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Ching Kuang Chow, Ph.D.
Professor

University of Kentucky
308 Funkhouser Building
Lexington, KY 40506-0054
Tel: 859-257-7783
e-mail: ckchow@uky.edu

Academic Appointments:

• Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences
• Department of Nutrition and Food Science
• Graduate Center for Toxicology

Education:

• B.S., Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
• M.S., Animal Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
• Ph.D., Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

Awards:

• American Society for Clinical Nutrition Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
• National Heart and Lung Institute Young Investigator
• Fulbright Senior Research Scholar (Medical Science; Germany)
• Member, American Society for Nutritional Sciences
• Member, American Society for Clinical Nutrition

Specific Interest in Nutrition:

Role of nutrients in antioxidant defense.

Research:

Reactive oxygen species-induced oxidative damage and cellular antioxidant defense.

Selected List of Publications:

1. Smith, P., A.L. Tappel and C.K. Chow. Glutathione peroxidase activity as a function of dietary selenomethionine. Nature ( London) 247: 392-393, 1974.

2. Chow, C.K. Biochemical responses in the lungs of ozone-tolerant rats. Nature ( London) 260: 721-722, 1976.

3. Chow, C.K. Nutritional influence on cellular antioxidant defense systems. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 32: 1061-1081, 1979.

4. Ibrahim, W., U.-S. Lee, H.-C. Yen, D.K. St. Clair and C.K. Chow. Oxidative stress and antioxidant status of manganese-superoxide dismutase tranagenic mice. Free Rad. Biol. Med . 28: 397-402, 2000.

5. Chow, C.K. Vitamin E. In Handbook of Vitamins, 3rd ed. (Rucker, R., J.W. Suttie, D.M McCormick and L.J. Machlin, eds.), Marcel Dekker, New York, pp.165-196, 2001.

6. Chow, C.K. Vitamin E regulation of mitochondrial superoxide generation. Biol. Signals Receptors 10: 112-124, 2001.

7. Chow, C.K., W. Ibrahim, S.J, Yen and D.K. St. Clair. Manganese superoxide dismutase transgenic mice: characterization and implications. Methods Enzymol. 353: 398-409, 2002.

8. Chow, C.K. Dietary and mitochondrial coenzyme Q10. Methods Enzymol. 382: 105-112, 2003.

9. Chow, C.K. Biological functions and metabolic fate of vitamin E revisited. J. Biomed. Sci. 11: 295-302, 2004.

10. Ibrahim, W. and C.K. Chow. Dietary vitamin E reduces tissue labile iron. J. Biochem. Mol. Toxicol., 19: 1-6, 2005.