Professor
Department of Food Science and Nutrition
Address: 169 FScN
Phone: (612) 624-0746
Fax: (612) 625-5272
dgallahe@umn.edu

• Diet and colon cancer
• Dietary influences on cholesterol lowering and atherosclerosis
• Whole grains
• Dietary fiber
• Dietary fat
• Diabetes

• Nutr 5622 Vitamin and Mineral Biochemistry
• FScN 4613 Experimental Nutrition

Arikawa, A.Y. and Gallaher, D.D. 2008. Cruciferous vegetables reduce morphological markers of colon cancer risk in dimethylhydrazine-treated rats. J. Nutr. 138:526-532.

Gallaher, D.D. 2007. Influence of dietary fiber on body weight regulation. In: Sports Nutrition: Energy Metabolism and Exercise. (Wolinsky, I. and Driskell, J.A., eds.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

 Gallaher, D.D. and Arikawa, A.Y. 2007. Effect of cruciferous vegetables on colon cancer risk in carcinogen-treated rats (abstract), 2nd International Symposium on Human Health Effects of Fruits and Vegetables, Houston, TX, October 10, 2007.

 Gallaher, D.D., Freiburger, L.M., and Nazarre, J-A. 2007. Decreases in adiposity by viscous indigestible polysaccharides in rats (abstract), ACS National Meeting  Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007.

 Gallaher, D.D., Gallaher, C.M., Plank, D.W. 2007. Alpha-Cyclodextrin selectively increases fecal excretion of saturated fats,(abstract), FASEB J. 21, 2007.

Gallaher, D.D. 2006. Dietary fiber.  In: Present Knowledge in Nutrition, 9th ed. (Russell, R.M. and Bowman, B., eds.), International Life Sciences Institute Press, Washington, D.C. 

Plate, A.Y.A. and Gallaher, D.D.  2006. Effects of indole-3-carbinol and phenethyl isothiocyanate on colon carcinogenesis induced by azoxymethane in the rat.  Carcinogenesis 27, 287–292.

Hyejung Cho, H., Gallaher, D.D., and Csallany, A. Saari. 2005.  Conjugated linoleic acid, cis-9, trans-11, is a substrate for pulmonary 15-lipoxygenase-1 in rat.  J. Agric. Food Chem. 53:7262-7266

Plate, A.Y.A., Crankshaw, D.L. and Gallaher, D.D. 2005.  Effect  of  anesthesia  by  diethyl  ether  or  isoflurane  on  activity  of  cytochrome  P450  2E1  and  P450  reductases  in  rat  liver. Anesth. Analg.  101:1063-1064.

Plate, A.Y.A. and Gallaher, D.D.  2005.  The potential health benefits of corn components and products.  Cereal Foods World 50 (6), 305.

Yang, Y. and Gallaher, D.D. 2005.  The effect of dried plums on colon cancer risk factors in rats.  Nutr. Cancer 53, 117-125.

Jacobs, D.R., Jr and Gallaher, D.D. 2004.  Whole Grain Intake and Cardiovascular Disease: A Review.  Curr Atheroscler Rep. 6: 415-23.

Khil, J. and Gallaher, D.D. 2004.  Beef tallow increases apoptosis and decreases aberrant crypt foci formation relative to soybean oil in rat colon.  Nutr. Cancer. 50:55-62.

Mai, V., Katki, H.A., Harmsen, H., Gallaher, D.D., Schatzkin, A., Baer, D.J., Clevidence, B. 2004.  Effects of a controlled diet and black tea drinking on the fecal microflora composition and the fecal bile acid profile of human volunteers in a double-blinded randomized feeding study.  J. Nutr.  134: 473-478.

Carr, T.P., Wood, K.J., Hassel, C.A., Bahl, R. and Gallaher, D.D. 2003.  Raising intestinal contents viscosity leads to greater excretion of neutral sterols but not bile acids in hamsters and rats.  Nutr Res.  23: 91-102.

Cho, H., Gallaher, D.D., and Csallany, A.S. 2003.  Non-radiometric HPLC measurement of 13(S)-hydroxyoctadecadienoic acid from rat tissues.  Anal. Biochem.  318:47-51.

Carr, T.P., Cornelison, R.M., Illston, B.J., Stuefer-Powell, C.L., and Gallaher, D.D. 2002.  Plant sterols alter bile acid metabolism and reduce cholesterol absorption in hamsters fed a beef-based diet.  Nutr. Res.  22: 745-754.

Cowles, R.L., Lee, J-Y., Gallaher, D.D., Stuefer-Powell, C.L., and Carr, T.P. 2002.  Dietary stearic acid alters gallbladder bile acid composition in hamsters fed cereal-based diets. J. Nutr. 132: 3119-3122.

Gallaher, D.D., Gallaher, C.M., Mahrt, G.J., Carr, T.P., Hollingshead, C.H., Hesslink, R. Jr., and Wise, J.A. 2002. A glucomannan and chitosan fiber supplement decreases plasma cholesterol and increases cholesterol excretion in moderately obese normocholesterolemic humans. J. Am. Coll. Nutr.  21: 428-33.

Harris, G.K., Gupta, A., Nines, R.G., Kresty, L.A., Habib, S.G., Frankel, W.L., La Perle, K., Gallaher, D.D., Schwartz, S.J., and Stoner, G.D. 2001. Effects of lyophilized black raspberries on azoxymethane-induced colon cancer and 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine levels in the Fischer 344 rat.  Nutr. Cancer. 40:125-133.

• 2006-present CFANS Information Technology Committee, chair
• 2006-present University of Minnesota All University Radiation Protection Committee, chair
• 2007-present CFANS Experiential Learning Task Force, co-chair

• 2006 College of Agriculture, Food, and Envronmental Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award (Tenured Category)
• 2002-2003 Outstanding Teaching of the Year by the College of Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Sciences Student Board.
• 2000 Paper selected for the Annual Bibliography of Significant Advances in Dietary Supplement Research 2000, published by the Office of Dietary Supplements of the National Institutes of Health [Gallaher, C.M., Munion, J., Hesslink, R., Jr., Wise, J., and Gallaher, D.D. (2000) Cholesterol reduction by glucomannan and chitosan is mediated by changes in cholesterol absorption and bile acid and fat excretion in rats. J. Nutr. 130: 2753-2759.] The top twenty-five original research papers (out of >450 submitted for consideration) were selected for this bibliography.
• 1998 College of Human Ecology McFarland Creative Teaching Award