Dr Ken Snibson
Staff Profile:
Dr Ken Snibson BSc (La Trobe) MSc PhD (Melbourne)
Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow
Contact details:
Telephone: +613 8344 8716
Facsimile: +613 9347 4083
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Teaching Responsibilities:
Veterinary physiology 250-104: Deliver lectures on the physiology of muscle and the autonomic nervous system
Veterinary physiology 250-204: Deliver lectures on the physiology of the central nervous system
Field of Expertise:
Animal models of disease and development
Research Interests:
Airway wall remodelling in chronic asthmatic sheep
Lung mechanics in asthmatic sheep
Hepatocyte kinetics in mouse liver cancer
Advanced reproductive technologies and genetic improvements in domestic animals
Current Research Projects:
Inflammation and airway remodelling mechanisms in a sheep model of chronic asthma
Lung mechanics and physiological responses in the airways of sheep allergic to house dust mite
Member of Research Groups:
Centre for Animal Biotechnology
Selected Publications:
BISCHOF, R, SNIBSON, KJ, SHAW, R, and MEEUSEN, EN. (2003) Induction of allergic inflammation in the lungs of sensitized sheep after local challenge with house dust mite. Clin Exp Allergy, 33:367-375
SNIBSON, KJ. (2002) Hepatocellular kinetics and the expression of growth hormone (GH) in the livers and liver tumours of GH-transgenic mice. Tissue & Cell, 34:88-97
SNIBSON, K J, BHATHAL, PS, and ADAMS, TE. (2001) Overexpressed growth hormone (GH) synergistically promotes carcinogen- initiated liver tumour growth by promoting cellular proliferation in emerging hepatocellular neoplasms in female and male GH-transgenic mice. Liver, 21:149-58
SNIBSON, KJ, BHATHAL, PS, HARDY, CL, BRANDON, MR, and ADAMS, TE. (1999) High, persistent hepatocellular proliferation and apoptosis precede hepatocarcinogenesis in growth hormone transgenic mice. Liver, 19:242-252
SNIBSON, KJ, MADDOX, JF, FABB, SA, and BRANDON, MR. (1998) Allelic variation of ovine MHC class II DQA1 and DQA2 genes. Animal Genetics, 29:356-362
SNIBSON, KJ, and ADAMS, TE. (1997) Transgene methylation in transgenic animals. In: Houdibine, M.L., editor. Transgenic animals: Generation and use. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers. p 237-243.
HARDY, CL, BHATHAL, PS, SNIBSON, KJ, and ADAMS, TE. (1997) Comparison of intrahepatic lymphocytes from normal and growth hormone transgenic mice with chronic hepatitis and liver cancer. Immunology, 90:412-420
SNIBSON, KJ, WOODCOCK, D, ORIAN, JM, BRANDON, MR, and ADAMS, TE. (1995) Methylation and expression of a metallothionein promoter ovine growth hormone fusion gene (MToGH1) in transgenic mice. Transgenic Res, 4:114-22
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