Dr Miles De Blasio

Awards & Achievements

1. Research Centre for Reproductive Health, The University of Adelaide, International Travel Grant 2007
2. The manuscript below was ranked 30th in the top 50 most frequently read papers for February 2007 in the American Journal of Physiology (see attached scanned letter).
DE BLASIO MJ, Gatford KL, Robinson JS, Owens JA (2007). Placental restriction of fetal growth reduces size at birth and increases postnatal growth and adiposity in the young lamb. Am J Physiol Reg Int Comp Physiol 292(2): R875-R886.
3. Second best oral presentation for the IGF Down Under Symposia, Satellite Conference to COMBIO 2006
4. NGED Cross-Disciplinary Workshop Attendance Award 2006
5. Awarded second best oral presentation for GH-IGF International Conference Cairns 2004
6. Endocrine Society of Australia International Travel Award 2004.
7. Winner of the New Investigator Award for the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) meeting New Zealand 2002
8. Adelaide University Research Abroad Scholarship (Round 1) 2002.
9. Finalist (1 of 6 Australia wide) for Novartis Junior Investigator Award for the Endocrine Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting 2001.
10. Endocrine Society of Australia Travel Award 2001.
11. Finalist of the Ross Wishart Award for the Australian Society of Medical Research (ASMR) local division (SA) 2001.
12. International Congress of Endocrinology 2000 Travel Award, 2000.
13. Endocrine Society of Australia Travel Award 1999.
14. Department of Physiology Summer scholarship 1998.

 

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES
1. DE BLASIO MJ, Blache D, Gatford KL, Robinson JS, Owens JA (2010). Placental restriction increases adipose leptin gene expression and plasma leptin and alters their relationship to feeding activity in the young lamb. Pediatric Research 67(6): 603-608

2. Gatford KL, Smits RJ, Collins CL, Argent C, DE BLASIO MJ, Roberts CT, Nottle MB, Kind KL, Owens JA. Maternal responses to daily maternal porcine somatotropin injections during early-mid or early-late pregnancy in sows and gilts. Journal of Animal Science 88(4): 1365-78.

3. Gatford KL, DE BLASIO MJ, Roberts CT, Nottle M, Kind K, van Wettere W, Owens JA (2009). Responses to maternal growth hormone or ractopamine during early-mid pregnancy are similar in primiparous and multiparous pregnant pigs. Journal of Endocrinology 203(1): 143-154.

4. Siebel, AL, Mibus A, DE BLASIO MJ, Westcott KT, Morris MJ, Prior L, Owens JA and Wlodek ME (2008). Improved lactational nutrition and postnatal growth ameliorates impairment of glucose tolerance by uteroplacental insufficiency in male rat offspring. Endocrinology 149(6): 3067-3076

 

5. Quigley SP, Kleemann DO, Walker SK, Speck PA, Rudiger SR, Nattrass GS, DE BLASIO MJ & Owens JA (2008). Effect of Variable Long-Term Maternal Feed Allowance on the Development of the Ovine Placenta and Fetus. Placenta 29(6): 539-548.

 

6. Gatford KL, Mohammad SNB, Harland ML, DE BLASIO MJ, Fowden AL, Robinson JS, Owens JA (2008). Impaired β-cell function and inadequate compensatory increases in β-cell mass following intrauterine growth restriction in sheep. Endocrinology 149(10): 5118-5127

 

7. DE BLASIO MJ, Gatford KL, McMillen IC, Robinson JS, Owens JA (2007). Placental restriction of fetal growth increases insulin action, growth and adiposity in the young lamb. Endocrinology 148(3): 1350-1358

 

8. DE BLASIO MJ, Gatford KL, Robinson JS, Owens JA (2007). Placental restriction of fetal growth reduces size at birth and increases postnatal growth and adiposity in the young lamb. American Journal of Physiology Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 292(2): R875-R886

 

9. DE BLASIO MJ, Dodic M, Moritz K, Wintour-Coghlan EM, Robinson JS, Owens JA (2007). Maternal exposure to cortisol in early pregnancy causes fasting hyperglycaemia and hyperinsulinaemia in adult male sheep offspring. ‘American Journal of Physiology Endocrinology and Metabolism' 293(1): E75-E82.

