Peer-Reviewed Papers
Neurotransmitters
Li, H., Yang, H.-Y., Asefifeyzabadi, N., Baniya, P., Medina Lopez, A., Gallegos, A., Zhu, K., Hsieh, H.-C., Nguyen, T., Hernandez, C., Zlobina, K., Recendez, C., Tebyani, M., Carrión, H., Selberg, J., Luo, L., Alhamo, M. A., Soulika, A. M., Levin, M., Norouzi, N., Gomez, M., Zhao, M., Teodorescu, M., Isseroff, R. R., Rolandi, M. (2024), Programmable delivery of fluoxetine via wearable bioelectronics for wound healing in vivo, Advanced Materials Technologies, 9(7): 2301115
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Jajoo, A., Donlon, C., Shnayder, S., Levin, M., and McVey, M. (2020), Sertraline induces DNA damage and cellular toxicity in Drosophila that can be ameliorated by antioxidants, Scientific Reports, 10: 4512
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Herrera-Rincon, C., Pare, J-F., Martyniuk, C. J., Jannetty, S. K., Harrison C., Fischer, A., Dinis, A., Keshari, V., Novak, R., and Levin, M. (2020),
An in vivo brain-bacteria interface: the developing brain as a key regulator of innate immunity, NPJ Regenerative Medicine, 5:2
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Berard, A., Levin, M., Sadler, T., Healy, D. (2019), Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Use During Pregnancy and Major Malformations:
The Importance of Serotonin for Embryonic Development and the Effect of Serotonin Inhibition on the Occurrence of Malformations, Bioelectricity 1(1): 18-29
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Herrera-Rincon, C., and Levin, M. (2018), Booting up the organism during
development: pre-behavioral functions of the vertebrate brain in guiding body morphogenesis,
Communicative & Integrative Biology, 11(1): e1433440
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Tuszynski, J., Tilli, T. M., and Levin, M. (2017), Ion channel and neurotransmitter
modulators as electroceutical approaches to the control of cancer,
Current Pharmaceutical Design, 23(32): 4827-4841
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Herrera-Rincon, C., Pai, V. P., Moran, K. M., Lemire, J. M., and Levin, M. (2017),
The brain is required for normal muscle and nerve patterning during early
Xenopus development, Nature Communications, 8(1): 587
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Blackiston, D., Vien, K., and Levin, M. (2017), Serotonergic stimulation
induces nerve growth and promotes visual learning via posterior eye grafts in
a vertebrate model of induced sensory plasticity, npj Regenerative Medicine, 2:8
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Lobo, D., Lobikin, M., and Levin, M., (2017), Discovering novel phenotypes with automatically
inferred dynamic models: partial melanocyte conversion in Xenopus,
Scientific Reports, 7: 41339
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Sullivan, K. G., and Levin, M. (2016), Neurotransmitter signaling pathways required for normal development in Xenopus laevis embryos: a pharmacological survey screen, Journal of Anatomy, 229(4): 483-502
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Lobikin, M., Lobo, D., Blackiston, D. J., Martyniuk, C. J., Tkachenko, E., and Levin, M. (2015),
Serotonergic regulation of melanocyte conversion: A bioelectrically regulated network
for stochastic all-or-none hyperpigmentation, Science Signaling, 8(397): ra99
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Blackiston, D., Anderson, G. M., Rahman, N., Bieck, C., and Levin, M. (2015), A novel method
for inducing nerve growth via modulation of host resting potential Neurotherapeutics, 12(1): 170-184
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Vandenberg, L. N., Blackiston, D. J., Rea, A. C., Dore, T. M., and Levin, M. (2014),
Left-right patterning in Xenopus conjoined twin embryos requires serotonin signaling
and gap junctions, International Journal of Developmental Biology, 58(10-12): 799-809
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Rea, A. C., Vandenberg, L. N., Ball, R. E., Snouffer, A. A., Hudson, A. G., Zhu, Y., McLain, D. E.,
Johnston, L. L., Lauderdale J. D., Levin, M., and Dore, T. M.
(2013), Light-activated serotonin for exploring its action in
biological systems, Chemistry & Biology, 20(12): 1536-1546
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Vandenberg, L. N., Lemire, J. M., and Levin, M. (2013),
Serotonin has early, cilia-independent roles in Xenopus
left-right patterning, Disease Models and Mechanisms,
6(1): 261-268
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Vandenberg, L. N., and Levin, M. (2012), Polarity proteins are
required for left-right axis orientation and twin-twin instruction,
Genesis,
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Blackiston, D., Adams, D. S., Lemire, J. M., Lobikin, M., and Levin, M. (2011),
Transmembrane potential of GlyCl-expressing instructor cells induces a neoplastic-like conversion of
melanocytes via a serotonergic pathway, Disease Models and Mechanisms, 4(1): 67-85
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Adams, D. S., and Levin, M. (2006), Inverse Drug Screens: a rapid and inexpensive method for implicating molecular targets, Genesis, 44(11): 530-540
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Adams, D., and Levin, M. (2006), Strategies and techniques for investigation of biophysical signals in patterning, in M. Whitman and A. K. Sater (Eds.), Analysis of Growth Factor signaling in Embryos, pp. 177-264, Methods in Signal Transduction Series, CRC Press
Levin, M., Buznikov, G. A., and Lauder, J. M. (2006), Of Minds and Embryos: Left-Right Asymmetry and the Serotonergic Controls of Pre-Neural Morphogenesis, Developmental Neuroscience, 28(3): 171-185
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Levin, M. (2006), Is the Early Left-Right Axis like a Plant, a Kidney, or a Neuron? The Integration of Physiological Signals in Left-Right Asymmetry, Birth Defects Research (Part C), 78(3): 191-223
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Fukumoto, T., Kema, I. P., and Levin, M. (2005), Serotonin signaling is a very early step in patterning of the left-right axis in chick and frog embryos, Current Biology, 15(9): 794-803
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Fukumoto, T., Blakely, R., and Levin, M. (2005), Serotonin transporter function is an early step in left-right patterning in chick and frog embryos, Developmental Neuroscience, 27(6): 349-363
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Levin, M. (2004), A novel immunohistochemical method
for evaluation of antibody specificity and detection of labile
targets in biological tissue, Journal of Biophysical
and Biochemical Methods, 58(1): 85-96
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