ELIZABETH B. EZERMAN

Lecturer
Anatomy and Neurobiology

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1968

Elizabeth.Ezerman@uvm.edu

I am interested in factors that influence the development of appropriate axon pathways in the central and peripheral nervous systems. The model system used is the preganglionic sympathetic system. With Dr. Cynthia Forehand, I am involved in experiments using double labeling (fluorescent dextran amines and fluorescent carbocyanine dyes) of the developing sympathetic chain in chick and rodent to study the development of specificity of interaction of preganglionic sympathetics with their targets.

• Medical Foundations course: Human Structure and Function
• Senior Selective: Anatomy 1002
• ANNB 301Medical Gross Anatomy

Coutinho-Budd J.C., Ezerman E.B. and C.J. Forehand (2008). The Effect of cAMP Signaling on the Longitudinal Extension of Spinal Sensory Neurons in the Chicken Embryo. J. Anat. 213: 547- 554.

Berggren, K., E.B. Ezerman, P. McCaffrey and C.J. Forehand (2001). The expression and regulation of the retinoic-acid sythetic enzyme RALDH-2 in the embryonic chicken wing. Dev. Dyn. 221:1-16.

Forehand, C.J., E.B. Ezerman, J.P., Goldblatt, Skidmore, D.L. and J.C. Glover (1998) Segment-specific pattern of sympathetic preganglionic axon projections in the chicken embryo spinal cord is altered by retinoids. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 95:10878-10883.

Ezerman, E.B. and C.J. Forehand (1996) Development and segmental organization of rostrocaudal dendrites of rat sympathetic preganglionic neurons. J. Autonom. Nerv. Syst. 57:29-35.

Forehand, C.J., E.B. Ezerman, E. Rubin and J.C. Glover (1994). Segmental patterning of Sympathetic Preganglionic neurons: Correlation between soma position and Axon Projection Pathway. J. Neurosci. 14:231-241.

Ezerman, E.B. (1991). Cerebellar reaggregate and explant transplants contain Bergmann glial fibers. Develop. Brain Res. 61:143-146.