MS, Behavioral Neuroscience, Western Washington University, 2000
Recent Publications
Hansen BC, Newcomb JD, Chen R, Linden EH. Longitudinal dynamics of body weight change in the development of type 2 diabetes.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 21(8) : 1643-9, 2013.
Shamekh R, Linden EH, Newcomb JD, Tigno XT, Jen KL, Pellizzon MA, Hansen BC. Endogenous and diet-induced hypercholesterolemia in nonhuman primates: effects of age, adiposity, and diabetes on lipoprotein profiles.Metabolism: clinical and experimental. 60(8) : 1165-77, 2011.
Chen N, Newcomb J, Garbuzova-Davis S, Davis Sanberg C, Sanberg PR, Willing AE. Human Umbilical Cord Blood Cells Have Trophic Effects on Young and Aging Hippocampal Neurons in Vitro.Aging and disease. 1(3) : 173-190, 2010.
Newcomb JD, Willing AE, Sanberg PR. Umbilical cord blood cells.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 549: 119-36, 2009.
Chen N, Kamath S, Newcomb J, Hudson J, Garbuzova-Davis S, Bickford P, Davis-Sanberg C, Sanberg P, Zigova T, Willing A. Trophic factor induction of human umbilical cord blood cells in vitro and in vivo.Journal of neural engineering. 4(2) : 130-45, 2007.
Newcomb JD, Janowski M, Zigova T, Saporta S, McGrogan MP, Sanberg PR, Willing AE. A comparison of dopaminergic cells from the human NTera2/D1 cell line transplanted into the hemiparkinsonian rat.Life sciences. 81(6) : 441-8, 2007.
Shamekh R, Mallery J, Newcomb J, Hushen J, Saporta S, Cameron DF, Sanberg CD, Sanberg PR, Willing AE. Enhancing tyrosine hydroxylase expression and survival of fetal ventral mesencephalon neurons with rat or porcine Sertoli cells in vitro.Brain research. 1096(1) : 1-10, 2006.
Newcomb JD, Brown WD, Rodriguez AI, Garbuzova-Davis S, Saporta S, Sanberg PR, Willing AE. Behavioral alterations in Lewis rats following two-day continuous 3-nitropropionic acid administration.Neurotoxicity research. 8(3-4) : 259-66, 2005.
Shamekh R, Newcomb J, Mallery J, Cassady CJ, Saporta S, Cameron DF, Sanberg PR, Willing AE. Survival of rat or mouse ventral mesencephalon neurons after cotransplantation with rat sertoli cells in the mouse striatum.Cell transplantation. 14(8) : 551-64, 2005.
Vendrame M, Cassady J, Newcomb J, Butler T, Pennypacker KR, Zigova T, Sanberg CD, Sanberg PR, Willing AE. Infusion of human umbilical cord blood cells in a rat model of stroke dose-dependently rescues behavioral deficits and reduces infarct volume.Stroke; a journal of cerebral circulation. 35(10) : 2390-5, 2004.
Conti LH, Murry JD, Ruiz MA, Printz MP. Effects of corticotropin-releasing factor on prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response in two rat strains.Psychopharmacology. 161(3) : 296-303, 2002.
Conti LH, Shannon MH, Murry JD, Printz MP. Repeated restraint stress-induced increase in baroreceptor reflex sensitivity: role of corticotropin-releasing factor.Neuropeptides. 35(2) : 71-81, 2001.