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Ruth L. Stornetta is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience and medicine. Their research portfolio includes 33 publications in neuroscience and 9 in medicine, with a particular focus on endocrine and autonomic systems, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics related to the neuroscience of respiration and sleep, sleep and wakefulness research, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, heart rate variability and autonomic control, neuropeptides and animal physiology, circadian rhythm and melatonin, and vagus nerve stimulation research.

Recent significant papers include:

  • Vagus nerve stimulation activates two distinct neuroimmune circuits converging in the spleen to protect mice from kidney injury, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Neuronal Networks in Hypertension, 2020, Hypertension
  • A brainstem peptide system activated at birth protects postnatal breathing, 2020, Nature
  • Rostral ventrolateral medulla, retropontine region and autonomic regulations, 2021, Autonomic Neuroscience
  • Differential Contribution of the Retrotrapezoid Nucleus and C1 Neurons to Active Expiration and Arousal in Rats, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience

These publications reflect involvement in studies that explore neuroimmune interactions, neuronal networks associated with hypertension, brainstem mechanisms critical to breathing, and autonomic regulatory regions in the brain.

Frequent co-authors in these research areas include Daniel S. Stornetta, Patrice G. Guyenet, Stephen B.G. Abbott, George M. P. R. Souza, and Douglas A. Bayliss. Collaboration with these researchers appears consistently across multiple projects, indicating a tight integration within a network of neuroscientific research.

The scientist's publications are predominantly found in journals such as The FASEB Journal, The Journal of Physiology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Hypertension, and Autonomic Neuroscience. The FASEB Journal stands out as the most frequent publication venue.

Best Publications

  • Respiratory control by ventral surface chemoreceptor neurons in rats

    Daniel K Mulkey;Ruth L Stornetta;Matthew C Weston;Johnny R Simmons

  • Topographic organization of convergent projections to the thalamus from the inferior colliculus and spinal cord in the rat.

    Joseph E. Ledoux;David A. Ruggiero;Ronni Forest;Ruth Stornetta

  • Central Autonomic System

    Clifford B. Saper;Ruth L. Stornetta

  • The organization of two new cortical interneuronal circuits.

    Xiaolong Jiang;Guangfu Wang;Alice J Lee;Alice J Lee;Ruth L Stornetta

  • Expression of Phox2b by Brainstem Neurons Involved in Chemosensory Integration in the Adult Rat

    Ruth L. Stornetta;Thiago S. Moreira;Ana C. Takakura;Bong Jin Kang

  • Astrocytes synthesize angiotensinogen in brain

    Ruth L. Stornetta;Charlyn L. Hawelu-Johnson;Patrice G. Guyenet;Kevin R. Lynch

  • Peripheral chemoreceptor inputs to retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN) CO2-sensitive neurons in rats.

    Ana Carolina Thomaz Takakura;Ana Carolina Thomaz Takakura;Thiago Santos Moreira;Thiago Santos Moreira;Eduardo Colombari;Gavin H. West

  • Distribution of α2C‐adrenergic receptor‐like immunoreactivity in the rat central nervous system

    Diane L. Rosin;Edmund M. Talley;Amy Lee;Ruth L. Stornetta

  • Vesicular glutamate transporter DNPI/VGLUT2 mRNA is present in C1 and several other groups of brainstem catecholaminergic neurons.

    Ruth L Stornetta;Charles P Sevigny;Patrice G Guyenet

  • C1 neurons: the body's EMTs

    Patrice G. Guyenet;Ruth L. Stornetta;Genrieta Bochorishvili;Seth D. DePuy

  • A group of glutamatergic interneurons expressing high levels of both neurokinin-1 receptors and somatostatin identifies the region of the pre-Bötzinger complex.

    Ruth L. Stornetta;Ruth L. Stornetta;Diane L. Rosin;Hong Wang;Charles P. Sevigny

  • Hypothalamic orexin (hypocretin) neurons express vesicular glutamate transporters VGLUT1 or VGLUT2.

    Diane L Rosin;Diane L Rosin;Matthew C Weston;Charles P Sevigny;Ruth L Stornetta

  • Anatomical substrates of cholinergic‐autonomic regulation in the rat

    David A. Ruggiero;Rachel Giuliano;Muhammad Anwar;Ruth Stornetta

  • Central respiratory chemoreception

    Patrice G. Guyenet;Patrice G. Guyenet;Ruth L. Stornetta;Douglas A. Bayliss

  • Vesicular glutamate transporter DNPI/VGLUT2 is expressed by both C1 adrenergic and nonaminergic presympathetic vasomotor neurons of the rat medulla.

    Ruth L Stornetta;Charles P Sevigny;Ann M Schreihofer;Diane L Rosin

  • Immunohistochemical localization ofα2a-adrenergic receptors in catecholaminergic and other brainstem neurons in the rat

    D.L. Rosin;D. Zeng;R.L. Stornetta;F.R. Norton

  • State-dependent Ras signaling and AMPA receptor trafficking

    Yi Qin;Yinghua Zhu;Joel P. Baumgart;Ruth L. Stornetta

  • Photostimulation of Retrotrapezoid Nucleus Phox2b-Expressing Neurons In Vivo Produces Long-Lasting Activation of Breathing in Rats

    Stephen B. G. Abbott;Ruth L. Stornetta;Michal G. Fortuna;Seth D. Depuy

  • Neurokinin-1 receptor-immunoreactive neurons of the ventral respiratory group in the rat.

    Hong Wang;Ruth L. Stornetta;Diane L. Rosin;Patrice G. Guyenet;Patrice G. Guyenet

  • Retrotrapezoid nucleus and central chemoreception

    Patrice G. Guyenet;Ruth L. Stornetta;Douglas A. Bayliss

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrice G. Guyenet
Patrice G. Guyenet University of Virginia
Douglas A. Bayliss
Douglas A. Bayliss University of Virginia
Scott C. Baraban
Scott C. Baraban University of California, San Francisco
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth Stanford University
Donald J. Reis
Donald J. Reis Cornell University
David A. Ruggiero
David A. Ruggiero Columbia University
Jim Deuchars
Jim Deuchars University of Leeds
Alev Erisir
Alev Erisir University of Virginia
Bradford B. Lowell
Bradford B. Lowell Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Eduardo Colombari
Eduardo Colombari Sao Paulo State University

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