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John W. Haycock is affiliated with the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and engineering, with significant contributions to biomaterials and biomedical engineering.

The scientist has published extensively in the areas of cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, and materials chemistry. Their research covers a range of topics including nerve injury and regeneration, electrospun nanofibers in biomedical applications, and bone tissue engineering materials. Additional subjects of study include graphene and nanomaterials applications, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, supramolecular self-assembly in materials, and silk-based biomaterials and applications.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with John W. Haycock include Caroline S. Taylor, Frederik Claeyssens, Ipsita Roy, Stuart A. Archer, and Jim A. Thomas. Their work appears regularly in several publication venues such as the Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology), and The Cambridge Structural Database.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by John W. Haycock are:

  • A Dinuclear Ruthenium(II) Complex Excited by Near-Infrared Light through Two-Photon Absorption Induces Phototoxicity Deep within Hypoxic Regions of Melanoma Cancer Spheroids, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Polyhydroxyalkanoates and their advances for biomedical applications, 2022, Trends in Molecular Medicine
  • A Tuneable, Photocurable, Poly(Caprolactone)-Based Resin for Tissue Engineering-Synthesis, Characterisation and Use in Stereolithography, 2021, Molecules
  • Harnessing Polyhydroxyalkanoates and Pressurized Gyration for Hard and Soft Tissue Engineering, 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • UV-Casting on Methacrylated PCL for the Production of a Peripheral Nerve Implant Containing an Array of Porous Aligned Microchannels, 2020, Polymers

Best Publications

  • Striatal dopamine nerve terminal markers in human, chronic methamphetamine users

    Julie M. Wilson;Kathryn S. Kalasinsky;Allan I. Levey;Catherine Bergeron

  • ERK1 and ERK2, two microtubule-associated protein 2 kinases, mediate the phosphorylation of tyrosine hydroxylase at serine-31 in situ

    John W. Haycock;Natalie G. Ahn;Melanie H. Cobb;Edwin G. Krebs

  • Extracellular signal-regulated protein kinases (ERKs) and ERK kinase (MEK) in brain: regional distribution and regulation by chronic morphine

    J Ortiz;HW Harris;X Guitart;RZ Terwilliger

  • Phosphorylation of tyrosine hydroxylase in situ at serine 8, 19, 31, and 40.

    J W Haycock

  • Calcium/phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase C) phosphorylates and activates tyrosine hydroxylase

    Katherine A. Albert;Elizabeth Helmer-Matyjek;Angus C. Nairn;Thomas H. Muller

  • Evidence for coexistence of GABA and dopamine in neurons of the rat olfactory bulb

    Christine M. Gall;Stewart H. C. Hendry;Kim B. Seroogy;Edward G. Jones

  • Phorbol Ester Enhancement of Neurotransmitter Release from Rat Brain Synaptosomes

    Robert A. Nichols;John W. Haycock;James K. T. Wang;Paul Greengard

  • Long-term increases in neurotransmitter release from neuronal cells expressing a constitutively active adenylate cyclase from a herpes simplex virus type 1 vector

    Alfred I. Geller;Mathew J. During;John W. Haycock;Andrew Freese

  • Distinct roles of dopamine D2L and D2S receptor isoforms in the regulation of protein phosphorylation at presynaptic and postsynaptic sites

    Niklas Lindgren;Alessandro Usiello;Michel Goiny;John Haycock

  • Stimulus‐secretion coupling processes in brain: analysis of noradrenaline and gamma‐aminobutyric acid release.

    C W Cotman;J W Haycock;W F White

  • Bovine adrenal chromaffin cells: high-yield purification and viability in suspension culture

    Jack C. Waymire;William F. Bennett;Richard Boehme;Linda Hankins

  • Synaptic Vesicle Transporter Expression Regulates Vesicle Phenotype and Quantal Size

    Emmanuel N. Pothos;Kristin E. Larsen;David E. Krantz;Yong-jian Liu

  • Marked disparity between age-related changes in dopamine and other presynaptic dopaminergic markers in human striatum

    John W. Haycock;Laurence Becker;Lee Ang;Yoshiaki Furukawa

  • Next Generation Nerve Guides: Materials, Fabrication, Growth Factors, and Cell Delivery

    Juliet H A Bell;John W Haycock

  • Tyrosine hydroxylase in rat brain dopaminergic nerve terminals. Multiple-site phosphorylation in vivo and in synaptosomes.

    J W Haycock;D A Haycock

  • Elevated Tyrosine Hydroxylase in the Locus Coeruleus of Suicide Victims

    Gregory A. Ordway;Karen Streator Smith;John W. Haycock

  • Differential regulation of tyrosine hydroxylase in the basal ganglia of mice lacking the dopamine transporter.

    Mohamed Jaber;Brigitte Dumartin;Corinne Sagné;John W. Haycock

  • Ventral mesencephalic neurons containing both cholecystokinin- and tyrosine hydroxylase-like immunoreactivities project to forebrain regions.

    Kim B. Seroogy;Karol Dangaran;Steven Lim;John W. Haycock

  • An aligned 3D neuronal-glial co-culture model for peripheral nerve studies.

    Muhammad F.B. Daud;Kiran C. Pawar;Frederik Claeyssens;Anthony J. Ryan

  • Elevated levels of tyrosine hydroxylase in the locus coeruleus in major depression.

    Meng Yang Zhu;Violetta Klimek;Ginny E. Dilley;John W. Haycock

  • Coordinate Regulation of the Cyclic AMP System with Firing Rate and Expression of Tyrosine Hydroxylase in the Rat Locus Coeruleus: Effects of Chronic Stress and Drug Treatments

    Kathleen R. Melia;Kurt Rasmussen;Rose Z. Terwilliger;John W. Haycock

  • Dopamine D(2) receptors regulate tyrosine hydroxylase activity and phosphorylation at Ser40 in rat striatum

    Niklas Lindgren;Zhi-Qing David Xu;Mario Herrera-Marschitz;John Haycock

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric J. Nestler
Eric J. Nestler Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Melanie H. Cobb
Melanie H. Cobb The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Gilberto Fisone
Gilberto Fisone Karolinska Institute
Michel Goiny
Michel Goiny Karolinska Institute
Yoshiaki Furukawa
Yoshiaki Furukawa Juntendo University
David A. Lewis
David A. Lewis University of Pittsburgh
Tomas Hökfelt
Tomas Hökfelt Karolinska Institute
Karen L. O'Malley
Karen L. O'Malley Washington University in St. Louis
Kim B. Seroogy
Kim B. Seroogy University of Cincinnati
Rachael L. Neve
Rachael L. Neve Harvard University

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