Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Department of Anatomy and Physiology
Kansas State University
School of Veterinary Medicine
Manhattan, KS 66506-5602
Office: (785) 532-4520
Lab: (785) 532-4518
Fax: (785) 532-4557
Neural control of regulatory functions and behaviors,
role of circumventricular organs in homeostasis, central mechanisms of
cardiovascular control, local circuitry in hypothalamus, plasticity in the
adult mammalian nervous system, neuroendocrine systems,
neurophysiology/neuropharmacology of hypothalamic magnocellular neuroendocrine
system, neurotrophic viruses as neuroanatomical tracing tools, activity or
steroid regulation of gene expression in the nervous system.
Techniques include tract tracing at light and electron
microscopic level, immunocytochemistry, viral tract tracing, electron microscopy,
structure-function correlations.
In addition, I am interested in the role of viral envelope
glycoproteins in neurovirulence. My friend and collaborator,
Dr.
Shafiqul I. Chowdhury, was recently funded by the USDA to study the role
of glycoprotein gE and gI in bovine herpesvirus. I am co-PI on his
grant.
The renal afferent pathways in the rat: A pseudorabies
virus study. M.L. Weiss and S.I. Chowdhury. Brain Res., 812: 227-241,
1998.
Spread of bovine herpesvirus type 5 (BHV-5) in the rabbit
brain after intranasal inoculation. B.J. Lee, M.L. Weiss, and S.I. Chowdhury,
J. Neurovirol., 5: 474-484, 1999.
Characterization of the central cell groups regulating
the kidney in the rat. J. Huang and M.L. Weiss. Brain Res.,
845:77-91,1999.
Effects of midbrain and spinal cord transections on
frequency-domain sympathetic nerve responses to hyperthermia. M.J. Kenney,
J.G. Pickar, M.L. Weiss, C.S. Saindon and R.J. Fels. Am. J. Physiol.,
278 (5): R1329-R1338, 2000.
Activation of renal afferent pathways following furosemide
treatment: I. Effects of survival time and renal denervation. G.K. Fitch,
K.P. Patel, and M.L. Weiss. Brain Res., 861:363-376, 2000.
Activation of renal afferent pathways following furosemide
treatment: II. Effects of angiotensin blockade. G.K. Fitch and M.L. Weiss.
Brain Res., 861: 377-389, 2000.
Role of bovine herpes virus type-5 (BHV-5) glycoprotein
E (gE) in neurovirulence. S.I. Chowdhury, B.J. Lee, A. Ozkul and M.L. Weiss.
J. Virol.,74:2094-2106, 2000.
Silver-haired bat rabies virus variant does not induce
apoptosis in experimental animals. X. Yan, M.T. Curtis, M.L. Weiss, P.S.
MohanKumar, B. Dietzchold and Z.F. Fu. J. Gen.Virol., in preparation
12/20/99; submitted, 5/00.
Neurovirulence of glycoprotein C-deleted bovine herpesvirus
type-5 (BHV-5) in a rabbit seizure model. S.I. Chowdhury, B.J. Lee, M. Onderci,
M.L. Weiss, and D. Mosier. J. Neurovirol., submitted 2/00, accepted,
5/00.
Neuronal expression of Fos protein in the hypothalamus
of rats with heart failure. K.P. Patel, K. Zhang, M.J. Kenney, M.L. Weiss,
and W. Mayhan. Brain Res., 865:27-34, 2000.
Renal sympathetic nerve regulation to heating is altered
in rats with heart failure induced by myocardial infarction. M.J. Kenney,
T.I. Musch, and M.L. Weiss. Am. J. Physiol., submitted 2/25/00.
The estrous cycle affects pseudorabies virus (PRV) infection
of the CNS. M.L. Weiss, M.E. Dobbs, P.S. MohanKumar, S.I. Chowdhury, K. Sawrey,
R. Guevara-Guzman and J. Huang. Brain Res. Submitted 7/24/00, accepted
pending revision 10/2000.
Segmental and intrasegmental distribution of sympathetic
preganglionic neurons innervating the kidney in the rat: PRV transneuronal
tracing and serial reconstruction. J.Huang and M.L. Weiss. Brain Res.
Submitted, 7/25/00.
Nitric oxide neurons within the paraventricular nucleus
associated with the kidney. M.L. Weiss, S.I. Chowdhury, K.P. Patel, M J.
Kenney and J. Huang. Brain Res. In preparation 7/25/00.
