Edward Wagner - Associate Professor of Pharmacology - COMP - Western University of Health Sciences

Background

Dr. Wagner joined the faculty of the College of Osteopathic Medicine in September, 2001
1994	Dual Ph.D. in Pharmacology & Toxicology / Neuroscience, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
1986	B.S., in Psychobiology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1983	Orange Coast College, Costa Mes, CA

Courses taught at Western University :

Gastrointestinal Physiology, Reproductive Physiology and Regulatory Neurobiology-Synaptic Intergration in the Hypothalamus: The GnRH Neuronal System

Selected Publications:

Wagner E.J., Moore K.E., Lookingland K.J.: Sexual differences in N-methyl-D-asparatate receptor-mediated regulation of tuberoinfundibular dopaminergic neurons in the rat, Brain Research, 311: 39-146, 1993

Wagner, E.J., Rønnekleiv, O.K., Grandy, D.K., Kelly, M.J.: The peptide Orphanin FQ inhibits ß-endorphin neurons and neurosecretory cells in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus by activating an inwardly-rectifying K conductance, Neuroendocrinology, 67: 73-82, 1998

Wagner, E.J., Rønnekleiv, O.K. Bosch, M.A., Kelly, M.J.: Estrogen biphasically modifies gypthalamic GABAergic function concomitantly with negative and positive control of luteinizing hormone release, Journal of Neuroscience, 21: 2085-2093, 2001

Wagner, E.J.: Monoaminergic and cholinergic control of the anterior pituitary. In "Encyclopedia of Hormones", Volume 2, pp 704-712, Ed.: Henry, H.H., Norman, A.W., Academic Press, San Diego, 2003

Tang, S.L., Tran, V., Wagner, E.J.: Sex Differences in the Cannabinoid Modulation of an A-type K+ Current in Neurons of the Mammalian Hypothalamus. Journal of Neurophysiology, 94: 2983-2986, 2005

Nguyen, Q.H., Wagner, E.J.: Estrogen differentially modulates the cannabinoid-induced presynaptic inhibition of amino acid neurotransmission in proopiomelanocortin neurons of the arcuate nucleus. Neuroendocrinology, 84: 123-137, 2006.

Ho, J., Cox, J.M., Wagner, E.J.: Cannabinoid-induced hyperphagia correlates with inhibition of proopiomelanocortin neurons. Physiology and Behavior, 92: 507-519, 2007.

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