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  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Ken Mackie is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and has a substantial body of work primarily in the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research spans various subfields including pharmacology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, and endocrine and autonomic systems.

Their scholarly output covers multiple main topics, focusing heavily on cannabis and cannabinoid research, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, neuroscience of respiration and sleep, pancreatic function and diabetes, as well as sleep and wakefulness research and pain mechanisms and treatments.

Ken Mackie has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including Feng Guo, Hongwei Cai, Andrea G. Hohmann, Jim Wager-Miller, and Zheng Ao.

Their frequent publication venues illustrate a pattern of contributions to both preprint and peer-reviewed scientific literature. These venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, Pharmacological Research, Molecules, and Lab on a Chip.

Some of the recent papers featuring their work include:

  • Review of the Endocannabinoid System, 2020, published in Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Brain organoid reservoir computing for artificial intelligence, 2023, published in Nature Electronics
  • One-Stop Microfluidic Assembly of Human Brain Organoids To Model Prenatal Cannabis Exposure, 2020, published in Analytical Chemistry
  • Acoustic metamaterials-driven transdermal drug delivery for rapid and on-demand management of acute disease, 2023, published in Nature Communications
  • Endocannabinoid Signaling Collapse Mediates Stress-Induced Amygdalo-Cortical Strengthening, 2020, published in Neuron

Ken Mackie has also been recognized by the scientific community, being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • International Union of Pharmacology. XXVII. Classification of Cannabinoid Receptors

    A C Howlett;F Barth;T I Bonner;G Cabral

  • Immunohistochemical distribution of cannabinoid CB1 receptors in the rat central nervous system.

    K Tsou;S Brown;M.C Sañudo-Peña;K Mackie

  • International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. LXXIX. Cannabinoid Receptors and Their Ligands: Beyond CB1 and CB2

    Roger Guy Pertwee;A. C. Howlett;M. E. Abood;S. P. H. Alexander

  • Identification and Functional Characterization of Brainstem Cannabinoid CB2 Receptors

    Marja D. Van Sickle;Marnie Duncan;Philip J. Kingsley;Abdeslam Mouihate

  • Presynaptically Located CB1 Cannabinoid Receptors Regulate GABA Release from Axon Terminals of Specific Hippocampal Interneurons

    István Katona;Beáta Sperlágh;Attila Sı́k;Attila Käfalvi

  • Endocannabinoid activation at hepatic CB1 receptors stimulates fatty acid synthesis and contributes to diet-induced obesity

    Douglas Osei-Hyiaman;Michael DePetrillo;Pál Pacher;Jie Liu

  • An Introduction to the Endogenous Cannabinoid System.

    Hui-Chen Lu;Ken Mackie

  • Comparison of the pharmacology and signal transduction of the human cannabinoid CB1 and CB2 receptors.

    C. C. Felder;K. E. Joyce;E. M. Briley;Jaleh Mansouri

  • Modulation of Ca2+ channels by G-protein beta gamma subunits.

    Stefan Herlitze;David E. Garcia;David E. Garcia;Ken Mackie;Bertil Hille

  • Cannabinoids inhibit N-type calcium channels in neuroblastoma-glioma cells.

    Ken Mackie;Bertil Hille

  • Distribution of cannabinoid receptors in the central and peripheral nervous system.

    K. Mackie

  • The endocannabinoid system controls key epileptogenic circuits in the hippocampus.

    Krisztina Monory;Federico Massa;Federico Massa;Michaela Egertová;Matthias Eder

  • Cannabinoids activate an inwardly rectifying potassium conductance and inhibit Q-type calcium currents in AtT20 cells transfected with rat brain cannabinoid receptor

    K Mackie;Y Lai;R Westenbroek;R Mitchell

  • GPR55 is a cannabinoid receptor that increases intracellular calcium and inhibits M current

    Jane E. Lauckner;Jill B. Jensen;Huei Ying Chen;Hui Chen Lu

  • Nonpsychotropic Cannabinoid Receptors Regulate Microglial Cell Migration

    Lisa Walter;Allyn Franklin;Anke Witting;Christian Wade

  • Distribution of CB1 cannabinoid receptors in the amygdala and their role in the control of GABAergic transmission

    István Katona;Ede A. Rancz;László Acsády;Catherine Ledent

  • Cannabinoid Receptors: Where They are and What They do

    K. Mackie

  • Cannabinoids Inhibit N- and P/Q-Type Calcium Channels in Cultured Rat Hippocampal Neurons

    W. Twitchell;S. Brown;K. Mackie

  • CB2: a cannabinoid receptor with an identity crisis

    Brady K Atwood;Brady K Atwood;Ken Mackie

  • Cannabinoid receptors as therapeutic targets.

    Ken Mackie

Frequent Co-Authors

Tibor Harkany
Tibor Harkany Medical University of Vienna
István Katona
István Katona Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Tamás F. Freund
Tamás F. Freund Institute of Experimental Medicine
Beat Lutz
Beat Lutz Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Virginia M. Pickel
Virginia M. Pickel Cornell University
Nephi Stella
Nephi Stella University of Washington
Masahiko Watanabe
Masahiko Watanabe Hokkaido University
Olivier J. Manzoni
Olivier J. Manzoni Aix-Marseille University
Hui-Chen Lu
Hui-Chen Lu Indiana University
Giovanni Marsicano
Giovanni Marsicano University of Bordeaux

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