Beth Schachter, PhD
science writer & editor

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Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES:

Kaplan BB, Schachter BS, Osterburg HO, DeVellis JS, Finch CE (1978). Sequence complexity of polyadenylated RNA obtained from rat brain regions and cultured rat cells of neural origin. Biochemistry 17:5516-5524.

Wegnez M. Schachter BS, Baxter JD. Martial JA. (1981) Hormonal regulation of growth hormone mRNA. DNA 1:145-153. Schachter BS, Johnson LK, Baxter JD, Roberts JL. (1981) Differential regulation by glucocorticoid of proopiomelanocortin mRNA levels in the anterior and intermediate lobes of the rat pituitary. Endocrinology 110:1442-1444.

Schachter BS, Toran-Allerand CD. (1982) Intraneuronal alpha-fetoprotein and albumin are not synthesized locally in developing brain. Brain Research 281-93-98.

Ivarie RD, Schachter BS, O'FarrelL PH. (1983) The level of expression of the rat growth hormone gene in liver tumor cells is at least eight orders of magnitude less than in anterior pituitary cells. Molecular and Cellular Biology 3:1460-1467

Schachter BS, Durgerian S, Harlan RD, Pfaff DW, Shivers BD. (1984) Prolactin mRNA exists in rat brain. Endocrinology 114:1947-1949

Pintar JE, Schachter BS, Herman AB, Durgeian S, Krieger DT. (1984) Characterization and localization of proopiomelanocortin mRNA in the adult rat testis. Science 225:632-634.

Piccinini LA, Schachter BS, Davies TF. (1986) HLA-DR alpha chain gene expression in human thyroid cells. Endocrinology 118:2611-2613.

Shivers BD, Harlan RD, Pfaff DW, Schachter BS. (1986) Co-localization of peptide hormones and peptide hormone mRNAs in endocrine and neural tissue. Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry 34:39-43.

Nelson JF, Bender M, Schachter BS. (1988) Age-related changes in pro-opiomelanocortin gene expression in hypothalamus and pituitary of c57BL/6J mice. Endocrinology 123:340-344.

Garcia T, Lehrer S, Bloomer WD, Schachter BS. (1988) A variant estrogen receptor messenger RNA is associated with reduced levels of estrogen binding in human mammary tumors. Molecular Endocrinology 2:785-791.

Piccinini LA, Goldsmith NK, Schachter BS, Davies T. (1988) Localization of HLA-DR alpha chain mRNA in normal and autoimmune human thyroid using in situ hybridization. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 66:1307-1315.

Dumont M, Dauvois S, Simard J, Garcia T, Schachter BS, Labrie F. (1989) Antagonism between estrogens and androgens on GCDFP-15 gene expression in ZR-75-1 cells and correlation between GCDFP-15 and estrogen as well as progesterone receptor expression in human breast cancer. Journal of Steroid Biochemistry 34:397-402.

Harlan RE, Shivers BD, Fox SR, Kaplove KA, Schachter BS, Pfaff DW. (1989) Distribution and partial characterization of immunoreactive prolactin in the at brain. Neuroendocrinology 49:7-22.

Eskeland NL, Lugo DK, Pintar JE, Schachter BS. (1989) Stimulation of beta-endorphin secretion by corticotropin-releasing factor in primary rat Leydig cell cultures. Endocrinology 124:2914-2919.

Garcia T, Sanchez M, Cox JL, Shaw PA, Ross JBA, Lehrer S, Schachter BS. (1989) Identification of a variant form of the human estrogen receptor with an amino acid replacement. Nucleic Acids Research 17:8364.

Lehrer S, Sanchez M, Song HK, Dalton J, Levine E, Savoretti P, Thung S, Schachter BS. (1990) Oestrogen receptor B-region polymorphism and spontaneous abortion in women with breast cancer. The Lancet 335:622-624.

Shaw PA, Barka T, Woodin A, Schachter BS, Cox JL. (1990) Expression and induction by beta-adrenergic agonists of the cystatin S gene in submandibular glands of developing rats. Biochemical Journal 265:115-120.

Schmutzler R, Sanchez M, Lehrer S, Chaparro CA, Phillips C, Rabin J, Schachter BS. (1991) Incidence of an estrogen receptor polymorphism in breast cancer patients. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 19:111-117.

