Craig Porter
Professor
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
faculty
Peds Pediatrics, College of Medicine
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Biography and Research Information
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Craig Porter's research focuses on understanding metabolic and physiological responses to various stimuli, including exercise, inactivity, and injury. His work has investigated how nutritional interventions, such as leucine supplementation, can influence skeletal muscle mitochondrial function, particularly in older adults recovering from physical inactivity. Porter has also explored the role of catecholamines and inflammatory signaling pathways, like NF-κB, in skeletal muscle recovery following severe burns.
His research extends to cardiovascular health, with publications examining exercise training for conditions like peripheral artery disease and the accuracy of medical imaging techniques for plaque detection. Additionally, Porter has published on the involvement of platelets, inflammation, and purinergic receptors in chronic kidney disease, highlighting the complex interplay of factors contributing to this condition. He leads an active research group and maintains a lab website to disseminate his group's work.
Porter's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 34 and over 5,500 citations across more than 190 publications, recognizing him as a highly cited researcher. He collaborates with several colleagues at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including D Sadler, Shannon Rose, Elisabet Børsheim, and Umesh D. Wankhade, with whom he has co-authored multiple publications.
Metrics
- h-index: 34
- Publications: 194
- Citations: 5,537
Selected Publications
- Characterizing Human Milk RNA Degradation Over Time to Optimize Storage of Human Milk for RNA Quality (2026) DOI
- Novel murine partial tracheal occlusion model with altered respiratory dynamics (2025) DOI
- Mitochondrial respiratory function in human platelets: Influence of sample preparation, assay buffer, and instrumental platform (2025) DOI
- Shared and distinct adaptations to early‐life exercise training based on inborn fitness (2025) DOI
- Determination of Burn Size in Mouse Models of Burn Injury: A Scoping Review of Studies Leveraging Scald and Contact Burns (2025) DOI
- Impact of the metabolic disease status in obesity and surgical weight loss on human adipose tissue bioenergetics (2025) DOI
- Shared and distinct adaptations to early-life exercise training based on inborn fitness (2024) DOI
- HOUSING TEMPERATURE ALTERS BURN-INDUCED HYPERMETABOLISM IN MICE (2024) DOI
- Maternal hemoglobin A1c and left ventricular hypertrophy in infants of mothers with pre-gestational diabetes (2024) DOI
- Protonophore treatment augments energy expenditure in mice housed at thermoneutrality (2024) DOI
- Parental cardiorespiratory fitness influences early life energetics and metabolic health (2023) DOI
- Muscle glycogen metabolism is rapidly dysregulated in critical illness and associates with ICU acquired weakness (2023) DOI
- Skeletal Muscle Bioenergetics in Critical Limb Ischemia and Diabetes (2023) DOI
- Altered mitochondrial respiration in platelets and PBMCs in patients with stages 4 or 5 chronic kidney disease (2023) DOI
- A modest change in housing temperature alters whole body energy expenditure and adipocyte thermogenic capacity in mice (2022) DOI
Grants & Funding
- No FP attached UAMS ACHRI Flow Through Principal Investigator
- No FP attached UAMS ACHRI Flow Through Principal Investigator
- ACRI GF034110 Porter The Role of the Mitochondrion in the Metabolic Stress Response to Burn Trauma NIH/Nat. Inst. of General Medical Sciences Principal Investigator
- No FP attached UAMS ACHRI Flow Through Principal Investigator
- No FP attached UAMS ACHRI Flow Through Principal Investigator
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