Staff profile

Dr Louise Lexis

Lecturer

Faculty of Health Sciences

School of Public Health and Human Biosciences
Department of Human Biosciences

HS2 438, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BEd MSc PhD

Membership of professional Associations

Australian Physiological Society, Nutrition Society of Australia

Area of study

Anatomy and Physiology

Teaching Units

Advanced Physiology A (HBS3APA)

Advanced Physiology B (HBS3APB)

Physiology and Biomechanics of Movement (HBS2PBM)

Recent Publications

 

Papazzo A, Conlan XA, Lexis L, Lewandowski PA. The effect of short-term canola oil ingestion on oxidative stress in the vasculature of stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats. Lipids Health Dis. 10(180): 2011.

Papazzo A, Conlan XA, Lexis L, Lewandowski PA. Differential effects of dietary canola and soybean oil intake on oxidative stress in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats. Lipids Health Dis. 10(98): 2011.

Annateresa Papazzo, Louise Lexis, Paul Lewandowski. CoQ10 conveys protection from oxidative stress in plasma but not skeletal muscle. Nutrition and Dietary Supplements. 2: 51-58, 2010.

Older Publications

Michelle Micallef, Louise Lexis, Paul Lewandowski. Red wine consumption increases antioxidant status     and decreases oxidative stress in the circulation of both young and old humans. Nutrition Journal. 6(27), 2007.

Sarah Williams, Natalie Strobel, Louise Lexis, Jeff Coombes. Antioxidant requirements of endurance athletes: implications for health. Nutrition Reviews. 64(3): 93-108, 2006.

Louise Lexis, Andrew Fenning, Lindsay Brown, Robert Fassett, Jeff Coombes. Antioxidant supplementation enhances erythrocyte antioxidant status and attenuates cyclosporine-induced vascular dysfunction. American Journal of Transplantation. 6(1): 41-49, 2006.

Louise Lexis, Robert Fassett, Jeff Coombes. Alpha-tocopherol and alpha-lipoic acid enhance the erythrocyte antioxidant defence in cyclosporine A-treated rats. Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology. 98(1): 68-73, 2006.

S Austen, J Coombes, L Lexis, R Fassett and C Booth. Acute exposure to Cyclosporine A does not increase plasma homocysteine in rats. Transplantation Proceedings. 37(10): 4543-4546, 2005.

Louise Lexis, Ross Richards, Robert Fassett, Jeff Coombes. Cyclosporine A induced changes to erythrocyte redox balance is time course dependent. Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology. 97(3): 135-140, 2005.

Louise Fletcher, Robert Fassett, Ross Richards, Jeff Coombes. Cyclosporine A induced changes to plasma and erythrocyte antioxidant defences. Redox Report. 10(1): 2-8, 2005.

Louise Fletcher, Scott K. Powers, Jeff S. Coombes, Haydar Demirel, Heather Vincent, Stephen L. Dodd and James McLaughlin. Glucocorticoid-induced alterations in the rate of diaphragmatic fatigue. Pharmacological Research. 42(1): 61-8, 2000

Ioannis S. Vrabas, Stephen L. Dodd, Scott K. Powers, Michael Hughes, Jeff Coombes, Louise Fletcher, Haydar Demirel, and Michael B. Reid. Endurance training reduces the rate of diaphragm fatigue in vitro. Medicine and Science in Sports & Exercise. 31(11): 1605-1612, 1999.

Demirel HA, Powers SK, Caillaud C, Coombes JS, Naito H, Fletcher LA, Vrabas I, Jessup JV, Ji LL. Exercise training reduces myocardial lipid peroxidation following short-term ischemia-reperfusion. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. 30(8):1211-6, 1998.

Powers SK, Demirel HA, Coombes JS, Fletcher L, Calliaud C, Vrabas I, Prezant D. Myosin Phenotype and Bioenergetic characteristics of rat respiratory muscles. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. 29(12): 1573-1579, 1997.  

Hodge K, Powers SK, Coombes JS, Fletcher L, Demirel HA, Dodd SL, Martin D. Bioenergetic characteristics of the costal and crural diaphragm in mammals. Respiration Physiology. 109(2): 149-154, 1997.  

S.K. Powers, G.A. Farkas, H. Demirel, J. Coombes, L. Fletcher, M.G. Hughes, K. Hodge, S.L. Dodd and E.H. Schlenker. Effects of aging and obesity on respiratory muscle phenotype in Zucker rats. Journal of Applied Physiology. 81(3): 1347-1354, 1996.  

Grace M., Fletcher L., Powers S.K., Hughes M. and Coombes J. A comparison of maximal bioenergetic enzyme activities obtained with commonly used homogenization techniques. Journal completed as part-time remote student of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness. 36(4): 281-286, 1996.

Research projects

Canola oil intake and redox status in spontaneously hypertensive stroke prone rats.

Mechanisms of erythrocyte oxidative stress in Parkinson's disease.