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Education:
Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), 2000, Universidad Central del Este, San Pedro de Macoris, RD. MSc., 1983, Brunel University, UK.
Research Interest:
Special interest in clinical research and molecular mechanisms underlying diseases: Environmental Immunotoxicology, Anatomy & Physiology
Publications: 1. Ayensu W , Rezvani A, Overstreet D, Pucilowski O, and Janowski, D. Ethanol and Complement Hemolytic Activity of Selectively Bred Hypercholinergic Rats. Alcohol and Alcoholism . January 1992;27:47-54.
2. Ayensu WK , Pucilowski O, Mason GA, Overstreet DH, Rezvani AH, and Janowski DS. Effects of Chronic Mild Stress on Serum Complement Activity, Saccharin Preference, and Corticosterone Levels in Flinders Lines of Rats. Physiol Behav. January 1995;57:165-169.
3. Pucilowski O, Ayensu, WK , D'Ecole AJ. Insulin-like Growth Factor Expression Alters Acute Sensitivity and Tolerance to Ethanol in Transgenic Mice. Eur. J. Pharmacol . June 1996;305:57-62. 4. Paul B. Tchounwou, Wellington K. Ayensu , Nanuli Ninashvili, Dwayne Sutton. Environmental Exposure to Mercury and Its Toxicopathologic Implications for Public Health. Environ Toxicol 2003; 18(3):149-75.
5. Wellington K. Ayensu , Paul B. Tchounwou, Robert W. McMurray. Molecular and cellular Mechanisms Associated with Autoimmune Diseases, Int. J. Environ Res Public Health, 2004, 1, 39-73.
6. Wellington K. Ayensu and Paul B. Tchounwou . Health Risk Assessment and management of mercury poisoning. In Environmental Health and Biomedical Research, 2004, eds pp. 8 th International Symposium on Metal Ions In Biology and Medicine. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest , Hungary . (Abstract). UNESCO. 2004.
7. Wellington K. Ayensu and Paul B. Tchounwou, Microarray Analysis of Mercury-induced changes in Gene Expression in Human Liver Carcinoma (HepG 2 ) Cells. Int. J. Environ Res Public Health, 2005, vol, pp In Press.
Fellowship:
FIBMS, 1978 (Fellowship)
Institute of Biomedical Sciences, UK.
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