Paul Leblanc
Associate Professor
Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
Brock University
Canada
Biography
Paul J. LeBlanc is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Sciences. Paul completed his Ph.D. at McMaster University and his undergraduate studies and M.Sc. at the University of Guelph. Paul’s research interests lie within musculoskeletal health and the role of the cellular membrane in mediating health and disease of muscle and bone. Paul has reviewed grants for various national and international funding agencies, including NSERC, CIHR, CFI, and Barth Syndrome Foundation.
Research Interest
Membrane structure-protein function relationship, Skeletal muscle metabolic and functional adaptation, Role of phospholipids in mediating bone and muscle diseases.
Publications
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Miotto, PM, LM Castelli, F Amoye, WE Ward, PJ LeBlanc. 2015. High saturated fat diet alters the lipid composition of triacylglycerol and polar lipids in the femur of dam and offspring rats. Lipids 50:605.
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Snook LA, RE MacPherson, CM Monaco, S Frendo-Cumbo, L Castellani, WT Peppler, ZG Anderson, SL Buzelle, PJ LeBlanc, GP Holloway, DC Wright. 2016. Prior exercise training blunts short term high fat diet induced weight gain. Am J Physiol 311:R315.
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Sacco SM, C Saint, AB Longo, CB Wakefield, PL Salmon, PJ LeBlanc, WE Ward. 2017. Repeated irradiation from micro-computed tomography scanning at 2, 4, and 6 months of age does not induce damage to tibial bone microstructure in male and female CD-1 mice. Bonekey Rep 6:855.
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Fajardo, VA, N Trojanowski, LM Castelli, PM Miotto, F Amoye, WE Ward, AR Tupling, PJ LeBlanc. 2017. Saturation of SERCA’s lipid annulus may protect against its thermal inactivation. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 484:456.
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Sacco SM, C Saint, PJ LeBlanc, WE Ward. 2017. Maternal consumption of hesperidin and naringin flavones exert transient effects to tibial bone structure in female CD-1 offspring. Nutrients 9:E250.
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Longo AB, PJ Sullivan, SJ Peters, PJ LeBlanc, GR Wohl, WE Ward. 2017. Lifelong intake of flaxseed or menhaden oil to provide varying n-6 to n-3 PUFA ratios modulate bone microarchitecture during growth, but not after OVX in Sprague-Dawley rats. Mol Nutr Food Res
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Fajardo, VA, JS Mikhaeil, C Leveille, C Saint, PJ LeBlanc. 2017. Cardiolipin content, linoleic acid composition, and tafazzin expression in response to skeletal muscle overload and unload stimuli. Sci Rep
