Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

Profile

Academic Duties

Lectures on: Pharmacodynamics
                       Neuropharmacology
                       Endocrine pharmacology
Supervision of research projects at undergraduate and graduate level

Research

Group Leader of the Neurochemical Anatomy & Psychopharmacology Group

Recent Publications

More recent publications

Publications before 2008

• From synapse to behavior: rapid modulation of defined neuronal types with engineered GABAA receptors. (2007) Wulff, P., Goetz, T., Leppa, E., Linden, A.-M., Renzi, M., Swinny J.D,. Vekovischeva, O.Y., Sieghart, W., Somogyi, P., Korpi, E.R., Farrant, M. & Wisden, W. Nature Neuroscience., 10, 923-929
• Corticotropin-releasing factor promotes growth of brain norepinephrine neuronal processes through Rho GTPase regulators of the actin cytoskeleton in rat. (2006) JD Swinny & RJ Valentino. European Journal of Neuroscience 24(9):2481-90
• Cerebellar development and plasticity: Perspectives for motor coordination strategies, for motor skills and for therapy. (2005) JD Swinny, JJL van der Want, A Gramsbergen. Neural Plasticity.  ;12(2-3):153-60
• Corticotropin-releasing factor and urocortin differentially modulate rat Purkinje cell dendritic outgrowth and differentiation in vitro. (2004) J. D. Swinny, F. Metzger, J. IJkema-Paassen, N. V. Gounko, A. Gramsbergen and J. J. L. van der Want. European Journal of Neuroscience. 19 (7) 1749-1758.
• The postnatal developmental expression pattern of urocortin in the rat olivocerebellar system. (2004) JD Swinny, Kalicharan D, Brouwer N, Biber K, Shi F, Gramsbergen A, Van Der Want JJ. J Comparative Neurology. 472(1):40-51.
• Corticotropin Releasing Factor receptor types 1 and 2 are differentially expressed in pre- and postsynaptic elements in the postnatal developing rat cerebellum. (2003) JD Swinny, D. Kalicharan, E.H. Blaauw, J. IJkema-Paassen, F. Shi , A. Gramsbergen , J.J.L. van der Want. European Journal of Neuroscience 18: 549
• The localisation of urocortin in the adult rat cerebellum: A light and electron microscopic study. (2002) JD Swinny, D Kalicharan, A Gramsbergen, JJL van der Want. Neuroscience 114(4):891-903.