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Barbara Wallner Kemppainen, PhD

Professor of Toxicology, joined the College of Veterinary Medicine in 1988. Her post-doctoral training at the US Department of Agriculture involved studying in vitro skin penetration and metabolism of fungal toxins. Dr. Kemppainen received her PhD from the University of Georgia. She teaches Veterinary Toxicology and two electives for the veterinary students: Wildlife Toxicology; Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine. She has an active research program which has been funded by Food Animal Health and Disease Research, US Department of Agriculture, US Army Medical Research Command, the Mellon Foundation, and recently funded by Alabama Agicultural Land Grant Alliance. 

221 Greene Hall
334-844-5415
kemppbw@auburn.edu

Research Interests

One of the long term goals of our research team (including agronomist - Dennis Shannon) is to identify medicinally active plants that can be alternative cash crops for Alabama farmers. We are investigating the effects of culture conditions on the production of plant mass and medical compounds by medical plants to determine the optimum culture conditions.  The primary medicinal plants that we are studying include American skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora), Astragalus, turmeric, milk weed extract (silymarin) and using high performance liquid chromatography to measure the medicinal compounds.

Another long term goal of our team is to identify medicinal plant(s) that can consistently treat selected food animal and companion animal diseases with high efficacy and low adverse effects. We are currently seeking funding to identify herbs to treat chicken coccidial infection in a sustainable method that eliminates need for pharmaceutical coccidiostats.  Organic farming, and in particular organic food producing animals, is the fastest growing aspect of agricultural development.

Selected Publications

Haque MN, Islam KMS, Akbar MA, Chowdhury R, Khatun M, Karim MR, Kemppainen BW.  Effect of dietary citric acid, flavomycin and their combination on performance, tibia  ash, and immune status.  Canadian J Ag Sci 90:57-63, 2010.

Sherrill JD, Sparks M, Dennis J, Mansour M, Kemppainen BW, Bartol FF, Morrison EE, Akingbemi BT.  Developmental exposures of male rats to soy isoflavones impact Leydig cell differentiation.  Biol Repro 83(3):488-501, 2010.

Hancock KD, Coleman ES, Tao Y-X, Morrison EE, Braden TD, Kemppainen BW, Akingbemi BT.  Genistein decreases androgen biosynthesis in rat Leydig cells by interference with luteinizing hormone dependent signaling.  Toxicology Letters 184:169-175, 2009.

Islam KMS, Afrin S, Das PM, Hassan MM, Valks M, Klein U, Burch DGS, Kemppainen BW.  Compatibility of combination of tiamulin and chlortetracycline with salinomycin in feed during a pulsed medication program coadministration in broilers.  Poultry Science 87:2528-2534, 2008.

Akingbemi B, Braden T, Kemppainen B, Hancock K, Sherrill J, Cook J, He X, Supko J, Exposure to phytoestrogens in the perinatal period affects androgen secretion by testicular Leydig cells in adult rat, Endocrinology 148(9):4475-4488,2007.

El-Kholy H, Kemppainen, B, Ravis, W, Hoerr F: Pharmacokinetics of levamisole in broiler breeder chickens. Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics 29:49-53, 2006.

El-Kholy H, Kemppainen BW. Levamisole residues in chicken tissues and eggs. Poultry Science 84:1-5, 2005.

Kemppainen BW, Avgeris S, Jones JB. Field cases of feline ciguatera toxicity. Compendium on Continuing Education for the Practicing Veterinarian 26:132-135, 2004.

Wang N-Z, Urry DW, Swaim SF, Gillette RL, Hinkle SH, Coolman SL, Luan C-X, Xu J, Kemppainen BW. Skin concentrations of thromboxane synthetase inhibitor after topical application with bioelastic membrane. Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics 27:37-43, 2004.

Kemppainen BW, Urry DW, Luan C-X, Xu J, Swaim SF, Goel S. In vitro skin penetration of dazmegrel delivered with bioelastic matrix. International Journal of Pharmaceutics 271:301-303, 2004.

Kemppainen BW, Urry DW, Swaim SF, Sartin EA, Gillette RL, Hiunkle SH, Coolman SL, Luan C-X, Xu J. Bioelastic membranes for topical application of a thromboxane synthetase inhibitor for protection of skin from pressure injury:  a preliminary study. Wound Repair and Regeneration 12:453-460, 2004.

El-Koly H, Kemppainen BW. Liquid chromatographic method with ultraviolet absorbance detection for measurement of levamisole in chicken tissues, eggs, and plasma. Journal of Chromatography B 796:371-377, 2003.

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