 

10. Pirc LK, Owens JA, Crowther CA, Wilson K, DE BLASIO MJ, Robinson JS (2007). Mild Gestational Diabetes in Pregnancy and the Adipoinsular Axis in Neonates born to mothers in the ACHOIS randomised controlled trial. BMC Pediatrics 7:18

 

11. Owens JA, Thavaneswaran P, DE BLASIO MJ, McMillen IC, Robinson JS, Gatford KL (2007). Sex-specific effects of placental restriction on components of the metabolic syndrome in young adult sheep. American Journal of Physiology Endocrinology and Metabolism 292(6): E1879-E1889.

 

12. Owens JA, Gatford KL, DE BLASIO MJ, Edwards LJ, McMillen IC, Fowden AL (2007). Restriction of placental growth in sheep impairs insulin secretion but not sensitivity before birth. Journal of Physiology 584(Pt 3):935-949.

 

13. DE BLASIO MJ, Gatford KL, Robinson JS, Owens JA (2006). Placental restriction alters circulating thyroid hormone in the young lamb postnatally. American Journal of Physiology Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 291(4): R1016-R1024.

 

14. Gatford KL, DE BLASIO MJ, Thavaneswaran P, Robinson JS, McMillen IC, Owens JA (2004). Postnatal ontogeny of glucose homeostasis and insulin action in sheep. American Journal of Physiology Endocrinology and Metabolism 286(6): E1050-E1059.

 

15. Gatford KL, Ekert JE, Blackmore K, DE BLASIO MJ, Boyce JM, Owens JA, Campbell RG, Owens PC (2003). Variable Maternal nutrition and growth hormone treatment in the second quarter of pregnancy in pigs alter semitendinosus muscle in adolescent progeny. British Journal of Nutrition 90(2): 283-293.

 

16. Gatford, KL, Clarke IJ, DE BLASIO MJ, McMillen IC, Robinson JS, Owens JA (2002). Perinatal growth and plasma GH profiles in adolescent and adult sheep. Journal of Endocrinology 173(1): 151-159.

 

17. Gatford KL, Owens JA, Campbell RG, Boyce JM, Grant PA, DE BLASIO MJ, Owens PC (2000). Treatment of underfed pigs with Growth Hormone throughout the second quarter of pregnancy increases fetal growth. Journal of Endocrinology 166(1): 227-234.

 

18. Gatford KL, Wintour EM, DE BLASIO MJ, Owens JA, Dodic M (2000). Differential Timing for Programming of Glucose Homeostasis, Sensitivity to Insulin and Blood Pressure by in utero Exposure to Dexamethasone in Sheep. Clinical Science 98(5): 553-560.

REVIEWS
19. Gatford KL, Simmons RA, DE BLASIO MJ, Robinson JS, Owens JA. (2010). Review: Placental programming of progeny metabolic health. Placenta 31 Suppl: S60-S65.

BOOK CHAPTERS
20. KL Gatford, MJ DE BLASIO, KL Kind, D Horton, M Dodic 2006 Perinatal programming of adult metabolic homeostasis: lessons from experimental studies. Wintour EM and Owens JA (eds). Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 573: 157-176.

21. Owens JA, Gatford KL, MJ DE BLASIO, Horton DM, Kind KL, Robinson JS 2005 Perinatal programming of metabolic homeostasis. In: Perinatal Programming: Early Life Determinants of Adult Health & Disease. Hodgson D & Coe C (Eds.), Taylor and Francis Medical Books, UK.

Entry last updated: Wednesday, 19 Sep 2012