IntechOpen Book Series Physiology Volume 1

John N. Buchholz, Ph.D. is a Full Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology at Loma Linda University, School of Medicine, Loma Linda, California. He has 26 years of teaching and over 30 years of research experience in cardiovascular and autonomic pharmacology and physiology. His current research interests lie in the area of age related alterations in mechanisms that modulate cerebral blood flow in normal aging and with cognitive

disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. He has over 50 publications including book chapters and has received research funding from the American Heart Association (AHA), Association for Aging Research (AFAR) and National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is reviewer for various peer reviewed journals, including American Journals of Physiology (AJP) and Associated Societies for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET). He currently serves as the Vice Chair of Pharmacology Loma Linda University School of Medicine.

Erik J. Behringer is Assistant Professor in Pharmacology at Loma Linda University (LLU) in Loma Linda, California. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry at California State University, San Bernardino (2005) and PhD in Pharmacology at LLU (2009). He completed postdoctoral/research faculty studies of calcium, oxidative, and electrical signaling in resistance artery endothelium at the University of Missouri, Columbia (2015). Dr.

Behringer now operates a laboratory investigating cerebral endothelial function as it relates to moment-to-moment regulation of blood flow throughout the brain in mouse models of aging and neurodegenerative disease. He has received multiple NIH grants (F32, K99/R00 mechanisms) and has now published >16 peer-reviewed manuscripts and >20 conference abstracts. Also, he has served as an expert reviewer for numerous journals and the NIH for >3 years.

**Editor of Volume 1: John N. Buchholz** Loma Linda University, School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA, USA

**Co-Editor of Volume 1: Erik J. Behringer** Loma Linda University, School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA, USA
