Jeffrey B. Blumberg, Ph.D.

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	Senior Scientist and Director Antioxidants Research Laboratory 711 Washington Street Boston, MA 02111-1524 Phone: (617) 556-3333 Fax: (617) 556-3344 E-mail: jeffrey.blumberg@tufts.edu
Education	Ph.D., Pharmacology Vanderbilt University
Research Focus	Dietary antioxidants and chronic disease prevention
Academic Appointments	Professor, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University
Selected Professional Affiliations	Editorial Board member of Journal of the American College of Nutrition; Journal of Environmental Pathology, Toxicology and Oncology; Journal of Medicinal Food; Nutrition; Antioxidants and Redox Signaling; The Open Bioactive Compounds Journal; Journal of Nutrition for the Elderly
For more information on Dr. Jeffrey Blumberg, please visit the USDA, Agricultural Research Service .* *Links to a federal website (outside Tufts University's website)
Blumberg JB, Frei B. Commentary: Why clinical trials of vitamin E and cardiovascular diseases may be fatally flawed. Free Radic Biol Med 2007;43:1374-6. Jenkins DJA, Kendall CWC, Marchie A, Josse AR, Nguyen TH, Faulkner DA, Lapsley KG, Blumberg JB. The effect of almonds on biomarkers of lipid peroxidation in older hyperlipidemic subjects. J Nutr 2008;138:908-13. Lawenda BD, Kelly KM, Ladas EJ, Sagar SM, Vickers A, Blumberg JB. Commentary: Should supplemental antioxidant administration be avoided during chemotherapy and radiation therapy? J Natl Cancer Inst 2008;100: 773-83. Ameho CK, Chen C-YO, Smith D, Sánchez-Moreno C, Milbury PE, Blumberg JB. Antioxidant activity and metabolite profile of quercetin in vitamin E depleted rats. J Nutr Biochem 2008;19:467-74. Chen C-Y, Blumberg JB. Are There Age-related Changes in Flavonoid Bioavailability? In:Phytochemicals: Aging and Health. Meskin MS (Ed). CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL 2008;19-38.
Other Recent Publications Milbury PE, Brigitte Graf B, Curran-Celentano JM, Blumberg JB. *Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) anthocyanins modulate heme oxygenase-1 and glutathione S-transferase-pi expression in the ARPE-19 cell line.* Invest Opthalmol Vision Sci 2007;48:2343-2349. Chen C-Y, Milbury PE, Collins FW, Blumberg JB. Avenanthramides are bioavailable and have antioxidant activity in humans after acute consumption of an enriched mixture from oats. J Nutr 2007;137:1375-82. Walker TG, Chan DL, Freeman LM, Milbury PE, Blumberg JB. Serial determination of biomarkers of oxidative stress and antioxidant status in dogs with naturally occurring gastric dilatation-volvulus. J Vet Emerg Crit Care 2007;17;250-6. Chen C-Y, Blumberg JB. Oxidative Stress Status in Humans with Metabolic Syndrome. In: Obesity: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, and Prevention. Bagchi D, Preuss HG (eds.) CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL 2007;123-37. Li N, Jia X, Chen C-Y, Blumberg JB, Song Y, Zhang W, Zhang X, Ma G, Chen J. Almond consumption reduces oxidative DNA damage and lipid peroxidation in male smokers. J Nutr 2007;137:2717-22. Chen C-Y, Milbury PE, Chung S-K, Blumberg JB. Effect of almond skin flavonoids and quercetin on human LDL and apolipoprotein B-100 oxidation and conformation. J Nutr Biochem 2007;18:785-94. Luo M, Fernández-Estívariz C, Jones DP, Jonas-Accardi CR, Alteheld B, Bazaragan N, Hao L, Griffith DP, Blumberg JB, Galloway JR, Ziegler TR. Depletion of plasma antioxidants in surgical intensive care unit patients requiring parenteral feeding: Effects of parenteral nutrition with or without alanyl-glutamine dipeptide supplementation. Nutrition 2008;24:37-44. Ribaya-Mercado JD, Cherry C. Maramag CC, Tengco LW, Blumberg JB, Solon FS. Relationships of body mass index with serum carotenoids, tocopherols, and retinol at steady-state and in response to a carotenoid-rich vegetable intervention in Filipino schoolchildren. Biosci Rpt 2008;28:97-106. Kalt W, Blumberg JB, McDonald JE, Vinqvist-Tymchuk MR, Fillmore SAE, Graf BA, O’Leary JM, Milbury PE. Identification of anthocyanins in the liver, brain and eye of blueberry-fed pigs. J Agric Food Chem 2008;56:705-12. Chen C-YO, Blumberg JB. The in vitro capacity of almond skin polyphenols for scavenging free radicals and inducing quinone reductase. J Agric Food Chem 2008; 56:4427-34. To see more of Dr. Jeffrey Blumberg's publications, please visit PubMed and search for "Blumberg J."