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Dwight Matthews, PhD
 

Professor of Medicine and Chemistry

 

Chairman, Department of Chemistry
The University of Vermont
Cook Physical Sci Bldg
office: Rm A205 lab: Rm A113
82 University Place
Burlington, VT 05405
tel: 802 656-8114
fax: 802 656-8705

 
dwight.matthews@uvm.edu
 


Academic Interests

Mass spectrometry
Stable isotope tracers
Metabolism
Amino acid metabolism
Protein metabolism
Energy metabolism


Clinical Expertise

Metabolism


Education

Ph.D. - Analytical Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, December 1977.

B.A. - DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, May 1973.


Professional Societies

American Chemical Society (ACS)
American Federation for Medical Research (AFMR)
American Physiological Society (APS)
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
American Society for Clinical Nutrition ( ASCN)
American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS)
American Society for Nutritional Sciences (ASNS)
American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN)
North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO)


Publications

Selected Recent Publications:

ME Jennings, II & DE Matthews: Determination of complex isotopomer patterns in isotopically labeled compounds by mass spectrometry. Anal. Chem., 77: 6435-6444, 2005.

MJ MacCoss & DE Matthews: Quantitative mass spectrometry for proteomics: Teaching a new dog old tricks. Anal. Chem. 77: 294A-302A, 2005.

DE Matthews: Observations of branched-chain amino acid administration in humans. J. Nutr. 135: 1580S-1584S, 2005.

MJ Toth, DE Matthews, PA Ades, MD Tischler, P Van Buren, MJ Previs & MM LeWinter: Skeletal muscle myofibrillar protein metabolism in heart failure: relationship to immune activation and functional capacity. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 288: E685-E692, 2005.

MJ Toth, DE Matthews, RP Tracy & MJ Previs: Age-related differences in skeletal muscle protein synthesis: relation to markers of immune activation. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 288: E883-E891, 2005.

JA Henkin, ME Jennings, DE Matthews & JO Vigoreaux: Mass processing--an improved technique for protein identification with mass spectrometry data. J. Biomol. Tech. 15: 230-237, 2004.

CC Wu, MJ MacCoss, KE Howell, DE Matthews &JR Yates, III: Metabolic labeling of mammalian organisms with stable isotopes for quantitative proteomic analysis. Anal. Chem. 76: 4951-4959, 2004.

A Battezzati, A Caumo, F Martino, LP Sereni, J Coppa, R Romito, M Ammatuna, E Regalia, DE Matthews, V Mazzaferro &L Luzi: Nonhepatic glucose production in humans. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 286: E129-E135, 2004.

M Rosenbaum, K Vandenborne, R Goldsmith, JA Simoneau, S Heymsfield, DR Joanise, J Hirsch, E Murphy, D Matthews, KR Segal & RL Leibel: Effects of experimental weight perturbation on skeletal muscle work efficiency in human subjects. Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol. 285: R183-R192, 2003.

R Persinger, Y Janssen-Heininger, SS Wing, DE Matthews, MM LeWinter & MJ Toth: Effect of heart failure on the regulation of skeletal muscle protein synthesis, breakdown, and apoptosis. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 284: E1001-E1008, 2003.


Book Chapters

Recent Book Chapters:

DE Matthews: Techniques to assess in-vivo tissue metabolism directly in humans without biopsy samples. Curr. Opin. Clin. Nutr. Metab. Care 7: 513-514, 2004.

EJ Parks & DE Matthews: A.S.P.E.N. 2003 Research Workshop on using tracers to measure carbohydrate, fat, and amino acid metabolism in humans. JPEN J. Parenter. Enteral Nutr. 28: 38-53, 2004.

DE Matthews & JB van Goudoever: General concepts of protein metabolism. In: Fetal and Neonatal Physiology, RA Polin, WW Fox & SH Abmans, eds. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 2004, 501-509.

DE Matthews: MRS and NMR: short abbreviations for powerful techniques, but what can they do for you? Curr. Opin. Clin. Nutr. Metab. Care 6: 497-498, 2003.

DE Matthews: MRS and NMR: short abbreviations for powerful techniques, but what can they do for you? Curr. Opin. Clin. Nutr. Metab. Care 6: 497-498, 2003.

DE Matthews: Evidence-based medicine: sifting through the literature to reach conclusions is not a simple task. Curr. Opin. Clin. Nutr. Metab. Care 5: 463-464, 2002.

DE Matthews: What is more exciting than 'genomics'? 'Proteomics'. Curr. Opin. Clin. Nutr. Metab. Care 4: 339, 2001.





 
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