Position Title
Distinguished Professor Emerita
Position Title
Distinguished Professor Emerita
- Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
Bio
Research Interests
Genetic, neural, and hormonal regulation of energy balance; alterations with obesity/age; current research focuses on mechanisms utilized by mammalian hibernators that result in CNS neuroprotection and survival in extreme environments. Extracellular signal reception/intracellular signal transduction and uncoupling proteins; physiological changes with obesity/aging; mechanisms of neuroprotection.
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations
Education and Degree(s)
- B.S. in Zoology, University of Florida
- M.S. in Zoology, University of Florida
- Ph.D. in Physiology, Emory University
Publications
- Hamilton, JS, SM Chau, KJ Malins, GG Ibanez, JM Horowitz, BA Horwitz. Syrian hamster neuroplasticity mechanisms fail as temperature declines to 15°C, but histaminergic neuromodulation persists. J Comp Physiol B – under review 2017.
- Mikhailova, A, J Mack, N Vitagliano, JS Hamilton, JM Horowitz, BA Horwitz. Recovery of Syrian hamster hippocampal signaling following its depression during oxygen-glucose deprivation is enhanced by cold temperatures and by hibernation. Neurosci Lett 621:98-103, 2016.
- Sekizawa, S-I, B Horwitz, J Horowitz, C-Y Chen. 2013. Protection of signal processing at low temperature in baroreceptive neurons in the nucelus tractus solitarius of Syrian hamsters, a hibernating species. Am J Physiol Regul, Integr & Comp Physiol, 305 (10) R1153-62.
- Horwitz, BA, SM Chau, JS Hamilton, C Song, J Gorgone, M Saenz, JM Horowitz, C-Y Chen. 2013, Temporal relationships of blood pressure, heart rate, baroreflex function and body temperature change over a hibernation bout in Syrian hamsters. Am J Physiol Regul, Integ & Comp Physiol 305 (7): R759-768.
- Sekizawa, S-I, JM Horowitz, BA Horwitz, C-Y Chen. 2012. Realignment of signal processing within a sensory brainstem nucleus, the NTS, as brain temperature declines in the Syrian hamster, a hibernating species. J Comp Physiol A (Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol) 198:367-282.