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Overview

James S. Schwaber is affiliated with Thomas Jefferson University in the United States. The primary areas of research focus encompass Neuroscience, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant work within the subfields of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Neurology, Molecular Biology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Schwaber's research topics include:

  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience of Respiration and Sleep
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Vagus Nerve Stimulation Research
  • Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
  • Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias

Frequent co-authors in Schwaber's research collaborations include:

  • Rajanikanth Vadigepalli (45 publications)
  • Alison Moss (23 publications)
  • Sirisha Achanta (17 publications)
  • Shaina Robbins (16 publications)
  • Lakshmi Kuttippurathu (10 publications)

Schwaber has published extensively in various scientific journals, with the most frequent venues being:

  • The FASEB Journal (11 publications)
  • iScience (6 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (6 publications)
  • Journal of Visualized Experiments (4 publications)
  • Physiology (3 publications)

Selected recent publications by Schwaber include:

  • "Innervation and Neuronal Control of the Mammalian Sinoatrial Node a Comprehensive Atlas," 2021, Circulation Research
  • "A Comprehensive Integrated Anatomical and Molecular Atlas of Rat Intrinsic Cardiac Nervous System," 2020, iScience
  • "A single cell transcriptomics map of paracrine networks in the intrinsic cardiac nervous system," 2021, iScience
  • "Similarities in alcohol and opioid withdrawal syndromes suggest common negative reinforcement mechanisms involving the interoceptive antireward pathway," 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Investigating the Effects of Brainstem Neuronal Adaptation on Cardiovascular Homeostasis," 2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Amygdaloid and basal forebrain direct connections with the nucleus of the solitary tract and the dorsal motor nucleus

    JS Schwaber;BS Kapp;GA Higgins;PR Rapp

  • Neurotropic properties of pseudorabies virus: uptake and transneuronal passage in the rat central nervous system.

    J. P. Card;L. Rinaman;J. S. Schwaber;R. R. Miselis

  • Ultrastructural demonstration of a gastric monosynaptic vagal circuit in the nucleus of the solitary tract in rat

    L Rinaman;JP Card;JS Schwaber;RR Miselis

  • Central neuronal circuit innervating the rat heart defined by transneuronal transport of pseudorabies virus

    A. Standish;Lynn William Enquist;J. A. Escardo;J. S. Schwaber

  • Modeling Neural Mechanisms for Genesis of Respiratory Rhythm and Pattern. II. Network Models of the Central Respiratory Pattern Generator

    Ilya A. Rybak;Julian F. R. Paton;James S. Schwaber

  • The origin and extent of direct amygdala projections to the region of the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus and the nucleus of the solitary tract

    J.S. Schwaber;B.S. Kapp;G. Higgins

  • PAINT: A Promoter Analysis and Interaction Network Generation Tool for Gene Regulatory Network Identification

    Rajanikanth Vadigepalli;Praveen Chakravarthula;Daniel E. Zak;James S. Schwaber

  • Significance of conductances in Hodgkin-Huxley models

    W. R. Foster;L. H. Ungar;J. S. Schwaber

  • Vagal afferent innervation of the atria of the rat heart reconstructed with confocal microscopy

    Zixi Cheng;Terry L. Powley;James S. Schwaber;Francis J. Doyle

  • Neurons containing calcitonin gene‐related peptide in the parabrachial nucleus project to the central nucleus of the amygdala

    J. S. Schwaber;C. Sternini;N. C. Brecha;W. T. Rogers

  • Distribution and organization of cholinergic neurons in the rat forebrain demonstrated by computer-aided data acquisition and three-dimensional reconstruction.

    James S. Schwaber;Wade T. Rogers;Keiji Satoh;H. C. Fibiger

  • Projections of the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus to cardiac ganglia of rat atria: an anterograde tracing study.

    Zixi Cheng;Terry L. Powley;James S. Schwaber;Francis J. Doyle

  • Modeling Neural Mechanisms for Genesis of Respiratory Rhythm and Pattern. I. Models of Respiratory Neurons

    Ilya A. Rybak;Julian F. R. Paton;James S. Schwaber

  • A dynamic neural network approach to nonlinear process modeling

    Andre M. Shaw;Francis J. Doyle;James S. Schwaber

  • NTS neuronal responses to arterial pressure and pressure changes in the rat

    R. F. Rogers;J. F. R. Paton;J. S. Schwaber

  • Abolition of the behavioral effects of cholecystokinin following bilateral radiofrequency lesions of the parvocellular subdivision of the nucleus tractus solitarius.

    Jacqueline Crawley;J. S. Schwaber

  • Innervation and Neuronal Control of the Mammalian Sinoatrial Node a Comprehensive Atlas.

    Peter Hanna;Michael J Dacey;Jaclyn Brennan;Alison Moss

  • Scattered-light imaging in vivo tracks fast and slow processes of neurophysiological activation

    David M. Rector;Robert F. Rogers;James S. Schwaber;Ronald M. Harper

  • Somatostatinergic projections from the central nucleus of the amygdala to the vagal nuclei.

    Gerald A. Higgins;James S. Schwaber

  • Distribution of neurotensin-immunoreactivity within baroreceptive portions of the nucleus of the tractus solitarius and the dorsal vagal nucleus of the rat

    Gerald A. Higgins;Gerald A. Higgins;Gerald A. Higgins;Gloria E. Hoffman;Susan Wray;James S. Schwaber

  • The organization of insular cortex projections to the amygdaloid central nucleus and autonomic regulatory nuclei of the dorsal medulla

    Bruce S. Kapp;James S. Schwaber;Patricia A. Driscoll

Frequent Co-Authors

Ilya A. Rybak
Ilya A. Rybak Drexel University
Lynn W. Enquist
Lynn W. Enquist Princeton University
Terry L. Powley
Terry L. Powley Purdue University West Lafayette
Leonard M. Eisenman
Leonard M. Eisenman Thomas Jefferson University
Linda Rinaman
Linda Rinaman Florida State University
Edward G. Stopa
Edward G. Stopa Brown University
Jacqueline N. Crawley
Jacqueline N. Crawley University of California, Davis
David R. Weaver
David R. Weaver University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

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