Departmental Calendar 

Seminar Series 2008-2009 Calendar

Grant Spotlight  
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Dr. Kathy Gabrielson received a grant from the
Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute (FAMRI) for “Role of Heat Shock Protein 90 in Tobacco Smoke-induced Heart Diseases

Moens AL, Champion HC, Claeys MJ, Tavazzi B, Kaminski PM, Wolin MS, Borgonjon DJ, Van Nassauw L, Haile A, Zviman M, Bedja D, Wuyts FL, Elsaesser RS, Cos P, Gabrielson KL, Lazzarino G, Paolocci N, Timmermans JP, Vrints CJ, Kass DA. High-Dose Folic Acid Pretreatment Blunts Cardiac Dysfunction During Ischemia Coupled to Maintenance of High-Energy Phosphates and Reduces Postreperfusion Injury. Circulation. 2008 Mar 24; [Epub ahead of print]

Yamakuchi M, Ferlito M, Morrell CN, Matsushita K, Fletcher CA, Cao W, Lowenstein CJ. Exocytosis of endothelial cells is regulated by N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor. Methods Mol Biol. 2008;440:203-15.

Morrell CN, Sun H, Ikeda M, Beique JC, Swaim AM, Mason E, Martin TV, Thompson LE, Gozen O, Ampagoomian D, Sprengel R, Rothstein J, Faraday N, Huganir R, Lowenstein CJ. Glutamate mediates platelet activation through the AMPA receptor. J Exp Med. 2008 Mar 17;205(3):575-84. Epub 2008 Feb 18.

Shi C, Parker AR, Hua L, Morrell CN, Lee SC, Bandaru V, Dumler JS, Wu TC, Eshleman JR. Anti-gene padlocks eliminate Escherichia coli based on their genotype. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2008 Feb;61(2):262-72. Epub 2007 Dec 22.

Scorpio DG, Leutenegger C, Berger J, Barat N, Madigan JE, Dumler JS. Sequential analysis of Anaplasma phagocytophilum msp2 transcription in murine and equine models of human granulocytic anaplasmosis. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2008 Mar;15(3):418-24. Epub 2007 Dec 19.

Scorpio DG, Ruben DS, Liao Z, Hildreth JE, Fletcher CA. Cervicovaginal evaluation in macaques used as a model for topical microbicide safety studies. J Med Primatol. 2008 Feb;37 Suppl 1:65-73.

Cihakova D, Barin JG, Afanasyeva M, Kimura M, Fairweather D, Berg M, Talor MV, Baldeviano GC, Frisancho S, Gabrielson K, Bedja D, Rose NR. Interleukin-13 protects against experimental autoimmune myocarditis by regulating macrophage differentiation. Am J Pathol. 2008 May;172(5):1195-208. Epub 2008 Apr 10. 

Dray X, Gabrielson KL, Buscaglia JM, Shin EJ, Giday SA, Surti VC, Assumpcao L, Marohn MR, Magno P, Pipitone LJ, Redding SK, Kalloo AN, Kantsevoy SV. Air and fluid leak tests after NOTES procedures: a pilot study in a live porcine model (with videos). Gastrointest Endosc. 2008 Apr 8; [Epub ahead of print]

McGaughey DM, Vinton RM, Huynh J, Al-Saif A, Beer M, McCallion AS. Metrics of sequence constraint overlook regulatory sequences in an exhaustive analysis at phox2b. Genome Research, 2008.

Christoforou N,Miller RA, Hill CM, Jie CC, McCallion AS, Gearhart JD. The characterization of ES-derived cardiac precursor cells demonstrates their multipotentiality and identifies novel cardiac genes. J. Clin Invest, 2008; 118(3).

Miller RA, Christoforou N, Pevsner J, McCallion AS, Gearhart JD. Efficient identification of novel developmental cardiac genes through transcriptional profiling of differentiating mouse embryonic stem cells. PLoS One, 2008; 3,(5).

Watson J. New Building, Old Parasite: Mesostigmatid MitesAn Ever-Present Threat to Barrier Facilities. ILAR J. 2008;49(3):303-9.

Clifford CB, Watson J. Old enemies, still with us after all these years. ILAR J. 2008;49(3):291-302.