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Molecular Genetics

Mary Lou Voytko

 

Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomy

Director of the Women’s Health Center of Excellence for Research, Leadership, Education

 

Email: mlvoytko@wfubmc.edu

 

Education:

Ph.D. State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center

Research Interests: neural basis of age-related cognitive dysfunction; women’s health

 

Current Research: effects of ovarian hormones on cognitive and neurobiological profiles

 

Recent Publications:

Rometo AM, Krajewski SJ, Voytko ML, Rance NE. Hypertrophy and increased kisspeptin gene expression in the hypothalamic infundibular nucleus of postmenopausal women and ovariectomized monkeys. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2007 Jul;92(7):2744-50. Epub 2007 May 8.

 

Kosoko-Lasaki O, Sonnino RE, Voytko ML. Mentoring for women and underrepresented minority faculty and students: experience at two institutions of higher education. J Natl Med Assoc. 2006 Sep;98(9):1449-59. Review.

 

Tinkler GP and Voytko ML. Estrogen modulates cognitive and cholinergic processes in surgically menopausal monkeys. Prog. Neuropsychopharmacol. Biol. Psychiatry 2005;29:423-431.

 

Voytko ML and Tinkler GP. Cognitive function and its neural mechanisms in nonhuman primate models of aging, alzheimer's disease and menopause. In: Nonhuman Primate Models of Neuropsychopathology, Frontiers of Bioscience Special Edition, Taffee MA and Weed MR (eds). Front Biosci 2004;9:1899-1914.

 

Escobar CM, Krajewski SJ,Sandoval-Guzman T, Voytko ML, Rance NE. Neuropeptide Y gene expression is increased in the hypothalamus of older women. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab., 2004;89:2338-43.

 

Publications:

For a listing of additional publications, refer to PubMed, a service provided by the National Library of Medicine