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Virginia M. Pickel

Virginia M. Pickel

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Neuroscience

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104
Citations
37713
World Ranking
668
National Ranking
370

Medicine

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104
Citations
37500
World Ranking
7091
National Ranking
3729

Overview

Virginia M. Pickel is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States, focusing their research primarily within the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, notably Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems.

The scientist's research encompasses several key topics: Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Sleep and Wakefulness Research, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, Regulation of Appetite and Obesity, as well as Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology.

Virginia M. Pickel has contributed to multiple scientific publications, with recent papers including:

  • Tumor Necrosis Factor α Receptor Type 1 Activation in the Hypothalamic Paraventricular Nucleus Contributes to Glutamate Signaling and Angiotensin II-Dependent Hypertension (2020, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • Endocannabinoid genetic variation enhances vulnerability to THC reward in adolescent female mice (2020, Science Advances)
  • All the brain's a stage for serotonin: the forgotten story of serotonin diffusion across cell membranes (2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • Elevating levels of the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol blunts opioid reward but not analgesia (2024, Science Advances)
  • Adolescent administration of Δ9-THC decreases the expression and function of muscarinic-1 receptors in prelimbic prefrontal cortical neurons of adult male mice (2021, IBRO Neuroscience Reports)

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as Science Advances, Journal of Neuroscience, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and IBRO Neuroscience Reports.

Virginia M. Pickel collaborates with multiple co-authors, including Ruirong Yang, Ken Mackie, Francis S. Lee, Anjali M. Rajadhyaksha, and Teresa A. Milner, with several joint publications.

Best Publications

  • The anatomy of neuropeptide-Y-containing neurons in rat brain.

    B.M. Chronwall;D.A. DiMaggio;V.J. Massari;V.J. Massari;V.M. Pickel

  • Prefrontal cortical efferents in the rat synapse on unlabeled neuronal targets of catecholamine terminals in the nucleus accumbens septi and on dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area.

    Susan R. Sesack;Susan R. Sesack;Virginia M. Pickel

  • Light‐microscopic immunocytochemical localization of tyrosine hydroxylase in prenatal rat brain. II. Late ontogeny

    Linda A. Specht;Virginia M. Pickel;Tong H. Joh;Donald J. Reis

  • A radioautographic study of the efferent pathways of the nucleus locus coeruleus.

    Virginia M. Pickel;Menahem Segal;Floyd E. Bloom

  • Chemical and structural analysis of the relation between cortical inputs and tyrosine hydroxylase-containing terminals in rat neostriatum

    J.J. Bouyer;D.H. Park;T.H. Joh;V.M. Pickel

  • In the rat medial nucleus accumbens, hippocampal and catecholaminergic terminals converge on spiny neurons and are in apposition to each other.

    Susan R. Sesack;Virginia M. Pickel

  • The dopamine transporter is localized to dendritic and axonal plasma membranes of nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons.

    Melissa J. Nirenberg;Roxanne A. Vaughan;George R. Uhl;Michael J. Kuhar

  • Ultrastructural localization of D2 receptor-like immunoreactivity in midbrain dopamine neurons and their striatal targets

    Susan R. Sesack;Chiye Aoki;Virginia M. Pickel

  • Electrophysiological Characterization of GABAergic Neurons in the Ventral Tegmental Area

    Scott C. Steffensen;Adena L. Svingos;Virginia M. Pickel;Steven J. Henriksen

  • Distribution of dopamine-, noradrenaline-, and adrenaline-containing cell bodies in the rat medulla oblongata: demonstrated by the immunocytochemical localization of catecholamine biosynthetic enzymes.

    David M. Armstrong;Christopher A. Ross;Virginia M. Pickel;Tong H. Joh

  • Serotonin axon terminals in the ventral tegmental area of the rat: fine structure and synaptic input to dopaminergic neurons

    Denis Hervé;Virginia M. Pickel;Tong H. Joh;Alain Beaudet

  • Ultrastructural localization of the CB1 cannabinoid receptor in mu-opioid receptor patches of the rat Caudate putamen nucleus.

    José J. Rodrı́guez;Kenneth Mackie;Virginia M. Pickel

  • GABA-containing neurons in the ventral tegmental area project to the nucleus accumbens in rat brain

    E.J. Van Bockstaele;V.M. Pickel

  • Ultrastructural immunocytochemical localization of tyrosine hydroxylase in the neostriatum.

    Virginia M. Pickel;Susan C. Beckley;Tong H. Joh;Donald J. Reis

  • Optimization of differential immunogold-silver and peroxidase labeling with maintenance of ultrastructure in brain sections before plastic embedding

    June Chan;Chiye Aoki;Virginia M. Pickel

  • Ultrastructural localization of substance P in neurons of spinal cord

    Virginia M. Pickel;Donald J. Reis;Susan E. Leeman

  • Electron microscopic localization of substance P and enkephalin in axon terminals related to dendrites of catecholaminergic neurons

    Virginia M. Pickel;Virginia M. Pickel;Virginia M. Pickel;Tong H. Joh;Tong H. Joh;Tong H. Joh;Donald J. Reis;Donald J. Reis;Donald J. Reis;Susan E. Leeman;Susan E. Leeman;Susan E. Leeman

  • The Localization of the Brain-Specific Inorganic Phosphate Transporter Suggests a Specific Presynaptic Role in Glutamatergic Transmission

    Elizabeth E. Bellocchio;Hailan Hu;Alicia Pohorille;June Chan

  • A serotonergic innervation of noradrenergic neurons in nucleus locus coeruleus: demonstration by immunocytochemical localization of the transmitter specific enzymes tyrosine and tryptophan hydroxylase.

    Virginia M. Pickel;Tong Hyub Joh;Donald J. Reis

  • Recruitment of prefrontal cortical endocannabinoid signaling by glucocorticoids contributes to termination of the stress response.

    Matthew N. Hill;Ryan J. McLaughlin;Bin Pan;Megan L. Fitzgerald

  • Topography of serotonin neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus that send axon collaterals to the rat prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens

    Elisabeth J. Van Bockstaele;Arunava Biswas;Virginia M. Pickel

Frequent Co-Authors

June Chan
June Chan Cornell University
Teresa A. Milner
Teresa A. Milner Cornell University
Donald J. Reis
Donald J. Reis Cornell University
Tong H. Joh
Tong H. Joh Cornell University
Costantino Iadecola
Costantino Iadecola Cornell University
Chiye Aoki
Chiye Aoki New York University
Josef Anrather
Josef Anrather Cornell University
Richard J. Miller
Richard J. Miller Northwestern University
Ken Mackie
Ken Mackie Indiana University
George R. Uhl
George R. Uhl University of Maryland, Baltimore

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