Biography
Chair, Department of Biology; Professor
BSc (Mount Allison); MSc, PhD (Dalhousie)
Dr Sweeney moved to UPEI in August 1997, after a short stint as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Physiology, University of Saskatchewan, and Principal Investigator in the Saskatchewan Stroke Research Center, Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon. Previously, she completed a PhD in Pharmacology at Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS), and an MRC-funded post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of London (St. George’s Hospital and Royal Free Hospital Schools of Medicine, UK).
Recent Publications
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The effects of 100% wild blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) juice consumption on cardiometablic biomarkers
- BMC Nutrition, 2017
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Blueberry puree increases HDL-cholesterol in rats
- FASEB Journal, 2015
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Flaxseed lignan secoisolariciresinol diglucoside improves insulin sensitivity through upregulation of GLUT4 expression in diet-induced obese mice
- Journal of Functional Foods, 2015
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Probiotics blunt the anti-hypertensive effect of blueberry feeding in hypertensive rats without altering hippuric acid production
- PLoS ONE, 2015
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Probiotics do not enhance anti-hypertensive effect of blueberry diets in hypertensive rats
- FASEB Journal, 2015
Research Classification
- No classification given
Research Interests
- Vaccinium berries (blueberries, cranberries)
- Cardiovascular diseases; hypertension; atherosclerosis; diabetes; renal disease
- Stroke and neurodegenerative diseases; different forms of cell death; neuroprotection
- Oxidative stress and inflammation; antioxidants
- Animal models of diseases; animal tissue culture
Current Scholars in Biology
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