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A/PROF MARGARET MORRIS



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Organization: Pharmacology
Position: Honorary (Principal Fellow)
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science Institution not known
Doctor of Philosophy Institution not known

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
Effect of early nutritional intervention on blood pressure, body weight and cardiovascular responses Principal Supervisor NATIONAL HEART FOUNDATION Postgraduate Science Research Scholarships 01/02/2003
Effects of obesity on brain regulators of food intake Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2004
Mitochondria, reactive oxygen species and neuronal apoptosis Chief Investigator NHMRC Dora Lush Biomedical Postgraduate Scholarship 01/01/2004
Brain response to low glucose - impact of diabetes Chief Investigator DIABETES AUST RESEARCH TRUST Research Grants 01/01/2005
Investigating obesity induced changes in blood pressure, the endocrine system and related feeding behaviours using a rodent model Principal Supervisor AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF OBESITY INC Janet Bryson Memorial Scholarship 07/03/2005
The Effect of Stress and Hypercortisolaemia on Limbic Epileptogenesis & Affective Disorder. Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2006
NPY suppresses seizures and modulates thalamocortical activity in animal models of generalized epilepsy Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2006
DIETARY FRUCTOSE & DIABETES: DOUBLE JEOPARDY FOR THE HEART Chief Investigator DIABETES AUST RESEARCH TRUST Research Grants 01/01/2006

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 2008

Journal Articles

  • Elevated anxiety and depressive-like behavior in a rat model of genetic generalized epilepsy suggesting common causation


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Experimental Neurology
    Volume: 209
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 254-60
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  • Undernutrition during suckling in rats elevates plasma adiponectin and its receptor in skeletal muscle regardless of diet composition: a protective effect?
    Year: 2008
    Journal: International Journal of Obesity
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 1585-1594
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Modulation of central leptin sensitivity and energy balance in a rat model of diet-induced obesity


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Diabetes Obesity & Metabolism
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 840-852
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  • 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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  • In vivo quantification of fat content in mice using the Hologic QDR 4500A densitometer
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Obesity Research & Clinical Practice
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 69-77
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  • Neuropeptide Y suppresses absence seizures in a genetic rat model primarily through effects on Y receptors
    Year: 2007
    Journal: European Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 1136-1143
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  • Regulation of hypothalamic NPY by diet and smoking.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Peptides
    Volume: 28
    Page numbers: 384-389
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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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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Cigarette smoke exposure reprograms the hypothalamic neuropeptide Y axis to promote weight loss.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
    Volume: 173
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1248-1254
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  • Is the CCK2 receptor essential for normal regulation of body weight and adiposity?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: European Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 1427-1433
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  • The mechanism of carbamazepine aggravation of absence seizures.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
    Volume: 319
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 790-798
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Aggravation of absence seizures by carbamazepine in a genetic rat model does not induce neuronal c_fos activation
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Clinical Neuropharmacology
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 60-65
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  • Central and peripheral contributions to obesity-associated hypertension: impact of early overnourishment
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Experimental Physiology
    Volume: 90
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 697-702
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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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  • Early dietary intervention: long-term effects on blood pressure, brain neuropeptide Y, and adiposity markers
    Year: 2005
    Journal: American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism
    Volume: 288
    Page numbers: e1236-e1243
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  • Effect of short-term cigarette smoke exposure on body weight, appetite and brain neuropeptide Y in mice
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Neuropsychopharmacology
    Volume: 30
    Page numbers: 713-719
    Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
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  • Exaggerated feeding response to central galanin-like peptide administration in diet-induced obese rats
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Neuropeptides
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 333-336
    Publisher: Churchill Livingstone(Edinburgh)
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  • Feeding responses to a melanocortin agonist and antagonist in obesity induced by a palatable high-fat diet
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Brain Research
    Volume: 1039
    Page numbers: 137-145
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Neuropeptide Y suppresses absence seizure in a genetic rat model
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Brain Research
    Volume: 1033
    Page numbers: 151-156
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Unaltered TNF-alpha production by macrophages and monocytes in diet-induced obesity in the rat
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Inflammation
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 2
    Publisher: Biomed Central(London)
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  • Validation of a method for localised microinjection of drugs into thalamic subregions in rats for epilepsy pharmacological studies
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Neuroscience Methods
    Volume: 146
    Page numbers: 191-197
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Neuropeptide Y and cardiovascular function
    Year: 2004
    Book: Handbook of experimental pharmacology
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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Journal Articles

  • Adaptive responses in hypothalamic neuropeptide Y in the face of prolonged high-fat feeding in the rat
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Neurochemistry
    Volume: 88
    Page numbers: 909-916
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Oxford)
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  • Cardiac sympathetic nerve biology and brain monoamine turnover in panic disorder
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences
    Volume: 1018
    Page numbers: 505-514
    Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences(New York)
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  • Effect of I.C.V. injection of AT4 receptor ligands, NLE1-angiotensin IV and LVV-hemorphin 7, on spatial learning in rats
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Neuroscience
    Volume: 124
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 341-349
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  • Effect of adrenalectomy and corticosterone replacement on prepulse inhibition and locomotor activity in mice
    Year: 2004
    Journal: British Journal of Pharmacology
    Volume: 142
    Page numbers: 543-550
    Publisher: Nature Publishing Group(Basingstroke)
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  • Extra-adipocyte leptin release in human obesity and its relation to sympathoadrenal function
    Year: 2004
    Journal: American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism
    Volume: 286
    Page numbers: E744-E752
    Publisher: American Physiological Society(Maryland)
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  • Increased endogenous noradrenaline and neuropeptide Y release from the hypothalamus of streptozotocin diabetic rats
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Brain Research
    Volume: 1006
    Page numbers: 100-106
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • NPY and NPY Y1 receptor effects on noradrenaline overflow from the rat brain in vitro
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Regulatory Peptides
    Volume: 120
    Page numbers: 107-112
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Transitory reduction in angiotensin AT2 receptor expression levels in postinfarct remodelling in rat myocardium
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology
    Volume: 31
    Page numbers: 512-517
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Vascular and brain neuropeptide Y in banded and spontaneously hypertensive rats
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Peptides
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 1313-1319
    Publisher: Elsevier(New York)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Ageing and stress: ergonomic issues in employing the older worker
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Ergonomics for a BIZ-e-World
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia and the 7th Annual Conference of Pan Pacific Council on Occupational Ergonomics
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia(Canberra)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Effect of fimbria-fornix lesion on 125l-angiotensin IV (AngIV) bidning in the guinea pig hippocampus
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Brain Research
    Volume: 979
    Page numbers: 7-14
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  • Inhibitory effect of apelin-12 on nocturnal food intake in the rat
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Nutritional Neuroscience
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 163-167
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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  • Leptin reduces food intake but does not alter weight regain following food deprivation in the rat
    Year: 2003
    Journal: International Journal of Obesity
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 48-54
    Publisher: Nature Publishing Group(Basingstroke)
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  • Neuropeptide Y (NPY) delays the oestrogen-induced luteinizing hormone (LH) surge in the overiectomized ewe: Futher evidence that NPY has a predominant negative effect on LH secretion in the ewe
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Neuroendocrinology
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 1011-1020
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Oxford)
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  • Regional sympathetic effects of low-dose clonidine in heart failure
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Hypertension
    Volume: 41
    Page numbers: 553-557
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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  • Role of MC4 receptors in the depressor and bradycardic effects of Α-MSH in the nucleus tractus solitarii of the rat
    Year: 2003
    Journal: NeuroReport
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 703-707
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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  • The relationship of changes in leptin, neuropeptide Y and reproductive hormones to antipsychotic induced weight gain
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Human Psychopharmacology - Clinical and Experimental
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 551-557
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Evidence for an interaction between neuropeptide Y and the melanocortin-4 receptor on feeding in the rat
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Neuropharmacology
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 792-797
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Influence of leptin on neurotransmitter overflow from the rat brain in vitro
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Regulatory Peptides
    Volume: 103
    Page numbers: 67-74
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Involvement of neuropeptide Y in glucose sensing in the dorsal hypothalamus of streptozotocin diabetic rats - in vitro and in vivo studies of transmitter release
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Diabetologia
    Volume: 45
    Page numbers: 1332-1339
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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  • Maturational and maintenance effects of testosterone on terminal axon density and neuropeptide expression in the rat vas deferens
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Neuroscience
    Volume: 112
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 391-398
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Noradrenaline, but not Neuropeptide Y, is elevated in cerebrospinal fluid from the third cerebral ventricle following audiovisual stress in gonadectomised rams and ewes
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Neuroendocrinology
    Volume: 76
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 373-380
    Publisher: Karger(Basel)
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  • The feeding response to melanin-concentrating hormone is attenuated by antagonism of the NPY Y1-receptor in the rat
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Endocrinology
    Volume: 143
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 191-197
    Publisher: Endocrine Society(Maryland)
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  • Variation in plasma leptin levels in response to fasting in Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella)
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic and Environmental Physiology
    Volume: 172
    Page numbers: 27-34
    Publisher: Springer Verlag
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Does neuropeptide Y contribute to the anorectic action of amylin?
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Peptides
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 541-546
    Publisher: Elsevier(New York)
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  • Effects of vagal and splanchnic section on food intake, weight, serum leptin and hypothalamic neuropeptide Y in rat
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Autonomic Neuroscience - Basic & Clinical
    Volume: 92
    Page numbers: 28-36
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Enhanced inhibitory feeding response to alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone in the diet-induced obese rat
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Brain Research
    Volume: 892
    Page numbers: 130-137
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  • Estrogen deficiency causes central leptin insensitivity and increased hypothalamic neuropeptide Y
    Year: 2001
    Journal: International Journal of Obesity
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 1680-1688
    Publisher: Nature Publishing Group(Basingstroke)
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  • NPY Y1 receptors exert opposite effects on corticotropin releasing factor and noradrenaline overflow from the rat hypothalamus in vitro
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Brain Research
    Volume: 890
    Page numbers: 32-37
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Potentiation of cholinergic transmission in the rat hippocampus by angiotensin IV and LVV-hemorphin-7.
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Neuropharmacology
    Volume: 40
    Page numbers: 618-623
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