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Christopher S. Colwell

Professor Psychiatry, UCLA
Verified email at mednet.ucla.edu
Cited by 13029

Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide mediates circadian rhythmicity and synchrony in mammalian clock neurons

SJ Aton, CS Colwell, AJ Harmar, J Waschek… - Nature …, 2005 - nature.com
The mammalian suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) is a master circadian pacemaker. It is not
known which SCN neurons are autonomous pacemakers or how they synchronize their daily …

Linking neural activity and molecular oscillations in the SCN

CS Colwell - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2011 - nature.com
Neurons in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) function as part of a central timing circuit
that drives daily changes in our behaviour and underlying physiology. A hallmark feature of …

Disrupted circadian rhythms in VIP-and PHI-deficient mice

CS Colwell, S Michel, J Itri… - American Journal …, 2003 - journals.physiology.org
… Michel, and CS Colwell were responsible for the behavioral and electrophysiological
analysis. Finally, we acknowledge J. Asai for expert assistance with the immunocytochemical …

Age-related decline in circadian output

…, S Yamazaki, T Kudo, T Cutler, CS Colwell… - Journal of …, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
Disruptions in sleep/wake cycles, including decreased amplitude of rhythmic behaviors and
fragmentation of the sleep episodes, are commonly associated with aging in humans and …

Circadian modulation of learning and memory in fear-conditioned mice

D Chaudhury, CS Colwell - Behavioural brain research, 2002 - Elsevier
Endogenous processes referred to as circadian oscillators generate many of the daily rhythms
in physiology and behavior of a variety of animals including humans. We investigated the …

Disruption of circadian rhythms accelerates development of diabetes through pancreatic beta-cell loss and dysfunction

…, HI Cox, J Qian, GD Block, CS Colwell… - Journal of biological …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is complex metabolic disease that arises as a consequence
of interactions between genetic predisposition and environmental triggers. One recently …

Dopaminergic modulation of NMDA-induced whole cell currents in neostriatal neurons in slices: contribution of calcium conductances

C Cepeda, CS Colwell, JN Itri… - Journal of …, 1998 - journals.physiology.org
… K + currents were blocked with a combination of Cs + in the pipette and tetraethylammonium
(TEA, 10–20 mM) in the bath and selected Ca 2+ currents were blocked with …

Circadian regulation of hippocampal long-term potentiation

…, LM Wang, CS Colwell - Journal of biological …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
The goal of this study is to investigate the possible circadian regulation of hippocampal
excitability and long-term potentiation (LTP) measured by stimulating the Schaffer collaterals (SC…

Expression of the Circadian Clock Gene Period2 in the Hippocampus: Possible Implications for Synaptic Plasticity and Learned Behaviour

…, IH Odom, DK Welsh, TJ O'Dell, CS Colwell - ASN …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
CS–US pairings were comprised of 30 s of white noise (CS), … CS–US pairings were
comprised of 30 s of white noise (CS) … the first CS–US pairing and the 2 min after the last CS–US …

Vasoactive intestinal peptide and the mammalian circadian system

AM Vosko, A Schroeder, DH Loh, CS Colwell - General and comparative …, 2007 - Elsevier
… We have found that VIP regulates a fast delayed rectifier K + current (Itri and Colwell,
unpublished). This current is important for the expression of daily rhythms in the frequency of action …