Dorothy Gietzen

dwgietzen@ucdavis.edu

Vet. Anatomy & Cell Biology

Office
1222 Haring Hall
752-9211



 
Degrees:
1983 PhD University of California, Davis Physiology/Neurophysiology
1978 MS University of California, Davis Nutrition
1970 BS California State University, Sacramento Nursing/ Chemistry
Research Interests:

Neural signalling of amino acid deficiency and repletion; seizure susceptibility
Awards:
BioServ Award
Fogarty International Scholar
NIH NRSA pre/postdoctoral Fellow
Grass Foundation Fellow
Professional Societies:
American Physiological Society
American Society for Nutrition Science
Society for Neuroscience
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations:
Animal Behavior  
Graduate Groups not Housed in CBS:
Nutrition  
Publications:
  • Magrum LJ, MA Hickman, and DW Gietzen. 1999. Increased intracellular calcium in rat anterior piriform cortex in response to threonine after threonine deprivation.. J. Neurophysiology. 81:1147-1149
  • Dixon, K.D., Williams, F.E., Bellinger, L.L., Wiggins, R.L., Pavelka, J., Lucente, J. and Gietzen, D.W.. 2000. Differential effects of selective vagotomy and tropisetron in aminoprivic feeding.. Am.J. Physiol.. 279:R997-R1009
  • Bellinger, L.L., Evans, J.F., Tillberg, C.M. and Gietzen, D.W.. 1999. Effects of dorsomedial hypothalamic nuclei lesions on intake of an amino acid imbalanced diet.. Am.J. Physiol.. 277:R250-R262
  • Gietzen, D.W. and Magrum, L.J. Molecular mechanisms involved in the anorexia of branched chain amino acid deficiency. Journal of Nutrition, 131:851S-855S, 2001.
  • Magrum, L.J., Teh, P.S., Kreiter, M.R., Hickman, M.A. and Gietzen, D.W. tRNA charging in rat brain after consumption of amino acid-imbalanced diets, Nutritional Neuroscience; 5(2):125-130, 2002.
Laboratory Personnel:
Gietzen Lab/1224-1230 Haring Hall

J.W. Sharp, DVM Ph.D., S. Hao, MD Ph.D., S. Nemanic, Ph.D., T.J. Koehnle, C.M.Ross, A. Morin

Teaching Interests:
Neuroscience, Food Intake Control, especially by amino acids, Basic Research methodology
Courses:
VMD 421 Basic Neuroscience Winter
APC 290C Neural responses to essential amino acids Fall,Winter,Spring,Summer 1,Summer 2
Personal Interests:
Skiing, golf, reading, color