Nancy R. Cox

phone: 334-844-6197
email: coxnanc@vetmed.auburn.edu

Dr. Nancy Cox, Associate Professor of Pathobiology, joined the Scott-Ritchey Research Center in 1985. Dr. Cox received the DVM degree from Texas A&M University in 1972, interned in the Auburn University (AU) Small Animal Clinic, and received an MS degree in 1975. She served on the faculty in the Department of Comparative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), as a clinical laboratory animal veterinarian and as Director of the Experimental Animal Resources Program. She was a comparative and veterinary pathology resident at AU and UAB from 1981-83, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Infectious Diseases at UAB in 1984, and she received the PhD from UAB in Experimental Pathology in 1987. In addition to her research on the nervous and immune systems, Dr. Cox participates in teaching pathology and laboratory animal medicine in the professional and graduate curricula. She is a consultant neuropathologist in the pathology diagnostic service.

Research Interests

My major research interests involve the central nervous system, in particular the relationship of the nervous system and the immune system during disease processes. The Neuropathology Laboratory of the Scott-Ritchey Research Center (SRRC) is well equipped for gross and histopathologic evaluation of tissues including oversized block preparation, specialized chemical staining procedures and immunohistochemistry. Due to the close working relationships among the Neuromuscular, Electrodiagnostic, and Molecular Medicine Laboratories of the SRRC, the Electron Microscopy and Flow Cytometry Facilities in the Department of Pathobiology, and the clinical services of the departments of Small Animal Surgery and Medicine and Radiology, we are able to provide a group approach to in depth and comprehensive evaluations of spontaneous clinical disease and research problems. Presently, we are evaluating alterations in the immune system resulting from lysosomal diseases. Additionally, we are working toward a molecular approach to treatment of primary central nervous system tumors.

Selected Publications

Cox NR, Kwapien RP, Sorjonen DC and Braund KG. Myeloencephalopathy
resembling Alexander's disease in a Scottish terrier dog. Acta
Neuropathologica 71:163-166, 1986.

Cox NR and Powers RD. Olfactory neuroblastomas in two cats. Vet Pathol
26:341-343, 1989.

Steiss JE, Cox NR, Knecht CD. Electroencephalographic and histopathologic
correlations in eight dogs with intracranial mass lesions. Am J Vet Res
51:1286-1291, 1990.

Sorjonen DC, Thomas WB, Myers LJ, Cox NR. Radical cerebral cortical
resection in dogs. Prog in Vet Neurol 2:225-236, 1991.