- Professor Emeritus
- Email: rrodgers@uri.edu
- Office Location: Avedisian Hall, 7 Greenhouse Road, Kingston, RI 02881
Research
Effects of diabetes and hypertension on the heart and hormonal regulation of cardiac function and metabolism
Education
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 1977
M.S., Oregon State University, 1972
A.B., University of California, Berkeley, 1965
Selected Publications
Christe, M.E. and Rodgers, R.L. Cardiac Glucose and Fatty Acid Oxidation in the Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat. Hypertension, 25: 235-241. 1995
Rodgers, R.L. The working rat heart preparation. In Measurement of Cardiac Function (McNeil, J.H. ed.) CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp 11-40, 1997
Daniels, Thomas, Rodgers, R.L. et al. Effects of Valproic Acid on Cardiac Metabolism. Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, Vol. 82, 10: 927-933. 2004.