Karen Sweazea

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(††Graduate student, †Undergraduate student)

1. Basile AJ††, Kreisler A†, Hassen R†, Singh K†, Symes M†, Larson G†, Figueiredo de Sousa M††, Sweazea KL*. (2024) Acute metformin induces hyperglycemia in healthy adult mourning doves, Zenaida macroura. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A. 291: 111594. DOI: 10.1016/jcbpa.2024.111594
2. Deviche P*, Sweazea KL*, Angelier F*. (2023) Past and future: Urbanization and the avian endocrine system. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 332:114159.  
3. Brown J*, Basile A††, Bateman H, Lerman S, Warren P, Deviche P, Sweazea KL*. (2022) No fry zones: How restaurant distribution and abundance influence avian communities. PLOS ONE. 17(10): e0269334.
4. Mohr AE††*, Basile A††, Sweazea KL*. (2022) An urban diet differentially alters the gut microbiome and metabolomic profiles compared to a seed diet in mourning doves. American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative Physiology. 323(4):R385-R396.
5. Basile A††, Singh K†, Watson D††, Sweazea KL*. (2022) Comparative Models in Biomedical Research special issue: Effect of macronutrient and micronutrient manipulation on avian blood glucose concentration: A systematic review. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A. 272: 111279.
6. Sweazea KL*. (2022) Invited review for the Comparative Models in Biomedical Research special issue: Revisiting glucose regulation in birds – A negative model of diabetes complications. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B. 262: 110778.
7. Basile A††, Renner M†, Kayata L†, Deviche P, Sweazea KL*. (2021) A four-week urban diet impairs vasodilation but not nutritional physiology in wild-caught mourning doves (Zenaida macroura). Physiological Biochemical Zoology. 94(4): 241-252.
8. Basile A††, Kirkton S, Hedrick M, Carey H, Sweazea KL*. (2021) Defining comparative physiology: Results from a cross-sectional survey of physiologists and systematic review. American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 320(6): R938-944.
9. Crawford M††, Mohr AE††, Sweazea KL*. (2020) Novel organic mineral complex prevents high-fat diet-induced changes in the gut and liver of male Sprague-Dawley rats. Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism. 2020: Article ID: 8846401.
10. Anthony C††, Wilson A††, Sweazea KL*, Braun EJ. (2020) Fewer exposed lysine residues may explain relative resistance of chicken serum albumin to in vitro protein glycation in comparison to bovine serum albumin. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 88(8): 653-661, 2020.