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Education & Training
  BS Saint Joseph's University 1985
  PhD Medical College of Pennsylvania 1992
Fellowship University of Massachusetts-Amherst 1995
Memberships
Society for Neuroscience
Western NC Chpt Society For Neuroscience
Recent Publications
Taylor AR, Gifondorwa DJ, Robinson MB, Strupe JL, Prevette D, Johnson JE, Hempstead B, Oppenheim RW, Milligan CE. Motoneuron programmed cell death in response to proBDNF. Dev Neurobiol. 2012; 72(5):699-712.

Sherman A, Bowser R, Grasso D, Power B, Milligan C, Jaffa M, Cudkowicz M. Proposed BioRepository platform solution for the ALS research community. Amyotroph Lateral Scler. 2011; 12(1):11-16.

Robinson MB, Gifondorwa DJ, Milligan C. Mechanisms of the motoneuron stress response and its relevance in neurodegeneration. In: McNeill AS, ed. Neurodegeneration: theory, disorders, and treatments. New York: Nova Biomedical; 2011: 45-62.

Milligan C, Gifondorwa D. Isolation and culture of postnatal spinal motoneurons. Methods Mol Biol. 2011; 793(Pt 2):77-85.

Oppenheim RW, Milligan C, Sun W. Programmed cell death during nervous system development: mechanisms, regulation, functions, and implications for neurobehavioral ontogeny. In: Blumberg MS, Freeman JH, Robinson SR, eds. Oxford handbook of developmental behavioral neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press; 2010: 76-107.

Markert CD, Kim E, Gifondorwa DJ, Childers MK, Milligan CE. A single-dose resveratrol treatment in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. J Med Food. 2010; 13(5):1081-1085.

Oppenheim R, Milligan C. Early changes in ALS: where does the end begin? [abstract]. J Physiol Sci. 2010; 60(Suppl 1):S22.

Hernandez S, Texido L, Caldero J, Ciutat D, Piedrafita L, Casanovas A, Caress J, Prevette D, Oppenheim RW, Milligan C, et al. Increased intramuscular nerve branching and inhibition of programmed cell death of chick embryo motoneurons by immunoglobulins from patients with motoneuron disease. J Neuroimmunol. 2010; 229(1-2):157-168.

Oppenheim R, Milligan C. Programmed cell death. In: Squire LR, ed. Encyclopedia of neuroscience, vol 7. Berlin: Elsevier/Academic Press; 2009: 1117-1124.

Yoshikawa M, Vinsant S, Mansfield CM, Gifondorwa DJ, Pace L, Messi LM [sic] [Messi ML], Caress J, Cartwright M, Delbono O, Oppenheim RW, Milligan CE, et al. Identification of changes in muscle, neuromuscular junctions and spinal cord at early pre-symptomatic stages in the mutant SOD1 mouse model of ALS may provide novel insight for diagnosis and treatment development [abstract]. Soc Neurosci Abstr. 2009; 2009(Neuroscience Meeting Planner):.

Hayes CD, Milligan CE. Motorneuron maintenance in the absence of the JNK1 or JNK2 isoforms [abstract]. Soc Neurosci Abstr. 2009; 2009(Neuroscience Meeting Planner):.

Robinson MB, Taylor AR, Gifondorwa DJ, Tytell M, Milligan CE. Exogenous Hsc70, but not thermal preconditioning, confers protection to motoneurons subjected to oxidative stress. Dev Neurobiol. 2008; 68(1):1-17.

Tytell M, Robinson MB, Milligan CE. Release of heat shock proteins and their effects when in the extracellular space in the nervous system. In: Asea AAA, Brown IR, eds. Heat shock proteins and the brain: implications for neurodegenerative diseases and neuroprotection. Dordrecht (Netherlands): Springer; 2008: 257-272.

Macosko JC, Newbern JM, Rockford J, Chisena EN, Brown CM, Holzwarth GM, Milligan CE. Fewer active motors per vesicle may explain slowed vesicle transport in chick motoneurons after three days in vitro. Brain Res. 2008; 1211():6-12.

Taylor AR, Gifondorwa DJ, Newbern JM, Robinson MB, Strupe JL, Prevette D, Oppenheim RW, Milligan CE. Astrocyte and muscle-derived secreted factors differentially regulate motoneuron survival. J Neurosci. 2007; 27(3):634-644.


Newbern J, Taylor A, Robinson M, Lively MO, Milligan CE. c-Jun N-terminal kinase signaling regulates events associated with both health and degeneration in motoneurons. Neuroscience. 2007; 147(3):680-692.

Taylor AR, Robinson MB, Gifondorwa DJ, Tytell M, Milligan CE. Regulation of heat shock protein 70 release in astrocytes: role of signaling kinases. Dev Neurobiol. 2007; 67(13):1815-1829.

Gifondorwa DJ, Robinson MB, Hayes CD, Taylor AR, Prevette DM, Oppenheim RW, Caress J, Milligan CE. Exogenous delivery of heat shock protein 70 increases lifespan in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. J Neurosci. 2007; 27(48):13173-80.

Hayes CD, Gifondorwa DJ, Herdegen TM, Milligan CE. Absence of individual JNK isoforms results in altered spinal motoneuron programmed cell death [abstract]. Soc Neurosci Abstr. 2007; 2007(Abstr Viewer):.

Gould TW, Buss RR, Vinsant S, Prevette D, Sun W, Knudson CM, Milligan CE, Oppenheim RW. Complete dissociation of motor neuron death from motor dysfunction by Bax deletion in a mouse model of ALS. J Neurosci. 2006; 26(34):8774-8786.

Taylor AR, Robinson MB, Prevette D, Gifondorwa D, Newbern JM, Strupe J, Oppenheim RW, Milligan CE. Astrocyte- and muscle-secreated factors differentially regulate motoneuron survival [abstract]. Soc Neurosci Abstr. 2006; 2006(Abstr Viewer):.
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