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Melinda A. Frye, DVM, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

Phone: 970-491-4280
Fax: 970-491-7569
Email: Melinda.Frye@colostate.edu

Education
Ph.D., Colorado State University
M.S., Colorado State University
D.V.M., Colorado State University
B.S.N., Linfield College

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Teaching Interests

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Research Interests

1. Under conditions of dietary fatty acid manipulation in the rat:

2. Identification of changes to the adipose and cardiac proteome with dietary obesity and beta-adrenergic antagonism

3. Investigation of lipid-mediated cardiac and endothelial dysfunction in veterinary patients


Representative Publications

Frye MA, Johnson JS, Traub-Dargatz J, Savage CJ, Fettman MJ, Gould DH. 2001. Putative uremic encephalopathy in horses: 5 cases (1978-1998). J Am Vet Med Assoc 218:560-566.

Frye MA, Selders CG, Mama KR, Wagner AE, Bright JM. 2002. Use of biphasic electrical cardioversion for treatment of idiopathic atrial fibrillation in two horses. J Am Vet Med Assoc 220:1039-1045.

Frye MA, Bright JM, Dargatz DA, Fettman MJ, Frisbie DD, Baker DC, Traub-Dargatz JL. 2003. A comparison of dobutamine infusion to exercise as a cardiac stress test in healthy horses. J Vet Internal Med 17:58-64.

Frye MA. 2006. Pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of urinary tract infection in horses. Vet Clin Equine 22:497-517.

Frye MA, Cook V. 2007. Cardiovascular system. In: Equine Emergency Medicine and Critical Care, Southwood LL andWilkins PA (eds). Manson Publishing, Middlesex. In press.