Patricia M. Whitaker-Azmitia

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Best Publications

• Serotonin and brain development: role in human developmental diseases

  Patricia M. Whitaker-Azmitia

  660
  Citations

• Serotonin as a developmental signal.

  Patricia M. Whitaker-Azmitia;Mary Druse;Paul Walker;Jean M. Lauder

  446
  Citations

• Serotonin depletion during synaptogenesis leads to decreased synaptic density and learning deficits in the adult rat: a possible model of neurodevelopmental disorders with cognitive deficits

  Carrie Mazer;Jennifer Muneyyirci;Kenneth Taheny;Nicholas Raio

  397
  Citations

• Stimulation of astroglial 5-HT1A receptors releases the serotonergic growth factor, protein S-100, and alters astroglial morphology.

  Patricia M. Whitaker-Azmitia;Randall Murphy;Efrain C. Azmitia

  359
  Citations

• Cellular localization of the 5-HT1A receptor in primate brain neurons and glial cells.

  Efrain C. Azmitia;Patrick J. Gannon;Nancy M. Kheck;Patricia M. Whitaker-Azmitia

  354
  Citations

• Behavioral and cellular consequences of increasing serotonergic activity during brain development: a role in autism?

  Patricia M. Whitaker-Azmitia

  335
  Citations

• Role of serotonin and other neurotransmitter receptors in brain development: basis for developmental pharmacology.

  P M Whitaker-Azmitia

  308
  Citations

• S-100B but not NGF, EGF, insulin or calmodulin is a CNS serotonergic growth factor.

  E.C. Azmitia;K. Dolan;P.M. Whitaker-Azmitia

  287
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• Awakening the sleeping giant: anatomy and plasticity of the brain serotonergic system.

  E C Azmitia;P M Whitaker-Azmitia

  268
  Citations

• Autoregulation of fetal serotonergic neuronal development: Role of high affinity serotonin receptors

  Patricia M. Whitaker-Azmitia;Efrain C. Azmitia

  208
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• Transgenic mice overexpressing the neurotrophic factor S-100β show neuronal cytoskeletal and behavioral signs of altered aging processes: implications for Alzheimer's disease and Down's syndrome

  Patricia M Whitaker-Azmitia;Michael Wingate;Alice Borella;Robert Gerlai

  193
  Citations

• Prenatal cocaine exposure disrupts the development of the serotonergic system.

  H.M. Akbari;H.K. Kramer;P.M. Whitaker-Azmitia;L.P. Spear

  182
  Citations

• Localization of 5-HT1A receptors to astroglial cells in adult rats : implications for neuronal-glial interactions and psychoactive drug mechanism of action

  Patricia M. Whitaker-Azmitia;Colin Clarke;Efrain C. Azmitia

  177
  Citations

• Stimulation of astroglial serotonin receptors produces culture media which regulates growth of serotonergic neurons

  Patricia M. Whitaker-Azmitia;Efrain C. Azmitia

  175
  Citations

• Postnatal changes in serotonin1 receptors following prenatal alterations in serotonin levels: further evidence for functional fetal serotonin1 receptors

  Patricia M. Whitaker-Azmitia;Jean M. Lauder;Anne Shemmer;Efrain C. Azmitia

  168
  Citations

• 5-HT1A agonist and dexamethasone reversal of para-chloroamphetamine induced loss of MAP-2 and synaptophysin immunoreactivity in adult rat brain

  Efrain C. Azmitia;Valeria J. Rubinstein;James A. Strafaci;Jose C. Rios

  160
  Citations

• The Discovery of Serotonin and its Role in Neuroscience

  Patricia Mack Whitaker-Azmitia

  158
  Citations

• Changes in hippocampal morphology following chronic treatment with the synthetic cannabinoid WIN 55,212-2.

  Jodie Lawston;Alice Borella;John K Robinson;Patricia M Whitaker-Azmitia

  149
  Citations

• Effects of Gestational Exposure to Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors in Rats: Preliminary Behavioral and Neurochemical Studies

  Patricia M. Whitaker-Azmitia;Xini Zhang;Colin Clarke

  139
  Citations

• Further studies in the developmental hyperserotonemia model (DHS) of autism: social, behavioral and peptide changes.

  Ilan M. McNamara;Alice W. Borella;Lynn A. Bialowas;Patricia M. Whitaker-Azmitia

  133
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