Faculty Profile
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Judith Turgeon
Professor of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine: Division of Endocrinology, Clinical Nutrition and Vascular Medicine (School of Medicine) 2206T Tupper Hall Office 530 752-1313 Lab 530 754-5113 jlturgeon@ucdavis.edu |
Degrees:
1969 - PhD - University of Kansas - Anatomy
1965 - BA - Washburn University, Kansas - Biology
Department and Center Affiliations:
Department of Internal Medicine; Cancer Center
Professional Societies:
Endocrine Society; Society for Study of Reproduction; Women in Endocrinology
Grad Group Affiliations and Specialties:
Cell and Developmental Biology
Publications:
Turgeon, J. L., and D. W. Waring. 1994. Activation of the progesterone receptor by the GnRH self-priming pathway. Molecular Endocrinology. 8:860-869
Turgeon, J. L., Kimura, Y, Waring, D. W. and P. L. Mellon. 1996. Steroid and pulsatile GnRH regulation of LH and GnRH receptor in a novel gonadotrope cell line. Molecular Endocrinology. 10:439-450
Turgeon, J. L., and D. W. Waring. 2000. Progesterone regulation of the progesterone receptor in rat gonadotropes. Endocrinology. 141:3422-3429
Turgeon, J. L., Shyamala, G., and D. W. Waring. 2001. PR localization and anterior pituitary cell populations in vitro in ovariectomized wild-type and PR-knockout mice. Endocrinology 142 (10):4479-4485. [Featured in an accompanying editorial: Bethea, C.L., Large lessons from little lactotropes, Endocrinology 142 (10):4170-4172.]
Turgeon, J. L., McDonnell, D. P., Martin, K. A. and P. M. Wise. 2004. Hormone therapy: Physiological complexity belies therapeutic simplicity. Science 304:1269-1273.
Turgeon, J. L. and D. W. Waring. Differential expression and regulation of progesterone receptor isoforms in rat and mouse pituitary cells and LBT2 gonadotropes. J. Endocrinology 190: 837-846, 2006.
Turgeon, J. L., Carr, M. C., Maki, P. M., Mendelsohn, M. E., and P. M. Wise. Complex actions of sex steroids in adipose tissue, the cardiovascular system, and brain: insights from basic science and clinical studies. Endocrine Reviews 27:575-605, 2006
Waring, D. W. and J. L. Turgeon. Estradiol inhibition of voltage-activated and GnRH-induced currents in mouse gonadotrophs. Endocrinology 147(12):5798-5805, 2006.
Research Interests:
Cellular endocrinology, steroid hormone receptors and crosstalk with peptide hormone receptors, signal transduction, exocytosis, anterior pituitary hormone secretion.
Teaching Interests:
Reproductive endocrinology. Cellular, molecular, and systemic general endocrinology.