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  3. 2010 – 2011 Publications

2010 – 2011 Publications

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Blair, L., Avaritt, N., Huang, R., Cole, P., Taverna, S. and Tackett, A. (2011) MassSQUIRM: An assay for quantitative measurement of lysine demethylase activity.Epigenetics, 6.

Jones, D., Kim, S., Guderyon, M., Yun, C., Moran, J. and Miller, G. (2010) Hydroxywarfarin metabolites potently inhibit CYP2C0 metabolism of S-warfarin. Chem. Res. Toxicol., 23, 939-45.

Jones, D., Kim, S., Boysen, G., Yun, C. and Miller, G. (2010) Contribution of three CYP3A isoforms to metabolism of R- and S-warfarin. Drug Metab. Lett., 4, 213-219.

Mercado, C.,Ziu, E.and Kilic, F. (2011) Communication between 5-HT and small GTPases.Current Opinion in Pharmacology, 11, 1-6.

Bioinformatics

Suva, L., Washam, C., Nicholas, R. and Griffin, R. (2011) Bone mestastasis: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities. Nat. Rev. Endocrinol., 7, 208-218.

Cellular Physiology and Molecular Biophysics
Pereira, G.B., Dobretsova, A., Hamdan, H., and Wight, P.A. (2011) Expression of myelin genes: comparative analysis of Oli-neu and N20.1 oligodendroglial cell lines. J. Neurosci. Res., 89, 1070-1078.

Communication Disorders

Atcherson, S., Zraick, R. and Brasseux, R. (2011) Readability of patient-reported outcomes questionnaires for use with persons with tinnitus. Ear and Hearing.

Atcherson, S. and Smith, R.(2010) I see what you’re saying. Hearing Health 26, 30-34.

Health Systems Research

Bird, T., Bronstein, J., Hall, R., Lowery, C., Nugent, R. and Mays, G. (2010) Late preterm infants: Birth outcomes and health care utilization in the first year. Pediatrics, 126, 311-319.

Burns, K., Casey, P., Lyle, R., Bird, T., Fussell, J. and Robbins, J. (2010) Increasing prevalence of medically complex children in US hospitals. Pediatrics, 126, 638-646.

Casey, P., Lyle, R., Bird, T., Robbins, J., Kuo, D., Brown, C., Lal, A., Tanios, A. and Burns, K. (2011) Effect of hospital-based comprehensive care clinic on health costs for medicaid-insured medically complex children. Arch. Pediatr. Adolesc. Med.

Farst, K., Meyer, J.R., Bird, T., James, L. and Robbins, J. (2011) Hair drug testing of children suspected of exposure to the manufacture of methamphetamine. J of Forensic and Legal Med., 18, 110-114.

Kuo, D., Bird, T. and Tilford, J. (2010) Associations of family-centered care with health care outcomes for children with special health care needs. Matern. Child Health J.

Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences

Ajmo, J., Bailey, L., Howell, M., Cortez, L., Pennypacker, K., Mehta, H., Morgan, D., Gordon, M. and Gottschall, P. (2010) Abnormal post-translational and extracellular processing of brevican in plaque-bearing mice overexpressing APPsw. J. Neurochem., 113, 784-795.

Beenken, K., Mrak, L., Griffin, L., Zielinska, A., Shaw, L., Rice, K., Horswill, A., Bayles, K. and Smeltzer, M. (2010) Epistatic relationships between sarA and agrin Staphylococcus aureusbiofilm formation. PLoS One,5, e10790.

Chowdhury, S.,Cleves, M., MacLeod, S., James, S., Zhao, W. and Hobbs, C. (2011) Maternal DNA hypomethylation and congenital heart defects. Birth Defects Res. A. Clin. Mol. Teratol., 91, 69-76.

Chowdhury, S.,Erickson, S., MacLeod, S., Cleves, M., Hu, P., Karim, M. and Hobbs, C. (2011) Maternal genome-wide DNA methylation patterns and congenital heart defects.PLoS ONE, 6, e16506.

Ferguson, S., Garey, J., Smith, M., Twaddle, N., Doerge, D. and Paule, M. (2010) Preweaning behaviors, developmental landmarks, and acrylamide and glycidamide levels after pre- and postnatal acrylamide treatment in rats. Neurotoxicology and Teratology,32, 373-82.

Gottschall, P., Ajmo, J., Eakin, A., Howell, M., Mehta, H. and Bailey, L. (2010) Panel of synaptic protein ELISAs for evaluating neurological phenotype. Exp. Brain Res., 201, 885-893.

Hodeify, R., Megyesi, J., Tarcasfalvi, A., Safirstein, R. and Price, P. (2010) Protection of cisplatin cytotoxicity by an inactive cyclin-dependent kinase. Am. J. Physiol. Renal Physiol.,299, F112-F120.

Hodeify, R., Tarcsafalvi, A., Megyesi, J., Safirstein, R. and Price, P. (2011) Cdk2-dependent phosphorylation of p21 regulates the role of Cdk2 in cisplatin cytotoxicity. Am. J. Physiol. Renal Physiol.

Kim, K.,Horn, T., Pharis, J., Kincannon, J., Jones, R., O’Bryan, K., Myers, J. and Nakagawa, M. (2010) Phase I clinical trial of intralesional injection of Candida antigen for the treatment of warts. Arch. Dermatol, 146, 1431-1433.

