Lucy Vulchanova

Ph.D. 1998

Thesis Title:

ATP-Gated Cation Channels in the Central and Peripheral Nervous System

Current Position:

Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota

Major Advisor(s):

Robert Elde

Selected Publications: 

  • Stone LS, Vulchanova L, Riedl MS, Williams FG, Wilcox GL, Elde R. Effects of peripheral nerve injury on delta opioid receptor (DOR) immunoreactivity in the rat spinal cord. Neurosci Lett. 2004;361(1-3):208-11.
  • Vulchanova L, Olson TH, Stone LS, Riedl MS, Elde R, Honda CN. Cytotoxic targeting of isolectin IB4-binding sensory neurons. Neuroscience. 2001;108(1):143-55.
  • Shuster SJ, Riedl M, Li X, Vulchanova L, Elde R. The kappa opioid receptor and dynorphin co-localize in vasopressin magnocellular neurosecretory neurons in guinea-pig hypothalamus. Neuroscience. 2000;96(2):373-83.
  • Shuster SJ, Riedl M, Li X, Vulchanova L, Elde R. Stimulus-dependent translocation of kappa opioid receptors to the plasma membrane. J Neurosci. 1999;19(7):2658-64.
  • Guo A, Vulchanova L, Wang J, Li X, Elde R. Immunocytochemical localization of the vanilloid receptor 1 (VR1): relationship to neuropeptides, the P2X3 purinoceptor and IB4 binding sites. Eur J Neurosci. 1999;11(3):946-58.
  • Stone LS, Vulchanova L, Riedl MS, Wang J, Williams FG, Wilcox GL, Elde R. Effects of peripheral nerve injury on alpha-2A and alpha-2C adrenergic receptor immunoreactivity in the rat spinal cord. Neuroscience. 1999;93(4):1399-407.
  • Vulchanova L, Riedl MS, Shuster SJ, Stone LS, Hargreaves KM, Buell G, Surprenant A, North RA, Elde R. P2X3 is expressed by DRG neurons that terminate in inner lamina II. Eur J Neurosci. 1998;10(11):3470-8.
  • Stone LS, Broberger C, Vulchanova L, Wilcox GL, Hökfelt T, Riedl MS, Elde R. Differential distribution of alpha2A and alpha2C adrenergic receptor immunoreactivity in the rat spinal cord. J Neurosci. 1998;18(15):5928-37.
  • Olson TH, Riedl MS, Vulchanova L, Ortiz-Gonzalez XR, Elde R. An acid sensing ion channel (ASIC) localizes to small primary afferent neurons in rats. Neuroreport. 1998;9(6):1109-13.
  • Vulchanova L, Riedl MS, Shuster SJ, Buell G, Surprenant A, North RA, Elde R. Immunohistochemical study of the P2X2 and P2X3 receptor subunits in rat and monkey sensory neurons and their central terminals. Neuropharmacology. 1997;36(9):1229-42.
  • Cook SP, Vulchanova L, Hargreaves KM, Elde R, McCleskey EW. Distinct ATP receptors on pain-sensing and stretch-sensing neurons. Nature. 1997;387(6632):505-8.
  • Vulchanova L, Arvidsson U, Riedl M, Wang J, Buell G, Surprenant A, North RA, Elde R. Differential distribution of two ATP-gated channels (P2X receptors) determined by immunocytochemistry. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996;93(15):8063-7.
  • Riedl M, Shuster S, Vulchanova L, Wang J, Loh HH, Elde R. Orphanin FQ/nociceptin-immunoreactive nerve fibers parallel those containing endogenous opioids in rat spinal cord. Neuroreport. 1996;7(8):1369-72.
  • Elde R, Arvidsson U, Riedl M, Vulchanova L, Lee JH, Dado R, Nakano A, Chakrabarti S, Zhang X, Loh HH, et al. Distribution of neuropeptide receptors. New views of peptidergic neurotransmission made possible by antibodies to opioid receptors. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1995;757:390-404.
Lucy Vulchanova