Person

Moorman, Stephen J.

Person ID: ZDB-PERS-961106-1
Email: Stephen.Moorman@umdnj.edu
URL: http://zebrafish.umdnj.edu/
Affiliation: Stephen Moorman Lab
Address: Neuroscience and Cell Biology Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 675 Hoes Lane Piscataway, NJ 08854-5635 USA
Country: United States
Phone: (732) 235-4523
Fax: (732) 235-4029
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Biography and Research Interest

My areas of interest include developmental neurobiology and spinal cord regeneration. The current major thrust in the lab is to determine whether the appropriate development of the vestibular system is dependent on gravity. In the vertebrates, including humans, the vestibular system is the sensory system that transduces gravity into meaningful neurological signals for proper equilibrium orientation. We use zebrafish in our experiments to determine some of the fundamental mechanisms that control development of the vestibular system.

Publications

Non-Zebrafish Publications

Moorman, S.J. (2006) Prof-in-a-Box: using internet-videoconferencing to assist students in the gross anatomy laboratory. BMC Medical Education 6:55

Moorman, S.J. and R.M. Gould (1997) Differentiating oligodendrocytes inhibit neuronal growth cone motility in different ways. J. Neurosci. Res. 50:

Moorman, S.J. (1996) Does myelin limit regeneration and remyelination? in: Molecular Signaling and Regulation in Glial Cells: A Key to Remyelination and Functional Repair, G. Jeserich, H.H. Althaus, C. Richter-Landsberg, R. Heumann eds. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. pp.243-254

Moorman, S.J. (1996) The inhibition of motility that results from contact between oligodendrocytes in vitro can be blocked by pertussis toxin. GLIA 16:257-265

Sims, J.A. and S.J. Moorman (1996) The role of the iliolumbar ligament in low back pain. Medical Hypotheses 46:511-515

Gould, R.M., A.M. Fannon, and S.J. Moorman (1995) Neural cells from dogfish embryos express the same subtype-specific antigens as mammalian neural cells in vivo and in vitro. GLIA 15:401-418

Moorman, S.J. and R.I. Hume (1994) Locus Coeruleus Growth Cones and Spinal Cord Regeneration. Brain Research Bulletin 35:419-422

Moorman, S.J. and R.I. Hume (1994) Contact with myelin in-vitro evokes a release of calcium from internal stores in neonatal rat oligodendrocytes. GLIA 10:202-210

Moorman, S.J., and L.R. Whalen (1993) A model system to determine the effects of specific neurotransmitters on segmental reflexes in the spinal cord of the rat. J. Neurosci. Meth. 46:73-81

Moorman, S.J., and R.I. Hume (1993) Omega-conotoxin prevents myelin-evoked growth cone collapse in neonatal-rat brainstem neurons in-vitro. J. Neurosci. 13:4727-4736

Nornes, H.O., S.J. Moorman, A.R. Mihajlov, B.E. Pulford and L.R. Whalen (1992) Intraspinal transplants of catecholamine containing cells and fetal spinal cord and iris tissues in the adult rat. Advances in Neurology 59:185-197

Moorman, S.J. and L.R. Whalen (1991) Fetal implants in the lesioned spinal cord of the rat. Methods in Neurosciences 7:300-304

Moorman, S.J. and R.I. Hume (1990) Growth cones of chick sympathetic preganglionic neurons in vitro interact with other neurons in a cell-specific manner. J. Neurosci. 10:3158-3163

Moorman, S.J., L.R. Whalen, and H.O. Nornes (1990) A neurotransmitter specific functional recovery mediated by fetal implants in the lesioned spinal cord of the rat. Brain Res. 508:194-198