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Dr Jo Glazier PhD

Senior Research Fellow

  • Email: j.glazier@manchester.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0)161 276 6485
  • Alternative Telephone: +44 (0)161 276 6483 (Secretary)
  • Fax: +44 (0)161 701 6971

Maternal and Fetal Health Research Group
The University of Manchester
5th Floor Research
St Mary's Hospital
Manchester
M13 9WL

 

Research

  • Placental transport and its regulation in health and disease
  • Characterisation of placental transport mechanisms especially with respect to amino acids, calcium, sodium, lactate and protons
  • Placental transport of homocysteine and effects on vascular distensibility
 

Publications

2011

  • Boeuf P, Hasang W, hanssen E, Glazier J, Rogerson S. (2011). Relevant assay to study the adhesion of pathogens to polarized epithelia: application to the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. PLoS ONE, 6(6), e21126. eScholarID:133503 | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0021126
  • Cleal KJ, Ntani G, Crozier SR, Day PE, Harvey NC, Robinson SM, Cooper C, Godfrey GM, Hanson MA, Glazier JD, Lewis RM. (2011). Facilitated transporters mediate net efflux of amino acids to the fetus across the basal membrane of placental syncytiotrophoblast. J Physiol, 589(4), 987-997. eScholarID:133502 | DOI:10.1113/jphysiol.2010.198549
  • Kusinski LC, Dilworth MR, Wareing M, Baker PN, Sibley CP, Glazier JD. (2011). System A activity and vascular function in the placental-specific Igf2 knockout mouse. Placenta, 32(11), 871-876. eScholarID:136046 | DOI:10.1016/j.placenta.2011.07.086
  • Tsitsiou E, Sibley CP, D'Souza SW, Catanescu O, Jacobsen DW, Glazier JD. (2011). Homocysteine is transported by the microvillous plasma membrane of human placenta. J Inherit Metab Dis, 34(1), 57-65. eScholarID:133501 | DOI:10.1007/s10545-010-9141-3
  • Umbers AJ, Boeuf P, Clapham C, Stanisic DI, Baiwog F, Mueller I, Siba P, King CL, Beeson JG, Glazier J, Rogerson SJ. (2011). Placental malaria-associated inflammation disturbs the IGF axis of fetal growth regulation. J Infect Dis, 203(4), 561-569. eScholarID:133499 | DOI:10.1093/infdis/jiq080

2010

  • Solanky N, Requena Jimenez A, D'Souza SW, Sibley CP, Glazier JD. (2010). Expression of folate transporters in human placenta and implications for homocysteine metabolism. Placenta, 31(2), 134-143. eScholarID:82277 | DOI:10.1016/j.placenta.2009.11.017

2009

  • Desforges M, Mynett KJ, Jones RL, Greenwood SL, Westwood M, Sibley CP, Glazier JD. (2009). The SNAT4 isoform of the system A amino acid transporter is functional in human placental microvillous plasma membrane. J Physiol, 587(Pt1), 61-72. eScholarID:1d19595 | DOI:10.1113/jphysiol.2008.161331
  • Iruloh C, D'Souza SW, Fergusson W, Baker PN, Sibley CP, Glazier JD. (2009). Amino acid transport systems beta and A in fetal T lymphocytes in intrauterine growth restriction and with tumor necrosis factor-alpha treatment. Pediatr Res, 65( 1), 51-56. eScholarID:1d19620 | DOI:10.1203/PDR.0b013e31818a0793
  • Tsitsiou E, Sibley CP, D'Souza SW, Catanescu O, Jacobsen DW, Glazier JD. (2009). Homocysteine transport by systems L, A and y+L across the microvillous plasma membrane of human placenta. J Physiol, 587.16, 4001-4013. eScholarID:1d19588 | DOI:10.1113/jphysiol.2009.173393

2008

  • Bond, H, Dilworth, M, Baker, B, Cowley, EJ, Requena Jimenez, A, Boyd, R, Husain, S, Ward, BS, Sibley, CP, Glazier, JD. (2008). Increased maternofetal calcium flux in parathyroid hormone-related protein-null mice. J Physiol, 586( 7), 2015-2025. eScholarID:1d19622 | DOI:10.1113/jphysiol.2007.149104
  • Dilworth M, Glazier JD, Cowley E, Boyd RDH, Husain S, Sibley CP, Ward BS. (2008). Measurement of maternofetal potential difference in parathyroid hormone related protein (PTHrP) knockout mice. Placenta, 29( 12), 1041-1042. eScholarID:1d20259 | DOI:10.1016/j.placenta.2008.09.006

