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Name

Prof. Michael Symonds

Qualifications

BSc, PhD

Position

Professor of Developmental Physiology, Head of the Academic Division of Child Health

School/Division

Human Development/ Child Health

Contact

Phone: +44 (0) 115 823 0610
Fax: +44 (0) 115 823 0626
Email: michael.symonds@nottingham.ac.uk
Web:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/crel/index.php?page=1.0.0.4

Research interests

Development, nutrition, pregnancy, lactation, obesity, cardiovascular and kidney disease.

Recent publications

Hyatt M, Budge H, Walker D, Stephenson T and Symonds ME (2007). Effects of maternal parity and late gestational nutrition on mRNA abundance for growth factors in the liver of postnatal sheep. American Journal of Physiology 292, R1934 - R1942.


Williams PJ, Kurlak LO, Perkins A, Budge H, StephensonT, Keisler D, Symonds ME,Gardner DS (2007). Impaired renal function and hypertension accompany juvenile obesity: effect of prenatal diet. Kidney International doi:10.1038/sj.ki5002276.

 

Gnanlingham MG, Mostyn A, Dandrea J, Yakubu DP, Symonds ME and Stephenson T. (2005). Ontogeny and nutritional programming of uncoupling protein-2 and glucocorticoid receptor mRNA in the ovine lung. Journal of Physiology 565, 159-165.