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Education & Training
  BS Ohio State University 1979
  MA Ohio State University 1980
  PhD Ohio State University 1987
Fellowship Ohio State University 1987
Research Interests
growth & development , model development , neurosciences/behavior , sleep research
Recent Publications
Scott P, Ronca A, Tulbert C, Morgan J, Feimster J, Winn G. Variable prenatal stress: a rat model of prenatal behavior [abstract]. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2011; 204(Suppl 1):S278.


Ronca AE, Fritzsch B, Bruce LL, Alberts JR. Orbital spaceflight during pregnancy shapes function of mammalian vestibular system. Behav Neurosci. 2008; 122(1):224-232.

Ronca A. Birth and postnatal life: insights derived from neural imaging and behavioral studies of perinatal rats [abstract]. Neurotoxicol Teratol. 2008; 30(3):244.

Patel OV, Zakrzewska E, Maple RL, Baer LA, Ronca AE, Wade CE, Plaut K. Lipogenesis impaired in periparturient rats exposed to altered gravity is independent of prolactin and glucocorticoid secretion. Eur J Appl Physiol. 2008; 104(5):847-858.

Ronca AE. Developmental space biology of mammals: concepts and methods of study. In: Conn PM, ed. Sourcebook of models for biomedical research. Totowa (NJ): Humana Press; 2008: 465-472.

Baer L, Wade C, Ronca A. Effects of chronic prenatal stress on adult body weight, percent body fat weight and plasma leptin in male rats [abstract]. FASEB J. 2007; 21(6):A1420.

Dover H, Patel OV, Ronca A, Wade CE, Plaut K. Global gene expression profiling of key adipogenic tissues in hypergravity-exposed lactating rats [abstract]. FASEB J. 2007; 21(5):A632.

Patel OV, Ronca A, Wade CE, Plaut K. Prolactin does not play a role in the down-regulation of key lipogenic transcripts in major adipogenic tissues of periparturient rats exposed to hypergravity [abstract]. FASEB J. 2007; 21(6):A950.


Patel OV, Lintault L, Zakrzewska E, Maple R, Baer L, Ronca A, Wade C, Plaut K. Hypergravity induced suppression of lactation in periparturient rats: differential dynamics of prolactin receptor isoform expression following prolactin and bromocryptine supplementation in rats [abstract]. Biol Reprod. 2006; (Special Issue):117.

Ronca AE, Abel RA, Ronan PJ, Renner KJ, Alberts JR. Effects of labor contractions on catecholamine release and breathing frequency in newborn rats. Behav Neurosci. 2006; 120(6):1308-1314.
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