Articles in Press
Leszczynski, EC, Thorn, ME, Szlachetka, J, Lee, MH, Ferguson, DP. The Effect of an Early Life Motor Skill Intervention on Physical Activity in Growth-Restricted Mice. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.
Visker JR, Leszczynski EC, Wellette-Hunsucker AG, Bazil JN, and Ferguson DP. Postnatal Growth Restriction in Mice Alters Cardiac Mitochondrial Energetics. Experimental Physiology.
Wellette-Hunsucker AG, Leszczynski EC, Visker JR, Pritchard AE, Slade JM, and Ferguson DP. The Effect of Downhill Running on Skeletal Muscle Mass in Growth-Restricted Mice. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.
Quinn MA, Pritchard AE, Visker JR, McPeek, AC, Raghuvanshi R, Wellette-Hunsucker AG, Leszczynski EC, McCabe L, Pfeiffer KA, Quinn RA, and Ferguson DP. Longitudinal Effects of Growth Restriction on the Murine Gut Microbiome and Metabolome. American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Published Articles
Leszczynski, EC, Schwarts, NE, McPeek, AC, Currie, KD, Ferguson, DP, Garland, T. Selectively Breeding for High Voluntary Physical Activity in Female Mice does not Bestow Inherent Characteristics that Resemble Eccentric Remodeling of the Heart, but the mini-muscle phenotype does. Sports Medicine and Health Science. 5 (2), 205-212. 2023.
McPeek, AC, Patton, B, Columbus, DA, Oliver, TD, Rodrigues, LA, Sands, JM, Weber, LP, Ferguson, DP. Low Birth Weight and Reduced Postnatal Nutrition Lead to Cardiac Dysfunction in Piglets. Journal of Animal Science. 101. 2023.
Wellington MO, Rodrigues LA, Quinn MA, Panisson JC, Ferguson DP, and Columbus, DA. Serum Metabolomic Characterization in Pigs in Relation to Birth Weight Category and neonatal Nutrition. Journal of Animal Science. 101. 2023
Ferguson, DP. Leszczynski, EC, Horton, TH, Pfeiffer, KA, Gardiner, J, and Pearson, AL. C-reactive protein and telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) associate with chronic disease markers in a sample of low-income neighborhoods in Detroit, Michigan. Sports Medicine and Health Science. 4 (4), 275-279. 2022.
Morton, JS, Patton, B, Morse, CJ, Karsh, Z EI, Rodrigues, LA, Mousseau, Ferguson, DP, Columbus, DA, Weber, LP, and Oliver, TD. Altered Cerebrovascular Regulation in Low Birthweight Swine. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 267. P. 111163. 2022.
Gwizdala, K. L., Ferguson, D. P., Kovan, J., Novak, V., & Pontifex, M. B. Placebo controlled phase II clinical trial: Safety and efficacy of combining intranasal insulin & acute exercise. Metabolic Brain Disease. 36 (6), 1289-1303.
Ferguson DP, Leszczynski EC, McPeek AC, Pendergrast JR, Visker, JR. Triplet, AN. Physical Activity Engagement Worsens Health Outcomes and Limits Exercise Capacity in Growth-restricted Mice. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. 2021. 53 (8), 1561-1571.
Leszczynski, EC; Kuenze, CM; Brazier, B; Visker, JR; and Ferguson, DP. The Effect of ACL Reconstruction on Involved and Contralateral Limb Vastus Lateralis Morphology and Histology: A Pilot Study. Journal of Knee Surgery. 2021 Apr;34(5):533-537. doi: 10.1055/s-0039-1697899
Visker JR, Dangott LJ, Leszczynski EC, and Ferguson DP. Postnatal Growth Restriction in Mice Alters Cardiac Protein Abundance Leading to Impairment in Adulthood. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2020, 21 (24), 9459.
Pendergrast, LA; Leszczynski, EC; Visker, JR; Triplett, AN; and Ferguson, DP. Effects of early life undernutrition on maximum treadmill running capacity in mice. Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism. 2020, 45 (3), 240-250.