Lyn-Cook, L.E. Jr., Tareke, E., Word, B., Starlard-Davenport, A., Lyn-Cook, B.D. and Hammons, GJ. (2011) Food contaminant acrylamide increases expression of Cox-2 and nitric oxide synthase in breast epithelial cells. Toxicol.Ind. Health, 27, 11-18.

Mitchell, T., Rotaru, D.,Saba, H.,Smith, R., Murphy, M. and MacMillan-Crow, L. (2011) The mitochondria-targeted antioxidant Mitoquinone protects against cold storage injury of renal tubular cells and rat kidneys. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther., 336, 682-692.

Mitchell, T., Saba, H., Laakman, J., Parajuli, N. and MacMillan-Crow, L. (2010) Role of mitochondrial-derived oxidants in renal tubular cell cold-storage injury.  Free Radic. Biol. Med., 49, 1273-82.

Rahal, O.M. and Simmen, R.C. (2010) PTEN and p53 cross-regulation induced by soy isoflavone genistein promotes mammary epithelial cell cycle arrest and lobuloalveolar differentiation. Carcinogenesis, 31, 1491-1500.

Interdisciplinary Toxicology

Ajmo, J., Bailey, L., Howell, M., Cortez, L., Pennypacker, K., Mehta, H., Morgan, D., Gordon, M. and Gottschall, P. (2010) Abnormal post-translational and extracellular processing of brevican in plaque-bearing mice overexpressing APPsw. J. Neurochem., 113, 784-795.

Gottschall, P., Ajmo, J., Eakin, A., Howell, M., Mehta, H. and Bailey, L. (2010) Panel of synaptic protein ELISAs for evaluating neurological phenotype. Exp. Brain Res., 201, 885-893.

Microbiology and Immunology

Beenken, K., Mrak, L., Griffin, L., Zielinska, A., Shaw, L., Rice, K., Horswill, A., Bayles, K. and Smeltzer, M. (2010) Epistatic relationships between sar Aand agr in Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation. PLoS One, 5, e10790.

Kauser, S., Broederdorf, L., Sharma, U. and Voth, D. (2010) Host kinase activity is required for Coxiella burnetti parasitophorous vacuole formation. Frontiers in Microbiology,1, 1-10.

Nagarajan, U., Sikes, J., Prantner, D., Jr, C.A., Frazer, L., Goodwin, A., Snowden, J. and Darville, T. (2011) MyD88 deficiency leads to decreased NK cell gamma interferon production and T cell recruitment during Chlamydia muridarum genital tract infection, but a predominant Th1 response and enhanced monocytic inflammation are associated with infection resolution. Infect. Immun., 79, 486-498.

Potluri, L., Karcmarek, A., Verheul, J., Piette, A., Wilkin, J., Werth, N., Banzhaf, M., Vollmer, W., Young, K., Nguyen-Disteche, M. and Blaauwen, T.D. (2010) Septal and lateral wall localization of PBP5, the major D,D-carboxypeptidase of Escherichia colirequires substrate recognition and membrane attachment. Mol. Microbiol., 77, 300-23.

Prantner, D., Darville, T. and Nagarajan, U. (2010) Stimulator of IFN gene is critical for induction of IFN-beta during Chlamydia muridarum infection. J. Immunol., 184, 2551-2560.

Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences

Childs, G., Akhter, N., Haney, A., Syed, M., Odle, A., Cozart, M., Brodrick, Z. , Gaddy, D., Suva, L., Akel, N., Crane, C., Benes, H., Charlesworth, A., Luque, R., Chua, S. and Kineman, R. (2010) The somatotrope as a metabolic sensor: Deletion of leptin receptors causes obesity. Endocrinology, 152, 69-81.

Donnelly, D., Kim, I., Yang, D.and Carroll, J. (2011) Role of MaxiK-type calcium dependent K(+) channels in rat carotid body hypoxia transduction during postnatal development. Respir. Physiol. Neurobiol.

Garcia-Rill, E., Simon, C., Smith, K., Kezunovic, N. and Hyde, J. (2010) The pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus: from basic neuroscience to neurosurgical applications. Journal of Neural Transmission.

Kezunovic, N., Simon, C., Hyde, J., Smith, K., Beck, P., Odle, A. and Garcia-Rill, E. (2010) Translational studies on sleep-wake control. Translational Neuroscience, 1, 9-15.

Simon, C., Hayar, A. and Garcia-Rill, E. (2011) Responses of developing pedunculopontine neurons to glutamate receptor agonists. Journal of Neurophysiology.

Simon, C., Kezunovic, N., Ye, M., Hyde, J., Hayar, A., Williams, D. and Garcia-Rill, E. (2010) Gamma band unit activity and population responses in the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN). Journal of Neurophysiology, 104, 463-474.

Simon, C., Wallace-Huitt, T., Thapa, P., Skinner, R. and Garcia-Rill, E. (2011) Effects of gluatamate receptor agonists in the P13 auditory evoked potential and startle response in the rat. Frontiers in Neurology, 27, 3.

Pharmacology

Pathak, E. and Mayeux, P.R. (2010) In vitro model of sepsis-induced renal epithelial reactive nitrogen species generation. Toxicol Sci, 115, 475-81.

Wang, Z., Herzog, C., Kaushal, G.P., Gokden, N. and Mayeux, P.R. Actinonin, a meprin A inhibitor, protects the renal microcirculation during sepsis. Shock, 35, 141-147.

Posted by UAMS Online on June 7, 2011

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