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HU_PROF SANDRA REES



Contact Details

Organization: Anatomy and Cell Biology
Position: Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
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Work: 83445797
Fax: 93475219
Room: E641
Level: 06
Building: Medical Centre
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science University of Sydney
Master of Philosophy University of London
Master of Science University of Sydney
Doctor of Philosophy Monash University

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
PROTECTING THE PRETERM FETAL BRAIN FROM HYPOXIA AND INFECTION: A HEALTHY START TO LIFE Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2005
The Effect of Stress and Hypercortisolaemia on Limbic Epileptogenesis & Affective Disorder. Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2006
PREMATURE BIRTH: CONSEQUENCES FOR THE DEVELOPING VISUAL SYSTEM Chief Investigator FINANCIAL MARKETS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN Research Grant 30/06/2006
Investigating the mechanisms and treatment of perinatal brain injury. Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2007
Chronic caffeine exposure and brain development Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2010

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Developmental profile of erythropoietin and its receptor in guinea-pig retina


    Year: 2009
    Journal: Cell and Tissue Research
    Volume: 336
    Page numbers: 21-29
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  • Anxiolytic effects of rapid amygdala kindling, and the influence of early life experience in rats
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Behavioural Brain Research
    Volume: 203
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 81-87
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  • Cerebellar Development in a Baboon Model of Preterm Delivery: Impact of Specific Ventilatory Regimes
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology
    Volume: 68
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 605-615
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  • Developmental and neuropathological consequences of ductal ligation in the preterm infant
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Pediatric Research
    Volume: 65
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 209-214
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  • Investigating structural and biochemical correlates of ganglion cell dysfunction in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats.
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Experimental Eye Research
    Volume: 88
    Page numbers: 1076-1083
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • An adverse intrauterine environment: implications for injury and altered development of the brain
    Year: 2008
    Journal: International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 3-11
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  • BDNF Increases Survival of Retinal Dopaminergic Neurons After Prenatal Compromise
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 1282-1289
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  • Injurious effects of acute ethanol exposure during late gestation on developing white matter in fetal sheep
    Year: 2008
    Journal: International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 391-399
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  • The locations of mitochondria in mammalian photoreceptors: Relation to retinal vasculature
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Brain Research
    Volume: 1189
    Page numbers: 58-69
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Early postnatal stress confers enduring vulnerability to Limbic Epileptogenesis
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Epilepsia
    Volume: 48
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 2079-2085
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  • Inhaled nitric oxide: effects on cerebral growth and injury in a baboon model of premature delivery
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Pediatric Research
    Volume: 61
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 552-558
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  • Microstructural changes of the baboon cerebral cortex during gestational development reflected in magnetic resonance imaging diffusion anisotropy
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 46
    Page numbers: 12506-12515
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  • The acceleration of amygdala kindling epileptogenesis by chronic low-dose corticosterone involves both mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptors.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Psychoneuroendocrinology
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 834-842
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  • Vulnerability of dopaminergic amacrine cells and optic nerve myelination to prenatal endotoxin exposure
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: 472-478
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • The developmental environment and the origins of neurological disorders
    Year: 2006
    Book: Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • Activation of NF-κB Transcription Factor in the Preterm Ovine Brain and Placenta after Acute LPS Exposure
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Neuroscience Research
    Volume: 83
    Page numbers: 567-574
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  • Cerebral outcomes in a preterm baboon model of early versus delayed nasal continuous positive airway pressure
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Pediatrics
    Volume: 118
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1640-1653
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  • Chronic endotoxin exposure causes brain injury in the ovine fetus in the absence of hypoxemia
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 87-96
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  • Chronic exposure to intra-amniotic lipopolysaccharide affects the ovine fetal brain
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 239-247
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  • Prenatally compromised neurons respond to brain-derived neurotrophic factor treatment in vitro
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Developmental Neuroscience
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 13
    Page numbers: 1385-1389
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • BDNF and TrkB protein expression is altered in the fetal hippocampus but not cerebellum after chronic prenatal compromise
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Experimental Neurology
    Volume: 192
    Page numbers: 265-273
    Publisher: Academic Press(California)
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  • Chronic low-dose corticosterone supplementation enhances acquired epileptogenesis in the rat amygdala kindling model of TLE
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Neuropsychopharmacology
    Volume: 30
    Page numbers: 1610-1616
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  • Fetal and neonatal origins of altered brain development
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Early Human Development
    Volume: 81
    Page numbers: 753-761
    Publisher: Elsevier Ireland
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  • Fetal growth restriction unduced by chronic placental insufficiency has long-term effects on the retina but not the optic nerve
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 3300-3308
    Publisher: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Inc(Maryland)
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  • Immunocytochemical development of the guinea pig retina
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Experimental Eye Research
    Volume: 80
    Page numbers: 9-21
    Publisher: Academic Press(London)
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  • Investigating the neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 687-696
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Investigation of cerebral development and injury in the prematurely born primate by magnetic resonance imaging and histopathology
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Developmental Neuroscience
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 100-111
    Publisher: Karger(Basel)
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  • Pattern of cerebral injury in a primate model of preterm birth and neonatal intensive care
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Pediatrics
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 965-967
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  • Prenatal hypoxia impairs memory function but does not result in overt structural alterations in the postnatal chick brain
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Developmental Brain Research
    Volume: 160
    Page numbers: 9-18
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • An animal model of chronic placental insufficiency: relevance to neurodevelopmental disorders including schizophrenia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Neuroscience
    Volume: 129
    Page numbers: 381-391
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Brain development during fetal life: influences of the intra-uterine environment
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Neuroscience Letters
    Volume: 361
    Page numbers: 111-114
    Publisher: Elsevier Science Ireland(Coclare)
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  • Cardiovascular and renal disease in the adolescent guinea pig after chronic placental insufficiency
    Year: 2004
    Journal: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    Volume: 191
    Page numbers: 847-855
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  • Effects of exposure to chronic placental insufficiency on the postnatal brain and retina in sheep
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology
    Volume: 63
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1131-1143
    Publisher: American Association of Neuropathologists Inc(Kansas)
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  • Effects of umbilical cord occlusion in late gestation on the ovine fetal brain and retina
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 369-376
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(New York)
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  • Neurotrophin expression in the hippocampus and cerebellum is affected by chronic placental insufficiency in the late gestational ovine fetus
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Developmental Brain Research
    Volume: 153
    Page numbers: 243-250
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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  • Non-human Primate Models of Neonatal Brain Injury
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Seminars in Perinatology
    Volume: 28
    Page numbers: 396-404
    Publisher: WB Saunders Co
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  • The pattern of cerebral injury in a primate model of preterm birth and neonatal intensive care
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology
    Volume: 63
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 1297-1309
    Publisher: American Association of Neuropathologists Inc(Kansas)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Markov Random Field-based Parcellation of the Cerebral Cortex: Application to Histology Images
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Proceedings of the Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing Conference
    Conference Publication: Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing Conference
    Page numbers: 559-564
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New Jersey)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Chronic placental insufficiency and foetal growth restriction lead to long-term effects on postnatal retinal structure


