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Lorna G. Moore is affiliated with the University of Colorado Denver in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a substantial number of publications in obstetrics and gynecology, as well as pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. Additional subfields of study include molecular biology, genetics, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The main topics covered in their work include pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, birth, development, and health, gestational diabetes research and management, high altitude and hypoxia, neonatal respiratory health research, neuroscience of respiration and sleep, and pancreatic function and diabetes.

Moore has published extensively, with notable recent papers such as:

  • HYPOXIA AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Reproductive challenges at high altitude: fertility, pregnancy and neonatal well-being (2020) in Reproduction
  • High-altitude residence alters blood-pressure course and increases hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (2020) in The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
  • High altitude regulates the expression of AMPK pathways in human placenta (2021) in Placenta
  • AMP-activated protein kinase activator AICAR attenuates hypoxia-induced murine fetal growth restriction in part by improving uterine artery blood flow (2020) in The Journal of Physiology
  • AMPK activation in pregnant human myometrial arteries from high-altitude and intrauterine growth-restricted pregnancies (2020) in American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Moore include:

  • Colleen G. Julian
  • Julie A. Houck
  • Ramón A. Lorca
  • Lilian Toledo-Jaldin
  • Litzi Lazo-Vega

Moore's work is regularly published in venues such as:

  • American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Placenta
  • The Journal of Physiology
  • High Altitude Medicine & Biology

Best Publications

  • Consensus Statement on Chronic and Subacute High Altitude Diseases

    Fabiola León-Velarde;Marco Maggiorini;John T. Reeves;Almaz Aldashev

  • Identifying Signatures of Natural Selection in Tibetan and Andean Populations Using Dense Genome Scan Data

    Abigail Bigham;Abigail Bigham;Marc Bauchet;Dalila Pinto;Xianyun Mao

  • Temporal relationships between hormonal and hemodynamic changes in early human pregnancy.

    Arlene B. Chapman;William T. Abraham;Stacy Zamudio;Carolyn Coffin

  • Acute Mountain Sickness in a General Tourist Population at Moderate Altitudes

    Benjamin Honigman;Mary Kay Theis;Jane Koziol-McLain;Robert Roach

  • Comparative human ventilatory adaptation to high altitude.

    Lorna G Moore

  • The effect of high altitude and other risk factors on birthweight: independent or interactive effects?

    G M Jensen;L G Moore

  • Human genetic adaptation to high altitude.

    Lorna G. Moore

  • Intrauterine growth restriction, preeclampsia, and intrauterine mortality at high altitude in Bolivia.

    Linda E Keyes;Fernando J Armaza;Susan Niermeyer;Enrique Vargas

  • Placental contribution to the origins of sexual dimorphism in health and diseases: sex chromosomes and epigenetics

    Anne Gabory;Tessa J Roseboom;Tom Moore;Lorna G Moore

  • Minimal hypoxic pulmonary hypertension in normal Tibetans at 3,658 m

    B. M. Groves;T. Droma;J. R. Sutton;R. G. Mccullough

  • Quantitative estimation of human uterine artery blood flow and pelvic blood flow redistribution in pregnancy.

    S K Palmer;S Zamudio;C Coffin;S Parker

  • Development of a Panel of Genome-Wide Ancestry Informative Markers to Study Admixture Throughout the Americas

    Joshua Mark Galanter;Juan Carlos Fernandez-Lopez;Christopher R. Gignoux;Jill Barnholtz-Sloan

  • A Genomewide Admixture Mapping Panel for Hispanic/Latino Populations

    Xianyun Mao;Abigail W. Bigham;Rui Mei;Gerardo Gutierrez

  • Oxygen transport during steady-state submaximal exercise in chronic hypoxia

    E. E. Wolfel;B. M. Groves;G. A. Brooks;G. E. Butterfield

  • Maternal Adaptation to High-altitude Pregnancy: An Experiment of Nature—A Review

    Lorna G. Moore;Lorna G. Moore;M. Shriver;L. Bemis;B. Hickler

  • Mitochondrial DNA analysis in Tibet: implications for the origin of the Tibetan population and its adaptation to high altitude.

    Antonio Torroni;Julie A. Miller;Lorna G. Moore;Stacy Zamudio

  • Altered blood pressure course during normal pregnancy and increased preeclampsia at high altitude (3100 meters) in Colorado.

    Susan K. Palmer;Lorna G. Moore;David A. Young;Betsy Cregger

  • Systemic and renal hemodynamic changes in the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle mimic early pregnancy

    Arlene B. Chapman;Stacy Zamudio;Whitney Woodmansee;Aicha Merouani

  • Arterial oxygen saturation in Tibetan and Han infants born in Lhasa, Tibet.

    Susan Niermeyer;Ping Yang;Shanmina;Drolkar

  • Maternal Uterine Vascular Remodeling During Pregnancy

    George Osol;Lorna G. Moore

Frequent Co-Authors

John T. Reeves
John T. Reeves University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Mark D. Shriver
Mark D. Shriver Pennsylvania State University
Judith G. Regensteiner
Judith G. Regensteiner University of Colorado Denver
Esteban J. Parra
Esteban J. Parra University of Toronto
George J. Brewer
George J. Brewer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
George A. Brooks
George A. Brooks University of California, Berkeley
Douglas C. Wallace
Douglas C. Wallace Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Ivana V. Yang
Ivana V. Yang University of Colorado Denver
Antonio Torroni
Antonio Torroni University of Pavia
Rasmus Nielsen
Rasmus Nielsen University of California, Berkeley

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