2026 Victoria N. Luine: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	78	18131	17036	9037	8351	172	19951

Overview

Victoria N. Luine is affiliated with Hunter College in the United States and primarily conducts research in neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields, including behavioral neuroscience, genetics, cellular and molecular neuroscience, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and social psychology.

Their research explores several main topics, notably stress responses and cortisol, estrogen and related hormone effects, menopause and its health impacts and treatments, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, as well as gender and sex in healthcare, and tryptophan and brain disorders.

Victoria N. Luine's recent publications include:

Estrogenic regulation of memory: The first 50 years (2020), published in Hormones and Behavior
Androgens Enhance Recognition Memory and Dendritic Spine Density in the Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex of Ovariectomized Female Rats (2022), published in Neuroscience

Other notable papers associated with their frequent coauthors include:

Sex differences in cognition following variations in endocrine status (2022), published in Learning & Memory
Voluntary oral methamphetamine increases memory deficits and contextual sensitization during abstinence associated with decreased PKMζ and increased κOR in the hippocampus of female mice (2021), published in Journal of Psychopharmacology
Sex differences in anxiety and depression: insights from adult rodent models of chronic stress and neural plasticity (2025), published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Victoria N. Luine include Maya Frankfurt, Rachel Bowman, Jorge A. Avila, Peter A. Serrano, and Nicoletta Memos.

The scientist's work has appeared in several publication venues such as Hormones and Behavior, Learning & Memory, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Journal of Psychopharmacology, and Neuroscience.

Best Publications

Catechol-O-methyltransferase-deficient mice exhibit sexually dimorphic changes in catecholamine levels and behavior

Joseph A. Gogos;Maria Morgan;Victoria Luine;Miklos Santha

1093
Citations
Repeated stress causes reversible impairments of spatial memory performance

Victoria Luine;Miriam Villegas;Carlos Martinez;Bruce S. McEwen

998
Citations
Estradiol increases choline acetyltransferase activity in specific basal forebrain nuclei and projection areas of female rats.

Victoria N. Luine

694
Citations
Estradiol enhances learning and memory in a spatial memory task and effects levels of monoaminergic neurotransmitters.

Victoria N. Luine;Shannon T. Richards;Vincent Y. Wu;Kevin D. Beck

573
Citations
Observations in a preliminary open trial of estradiol therapy for senile dementia-Alzheimer's type.

Howard Fillit;Herman Weinreb;Ina Cholst;Victoria Luine

506
Citations
Estradiol and cognitive function: past, present and future.

Victoria N. Luine

464
Citations
Estrogen alters hippocampal dendritic spine shape and enhances synaptic protein immunoreactivity and spatial memory in female mice

Chenjian Li;Wayne G. Brake;Russell D. Romeo;John C. Dunlop

431
Citations
Effect of gonadal steroids on activities of monoamine oxidase and choline acetylase in rat brain.

Victoria N. Luine;Rada I. Khylchevskaya;Bruce S. McEwen

429
Citations
Rapid enhancement of visual and place memory by estrogens in rats.

Victoria N. Luine;Luis F. Jacome;Neil J. MacLusky

427
Citations
Chronic stress effects on memory: sex differences in performance and monoaminergic activity

Rachel E Bowman;Kevin D Beck;Victoria N Luine;Victoria N Luine

407
Citations
Restraint stress reversibly enhances spatial memory performance

Victoria Luine;Carlos Martinez;Miriam Villegas;Ana María Magariños

343
Citations
Chronic restraint stress enhances radial arm maze performance in female rats.

Rachel E. Bowman;Mark C. Zrull;Victoria N. Luine;Victoria N. Luine

334
Citations
The gene encoding proline dehydrogenase modulates sensorimotor gating in mice

Joseph A. Gogos;Joseph A. Gogos;Miklos Santha;Zoltan Takacs;Kevin D. Beck

326
Citations
Effects of chronic restraint stress and estradiol on open field activity, spatial memory, and monoaminergic neurotransmitters in ovariectomized rats.

R.E Bowman;D Ferguson;V.N Luine;V.N Luine

316
Citations
Ovariectomized rats show decreased recognition memory and spine density in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex.

M Wallace;V Luine;V Luine;A Arellanos;M Frankfurt

310
Citations
Sex differences in chronic stress effects on memory in rats.

Victoria Luine

301
Citations
The 17α and 17β Isomers of Estradiol Both Induce Rapid Spine Synapse Formation in the CA1 Hippocampal Subfield of Ovariectomized Female Rats

Neil J. MacLusky;Victoria N. Luine;Tibor Hajszan;Tibor Hajszan;Csaba Leranth

300
Citations
Androgen affects cholinergic enzymes in syringeal motor neurons and muscle

V. Luine;F. Nottebohm;C. Harding;B.S. McEwen

297
Citations
Sex differences in behavioral and neurochemical profiles after chronic stress: Role of housing conditions

Kevin D. Beck;Victoria N. Luine;Victoria N. Luine

292
Citations
Effects of estradiol on radial arm maze performance of young and aged rats

Victoria Luine;Michael Rodriguez

280
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce S. McEwen Rockefeller University

Maya Frankfurt Hofstra University

Kenneth J. Renner University of South Dakota

Neil J. MacLusky University of Guelph

Efrain C. Azmitia New York University

Thomas C. Rainbow University of Pennsylvania

Deveroux Ferguson University of Arizona

Elizabeth Gould Princeton University

Donald W. Pfaff Rockefeller University

Henry F. Bradford Imperial College London

External Links

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