Dr Susan Greenwood Bsc PhD

Honorary Research Fellow

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Overview

University Research Fellow in Child Health

Biography

Sue obtained a BSc in Physiology (1997) and a PhD in Renal Physiology (1980) from Manchester University. She then undertook postdoctoral research in renal physiology, in the University Departments of Physiology and Urology at Manchester, applying micropuncture techniques to study water and electrolyte reabsorption from the proximal renal tubule. In 1989, Sue joined the Placental Research Group in the Academic Unit of Child Health, St Mary’s Hospital, in Manchester. As Experimental /Senior Experimental Officer (1993-8), she established electrophysiology laboratories for microelectrode impalement and patch clamp studies of the human placenta in vitro and designed methods to measure placental amino acid transporter activity. Since her appointment to University Research Fellow in Child Health (1998), Sue has conducted research into the development and function of the human placenta in health and disease.

Qualifications

BSc; PhD

Memberships of committees and professional bodies

Member of the Physiological Society

Member of IFPA (International Federation of Placenta Associations)

Biology, Medicine and Health (BMH) Domains

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Publication highlights

Grape seed extract polyphenols improve resistance artery function in pregnant eNOS -/-mice

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Mechanisms Underpinning Adaptations In Placental Calcium Transport In Normal Mice And Those With Fetal Growth Restriction

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Investigation of the Outcome of Pregnancies Complicated by Increased Fetal Movements and Their Relationship to Underlying Causes – A Prospective Cohort Study

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Antenatal sildenafil citrate treatment increases offspring blood pressure in the placental-specific Igf2 knockout mouse model of FGR

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure and improves endothelial function in pregnant eNOS-/- mice: importance of nitrate-independent effects

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Increased placental macrophages and a pro‐inflammatory profile in placentas and maternal serum in infants with a decreased growth rate in the third trimester of pregnancy

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Evidence of adaptation of maternofetal transport of glutamine relative to placental size in normal mice, and in those with fetal growth restriction

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Effects of Hydroxychloroquine on the Human Placenta – Findings from In Vitro Experimental Data and a Systematic Review

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The kynurenine pathway; A new target for treating maternal features of preeclampsia?

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

Effects of dietary nitrate supplementation, from beetroot juice, on blood pressure in hypertensive pregnant women: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled feasibility trial

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Nitrite mediated vasorelaxation in human chorionic plate vessels is enhanced by hypoxia and dependent on the NO-sGC-cGMP pathway

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Cell free hemoglobin in the fetoplacental circulation: A novel cause of fetal growth restriction?

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Melatonin Increases Fetal Weight In Wild-type Mice But Not In Mouse Models of Fetal Growth Restriction

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Pomegranate Juice Supplementation Alters Utero-placental Vascular Function and Fetal Growth in the eNOS-/- Mouse Model of Fetal Growth Restriction

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The problem with using the birthweight:placental weight ratio as a measure of placental efficiency

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Knowledge needed about the exchange physiology of the placenta

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Targeting the dysfunctional placenta: Novel peptides to deliver drugs to specific uteroplacental compartments

Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review

In vitro human placental studies to support an adenovirusmediated VEGF-DΔNΔC maternal gene therapy for the treatment of severe early-onset fetal growth restriction

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Equilibrative nucleoside transporter 1 (ENT1, SLC29A1) facilitates transfer of the antiretroviral drug abacavir across the placenta

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Project highlights

Maternal & Fetal Health Research Centre

Project: Research

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Student Theses

Can Kynurenine Pathway Manipulation Ameliorate Maternal Vascular Features of Preeclampsia?

UoM administered thesis: Phd

An Investigation of Placental Glutamine and Glutamate Transport in Normal Pregnancy and Fetal Growth Restriction

UoM administered thesis: Phd

Potassium channel functions in human placental syncytiotrophoblast

UoM administered thesis: Phd

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