Medical College of Pennsylvania, Physiology, 1971
Professor of Physiology
Email: nkreism@tulane.edu
Professor of Physiology. Non-synaptic mechanisms regulating neuronal excitability; regulation of neuronal/glial cell volume and ion concentrations; pathophysiology of stroke and epilepsy; changes with maturation.
Olson J.E., Kreisman N.R., Lim J., Hoffman-Kuczynski B., Schelble D., Leasure J. Taurine and cellular volume regulation in the hippocampus. Adv Exp Med Biol. 526:107-14, 2003.
Kreisman N.R., Olson J.E.. Taurine enhances volume regulation in hippocampal slices swollen osmotically. Neuroscience. 120:635-42, 2003.
Kreisman, N.R., Soliman, S., and Gozal, D. Regional differences in hypoxic depolarization and swelling in hippocampal slices. J. Neurophysiol. 83:1031-1038, 2000.
Kreisman, N.R. and LaManna, J.C. Rapid and slow swelling during hypoxia in the CA1 region of rat hippocampal slices. J. Neurophysiol. 82:320-329, 1999.
Torres, J.E., Kreisman, N.R., and Gozal, D. Nitric oxide modulates in vitro intrinsic optical signal and neural activity in the nucleus tractus solitarius of the rat. Neurosci. Letters 232:175-178, 1997.
Kreisman, N.R., LaManna, J.C., Liao, S.-C., Yeh, E.R., and Alcala, J.R. Light transmittance as an index of cell volume in hippocampal slices. Brain Res. 693:179-186, 1995.
Kreisman, N.R. and Smith, M.L. Potassium-induced changes in excitability in the hippocampal CA1 region of immature and adult rats. Dev. Brain Res 76:67-73, 1993.
Smith, M.L., Kreisman, N.R., Scripter, J.L., and Rihn, L.L. Excitability of CA1 region of rat hippocampus changes postnatally to elevation of extracellular [K+]. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 18:1242, 1992.
Kreisman, N.R., Magee, J.C., and Brizzee, B.L. Relative hypoperfusion in rat cerebral cortex during recurrent seizures. J. Cereb. Blood Flow Metab. 11:77-87, 1991.