DR. NARAYAN C. RATH USDA/ARS Physiologist

Dr. Rath received his M.S. and Ph.D. from University of Delhi, India, in Zoology with specialization in Reproductive Endocrinology, followed by a CNRS post-doctoral fellowship in France and a Fogarty Center visiting fellowship in NIH, Bethesda.

Dr. Rath worked as a Research Assistant Professor at State University of New York School of Medicine at Buffalo, New York, in areas of skeletal physiology and as a research scientist, INGENE, Inc., Santa Monica, California, in connective tissue physiology. From 1985 until 1992, he worked as a Senior Research Scientist at American Cyanamid Co., Medical Research Division, New York before joining USDA-ARS, Poultry Production and Product Safety Unit. His current research interests include skeletal tissue physiology relating to poultry leg problems and acute phase response in poultry.

SIGNIFICANT PAPERS

• Rath NC, Prasad MR, Action of cyclic 3',5' adenosine monophosphate on the uterus of the ovariectomized rat. Fertil Steril.25:724-730., 1974.
• Bitton-Casimiri V, Rath NC, Psychoyos A. A simple method for separation and culture of rat uterine epithelial cells. J Endocrino. 73:537-538, 1977.
• Rath NC, Reddi AH. Collagenous bone matrix is a local mitogen. Nature. 278: 855-857, 1979.
• Rath, N.C. and A.H. Reddi. 1981. Changes in polyamines, RNA synthesis and cell proliferation during matrix-induced cartilage, bone and bone marrow development. Developmental Biol. 82:211-216.
• Rath, N.C., A. Oronsky, and S. Kerwar. 1988. Synthesis of interleukin-1 normal rat chondrocytes in culture. Clinical Immunol. Immunopathol. 47:39-46.
• Rath, N.C., G.R. Bayyari, J.M. Balog and W.E. Huff. 1994. Physiological studies of turkey tibial dyschondroplasia. Poult. Sci. 73:416-424.
• Rath, N.C., W.E. Huff, G.R. Bayyari and J.M. Balog. 1995. Identification of transforming Growth Factor-b and Interleukin-6 in chicken ascites fluid. Avian Dis.
• Rath, N.C., W.E. Huff, G.R. Bayyari, and J.M. Balog. 1995. Effect of thiram on chick chondrocytes in culture. J. Toxicol. Environ. Health 44:369-376.
• Rath, N.C., W.E. Huff, J.M. Balog, G.R. Bayyari, and P.R. Reddy. 1997. Matrix metalloproteinase activity in avian tibial dyschondroplasia. Poultry Sci. 76:501-505.
• Rath, N.C., W.E. Huff, J.M. Balog, and G.R. Bayyari. 1998. Cell death in avian tibial dyschondroplasia. Avian Dis. 42:72-79.
• Rath, N.C., G.R. Huff, J.M. Balog, and W.E. Huff. 1998. Fluorescein isothiocyanate staining and characterization of avian heterophils, Vet. Immunol. Immunopathol. 64:83-95.
• Rath, N.C., J.M. Balog, G.R. Huff, W.E. Huff, G.B. Kulkarni, and J.F. Tierce. 1999. Comparitive differences in composition and biomechanical properties of tibiae of seven- and seventy-two-week-old male broiler chickens. Poultry Sci. 78:1232-1239.
• Rath, N.C., G.R. Huff, W.E. Huff, and J.M. Balog. 2000. Factors regulating bone maturity and strength in poultry. Poultry Sci. 79:1024-1032.
• Rath, N.C., W.E. Huff, G.R. Huff, J.M. Balog, and H.Xie. 2001. Matrix metalloproteinase activities of turkey bile. Camp. Biochem. Physiol. Part C. 130:97-105.
• Xie, H., N.C. Rath, G.R. Huff, J.M. Balog, and W.E. Huff. 2001.Inflammation induced changes in serum modulate chicken macrophage function. Vet. Immunol. Immunopathol. 80:225-235.
• Xie H, Newberry L, Clark F. D., Huff, W. E., Huff, G. R., Balog, J. M., Rath, N. C. Changes in serum ovotransferrin levels in chickens with experimentally induced inflammation and diseases. Avian Dis. 46:122-131. 2002.
• Xie, H., Huff, G. R., Huff, W. E, Balog, J. M., Holt, P., and Rath, N. C. Identification of ovotransferrin as an acute phase protein in chickens. Poult. Sci. 81:112-120. 2002
• Xie, H., Huff, G. R., Huff, W. E., Balog, J. M., Rath, N. C. Effects of ovotransferrin on chicken macrophages and heterophil-granulocytes. Dev. Comp. Immunol. 26: 805-815. 2002
• Rath, N. C., Parcells, M., Xie, H., and Santin, E. Characterization of a spontaneously transformed chicken mononuclear cell line. Vet. Immunol. Immunopathol. 96: 93-104. 2003
• Rath, N. C., Huff, W. E., Balog, J. M., and Huff, G. R. Comparative efficacy of different dithiocarbamates to induce tibial dyschondroplasia in poultry. Poult. Sci. 83: 266-274. 2004

CONTACT INFORMATION

Dr. Narayan C. Rath
USDA/ARS-Poultry
Center of Excellence for Poultry Science
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701

Telephone: 479-575-6189
FAX: 479-575-3026

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