Postdoctoral, Sensory Neurobiology, University of Colorado Health Sci. Ctr., 2004; Ph.D., Anatomy and Neurobiology, Colorado State University, 1999
Selected publications
Krosnowski K, Ashby S, Sathyanesan A, Luo W, Ogura T, Lin W. Diverse populations of intrinsic cholinergic interneurons in the mouse olfactory bulb. Neuroscience. 2012 Apr 20. [Epub ahead of print].
Aaron Sathyanesan, Tatsuya Ogura, Weihong Lin Automated measurement of nerve fiber density using line intensity scan analysis. J Neurosci Methods (2012)
Ogura T, Szebenyi SA, Krosnowski K, Sathyanesan A, Jackson J, Lin W. Cholinergic microvillous cells in the mouse main olfactory epithelium and effect of acetylcholine on olfactory sensory neurons and supporting cells. J Neurophysiol. 2011 Sep;106(3):1274-87. Epub 2011 Jun 15.
Ogura T, Krosnowski K, Zhang L, Bekkerman M, Lin W (2010) Chemoreception Regulates Chemical Access to Mouse Vomeronasal Organ: Role of Solitary Chemosensory Cells. PLoS ONE 5(7): e11924. [PDF]
Slotnick B, Restrepo D, Schellinck H, Archbold G, Price S, Lin W. (2010) Accessory olfactory bulb function is modulated by input from the main olfactory epithelium. Eur J Neurosci. 31(6):1108-16.[Abstract] [PDF]
Lin W, Ezekwe EA Jr, Zhao Z, Liman ER, Restrepo D. (2008). TRPM5-expressing microvillous cells in the main olfactory epitherlium. BMC Neurosci. Nov 24;9(1):114.[PDF]
Ogura T, Margolskee RF, Tallini YN, Shui B, Kotlikoff MI, Lin W. Immuno-localization of vesicular acetylcholine transporter in mouse taste cells and adjacent nerve fibers: indication of acetylcholine release. Cell Tissue Res. (2007) Oct;330(1):17-28. Epub 2007 Aug 18.[Abstract] [PDF]
Lin, W., Margolskee, R.F., Donnert, G., Hell, D., and Restrepo, D (2007). Olfactory neurons expressing transient receptor potential channel M5 (TRPM5) are involved in sensing semiochemicals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007 104(7):2471-6.[Abstract] [PDF]
Restrepo, D., Lin, W., Salcedo, E., Yamazaki, K., and Beauchamp, G. (2006). Odortypes and MHC peptides: Complementary chemosignals of MHC haplotype? Trends in Neuroscience 29:604-609.
Lin, W., Arellano, J., Slotnick, B. and Restrepo, D. (2004). Odors detected by mice deficient in cyclic nucleotide-gated channel subunit A2 stimulate the main olfactory system. J. Neuroscience 24:3703-10.[Abstract] [PDF]
Restrepo, D., Arellano, J., Oliva, A., Schaefer, M and Lin, W. (2004). Emerging views on the distinct, but overlapping roles of the main and accessory olfactory systems in responsiveness to chemosensory signals in mice. Hormones and behavior 46:47-56.[Abstract] [PDF]
Lin, W., Burks, C.A., Hansen, D.R., Kinnamon, S.C. and Gilbertson, T.A. (2004). Taste receptor cells express pH-sensitive leak K+ channels. J. Neurophysiol. 92: 2909-19.[Abstract] [PDF]
Lin, W., Ogura, T., and Kinnamon, S.C. (2003). Responses to di-sodium guanosine 5'-monophosphate and monosodium L-glutamate in taste receptor cells of rat fungiform papillae. J Neurophysiol. 89:1434-9.
Lin, W. and Kinnamon, S.C. (1999). Physiological evidence for ionotropic and metabotropic glutamate receptors in rat taste cells. J Neurophysiol. 82:2061-69.
Lin, W., Finger, T., Rossier B.C. and Kinnamon, S.C. (1999). Epithelial Na+ channel subunits in rat taste cells: Localization and regulation of aldosterone. J Comp Neurol. 405 (3):406-20.
Wladkowski, S. L., Lin, W., McPheeters, M., Kinnamon, S.C. and S. Mierson (1998). A basolateral chloride conductance in rat lingual epithelium. J Membrane Biol. 164 (1): 91-101.
Lin, W. and. Kinnamon, S.C. (1998). Responses to monosodium glutamate and guanosine 5’-monophosphate in rat fungiform taste cells. Ann N Y Acad Sci 855:407-11.
Kossel, A.H., McPheeters, M., Lin, W. and Kinnamon, S.C. (1997). Development of membrane properties in taste cells of fungiform papillae: functional evidence for early presence of amiloride-sensitive sodium channels. J Neuroscience 17 (24): 9634-41.
