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Overview

Lee E. Eiden is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within neuroscience, medicine, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to cellular and molecular neuroscience and molecular biology subfields. Social psychology, endocrine and autonomic systems, and neurology also represent areas of their study.

Themes central to Lee E. Eiden's work include neuropeptides and animal physiology, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, receptor mechanisms and signaling, stress responses and cortisol, hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and memory and neural mechanisms.

Frequent publishing venues for their research include the Journal of Neuroendocrinology with 15 publications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 13, The FASEB Journal with 4, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences with 2, and Psychoneuroendocrinology with 2 publications.

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several researchers, notably:

  • Limei Zhang (30 coauthored works)
  • Vito S. Hernández (23 coauthored works)
  • Wenqin Xu (15 coauthored works)
  • Mario A. Zetter (14 coauthored works)
  • Sunny Zhihong Jiang (14 coauthored works)

Recent papers by Lee E. Eiden and their coauthors include:

  • Neuropeptides and small-molecule amine transmitters: cooperative signaling in the nervous system (2022, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences)
  • ACE2 expression in rat brain: Implications for COVID-19 associated neurological manifestations (2021, Experimental Neurology)
  • Behavioral role of PACAP signaling reflects its selective distribution in glutamatergic and GABAergic neuronal subpopulations (2021, eLife)
  • Cell-penetrating, antioxidant SELENOT mimetic protects dopaminergic neurons and ameliorates motor dysfunction in Parkinson's disease animal models (2020, Redox Biology)
  • Cocaine-Dependent Acquisition of Locomotor Sensitization and Conditioned Place Preference Requires D1 Dopaminergic Signaling through a Cyclic AMP, NCS-Rapgef2, ERK, and Egr-1/Zif268 Pathway (2020, Journal of Neuroscience)

Best Publications

  • Signaling pathways for PC12 cell differentiation: making the right connections.

    D. Vaudry;P. J. S. Stork;P. Lazarovici;L. E. Eiden

  • Primary structure of the human Met- and Leu-enkephalin precursor and its mRNA

    Michael Comb;Peter H. Seeburg;John P. Adelman;Lee Eiden

  • Distinct pharmacological properties and distribution in neurons and endocrine cells of two isoforms of the human vesicular monoamine transporter.

    Jeffrey D. Erickson;Martin K. H. Schafer;Tom I. Bonner;Lee E. Eiden

  • Expression cloning of a reserpine-sensitive vesicular monoamine transporter.

    Jeffrey D. Erickson;Lee E. Eiden;Beth J. Hoffman

  • Cholecystokinin innervation of the ventral striatum: a morphological and radioimmunological study.

    Laszlo Zaborszky;G. F. Alheid;M. C. Beinfeld;L. E. Eiden

  • Chromogranin A, an “On/Off” Switch Controlling Dense-Core Secretory Granule Biogenesis

    Taeyoon Kim;Jung-Hwa Tao-Cheng;Lee E. Eiden;Y.Peng Loh

  • Functional identification of a vesicular acetylcholine transporter and its expression from a "cholinergic" gene locus.

    J. D. Erickson;H. Varoqui;M. K.-H. Schafer;W. Modi

  • Cholinergic neurons and terminal fields revealed by immunohistochemistry for the vesicular acetylcholine transporter. II. The peripheral nervous system

    M.K.-H Schäfer;L.E Eiden;E Weihe

  • Characterization of a teleost gonadotropin-releasing hormone.

    Nancy Sherwood;Lee Eiden;Michael Brownstein;Joachim Spiess

  • Vasoactive intestinal peptide and electrical activity influence neuronal survival.

    Douglas E. Brenneman;Lee E. Eiden

  • Visualization of the vesicular acetylcholine transporter in cholinergic nerve terminals and its targeting to a specific population of small synaptic vesicles

    Eberhard Weihe;Jung-Hwa Tao-Cheng;Martin K. H. Schafer;Jeffrey D. Erickson

  • The cat-1 Gene of Caenorhabditis elegans Encodes a Vesicular Monoamine Transporter Required for Specific Monoamine- Dependent Behaviors

    Janet S. Duerr;Dennis L. Frisby;Jennifer Gaskin;Angie Duke

  • Neuropeptide Y and peptide YY neuronal and endocrine systems.

    T L O'Donohue;B M Chronwall;R M Pruss;E Mezey

  • Bovine chromogranin A sequence and distribution of its messenger RNA in endocrine tissues

    Anna Iacangelo;Hans-Urs Affolter;Lee E. Eiden;Edward Herbert

  • Is chromogranin a prohormone

    Lee E. Eiden

  • The vesicular amine transporter family (SLC18): amine/proton antiporters required for vesicular accumulation and regulated exocytotic secretion of monoamines and acetylcholine

    Lee E. Eiden;Martin K.-H. Schäfer;Eberhard Weihe;Burkhard Schütz

  • Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide is a sympathoadrenal neurotransmitter involved in catecholamine regulation and glucohomeostasis.

    Carol Hamelink;Olga Tjurmina;Ruslan Damadzic;W. Scott Young

  • Localization of vesicular monoamine transporter isoforms (VMAT1 and VMAT2) to endocrine cells and neurons in rat

    Eberhard Weihe;Martin K. H. Schäfer;Jeffrey D. Erickson;Lee E. Eiden

  • Chemical coding of the human gastrointestinal nervous system: cholinergic, VIPergic, and catecholaminergic phenotypes.

    Martin Anlauf;Martin Anlauf;Martin K.-H. Schäfer;Lee Eiden;Eberhard Weihe

  • Comparison of Cannabidiol, Antioxidants, and Diuretics in Reversing Binge Ethanol-Induced Neurotoxicity

    Carol Hamelink;Aidan Hampson;David A. Wink;Lee E. Eiden

Frequent Co-Authors

Eberhard Weihe
Eberhard Weihe Philipp University of Marburg
Martin K.-H. Schäfer
Martin K.-H. Schäfer Philipp University of Marburg
Li-Mei Zhang
Li-Mei Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Robert Eskay
Robert Eskay National Institutes of Health
Jeffrey D. Erickson
Jeffrey D. Erickson Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans
David Vaudry
David Vaudry Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
Hubert Vaudry
Hubert Vaudry University of Rouen
Sushil K. Mahata
Sushil K. Mahata University of California, San Diego
Michael J. Brownstein
Michael J. Brownstein National Institutes of Health
Tom I. Bonner
Tom I. Bonner National Institutes of Health

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