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DR WAH CHIN BOON



Contact Details

Organization: Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Position: Honorary (Fellow)
Email:
Homepage: wah.chin.boon@florey.edu.au
Work: (03) 8344 1888
Fax: (03) 9348 1707
Level: 01
Building: Howard Florey
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Effects of steroid hormones in brain and on behaviour Australia, Singapore

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Dr National University of Singapore

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
Sex hormones and social behaviour 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 2007

Journal Articles

  • Dietary phytoestrogens dampen female sexual behavior in mice with a disrupted aromatase enzyme gene.


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Behavioral Neuroscience
    Volume: 121
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 356-61
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  • Estrogen and adiposity--utilizing models of aromatase deficiency to explore the relationship
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    Volume: 106
    Issue: 1-5
    Page numbers: 3-7
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  • Estrogen deficient male mice develop compulsive behavior.


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Biological Psychiatry
    Volume: 61
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 359-66
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  • Fas/FasL-mediated apoptosis in the arcuate nucleus and medial preoptic area of male ArKO mice is ameliorated by selective estrogen receptor alpha and estrogen receptor beta agonist treatment, respectively.


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Molecular and Cellular Neurosciences
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 146-57
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  • Recognizing rare disorders: aromatase deficiency
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Nature Clinical Practice of Endocrinology and Metabolism
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Of mice and men: the evolving phenotype of aromatase deficiency.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 55-64
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Estrogen, a fundamental player in energy homeostasis.


    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    Volume: 95
    Page numbers: 3-8
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  • Estrogen--the good, the bad, and the unexpected
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Endocrine Reviews
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 322-30
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  • Hippocampal NMDA receptor subunit expression and watermaze learning in estrogen deficient female mice
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Molecular Brain Research
    Volume: 1-2
    Issue: 127-32
    Page numbers: 140
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Estrogen deficiency leads to apoptosis in dopaminergic neurons in the medial preoptic area and arcuate nucleus of male mice


    Year: 2004
    Journal: Molecular and Cellular Neurosciences
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 466-76
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