Sample Publications   (student co-authors in red)

Ramirez, J. J., Caldwell, J. L., Majure, M., Wessner, D. R., Klein, R. L., Meyer, E. M., & King, M. A.  Adeno-associated virus vector expressing nerve growth factor enhances cholinergic axonal sprouting after cortical injury in rats. (2003) The Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 2797-2803.

Ramirez, J.J. The role of axonal sprouting in functional reorganization after CNS injury: lessons from the hippocampal formation.  (2001) Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 19, 237-262.

Ramirez, J. J., Bulsara, K. R., Moore, S. C., Ruch, K., & Abrams, W. (1999). Progressive unilateral damage of the entorhinal cortex enhances
synaptic efficacy of the crossed entorhinal afferent to dentate granule cells.  The Journal of Neuroscience, 19:RC42, 1-6.
 
Ramirez, J. J., Finklestein, S. P., Keller, J., Abrams, B., George, M. N., & Parakh, T. (1999). Basic fibroblast growth factor enhances axonal sprouting after cortical injury in rats. NeuroReport,  10, 1201-1204.
 
Ramirez, J. J., MacDonald, K., Mañibo, J., Payne, J., & Tuite, C. (1998). GM1-ganglioside suppresses septodentate sprouting and enhances recovery from entorhinal cortex lesions on DRL performance and locomotor behavior in rats. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 12, 203-211.
 
Ramirez, J. J., McQuilkin, M., Carrigan, T., MacDonald, K., & Kelley, M. S. (1996). Progressive entorhinal cortex lesions accelerate hippocampal sprouting and spare spatial memory in rats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 93, 15512-15517.
 
Ramirez, J. J., Martin, C., McQuilkin, M. L., MacDonald, K. A., Valbuena, M., & O'Connell, J. M. (1995). Bilateral entorhinal cortex lesions impair DRL performance in rats. Psychobiology, 23, 37-44.