Faculty Bio

Name: Florence Ledwitz Rigby
Title: Professor of Physiology
Office Address: B221
E-mail: frigby@life.edu
Phone Number: 770 426 2718
Education:
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin -Madison  
M.S. Case Western Reserve University
Certificate in Affirmative Action Administration, University of Nebraska.

Research Interests:
past:   Hormonal and Paracrine Regulation of Differentiation and Function of Mammalian Ovarian Cells.
current:  Chiropractic effects on human physiological parameters. Factors that influence effective learning.

Teaching assignments:
current:  Cell, Neural and Muscle Physiology
              Endocrinology
              Physiology Laboratory
recently at Life U.:  Visceral Physiology and  Cell Biology

Publications and/or presentations:
Publications (36 full length publications 1970-1993 and 33 abstracts presented at National and International Scientific meetings 1972- 1992)

Ledwitz-Rigby, F., 1990, Gonadotrophin Releasing Hormone inhibition of LH stimulated progesterone secretion by porcine granulosa cells.  Domestic Animal Endocrinology 7: 265-272.

Ledwitz-Rigby, F. and P.G. Scheid, 1991, Thymulin modulates porcine granulosa cell responsiveness to Gonadotrophins in vitro.  In: Signaling Messages and Gene Expression in the Ovary.  pp 473-478.  G. Gibori, (ed.) Springer-Verlag, New York

Ledwitz-Rigby, F. M.K. Nickerson, S.H. Lin and P.C.K. Leung, 1993. Arachidonic acid as a second messenger in the regulation of Aromatase activity.  In:  Molecular Basis of Reproductive Endocrinology.  pp 230-233. P.C. K. Leung, A.J.W. Hseuh and H.G. Friesen (eds.) Springer-Verlag, New York.