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Rheal A. Towner, Ph.D. Associate Member, Advanced Magnetic Resonance Center Director, Advanced Magnetic Resonance Center Imaging Facility Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Pharmaceutical Sciences,   University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Associate Member, College of Medicine, Graduate Faculty in the Department of   Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Selected Publications
Condac E, Dale GL, Bender-Neal D, Ferencz B, Towner R, Hinsdale ME. Xylosyltransferase II is a significant contributor of circulating xylosyltransferase levels and platelets constitute an important source of xylosyltransferase in serum. Glycobiology 19:829-833, 2009. [Abstract]

Griffitts J, Tesiram Y, Reid GE, Saunders D, Floyd RA, Towner RA. In vivo MRS assessment of altered fatty acyl unsaturation in liver tumor formation of a TGF{alpha}/c-myc transgenic mouse model. J Lipid Res 50:611-622, 2009. [Abstract]

Gomez-Mejiba SE, Zhai Z, Akram H, Deterding LJ, Hensley K, Smith N, Towner RA, Tomer KB, Mason RP, Ramirez DC. Immuno-spin trapping of protein and DNA radicals: "tagging" free radicals to locate and understand the redox process. Free Radic Biol Med 46:853-865, 2009. [Abstract]

Selected Publications
Tesiram YA, Saunders DG and Towner RA. Application of proton NMR spectroscopy in the study of lipid metabolites in a rat hepatocarcinogenesis model. Biochem Biochys Acta 1737:61-68, 2005. [Abstract]

Towner RA, Foley LM and Painter DM. Hepatocarcinogenesis tumor grading correlated with in vivo image-guided (1)H-NMR spectroscopy in a rat model. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 207:237-244, 2005. [Abstract]

Towner RA, Appleby C, Levy M and Bray  TM. Zinc deficiency and oxidative stress in brain: magnetic resonance investigations in weanling rats. J Trace Elem Exp Med 17:161-174, 2004.

Towner RA, Qian SY, Kadiiska MB, Mason RP. In vivo identification of aflatoxin-induced free radicals in rat bile. Free Rad Biol Med, 35:1330-40, 2003. [Abstract]

Towner RA, Sturgeon SA and Hore KE. Assessment of in vivo oxidative lipid metabolism following acute microcystin-LR-induced hepatotoxicity in rats. Free Radical Res, 36; 63-71, 2002. [Abstract]

Towner RA, Sturgeon SA, Khan N, Hou H and Swartz HM. "In vivo assessment of nodularin-induced hepatotoxicity in the rat using magnetic resonance techniques (MRI, MRS and EPR oximetry)". Chem Biol Interactions 139;231-250, 2002. [Abstract]