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» Home » David Wright

David Wright

August 31, 2022

David Wright

Professor, Food, Nutrition and Health (joint appointment with Kinesiology)
Food, Nutrition and Health (FNH) Program Director

david.wright@ubc.ca

Education

Bachelor Physical Education-University of Calgary 1996

MSc Exercise Science - Arizona State University 1999

PhD Human Bioenergetics - Ball State University 2002

Selected Publications

Intermittent cold exposure improves glucose homeostasis despite exacerbating diet-induced obesity in mice housed at thermoneutrality, Journal of Physiology. McKie, G.L. and Shamshoum, H. and Hunt, K.L. and Thorpe, H.H.A. and Dibe, H.A. and Khokhar, J.Y. and Doucette, C.A. and Wright, D.C., DOI: 10.1113/JP281774, 2022

Topical application of the pharmacological cold mimetic menthol stimulates brown adipose tissue thermogenesis through a TRPM8, UCP1, and norepinephrine dependent mechanism in mice housed at thermoneutrality, FASEB Journal. McKie, G.L. and Medak, K.D. and Shamshoum, H. and Wright, D.C., DOI: 10.1096/fj.202101905RR, 2022

CHOP is dispensable for exercise-induced increases in GDF15, Journal of Applied Physiology, Townsend, L.K. and Medak, K. and Weber, A.J. and Dibe, H. and Shamshoum, H. and Wright, D.C., DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00698.2021, 2022

Plant and marine N3-PUFA regulation of fatty acid trafficking along the adipose tissue-liver axis varies according to nutritional state, Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, Rajna, A. and Brown, L.H. and Frangos, S.M. and Gonzalez-Soto, M. and Hucik, B. and Wang, C. and Wright, D.C., and Mutch, D.M., DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2022.108940, 2022

An increase in serial sarcomere number induced via weighted downhill running improves work loop performance in the rat soleus, bioRxiv, Hinks, A. and Jacob, K. and Mashouri, P. and Medak, K.D. and Franchi, M.V. and Wright, D.C., and Brown, S.H.M. and Power, G.A., DOI: 10.1101/2022.02.18.481073, 2022

The glucose lowering effects of CL 316,243 dissipate with repeated use and are rescued by cilostamide, Physiological Reports, Medak, K.D. and McKie, G.L. and Shamshoum, H. and Seguin, I. and Wright, D.C., DOI: 10.14814/phy2.15187, 2022

New Horizon: Exercise and a Focus on Tissue-Brain Crosstalk, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Townsend, L.K. and Macpherson, R.E.K. and Wright, D.C., DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgab333, 2021

AMPK mediates energetic stress-induced liver GDF15, FASEB Journal, Townsend, L.K. and Weber, A.J. and Day, E.A. and Shamshoum, H. and Shaw, S.J. and Perry, C.G.R. and Kemp, B.E. and Steinberg, G.R. and Wright, D.C., DOI: 10.1096/fj.202000954R, 2021

Peripheral mechanisms of acute olanzapine induced metabolic dysfunction: A review of in vivo models and treatment approaches, Behavioural Brain Research, Shamshoum, H. and Medak, K.D. and Wright, D.C., DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2020.113049, 2021

Voluntary physical activity protects against olanzapine-induced hyperglycemia, Journal of Applied Physiology, Shamshoum, H. and McKie, G.L. and Medak, K.D. and Ashworth, K.E. and Kemp, B.E. and Wright, D.C., DOI: 10.1152/JAPPLPHYSIOL.00876.2020, 2021

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