Investigators
Charles Bolt Stephensen
Research Scientist & Associate Adjunct Professor
Department of Nutrition
email: cstephensen@ucdavis.edu
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Selected Publications: Jacob, R.A., Aiello, G.M., Stephensen, C.B., Blumberg, B., Milbury, P.E., Wallock, L.M., Ames, B.N. Moderate antioxidant supplementation has no effect on biomarkers of oxidant damage in healthy men with low fruit and vegetable intakes. J. Nutr. 133:740-3, 2003.
Stephensen, CB, LM Franchi, H Hernandez, M Campos, A Colarossi, RH Gilman, JO Alvarez. Assessment of vitamin A status with relative dose-response test in Peruvian Children Recovering from pneumonia. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 76:13517, 2002.
Mitra, AK, MA Wahed, AK Chowdhury, CB Stephensen. Urinary retinol excretion in children with acute watery diarrhoea. J Health Popul Nutr 20:12-17, 2002.
Stephensen, CB, R Rasooly, X Jiang, MA Ceddia, CT Weaver, RAS Chandraratna, RP Bucy. Vitamin A Enhances in vitro Th2 Development via Retinoid X Receptor Pathway. J Immunol 168:4495-4503, 2002.
Kemper, C, M Leung, CB Stephensen, CA Pinkert, MK Lixzewski, R Cattaneo, JP Atkinson. Membrane cofactor protein (MCP; CD46) expression in transgenic mice. Clin Exp Immunol 124:180-9, 2001.
Stephensen, CB, Gildengorin, G. Serum retinol, the acute phase response and apparent misclassification of vitamin A status in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III). Am. J. Clin Nutr. 72:1170?8, 2000.
Zhang, Y; Lee, B; Thompson, M; Glass, R; Lee, RC; Figueroa, D; Gilman, R; Taylor, D; Stephenson [sic], C; Diarrhea Working Group. Lactulose-mannitol intestinal permeability test in children with diarrhea caused by rotavirus and Cryptosporidium. J. Ped. Gastroenterol. Nutr. 31:16?21, 2000.
Cui, DM, Moldoveanu, Z, Stephensen, CB. High-level Dietary Vitamin A Enhances T-helper Type 2 Cytokine Production and Secretory IgA Response to Influenza A Virus Infection in BALB/c Mice. J. Nutr. 130:1132, 2000.
Welter, J, Taylor, J, Tartaglia, J, Paoletti, E, Stephensen, CB. Vaccination Against Canine Distemper Virus Infection in Infant Ferrets With and Without Maternal Antibody Protection Using Recombinant Attenuated Poxvirus Vaccines. J. Virol. 74:6358-67, 2000.
Stephensen, CB, Casebolt, DC, Gangopadhyay, NN. Phylogenetic Analysis of a Highly Conserved Region of the Polymerase Gene from Eleven Coronaviruses and Development of a Consensus PCR Assay. Virus Research 60(2):181-189, 1999.
Welter, J Taylor, J, Tartaglia, J, Paoletti, E, Stephensen, CB. Mucosal vaccination with recombinant poxvirus vaccines protects ferrets against symptomatic CDV infection. Vaccine 17:308-18, 1999.

