Lori Flanagan-Cato, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
D18 Solomon Lab Building
3715 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
KEY REFERENCES:
Flanagan-Cato, L.M., S.J. Fluharty, E.B. Weinreb, and D.R. LaBelle. Food restriction alters neuronal morphology in the hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus of male rats. Endocrinology, 149: 93-99, 2008.
Griffin, G.D. and L.M. Flanagan-Cato. Estradiol and progesterone differentially regulate the dendritic arbor of neurons in the hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus of the female rat (Rattus norvegicus). J. Comp. Neurol. 510: 631-640, 2008.
Pfaff, D.W., L.-M. Kow, M. Loose, L.M. Flanagan-Cato. Reverse engineering the lordosis behavior circuit. Hormones and Behavior, 55: 347–354, 2008.
Flanagan-Cato, L.M., L.H. Calizo, G.D. Griffin, B.J. Lee, and S.Y. Whisner. Sexual behavior induces the expression of activity-regulated cytoskeletal protein (Arc) and modifies neuronal morphology in the female rat ventromedial hypothalamus, J. Neuroendocrinology 18: 857-864, 2006.
Flanagan-Cato, L.M., B.J. Lee, and L.H. Calizo. Triple labeling analysis of the function and connectivity of progesterone receptor-containing neurons in the hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus of the female rat. Hormones and Behavior, 50: 52-60, 2006.
Calizo, L.H. and L.M. Flanagan-Cato. Hormonal-neural integration in the rat ventromedial hypothalamus visualized with triple labeling for estrogen receptor, tract tracing and behavior-induced fos expression. Endocrinology 144: 5430-5440, 2003.
Calizo, L.H. and L.M. Flanagan-Cato. Estrogen-induced dendritic spine elimination on female rat ventromedial hypothalamic neurons that project to the periaqueductal gray. J. Comparative Neurology 447: 234-248, 2002.
Daniels, D and L.M. Flanagan-Cato. Functionally-defined compartments of the lordosis neural circuit in the ventromedial hypothalamus in female rats. J. Neurobiology 45 (1): 1-13, 2000.
Flanagan-Cato, L.M. Estrogen-induced remodeling of hypothalamic neural circuitry. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology 21: 309-329, 2000.
Daniels, D., R.R. Miselis, and L.M. Flanagan-Cato. Central neuronal circuit innervating the lordosis-producing muscles defined by transneuronal transport of pseudorabies virus. Journal of Neuroscience 19: 2823-2833, 1999.