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Michael C. Andresen is affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University in the United States. Their research primarily spans neuroscience, medicine, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on several subfields including molecular biology, neurology, endocrine and autonomic systems, cognitive neuroscience, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Their work explores major topics such as neuroscience of respiration and sleep, sleep and wakefulness research, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors study, receptor mechanisms and signaling, heart rate variability and autonomic control, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, and neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

Michael C. Andresen has published research in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Journal of Physiology
  • The FASEB Journal
  • Brain Research
  • Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature

Representative recent papers authored by Andrésen include:

  • Dedicated C-fiber vagal sensory afferent pathways to the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus, 2021, Brain Research
  • Cholinergic collaterals arising from noradrenergic sympathetic neurons in mice, 2023, The Journal of Physiology
  • Untangling Peripheral Sympathetic Neurocircuits, 2022, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Hypertension increases sympathetic neuron activity by enhancing intraganglionic cholinergic collateral connections, 2024, The Journal of Physiology
  • PVN-projecting NTS neurons receive both direct and indirect inputs from solitary tract afferents, 2020, The FASEB Journal

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Common coauthors include Susan Ingram, Beth A. Habecker, Courtney Clyburn, Jessica A. Fawley, and Deborah M. Hegarty.

Best Publications

  • Nucleus Tractus Solitarius—Gateway to Neural Circulatory Control

    Michael C. Andresen;Diana L. Kunze

  • Reliability of monosynaptic sensory transmission in brain stem neurons in vitro.

    Mark W. Doyle;Michael C. Andresen

  • Non-NMDA receptors mediate sensory afferent synaptic transmission in medial nucleus tractus solitarius.

    M. C. Andresen;Mingyong Yang

  • Proopiomelanocortin Neurons in Nucleus Tractus Solitarius Are Activated by Visceral Afferents: Regulation by Cholecystokinin and Opioids

    Suzanne M. Appleyard;Timothy W. Bailey;Mark W. Doyle;Mark W. Doyle;Young Ho Jin

  • Cranial visceral afferent pathways through the nucleus of the solitary tract to caudal ventrolateral medulla or paraventricular hypothalamus: target-specific synaptic reliability and convergence patterns

    Timothy W. Bailey;Sam M. Hermes;Michael C. Andresen;Sue A. Aicher

  • Primary afferent activation of thermosensitive TRPV1 triggers asynchronous glutamate release at central neurons

    James H. Peters;Stuart J. McDougall;Jessica A. Fawley;Stephen M. Smith

  • Purinergic and Vanilloid Receptor Activation Releases Glutamate from Separate Cranial Afferent Terminals in Nucleus Tractus Solitarius

    Young Ho Jin;Timothy W. Bailey;Bai Yan Li;John H. Schild

  • Translational neurocardiology: preclinical models and cardioneural integrative aspects.

    J. L. Ardell;M. C. Andresen;J. A. Armour;G. E. Billman

  • Rapid resetting of the aortic baroreceptors in the rabbit and its implications for short-term and longer term reflex control.

    P K Dorward;M C Andresen;S L Burke;J R Oliver

  • Visceral afferents directly activate catecholamine neurons in the solitary tract nucleus.

    Suzanne M. Appleyard;Suzanne M. Appleyard;Daniel Marks;Kazuto Kobayashi;Hideyuki Okano

  • Vanilloid receptors presynaptically modulate cranial visceral afferent synaptic transmission in nucleus tractus solitarius

    Mark W. Doyle;Timothy W. Bailey;Young Ho Jin;Michael C. Andresen

  • Relationship of aortic wall and baroreceptor properties during development in normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats.

    Michael C. Andresen;Jane M. Krauhs;Arthur M. Brown

  • Oxytocin enhances cranial visceral afferent synaptic transmission to the solitary tract nucleus

    James H. Peters;Stuart J. McDougall;Daniel O. Kellett;David Jordan

  • A- and C-type rat nodose sensory neurons: Model interpretations of dynamic discharge characteristics

    J. H. Schild;J. W. Clark;M. Hay;D. Mendelowitz

  • Organization and properties of GABAergic neurons in solitary tract nucleus (NTS)

    Timothy W. Bailey;Suzanne M. Appleyard;Suzanne M. Appleyard;Young Ho Jin;Young Ho Jin;Michael C. Andresen

  • Differential Distribution and Function of Hyperpolarization-Activated Channels in Sensory Neurons and Mechanosensitive Fibers

    Thanh N. Doan;Kevin Stephans;Angelina N. Ramirez;Patricia A. Glazebrook

  • Baroreceptor Function and Changes in Strain Sensitivity in Normotensive and Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats

    Michael C. Andresen;Shunsuke Kuraoka;Arthur M. Brown

  • Vasopressin Inhibits Glutamate Release via Two Distinct Modes in the Brainstem

    Timothy W. Bailey;Young Ho Jin;Mark W. Doyle;Stephen M. Smith

  • Localization and retention in vitro of fluorescently labeled aortic baroreceptor terminals on neurons from the nucleus tractus solitarius

    David Mendelowitz;Mingyong Yang;Michael C. Andresen;Diana L. Kunze

  • Graded and dynamic reflex summation of myelinated and unmyelinated rat aortic baroreceptors

    Wei Fan;John H. Schild;Michael C. Andresen

Frequent Co-Authors

David Mendelowitz
David Mendelowitz George Washington University
Diana L. Kunze
Diana L. Kunze Case Western Reserve University
Sue A. Aicher
Sue A. Aicher Oregon Health & Science University
Meredith Hay
Meredith Hay University of Arizona
John Rinzel
John Rinzel New York University
Shaun F. Morrison
Shaun F. Morrison Oregon Health & Science University
Andras Hajnal
Andras Hajnal Pennsylvania State University
Ida J. Llewellyn-Smith
Ida J. Llewellyn-Smith Flinders University
Carmen C. Canavier
Carmen C. Canavier Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans
Robert D. Foreman
Robert D. Foreman University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

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