Position Title
Professor Emerita
Unit
Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine
Profile Introduction
Neural signalling of amino acid deficiency and repletion; seizure susceptibility
Research Interests
Neural signalling of amino acid deficiency and repletion; seizure susceptibility
Specialties / Focus
- Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
- Medical Neuroscience
- Physiology and Behavior
- Systems Neuroscience
Labs
- Retired
Honors and Awards
- BioServ Award
- Fogarty International Scholar
- NIH NRSA pre/postdoctoral Fellow
- Grass Foundation Fellow
Professional Societies
- American Physiological Society
- American Society for Nutrition Science
- Society for Neuroscience
Degrees
- 1970 BS Nursing/ Chemistry California State University, Sacramento
- 1978 MS Nutrition University of California, Davis
- 1983 PhD Physiology/Neurophysiology University of California, Davis
Publications
Magrum LJ, MA Hickman, and DW Gietzen. 1999. Increased intracellular calcium in rat anterior piriform cortex in response to threonine after threonine deprivation.. J. Neurophysiology. 81:1147-1149
Dixon, K.D., Williams, F.E., Bellinger, L.L., Wiggins, R.L., Pavelka, J., Lucente, J. and Gietzen, D.W.. 2000. Differential effects of selective vagotomy and tropisetron in aminoprivic feeding.. Am.J. Physiol.. 279:R997-R1009
Hao, S., Sharp, J.W., Ross-Inta, C.M., McDaniel, B.J., Anthony, T.G., Wek, R.C., Cavener, D. R., McGrath, B.C. Rudell, J.B., Koehnle, T.J., Gietzen, D.W. Uncharged tRNA and sensing of amino acid deficiendy in mammalian piriform cortex. Science 307:1776-1778, 2005
Gietzen, D.W., Rogers, Q.R. Nutritional homeostasis and indispensable amino acid sensing: a new solution to an old puzzle. Trends Neurosci.29:91-99,2006.
Gietzen, D.W., Dixon, K.D., Truong, B.G., Jones, A.C., Barrett, J.A., Washburn, D.S. Indispensable amino acid deficiency and increased seizure susceptibility in rats. Am. J. Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 271:18-24, 1996.