Thomas V. Peterson, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Education
- B.S., Chemistry, 1968, Bethany College
- Ph.D., Medical Physiology, 1977, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Phone: 979-845-7483
E-mail: tvp@tamu.edu
Peterson TV. Cardiac refl exes and control of renal function in primates. In: Refl ex Control of the Circulation, edited by IH Zucker, JP Gilmore, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, p 313-358, 1991.
Peterson TV, Benjamin BA. The heart and control of renal excretion: neural and endocrine mechanisms. FASEB J 6:2923-2932, 1992. Benjamin BA, Peterson TV. Effect of bilateral atrial appendectomy on postprandial sodium excretion in conscious monkeys. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 206:45-52, 1994.
Benjamin BA, Peterson TV. Effect of proANF-(31-67) on sodium excretion in conscious monkeys. Am J Physiol 269:R1351-R1355, 1995.
Peterson TV, Carter AB, and Miller RA. Nitric oxide and renal effects of volume expansion in conscious monkeys. Am J Physiol, 272:R1033-R1038, 1997.
Peterson TV, Emmeluth C, and Bie P. Renal effects of nitric oxide synthase inhibition in conscious waterloaded dogs. Am J Physiol 281: R584-R590, 2001.
Effective September 1998 my job responsibilities changed so that I now devote 50% of my time to medical education administration in the capacity as Director of Medical Education for the College of Medicine. My duties in this area involve playing a major role in the development, implementation, and evaluation of a new M.D. curriculum. When combined with my current departmental responsibilities in teaching and service, this career change has resulted in my no longer being directly involved in research. Therefore, I do not currently have a functioning research laboratory.
My earlier research interests centered around the overall area of control of blood volume and pressure via regulation of renal excretion of sodium and water. These studies involved experiments both on mechanisms that monitor or sense changes in blood volume and/or pressure (receptors) as well as mechanisms that elicit the responses (effectors) at the level of the end organ, the kidney. The receptor mechanisms studied focused on cardiac and arterial mechanoreceptor neural mechanisms, whereas the effectors investigated were both neural and humoral in nature. These included the renal sympathetic nerves, atrial natriuretic factor (atriopeptin), arginine vasopressin and, most recently, nitric oxide. An additional, important facet of my research is that most of my work has been done in the conscious, chronically-instrumented, nonhuman primate, an animal model very few investigators use for this type of research.
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