Rebecca Howell
Thesis Title
TBD
Publications
- Beckstead, M.J. & Howell, R.D. (2021) Progressive parkinsonism due to mitochondrial impairment: lessons from the MitoPark mouse model. Experimental Neurology 341: 113707
- Howell, R.D., Dominguez Lopez, S., Ocanas, S., Freeman, W., Beckstead, M.J. (2020) Female mice are resilient to age-related decline of substantia nigra dopamine neuron firing. Neurobiology of Aging 95: 195-204. Designed experiments, performed all electrophysiological experiments, data analysis, interpretation and writing of the manuscript.
- Yang, Y., Kreko-Pierce, T., Howell, R., Pugh, J.R. (2019) Long-term depression of presynaptic cannabinoid receptor function at parallel fiber synapses. Journal of Physiology 597(12): 3167-3181. Performed electrophysiological recordings, analysis, & data interpretation.
- Howell, R.D. & Pugh, J.R. (2016) Biphasic modulation of parallel fiber synaptic transmission by co-activation of presynaptic GABAA and GABAB receptors in mice. Journal of Physiology 594(13): 3651-66 Performed all electrophysiological recordings, data analysis, and helped prepare the manuscript.
- Dominguez-Lopez, S., Howell, R.D., Lopez-Canul, M. Leyton, M., Gobbi, G. (2014) Electrophysiological characterization of dopamine neuronal activity in the ventral tegmental area across the light-dark cycle. Synapse 68(20): 454-67. Performed the daytime electrophysiological recordings, analysis and helped prepare the manuscript.
- Dominguez-Lopez, S., Howell, R., Gobbi, G. (2012) Characterization of serotonin neurotransmission in knockout mice: implications for major depression. Reviews in the Neurosciences 23: 429-443.