Faculty & Staff at TUC
Gordon C. McCarter
College: COP
Department: Biological & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Title: Associate Professor
Phone: (707) 638-5919
Fax: (707) 638-5266
E-Mail: gmccarte@touro.edu
Office: Administration & Faculty 2, Rm. 208
Institution | Degree | Field of Study | Obtained |
University of California, Santa Cruz | B.S. | Biochemistry | 1986 |
University of California, Berkeley | Ph.D. | Molecular and Cell Biology | 1996 |
University of California, San Francisco | Postdoc | Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery | 2000 |
Fall Semester
PHRM 601: Biological Sciences 1 (Participating Faculty Member)
PHRM 609: Biological Sciences 3 (Course Coordinator)
Spring Semester
PHRM 605: Biological Sciences 2 (Participating Faculty Member)
PHRM 613: Biological Sciences 4 (Participating Faculty Member)
G.C. McCarter and J.D. Levine (2006) Ionic basis of a mechanotransduction current
in adult rat dorsal root ganglion neurons. Molecular Pain. 2:28.
O. Dina, C.A. Parada, J. Yeh, X. Chen, G. C. McCarter, and J.D. Levine (2004) Integrin
signaling in inflammatory and neuropathic pain in the rat. European Journal of Neuroscience.
19:634-642.
O. Dina, G.C. McCarter, C. de Coupade, and J.D. Levine (2003) Role of the sensory
neuron cytoskeleton in second messenger signaling for inflammatory pain. Neuron 39:613-624.
D.C. Dale, G.C. McCarter, J. Crawford, and G.H. Lyman (2003) Myelotoxicity and dose
intensity of chemotherapy: reporting practices from randomized clinical trials. Journal
of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network 1:440-452.
G.C. McCarter and R.A. Steinhardt (2000) Increased activity of calcium leak channels
caused by proteolysis near sarcolemmal ruptures. Journal of Membrane Biology 176:169-174.
G.C. McCarter, D.B. Reichling, and J.D. Levine (1999) Mechanical transduction by rat
somatosensory neurons in vitro. Neuroscience Letters 273:179-182.
S.G. Khasar, Y-H. Lin, A. Martin, J. Dadgar, T. McMahon, D. Wang, B. Hundle, K.O.
Aley, W. Isenberg, G. McCarter, P.G. Green, C.W. Hodge, J.D. Levine and R.O. Messing
(1999) A novel nociceptor signaling pathway revealed in protein kinase C mutant
mice. Neuron 24:253-260
S.G. Khasar, G. McCarter, and J.D. Levine (1999) Epinephrine produces a –adrenergic
receptor–mediated mechanical hyperalgesia and in vitro sensitization of rat nociceptors.
Journal of Neurophysiology 81:1104-1112.
K.O. Aley, G. McCarter, and J.D. Levine (1998) Nitric oxide signalling in pain and
nociceptor sensitization in the rat. Journal of Neuroscience 18:7008-7014.
G.C. McCarter, W.F. Denetclaw, P. Reddy, and R.A. Steinhardt (1997) Lipofection of
a cDNA plasmid containing the dystrophin gene lowers intracellular free calcium and
calcium leak channel activity in mdx myotubes. Gene Therapy 4(5):483-487.
1995-1996 Regents Fellowship for graduate study, UCB
2006 Professor of the Year, Class of 2009, TUC College of Pharmacy
2012 Phi Lambda Sigma Honorary Faculty Member, Pharmacy Leadership Society, Gamma Omicron Chapter
Employer | Title | From - To |
UC San Francisco, Pain Research Center | Visiting Fellow | 1996-2000 |
ApotheCom Associates, Oakland, CA | Scientific Writer | 2000-2001 |
UC San Francisco, Pain Research Center | Assistant Research Physiologist | 2000-2005 |
Touro University – California | Assistant Professor | 2005-2013 |
Touro University – California | Associate Professor | 2013- |
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