Louaine L. Spriggs, PhD

Administration	Basic Sciences	Clinical Sciences	Centers of Excellence
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	Louaine L. Spriggs, PhD Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy 1901 Perdido Street New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: (504) 568-2792 lsprig@lsuhsc.edu
Degrees	BS Medical Technology - 1979 Louisiana State University Medical Center/University of New Orleans MHS Hematology and Adult Education - 1984 Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA PhD Anatomy and Cell Biology - 1990 Tulane University School of Medicine
Teaching Activities	Allied Health Gross Anatomy (Course Director) Medical Gross Anatomy
Selected Publications	Swartz, W.J., Whitworth, R.H., Jr., Spriggs, L.L., Venuti, J.M. “Training Anatomists for the Future”. Ann. Meeting of the Human Anatomy & Physiology Society, Abstract, 2008. Swartz, W.J., Spriggs, L.L., Oliver, P.D.,Venuti, J.M., Casey, G.P., and Whitworth,R.H., Jr. Survival of a gross anatomy coursein the wake of Hurricane Katrina. ClinicalAnatomy, 20(4):357-361, 2007. Kiefer, T., Yuan, L., Spriggs, L.L. Ram, P.,and Hill, S.M. Melatonin inhibits estrogenreceptor transactivation and cAMP levels inbreast cancer cells. Breast Cancer Res.Treat., 71:37-45, 2002. Teplitzky, S.R., Kiefer, T.L., Chang, Q., Dwivedi, P.D., Moroz, K., Myers, L., Anderson, M.B., Bischoff, E.D.,Spriggs, L.L., Blask, D.E., and Hill, S.M. Chemoprevention of NMU-induced rat mammary carcinoma with the combination of melatonin and 9-cis-retinoic acid. Cancer Lett., 168(2):155-163, 2001. Dai, J., Ram, P.T., Yuan, L., Spriggs, L.L.,and Hill, S.M. Transcriptional repression ofRORa activity in human breast cancer cellsby melatonin. Mole. Cell. Endocrinol., 176(1-2):111-120, 2001.

Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy