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  • 1976 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Sarah F. Leibowitz is affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States and has a research focus spanning neuroscience and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work covers several subfields including endocrine and autonomic systems, cognitive neuroscience, cell biology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, nutrition, and dietetics.

Their research explores topics such as sleep and wakefulness research, zebrafish biomedical research applications, regulation of appetite and obesity, birth, development, and health, prenatal substance exposure effects, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, as well as fatty acid research and health.

Recent publications by Sarah F. Leibowitz include:

  • Moderate Prenatal Ethanol Exposure Stimulates CXCL12/CXCR4 Chemokine System in Radial Glia Progenitor Cells in Hypothalamic Neuroepithelium and Peptide Neurons in Lateral Hypothalamus of the Embryo and Postnatal Offspring, 2020, Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
  • Role of melanin-concentrating hormone in drug use disorders, 2020, Brain Research
  • Sexually dimorphic and asymmetric effects of embryonic ethanol exposure on hypocretin/orexin neurons as related to behavioral changes in zebrafish, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Embryonic ethanol exposure induces ectopic Hcrt and MCH neurons outside hypothalamus in rats and zebrafish: Role in ethanol-induced behavioural disturbances, 2022, Addiction Biology
  • Involvement of Cxcl12a/Cxcr4b Chemokine System in Mediating the Stimulatory Effect of Embryonic Ethanol Exposure on Neuronal Density in Zebrafish Hypothalamus, 2020, Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sarah F. Leibowitz include:

  • Olga Karatayev
  • Adam D. Collier
  • Guo-Qing Chang
  • Nushrat Yasmin
  • Milisia Fam

The most common publication venues for their work are:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Neuroscience
  • Cells

Sarah F. Leibowitz was awarded the title of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1976.

Best Publications

  • Neuropeptide Y chronically injected into the hypothalamus: a powerful neurochemical inducer of hyperphagia and obesity.

    B. Glenn Stanley;Stavroula E. Kyrkouli;Sharon Lampert;Sarah F. Leibowitz

  • Neuropeptide Y: stimulation of feeding and drinking by injection into the paraventricular nucleus.

    Stanley Bg;Leibowitz Sf

  • Neuropeptide Y injected in the paraventricular hypothalamus: a powerful stimulant of feeding behavior.

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  • Hypothalamic serotonin in control of eating behavior, meal size, and body weight

    Sarah F Leibowitz;Jesline T Alexander

  • Paraventricular nucleus: a primary site mediating adrenergic stimulation of feeding and drinking.

    Sarah Fryer Leibowitz

  • Paraventricular nucleus injections of peptide YY and neuropeptide Y preferentially enhance carbohydrate ingestion.

    B.G. Stanley;D.R. Daniel;A.S. Chin;S.F. Leibowitz

  • Hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus lesions produce overeating and obesity in the rat

    Sarah F. Leibowitz;Norman J. Hammer;Kevin Chang

  • Maternal High-Fat Diet and Fetal Programming: Increased Proliferation of Hypothalamic Peptide-Producing Neurons That Increase Risk for Overeating and Obesity

    Guo-Qing Chang;Valeriya Gaysinskaya;Olga Karatayev;Sarah F. Leibowitz

  • Evidence for neuropeptide Y mediation of eating produced by food deprivation and for a variant of the Y1 receptor mediating this peptide's effect.

    B.G. Stanley;W. Magdalin;A. Seirafi;M.M. Nguyen

  • Feeding and drinking elicited by central injection of neuropeptide Y: Evidence for a hypothalamic site(s) of action

    B.G. Stanley;A.S. Chin;S.F. Leibowitz

  • Galanin: stimulation of feeding induced by medial hypothalamic injection of this novel peptide.

    Stavroula E. Kyrkouli;B. Glenn Stanley;Sarah F. Leibowitz

  • The perifornical area: the major focus of (a) patchily distributed hypothalamic neuropeptide Y-sensitive feeding system(s)

    B G Stanley;W Magdalin;A Seirafi;W J Thomas

  • Stimulation of feeding by galanin: anatomical localization and behavioral specificity of this peptide's effects in the brain.

    S.E. Kyrkouli;B.G. Stanley;R.D. Seirafi;S.F. Leibowitz

  • Effects of PVN galanin on macronutrient selection.

    Donna L. Tempel;Kimara J. Leibowitz;Sarah F. Leibowitz

  • Rapid and localized alterations of neuropeptide Y in discrete hypothalamic nuclei with feeding status.

    Bernard Beck;Meena Jhanwar-Uniyal;Arlette Burlet;Michèle Chapleur-Chateau

  • Hypothalamic control of energy balance: different peptides, different functions

    Sarah F Leibowitz;Katherine E Wortley

  • Opiate-like effects of sugar on gene expression in reward areas of the rat brain.

    Rudolph Spangler;Knut M Wittkowski;Noel L Goddard;Nicole M Avena

  • Brain serotonin and eating behavior.

    Sarah F. Leibowitz;Gail Shor-Posner

  • Neuropeptide Y, epinephrine and norepinephrine in the paraventricular nucleus: Stimulation of feeding and the release of corticosterone, vasopressin and glucose

    Sarah F. Leibowitz;Celia Sladek;Lauri Spencer;Donna Tempel

  • Hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus: interaction between α2-noradrenergic system and circulating hormones and nutrients in relation to energy balance

    Sarah Fryer Leibowitz

  • Adrenal Steroid Receptors: Interactions with Brain Neuropeptide Systems in Relation to Nutrient Intake and Metabolism

    Donna L. Tempel;Sarah F. Leibowitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Bartley G. Hoebel
Bartley G. Hoebel Princeton University
Pedro Rada
Pedro Rada Duke Kunshan University
James O. Hill
James O. Hill University of Alabama at Birmingham
Susan K. Fried
Susan K. Fried Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Bruce S. McEwen
Bruce S. McEwen Rockefeller University
Lucy L. Brown
Lucy L. Brown Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Barry E. Levin
Barry E. Levin Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Günter K. Stalla
Günter K. Stalla Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
David T. Wong
David T. Wong University of California, Los Angeles
Antonio Cintra
Antonio Cintra Karolinska Institute

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