Bergman MD, Schachter BS, Karelus K, Combatsiaris EP, Garcia T, Nelson JF. (1992) Up-regulation of the uterine estrogen receptor and its messenger ribonucleic acid during the mouse estrous cycle: The role of estradiol. Endocrinology 130:1923-1930.

Eskeland NL, Molineaux CJ, Schachter BS. (1992) Regulation of beta-endorphin secretion by corticotropin releasing factor in the intact rat testis. Endocrinology 130:1173-1177

Healy DP, Ye M-Q, Yuan L-X, Schachter BS (1992) Stimulation of angiotensinogen mRNA levels in rat pituitary by estradiol. American Journal of Physiology 263:E355-361.

Lehrer S, Schmutzler RK, Rabin JM, Schachter BS. (1993) An estrogen receptor genetic polymorphism and a history of spontaneous abortion: correlation in women with estrogen receptor positive breast cancer but not in women with estrogen receptor negative breast cancer or in women without breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 26:175-180.

Lehrer S, Rabin JM, Kahlir T, Schachter BS. (1993) An estrogen receptor variant and hypertension in women. Hypertension 21:439-441.

Lehrer S, Stone J, Lapinski R, Lockwood C, Schachter BS, Berkowitz R, Berkowitz G. (1994) Association between pregnancy induced hypertension and asthma during pregnancy. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 168:1463-1466.

Kirschenbaum A, Ren M, Erenburg I, Schachter BS, Levine A. (1994) Estrogen receptor messenger RNA in human benign prostatic hyperplasia: Detection, localization and modulation with a long-acting gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist. Journal of Andrology 15:526-533.

Lehrer S, Harlap S, Rabin J, Schachter BS. (1994) Women with an estrogen receptor polymorphism and a history of spontaneous abortion have an increased risk of breast cancer. International Journal of Oncology 5:861-864.

Berkowitz G, Stone J, Lehrer S, Marcus M, Lapinski R, Schachter BS. (1994) An estrogen receptor genetic polymorphism and the risk of primary and secondary recurrent spontaneous abortion. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 6:1579-1584.

Schachter BS, Lehrer S. (1994) Re: "Risk of miscarriage and a common variant of the estrogen receptor gene" [letter]. American Journal of Epidemiology 140:1144-1145.

Eskeland NL, Schachter BS. (1994) Temperature effect on the action of corticotropic-releasing hormone (CRH) on secretion of immunoreactive beta-endorphin (IR-bEP) in TM3 and AtT20 cells. Life Sciences 55:1929-1935.

Hirvonen A, Taylor JA, Wilcox A, Berkowitz G, Schachter B, Chaparro C, Bowes WA, Bell DA. (1996) Xenobiotic metabolism genes and the risk of recurrent miscarriage. Epidemiology 7:206-208.

Erenburg I, Schachter BS, Mira-y-Lopez R, Ossowski L. (1997) Loss of an estrogen receptor isoform (ER alpha delta 3) in breast cancer and the consequences of its reexpression: interference with estrogen-stimulated properties of malignant transformation. Molecular Endocrinol ology 13 2004-2015.


ACADEMIC BOOK CHAPTERS

Roberts JL, Schachter BS, Evinger M. (1981) Biosynthesis of gonadotropin releasing hormone. In Bioregulators of Reproduction, ed. Jagiello G, Vogel H. Columbia University Press, New York, pp.271-277.

Roberts JL, Chen CLC, Eberwine JH, Evinger MQ, Gee C, Herbert E, Schachter BS. (1982) Glucocorticoid regulation of proopiomelanocortin gene expression in rodent pituitary. Recent Progress in Hormone Research 38:227-256.

Evinger MJQ, Chen CLC, Schachter BS, Roberts JL. (1985) Peptide hormone gene expression in the rat brain. In Gene Expression in Brain, ed. Zomzely-Neurath C, Walker WA. John Wiley and Sons, New York, pp.23-56.

Shivers BD, Schachter BS, Pfaff DW. (1986) In Situ hybridization for the study of gene expression in the brain. In Methods in Enzymology, Hormone Action Part J: Neuropeptides, ed. Conn, PM. Academic Press, New York, 174:496-510.

Schachter BS. (1987) Studies of Neuropeptide Gene Expression in Brain and Pituitary. In In Situ Hybridization: Applications to Neurobiology ed. Eberwine J, Valentino K, Barchas J. Oxford Univ Press, New York. 111-125.

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