Kim Vonnahme
Assistant Professor
Office: 181 Hultz Hall
Phone: (701) 231-5883
E-mail: kim.vonnahme@ndsu.edu
Research interests:
Reproductive Physiology
Nutritional impacts on fetal and placental growth
Placental vascularization
Training/Education:
PhD, Reproductive Physiology - University of Wyoming , 2003
MS, Animal Science- Oklahoma State University , 1998
BS, Animal Science- Iowa State University , 1996
Courses taught:
ANSC 463 Physiology of Reproduction
Recent publications:
Vonnahme, K.A. , J.R. Malayer, H.O. Spivey, S.P. Ford, A. Clutter and R.D. Geisert. 1999. Detection of kallikrein gene expression and enzymatic activity in porcine endometrium during the estrous cycle and early pregnancy. Biol. Reprod. 61:1235-1241.
Wilson , M.E. , K.A. Vonnahme and S.P. Ford. 2001. Role of altered uterine-embryo synchrony on conceptus growth in the pig. J. Anim. Sci. 79:1863-1867.
Vonnahme, K.A. , M.E. Wilson and S.P. Ford. 2001. Relationship between placental vascular endothelial growth factor expression and placental/endometrial vascularity in the pig. Biol. Reprod. 64:1821-1825 .
Geisert, R.D., C.S. Chamberlain, K.A.Vonnahme , J.R. Malayer, L.J. Spicer. 2001. Possible role of kallikrein in proteolysis of insulin-like growth factor binding protein during the oestrous cycle and early pregnancy in pigs. Reproduction. 121:719-728.
Ford, S.P., K.A. Vonnahme and M.E. Wilson . 2002. Uterine capacity in the pig reflects a combination of uterine environmental and conceptus genotype effects. J. Anim. Sci. 80 (E. Suppl. 1): E66-E73.
Vonnahme, K.A. , M.E. Wilson and S.P. Ford. 2002. Conceptus competition for uterine space: Different strategies exhibited by the Meishan and Yorkshire pig. J. Anim.Sci. 80: 1311-1316.
Vonnahme, K.A. , M.E. Wilson , G.R. Foxcroft and S.P. Ford. 2002. Impacts of conceptus survival in a commercial swine herd. J. Anim. Sci. 80: 553-559.
Murdoch, W.J., E.A. Van Kirk, K.A. Vonnahme and S.P. Ford. 2003. Ovarian responses to undernutrition in pregnant ewes. Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology http://www.rbej.com/content/pdf/1477-7827-1-6.pdf
Vonnahme, K.A. , B.W. Hess, T.R. Hansen, R.J. McCormick, D.C. Rule, G.E. Moss, W.J. Murdoch, M.J. Nijland, D.C. Skinner, P.W. Nathanielsz and S.P. Ford. 2003. Maternal undernutrition from early to mid gestation leads to growth retardation, cardiac ventricular hypertrophy and increased liver weight in the fetal sheep. Biol. Reprod. 69:133-140.
Vonnahme, K.A. , S. C. Fernando, J.W. Ross, M.D. Ashworth, U. DeSilva, J.R. Malayer, and R.D. Geisert. 2004. Porcine endometrial expression of kininogen, factor XII and plasma kallikrein in cyclic and pregnant gilts. Biol. Reprod. 70:132-138.
Vonnahme K.A. and S.P. Ford. 2004. Placental vascular endothelial growth factor receptor system mRNA expression in pigs selected for placental efficiency. J. Physiol. 554:194-201.
Vonnahme K.A. and S.P. Ford. 2004. Differential expression of the vascular endothelial growth factor-receptor system in the gravid uterus of Yorkshire and Meishan pigs. Biol of Reprod. 71:163-169.
Reynolds L.P., P.P. Borowicz, K.A. Vonnahme , M.L. Johnson, A.T. Grazul-Bilska, J.M. Wallace, J.S. Caton, D.A. Redmer. 2004. Animal Models of Placental Angiogenesis. Placenta Accepted.
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