Paul (Andrew) Pietsch, Ph.D.,
Professor Emeritus
School of Optometry,
Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana 47405

pietsch@indiana.edu

Website: Shufflebrain

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DISCIPLINE: Anatomy, Research Fields: Developmental biology (regeneration); Neurosciences (biology of memory, neural plasticity, eye transplantation)

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Other Employment Experiences

Lending library delivery boy; grocery delivery boy; delicatessen (Poll's in NYC) utility worker and delivery boy; busboy; dishwasher; porter; tobacco factory worker; Bloomingdale's warehouse worker; kitchen worker; cafeteria counterman; infantryman; supply sergeant; right fielder (Kobe Base baseball team); English teacher (for Japanese adults); door-to-door magazine salesman; operating room orderly; construction laborer; Goodhumor Ice Cream peddler; general laborer; moving man; buffing machine operator (auto plant); Railway Express platform hand; outdoor theater manager; house painter (interior); night watchman; truck driver; stadium grounds laborer; garbage collector; maintenance mechanic (household); bartender; mail clerk; tutor (anatomy); settlement house atheletic coach (paid)

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Highlighted items can be found on the World Wide Web

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Pietsch, P. (1960). The development of muscle and cartilage in deplanted regenerating limb blastemas of Amblystoma larvae. Diss. Abstr. 21:723 (doctoral dissertation).

Pietsch, P. (1960). Differentiation of Limb blastemas deplanted to the dorsal fin of Amblystoma. Anat. Rec. 136:258.

Pietsch, P. (1961). The effects of colchicine on regeneration of mouse skeletal muscle, Anat. Rec. 139:167-72.

Pietsch, P. (1961). Differentiation in regeneration I. The development of muscle and cartilage following deplantation of regenerating limb blastemata of Amblystoma larvae. Develop. Biol. 3:255-64.

Pietsch, P. (1961). Effects of X-rays on regenerating limb and tail blastemas. Amer. Zool. 1:379.

Pietsch, P. (1961). Effects of heterotopic musculature on myogenesis during limb regeneration in Amblystoma larvae. Anat. Rec. 141:295-305.

Pietsch, M. and Pietsch, P. (1962). Myogenesis following implantation of devitalized skeletal muscle into the subcutaneous tela of the mouse. Anat. Rec. 142:320.

Pietsch, P. (1962). Skeletogensis following modification of stump muscle in regenerating limbs of Amblystoma larvae. Anat. Rec. 142:268.

Pietsch, P. (1962). Effects of head epithelium on limb regeneration in Amblystoma opacum larvae. Anat. Rec. 142:321

Pietsch, P. (1962). The influence of spinal cord on differentiation of skeletal muscle in regenerating limb blastema of Amblystoma larvae. Anat. Rec. 142:169-79.

Pietsch, P. (1962). Effects of nonirradiated tail homogenate on regeneration in X-irradiated tail amputees of Amblystoma larvae. Amer. Zool. 2:379-80.

Pietsch, P. (1962). The specificity of deplanted regenerating limb blastema cells during skeletogenesis as studies in Amblystoma larvae. Amer. Zool. 2:438.

Pietsch, P. (1962). Developmental autonomy in regenerating tail blastema cells of Amblystoma tigrinum larvae. Amer. Zool. 2:548.

Pietsch, P. (1962). Independence of chondrogenesis from myogenesis during limb regeneration in Amblystoma larvae. J. Exp. Zool. 150:119-28.

Pietsch, P. and R.H. Webber. (1962). Nerves and regeneration in orbitally transplanted limbs of Amblystoma larvae. Amer. Zool. 2:548.

Pietsch, P. and R.H. Webber. (1963). Concurrent regeneration and reinnervation of orbitally transplanted limb stumps in Amblystoma larvae. Anat. Rec. 145:345.

Pietsch, P. (1963). Regeneration in X-irradiated forelimbs of Amblystoma punctatum larvae transplanted to nonirradiated orbits. Anat. Rec. 145:343.

Pietsch, P. (1963). Effects of nonirradiated tissue transplants on X-irradiated tail regenerates of Amblystoma punctatum larvae. Anat. Rec. 145:344

Pietsch, P. (1963). The significance of blastema-stump interface in morpho- genesis of muscle in the limb regenerate of Amblystoma punctatum and A. opacum larvae. Anat. Rec. 145:344.

