Department of Biological Sciences > Faculty & Staff > Cell Biology > Sonya J. Conway

Representative Publications

• Mauceri, H.J., Becker, K.B., and S. Conway. The influence of ethanol exposure on insulin-like growth factor type II receptors in fetal rat tissue. Life Sciences 59:51-60; 1996. 
• Conway S., and Y. Garbouzova. Effect of fetal alcohol exposure on postnatal pituitary cAMP content and growth hormone release. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 20: 1212-1220, 1996. 
• Conway S and R Swain. Somatostatin stimulated growth hormone-releasing factor secretion in vitro is modified by fetal ethanol exposure. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 21:703-709, 1997.
• Conway S, Ling SY, Leidy Jr JW, Blaine K, Holtzman T. The effect of fetal ethanol exposure on the in vitro release of Growth Hormone (GH), somatostatin and GH-releasing factor induced by clonidine and GH feedback in male and female rats. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 21: 826-839, 1997 
• Blaine K and S Conway. The influence of fetal alcohol exposure on the GABAergic regulation of Growth Hormone release in rats postnatally. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research (submitted 1998) 

Presentations/Abstracts:

• Mauceri, H.J., Conway, S. and W.H. Lee. The effect of ethanol on fetal growth and insulin-like growth factor II release from fetal tissue explants. Endocrine Society, Las Vegas, NV, June 1993. 
• Blaine, K., and Conway, S. The effects of fetal ethanol on GABA-mediated growth hormone (GH) secretion in the postnatal rat. Research Society on Alcoholism, Washington, DC, 1996.
• Holtzman, T., Gasser, K., and Conway, S. The effects of fetal alcohol (ETOH) on the role of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) in growth hormone (GH) feedback in the postnatal rat. Endocrine Society, Minneapolis, Minn, June 1997.

Research Interests

Ultimate Research Goals:

1. To determine the mechanism of sexual dimorphic growth hormone cyclicity. 
2. To provide insight into the effect of fetal ethanol exposure on growth retardation.

Techniques Utilized in Research: 

• Radioimmunoassay 
• Animal Surgery including insertion of permanent indwelling cannulae 
• Tissue Culture 
• Histology 
• Confocal Microscopy 
• Gel electrophoresis 
• Western Immunoblotting 
• Immunoprecipitation
• Cell transfection
• Immunocytochemistry
• Cell fractionation
• Plasmid preparation