Journal of Alzheimers Disease & Parkinsonism
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Valerie Joers

Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (WNPRC) and Cellular and Molecular Pathology (CMP) Graduate Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

Biography

Dr Valerie Joers, PhD, is a research assistant professor at the University of Florida with more than a decade of experience in studying models of Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Joers’s research focuses on the role of cannabinoid receptor signaling to regulate communication between immune cells in the peripheral and central nervous systems in age-related neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. Understanding the function of cannabinoid receptors in immunity could provide therapeutic targets to treat the impaired immune system in Parkinson’s.

 

Publications

Neurotoxin-Induced Catecholaminergic Loss in the Colonic Myenteric Plexus of Rhesus Monkeys

Objective: Constipation is a common non-motor symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Although pathology of the enteric nervous system (ENS) has been associated with constipation in PD, the contribution of catecholaminergic neurodegeneration to this symptom is currently debated. The goal of this study was to assess the effects of the neurotoxin ... Read More»

Jeanette M Shultz, Henry Resnikoff, Viktorya Bondarenko, Valerie Joers, Andres Mejia, Heather Simmons and Marina E Emborg

Research Article: J Alzheimers Dis Parkinsonism 2016, 6:279

DOI: 10.4172/2161-0460.1000279

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