Michelle Rank

Editorial: Propriospinal Neurons: Essential Elements in Locomotion, Autonomic Function and Plasticity After Spinal Cord Injury and Disease

Kristine C Cowley, Michael A Lane, Claire F Meehan, Michelle M Rank, Katinka Stecina

Journal article  |  2021  |  FRONTIERS IN CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE

Stroke Severity, and Not Cerebral Infarct Location, Increases the Risk of Infection

Raymond Shim, Shu Wen Wen, Brooke J Wanrooy, Michelle Rank, Tharani Thirugnanachandran, Luke Ho, Tara Sepehrizadeh, Michael de Veer, Velandai K Srikanth, Henry Ma, Thanh G Phan, Christopher G Sobey, Connie HY Wong

Journal article  |  2019  |  TRANSLATIONAL STROKE RESEARCH

Infection is a leading cause of death in patients with stroke; however, the impact of cerebral infarct size or location on infecti..

Conditional microglial depletion in rats leads to reversible anorexia and weight loss by disrupting gustatory circuitry

Simone N De Luca, Luba Sominsky, Alita Soch, Hao Wang, Ilvana Ziko, Michelle M Rank, Sarah J Spencer

Journal article  |  2019  |  BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY

Microglia are highly sensitive to dietary influence, becoming activated acutely and long-term by high fat diet. However, their rol..

Is more always better? How different 'doses' of exercise after incomplete spinal cord injury affects the membrane properties of deep dorsal horn interneurons

MM Rank, MP Galea, R Callister, RJ Callister

Journal article  |  2018  |  EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY

Interneurons in the deep dorsal horn (DDH) of the spinal cord process somatosensory input, and form an important link between uppe..

Evolution of thyroid hormone distributor proteins

Thomas R McLean, Michelle M Rank, Peter M Smooker, Samantha J Richardson

Journal article  |  2017  |  MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

Thyroid hormones (THs) are evolutionarily old hormones, having effects on metabolism in bacteria, invertebrates and vertebrates. T..

The impact of junk foods on the adolescent brain

Amy C Reichelt, Michelle M Rank

Journal article  |  2017  |  BIRTH DEFECTS RESEARCH

Adolescence is a significant period of physical, social, and emotional development, and is characterized by prominent neurobiologi..

Effects Of treadmill training on hindlimb muscles of spinal cord-injured mice

Camila R Battistuzzo, Michelle M Rank, Jamie R Flynn, David L Morgan, Robin Callister, Robert J Callister, Mary P Galea

Journal article  |  2017  |  MUSCLE & NERVE

INTRODUCTION: Treadmill training is known to prevent muscle atrophy after spinal cord injury (SCI), but the training duration requ..

IN VIVO CHARACTERIZATION OF COLORECTAL AND CUTANEOUS INPUTS TO LUMBOSACRAL DORSAL HORN NEURONS IN THE MOUSE SPINAL CORD

KE Farrell, MM Rank, S Keely, AM Brichta, BA Graham, RJ Callister

Journal article  |  2016  |  NEUROSCIENCE

Chronic abdominal pain is a common symptom of inflammatory bowel disease and often persists in the absence of gut inflammation. Al..

Gait recovery following spinal cord injury in mice: Limited effect of treadmill training

Camila R Battistuzzo, Michelle M Rank, Jamie R Flynn, David L Morgan, Robin Callister, Robert J Callister, Mary P Galea

Journal article  |  2016  |  JOURNAL OF SPINAL CORD MEDICINE

BACKGROUND: Several studies in rodents with complete spinal cord transections have demonstrated that treadmill training improves s..

Electrophysiological characterization of spontaneous recovery in deep dorsal horn interneurons after incomplete spinal cord injury

MM Rank, JR Flynn, MP Galea, R Callister, RJ Callister

Journal article  |  2015  |  EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY

In the weeks and months following an incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI) significant spontaneous recovery of function occurs in th..