Pietsch, P. (1963). Regeneration in pieces of heart transplanted to the dorsal fin in Amblystoma larvae. Anat. Rec. 145:344-45.

Pietsch, P. (1963). Myogenesis and DNA synthesis. J. Cell Biol. 19:56A.

Pietsch, P. (1964). Time dependent inhibition of myogenesis by actinomycin D. Nature 203:1177.

Pietsch, P. (1964). Influence of genotype on muscle regeneration in mice. Proc. Soc. Exptl. Biol. and Med. 117:927-28.

Pietsch, P. and Williams, R. (1965). Time-related inhibition of mammalian muscle regeneration by X-irradiation. Anat. Rec. 151:434.

Pietsch, P. and Webber, R.H. (1965). Innervation and regeneration in orbitally transplanted limbs of Amblystoma larvae. Anat. Rec. 152:439-50.

Pietsch, P. and Bruce, A.K. (1965). The significance of post-irradiation growth in regenerating limb and tail blastemas of Amblystoma larvae. J. Cell and Comp. Physiol. 66:243-50.

Pietsch, P. and McCollister, S.B. (1965). Replication and the activation of muscle differentiation. Nature 208:1170-73.

Pietsch, P. and Chenoweth, M.B. (1966). The effects of ethylene on regeneration in dystrophic and surgically injured mouse skeletal muscle. Anat. Rec. 154:482.

Pietsch, P. (1966). Reactions of phleomycin and DNA. J. Cell Bio. 31:86A

Pietsch, P. (1967). Differences in DNA synthesis as reflected by variations in the acute inhibition of replication by the antibiotic, phleomycin. Anat. Rec. 157:301.

Pietsch, P. (1967). A structural hypothesis concerning the general mode of action of phleomycin, a specific inhibitor of DNA synthesis. Anat. Rec. 157:402. (demonstration)

Pietsch, P. and Harold, J. (1967). Enhanced muscle regeneration and increased strength in myopathic animals treated with ethylenedinitramine. Nature 213:601-3.

Schneider, C.W. and Pietsch, P. (1968). Effects of addition and subtraction of eyes on learning in salamander larvae. Brain Res. 8:271-80.

Pietsch, P. and Garrett, H. (1968). Primary site of reaction in the in vitro complex of phleomycin in DNA. Nature 219:488-89.

Pietsch, P. and Corbett, C. (1968). Competitive effects of phleomycin and mercuric chloride in vivo. Nature 219:933-34.

Pietsch, P. and Chenoweth, M.B. (1969). Muscle regeneration: enhancement by ethylene inhalation. Proc. Soc. Exptl. Biol. and Med. 130:714-17.

Pietsch, P. and Garrett, H. (1969). Phleomycin induced changes in the ultrastructure of DNA. Biophysical J. 9:A126.

Pietsch, P. (1969). Partial characterization of the source of origin of regenerating limb blastema cells in Amblystoma larvae using the selective inhibitor of DNA synthesis, phleomycin. Anat. Rec. 163:320.

Pietsch, P. and Garrett, H. (1969). Phleomycin: evidence of in vivo binding to DNA. Cytobios 1A:7-15.

Pietsch, P. and Schneider, C.W. (1969). Brain transplantation in salamanders: an approach to memory transfer. Brain Res. 14:707-15.

Pietsch, P. and Gorman, T. (1969). A strategy for crystallographic analysis of phleomycin-DNA complexes. J. Physiol. Chem. and Physics 1:312-16.

Pietsch, P. and Gorman, T. (1969). Structural aspects of breathing in DNA J. Physiol. Chem. and Physics 1:387-88.

Pietsch, P., Corbett, C., Briden, D.W. and Jewett, G. (1969). Diffusability of phleomycin as studied by means of neutron activation analysis. J. Physiol. Chem. and Physics 1:232-36.

Pietsch, P. and Clapper, G. (1969). Receptivity of DNA to phleomycin. Cytobios 2:145-52.

