Biography

Prof. Jackson Cioni Bittencourt
Department of Anatomy (ICB)

University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

President of the Office USP for Scholarly Communication, Brazil


Email: jcbitten@icb.usp.br


Qualifications

1990 Postdoctoral Fellow, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

1985 Specialist, Department of Anatomy

1984 Ph.D., Department of Anatomy

1978 M.D., MaríliaMedical School


Publications (Selected)

  1. Helou, A. Y., & Bittencourt, J. C. (2024). Navigating the complex terrain of motivated behavior: a bibliometric and neuroscientific perspective. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 18, 1363856.
  2. Bittencourt, J. C., Barbosa-Moyano, H., & Helou, A. Y. (2024). Primary Cilia and Melanin-Concentrating Hormone. Current Opinion in Endocrine and Metabolic Research, 100522.
  3. Duarte, J. C. G., Ferreira, J. G. P., Donato Jr, J., Dobolyi, A., & Bittencourt, J. C. (2023). The increase in the number of amylin neurons in the medial preoptic area throughout the lactational period and its relationship with melanin-concentrating hormone. Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy, 129, 102241.
  4. Duarte, J. C. G., Ferreira, J. G. P., & Bittencourt, J. C. (2023). Melanin-concentrating hormone regulation by estradiol and progesterone in the incerto-hypothalamic area. Peptides, 163, 170975.
  5. Duarte, J. C. G., Ferreira, J. G. P., & Bittencourt, J. C. (2023). The effect of estrogen and progesterone on melanin-concentrating hormone producing-neurons in brain areas related to reproductive behavior in lactating dams. Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy, 128, 102208.
  6. Bittencourt, J. C. (2022). Anatomical and functional heterogeneity of ‘hypothalamic’peptidergic neuron populations. Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 18(7), 450-450.
  7. Duarte, J. C. G., Ferreira, J. G. P., & Bittencourt, J. C. (2023). Melanin-concentrating hormone regulation by estradiol and progesterone in the incerto-hypothalamic area. Peptides, 163, 170975.
  8. Mladinov, M., Oh, J. Y., Petersen, C., Eser, R. A., Li, S., Theofilas, P., ... & Grinberg, L. T. (2021). A post‐mortem study of melanin‐concentrating hormone (MCH) neurons in Alzheimer’s disease and progressive supranuclear palsy: The complex degeneration pattern of the lateral hypothalamic area. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 17, e054313.
  9. Malta, M. B., Martins, J., Novaes, L. S., Dos Santos, N. B., Sita, L., Camarini, R., ... & Munhoz, C. D. (2021). Norepinephrine and glucocorticoids modulate chronic unpredictable stress-induced increase in the type 2 CRF and glucocorticoid receptors in brain structures related to the HPA axis activation. Molecular Neurobiology, 58(10), 4871-4885.
  10. Marin, A. A., Murillo, O., Sussmann, R. A., Ortolan, L. S., Battagello, D. S., de Castro Quirino, T., ... & Carvalho, L. J. (2021). Perillyl alcohol reduces parasite sequestration and cerebrovascular dysfunction during experimental cerebral malaria. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 65(5), 10-1128.
  11. Campos, A. M., Wasinski, F., Klein, M. O., Bittencourt, J. C., Metzger, M., & Donato Jr, J. (2021). Fasting reduces the number of TRH immunoreactive neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of male rats, but not in mice. Neuroscience Letters, 752, 135832.
  12. Malta, M. B., Martins, J., Novaes, L. S., Dos Santos, N. B., Sita, L., Camarini, R., ... & Munhoz, C. D. (2021). Norepinephrine and glucocorticoids modulate chronic unpredictable stress-induced increase in the type 2 CRF and glucocorticoid receptors in brain structures related to the HPA axis activation. Molecular Neurobiology, 58(10), 4871-4885.
