Administration & Faculty

Vedavalli Pokala, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Pharmaceutical Science

Educational Background

  BSc., (Botany) - Madras University
  M.Sc., (Biochemistry) - Madras University
 

Ph.D., (Pharmacology) - Duquesne University

  Post Doctoral Fellow,Vollum Institute of Advanced Biomedical Research, OHSU

 

Courses Taught

  Biological Sciences Core Pharmacology
  Pharmacokinetics

 

Research Interests

Pharmacology of Neurodegeneration
Pharmacology of Memory
Vascular Pharmacology

 

Select Publications

Zhiping Wang, Tara J. Dillon, Viji Pokala, Snigdha Mishra, Kirstin Labudda, Brian Hunter, and Philip J. S. Stork: Rap1-Mediated Activation of Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinases by Cyclic AMP is Dependent on the Mode of Rap1 Activation. Mol Cell Biol. 2006 March; 26(6): 2130–2145.

Pokala V, Li PK, Johnson DA: Steroid sulfatase inhibition: effects of learning & memory.Trends in Steroid research. 2004.

Marks MG, Shi J, Fry MO, Xiao Z, Trzyna M, Pokala V, Ihnat MA, Li PK: Effects of putative hydroxylated thalidomide metabolites on blood vessel density in the chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) assay and on tumor and endothelial cell proliferation,

Biol Pharm Bull. 2002 May, 25(5), 597-604.

 

Recent Presentations

Pokala, V.N.,Fitz, N.F., Witt-Enderby, P.A., and Johnson, D.A. Septohippocampal Cholinergic Lesion on Alpha Secretase Activity in Rat Hippocampus. Neuroscience Abstracts, Program no. 846.14, Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner, CD-ROM, 2004.

V.N.Pokala*, P.A.Witt-Enderby,D.A.Johnson. Effect of selective cholinergic lesion of the septohippocampal pathway on carbachol stimulated GTP S binding in rat hippocampus, Neuroscience Abstracts, 2003

V.N. Pokala*, M.A. Liberatore, N.J. Zambon, R.A. Nagle, P.-K. Li, P.A. Witt-

Enderby, D.A. Johnson. Effect of 192 IgG-saporin medial-septum lesion on hippocampal neurotransmitter receptor density in rat, Neuroscience Abstracts, 2002

R.A. Nagle, P.-K. Li, T. I. Maher, V.N. Pokala, M.A. Liberatore, N.J. Zambon,

D.A. Johnson.Effect of cholinergic lesioning of basal forebrain on neurotransmitter concentrations in the hippocampus of rat, Neuroscience Abstracts, 2002

N.J. Zambon, R. Nagle, V. Pokala, R.B. Gibbs, D.A. Johnson*.Low dose 192 IgG-saporin selectively destroys basal forebrain cholinergic neurons and impairs acquisition of a spatial memory task, Neuroscience Abstracts, 2001

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