Pietsch, P. and Eng. R. (1969). Phleomycin: enhancement of properties by treatment with acid. Microbios 3:213-23.

Pietsch, P. (1969). Phleomycin: biological and chemical variations in different batches. Microbios 1:387-92.

Pietsch, P. (1969). Structural events in DNA in transcription and replication: the influence of histones on in vitro reactions of actinomycin-D and phleomycin-909. Cytobios 1:375-91.

Pietsch, P. (1970). Split Brain, syndicated internationally by World Book Encyclopedia Science Service.

Pietsch, P. (1971). Process for producing deoxyribonucleic acid fibers. U.S. Patent 3, 616, 211.

Pietsch, P. (1971). Ethylenedinitramine (EDNA): effects of reduction division on concentration in nuclei of mouse testicular cells, as studied autoradiographically. Cytobios 4:257-260.

Pietsch, P. (1971). Brain Food, syndicated internationally by Universal Science News.

Pietsch, P. (1971). Musical Brain, syndicated internationally by Universal Science News.

Pietsch, P. (1972). Scrambled salamander brains: a test of holographic theories of neural program storage. Anatomical Rec. 172:383-84.

Pietsch, P. (1972). Shuffle Brain, Harper's, May, 1972.

Pietsch, P. (1972). Scrambled Brains, syndicated internationally by Universal Science News.

Pietsch, P. (1972). Holographic Theory and the Mind. U.S. Copyright Cc-27840.

Pietsch, P. (1973). O que é a memória. Planeta (Brazil), 16:56-71.

Pietsch, P. (1973). Shuffle Brain, in Human Connection and the New Medium. ed. by B.N. Schwartz, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs.

Pietsch, P. (1973). Shuffle Brain, in 1973 Science Encyclopedia Supplement. Grolier's, New York.

Pietsch, P. (1973). Shuffle Brain. America Illustrated (Polish and Russian editions). July, 1973. U.S. Information Agency, Washington.

Pietsch, P. and Murray, A. (1973). Electron microscopic search for phleomycin in regenerating mouse skeletal muscle after mercuric staining. Anat. Rec. 175:512

Schmidt, I., Reading, R. W., Strickland, J. W., Gerstman, D. R., Pietsch, P. A. and Chang, F. W. (1973). Optometry Examination Review Book. Vol. 1. Medical Exam. Pub. Co. Flushing.

Pietsch, P. (1973). Biopolymers in drug technology: the use of DNA in purifying phleomycin. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 38:1049-54.

Pietsch, P. (1973). Shuffle Brain, in Reading's in Biology. Duskin Publishing Group, Guilford.

Pietsch, P. and Murray, A. (1974). Bleomycin and Phleomycin, Receptivity of target sites. Biochemical Pharmacology 21 (suppl). 193-206.

Pietsch, P. (1975). Phleomycin and Bleomycin, Chapter 78 of Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, Vol. 38, Part I, edited by A. Sartorelli and D. Johns, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1975.

Pietsch, P. (1975). Optics of Memory, Harper's Magazine, Dec. 1975.

Pietsch, P. (1977). Hologramic Mind, Quest/77, Nov.-Dec., 1977.

Pietsch, P. and Murray, A. Electron microscopic detection of phleomycin in regenerating skeletal muscle of mice following staining with mercuric chloride. Cytobios 20:43-70, 1978.

Pietsch, P. Visual Pathway Cutouts, U.S. Copyright TX 2-361, 1978.

Chang, F., Gerstman, D., Pietsch, P. and Schmidt, I. Optometry Review Book, Second Edition, Medical Examination Publishing Co., New York, 1978.

Pietsch, P. (1980). Three-dimensional books: art and science for the blind. J. Visual Impairment & Blindness, 74:109-11l.

Pietsch, P. (1979). Phleomycin and bleomycin: molecular model building studies. Cytobios, 23:187-198.

Pietsch, P., Shufflebrain, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1981.

Pietsch, P., Optometric Histology Manual, T.I.S., Bloomington, 1981.

Pietsch, P., Optical transforms of phleomycin-induced nodules in DNA. Cytobios 31: 143-149, 1981.

Pietsch, P., In search of hologramic mind, Science Digest, February, 1982.

