Office:     235b AS/VM, 1988 Fitch Ave, St.Paul Campus
Phone:     612-624-1768
Fax:         612-625-0204
E-mail:     beitz001@tc.umn.edu

Education:
     PhD Anatomy, 1976, University of Minnesota

Current teaching responsibilities:
     CVM 6111 Cells and Tissues
     CVM 6120 Veterinary Neurobiology

Academic interests:
     • Neuroscience
     • Anatomy

Graduate Faculty Membership:
     • Molecular Veterinary Biosciences
     • Neuroscience

Selected publications authored by Beitz:
• Kus, L., Saxon, D.W. and Beitz, A.J. (1996) NMDA R1 mRNA distribution in motor and thalamic-projecting sensory neurons in the rat spinal cord and brain stem. Neurosci. Lett. 196:201-204.

•Herzberg, U., Murtaugh, M.P., Carroll, D. and Beitz, A.J. (1996) Spinal cord NMDA receptors modulate peripheral immune responses and spinal cord c-fos expression following immune challenge in rats subjected to unilateral mononeuropathy. Journal of Neuroscience 16:730-743.

•Saxon, D. and Beitz, A.J. (1996) An experimental model for the non-invasive transynaptic induction of nitric oxide synthase in Purkinje cells of the rat cerebellum. Neuroscience 72:157-165.

•Bellavance, L.L. and Beitz, A.J. (1996) Altered c-fos expression in the parabrachial nucleus in a rodent model of CFA-induced peripheral inflammation. J. Comparative Neurology 366:431-447.

•Saxon, D. and Beitz, A.J. (1996) Induction of NADPH-diaphorase/nitric oxide synthase in the brainstem trigeminal system resulting from cerebellar lesions. J. Comparative Neurology 371:41-71.