    Year: 2003
    Journal: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
    Volume: 31
    Page numbers: 250-253
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  • Chronic placental insufficiency and foetal growth restriction lead to long-term effects on postnatal retinal structure
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
    Volume: 31
    Page numbers: 250-253
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Dendritic morphology is altered in hippocampal neurons following prenatal compromise
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Neurobiology
    Volume: 55
    Page numbers: 41-52
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(New York)
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  • Extracellular glutamate levels and neuropathology in cerebral white matter following repeated umbilical cord occlusion in the near term fetal sheep
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Neuroscience
    Volume: 116
    Page numbers: 705-714
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Ontogeny of Calcitonin Receptor mRNA and Protein in the Developing Central Nervous System in the Rat
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Comparative Neurology
    Volume: 456
    Page numbers: 29-38
    Publisher: Wiley-Liss(New York)
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  • Prolonged reductions in placental blood flow and cerebral oxygen delivery in preterm fetal sheep exposed to endotoxin: possible factors in white matter injury after acute infection
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 283-290
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(New York)
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  • The effects of repeated endotoxin exposure on placental structure in sheep
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Placenta
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 786-789
    Publisher: WB Saunders Co(London)
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  • The fetal brainstem is relatively spared from injury following intrauterine hypoxemia
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Developmental Brain Research
    Volume: 143
    Page numbers: 73-81
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Altered Retinal Function and Structure after Chronic Placental Insufficiency


    Year: 2002
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 805-812
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  • Altered retinal function and structure after chronic placental insufficiency
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 805-812
    Publisher: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Inc(Maryland)
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  • Chronic placental insufficiency has long-term effects on auditory function in the guinea pig
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Hearing Research
    Volume: 166
    Page numbers: 159-165
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Chronic placental insufficiency has long-term effects on auditory function in the guinea pig


    Year: 2002
    Journal: Hearing Research
    Volume: 166
    Page numbers: 159-165
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  • Consequences of intrauterine growth restriction on ventilatory and thermoregulatory responses to asphyxia and the hypercapnia in the newborn guinae-pig
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Reproduction, Fertility and Development
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 85-92
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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  • Distribution of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and TrkB receptor proteins in the fetal and postnatal hippocampus and cerebellum of the guinea pig
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Comparative Neurology
    Volume: 454
    Page numbers: 229-240
    Publisher: Wiley-Liss(New York)
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  • Expression of the p75 neurotrophin receptor by striatal cholinergic neurons following global ischemia in rats is associated with neuronal degeneration
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Neuroscience Letters
    Volume: 332
    Page numbers: 57-60
    Publisher: Elsevier Science Ireland(Coclare)
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  • Programming effects of short prenatal exposure to cortisol.
    Year: 2002
    Journal: FASEB Journal
    Volume: 16
    Page numbers: 1017-1026
    Publisher: Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology(Maryland)
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  • White matter injury after repeated endotoxin exposure in the preterm ovine fetus
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Pediatric Research
    Volume: 52
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 941-949
    Publisher: International Pediatric Research Foundation(Maryland)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Development of the somatosensory system
    Year: 2001
    Book: The Newborn Brain
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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  • Nervous and neuromuscular systems
    Year: 2001
    Book: Fetal growth and development
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • Brain development during fetal life: what happens when things go wrong?
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Today's Life Science
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 36-44
    Publisher: Today's Life Science(Melbourne)
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