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Professor; Co-Director, Neuroscience Program; Director, Chemosensory Training Program;
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvannia, 1974

Research and Professional Interests:

Function of special chemoreceptors, especially the vomeronasal and nervus terminalis systems. Neural coding and integration in sensory systems, especially chemoreception. Neural control of behavior (currently neural mechanisms in male reproductive behavior). Brain and neuron function.

Selected Publications:

(Links to abstracts and to full text of some publications are available through "Personal Home Page," above.)

Fernandez-Fewell, G. D., and M. Meredith. 1998. Olfactory contribution to Fos expression during mating in inexperienced male hamsters. Chem. Senses 23: 257-267.

Meredith, M. 1998. Vomeronasal, olfactory, hormonal convergence in the brain: co-operation or coincidence. Olfaction and Taste XII. Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 855: 349-361.

Moeller, J. F., and M. Meredith. 1998. Increase in gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) levels in CSF after stimulation of nervus terminalis in Atlantic stingray, D. sabina. Brain Res. 806: 104-107.

Meredith, M. 1999. Vomeronasal organ and nervus terminalis. In The Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 2nd Ed. G. Adelman and B. H. Smith, eds. Elsevier, Amsterdam (Text version: CD-ROM version 1997).

Meredith, M. 1999. Vomeronasal organ. Pages 1004-1014 in Encyclopedia of Reproduction. E. Knobil and J. D. Neill, eds. Academic Press, San Diego.

Meredith, M. 2001. Human vomeronasal organ: a critical review of best and worst cases. Chem. Senses 26: 433-445.

Kelliher, K., M. Baum, and M. Meredith. 2001. The ferret's vomeronasal organ and accessory olfactory bulb: effect of hormone manipulation in adult males and females. Anat. Rec. 263: 280-288.

Meredith, M., and G. D. Fewell. 2001. Vomeronasal organ: electrical stimulation activates FOS in mating pathways and in GnRH neurons. Brain Res. 922: 87-94.

Fewell, G. D., and M. Meredith. Experience facilitates vomeronasal and olfactory influence on Fos expression in medial preoptic area during pheromone exposure or mating in male hamsters. Brain Res., in press.

Recent Abstracts:

Nolte, C. N., and M. Meredith. 1999. Accessory olfactory bulb mGluR2 activation affects pheromone-mediated mating behavior in male syrian hamsters. Neuroscience Abstracts 25: 129.

Westberry, J., and M. Meredith. 2000. Activation of neurons in subdivisions of the medial preoptic area by convergent input from chemosensory pathways and GnRH. Neuroscience Abstracts 26: 2199.

Westberry, J., and M. Meredith. 2001. Is pre-exposure to female pheromones equivalent to sexual experience for male hamsters after vomeronasal lesions. Neuroscience Abstracts 27: 727.6.

Westberry, J., and M. Meredith. 2002. Selective response to chemosensory stimuli in medial amygdala. Chem. Senses 27: in press.

Graduate Students:

Silz, Lindsey
Simonton, Ariel

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