Pietsch, P., The Mind of a Microbe, Science Digest, October, 1983.

Pietsch, P. and Schneider, C.W. Vision and the skin camouflage reactions of Ambystoma larvae: the effects of eye transplants and brain lesions. Brain Res. 340:37-60, 1985.

Locke, L.C. , Chang, F.W., Gerstman, D.R. and Pietsch, P. Optometry Examination Review Book, Third Edition, Elsevier, New York, 1986.

Pietsch, P. (1987) The effects of retinoic acid on mitosis during tail and limb regeneration in the axolotl larva, Ambystoma mexicanum. Roux's Arch Dev.Biol. 196:169-178.

Pietsch, P. and Schneider, C.W. (1988) Transplanted eyes of foreign donors can reinstate the optically activated skin camouflage reactions in bilaterally enucleated salamanders (Ambystoma). Brain, Behav and Evol 32:364-370.

Pietsch, P. (1989) HISTOLOGY: An Audio-Tutorial (13 90-minute tapes), U.S. Copyright SR 101-160

Pietsch, P. (1989) The Visual System: Neuroanatomy (Laboratory Manual), U.S. Copyright TX 2-622-903.

Pietsch, P. and Schneider, C.W. (1990) Two-eyed versus one-eyed salamanders: does binocularity enhance the optically evoked skin blanching reactions of Ambystoma larvae? Physiol Behav 48: 357-359.

Pietsch, P. and Schneider, C.W. (1990) Anterior decerebration blocks visual habituation in the larval salamander (Ambystoma punctatum). Brain Res Bull 25 613-615.

Pietsch, P. (1991) Effects of retinoic acid on the muscle patterns produced during forelimb regeneration in larval salamanders (Ambystoma). Cytobios 66: 41-61.

Pietsch, P. and Schneider, C.W. (1991) Readout mechanisms for the optically activated skin camouflage reactions of Ambystoma larvae. Axolotl Newsletter 20:20-23.

Schneider, C.W. Marquette, B.W. and Pietsch, P. (1991) Tests of motion vision and phototaxis in salamander larvae. Axolotl Newsletter 20:24-27.

Pietsch, P. and Schneider, C.W. (1991) Tectectomy in the cyclopean salamander. Physiol and Behav 50:305-309.

Schneider, C.W. Marquette, B.W. and Pietsch, P. (1991) Measures of phototaxis and movement detection in the larval salamander. Physiol and Behav 50: 645-647.

Pietsch, P. and Tokarski, T. (1992) The dermal melanophore of the larval salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum. Cytobios 69:107-131.

Pietsch, P. and Tokarski, T. (1992) Electron microscopic organization of the dermal basilar lamina of the Ambystoma tigrinum larva. Cytobios 69: 83-85.

Pietsch, P. (1993) Retinoic acid treatment inhibits mitosis in the pre-existing spinal cord during tail regeneration of the axolotl larva, Ambystoma mexicanum. Cytobios. 76:7-11

Pietsch, P. Sato, H. Noda, R. Richetti, S. and Schneider, C. W. (1993) Phototaxic behavior and the retinotectal transport of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) in surgically created cyclopean salamander larvae (Ambystoma). Neuroscience Res. 18: 35-43.

Casser, L. Chang. F. W. Gerstman, D. R. Pietsch, P. A. and Bradley, A. (1994) Optometry Examination Review, 4th ed. Appleton and Lang, Norwalk

Pietsch, P. (1996) The Fixed Point of Asa Zook, --a novel about the scientific and philosophical quest of regeneration and memory

Goss, David A., Pietsch, Paul A., Gerstman, Daniel R. Meetz, Richard E. (2004) An overview of pivotal events and significant changes in the Indiana University School of Optometry. Indiana J. Optometry 7:22-31.

Pietsch, Paul A. (2007) In honor of retiring faculty: Gary Hafner. Indiana J. Optometry 10 :3-4.


List does not include 51 general items published in newspapers or broadcast on radio and TV, February to July, 1970 as a freelance journalist or as a stringer for UPI; Detroit Free Press; or the Bay City Times (Michigan); nor original short works published in Shufflebrain, August 1995-present.

pietsch@indiana.edu