2007

  • Iruloh C, D'Souza SW, Speake PF, Crocker IP, Ferguson W, Baker PN, Sibley CP, Glazier JD. (2007). Taurine transporter in fetal T lymphocytes and platelets: Differential expression and functional activity. American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology, 292, C332-C341. eScholarID:1d27403 | DOI:10.1152/ajpcell.00634.2005
  • Lewis R, Glazier JD, Greenwood SL, Bennett E, Godfrey K, Jackson A, Sibley CP, Cameron I, Hanson M. (2007). L-serine uptake by human placental microvillous membrane vesicles. Placenta, 28( 5-6), 445-52. eScholarID:1d20264 | DOI:10.1016/j.placenta.2006.06.014

2006

  • Bond H, Baker B, Boyd RDH, Cowley EJ, Glazier JD, Jones CJP, Sibley CP, Ward BS, Husain S. (2006). Artificial perfusion of the fetal circulation of the in situ mouse placenta: methodology and validation. Placenta, 27 Suppl A, S69-75. eScholarID:1d20266 | DOI:10.1016/j.placenta.2006.01.005
  • Desforges M, Lacey HA, Glazier JD, Greenwood SL, Mynett KJ, Speake PF, Sibley CP. (2006). The SNAT4 isoform of the system A amino acid transporter is expressed in human placenta. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol, 290(1), C305-C313. eScholarID:1d11275 | DOI:10.1152/ajpcell.00258.2005
  • Glazier JD, Sibley CP. (2006). In vitro methods for studying human placental amino acid transport: placental plasma membrane vesicles. Methods Mol Med, 122, 241-252. eScholarID:1d20268
  • Settle P, Sibley CP, Doughty I, Johnston T, Glazier JD, Powell T, Jansson T, D'Souza SW. (2006). Placental lactate transporter activity and expression in intrauterine growth restriction. J Soc Gynecol Investig, 13( 5), 357-63. eScholarID:1d20265 | DOI:10.1016/j.jsgi.2006.04.006

2005

  • Champion E, Mann S, Glazier JD, Jones C, Rawlings J, Sibley CP, Greenwood SL. (2005). Characterisation of long term cat placental explant cultures: uptake of taurine by system beta. Placenta, 26( 8-9), 608-16. eScholarID:1d20272 | DOI:10.1016/j.placenta.2004.07.010
  • Jones CJP, Champion E, Glazier JD, Greenwood SL, Rawlings J, Sibley CP. (2005). Ultrastructural aspects of long-term cat placental explant culture. Placenta, 26( 7), 585-9. eScholarID:1d20273 | DOI:10.1016/j.placenta.2004.10.015
  • Lacey HA, Nolan TT, Greenwood SL, Glazier JD, Sibley CP. (2005). Gestational profile of Na+/H+ exchanger and Cl-/HCO3- anion exchanger mRNA expression in placenta using real-time QPCR. Placenta, 26( 1), 93-8. eScholarID:1d20278 | DOI:10.1016/j.placenta.2004.05.005
  • Regnault T, Marconi A, Smith C, Glazier JD, Novak D, Sibley CP, Jansson T. (2005). Placental amino acid transport systems and fetal growth restriction--a workshop report. Placenta, 26 Suppl A, S76-80. eScholarID:1d20274 | DOI:10.1016/j.placenta.2005.02.006
  • Sibley, CP, Turner, M, Cetin, I, Ayuk, P, Boyd, C, D'Souza, SW, Glazier, JD, Greenwood, SL., Jansson, T, Powell, T. (2005). Placental phenotypes of intrauterine growth. Pediatr Res, 58( 5), 827-32. eScholarID:1d20271 | DOI:10.1203/01.PDR.0000181381.82856.23
  • Speake P, Mynett KJ, Glazier JD, Greenwood SL, Sibley CP. (2005). Activity and expression of Na+/H+ exchanger isoforms in the syncytiotrophoblast of the human placenta. Pflugers Arch, 450( 2), 123-30. eScholarID:1d20275 | DOI:10.1007/s00424-005-1382-x

