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Spring 2012
In Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH), pro-constrictive, pro-proliferative and anti-apoptotic diatheses converge to produce contraction and excessive proliferation of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMC), a hallmark of PAH-vascular remodeling. The increased afterload causes right...
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A path towards better cancer drugs: Modeling interactions between antimitotic agents and tubulin
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Antimitotic agents, a class of cancer chemotherapies, target the tubulin protein in microtubules to suppress microtubule dynamics and affect the segregation of chromosomes during cell division. A variety of antimitotic agents are known, which range in status from clinically-approved agents to...
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Spring 2016
There is ample evidence that autophagy is affected in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) but the causes, the nature of the dysfunction and the mechanisms of autophagy impairment are unclear. Autophagy depends on vesicular trafficking and membrane fusion, events that rely on several protein complexes and...
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An investigation of aminoglutethimide cytotoxicity and its role in activation of cell death signaling pathways
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Aminoglutethimide (AG), a drug used for the treatment of breast and ovarian cancers, is known to cause toxicities such as agranulocytosis. To investigate its toxicity mechanisms, we have used quantitative proteomic analysis to gain insight into the proteome of Human Leukemia 60 (HL-60) treated...
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Anthocyanins and Gingerols Exhibit Synergism in their Anticancer and Antioxidant Effects in Vitro
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Anthocyanins and gingerols are naturally occurring phenolic compounds abundant in berries and ginger, respectively. They have been reported to induce antioxidant effects, inhibit the growth of different cancer cell lines, and stimulate apoptosis by modulating different cellular signal pathways....
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Fall 2019
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by the accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide. It has been proposed that AD pathology is transmissible by a “prion-like” mechanism through extracellular vesicles (EVs) that contain Aβ. In this context, EVs describe both microvesicles and exosomes,...
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Fall 2012
Taxane chemotherapy is widely used in the treatment of breast cancer. Despite its widespread clinical use, the molecular mechanisms of paclitaxel induced apoptosis remain unclear. Our laboratory has identified an important role for the BH3-only protein, BAD, in the paclitaxel induced cell death...
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Fall 2017
Prion disease, or transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE), is a type of neurodegenerative disease for which there is no treatment and which is invariably fatal. Prion diseases are distinct in the field of biology and medicine, not only because they can be sporadic, infectious, or inherited,...
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Spring 2014
The introduction of WNV into North America in 1999 was followed by rapid spread throughout the continent. Today, WNV is an endemic pathogen in the west, with thousands of cases of severe infection reported annually. In addition to traditional vaccine research, there is an urgent need to...