Kurt Williams, DVM, PhD, Dipl ACVP
Assistant Professor
164 Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health
4125 Beaumont Road
Lansing MI 48910-8107
Phone: (517) 432-6320
E-mail: will1273@msu.edu
Education and Training:
PhD, Comparative Pathology, University of California-Davis, 2001
DVM, Michigan State University, 1990
Research Interests:
Pulmonary fibrosis
Recent Publications:
Williams KJ, Summers BA, and deLahunta A. Cerebrospinal Cuterebriasis in Cats and its Association with Feline Ischemic Encephalopathy. Veterinary Pathology. 35: 330-343, 1998.
West JAA, Williams KJ, Toskala E, Nishio SJ, Fleschner CA, Forman HJ, Buckpitt AR, and Plopper CG. Induction of Tolerance to Naphthalene in Clara Cells is Dependent on a Stable Pheontypic Adaptation Favoring Maintenance of the Glutathione Pool. American Journal of Pathology. 160(3):1115-1127, 2002.
Williams KJ, Buckpitt AR, Cruikshank MK, and Plopper CG. Pulmonary Heat Shock Protein Expression After Exposure to a Metabolically-Activated Clara Cell Toxicant: Relationship to Protein Adduct Formation. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. 192(2):107-118, 2003.
Williams KJ.Coronary Arteriolosclerosis with Myocardial Atrophy in a 13-Year Old Dog. Veterinary Pathology. 40:695-697, 2003.
Williams KJ, Patrick DJ, Cohn L, Malarkey D, and Toews G. Identification of Spontaneous Feline Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis in Cats: Morphology and Ultrastructural Evidence for a Type II Pneumocyte Defect. Chest. 125:2278-2288, 2004.
LA Cohn, CR Norris, EC Hawkins, JA Dye, C Johnson, and Williams KJ. Identification and Characterization of an Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis-Like Condition in Cats. J. Vet. Intern. Med. 18: 632-641, 2004.
Hoenerhoff M and Williams KJ. Copper-Associated Hepatopathy in a Neotropical Fruit Bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) and Establishment of Reference Ranges of Hepatic Copper in 16 Bats. J. Vet. Diag. Invest. 16:590-593, 2004.
Norris CR, Decile KC, Berghaus RD, Williams KJ, Leutenegger CM, Walby WF, Schelegle ES, Hyde DM, and Gershwin LJ. An Experimental Model of Allergic Asthma in Cats Sensitized to House Dust Mite or Bermuda Grass Allergen. International Archives of Allergy and Immunology. 135(2):117-31, 2004.
Phimister AJ, Williams KJ, VanWinkle LS, and Plopper CG. Consequences of abrupt glutathione depletion in murine clara cells: ultrastructural and biochemical investigations into the role of glutathione loss in naphthalene cytotoxicity. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 314(2):506-513, 2005.