2004

  • Dye J, Vause S, Johnston TT, Clark P, Firth J, D'Souza SW, Sibley CP, Glazier JD. (2004). Characterization of cationic amino acid transporters and expression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase in human placental microvascular endothelial cells. FASEB J, 18( 1), 125-7. eScholarID:1d10783 | DOI:10.1096/fj.02-0916fje
  • Settle P, Mynett KJ, Speake PF, Champion EE, Doughty IM, Sibley CP, D'Souza SW, Glazier JD. (2004). Polarized lactate transporter activity and expression in the syncytiotrophoblast of the term human placenta. Placenta, 25( 6), 496-504. eScholarID:1d6541

2003

  • Atkinson, DE, Greenwood, SL., Greenwood, SL., Sibley, CP, Sibley, CP, Glazier, JD, Glazier, JD, Fairbairn, L, Fairbairn, L. (2003). Role of MDR1 and MRP1 in trophoblast cells; elucidated using retroviral gene transfer. American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology, 285(3):, eScholarID:1d25358
  • Champion E, Glazier JD, Greenwood SL, Mann S, Rawlings J, Sibley CP, Jones CJP. (2003). Localization of alkaline phosphatase and Ca2+-ATPase in the cat placenta. Placenta, 24( 5), 453-61. eScholarID:1d20280
  • Speake PF, Glazier JD, Ayuk P, Reade M, Sibley CP, D'Souza SW. (2003). L-Arginine transport across the basal plasma membrane of the syncytiotrophoblast of the human placenta from normal and preeclamptic pregnancies. J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 88( 9), 4287-92. eScholarID:1d20283

2002

  • Ayuk P, Theophanous D, D'Souza SW, Sibley CP, Glazier JD. (2002). L-arginine transport by the microvillous plasma membrane of the syncytiotrophoblast from human placenta in relation to nitric oxide production: effects of gestation, preeclampsia, and intrauterine growth restriction. J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 87( 2), 747-51. eScholarID:1d20282
  • Johansson M, Glazier JD, Sibley CP, Jansson T, Powell TL. (2002). Activity and protein expression of the Na+/H+ exchanger is reduced in syncytiotrophoblast microvillous plasma membranes isolated from preterm IUGR pregnancies. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab, 87(12), 5686-5694. eScholarID:1d6235
  • Radaelli T, Cetin I, Ayuk P, Glazier JD, Pardi G, Sibley CP. (2002). Cationic amino acid transporter activity in the syncytiotrophoblast microvillous plasma membrane and oxygenation of the uteroplacental unit. Placenta, 23 Suppl A, S69-74. eScholarID:1d20305 | DOI:10.1053/plac.2002.0801
  • Sibley, CP, Pardi, G, Cetin, I, Todros, T, Piccoli, E, Kaufmann, P, Huppertz, B, Bulfamante, G, Cribiu, F, Ayuk, P, Glazier, JD, Radaelli, T. (2002). Pathogenesis of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR)-conclusions derived from a European Union Biomed 2 Concerted Action project 'Importance of Oxygen Supply in Intrauterine Growth Restricted Pregnancies'-a workshop report. Placenta, 23 Suppl A, S75-9. eScholarID:1d20281 | DOI:10.1053/plac.2002.0796
  • Sibley, CP, Sibley, CP, Glazier, JD, Glazier, JD, Greenwood, SL., Greenwood, SL., Lacey, HA, Lacey, H, Mynett, KJ, Mynett, KJ, Speake, PF, Speake, PF, Jansson, T, Jansson, T, Johansson, M, Johansson, M, Powell, T, Powell, TL. (2002). Regulation of placental transfer: the NA+/H+ exchanger – a review. Placenta, 23 (supplement A), S39-S46. eScholarID:1d3904
  • Sibley, CP, Sibley, CP, Glazier, JD, Glazier, JD, Greenwood, SL., Greenwood, SL., Lacey, HA, Lacey, H, Mynett, KJ, Mynett, KJ, Speake, PF, Speake, PF, Jansson, T, Jansson, T, Johansson, M, Johansson, M, Powell, T, Powell, TL. (2002). Regulation of placental transfer: the NA+/H+ exchanger – a review. Placenta, 23 (supplement A), S39-S46. eScholarID:1d3905

