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Leah J. Hennings, DVM
Director, Experimental Pathology Core Laboratory
Research Assistant Professor of Pathology
Leah J. Hennings, DVM Medical School
Washington State University
College of Veterinary Medicine

Residency
Veterinary Anatomic Pathology
University of Tennessee

Major Interests
Comparative pathology, Mouse models of cancer, Thermal therapy in cancer treatment

Research Interests
Mediators of inflammation and their relationship to neoplasia; Nutrition and dietary supplements; Transgenic animals as models of disease



Email: LHennings@uams.edu



Selected Publications
CC Ziegler, Leah Rainwater, J Whelan, and M McEntee, Dietary Resveratrol does not affect intestinal tumorigenesis in APCmin/+ mice, Journal of Nutrition, 134: 5-10, January 2004

Sarah K. Johnson, Vishnu Rashmani, Leah Hennings, and Randy S. Haun, Expression of kallikrein 7 in pancreatic cancer enhances cell invasion by shedding E-cadherin, Cancer, 2007; 109: 1811-1820

Monzavi-Karbassi, BJ, Hennings, LJ, Artaud, C, Liu, T, Jousheghany, F, Pashov, A, Murali, R, Hutchins, LF, and Kieber-Emmons, T, Preclinical studies of carbohydrate mimetic vaccines for breast cancer and melanoma, Vaccine, 2007; 25: 3022-3031

Gal Shafirstein, Leah Hennings, Yihong Kaufmann, Petr Novak, Eduardo G. Moros, Scott Ferguson, Eric Seigel, Suzanne Klimberg, Milton Waner, Paul Spring, Conductive Interstitial Thermal Therapy (CITT) Device Evaluation in VX2 Rabbit Model, Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment, 2007; 6: 235-246

Rijin Xiao, Leah Hennings, Thomas Badger, Frank Simmen, Developmental programming by diet of colon cancer in adult rats: correlation with altered neonatal growth trajectory and circulating IGF-1 and testosterone, Journal of Endocrinology, 2007, 195: 79-87

Baumgardner, JN, Shankar, K, Hennings, L, Albano, E, Badger, TM, and Ronis, MJ, N-acetylcysteine attenuates progression of liver pathology in a rat model of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. J Nutr, 2008. 138(10): p. 1872-9.

L. Hennings, Y. Kaufmann, R. Griffin, E. Siegel, P. Novak, P. Corry, EG Moros, and G. Shafirstein. Dead or alive? Autofluorescence distinguishes heat-fixed from viable cells. Int J Hyperthermia. 2009 Jun 8:1-9


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