Patricia Buckendahl, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor

Office: CAS Room103B
Tel: (732) 445-3590
Fax: (732) 445-3500
Lab: (732) 445-3592
Email: buckendp@rci.rutgers.edu
Mail: Center of Alcohol Studies, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854
Current Research
  • Osteocalcin modulation of sympathetic nervous system during stress response and its relationship to alcohol consumption;
  • Behavior, stress response, and alcohol consumption profile of osteocalcin knockout mice;
  • Effects of various hormones (especially those involved in stress responses) and dietary conditions (including alcohol consumption) on bone biochemistry and morphology and circulating levels of osteocalcin;
  • Function of osteocalcin in relation to biochemical and mechanical properties of bone;
  • Effects of varied mechanical loading (exercise, disuse, spaceflight, and buoyancy) on bone morphology and biochemistry.
Education
  Ph.D University of California, Santa Cruz, California Biology  
  M.S. Purdue University Lafayette, Indiana Biochemistry  
  B.A. Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio Chemistry  
Representative Publications

Patterson-Buckendahl P, Pohorecky LA, Kubovcakova L, Krizanova O, Martin RB, Martinez, DA, and Kvetnansky R. Ethanol and Stress Activate Catecholamine Synthesis in the Adrenal: Effects on Bone. In: Catecholamines and Other Neurotransmitters in Stress: 9th International Symposium, K Pacak and R Kvetnansky, eds. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. (2008) in press.

Patterson-Buckendahl P, Pohorecky LA, Kvetnansky R. Differing effects of acute and chronic stressors on plasma osteocalcin and leptin. Stress 10(2): 163-172, 2007.

Tomie A, Hosszu R., Rosenberg RH, Gittleman J, Patterson-Buckendahl P, and Pohorecky LA. An Inter-gender Effect On Ethanol Drinking in Rats: Proximal Females Increase Ethanol Drinking in Males. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior, 2006 Feb:83(2): 307-313.

Donahue SW, Galley SA, Vaughan MR. Patterson-Buckendahl P, Demers, LM, Vance, JL, and McGee, ME. Parathyroid hormone may maintain bone formation in hibernating black bears (Ursus americanus) to prevent disuse osteoporosis. J. Exp. Biol, 2006 May: 209(Pt 9): 1630-1638.

Patterson-Buckendahl P, Kubovcakova L, Krizanova O, Pohorecky LA, and Kvetnansky R. Ethanol consumption increases rat stress hormones and adrenomedullary gene expression. Alcohol 2005, Nov;37(3):157-166.

Patterson-Buckendahl Patricia E, Blakley GG, Kubovcakova L, Krizanova O, Pohorecky LA, and Kvetnansky R. Alcohol alters rat adrenomedullary function and stress response. In Stress: Current Neuroendocrine and Generic Approaches, Vol. 1018, Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. (2004), K Pacak, G Aguilera, E Sabban, and R Kvetnansky, eds., pp 173-182.

Patterson-Buckendahl, P, M Rusnak, K Fukuhara, and R Kvetnansky. Repeated immobilization stress reduces rat vertebral bone growth and osteocalcin. Am. J. Physiol. Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 280: 79-R86, 2001.

Patterson-Buckendahl, PE, CE Cann, and R Kvetnansky. Osteocalcin Response To Stress - Is It A Stress Hormone? In: RN McCarty, G Aguilera, E Sabban, and R Kvetnansky, Eds, Stress: Molecular Genetic and Neurobiological Advances, Gordon and Breach, New York, 1996, pp 579-589.

Patterson-Buckendahl, PE, R Kvetnansky, K Fukuhara, G Cizza, and C Cann. Regulation of plasma osteocalcin by corticosterone and norepinephrine during restraint stress. Bone 17: 467-472, 1995.

Patterson-Buckendahl, P., RK Globus, DD Bikle, ER Morey-Holton, and CE Cann. The effects of simulated weightlessness on rat osteocalcin and bone calcium concentrations. Am. J. Physiol. 257 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 26): R1103-R1109, 1989.

Patterson-Buckendahl, PE, RE Grindeland, DC Shakes, ER Morey-Holton, and CE Cann: Circulating osteocalcin in rats is inversely responsive to changes in corticosterone. Am. J. Physiol. 254 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 23): R828-R835, 1988.

Dr. Buckendahl joined the Neuropharmacology Research Group in 2000. Her research interests include behavior, stress response, and alcohol consumption profile of osteocalcin knockout mice; possible interaction of osteocalcin with the sympathetic nervous system during stress response; effects of various hormones (especially those involved in stress responses) and dietary conditions (including alcohol consumption) on bone biochemistry and circulating levels of osteocalcin; function of osteocalcin in relation to biochemical and mechanical properties of bone; effects of varied mechanical loading (exercise, disuse, spaceflight, and buoyancy) on bone morphology and biochemistry.