Karen
G. Mason
R.D. Coordinated Program in
Dietetics (2002) Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Kentucky,
Lexington, Kentucky
B.S. Biology (1995) Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky
Assistant Professor, Nutrition and Dietetics, Western
Kentucky University (August 2002-present).
Post-doctoral Scholar, Nutritional Sciences, University of Kentucky (Oct.
2001-Jan. 2002).
Research
Assistant, Nutritional Sciences,
University of Kentucky (1996-2001).
Teaching
Assistant, Nutrition and Food Science, University
of Kentucky (1996-1999).
Lifestage Nutrition
Sports Nutrition
Medical Nutrition Therapy 1
University of Kentucky
Introduction to Nutrition (guest lecturer), February
2000.
Human
Nutrition and Wellness (guest lecturer), February 2000.
Advanced
Nutrition (guest lecturer), March 2001.
Calfee-Mason, K.G., B.T. Spear, and H.P.
Glauert. Vitamin E inhibits hepatic NF-kB activation in rats administered the hepatic tumor promoter, phenobarbital. Journal of Nutrition 132:3178-3185, 2002.
Calfee-Mason,
K.G., B.T. Spear, and H.P.
Glauert. Effects of vitamin E on the
NF-kB pathway
in rats treated with the peroxisome proliferator, ciprofibrate. Manuscript in preparation.
Calfee,
K.G.,
B.T Spear, and H.P. Glauert. Increased
dietary vitamin E leads to decreased activation of hepatic NF-kB by the peroxisome
proliferator ciprofibrate. 1998. FASEB Journal 12, A563.
Glauert, H.P., Y. Li, V.
Nilakantan, J.C. Tharappel, K.G. Calfee, Z. Lu, L.W. Robertson, and B.T.
Spear. Role of NF-kB in the
promotion of hepatocarcinogenesis. XIIIth
Congress of the Polish Pharmacological Society, Katowice, Poland, Sept. 13-16,
1998. Polish J. Pharmacol. 50
(supplement):80-81.
Calfee, K.G., B.T. Spear, and H.P. Glauert. Effect of dietary vitamin E on activation of hepatic NF-kB and AP-1 in rats
treated with phenobarbital. 1999. FASEB Journal 13, A916.
Calfee-Mason, K.G., B.T. Spear, and H.P. Glauert. Effect of dietary vitamin E on other cellular antioxidant defense
systems in phenobarbital-treated rats.
2000. Toxicological Sciences 54
(1), 946.
Calfee-Mason, K.G., B.T. Spear, and H.P. Glauert. The effects of dietary vitamin E on the NF-kB pathway in rats
treated with the peroxisome proliferator, ciprofibrate. 2001.
Toxicological Sciences 60 (1), 758.
Glauert,
H.P., K. Calfee-Mason, Y. Li, Z. Lu, V. Nilakantan, M. O'Brien, J.
Tharappel, E.Y. Lee, L.W. Robertson and B.T. Spear. Role of oxidative stress in
the promotion of hepatocarcinogenesis by environmental chemicals. 44th Annual Meeting of the Polish Chemical
Society in Katowice, Poland, September 9-13, 2001. Annals of the Polish
Chemical Society, Year 2001, page 105.
Calfee-Mason,
K.G., E.Y.Lee, H.P.Glauert
and B.T.Spear. Effects of vitamin E on
NF-kB
downstream events in p50-/- mice treated with the peroxisome proliferator, ciprofibrate. 2002.
Toxicological Sciences 66 (1), 1498.
Book Chapter
Calfee-Mason,
K.G., B.T. Spear, and H.P. Glauert. Effect of dietary vitamin E on cellular antioxidant defense
systems in phenobarbital-treated rats.
In: L.W. Robertson and L.G. Hansen, eds. Recent Advances in the Environmental Toxicology and Health
Effects of PCBs. Lexington, KY:
University Press of Kentucky, 2001.