Appointments
 
Assistant Research Professor of Neuroscience

 
Weill Cornell \r\nPhysician
   

Pierce, Joseph Patrick
 (212) 570-2900  (212) 988-3672

Pierce JP and Roberts WJ: Sympathetically induced changes in the responses of guard hair and type II receptors in the cat. J. Physiol. 314:411-428, 1981.

Mailman RB, Pierce JP, Crofton KM, Petitto J, DeHaven DL, Kilts CD and Lewis MH: Thioridazine and the neuroleptic radioreceptor assay. Biol. Psych. 19:833-847, 1984.

Pierce JP, Weinberg R and Rustioni A: Morphology of afferent fiber terminations within the cuneate nucleus of the cat. II. Non-primary fibers. J. Comp. Neurol. 300:134-152, 1990.

Weinberg R, Pierce JP and Rustioni A: Morphology of afferent fiber terminations within the cuneate nucleus of the cat. I. G. hair and group Ia fibers. J. Comp. Neurol. 300:113-133, 1990.

Mendell LM, Peshori KR, Pierce JP, Koeber HR and Collins III WF: Short-term plasticity at Ia connections of motorneurons: physiological and functional implications. In: Plasticity of Motorneuronal Connections, A. Wrenig, ed., pp. 311-322, Elsevier Publishers, Amsterdam, 1991.

Pierce JP and Mendell LM: Quantitative ultrastructure of la boutons in the ventral horn: scaling and positional relationships. J. Neurosci. 13(11):4748-4763, 1993.

Pierce JP, Kurucz OS and Milner TA: An ultrastructural analysis of siezure-induced L-enkephalin changes in the ventral dentate gyrus of rats. Reg. Peptides 54:225-226, 1994.

Pierce JP and Lewin GR: An ultrastructural size principle. Neurosci. 58(3):441-446, 1994.

Pickel VM, Chan J and Pierce JP: Ultrastructure of Met5-enkephalin terminals in the caudate-putamen nuclei of adult rats receiving neonatal intranigral 6-hydroxydopamine. Dev. Brain Res. 83:163-180, 1994.

Milner TA, Kurucz OS, Veznedaroglu E and Pierce JP: Septohippocampal neurons in the rat septal complex have substantial glial coverage and receive direct contacts from noradrenergic terminals. Brain Res. 670:121-136, 1995.

Chandy J, Pierce JP and Milner TA: Rat hippocampal mossy fibers contain cholecystokinin-like immunoreactivity. Anat. Rec. 243:519-523, 1995.

Milner TA, Wiley RG, Kurucz OS, Prince SR and Pierce JP: Selective changes in hippocampal neuropeptide Y neurons following removal of the cholinergic septal inputs. J. Comp. Neurol. 386:46-59, 1997.

McCarthy JB, Walker M, Pierce J, Camp P and White JD: Biosynthesis and metabolism of native and oxidized neuropeptide Y in the hippocampal mossy fiber system. J. Neurochem. 70:1950-1963, 1998.

Pierce JP, Kurucz O and Milner TA: The morphometry of a peptidergic transmitter system before and after seizure. I. Dynorphin B in the hippocampal mossy fiber system. Hippocampus 9:255-276, 1999.

Milner TA, Hammel JR, Ghorbani TT, Wiley RG and Pierce JP: Septal cholinergic deafferentation of the dentate gyrus results in a loss of a subset of neuropeptide Y somata and an increase in synaptic area on remaining neuropeptide Y dendrites. Brain Res. 831:322-336, 1999.

Milner TA, Shah P and Pierce JP: Beta-adrenergic receptors primarily are located at post_synaptic sites in granule cells and interneurons but also are found on astrocytes and a few presynaptic profiles in the rat dentate gyrus. Synapse 36:178-193, 2000.

Pierce JP, van Leyen K and McCarthy JB: Dendritic spines possess the translocation machinery for local integral membrane and secretory protein synthesis. Nature Neurosci. 3(4):311-313, 2000.

Pierce JP and Milner TA: Parallel increases in the synaptic and surface areas of mossy fiber terminals following seizure induction. Synapse, 39:249-256, 2001.

Pierce JP, Mayer T and McCarthy JB: Evidence for a satellite secretory pathway in neuronal dendritic spines. Current Biology 11:351-355, 2001.

Einheber S, Pierce JP, Chow D, Znamensky V, Schnapp LM and Milner TA: Dentate hilar mossy cells and somatostatin-containing neurons are immunoreactive for the "8 integrin subunit: Characterization in normal and kainic acid-treated rats. Neurosci. 105:619-638, 2001.

Skyers PS, Einheber S, Pierce JP and Milner TA Increased mu-opioid receptor labeling is found on inner molecular layer terminals of the dentate gyrus following seizures. Exp Neurol. 179: 200-209, 2003.

Cadacio CL, Milner TA, Gallagher M and Pierce JP: Hilar neuropeptide Y interneuron loss in the aged rat hippocampal formation. Exp Neurol. 183(1): 147-158, 2003.

Scharfman HE, Sollas AE, Berger RH, Goodman JH and Pierce JP: Perforant path activation of Ectopic Granule Cells that are born after pilocarpine-induced seizures. Neuroscience. 121:1017-1029,2003.
   
   
 
 
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