Dr. Anna A. Lerant

Anna A. Lerant, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Anatomy
Department of Anatomy
The University of Mississippi Medical Center
2500 North State Street
Jackson, Mississippi 39216-4505

Office Telephone: 601-815-1084 (with voicemail)
Department FAX:   601-984-1655
      : alerant@anatomy.umsmed.edu
Education
M.D., 1992
Semmelweis University Medical School
Budapest, Hungary
Research Interests

Effect of ovarian steroids on food intake and energy expenditure

Prolactin feedback on the hypothalamic neuroendocrine dopaminergic neurons

Publications



  1. Lerant A., Kanyicska B, Freeman ME. 2001. Nuclear translocation of STAT5 and increased expression of Fos related antigens (FRAs) in neuroendocrine dopaminergic neurons after prolactin administration. Brain Res. 902:259-269.


  2. Kanyicska B, Lerant A, Freeman ME. 2001. Endothelin-like immunoreactivity in lactotrophs, gonadotrophs, and somatotrophs of the rat anterior pituitary gland are affected differentially by ovarian hormones Endocrine 14:263-268.


  3. Freeman ME, Kanyicska B, Lerant A, Nagy GM. 2000. Prolactin: structure, function and regulation of its secretion. Physiological Reviews 80:1523-1631.


  4. DeMaria JD, Nagy GM, Lerant AA, Fekete MI, Levenson CW, Freeman ME. 2000 Dopamine transporters participate in the physiological regulation of prolactin. Endocrinology 141 (1):366-374.


  5. Yeiser E.C., Lerant AA, Casto RM, Levenson CW. 1999 Free zinc increases at the site of injury after cortical stab wounds in mature but not immature rat brain. Neurosci. Letters 277(2):75-78.


  6. DeMaria JD, Lerant A, Freeman ME 1999 Prolactin activates all three populations of hypothalamic neuroendocrine dopaminergic neurons in ovariectomized rats Brain Research, 837:236-241.


  7. Lerant A, Freeman ME 1998 Ovarian steroids differentially regulate the expression of prolactin receptor in neuroendocrine dopaminergic neuron populations: a double label confocal microscopic study. Brain Research, 802:141-154.


  8. Kanyicska B, Lerant A, Freeman ME 1998 Endothelin is an autocrine regulator of prolactin secretion. Endocrinology,139 5164-5173).


  9. Livingstone JD, Lerant A, Freeman ME 1998 Ovarian steroids modulate responsiveness to dopamine and expression of G-proteins in lactotrophs Neuroendocrinology 1998, 68:3:172-179.


  10. Lerant A, Freeman ME 1997 Dopaminergic neurons in the periventricular and arcuate nuclei of proestrous and ovariectomized rats: diurnal changes of Fos Related Antigens immunoreactivities. Neuroendocrinology 65:436-446.


  11. Lerant A, Herman ME, Freeman ME 1996 Dopaminergic neurons of periventricular and arcuate nuclei of pseudopregnant rats: changes in Fos-Related-Antigens (FRAs) immunoreactivities and in dopamine concentration. Endocrinology 137:3121-3128.
Teaching

Medical Gross Anatomy

Memberships

Society for Neuroscience

American Neuroendocrine Society

Women in Endocrinology

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