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Felix Bronner
Professor Emeritus BioStructure and Function
bronner@neuron.uchc.edu

• Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
• Skeletal, Craniofacial & Oral Biology Graduate Program
• Not accepting students for Lab Rotations

My principal research interests are:

1. Calcium Homeostasis
2. Calcium Transport in Intestine and Kidney
3. Calcium in Bones and Teeth
4. Ion Transport
5. Metabolic Bone Diseases
6. Modeling of Calcium Metabolism

I do not have a laboratory.  Current research, with the collaboration of Dr. Boris Slepchenko, Department of Cell Biology, consists of modeling the metabolism of lanthanum.

I am editor, with Dr. Mary C Farach-Carson, University of Delaware, of Topics in Bone Biology, published by Springer-UK. Volume 1, Bone Formation, has been published. Vol. 2, Bone Resorption, is with the printers. Vol. 3, Engineering of Skeletal Functional Tissues, is being written. I am also editor of Nutritional and Clinical Management of Chronic Conditions and Diseases, now being edited and to be published by CRC Press.

Selected Publications:

Calcium Homeostasis
Bronner, F., Stein, W. D. (1995) Calcium homeostasis – an old problem revisited. J. Nutr. 125:1987S-1995S.

Calcium Transport in Intestine and Kidney
Bronner, F. (2003) Mechanisms and functional aspects of intestinal calcium absorption. J. Exp. Zool. 300A: 47-52.

Slepchenko, B, Bronner, F (2001) Modeling of transcellular Ca transport in rat duodenum points to co-existence of two mechanisms of apical entry. Am. J. Physiol. Cell Physiol .281: C270- C281.
 

Calcium in Bones and Teeth
Giniger, M. S., L. Norton, S. Sousa, J. A. Lorenzo, and F. Bronner. (1991) A human periodontal ligament fibroblast clone releases a bone resorption inhibition factor in vitro. J. Dent. Res. 70: 99-101.

Ion Transport
Bronner, F., editor 1985 - 1990. Current Topics in Membranes and Transport. vols. 21, 24, 25, 29, 32, 37. Academic Press: New York and Orlando.

Metabolic Bone Diseases
Bronner, F., Stein  (1995) Calcium Nutrition and Osteoporosis.In:     Nutrition and Health – Topics and Controversies. F. Bronner, ed.  CRC Press, Boca Raton. Pp.113-135

Clinical Studies

Abrams, S A, Chanler, R J, Yergey, A L, Vieira, N A, Bronner, F. (1994) Compartmental analysis of calcium metabolism in very low-birth-weight infants. Ped. Res. 36:424-428