2000

  • Ayuk P, Sibley CP, Donnai PP, D'Souza SW, Glazier JD. (2000). Development and polarization of cationic amino acid transporters and regulators in the human placenta. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol, 278( 6), C1162-71. eScholarID:1d20284
  • Ayuk PT-Y, Sibley CP, Donnai PP, D'Souza SW, Glazier JD. (2000). Development and polarisation of cationic amino acid transporters and regulators in the human placenta. American Journal of Physiology, 278, C1162-C1171. eScholarID:1d3798
  • Hamilton K, Tein M, Glazier JD, Mawer E, Berry JL, Balment RR, Boyd RDH, Garland H, Sibley CP. (2000). Altered calbindin mRNA expression and calcium regulating hormones in rat diabetic pregnancy. J Endocrinol, 164( 1), 67-76. eScholarID:1d20285
  • Hughes J, Doughty IM, Glazier JD, Powell TL, Jansson T, D'Souza SW, Sibley CP. (2000). Activity and expression of the NA+/H+ exchanger in the microvillous plasma membrane of the syncytiotrophoblast in relation to gestation and small gestational age birth. Paediatric Research, 48, 652-659. eScholarID:1d3903

1999

  • Glazier JD, Harrington B, Sibley CP, Turner MMA, Rodeck CH, Whittle MJ. (1999). Placental function in maternofetal exchange. Fetal Medicine: Basic Science and Clinical Practice. Churchill Livingstone. eScholarID:3d155
  • Harrington B, Glazier JD, D'Souza SW, Sibley CP. (1999). System A amino acid transporter activity in human placental microvillous membrane vesicles in relation to various anthropometric measurements in appropriate and small for gestational age babies. Pediatr Res, 45( 6), 810-4. eScholarID:1d20287

1998

  • Ayuk P, Glazier JD, Sibley CP, D'Souza S. (1998). Placental L-arginine transport in pre-eclampsia. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 18(Supplement 1), eScholarID:1d28080
  • Doughty IM, Glazier JD, Powell T, Jansson T, Sibley CP. (1998). Chloride transport across syncytiotrophoblast microvillous membrane of first trimester human placenta. Pediatr Res, 44( 2), 226-32. eScholarID:1d20289
  • Godfrey K, Matthews N, Glazier JD, Jackson A, Wilman C, Sibley CP. (1998). Neutral amino acid uptake by the microvillous plasma membrane of the human placenta is inversely related to fetal size at birth in normal pregnancy. J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 83( 9), 3320-6. eScholarID:1d20288
  • Sibley, CP, Birdsey, T, Brownbill, P, Clarson, L, Doughty, IM, Glazier, JD, Greenwood, SL., Hughes, J, Jansson, T, Mylona, P, Nelson, D, Powell, T. (1998). Mechanisms of maternofetal exchange across the human placenta. Biochem Soc Trans, 26( 2), 86-91. eScholarID:1d16832
  • Ward BS, Glazier JD, Sibley CP, Boyd RDH. (1998). Site of catecholamine modulation of feto-maternal electric potential difference in the pig. Exp Physiol, 83( 3), 361-70. eScholarID:1d20291

1997

  • Clarson L, Glazier JD, Sides M, Sibley CP. (1997). Expression of the facilitated glucose transporters (GLUT1 and GLUT3) by a choriocarcinoma cell line (JAr) and cytotrophoblast cells in culture. Placenta, 18( 4), 333-9. eScholarID:1d20294
  • Glazier JD, Cetin I, Perugino G, Ronzoni S, Grey A, Mahendran D, Marconi A, Pardi G, Sibley CP. (1997). Association between the activity of the system A amino acid transporter in the microvillous plasma membrane of the human placenta and severity of fetal compromise in intrauterine growth restriction. Pediatr Res, 42( 4), 514-9. eScholarID:1d20293
  • Sibley CP, Glazier JD, D'Souza SW. (1997). Placental transporter activity and expression in relation to fetal growth. Exp Physiol, 82( 2), 389-402. eScholarID:1d20295
  • Ward BS, Glazier JD, Sibley CP, Boyd RDH. (1997). Anatomical location of the generator of the catecholamine modifiable feto-maternal electric potential difference in the pig. Placenta, 18:A, eScholarID:1d28079

1996

  • Clarson L, Glazier JD, Greenwood SL, Jones CJP, Sides M, Sibley CP. (1996). Activity and expression of Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase in human placental cytotrophoblast cells in culture. J Physiol, 497 ( Pt 3), 735-43. eScholarID:1d20296
  • Doughty IM, Glazier JD, Greenwood SL, Boyd RDH, Sibley CP. (1996). Mechanisms of maternofetal chloride transfer across the human placenta perfused in vitro. Am J Physiol, 271( 6 Pt 2), R1701-6. eScholarID:1d20297
  • Glazier JD, Sibley CP, Carter A. (1996). Effect of fetal growth restriction on system A amino acid transporter activity in the maternal facing plasma membrane of rat syncytiotrophoblast. Pediatr Res, 40( 2), 325-9. eScholarID:1d20299
  • Mylona P, Glazier JD, Greenwood SL, Sides M, Sibley CP. (1996). Expression of the cystic fibrosis (CF) and multidrug resistance (MDR1) genes during development and differentiation in the human placenta. Mol Hum Reprod, 2( 9), 693-8. eScholarID:1d20298
  • Quinn G, Boam D, Davis JRE, Glazier JD, Mylona P, Sides K, Sibley CP. (1996). The human placenta expresses transcription enhancer factor-1 but there is no correlation with the expression of placental lactogen. J Mol Endocrinol, 16( 2), 205-10. eScholarID:1d20300

