Dr Des Gilmore

Honorary Lecturer (School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing)

Room 308 Thomson Building, Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

Biography

Since retiring in 2006, I have continued with some teaching to the School of Life Sciences Honours students in Anatomy, Physiology and Neuroscience. However, my main teaching commitment has been as a Facilitator in the problem based learning classes with first and second year medical students, as well as running exercise-related special study modules for second, third and fourth year medical students. This culminated in the recent award of a Certificate of Excellence by the University of Glasgow medical students, class of 2017.

Throughout my time here I have been very heavily involved in University athletics, particularly with the Hares & Hounds Running Club of which I have been President since 1988! For many years, I have also been the University Court representative on the Council of the Glasgow University Sports Association (GUSA).

I am a Scottish Athletics Association official and among my many roles I’ve been an Ambassador at the events held in Glasgow during the 2012 Olympics and a volunteer at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. I was also the member of the University of Glasgow staff who, along with two students, was selected to be a Queen’s Baton Bearer during the lead up to the Games.

Research interests

Release of Amines in the Basal Ganglia of the AS/AGU Rat, a Genetic Model of Motor Disorder. Sexual Differentiation of the Reproductive and Central Nervous System. Central Control of Gonadotrophin Release. The Biology of the Three-toed Sloth Bradypus variegatus.

Publications

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Number of items: 19.

2016

Gilmore, Des (2016) Sexual dimorphism in the central nervous system. In: Singh, Shio Kumar (ed.) Mammalian Endocrinology and Male Reproductive Biology. CRC Press: Boca Raton, pp. 1-30. ISBN 9781498727358 (doi: 10.1201/b18900-2)

2015

Gilmore, D.P. (2015) How exercise affects our endocrine system – part 1. Functional Sports Nutrition, pp. 30-32.

Gilmore, D.P. (2015) How exercise affects our endocrine system – part 2. Functional Sports Nutrition, pp. 34-36.

2014

Gilmore, D.P. (2014) Reflections of a reproductive physiologist living and working in two hemispheres. In: Vasconcelos, Carlos Augusto Carvalho de and Neto, Modesto Leite Rolim (eds.) Neurociência e Desenvolimento Humano o Infinito Não Acaba Jamais. Editora Schoba, pp. 225-275. ISBN 9788580133172

2010

Gilmore, D.P. (2010) Human brain sexual dimorphism: causes and consequences. Neurobiologia, 73, pp. 19-33.

2009

Mackay, S., McCreadie, C., Stephen, J.A., Gilmore, D.P., Ullmann, S.L. and Payne, A.P. (2009) Kidney development in the Brazilian grey short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis Domestica). Revisita Neurobiologia, 72(3), pp. 85-91.

2008

Gilmore, D., Duarte, D. and da Costa, C.P. (2008) The physiology of two- and three-toed sloths. In: Vizcaíno, Sergio F. and Loughry, W.J. (eds.) The Biology of the Xenarthra. University Press of Florida: Gainseville, pp. 130-142. ISBN 9780813031651

2006

Gilmore, D (2006) Fecal estradiol and progesterone metabolite levels in the three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus). Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 39(2), pp. 289-295. (doi: 10.1590/S0100-879X2006000200017)

Payne, AP, Mackay, S, Ullmann, SL, Paris, DBPP, Allan, GA, McKenzie, SK and Gilmore, DP (2006) The cremasteric neuromuscular complex in male and female grey short-tailed opossums (Monodelphis domestica). Acta Zoologica, 87, pp. 197-202.

2004

Gilmore, D (2004) Cardiovascular responses to locomotor activity and feeding in unrestrained three-toed sloths, Bradypus variegatus. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 37(10), pp. 1557-1561. (doi: 10.1590/S0100-879X2004001000016)

Gilmore, D (2004) Effects of strenuous training and repeated cycles of weight loss on leptin and sex hormones in elite female wrestlers. Medicina Sportiva, 8, pp. 31-38.

Mackay, S, Xie, Q, Ullmann, SL, Gilmore, DP and Payne, AP (2004) Postnatal development of the reproductive system in the grey short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica. Anatomy and Embryology, 208, pp. 121-133. (doi: 10.1007/s00429-004-0386-1)

2003

Gilmore, D (2003) Cardiovascular responses to locomotor activity and to feeding in unrestrained three-toed sloths, Bradypus variegatus. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 36(2), pp. 273-278. (doi: 10.1590/S0100-879X2004001000016)

Gilmore, D (2003) Circadian rhythms in blood pressure in free-ranging three-toed sloths (Bradypus variegatus). Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 36(2), pp. 273-278. (doi: 10.1590/S0100-879X2003000200016)

Russell, A, Gilmore, DP, Mackay, S, Ullmann, SL, Baker, PJ and Payne, AP (2003) The role of androgens in development of the scrotum of the grey short-tailed Brazilian opossum (Monodelphis domestica). Anatomy and Embryology, 206, pp. 381-389. (doi: 10.1007/s00429-002-0300-7)

2002

Gilmore, D.P. (2002) Sexual dimorphism in the central nervous system of marsupials. International Review of Cytology: A Survey of Cell Biology, 214, pp. 193-224.

2001

Gilmore, DP, Da Costa, CP and Duarte, DPF (2001) Sloth biology: an update on their physiological ecology, behavior and role as vectors of arthropods and arboviruses. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 34(1), pp. 9-25. (doi: 10.1590/s0100-879x2001000100002) (PMID:11151024)

Craig, N.J. et al. (2001) A candidate gene for human neurodegenerative disorders: a rat PKCγ mutation causes a Parkinsonian syndrome. Nature Neuroscience, 4, pp. 1061-1062. (doi: 10.1038/nn740)

2000

Gilmore, D.P., Da-Costa, C.P. and Duarte, D.P.F. (2000) An update on the physiology of two- and three-toed sloths. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 33(2), pp. 129-146. (doi: 10.1590/s0100-879x2000000200001) (PMID:10657054)

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