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Overview

Victor D. Ramirez was affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spanned multiple disciplines within agricultural and biological sciences, with additional work in environmental science.

The primary fields of study addressed in Ramirez's research included:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Their research also focused on specific subfields such as:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Plant Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

The main topics explored in their work encompassed:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Ramirez published in several academic venues, with frequent publications at:

  • International Journal of Plant Sciences

Among their recent scholarly contributions was the paper titled "Predispersal Seed Predation Obscures the Detrimental Effect of Dust on Wildflower Reproduction", published in 2021 in the International Journal of Plant Sciences.

Frequent research collaborators included:

  • Mary V. Price
  • Nickolas M. Waser
  • David A. López
  • Carol E. Rosas

Best Publications

  • Inhibition of mitochondrial proton F0F1-ATPase/ATP synthase by polyphenolic phytochemicals

    Jianbiao Zheng;Victor D Ramirez

  • Luteinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone Release during the Rat Estrous Cycle and after Ovariectomy, as Estimated with Push-Pull Cannulae

    Jon E. Levine;Victor D. Ramirez

  • Simultaneous measurement of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone and luteinizing hormone release in unanesthetized, ovariectomized sheep.

    Jon E. Levine;Kwok-Yuen F. Pau;Victor D. Ramirez;Gary L. Jackson

  • Sex differences in the amphetamine stimulated release of catecholamines from rat striatal tissue in vitro

    Jill B. Becker;V.D. Ramirez

  • In Vivo Release of Luteinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone Estimated with Push-Pull Cannulae from the Mediobasal Hypothalami of Ovariectomized, Steroid- Primed Rats*

    Jon E. Levine;Victor D. Ramirez

  • Membrane receptors for estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone in the rat brain: fantasy or reality.

    Victor D. Ramirez;Jianbiao Zheng;Khawar M. Siddique

  • Male vole urine changes luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone and norepinephrine in female olfactory bulb

    DE Dluzen;VD Ramirez;CS Carter;LL Getz

  • Excessive bracing reactions and their control by atropine and L-DOPA in an animal analog of Parkinsonism.

    Timothy J Schallert;Marc De Ryck;Marc De Ryck;Ian Q. Whishaw;Ian Q. Whishaw;Victor D. Ramirez;Victor D. Ramirez

  • Compulsive, abnormal walking caused by anticholinergics in akinetic, 6-hydroxydopamine-treated rats.

    Timothy Schallert;Ian Q. Whishaw;Victor D. Ramirez;Philip Teitelbaùm

  • Sex differences in amphetamine-elicited rotational behavior and the lateralization of striatal dopamine in rats

    Terry E. Robinson;Jill B. Becker;V.D. Ramirez

  • Binding of progesterone to nerve cell membranes of rat brain using progesterone conjugated to 125I-bovine serum albumin as a ligand.

    Ferng‐Chun Ke;Victor D. Ramirez

  • Changes in sympathetic nerve activity of the mammalian ovary during a normal estrous cycle and in polycystic ovary syndrome: Studies on norepinephrine release.

    H.E. Lara;M. Dorfman;M. Venegas;S.M. Luza

  • Purification and identification of an estrogen binding protein from rat brain: oligomycin sensitivity-conferring protein (OSCP), a subunit of mitochondrial F0F1-ATP synthase/ATPase.

    Jianbiao Zheng;Victor D. Ramirez

  • Piceatannol, a stilbene phytochemical, inhibits mitochondrial F0F1-ATPase activity by targeting the F1 complex.

    Jianbiao Zheng;Victor D. Ramirez

  • Rapid inhibition of rat brain mitochondrial proton F0F1-ATPase activity by estrogens: comparison with Na+, K+ -ATPase of porcine cortex.

    Jianbiao Zheng;Victor D. Ramirez

  • A specific membrane binding protein for progesterone in rat brain: sex differences and induction by estrogen.

    Shelley A. Tischkau;Victor D. Ramirez

  • Progesterone action on the LHRH and the nigrostriatal dopamine neuronal systems: in vitro and in vivo studies.

    V.D. Ramirez;K. Kim;D. Dluzen

  • Electrical activity of the hippocampus and neocortex in rats depleted of brain dopamine and norepinephrine: relations to behavior and effects of atropine.

    Ian Q. Whishaw;Ian Q. Whishaw;Terry E. Robinson;Terry E. Robinson;Timothy J Schallert;Marc De Ryck;Marc De Ryck

  • Bimodal effect of progesterone on in vitro dopamine function of the rat corpus striatum.

    Dean E. Dluzen;Victor D. Ramirez

  • Effect of estradiol, diethylstilbestrol, and resveratrol on F0F1-ATPase activity from mitochondrial preparations of rat heart, liver, and brain.

    Jingjing L. Kipp;Victor D. Ramirez

Frequent Co-Authors

Dean E. Dluzen
Dean E. Dluzen John A. Logan College
Donald W. Pfaff
Donald W. Pfaff Rockefeller University
Timothy J Schallert
Timothy J Schallert The University of Texas at Austin
Philip Teitelbaum
Philip Teitelbaum University of Florida
Ian Q. Whishaw
Ian Q. Whishaw University of Lethbridge
James W. Simpkins
James W. Simpkins West Virginia University
Susan E. Fahrbach
Susan E. Fahrbach Wake Forest University
Olivier Kah
Olivier Kah University of Rennes
Joan I. Morrell
Joan I. Morrell Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Alan G. Watts
Alan G. Watts University of Southern California

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