Publications

Leonard, E.M., Nurse, C.A., 2023. The Carotid Body “Tripartite Synapse”: Role of gliotransmission. Arterial chemoreceptors – mal (adaptive): O2 dependent and independent mechanisms. Proofing stage of publication. INVITED.

Leonard, E.M., Weaver, F., Nurse, C.A., 2022. Lactate sensing by neuroepithelial cells isolated from the gills of killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus). Journal of Experimental Biology. 225 (23). doi: 10.1242/jeb.245088 ***EDITORS CHOICE AWARD

Blewett, T.A., Leonard, E.M., Glover, C.N., McClelland, G.B., Wood, C.M., McGeer, J.C., Santore, R.C., Smith, D.S., 2021. The effect of marine dissolved organic carbon on nickel accumulation in early life-stages of the sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part C. 250. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2021.109150

Kolosov, D., Leonard, E.M., O’Donnell, M.J., 2021. Voltage-gated calcium channels regulate K+ transport in the Malpighian tubules of the larval cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni. Journal of Insect Biology. 131. doi: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2021.104230.

Leonard, E.M., Nurse, C.A., 2020. Expanding role of dopaminergic inhibition in hypercapnic responses of cultured rat carotid body cells: Involvement of type II glial cells. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21, 5434-5451. doi: 10.3390/ijms21155434

Kulesza, A. Leonard, E.M., McClelland, G.B., 2020. Influence of acute and 96h sub-lethal copper exposure on aerobic scope and recovery from exhaustive exercise in killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus). Aquatic Toxicology. 218, 105373. doi: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2019.105373

Leonard, E.M., Zhang, M., Nurse, C.A., 2018. Role of protein kinases in the 5-HT- [Ca2+]i - pannexin-1 signalling pathway in type II glial cells of the rat carotid body. Experimental Physiology. 104, 244-253. doi: 10.1113/EP087411.

Leonard, E.M., Belowitz, R., Agema, P., O’Donnell, M.J., 2018. Characterization of cadmium and calcium fluxes along the gut, Malpighian tubules and anal papillae of the dipteran, Chironomus riparius. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 37, 2542–2549. doi: 10.1002/etc.4211.

Leonard, E.M., Salman, S., Nurse, C.A., 2018. Sensory processing and integration at the carotid body tripartite synapse: neurotransmitter functions and effects of chronic hypoxia. Frontiers in Physiology.  doi: 10.3389/fphys.2018.00225.

Nurse, C.A., Leonard, E.M., Salman, S., 2018. The role of glial-like type II cells as paracrine modulators of carotid body chemoreception. Physiological Genomics. 50, 255-262.

Gillis, P.L., McInnis, R., Salerno, J., de Solla, S.R., Servos, M.R., Leonard, E.M., 2017. Municipal wastewater treatment plant-induced effects on freshwater mussel populations and the role of mussel refugia in recolonizing an extirpated reach. Environmental Pollution. 225, 460-468.

Blewett, T.A., Leonard, E.M., 2017. Mechanisms of nickel toxicity to fish and invertebrates in marine and estuarine waters. Environmental Pollution 223, 311-322.

Gillis, P.L., McInnis, R., Salerno, J., de Solla, S.R., Servos, M.R., Leonard, E.M., 2017. Freshwater mussels in an urban watershed: Impacts of anthropogenic inputs and habitat alterations on populations. Science of the Total Environment 574, 671-679.

Leonard, E.M., Banerjee, U., D’Silva, J.J., Wood, C.M., 2014. Chronic nickel bioaccumulation and sub-cellular fractionation in two freshwater teleosts, the round goby and the rainbow trout, exposed simultaneously to waterborne and dietborne nickel. Aquatic Toxicology 154, 141-153.

Leonard, E.M., Marentette, J.R., Balshine, S., Wood, C.M. 2014. Critical body residues, Michaelis-Menten analysis of bioaccumulation, lethality and behaviour as endpoints of waterborne Ni toxicity in two teleosts. Ecotoxicology 23, 147-162.

Belowitz, R. Leonard, E.M., O’Donnell, M.J. 2014. Effects of exposure to high concentrations of waterborne Tl on K and Tl concentrations in Chironomus riparius larvae. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part C: Toxicology and Pharmacology 166, 59-64.

Leonard, E.M., Wood, C.M. 2013. Acute toxicity, critical body residues, Michaelis-Menten analysis of bioaccumulation, and ionoregulatory disturbance in response to waterborne nickel in invertebrate species: Chironomus riparius, Lymnaea stagnalis, Lumbriculus variegatus and Daphnia pulex. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part C: Toxicology and Pharmacology 158, 10-21.

Leonard, E.M., Barcarolli, I., Silva, K.R., Wasielesky, W., Wood, C.M., Bianchini, A. 2011. The effects of salinity on acute and chronic Ni toxicity and bioaccumulation in two euryhaline crustaceans: Litopenaeus vannamei and Excirolana armata. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part C: Toxicology and Pharmacology 154, 409-419.

Leonard, E.M., Nadella, S.R., Bucking, C., Wood, C.M. 2009. Characterization of dietary Ni uptake in the rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. Aquatic Toxicology 93, 205-216.

Leonard, E.M., Pierce, L.M., Gillis, P.L., Wood, C.M., O’Donnell, M.J. 2009. Cadmium transport by the gut and Malpighian tubules of Chironomus riparius. Aquatic Toxicology 92, 179-186.

Patel, M., Iftikar, F.I., Leonard, E.M., Ip, Y.K., Wood, C.M., 2009. Ionoregulatory physiology of two species of African lungfishes Protopterus dolloi and Protopterus annectens. Journal of Fish Biology 75, 862-884.