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James P. Porter

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James P. Porter
Physiology & Developmental Biology
Email: James_Porter@byu.edu

575 WIDB
Provo, UT 84602
(801) 422-9160

Professor

Associate Dean

 Education
  • PhD , Endocrinology , University of California San Francisco , 1982
  • MS , Zoology , BYU , 1978
  • BS , Zoology , BYU , 1976
 Research

Interaction between brain and blood pressure. Fetal programming of hypertesnion in laboratory rats. Effect of brain angiotensin II on food intake and energy expenditure.

 Selected Publications

Articles

James P. Porter and Summer H. King.  "Prenatal high salt programs enhanced sympathoadrenal activation of the cardiovascular response to restraint."  Autonomic Neuroscience.  epub (2009): 1-4. 

Woods, A.M, C.J. McIlmoil, E.N. Rankin, A.A. Packer, J.C. Stevens, J.A. Macievic, A.B. Brown, J.P. Porter, and A.M. Judd.  "Leukemia inhibitory factor protein and receptors are expressed in the bovine adrenal cortex and increase cortisol and decrease adrenal androgen release."  Domesticated Animal Endocrinology.  35 (2008): 217-230. 

Porter, JP, SH King, and AD Honeycutt.  "Prenatal high-salt diet in the Sprague Dawley rat programs blood pressure and heart rate hyperresponsiveness to stress in adult female offspring."  American Journal of Physiology Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative Physiology.  293 (2007): R334-R342. 

Passmore, J.C., P.P. Rowell, I.G. Joshua, J.P. Porter, and J.C. Falcone.  "Alpha 1 adrenergic receptor control of renal blood vessels during aging."  Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology.  83 (2005): 335-342. 

Swenson, S.J., R. Speth, and J.P. Porter.  "Effect of a perinatal high-salt diet on blood pressure control mechanisms in young Sprauge-Dawley rats."  Am. J. Physiol.  286 (2004): R764-R770. 

Porter, J.P. and K.R. Potratz.  "The effect of icv angiotensin II on body weight and food intake in adult rats."  Am. J. Physiol.  287 (2004): R422-R428. 

Porter, J.P., A. Phillips, J. Rich, and D. Wright.  "Effect of chronic stress on the cardiac baroreflex in the post-weanling rat."  Life Sciences.  75 (2004): 1595-1607. 

Lephart, E.D., J.P. Porter, D. W. Hedges, T.D. Lund, K.D.R. Setchell.  "Phytoestrogens: Implications in Neurovascular Research."  Current Neurovascular Research.  1 (2004): 455-464. 

Lephart, E.D., J.P. Porter, T.D. Lund, L-H. Bu, K.D.R. Setchell, D. Ramoz, and W.R. Crowley.  "Dietary isoflavones alter regulatory behaviors, metabolic hormones and neuroendocrine function in Long-Evans rats."  MioMedCentral Nutrition and Metabolism.  10.1186/1743-7075-1-16 (2004). 

Porter, J.P., J.M. Anderson, R.J. Robison, and A.C. Phillips.  "Effect of central angiotensin II on body weight gain in young rats."  Brain Research.  959 (2003): 20-28. 

Bokil, H.S. and Porter, J.P.  "Brain angiotensin type 1 receptor expression and function in the Zucker obese rat."  Neurosci. Lett.  281 (2000): 139-142. 

.  "Contribution of central ANG II to acute stress-induced changes in baroreflex function in young rats."  Am. J. Physiol.  279 (2000): R1386-R1391. 

Zhao, H., I.G. Joshua, and J.P. Porter.  "Microvascular responses to endothelin in deoxycorticosterone acetate-salt hypertensive rats."  Am. J. Hypertension.  13 (2000): 819-826. 

.  "Chronic intracerebroventricular infusion of angiotensin II increases brain AT1 receptor expression in young rats."  Dev. Brain Res.  112 (1999): 293-295. 

Multimedia

Porter, J.P., J.N. Munyan, A.R. Brown.  The effect of maternal separation on baroreflex function is sexually dimorphic.  2002. 

 Experience

General

  • Chair, Physiology and Devel. Biology , Brigham Young University , 2003-Present
  • Professor of Physiology and Devel. Biology , Brigham Young University , 2001-Present
  • Associate Professor of Zoology , Brigham Young University , 1998-2001
  • Visiting Scholar, Biochemistry , Vanderbilt University , 1995-1996
  • Assoicate Professor of Physiology , University of Louisville , 1991-1998
  • Assistant Professor of Physiology , Univeristy of Louisville , 1985-1991
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Pharmacology , University of Iowa , 1982-1985

Professional

  • Associate Dean , College of Life Sciences , 2008-Present

 Awards
  • Membership , Phi Kappa Phi , 2005
  • Career Enhancement Award , American Physiological Society , 2001
  • Golden Apple, Teacher of the Year , Uof L Student Medical Association , 1994
  • President's Young Investigator Award , University of Louisville , 1988
 Courses Taught
  • Tissue Biology (PDBio 225)
  • Advanced Physiology (PDBio 362)
  • Advanced Physiology Lab (PDBio 363)
  • Pathophysiology (PDBio 365)
  • Cellular and Moelcular Physiology (PDBio 601)
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