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Russell J. Butterfield, MD, PhD

Instructor
Education
  • Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah - BS
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois - PhD
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois - MD
  • Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah - Residency
Board Certifications
  • American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Sub: Child Neuro)
  • American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)
Current Appointments
  • Instructor - University of Utah
Research
  • Identification of genes causing a novel form of autosomal juvenile recessive amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
More Recent Publications [Search PubMed for Additional Publications]
  • Gender, age, and season at immunization uniquely influence the genetic control of susceptibility to histopathological lesions and clinical signs of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis: implications for the genetics of multiple sclerosis.
    Teuscher C, Bunn JY, Fillmore PD, Butterfield RJ, Zachary JF, Blankenhorn EP
    Am J Pathol 165:1593-602
  • Sex-specific quantitative trait loci govern susceptibility to Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus-induced demyelination.
    Butterfield R. J., R. J. Roper, D. M. Rhein R. W. Melvold, L. Haynes, R. Z. Ma, R. W. Doerge, and C. Teuscher
    Genetics 163:1041-6
  • Interacting quantitative trait loci control loss of peripheral tolerance and susceptibility to autoimmune ovarian dysgenesis after day 3 thymectomy in mice.
    R. J. Roper, R. Z. Ma, J. E. Biggins, R. J. Butterfield, S. D. Michael, K. S. Tung, R. W. Doerge, and C. Teuscher
    Immunol 169:1640-6
  • Genetic control of susceptibility to experimental Lyme arthritis is polygenic and exhibits consistent linkage to multiple loci on chromosome 5 in four independent mouse crosses.
    R J Roper, J J Weis, B A McCracken, C B Green, Y Ma, K S Weber, D Fairbairn, R J Butterfield, M R Potter, J F Zachary, R W Doerge & C Teuscher
    Genes Immun 2:388-97
  • Identification of genetic loci controlling the characteristics and severity of brain and spinal cord lesions in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE).
    Butterfield, R. J., Blankenhorn, E. P., Roper, R. J., Zachary, J. F., Doerge, R. W., and Teuscher, C
    Am. J. Pathol. 157: 637-645