Office:     Rm 295b AS/VM & Rm 6-145 Jackson Hall, Minneapolis Campus
Phone:     612-626-4073
E-mail:   vulch001@umn.edu

Education:
     PhD


Current teaching responsibilities:
     CVM 6120 Veterinary Neurobiology


Academic interests:
     • peripheral mechanisms of pain signaling
     • role of cytokines in chronic pain
     • neuro-immune interactions in mucosal defense
 

Selected publications authored by Dr. Vulchanova:

L.S. Stone, L. Vulchanova. (2003) The pain of antisense: in vivo application of antisense oligonucleotides for functional genomics in pain and analgesia. Adv Drug Deliv Rev, 55:1081-1112.

Vulchanova, L., T.H. Olson, L.S. Stone, M.S. Riedl, R. Elde and C.N. Honda. (2001) Cytotoxic targeting of isolectin IB4-binding sensory neurons. Neuroscience, 108:143-55.

Guo, A., L. Vulchanova, J. Wang, X. Li and R. Elde. (1999) Immunocytochemical localization of the vanilloid receptor 1 (VR1): relashioship to neuropeptides, the P2X3 purinoceptor and IB4 binding sites. Eur. J. Neurosci., 11:946-958.

S.J. Shuster, M.S. Riedl, X. Li, L. Vulchanova and R. Elde. (1999) Stimulus-dependent translocation of kappa opioid receptors to the plasma membrane. J. Neurosci., 19:2658:2664.

Vulchanova, L., M. S. Riedl, S. J. Shuster, L. S. Stone, K. M. Hargreaves, G. Buell, A. Surprenant, R.A. North and R. Elde. (1998) P2X3 is expressed by DRG neurons that terminate in inner lamina II. Eur. J. Neurosci., 10:3470-3478.

Vulchanova, L., M. S. Riedl, S. J. Shuster, G. Buell, A Surprenant, R.A.North and R. Elde. (1997) Immunohistochemical study of the P2X₂ and P2X₃ receptor subunits in rat and monkey sensory neurons and their central terminals. Neuropharmacology, 36:1229-1243.

Cook, S.P., L. Vulchanova, K. M. Hargreaves, R. Elde and E. W. McCleskey (1997) Distinct ATP receptors on pain-sensing and stretch-sensing neurons. Nature, 387:505-508.

Last updated December 21, 2005