Office:     235b AS/VM, 1988 Fitch Ave, St.Paul Campus
Phone:     612-624-1768
Fax:         612-625-0204
E-mail:     beitz001@tc.umn.edu

Education:
     PhD Anatomy, 1976, University of Minnesota

Current teaching responsibilities:
     CVM 6112 Organology
     CVM 6120 Veterinary Neurobiology

Academic interests:
     • Neuroscience
     • Anatomy

Graduate Faculty Membership:
     • Molecular Veterinary Biosciences
     • Neuroscience

Selected publications authored by Beitz:
• Lynch, JL, Gallus, NJ, Ericson ME, Beitz AJ (2008) Analysis of nociception, sex and peripheral nerve innervation in the TMEV animal model of multiple sclerosis. Pain 136 (3):293-304.

• Lynch, JL, Alley, JF, Wellman L, Beitz AJ (2008) Decreased spinal cord opioid receptor expression and antinociception in a TMEV mouse model of multiple sclerosis. Brain Research 1191:180-91.

• Roh DH, Kim HW, Yoon SY, Seo HS, Kwon YB, Han HJ, Beitz AJ, Lee JH (2008) Intrathecal Clonidine Suppresses Phosphorylation of the NMDA Receptor NR1 Subunit in Spinal Dorsal Horn Neurons of Rats with Neuropathic Pain. Anesthesia and Analgesia 107:693-700.

• Roh DH, Kim HW, Yoon SY, Seo HS, Kwon YB, Han HJ, Beitz AJ, Lee JH (2008) Depletion of capsaicin sensitive afferents prevents lamina-dependent increases in spinal N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor subunit 1 expression and phosphorylation associated with thermal hyperalgesia in neuropathic rats. European J. Pain .

• Pacharinsak, C and Beitz, A.J. (2008) Animal Models of Cancer Pain (review). Comparative Medicine 58:220-233.

• Pacharinsak, C., Khasabov, S.G., Beitz, A.J., Simone, DA (2008) NK-1 Receptors in the Rostral Ventromedial Medulla (RVM) Contribute to Hyperalgesia Produced by Intraplantar Injection of Capsaicin. Pain (in Press)

• Kim, H-W, Roh, D-H, Yoon, S-Y, Kwon, Y-B, Han, H-J, Kim, K-W, Beitz, A.J. and Lee, J-H. (2008) Activation of spinal sigma-1 receptor enhances NMDA-induced pain via PKC and PKA-dependent phosphorylations of NMDA receptor NR 1 subunit in mice. British Journal of Pharmacology 154(5):1125-1134.

• Kim HW, Uh DK, Yoon SY, Roh DH, Kwon YB, Han HJ, Lee HJ, Beitz AJ, Lee JH. (2008) Low-frequency electroacupuncture suppresses carrageenan-induced paw inflammation in mice via sympathetic post-ganglionic neurons, while high-frequency EA suppression is mediated by the sympathoadrenal medullary axis. Brain Res. Bull. 75:698-705.

• Roh DH, Kim HW, Yoon SY, Seo HS, Kwon YB, Kim KW, Han HJ, Beitz AJ, Lee JH (2008) Intrathecal administration of sigma-1 receptor agonists facilitates nociception: involvement of a protein kinase C dependent pathway. J. Neuroscience Research (in Press).

• Schreiber KL, Beitz AJ, Wilcox GL. (2008) Activation of spinal microglia in a murine model of peripheral inflammation-induced, long-lasting contralateral allodynia. Neuroscience Letters .

Last updated December 30, 2008