Graduate Student Publications

Graduate Students in bold; Mentors in italics.

Physiology, Endocrinology, and Reproduction

  • Engel K, J Schlezinger & GV Callard. Morphometric parameters, PCNA- and TUNEL-labeling do not differ in seminiferous tubulues of wild-type and arylhycrocarbon receptor (AhR) null mice. Biology of Reproduction, in review
  • Engel KB & GV Callard. 2007. Endocrinology of Leydig Cells in Nonmammalian Vertebrates. Chapter 15. In: Payne A, Hardy M (eds), The Leydig Cell in Health and Disease, Humana Press. pp 207-224
  • Engel, KB, & Callard GV. 2005. The testis and spermatogenesis. In: Jamieson B, Hamlett W (eds). Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Chondrichthyes: Sharks, Skates and Chimeras. Science Publishers, Inc., Enfield NH, pp. 171-200.
  • Greytak SR, Champlin D, & Callard GV. 2005. Isolation and characterization of two cytochrome P450 aromatase forms in killifish (/Fundulus heteroclitus/): differential expression in fish from polluted and unpolluted environments. Aquatic Toxicol 71:371-389.
  • Greytak SR & GV Callard. 2007. Cloning of three estrogen receptors (ER) from killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus): Differences in populations from polluted and reference environments. General and Comparative Endocrinology 150: 174-188
  • Bruder ED, JJ Lee, EP Widmaier & H Raff. 2007. Microarray and real-time PCR analysis of adrenal gland gene expression in the 7-day-old rat: effects of hypoxia from birth. Physiological Genomics 29: 193-200
  • Lutton BV & IP Callard. 2006. Evolution of reproductive-immune interactions. Integrative and Comparative Biology 46: 1060-1069
  • Lutton BV & IP Callard. 2007. Influence of reproductive activity, sex steroids, and seasonality on epigonal organ cellular proliferation in the skate (Leucoraja erinacea). General and Comparative Endocrinology 155: 116-125
  • Lutton BV & IP Callard. 2007. Effects of reproductive activity and sex hormones on apoptosis in the epigonal organ of the skate (Leucoraja erinacea). General and Comparative Endocrinology 154: 75-84
  • Lutton BV & IP Callard. 2008. Morphological relationships and leukocyte influence on steroid production in the epigonal organ-ovary complex of the skate, Leucoraja erinacea. Journal of Morphology, in press
  • Sawyer SJ, KA Gerstner & GV Callard. 2006. Development of a real time PCR assay for cytochrome P450 aromatase isoforms in zebrafish: tissue distribution, sex differences, developmental programming, and estrogen regulation. General and Comparative Endocrinology 147: 108-117
  • Schulz LC, K Townsend, TH Kunz & EP Widmaier. 2007. Inhibition of trophoblast invasiveness in vitro by immunoneutralization of leptin in the bat, Myotis lucifugus (Chiroptera). General and Comparative Endocrinology 150: 59-65
  • Tarrant AM, SR Greytak, GV Callard & ME Hahn. 2006. Estrogen receptor-related receptors in the killifish Fundulus heteroclitus: diversity, expression and estrogen responsiveness. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 37: 105-120
  • Townsend KL, ML Lorenzi, and EP Widmaier. 2008. High-fat diet-induced changes in body mass and hypothalamic gene expression in wild-type and leptin-deficient mice. Endocrine 33:176-188
  • Townsend KL, TH Kunz & EP Widmaier. 2008. Changes in body mass, plasma leptin, and mRNA levels of leptin receptor isoforms during the premigration / prehibernation period in Myotis lucifugus. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 178: 217-223