Scott W. Rogers, Ph.D.
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- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
- Institution
- University of Utah
- Address
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Medical Research and Education B
20 N Medical Drive Room 401 - City, State, ZIP
- Salt Lake City, UT 84132-3401
- Phone
- (801) 585-6339
- [email protected]
- Website
- http://www.neuro.utah.edu/people/faculty/rogers.html
- Research field
- Neuroscience
- Award year
- 1994
Research
Experimentally defining the genetics that shape the brain- and ultimately the behaviors it controls, such as those leading to the complex outcomes of addiction and age-related pathologies -is a challenging but promising endeavor. In this context, we use a mouse genetic approach to explore the interactions between nicotine addiction, inflammation and age-related degenerative disorders. Like humans, mice of different genetic background also exhibit remarkably different physiological mechanism(s) leading to nicotine dependence, regulation of inflammatory processes, and susceptibility to a variety of maladies experienced with age. Because we believe these processes are interactive, the mouse model appears to hold promise as a powerful tool for understanding how genetics and behavioral measures combine to individualize the physiological responses to nicotine as we age.
Scholar Keywords
1994 Search Pew Scholars
- James B. Bliska, Ph.D.
- James U. Bowie, Ph.D.
- Kenneth H. Britten, Ph.D.
- Ken W. Y. Cho, Ph.D.
- Andrew D. Ellington, Ph.D.
- Gary H. Gibbons, M.D.
- Peter G. Barr-Gillespie, Ph.D.
- Marcia B. Goldberg, M.D.
- Martyn D. Goulding, Ph.D.
- Joshua M. Kaplan, Ph.D.
- Jane E. Koehler, M.A., M.D.
- Samuel M. Kunes, Ph.D.
- William W. Mattox, Ph.D.
- John J. Ngai, Ph.D.
- Eric G. Pamer, M.D.
- Nikola P. Pavletich, Ph.D.
- Scott W. Rogers, Ph.D.
- William I. Weis, Ph.D.
- Yi Zhong, Ph.D.