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James Pomonis Ph.D. 1998 Thesis Title: Role of the Central Nucleus of the Amygdala for NPY-Opioid Interactions in Feeding Advisor: Allen Levine

Thesis Publications:

Pomonis, JD, Billington, CJ, Levine, AS Orphanin (1996) FQ, agonist of orphan opioid receptor ORL1, stimulates feeding in rats. NeuroReport 8:369-371

Pomonis JD, Levine AS, Billington CJ. (1997) Interaction of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus and central nucleus of the amygdala in naloxone blockade of neuropeptide Y-induced feeding revealed by c-fos expression. J Neurosci 17:5175-182.

Pomonis JD, Jewett DC, Kotz CM, Briggs JE, Billington CJ, Levine AS. (2000) Sucrose consumption increases naloxone-induced c-Fos immunoreactivity in limbic forebrain. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 278:R712-719.

Other Publications:

Cleary JP, O'Hare E, Pomonis JD , Dittel PL, Hofmeister JJ, Fritz MM, Billington CJ, Levine AS. Discriminative stimulus effects of morphine: central versus peripheral training. Brain Res. 1999 Nov 13;847(1):26-31.

Kotz CM, Briggs JE, Pomonis JD , Grace MK, Levine AS, Billington CJ. Neural site of leptin influence on neuropeptide Y signaling pathways altering feeding and uncoupling protein. Am J Physiol. 1998 Aug;275(2 Pt 2):R478-84.

O'Hare E, Cleary J, Weldon DT, Pomonis JD , Billington CJ, Levine AS. Intrahypothalamic discriminative stimulus effects of neuropeptide Y. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 1998 Feb;59(2):375-8.

Other Publications:

Pomonis, JD, Boulet, JM, Gottshall, SL, Phillips, S, Sellers, R, Bunton, TE, and Walker, K (2005). Development and characterization of a rat model of osteoarthritis pain. Pain 114:339-346.

Whiteside, GT, Woods, ME, Pearson, MS, Pomonis, JD, Turchin, PI, and Walker, K (2005) Ablation of a population of neurons in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord is insufficient to induce sprouting of touch responsive myelinated afferents into the innervation territory of pain sensitive unmyelinated afferents. Med Hypotheses Res . 2:275-282.

Whiteside, GT, Harrison, JE, Pearson, MS, Chen, Z, Rotshteyn, Y, Turchin, PI, Pomonis, JD, Mark, L, Walker, K and Brogle, KC. (2004) DiPOA ([8-(3,3-diphenyl-propyl)-4-oxo-1-phenyl-1,3,8-triaza-spiro[4,5]dec-3-yl]acetic acid), a novel, systemically-available and peripherally restricted mu opioid agonist with anti-hyperalgesic activity: 2. In vivo pharmacological characterization in the rat. The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics , 310(2):793-9.

Peters, CM, Lindsay, TH, Pomonis, JD, Luger, NM, Ghilardi, JR, Sevcik, MA, Mantyh, PW. (2004) Endothelin and the tumorigenic component of bone cancer pain. Neuroscience 126(4):1043-52.

Levine, AS, Olszewski, PK, Mullett, MA, Pomonis, JD, Grace, MK, Kotz, CM, Billington, CJ (2004) Intra-amygdalar injection of DAMGO: effect on c-Fos levels in brain sites associated with feeding behavior. Brain Research 1015(1-2):9-14.