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Kelly E. Mercer

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Researcher

Also affiliated: University of Maryland, Baltimore (2004); Arkansas Children's Hospital (2013–2024); St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (2004); United States Food and Drug Administration (2022); Eastern Virginia Medical School (2002); University of Arkansas Medical Center (2016–2019); Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (2016); Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center (2011–2024); Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (Czechia) (2006); University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (2016); California State University, Long Beach (2012); Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans (2016–2018); Texas A&M University (2018)

Faculty Researcher

25 h-index 89 pubs 3,510 cited

  • Animals
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Liver
  • Infant Formula
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Ethanol
  • Gastrointestinal Microbiome
  • Swine
  • Metabolome
  • Diet, High-Fat
  • Diet
  • Milk

Biography and Research Information

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Kelly E. Mercer's research investigates various aspects of metabolism, toxicology, and disease mechanisms, with a focus on how diet, lifestyle, and environmental factors influence health outcomes in humans and animal models. Mercer has published research examining the effects of exercise and diet on hepatic bile acid synthesis and serum concentrations in obese women, and the association between circulating microRNAs and metabolic markers in adolescents with hepatosteatosis.

Further investigations include studies on the impact of diet on reproductive toxicity in male piglets, specifically evaluating soy formula's effects. Mercer also studies transcriptional adaptability and bile acid metabolism in rats responding to high-fat diets and has explored the presence and uptake of novel odd-chain cyclopropane fatty acids in mammalian tissues. Additionally, Mercer's work has touched upon the molecular aspects of SARS-CoV-2 infection, including the analysis of N-glycan profiles in lung autopsy tissues of infected individuals.

Mercer collaborates with researchers from institutions including the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the National Center for Toxicological Research, and Harding University. With an h-index of 25 and over 3,490 citations across 89 publications, Mercer is recognized as a highly cited researcher. The lab website is actively maintained.

Metrics

  • h-index: 25
  • Publications: 89
  • Citations: 3,510

Selected Publications

  • Dissecting Sex‐Specific Pathology in K18‐hACE2 Transgenic Mice Infected With Different SARS‐CoV‐2 Variants (2025)
    Journal of Medical Virology 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Novel odd-chain cyclopropane fatty acids: detection in a mammalian lipidome and uptake by hepatosplanchnic tissues (2024)
    Journal of Lipid Research 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Enhanced virulence and waning vaccine-elicited antibodies account for breakthrough infections caused by SARS-CoV-2 delta and beyond (2022)
    iScience 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Applying imaging mass spectrometry to define the N-glycan profiles of co-localized virus and immune cell infiltrates in post-COVID-19 infected lung autopsy tissues (2022)
    Frontiers in Analytical Science 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Rats with high aerobic capacity display enhanced transcriptional adaptability and upregulation of bile acid metabolism in response to an acute high‐fat diet (2022)
    Physiological Reports 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Circulating microRNAs Are Associated With Metabolic Markers in Adolescents With Hepatosteatosis (2022)
    Frontiers in Endocrinology 19 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Soy Formula Is Not Estrogenic and Does Not Result in Reproductive Toxicity in Male Piglets: Results from a Controlled Feeding Study (2022)
    Nutrients 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Exercise training and diet-induced weight loss increase markers of hepatic bile acid (BA) synthesis and reduce serum total BA concentrations in obese women (2021)
    American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism 43 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Markers of branched-chain amino acid catabolism are not affected by exercise training in pregnant women with obesity (2021)
    Journal of Applied Physiology 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • <p>Circulating miRNA Signatures Associated with Insulin Resistance in Adolescents with Obesity</p> (2020)
    Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity 28 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Early Infant Formula Feeding Impacts Urinary Metabolite Profile at 3 Months of Age (2020)
    Nutrients 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Fibroblast Growth Factor-21 to Adiponectin Ratio: A Potential Biomarker to Monitor Liver Fat in Children With Obesity (2020)
    Frontiers in Endocrinology 18 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Divergence in aerobic capacity impacts bile acid metabolism in young women (2020)
    Journal of Applied Physiology 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Net release and uptake of xenometabolites across intestinal, hepatic, muscle, and renal tissue beds in healthy conscious pigs (2020)
    American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Xenometabolite signatures in the UC Davis type 2 diabetes mellitus rat model revealed using a metabolomics platform enriched with microbe-derived metabolites (2020)
    American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology 26 citations DOI OpenAlex

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