Khursheed N. Jeejeebhoy, M.D., F.R.C.P.(C), Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus Department of Medicine Department of Nutritional Sciences Department of Physiology, St Michael's Hospital F Wing, Room 372 30 Bond Street Toronto, ON M5B 1W8 CANADA Tel: (416) 864 5388 Fax: (416) 864 5882 Email: kush.jeejeebhoy@utoronto.ca

Research

There are three major projects in my laboratory:

1. the effect of nutrition on muscle energetics
2. the interaction of nutrition and sepsis in an experimental model
3. in collaboration with Dr. Sole, the effects of antioxidants on cardiac disease.

Selected Publications

• Bissonnette, D.J., Madapallimattam, A., Jeejeebhoy, K.N. Effect of hypocaloric feeding and refeeding on glycolysis, glycolytic intermediates in rats. J Nutr 128:1723-1730, 1998. MRC MT-12658.
• Briet, Francoise, and Khursheed N. Jeejeebhoy. Effect of hypocaloric feeding and protein refeeding on muscle and mononuclear cell mitochondria in enterally fed rat. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. (in press).
• Keith, Mary E., Kenneth H. Norwich, Khursheed N. Jeejeebhoy. The tissue distribution of tumor necrosis factor-alpha in rats: a compartmental model. Metabolism 49:1309-17, 2000.
• Jeejeebhoy, K.N. Chromium and Parenteral Nutrition. J. Trace Elem Exp Med 12: 1999