1995

  • Glazier JD, Mawer E, Sibley CP. (1995). Calbindin-D9K gene expression in rat chorioallantoic placenta is not regulated by 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3. Pediatr Res, 37( 6), 720-5. eScholarID:1d20302
  • Sibley CP, D'Souza SW, Doughty IM, Boyd RDH, Glazier JD, Kuruvilla A, Mahendran D. (1995). Birthweight and sodium/proton exchanger activity in the term human placenta. Placenta, 16( 5), 469-70. eScholarID:1d20301

1994

  • Husain S, Birdsey T, Glazier JD, Mughal M, Garland H, Sibley CP. (1994). Effect of diabetes mellitus on maternofetal flux of calcium and magnesium and calbindin9K mRNA expression in rat placenta. Pediatr Res, 35( 3), 376-81. eScholarID:1d20306
  • Kuruvilla A, D'Souza SW, Glazier JD, Mahendran D, Maresh MJA, Sibley CP. (1994). Altered activity of the system A amino acid transporter in microvillous membrane vesicles from placentas of macrosomic babies born to diabetic women. J Clin Invest, 94( 2), 689-95. eScholarID:1d20304 | DOI:10.1172/JCI117386
  • Mahendran D, Byrne S, Donnai PP, D'Souza SW, Glazier JD, Jones CJP, Sibley CP. (1994). Na+ transport, H+ concentration gradient dissipation, and system A amino acid transporter activity in purified microvillous plasma membrane isolated from first-trimester human placenta: comparison with the term microvillous membrane. Am J Obstet Gynecol, 171( 6), 1534-40. eScholarID:1d20303

1993

  • Byrne S, Glazier JD, Greenwood SL, Mahendran D, Sibley CP. (1993). Chloride transport by human placental microvillous membrane vesicles. Biochim Biophys Acta, 1153( 1), 122-6. eScholarID:1d20307
  • Mahendran D, Donnai PP, Glazier JD, D'Souza SW, Boyd RDH, Sibley CP. (1993). Amino acid (system A) transporter activity in microvillous membrane vesicles from the placentas of appropriate and small for gestational age babies. Pediatr Res, 34( 5), 661-5. eScholarID:1d20308
  • Mohammed T, Stulc J, Glazier JD, Boyd RDH, Sibley CP. (1993). Mechanisms of potassium transfer across the dually perfused rat placenta. Am J Physiol, 265( 2 Pt 2), R341-7. eScholarID:1d20309

1992

  • Glazier JD, Atkinson DE, Thornburg K, Sharpe P, Edwards D, Boyd RDH, Sibley CP. (1992). Gestational changes in Ca2+ transport across rat placenta and mRNA for calbindin9K and Ca(2+)-ATPase. Am J Physiol, 263( 4 Pt 2), R930-5. eScholarID:1d16317

1989

  • Boyd RDH, Glazier JD, Sibley CP, Ward BS. (1989). Maternofetal potential difference in pigs. Am J Physiol, 257( 1 Pt 2), R37-43. eScholarID:1d20310

1988

  • Glazier JD, Jones CJP, Sibley CP. (1988). Purification and Na+ uptake by human placental microvillus membrane vesicles prepared by three different methods. Biochim Biophys Acta, 945( 2), 127-34. eScholarID:1d20311

1986

  • Sibley CP, Ward BS, Glazier JD, Moore W, Boyd RDH. (1986). Electrical activity and sodium transfer across in vitro pig placenta. Am J Physiol, 250( 3 Pt 2), R474-84. eScholarID:1d20312

  • Tsitsiou E, Sibley CP, D'Souza, SW, Catanescu O, Jacobsen DW, Glazier JD. Homocysteine is transported by the microvillous plasma membrane of human placenta. J Inherit Metab Dis, 34(1), 57-65. eScholarID:133498

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