• Ph.D. - Cleveland State University, 1983
• M.S. - Case Western Reserve University, 1977
• B.S. - Case Western Reserve University, 1974

Semester System
• BIOL 1003: Problems in Neurobiology
• BIOL 1545: Anatomy and Physiology
• BIOL 4829: Neuroanatomy
• BIOL 4839: Selected Topics in Physiology
• BIOL 4850: Problems in Biology
• BIOL 5832: Principles of Neurobiology
• BIOL 6951: Developmental and Comparative Neurobiology

Research in my laboratory centers around the problems of hypertension. Using the borderline hypertensive rat as a model we look at brain neurochemistry, left ventricular hypertrophy and gender-based differences in hypertension. Students involved in research projects will have the opportunity to learn a variety of laboratory techniques (electron microscopy, high pressure liquid chromatography, biochemical analysis of collagen, and in vivo and in vitro blood pressure monitoring, in vitro measurement of vascular reactivity) and work with a variety of experimental systems (whole animal physiology, in vitro muscle, vascular, or heart preparations, in vitro chemical analysis of animal tissues).
 

Publications

Krontiris-Litowitz, Johanna, Sensitizing stimulation causes a long-lasting increase in heart rate in Aplysia californica. J. Comp. Phys. A (1999) 185:181-186.

Krontiris-Litowitz, Johanna K., Edgar T. Walters, and David J. McAdoo, Stress-elicited changes in amino acid levels in hemolymph of Aplysia californica. J. Comp. Phys. B (1994) 163:671-675.

Krontiris-Litowitz, Johanna K., Bruce Cooper, and Edgar T. Walters, Humoral Factors Released During Trauma of Aplysia Body Wall: II. Possible Mediators and Preliminary Model of Trauma Signal Pathways. J. Comp. Phys. B (1989) 159:211-223.

Cooper, Bruce, Johanna Krontiris-Litowitz, and Edgar T. Walters, Humoral Factors Released During Trauma of Aplysia Body Wall: I. Body Wall Contractions, Cardiac Modulation, and Central Suppression. J. Comp. Phys. B (1989) 159:225-235.

Abstracts

Krontiris-Litowitz, J, K., FMRF-amide Suppresses the Development of Sensitization-induced Increase in Heart Rate in Aplysia californica. Soc. for Neurosci. Abstr. 21(2):1457 (1995)

Krontiris-Litowitz, J.K. and J. E. Budde, Small Cardioactive Peptide Suppresses Stimulation-Induced Tachycardia in Aplysia californica. The FASEB Journal 9(4):A899 (1995).

Krontiris-Litowitz, J. K., Noxious Stimuli Induce Long-Term Changes in Cardiovascular Function in Aplysia californica. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 19(1): 1024 (1994).

Krontiris-Litowitz, J. and J. E. Budde, Small Cardioactive Peptide Suppresses Stimulation-Induced Tachycardia in Aplysia californica.

Krontiris-Litowitz, J.K., Wave Stress alters circulating amino acids in Aplysia californica. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. (1993) 19(1):231.

Krontiris-Litowitz, J. K., E. T. Walters, and D. J. McAdoo, Stress-Evoked Changes of Circulating Amino Acids in Aplysia californica. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 18(1):713 (1992). Krontiris-Litowitz, J. and J. E. Budde, Small Cardioactive Peptide Suppresses Stimulation-Induced Tachycardia in Aplysia californica.