PhD student, Brianna Julien, with supervisor, Dr Andrew Bendrups, at the Australian Physiological Society Conference in Newcastle, December, 2007. Brianna presented an excellent poster entitled "Effects of a cognitive task on sway and postural reflex activity during standing", based on one of her PhD projects.

You can view the abstract at: http://www.aups.org.au/Proceedings/38/127P/

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• Ergonomics resources: go to www.latrobe.edu.au/ergonomics

• connective tissue (cartilage and bone) 
• ergonomics (see www.latrobe.edu.au/ergonomics)
• forensic handwriting analysis 
• muscle & exercise physiology 
• neurosciences 
• pharmacology 

A sample of recent publications of School staff* is provided here. It is updated regularly (maybe). Further details are available through staff members' personal pages (see the Staff list for links to these).

• Brown, J.M.M., Wickham, J.B., McAndrew, D.J. & Huang, X-F. (2007). Muscles within muscles: Coordination of 19 muscle segments within three shoulder muscles during isometric motor tasks. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, 17: 57-73.
• McDonald, A., Schuijers, J.A., Gundlach, A.L. and Grills, B.L. (2007). The effects of exogenous galanin application on bone formation in mouse calvaria. Bone, 40: 895-903.
• Ward A.R. & Lucas-Toumbourou S. (2007). Lowering of sensory, motor and pain-tolerance thresholds with burst duration using kHz frequency alternating current electrical stimulation. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 88: 1036-1041.
• E. Djouma, K. Card, D. Lodge & A.J Lawrence (2006). The CRF1 receptor antagonist, antalarmin, reverses isolation-induced up-regulation of dopamine D2 receptors in the amygdala and nucleus accumbens of Fawn-Hooded rats, European Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 3319-3327.
• Kerr, J. B., R. Duckett, M. Myers, K.L. Britt, T. Mladenovska and J.K. Findlay (2006). Quantification of healthy follicles in the neonatal and adult mouse ovary: evidence for maintenance of primordial follicle supply. Reproduction, 132: 97-111.
• Meehan-Andrews, T.A., Humphreys J.S., Jones, J.A., (2006). ‘How do we canvas rural consumer viewpoints for health care planning and quality assurance? - Methodological considerations. Australian Journal of Primary Health, November pp72-77.
• Samiric, T., Ilic, M.Z. and Handley, C.J. (2006) Sulfated polysaccharides inhibit the catabolism and loss of both large and small proteoglycans in explant cultures of tendon. FEBS J., 273:3479-3488.
• Ilic, M., Carter, P., Tyndall, A., Dudhia, J. & Handley, C. (2005). Proteoglycans and catabolic products of proteoglycans present in ligament Biochemical Journal, 385: 381-388.
• Found, B. & Rogers D. (2005). Investigating forensic document examiners' skill relating to opinions on photocopied signatures. Science & Justice, 45: 199-206.
• Mirkovic, M., Green, R., Taylor, N. & Perrott, M. (2005). Accuracy of clinical tests to diagnose superior labral anterior and posterior (SLAP) lesions. Physical Therapy Reviews, 10:5-14.
• Sliwinksi, A, Stanic, D, Finkelstein, D, Ilic, M, West, J & Dooley, P (2005). Alterations in the proportions of skeletal muscle proteins following a unilateral lesion to the substantia nigra pars compacta of rats Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility, 26: 149-155.
• Apricó, K., Beart, P.M., Crawford, D., O'Shea, R.D. (2004). Binding and transport of , a new ligand for glutamate transporter, demonstrate labelling of EAAT1 in cultured murine astrocytes. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 75: 751-9.
• Macdonald, W. 2004. Workload, stress and psychosocial factors as hazards for musculoskeletal disorders. Journal of Occupational Health and Safety - Australia and New Zealand, 20: 37-47.
• Sita, J., Found, B., Rogers, D. (2004). A preliminary model using quantitative data for forensic signature identification, Journal of Forensic Document Examination, 16.
• Wood, P., Gibson, M., Verrinder, A. (2004). Community pharmacists and men's health in regional Victoria. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, 34:285.
• Bryant, B.J., Knights, K. & Salerno, E. (2003). Pharmacology for Health Professionals. Mosby/Elsevier Science, Sydney.
• Taylor, N.F., Evans, O.M. & Goldie, P.A. (2003) The effect of walking faster on people with acute low back pain. Eur. Spine J., 12:166-172.
• Ho, C.Y. & Bendrups, A.P. (2002). Ankle reflex stiffness during unperceived perturbation of standing in elderly subjects. J. Gerontol. 57: B344-B350.
• Stewart, T.M., Brown, E., Venn, A., Mbizvo, M.T., Farley, T.M.M., Garret, C., Baker, H.W.G. (2001). Feasibililty of surveillance of changes in human fertility and semen quality. Human Reproduction, 16: 177-187.

*To see recent publications of ergonomics staff and research students, go to www.latrobe.edu.au/ergonomics