591 CT Wethington Building Academic Appointments: • College of Agriculture Education: • B.A., Biochemistry, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 1973-1977 Awards: • Borden Award for Significant Research in Nutrition Research: Dr. Hennig’s research emphasis involves the utilization of tissue culture model systems in the study of nutrition and atherosclerosis, with emphasis in the role of nutrients on biomedical and molecular mechanisms of vascular endothelial cell function, injury and protection. His research has focused on the injurious effects of individual fats (e.g., fatty acids, cholesterol and their oxidation derivatives) to vascular endothelial cells and protection against such injury by certain vitamins and minerals (e.g., vitamin E and zinc). Because the nutritional environment of the vascular endothelium can influence cytokine-mediated endothelial activation or dysfunction, vascular effects of specific environmental contaminants, such as PCBs, in relation to endolethial cell activation and the pathology of atherosclerosis. Results from these studies may suggest novel therapeutic interventions by further understanding “endothelial cell nutrition” as a key variable in the etiology of diseases such as atherosclerosis.
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