Felzer-Kim IT, Visker JR, Ferguson DP, and Hauk JL. Infant blood lipids: a systematic review of trajectories over time and related factors. Frontiers Pediatrics. 2020. 18 (7). 381-394
Robert A. Quinn; Alexey V. Melnik; Alison Vrbanac; Kathryn A. Patras; Mitchell Christy; Zsolt Bodai; Pedro Belda-Ferre; Anupriya Tripathi; Lawton K. Chung; Melissa Quinn; Greg Humphrey; Morgan Panitchpakdi; Kelly Weldon; Alexander Aksenov; Ricardo da Silva; Julian Avila-Pacheco; Clary Clish; Sena Bae; Himel Mallick; Eric A. Franzosa; Jason Lloyd-Price; Robert Bussell; Taren Thron; Andrew T. Nelson; Mingxun Wang; Eric Leszczynski; Fernando Vargas; Julia M. Gauglitz; Michael J. Meehan; Emily Gentry; Timothy D. Arthur; Michael Downes; Ting Fu; Alexis C. Komor; Orit Poulsen; Brigid S. Boland; John T. Chang; William J. Sandborn; Meerana Lim; Neha Garg; Julie C. Lumeng; Ramnik J. Xavier; Barbara I. Kazmierczak; Ruchi Jain; Marie Egan; Kyung E. Rhee; David Ferguson; Ron M. Evans; Manuela Raffatellu; Hera Vlamakis; Gabriel G. Haddad; Dionicio Siegel; Curtis Huttenhower; Sarkis K. Mazmanian; Victor Nizet; Rob Knight; and Pieter C. Dorrestein. “Global Chemical Impacts of the Microbiome Include New Bile Acid Conjugates” Nature. 2020 Mar; 579(7797): 123–129.
Rodrigues LA, Wellington MO, Sands JM, Weber LP, Olver TD, Ferguson DP, Columbus DA. Characterization of a Swine Model of Birth Weight and Neonatal Nutrient Restriction. Current Developments in Nutrition. August 2020. 4 (8) 1-8.
McGowan AL, Ferguson D P, Gerde HK, Pfeiffer KA, and Pontifex MB. Preschoolers exhibit similar learning but greater on-task behavior following physically active lessons on the approximate number system. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. Sept 2020. 30 (9) 1777-1786.
Leszczynski, EC; Visker, JR; and Ferguson, DP. (2019) “The effect of growth restriction on voluntary physical activity engagement in mice.” Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise. 2019 Nov;51(11):2201-2209.
Ferguson, DP; Monroe, TO; Heredia, CP; Fleischman, RE; Rodney, GG; Taffet, GE; and Fiorotto, ML. Postnatal undernutrition alters adult female mouse cardiac structure and function leading to limited exercise capacity. The Journal of Physiology. Apr;597(7):1855-1872.
Visker, JR and Ferguson, DP Postnatal Undernutrition in Mice Causes Cardiac Arrhythmogenesis which is Exacerbated when Pharmacologically Stressed. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 9(4):417-424.
Marshall, MR; Paneth N; Gerlach JA; Mudd LM, Biery L; Ferguson, DP; Pivarnik JM. Differential methylation of insulin-like growth factor 2 in offspring of physically active pregnant women. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 2018 Jun;9(3):299-306.
Ferguson, DP, Dangott, LJ, Schmitt EE, Vellers, HL, Lightfoot, JT. Differential Protein Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens of High and Low Active Mice. Behavioral Brain Research. 2015 Sep 15;291:283-8
Ferguson, DP, Dangott, LJ, Lightfoot, J.T. Lessons Learned from Vivo-morpholinos: How to avoid Vivo-Morpholino toxicity. Biotechniques 2014 May 1;56(5):251-6.
Ferguson, DP, Dangott, LJ, Schmitt EE, Vellers, HL, Lightfoot, JT. Differential Skeletal Muscle Proteome of High and Low Active mice. Journal of Applied Physiology 2014 Apr 15;116(8):1057-67.
Ferguson DP, Schmitt EE, Lightfoot JT. Vivo-Morpholinos Induced Transient Knockdown of Physical Activity Related Proteins. PLoS ONE 2013 Apr 22;8(4):e61472.
Bowen RS, Ferguson DP, Lightfoot JT. Effects of Aromatase Inhibition on the Physical Activity Levels of Male Mice. Journal of Steroids and Hormone Science. 2011 Nov 25;1(1):1-7
J. Timothy Lightfoot, Larry Leamy, Daniel Pomp, Michael J. Turner, Anthony Fodor, Amy Knab, Robert S. Bowen, David Ferguson, Trudy Moore-Harrison, Alicia Hamilton. Strain Screen and Haplotype Association Mapping of Wheel Running in inbred Mouse Strains. Journal of Applied Physiology. 2010 Sep;109(3):623-34.
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