Griffith University

BSc, MPhil, PhD

Head of School

Research expertise

• Pre-eclampsia during pregnancy
• Oxidative damage in the heart

Current teaching areas

• Structural Biochemistry

Publications

• P24) Venardos K, Harrison G, Headrick J, Perkins A.V. (2004).  Auranofin increases apoptosis and ischemia-reperfusion injury in the isolated rat heart. Clin. Exp. Pharmacol. Physiol. 31, 289-294.
• P25) Venardos K, Harrison G, Headrick J, Perkins A.V. (2004) Effects of dietary selenium on glutathione peroxidase and thioredoxin reductase activity and recovery from cardiac ischemia-reperfusion. J Trace Elements Med. Biol. 18, 81-88.
• P26) Vanderlelie J, Venardos K, Perkins A.V. (2004) Selenium deficiency as a model of experimental preeclampsia in rats. Reproduction. 128, 635-641
• P27) Venardos K, Harrison G, Headrick J, Perkins A.V. (2004) Selenium supplementation and ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats. Redox Report. 9(6) 317-20.
• P28) Venardos K, Ashton K, Headrick J, Perkins A.V. (2005) Effects of dietary selenium on post-ischemic expression of antioxidant mRNA. Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry 270, 131-8.
• P29) Vanderlelie J, Venardos K, Clifton V, Gude N, Clarke F.M, Perkins A.V. (2005) Increased biological oxidation and reduced antioxidant enzyme activity in pre-eclamptic placentae. Placenta 26 (1) 53-58
• P30) Clifton, V. L., Vanderlelie J & Perkins A.V. (2005) Increased anti-oxidant enzyme activity and biological oxidation in placentae of pregnancies complicated by maternal asthma. Placenta 26(10) 773-779
• P31) Invited Review Perkins A.V.  (2006). Endogenous anti-oxidants in pregnancy and pre-eclamspsia. Australian J. Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 46(2):77-83
• P32) Vanderlelie, J., & Perkins A.V.  (2006) Chronic nitric oxide synthase inhibition in pregnant rats does not result in placental oxidative stress. J. Hypertension Pregnancy 25: 103-114
• P33) Lymbury R., Perkins A.V. (2006) Effect of Sodium Selenite enriched reperfusion solutions on rat cardiac ischaemia reperfusion injury Biological Trace Elements Research. 114, 197-206.
• P34) S. Zamodio & O. Kovalenko & J. Vanderlelie & N.P. Illsley & D. Heller & S.    Belliappa & Perkins A.V.  (2007), 'Chronic Hypoxia In Vivo Reduces Placental Oxidative Stress' Placenta, vol.28, 846-853.
• P35) Venardos K, Perkins A.V.,  Headrick J, Kaye DM. (2007)   Myocardial  Ischemia-  Reperfusion Injury, Antioxidant Enzyme Systems, and Selenium: A Review. Current   Medicinal Chemistry 14, 1539. Erratum Published Current Med Chem 14(27) 2944.
• P36) Vanderlelie, J., Gude, N., Perkins A.V., (2008) Antioxidant gene expression in  Preeclamptic Placentae. A preliminary Investigation.  Placenta 29, 51.