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 The Explorers
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Gregory Holmes, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Research

Department/Laboratory:
Neurotrauma and Nutrition
Phone:
(225) 763-2520
 
Fax:
(225) 763-2525
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Education:
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, Storrs-Mansfield, CT, 1991, Behavioral Neuroscience

Research Interests:

Dr. Holmes' main research interests include supraspinal control of gastrointestinal function in intact and spinally injured rats and changes in nutrient sensing and absorption following spinal cord injury. Dr. Holmes is also the Director of the Microscopy Core Facility at PBRC.

Selected Publications:

Qualls-Creekmore, E., Tong, M., & Holmes, G.M. (2009) Time-course of recovery of gastric emptying and motility in rats with experimental spinal cord injury. Neurogastroenterology and Motility, in press.

Holmes, G.M., Tong, M., & Travagli, R.A. (2009) Effects of brainstem cholecystokinin-8s on gastric tone and esophageal-gastric reflex. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol, 296(3):G621-631.

Tong, M., & Holmes, G.M. (2009) Gastric dysreflexia after acute experimental spinal cord injury in rats. Neurogastroenterology and Motility, 21(2): 197-206.

Primeaux, S.D., Tong, M., & Holmes, G.M. (2007) Effects of chronic spinal cord injury on body weight and body composition in rats fed a standard chow diet. American Journal of Physiology, Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 293(3):R1102-R1109.

Holmes, G.M., Van Meter, M.J., Beattie, M.S. & Bresnahan, J.C. (2005) Serotonergic fiber sprouting to external anal sphincter motoneurons after spinal cord contusion, Experimental Neurology, 193(1), 29-42.

Holmes, G.M. (2005) 5-Hydroxytryptamine(2C) receptors on pudendal motoneurons innervating the external anal sphincter. Brain Research, 1057(1-2), 65-71.

Holmes, G.M., Hebert, S, Rogers, R.C. & Hermann, G.E. (2004) Immunocytochemical localization of TNF type 1 and type 2 receptors in the rat spinal cord., Brain Research, 1025(1-2), 210-219.
Holmes, Gregory M.

Holmes, G.M., Hermann, G.E., Rogers, R.C., Bresnahan, J.C., & Beattie, M.S. (2002) Dissociation of the effects of nucleus raphe obscurus or rostral ventrolateral medullary lesions on eliminatory and sexual reflexes. Physiology and Behavior, 75(1-2), 49-55.

Holmes, G.M., Bresnahan, J.C., & Beattie, M.S. (2001) Descending inhibition of pudendal reflexes: Reassessing the role of serotonin. Physiology and Behavior, 74(1-2), 57-64.

Holmes, G.M., Rogers, R.C., Bresnahan, J.C., & Beattie, M.S. (1998). External anal sphincter hyper-reflexia following spinal transection in the rat. Journal of Neurotrauma, 15(6), 451-457.


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