxiety and stress-induced reinstatement following cocaine self-administration (2020), Neurobiology of Stress

Unterwald collaborates regularly with several researchers across their projects. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Xiangdang Shi
  • Jeffrey L. Barr
  • Marco Ghilotti
  • Eugen Brailoiu
  • Carolina Caban Rivera

Best Publications

  • Retention of Supraspinal Delta-like Analgesia and Loss of Morphine Tolerance in δ Opioid Receptor Knockout Mice

    Yanxin Zhu;Michael A. King;Alwin G.P. Schuller;Joshua F. Nitsche

  • Retention of heroin and morphine-6 beta-glucuronide analgesia in a new line of mice lacking exon 1 of MOR-1.

    Alwin G.P. Schuller;Michael A. King;Jiwen Zhang;Elizabeth Bolan

  • Repeated cocaine administration upregulates kappa and mu, but not delta, opioid receptors.

    Ellen M. Unterwald;Joshua M. Rubenfeld;Mary Jeanne Kreek

  • ‘Binge’ cocaine administration induces a sustained increase of prodynorphin mRNA in rat caudate-putamen

    Rudolph Spangler;Ellen M. Unterwald;Mary Jeanne Kreek

  • Characterization and visualization of rat and guinea pig brain kappa opioid receptors: evidence for kappa 1 and kappa 2 opioid receptors.

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  • Time course of the development of behavioral sensitization and dopamine receptor up-regulation during binge cocaine administration.

    E M Unterwald;A Ho;J M Rubenfeld;M J Kreek

  • Chronic cocaine alters brain mu opioid receptors

    Ellen M. Unterwald;Jennifer Horne-King;Mary Jeanne Kreek

  • Delta opioid receptor ligands modulate anxiety-like behaviors in the rat.

    Shane A Perrine;Brian A Hoshaw;Ellen M Unterwald;Ellen M Unterwald

  • Quantitation of preproenkephalin mRNA levels in brain regions from male Fischer rats following chronic cocaine treatment using a recently developed solution hybridization assay.

    Andrea D. Branch;Ellen M. Unterwald;Susan E. Lee;Mary Jeanne Kreek

  • Social and physical environment alter cocaine conditioned place preference and dopaminergic markers in adolescent male rats.

    Elena Zakharova;Jonathan Miller;Ellen Unterwald;Dean Wade

  • In Vivo Regulation of Extracellular Signal-Regulated Protein Kinase (ERK) and Protein Kinase B (Akt) Phosphorylation by Acute and Chronic Morphine

    Daniella L. Muller;Ellen M. Unterwald

  • The frequency of cocaine administration impacts cocaine-induced receptor alterations.

    Ellen M. Unterwald;Mary Jeanne Kreek;Marie Cuntapay

  • D1 dopamine receptor: a putative neurochemical and behavioral link to cocaine action.

    Michele Hummel;Ellen M. Unterwald;Ellen M. Unterwald

  • Withdrawal from chronic administration of cocaine decreases delta opioid receptor signaling and increases anxiety- and depression-like behaviors in the rat.

    Shane A. Perrine;Imran S. Sheikh;Chinwe A. Nwaneshiudu;Joseph A. Schroeder

  • Effects of binge pattern cocaine administration on dopamine D1 and D2 receptors in the rat brain: an in vivo study using positron emission tomography.

    Hideo Tsukada;Jason Kreuter;Christopher E. Maggos;Ellen M. Unterwald;Ellen M. Unterwald

  • Periadolescent Mice Show Enhanced ΔFosB Upregulation in Response to Cocaine and Amphetamine

    Michelle E. Ehrlich;John Sommer;Edwin Canas;Ellen M. Unterwald;Ellen M. Unterwald

  • Chronic opioid antagonist administration upregulates mu opioid receptor binding without altering mu opioid receptor mRNA levels.

    Ellen M. Unterwald;Joshua M. Rubenfeld;Yasuo Imai;Jia Bei Wang

  • HIV-1 infection and alcohol abuse: neurocognitive impairment, mechanisms of neurodegeneration and therapeutic interventions.

    Yuri Persidsky;Wenzhe Ho;Servio H. Ramirez;Raghava Potula

  • Chronic repeated cocaine administration alters basal and opioid-regulated adenylyl cyclase activity

    Ellen M. Unterwald;Brian M. Cox;Mary Jeanne Kreek;Thomas E. Cote

  • D1 Dopamine Receptors Modulate ΔFosB Induction in Rat Striatum after Intermittent Morphine Administration

    Daniella L. Muller;Ellen M. Unterwald

  • Cocaine-induced hyperactivity and sensitization are dependent on GSK3

    Jonathan S. Miller;Ronald J. Tallarida;Ellen M. Unterwald;Ellen M. Unterwald

Frequent Co-Authors

Michelle E. Ehrlich
Michelle E. Ehrlich Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Gina L. Forster
Gina L. Forster University of South Dakota
Thomas J. Gould
Thomas J. Gould Pennsylvania State University
John E. Pintar
John E. Pintar Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Gavril W. Pasternak
Gavril W. Pasternak Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Yan Zhou
Yan Zhou Rockefeller University
Heinz Steiner
Heinz Steiner Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Barry E. Kosofsky
Barry E. Kosofsky Cornell University
Michael S. Levine
Michael S. Levine Princeton University

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