Network Member Profile
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Dr Karen Moritz
Department:
School of Biomedical Sciences
Organisation:
University of Queensland
Address:
Otto Hirschfeld Building, Brisbane QLD 4072
Telephone: 07 3365 4598 Facsimile: 07
3365 1299
Email: k.moritz@uq.edu.au
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Current Field of Study
- Developmental origins of cardiovascular and renal disease
Australian Collaborators
- Professor John Bertram, Monash University, Clayton
- Associate Professor Mary Wlodek, Melbourne University, Parkville
- Dr Kate Denton, Monash University, Clayton
- Dr Michelle Kett, Monash University, Clayton
- Associate Professor Roger Evans, Monash University, Clayton
- Dr Sean Grimmond, University of Queensland
- Dr Amanda Boyce, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Lab Members
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Dr Karen Moritz
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Head of the Lab
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| Dr Megan Probyn |
Research Officer |
Recent Grant Income
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Description
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CIs
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Type of Grant
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Year
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Income p.a.
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| Low dose angiotensin II decreases blood pressure
in rats- implications for gender specific control of cardiovascular fucntion |
Denton, Widdop, Moritz
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NHF |
2007-2008 |
$60,000 |
| Exploring the physiological, morphological
and molecular basis of renal developmental programming |
Bertram, Moritz, Evans and Grimmond |
NH&MRC Project grant |
2006-2008 |
$144,000
$130,500
$130,500 |
| Perinatal programming of cardiovascular
and renal diseases |
Wlodek, Moritz and Tare |
NH&MRC Project grant |
2006-2008 |
$190,000
$170,000
$170,000 |
| Adult cardiovascular disease resulting from fetal
unilateral nephrectomy. |
Moritz, Denton, Wintour
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NHF |
2006-2007 |
$60,000 pa |
Recent Publications
2007
Hoppe, CC, Evans, RG, Moritz KM, Cullen-McEwen, LA, Fitzgerald, SM, Dowling
J and Bertram JF (2007) Combined prenatal and postnatal protein restriction
influences adult kidney structure, function, and arterial pressure. Am J Physiol
(Regul Integr Comp Physiol) 292(1):R462-9.
Dickinson H, Wintour EM, Walker D and Moritz KM (2007) Maternal dexamethasone
treatment at midgestation reduces nephron number and alters renal gene expression
in the fetal spiny mouse. Am J Physiol (Regul Integr Comp Physiol.) 292(1):R453-61.
Singh R, Cullen-McEwen, LA, Kett, KM, Boon WM, Dowling J, Bertram JF and Moritz
KM (2007) Prenatal corticosterone exposure results in altered AT1/AT2, nephron
deficit and hypertension in the rat offspring. J Physiol 579.2: 503-513. *Subject
of editorial
Hoppe CC, Evans RG, Bertram JF and Moritz KM (2007) The effects of dietary protein
restriction on nephron number in the mouse. Am J Physiol (Regul Integr Comp
Physiol.) 292:R1768-R1774.
Wlodek ME, Mibus A, Tan A, Siebel AL, Owens JA and Moritz KM (2007) A normal
lactational environment restores nephron endowment and prevents hypertension
after placental restriction in the rat. J Am Soc Nephrol 18(6): 1688-1696. *Subject
of editorial and research highlights.
DeBlasio M, Dodic M, Moritz KM, Wintour EM and Owens JA (2007) Maternal exposure
to dexamethasone or cortisol in early pregnancy differentially alters insulin
secretion and glucose homeostasis in adult male sheep offspring. Am J Physiol
(Endo and Metab) 293: E75-E82.
Singh RR, Moritz KM, Bertram JF, Cullen-McEwen LA (2007) Effects of dexamethasone
exposure on rat metaneprhic development: in vitro and in vivo studies.Am J Physiol
(Renal Physiol.) (Accepted May 22nd, 2007).
Zohdi V, Moritz KM, Bubb, K, Cock M, Wreford N, Harding R, Black J (2007) Nephrogenesis
and the renal renin-angiotensin system in fetal sheep: effects of intrauterine
growth restriction during late gestation. Am J Physiol (Regul Integr Comp Physiol)
(accepted June 13th, 2007).
Dickinson H, Moritz KM, Walker DW, Wintour EM, Kett KM (2007) A comparative
study of renal function in the desert adapted spiny mouse and the laboratory
adapted C57BL/6 mouse; Response to dietary salt load. Am J Physiol (Renal) Accepted
July 10th, 2007.
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