  13. Mladinov, M., Oh, J. Y., Petersen, C., Eser, R., Li, S. H., Theofilas, P., ... & Grinberg, L. T. (2021). Specific pattern of melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) neuron degeneration in Alzheimer’s disease and possible clinical implications. medRxiv, 2021-01.
  14. Gobbo, D. R., da Silva Pereira, L., Ferreira, J. G. P., de Castro Horta-Junior, J. A., Bittencourt, J. C., & Sá, S. I. (2021). Effects of ovariectomy on the inputs from the medial nucleus of the amygdala to the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus in young adult rats. Neuroscience Letters, 746, 135657.
  15. Diniz, G. B., Martins, J. L. C., Sita, L. V., & Bittencourt, J. C. (2022). Melanin-Concentrating Hormone, Neuropeptide EI, and MCH Receptor 1. In Neuroanatomy of Neuroendocrine Systems (pp. 347-396). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  16. Mladinov, M., Oh, J. Y., Eser, R. A., Petersen, C., Li, S., Theofilas, P., ... & Grinberg, L. T. (2020). Hypothalamic melanin‐concentrating hormone neurons, key sleep cycle modulators, degenerate early in Alzheimer’s disease: Human neuropathology/selective vulnerability. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 16, e044677.
  17. Wasinski, F., Klein, M. O., Bittencourt, J. C., Metzger, M., & Donato Jr, J. (2021). Distribution of growth hormone-responsive cells in the brain of rats and mice. Brain Research, 1751, 147189.
  18. Pereira, L. D. S., Gobbo, D. R., Ferreira, J. G. P., Horta‐Junior, J. D. A. D. C. E., Sa, S. I., & Bittencourt, J. C. (2021). Effects of ovariectomy on inputs from the medial preoptic area to the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus of young adult rats. Journal of Anatomy, 238(2), 467-479.
  19. Campos, A. M., Teixeira, P. D., Wasinski, F., Klein, M. O., Bittencourt, J. C., Metzger, M., & Donato Jr, J. (2020). Differences between rats and mice in the leptin action on the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus: Implications for the regulation of the hypothalamic‐pituitary‐thyroid axis. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 32(9), e12895.
  20. Diniz, G. B., Battagello, D. S., Klein, M. O., Bono, B. S., Ferreira, J. G., Motta‐Teixeira, L. C., ... & Bittencourt, J. C. (2020). Ciliary melanin‐concentrating hormone receptor 1 (MCHR1) is widely distributed in the murine CNS in a sex‐independent manner. Journal of neuroscience research, 98(10), 2045-2071.
  21. Battagello, D. S., Lorenzon, A. R., Diniz, G. B., Motta-Teixeira, L. C., Klein, M. O., Ferreira, J. G., ... & Bittencourt, J. C. (2020). The rat mammary gland as a novel site of expression of melanin-concentrating hormone receptor 1 mRNA and its protein immunoreactivity. Frontiers in endocrinology, 11, 463.
  22. Diniz, G. B., & Bittencourt, J. C. (2019). The melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) system: a tale of two peptides. Frontiers in neuroscience, 13, 1280.
  23. Teixeira, P. D., Wasinski, F., Lima, L. B., Frazão, R., Bittencourt, J. C., & Donato Jr, J. (2020). Regulation and neurochemical identity of melanin‐concentrating hormone neurones in the preoptic area of lactating mice. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 32(2), e12818.
  24. Sosthenes, M. C. K., Diniz, D. G., Roodselaar, J., Abadie-Guedes, R., Siqueira Mendes, F. D. C. C. D., Fernandes, T. N., ... & Guedes, R. C. A. (2019). Stereological analysis of early gene expression using egr-1 immunolabeling after spreading depression in the rat somatosensory cortex. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13, 1020.
  25. Diniz, G. B., Battagello, D. S., Bono, B. S., Ferreira, J. G., Klein, M. O., Motta-Teixeira, L. C., ... & Bittencourt, J. C. (2019). The distribution of neuronal primary cilia immunoreactive to melanin-concentrating hormone receptor 1 (MCHR1) in the murine prosencephalon. bioRxiv, 755967.


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