Journal Articles – Wijenayake Lab

Wijenayake, S, Martz J, Lapp HE, Storm JA, Champagne FA, Kentner AC.

The contributions of parental lactation on offspring development: It’s not udder nonsense! Hormones and Behavior, 153: 105375

DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2023.105375

Abuaish S, Wijenayake S, De Vega WC, Lum CMW, Sasaki A, and McGowan PO

Maternal high-fat diet alters milk miRNA expression and programs the DNA methylome in female offspring. Epigenetics, Under Review: KEPI-2021-0408

DOI: 10.1101/2020.08.13.249300

Eisha S, Joarder I, Wijenayake S, McGowan PO

Non-nutritive bioactive components in maternal milk and offspring development: A scoping review. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 1-9.

DOI: 10.1017/S2040174422000149

Wijenayake S, Eisha S, Tawhidi Z, Pitino MA, Steele MA, Fleming AS, McGowan PO

Comparison of methods for milk pre-processing, exosome isolation, and RNA extraction in bovine and human milk. PLOS ONE, 16: e0257633

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0257633

Wijenayake S and Storey KB

The role of humanin in natural stress tolerance: An underexplored therapeutic avenue. Biochemical et Biophysica Acta, General Subjects, 1866: 130022

DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2021.130022

Wijenayake S, and Storey KB

Oxidative Damage? Not a Problem! The Characterization of humanin-like mitochondrial peptide in anoxia tolerant freshwater turtle. The Protein Journal, 40: 87-107

DOI: 10.1007/s10930-020-09944-7

Edwards PE, Lavergne S, McCaw L, Wijenayake S, Boonstra R, McGowan PO, Holmes M

Maternal effects in mammals: Broadening our understanding of offspring programming. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 62: 100924

DOI: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2021.100924

Wijenayake S, Rahman MF, Lum CMW, de Vega WC, Sasaki A, McGowan PO

Maternal high-fat diet induces sex-specific changes to glucocorticoid and inflammatory signaling in response to corticosterone and lipopolysaccharide challenge in adult rat offspring. Journal of Neuroinflammation, 17: 116

DOI: 10.1186/s12974-020-01798-1

Wijenayake S and Storey KB

Dynamic regulation of histone H3 lysine (K) acetylation and deacetylation during prolonged oxygen deprivation in a champion anaerobe. Mol Cell Biochem, 474: 229-241

DOI: 10.1007/s11010-020-03848-x

Hadj-Moussa H, Wijenayake S, Storey KB

Multi-tissue profile of NFKB pathway regulation during mammalian hibernation. Comparative Biology and Physiology, Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 246-247: 110460

DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2020.110460

Al-Attar RN, Wijenayake S, Storey KB

Metabolic reorganization in winter: Regulation of pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) during long-term freezing and anoxia. Cryobiology, 86: 10-18

DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2019.01.006

Wijenayake S, Hawkin LJ, Storey KB

Dynamic regulation of six histone H3 lysine (K) methyltransferases in response to prolonged anoxia exposure in a freshwater turtle. Gene, 649: 50-57

DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2018.01.086

Wijenayake S, Luu BE, Zhang J, Tessier SN, Quintero-Galvis, JF, Gaitan-Espitia JD, Nespolo RF, Storey KB

Strategies of biochemical adaptation for hibernation in a South American marsupial Dromiciops gliroides: 1. Mitogen-activated protein kinases and the cell stress response. Comp Biochem Physiol B. Biochem Mol Biol, 224: 12-18

DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2017.12.007

Luu BE, Wijenayake S, Zhang J, Tessier SN, Quintero-Galvis JF, Gaitan-Espitia JD, Nespolo RF, Storey KB

Strategies of biochemical adaptation for hibernation in a South American marsupial Dromiciops gliroides: 2. Control of the Akt pathway and protein translation machinery. Comp Biochem Physiol B. Biochem Mol Biol, 224: 19-25

DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2017.12.006

Luu, BE, Wijenayake S, Zhang J, Tessier SN, Quintero-Galvis JF, Gaitan-Espitia JD, Nespolo RF, Storey KB

Strategies of biochemical adaptation for hibernation in a South American marsupial Dromiciops gliroides: 3. Activation of pro-survival response pathways. Comp Biochem Physiol B. Biochem Mol Biol, 224: 26-31

DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2017.12.005

Wijenayake S, Luu BE, Zhang J, Tessier SN, Quintero-Galvis, JF, Gaitan-Espitia JD, Nespolo RF, Storey KB

Strategies of biochemical adaptation for hibernation in a South American marsupial Dromiciops gliroides: 4. Regulation of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex and metabolic fuel selection. Comp Biochem Physiol B. Biochem Mol Biol, 224: 32-37

DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2017.12.008

Wijenayake S, Tessier SN, Storey KB

Regulation of pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) in the hibernating ground squirrel. (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus) Journal of Thermal Biology, 69: 199-205

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2017.07.010

Luu BE, Wijenayake S, Malik Al, Storey KB

Regulation of heat shock protein response in the African clawed frog. (Xenopus laevis) Cell Stress and Chaperones, 23: 45-53.

DOI: 10.1007/s12192-017-0822-9

Tessier SN., Zhang Y, Wijenayake S, Storey KB

MAP kinase signalling and Elk1 transcriptional activity in hibernating thirteen-lined ground squirrels. BBA General Subjects, 1861: 2811-2821

DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2017.07.026

Wijenayake S and Storey KB

The role of DNA methylation during anoxia tolerance in a freshwater turtle. (Trachemys scripta elegans) Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 186: 333-342

DOI: 10.1007/s00360-016-0960-x

Gerber VEM, Wijenayake S, Storey KB

Anti-apoptotic response during anoxia and recovery in a freeze-tolerant wood frog. (Rana sylvatica) PeerJ, 4: e1834

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1834

Gorelick, R, Fraser D, Mansfield M, Dawson JW, Wijenayake S, Bertram SM

Abrupt shortening of bird W chromosomes in ancestral Neognathae. Biological Journal of Linnean Society, 119: 488-496

DOI: 10.1111/bij.12832

Wijenayake S, Al-attar A, Tessier SN, Storey KB

Hibernation vs Freezing: The tale of metabolic reorganization in winter. Cryobiology 73: 427

DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2016.09.111

Wijenayake S, Tessier SN, Storey KB

Metabolic arrest during hibernation! Cardiac regulation of pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) in a hibernating ground squirrel. (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus) Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 31: S225.

DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2015.07.475