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Overview

Ted B. Usdin is a researcher affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their work centers on neuroscience and related fields, contributing to an array of studies in molecular biology and biochemistry. Their research spans multiple subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, biophysics, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The primary areas of investigation in their work cover neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques, cell image analysis techniques, receptor mechanisms and signaling, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, as well as bone health and treatments.

They have published in numerous scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE
  • Journal of Neuroendocrinology
  • Nature Biotechnology
  • Nature Methods

Their recent notable publications include:

  • Rapid image deconvolution and multiview fusion for optical microscopy, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • Incorporating the image formation process into deep learning improves network performance, 2022, Nature Methods
  • A thalamo-preoptic pathway promotes social grooming in rodents, 2022, Current Biology
  • Circuit-Specific Plasticity of Callosal Inputs Underlies Cortical Takeover, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Dissociable control of motivation and reinforcement by distinct ventral striatal dopamine receptors, 2024, Nature Neuroscience

Their collaborative work includes frequent co-authors such as Snehashis Roy, Árpád Dobolyi, Min Guo, Yue Li, and Yijun Su. These recurring partnerships highlight an active engagement within interdisciplinary research teams.

Best Publications

  • Gastric inhibitory polypeptide receptor, a member of the secretin-vasoactive intestinal peptide receptor family, is widely distributed in peripheral organs and the brain

    T B Usdin;E Mezey;D C Button;M J Brownstein

  • Identification and Functional Expression of a Receptor Selectively Recognizing Parathyroid Hormone, the PTH2 Receptor (∗)

    Ted B. Usdin;Catherine Gruber;Tom I. Bonner

  • Feedback inhibition of brain noradrenaline neurons by tricyclic antidepressants: alpha-receptor mediation.

    Torgny H. Svensson;Ted Usdin

  • Two receptors for vasoactive intestinal polypeptide with similar specificity and complementary distributions

    T B Usdin;T I Bonner;E Mezey

  • 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

  • Cloning of the cocaine-sensitive bovine dopamine transporter.

    Ted B. Usdin;Eva Mezey;Claudia Chen;Michael J. Brownstein

  • Hypoalgesia in mice with a targeted deletion of the tachykinin 1 gene.

    Andreas Zimmer;Anne M. Zimmer;Judith Baffi;Ted Usdin

  • Purification and characterization of a polypeptide from chick brain that promotes the accumulation of acetylcholine receptors in chick myotubes.

    Ted B. Usdin;Gerald D. Fischbach

  • TIP39: a new neuropeptide and PTH2-receptor agonist from hypothalamus.

    T. B. Usdin;S. R. J. Hoare;T. Wang;É. Mezey

  • Postprandial stimulation of insulin release by glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP). Effect of a specific glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide receptor antagonist in the rat.

    Chi Chuan Tseng;Timothy J. Kieffer;Linda A. Jarboe;Ted B. Usdin

  • Molecular biology of the vesicular ACh transporter

    Ted B. Usdin;Lee E. Eiden;Tom I. Bonner;Jeffrey D. Erickson

  • A frequent ala 4 to val superoxide dismutase-1 mutation is associated with a rapidly progressive familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Daniel R. Rosen;Allen C. Bowling;David Patterson;Ted B. Usdin

  • Guanine nucleotides distinguish between two dopamine receptors

    Ian Creese;Ted Usdin;Solomon H. Snyder

  • Distribution of parathyroid hormone-2 receptor messenger ribonucleic acid in rat.

    T B Usdin;T I Bonner;G Harta;E Mezey

  • Converting Parathyroid Hormone-related Peptide (PTHrP) into a Potent PTH-2 Receptor Agonist

    Thomas J. Gardella;Michael D. Luck;Geoff S. Jensen;Ted B. Usdin

  • Food-dependent Cushing's syndrome resulting from abundant expression of gastric inhibitory polypeptide receptors in adrenal adenoma cells.

    W. W. De Herder;L. J. Hofland;T. B. Usdin;F. H. De Jong

  • Cloning and expression of the vesamicol binding protein from the marine ray Torpedo: Homology with the putative vesicular acetylcholine transporter UNC-17 from Caenorhabditis elegans

    Hélène Varoqui;Hélène Varoqui;Marie-Françoise Diebler;François-Marie Meunier;James B. Rand

  • Subtractive hybridization system using single-stranded phagemids with directional inserts

    J. L. R. Rubenstein;A. E. J. Brice;R. D. Ciaranello;D. Denney

  • Evaluating the Signal Transduction Mechanism of the Parathyroid Hormone 1 Receptor EFFECT OF RECEPTOR-G-PROTEIN INTERACTION ON THE LIGAND BINDING MECHANISM AND RECEPTOR CONFORMATION

    Samuel R. J. Hoare;Thomas J. Gardella;Ted B. Usdin

  • Anxiety- and Depression-Like Behavior and Impaired Neurogenesis Evoked by Peripheral Neuropathy Persist following Resolution of Prolonged Tactile Hypersensitivity

    Eugene L. Dimitrov;Mumeko C. Tsuda;Heather A. Cameron;Ted B. Usdin

  • Regulation by cations of [3H]spiroperidol binding associated with dopamine receptors of rat brain

    Ted B. Usdin;Ian Creese;Solomon H. Snyder

  • Calcitonin gene‐related peptide‐containing pathways in the rat forebrain

    Arpád Dobolyi;Sarah Irwin;Gábor Makara;Ted Björn Usdin

Frequent Co-Authors

Árpád Dobolyi
Árpád Dobolyi Eötvös Loránd University
Miklós Palkovits
Miklós Palkovits Semmelweis University
Tom I. Bonner
Tom I. Bonner National Institutes of Health
Jeffrey D. Erickson
Jeffrey D. Erickson Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans
Lee E. Eiden
Lee E. Eiden National Institutes of Health
Donna M. Muzny
Donna M. Muzny Baylor College of Medicine
Marco A. Marra
Marco A. Marra University of British Columbia
Steven J.M. Jones
Steven J.M. Jones University of British Columbia
Richard A. Gibbs
Richard A. Gibbs Baylor College of Medicine
Francis S. Collins
Francis S. Collins National Institutes of Health

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