CELL SIGNALING RESEARCH:
Physiologists at Dartmouth are interested in identifying cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the influence of growth factors, steroid hormones, and cytokines. They employ sensitive single-cell (or even single-molecule) measures of gene expression (reporter gene assays, real-time PCR), protein and neuropeptide trafficking and localization (immunocytochemistry, confocal and video microscopy), membrane receptor and kinase activity (Western blotting), and ion transporter and channel activity (patch clamp recording) to analyze cells from the kidney, blood, lung, and brain.
Faculty working in the Cell Signaling area:
Bodwell (also molecular endocrinology)
Fejes-Toth, A, (also epithelial biology, molecular endocrinology and renal physiology)
Fejes-Toth, G. (also epithelial biology, molecular endocrinology and renal physiology)
Guyre (also molecular endocrinology and immunology)
Henderson (also molecular endocrinology, computational biology, and cell and molecular neuroscience)
Maue (also molecular endocrinology and cell and molecular neuroscience)
North (also molecular endocrinology, systems neuroscience, and cell and molecular neuroscience)
Stanton (also epithelial biology, and renal and respiratory physiology)
Yeh (also systems neuroscience and cell and molecular neuroscience)