Graduate Student
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois, United States
I am interested in how nutrients and their bioactivity in the body relate to disease prevention, gene expression, and human body metabolism. Currently, I am working with Dr. John W. Erdman’s lab for my graduate training at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My graduate research focuses on the effect of natural vitamin E (α-tocopherol) on brain health outcomes in vivo. My goal is to optimize a vitamin E deficient mouse model to assess the impact of vitamin E modulation on oxidative stress. I am currently examining the effects of vitamin E deficient status on inflammatory and oxidative stress markers in the murine heart and brain by inducing systematic and neuro-inflammatory stress with lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Additionally, we will evaluate mouse behavior and brain immunohistochemistry in this model to determine the dose-dependent impact of dietary natural αT repletion in vitamin E deficient mice. Overall, my research will contribute to identifying the effects of natural vitamin E status on oxidative stress using the effective mouse model which will have implications for cardiovascular and neurological health.
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