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Kenneth Lyle Campbell

Kenneth Campbell

Department of Biology
University of Massachusetts-Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125


Phone: (617) 287-6676
Fax: (617) 287-6650
E-mail: kenneth.campbell@umb.edu

Education

BA Chemistry 1970 Augsburg College Minneapolis, MN
MS Biochemistry 1971 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
PhD Biochemistry 1976 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI

Work Experience

2002 Visiting Scholar, University of Washington, Departments of Anthropology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Zoology, and Program for Demographic and Population Studies

1998 Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Boston

1995 Visiting Scientist, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge

1991 Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, State College

1988-1998 Associate Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Boston

1985 Visiting Professor, Lab. Human Reprod. & Reprod. Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston

1982-1988 Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Boston

1979-1982 Research Investigator, Reproductive Endocrinology Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1979-1981 Visiting Scientist, Department of Anatomy, Harvard Medical School, Boston

1976-1979 Postdoctoral Scholar, Reproductive Endocrinology Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Areas of Research Interest

Interdisciplinary investigations of hormone, fetal loss, & other reproductive patterns of traditional populations. Development of laboratory independent endocrine assay methods.
Hormone interactions with gonadal target cells: receptors, hormone metabolism, & effects of hormone fragments. Establishment of a resource repository for nondomestic species DNA. Role of postnatal gut maturation on immune system function in humans. Geneticdeterminants of gonadal determination and function.

Publications

Campbell, KL (1977) Metabolic interactions of hormonal steroids and chlorinated hydrocarbons: Effects of neonatal treatment with o,p' DDT on the development of the steroidogenic endocrine system of the male rat. PhD Dissertation, University of Michigan. Published as EPA 600/1 77 042. Environmental Health Effects Research Series, Health Effects Research Laboratory, ORD, US EPA, RTP, NC.

Campbell, KL (1979) Ovarian granulosa cells isolated with EGTA and hypertonic sucrose: cellular integrity and function, Biol Reprod 21:773-786.

Campbell, KL, TD Landefeld, AR Midgley, Jr (1980) Differential processing of subunits of human chorionic gonadotropin by granulosa cells in vivo, Proc Natl Acad Sci 77:4793-4797.

Campbell, KL, DF Albertini (1981) Freeze fracture analysis of gap junction disruption and reformation in granulosa cells, Tissue and Cell 13:651-668.

Campbell, KL, P Bagavandoss, MD Byrne, JA Jonassen, TD Landefeld, MW Quasney, MM Sanders, AR Midgley (1981) Differential processing of the two subunits of human choriogonadotropin (hCG) by granulosa cells. II. In vivo studies, Endocrinology 109:1858-1871.

Wood, JW, PL Johnson, KL Campbell (1985) Demographic and endocrinological aspects of low natural fertility in highland New Guinea, J Biosoc Sci 17:57-79.

Wood, JW, PL Johnson, D Lai, I Maslar, KL Campbell (1985) Lactation and birth spacing in highland New Guinea, J Biosoc Sci Suppl 9:159-173.

Campbell, KL (1985) Monitoring ovarian function and predicting ovulation: summary of a meeting, Research Frontiers in Fertility Regulation 3:1-16.

Campbell, K, J Wood (1988) Fertility in traditional societies. In Natural Human Fertility: Social and Biological Determinants, P Diggory, M Potts, S Teper (ed), Macmillan Press Ltd, London, 39-69.

Campbell, KL (1988) Solid state assays: reagents and film technology for dip stick assays. In Non Radiometric Assays: Technology and Application in Polypeptide and Steroid Hormone Detection, B Albertson, F Haseltine (ed), Alan R Liss, New York, 237-287.

Leslie, PW, KL Campbell, MA Little (1993) Pregnancy loss in nomadic and settled women in Turkana, Kenya: A prospective study, Hum Biol 65:237-254.

Campbell, KL, JW Wood, Eds (1994) Human Reproductive Ecology: Interactions of Environment, Fertility and Behavior, Annals NYAS, 709. New York Academy of Sciences, New York.

Campbell, KL (1994) Blood, urine, saliva and dip-sticks: Experiences in Africa, New Guinea, and Boston, Annals NYAS, 709: 313-331.

Leslie, PW, KL Campbell, MA Little (1994) Reproductive function in nomadic and settled women of Turkana Kenya. Annals NYAS 709:218-220.

Campbell, KL, JW Wood (1994) An introduction to quantitative endocrinology. Appendix In JW Wood, Dynamics of Human Reproduction: Biology, Biometry, Demography. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine De Gruyter, 553-590.

Leslie, PW, KL Campbell, MA Little, CS Kigondu (1996) Evaluation of reproductive function in Turkana women with enzyme-immunoassays of urinary hormones in the field, Hum Biol 68:95-117.

Holman, DJ, FN Rasheed, CM Stroud, E Brindle, KA O’Connor, KL Campbell (1998) A commercial pregnancy test modified for field studies of fetal loss, Clinica Chimica Acta 271(1):25-44.

Leslie, PW, KL Campbell, BC Campbell, CS Kigondu, LW Kirumbi (1999) Fecundity and fertility. Chap. 13 in MA Little and PW Leslie, eds. Turkana Herders of the Dry Savanna: Ecology and Biobehavioral Response of Nomads to an Uncertain Environment. Oxford Univ. Press:Oxford. 249-280.

Campbell, KL, OC Schultheiss, DC McClelland (1999) A necessary adjustment of protocol for use of DPC coated-tube testosterone assay with saliva, Clinical Biochemistry 32(1):83-85.

Schultheiss, OC, KL Campbell, DC McClelland (1999) Implicit power motivation moderates men's testosterone responses to imagined and real dominance success, Hormones and Behavior 36:234-241.

Holman DJ, JW Wood, KL Campbell (2000) Age dependent decline of female fecundity is caused by early fetal loss. Chap. 9 in te Velde ER,Broekmans F, Pearson P, eds. Female Reproductive Ageing, Studies in Profertility Series, 9:123-136 Carnforth, UK: Parthenon Publishing Group.

Campbell BC, WD Lukas, KL Campbell (2001) Reproductive ecology of male immune function and gonadal function. In PT Ellison (ed) Reproductive Ecology and Human Evolution. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine De Gruyter, 159-178.

O'Connor KA, Brindle E, Holman DJ, Klein NA, Soules MR, Campbell KL, Kohen F, Munro CJ, Shofer J, Lasley WL, Wood JW (2003) Urinary estrone conjugate and pregnanediol-3-glucuronide enzyme immunoassays for population research, Clinical Chemistry 49(7):1139 1148.

O'Connor, KA, E Brindle, JB Shofer, RC Miller, NA Klein, MR Soules, KL Campbell, C Mar, MS Handcock (2004) Statistical correction for non-parallelism in a urinary enzyme immunoassay, Journal of Immunoassay and Immunochemistry 25(3):259-278.