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Department Chair and Professor
of Animal and Avian Sciences

Ph.D. - University of Minnesota, 1988

Phone: 301-405-2516
Email: TEPorter@umd.edu

Representative Publications:

Bossis I, Porter TE (2001) Identification of the somatostatin receptor subtypes involved in regulation of growth hormone secretion in chickens. Mol Cell Endocrinol 182:203-213 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science.pdf)

Bossis I, Porter TE (2003) Evaluation of glucocorticoid-induced growth hormone gene expression in embryonic pituitary cells using a novel in situ mRNA quantitation method. Mol Cell Endocrinol 201:13-23 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science.pdf)

De Groef B, Geris KL, Manzano J, Bernal J, Millar RP, Abou-Samra AB, Porter TE, Iwasawa A, Kühn ER, Darras VM (2003) Involvement of thyrotropin-releasing hormone receptor, somatostatin receptor subtype 2 and corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor type 1 in the control of chicken thyrotropin secretion. Mol Cell Endocrinol 203:33-39 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science.pdf)

Cogburn LA,Wang X, Carre W, Rejto L, Porter TE, Aggrey SE, Simon J (2003) Systems-wide Chicken DNA Microarrays, Gene Expression Profiling and Discovery of Functional Genes. Poultry Science 82:939-951 (http://www.poultryscience.org)

Liu L, Dean CE, Porter TE (2003) Thyroid Hormones Interact with Glucocorticoids to Affect Somatotroph Abundance in Chicken Embryonic Pituitary Cells In Vitro. Endocrinology 144:3836-3841 (http://endo.endojournals.org)

Liu L, Porter TE (2004) Endogenous thyroid hormones modulate pituitary somatotroph differentiation during chicken embryonic development. J Endocrinol 2004 180, 45–53 (http://journals.endocrinology.org)

Oubre CM, Zhang X, Clements KE, Porter TE, Berghman LR (2004) Immunohistochemical assessment of the neurosecretory cells of the chicken thymus using a novel monoclonal antibody against avian chromogranin A. Dev Comp Immunol; 28:337-345. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/)

Xiaoqin Fu and Tom E. Porter Glucocorticoid Induction of Lactotrophs and Prolactin Gene Expression in Chicken Embryonic Pituitary Cells: A Delayed Response Relative to Stimulated Growth Hormone Production Endocrinology, Mar 2004; 145: 1322 - 1330. (http://endo.endojournals.org)

Jenkins SA, Porter TE (2004) Ontogeny of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis in the chicken embryo: a review. Domestic Animal Endocrinology; 26:267-275. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science).

Bossis I, Nishimura S, Muchow M, Porter TE (2004) Pituitary expression of type I and type II glucocorticoid receptors during chicken embryonic development and their involvement in growth hormone cell differentiation. Endocrinology 145:3523-3531. The link to this reprint is http://endo.endojournals.org

Cogburn LA, Wang X, Carre W, Rejto L, Aggrey SE, Duclos M, Simon J, Porter TE (2004) Functional genomics in chickens: Development of integrated-systems microarrays for transcriptional profiling and discovery of regulatory pathways. Comparative Functional Genomics 5: 253–261
(http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/108061384/PDFSTART)

Porter TE, Ellestad LE (2005) Gene expression profiling in the developing neuroendocrine system of the chick. In: Functional Avian Endocrinology, Dawson A, Sharp PJ (Eds.), Narosa Publishing House, New Dehli, pp. 45-56

Porter TE (2005) Regulation of pituitary somatotroph differentiation by hormones of peripheral endocrine glands Domestic Animal Endocrinology 29:52-62

Moore RW, Hargis BM, Porter TE, Caldwell DY, Oubre CM, Vandesande F, Berghman LR (2004) Ovoinhibitor in the chicken bursa of Fabricius: identification, isolation, and localization. Cell Tissue Res 317:247-251

Fu X, Nishimura S, Porter TE (2004) Evidence that lactotrophs do not differentiate directly from somatotrophs during chick embryonic development. J Endocrinol 183: 417-425

Muchow M, Bossis I, Porter TE (2005) Ontogeny of pituitary thyrotrophs and regulation by endogenous thyroid hormone feedback in the chick embryo. J Endocrinol 184:407-16

Porter TE, Lopez ME, Mike R, Huberty AF (2006) The increase in prolactin-secreting cells in incubating chicken hens can be mimicked by extended treatment of pituitary cells in vitro with vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP). Domestic Animal Endocrinology 30 (2006) 126–134

Porter TE, Ellestad LE, Fay A, Stewart JL, Bossis I. Identification of the chicken growth hormone-releasing hormone receptor (GHRH-R) mRNA and gene: regulation of anterior pituitary GHRH-R mRNA levels by homologous and heterologous hormones.Endocrinology. 2006 May;147(5):2535-43. Epub 2006 Feb 9. PMID: 16469800 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Ellestad LE, Carre W, Muchow M, Jenkins SA, Wang X, Cogburn LA, Porter TE. Gene expression profiling during cellular differentiation in the embryonic pituitary gland using cDNA microarrays. Physiol Genomics. 2006 May 16;25(3):414-25. Epub 2006 Feb 21. PMID: 16493019 [PubMed - in process]

Carre W, Wang X, Porter TE, Nys Y, Tang J, Bernberg E, Morgan R, Burnside J, Aggrey SE, Simon J, Cogburn LA. Chicken genomics resource: sequencing and annotation of 35,407 ESTs from single and multiple tissue cDNA libraries and CAP3 assembly of a chicken gene index.Physiol Genomics. 2006 May 16;25(3):514-24. Epub 2006 Mar 22. PMID: 16554550 [PubMed - in process]

Porter TE, Ghavam S, Muchow M, Bossis I, Ellestad L. Cloning of partial cDNAs for the chicken glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors and characterization of mRNA levels in the anterior pituitary gland during chick embryonic development.Domest Anim Endocrinol. 2006 Jun 8; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 16787734 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]