Dr Roxana Llanos
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Email   roxana.llanos@deakin.edu.au
Position   Research Fellow Grade 2
Campus   Burwood
Research grouping   Biomolecular Sciences

Research interests

  1. Molecular basis of copper homeostasis using mouse models
  2. Copper and Alzheimer's Disease

Key publications

Llanos, R.M., Michalczyk, A.A., Freestone, D.F., Currie, S. , Linder, M.C., Ackland, M.L. and J.F.B. Mercer (2008) Copper transport during lactation in transgenic mice expressing the human ATP7A protein Biochem Biophys Res Comm 372, 613-617

Ke, B.-X., Llanos, R.M. and Mercer, J.F.B. (2008) Effect of copper loading on normal and ATP7A transgenic mice. J Nutrition 138, 693-697

Llanos R.M., Ke, B.X., Wright, M., Deal, Y. and Mercer, J.F. (2006) Alteration of Copper Physiology in Mice Over-expressing the Human Menkes Protein ATP7A Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 290, R1460-7

Llanos R.M., Ke, B.X., Wright, M., Deal, Y., Monty, F., Kramer, D. R. and Mercer J.F. (2006) Correction of a mouse model of Menkes disease by the human Menkes gene Biochim Biophys Acta 1762, 485-493

Monty J.F., Llanos, R.M., Mercer, J.F. and KramerD.R. (2005) Copper exposure induces trafficking of the menkes protein in intestinal epithelium of ATP7A transgenic mice J Nutr 135, 2762-6

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Honours students

Student nameThesis title Ryan Van HoornThe influence of excess brain copper on the pathology of Alzheimer's Disease  


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