Advanced Concentration

Physiology & Pharmacology

Mentor

Maureen Keller-Wood, Ph.D. 

Department

Physiology & Functional Genomics

Enrolled 

August 2003

Lab Room

Lab Phone

E-mail

reini@ufl.edu

Education

B.S., Univ. Findlay

Dissertation Research

Mechanisms by which Overexposure to Cortisol Causes Fetal Heart Enlargement

Publications

Reini S, Dutta G, Wood C, Keller-Wood M. Cardiac corticosteroid receptors receptors mediate the enlargement of the ovine fetal heart induced by chronic increases in maternal cortisol. J Endocrinol. 2008 May 21. [Epub ahead of print]  abstract

Reini SA, Wood CE, Jensen E, Keller-Wood M.  Increased maternal cortisol in late gestation ewes decreases fetal cardiac expression of 11{beta}-HSD2 mRNA and the ratio of AT1 to AT2 receptor mRNA. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2006 Aug 10; [Epub ahead of print]  abstract

Abstracts Presented at Meetings

Seth Reini, Ellen Jensen, and Maureen Keller-Wood. Gene Expression in Cortisol-induced Enlargement of Fetal Sheep Hearts. Meeting for the Society of Gynecologic Investigation, 2005.

Honors & Awards

American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship, July 2006 - June 2008