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Last published 2021
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Sherry A. Ferguson

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Division Director

NCTR primary UAMS

Also affiliated: University of Nebraska–Lincoln (1990); Arkansas Children's Hospital (2010–2011); United States Food and Drug Administration (1993–2021); University of Wisconsin–Madison (1988–1993); University of Arkansas Medical Center (2009); University of Massachusetts Boston (1996); National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (2001)

37 h-index 152 pubs 3,857 cited

Biomedical Subjects

  • Animals
  • Male
  • Female
  • Rats
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Behavior, Animal
  • Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects
  • Pregnancy
  • Body Weight
  • Animals, Newborn
  • Motor Activity
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Brain
  • Maze Learning
  • Sex Characteristics

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ORCID

Metrics

  • h-index: 37
  • Publications: 152
  • Citations: 3,857

Positions

  • Division Director 2018–present
    National Center for Toxicological Research/FDA Division of Neurotoxicology ORCID
  • Research Psychologist 1993–2018
    National Center for Toxicological Research/FDA Division of Neurotoxicology ORCID
  • Postdoctoral Fellow 1990–1993
    National Center for Toxicological Research/FDA Division of Reproductive & Developmental Toxicology ORCID

Selected Publications

  • Neurobehavioral and neurochemical effects of perinatal arsenite exposure in Sprague-Dawley rats (2021)
    Neurotoxicology and Teratology 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Alzheimer’s disease: a step closer to understanding type 3 diabetes in African Americans (2021)
    Metabolic Brain Disease 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Minimal effects from a single exposure to sevoflurane in adult male and female Sprague-Dawley rats (2021)
    Neurotoxicology and Teratology 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA) is neuroprotective in a chronic mouse model of Parkinson’s disease (2020)
    Nutritional Neuroscience 58 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Acetyl-l-carnitine does not prevent neurodegeneration in a rodent model of prolonged neonatal anesthesia (2020)
    Neurotoxicology and Teratology 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Increased inflammation in BA21 brain tissue from African Americans with Alzheimer’s disease (2019)
    Metabolic Brain Disease 18 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Developmental neurotoxicity of inorganic arsenic exposure in Sprague-Dawley rats (2019)
    Neurotoxicology and Teratology 19 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Neurite Development and Neurotoxicity (2018)
    Elsevier eBooks 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Effects of Cyclophosphamide and/or Doxorubicin in a Murine Model of Postchemotherapy Cognitive Impairment (2017)
    Toxicological Sciences 43 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Changes in the metabolome and microRNA levels in biological fluids might represent biomarkers of neurotoxicity: A trimethyltin study (2017)
    Experimental Biology and Medicine 22 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A Working Module for the Neurovascular Unit in the Sexually Dimorphic Nucleus of the Preoptic Area (2017)
    Molecular Neurobiology 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Neurodegenerative Markers are Increased in Postmortem BA21 Tissue from African Americans with Alzheimer’s Disease (2017)
    Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Pre- and postnatal bisphenol A treatment does not alter the number of tyrosine hydroxylase-positive cells in the anteroventral periventricular nucleus (AVPV) of weanling male and female rats (2015)
    Brain Research 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Chronic MPTP treatment produces hyperactivity in male mice which is not alleviated by concurrent trehalose treatment (2015)
    Behavioural Brain Research 24 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Estrogen Selectively Mobilizes Neural Stem Cells in the Third Ventricle Stem Cell Niche of Postnatal Day 21 Rats (2015)
    Molecular Neurobiology 9 citations DOI OpenAlex

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