GUSTAFSON LABORATORY

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Gustafson, A.W. and Damassa, D.A. 1984. Perinatal and postnatal patterns of plasma sex steroid-binding protein and testosterone in
relation to puberty in the male little brown bat. Endocrinology 115:2347-2354.

Gustafson, A.W. and Damassa, D.A. 1985. Annual variations in plasma sex steroid-binding protein and testosterone concentrations in theadult male little brown bat: Relation to the asynchronous recrudescence of the testis and accessory reproductive organs. Biol. Reprod. 33:1126-1137.

Damassa, D.A., Gustafson, A.W., Kwiecinski, G.G., and Pratt, R.D. 1985. Control of plasma sex steroid-binding protein (SBP) in the little
brown bat: Effects of thyroidectomy and treatment with L- and D-thyroxine on the induction of SBP in adult males. Biol. Reprod.
33:1138-1146.

Gustafson, A.W. and Damassa, D.A. 1987. Binding of sex steroids to plasma proteins: Relation to androgen resistance and asynchronous
reproductive patterns in hibernating bats. In: Recent Advances in the Study of Bats. (Eds: M.B. Fenton, P. Racey & J.M.V. Rayner), pp.
441-458, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

Gustafson, A.W. 1987. Changes in Leydig cell activity during the annual testicular cycle of the bat Myotis lucifugus lucifugus: Histology and lipid histochemistry. Am. J. Anat. 178:312-325.

Damassa, D.A. and Gustafson, A.W. 1988. Effects of chronic infusions of sex steroid-binding protein on the testosterone-mediated inhibition of gonadotropin secretion and maintenance of sex accessory glands in male rats. Endocrinology 123:1885-1892.

Gustafson, A.W., Damassa, D.A., Pratt, R.D., and Kwiecinski, G.G. 1989. Post-natal patterns of plasma androgen-binding activity in
Djungarian (Phodopus sungorus) and golden (Mesocricetus auratus) hamsters. J. Reprod. Fertil. 86:91-104.

Kwiecinski, G.G., Damassa, D.A., and Gustafson, A.W. 1991. Patterns of sex hormone-binding globulin, thyroxine and thyroxine-binding globulin in relation to reproductive state and hibernation in female little brown bats. J. Endocrinol. 128:63-70.

Damassa, D.A., Gustafson, A.W., Kwiecinski, G.G., and Gagin, G.A. 1995. Seasonal influences on the control of plasma sex
hormone-binding globulin by T4 in male little brown bats. Am. J. Physiol. 268:R1303-R1309.

Damassa, D.A., Gagin, G.A., and Gustafson, A.W. 1996. Purification and characterization of the sex hormone-binding globulin in serum
from Djungarian hamsters. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 113B:593-599.