Research Days - Abstracts
* Ghugey S L, MBBS MPH, **Kargirwar V N MBBS, DPH, ***Gillurkar S B MBBS, M.Sc
* Department- Epidemiology, Tulane University, School Of Public Health/Tropical Medicine, New Orleans LA 70112, ** District Health Officer, Chandrapur, Maharashtra, India, ***Medical Officer, Primary Health Center, Gumthana, Nagpur, MS , India
"Family Planning: Community Leaders’ Involvement at Grass-Root Intervention."
Claire Fung* **, Katie Hall* **, Sara King*, Jessica Schumer*, Randi Sokol* **, Mithu Tharayil*
*these authors contributed equally, Tulane University School of Medicine, **Tulane University School of Publich Health
"JumpStart Pierre Part: Inspiring a culture of health and wellness in rural Louisiana"
Juan C Duchesne MD*, Catherine C Baucom MD PhD*, Jon Simmons MD NREMT-P** , Charles F. Bellows III MD*, Bernard M Jaffe MD*, Norman E McSwain Jr. MD*
*Department of General Surgery Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, **The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
"Recurrent Abdominal Compartment Syndrome an Inciting Factor Of the Second Hit Phenomenon"
Mohd Shahid*, Joseph Francis**, Dewan SA Majid*
* Department of Physiology, Tulane University Health Sciences Centre, New Orleans, LA; ** Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
"Renal responses to acute administration of human recombinant TNF-alpha in mice"
Clayton A. Smith*, Marc A. Neeland*, and Paul J. Colombo**
*Neuroscience Program and **Department of Psychology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
"cAMP response element-binding protein phosphorylation is increased in the orbitofrontal cortex of rats following remote recall of a socially transmitted food preference"
Karol Sestak*, Michael T. Bethune**, and Chaitan Khosla**
*Department of Microbiology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, LA, **Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
"Transepithelial transport and enzymatic detoxification of gluten in gluten-sensitive rhesus macaques"
Bapi Pahar*, Wei Zhao**, and Karol Sestak**
*Department of Immunology and **Microbiology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, LA
"Identification of rotavirus VP6-specific CD4+ T cell epitopes in a G1P[8] human rotavirus-infected rhesus macaque"
Lyndsay V. Rhodes*, Shannon E. Muir*, Steven Elliott*, Lori M. Guillot*, James W. Antoon**, Patrice Penfornis**, Syreeta L. Tilghman*, John A. McLachlan***, Brian G. Rowan****, Radhika Pochampally**, Matthew E. Burow*,*****
Departments of Medicine, Section of Hematology & Medical Oncology*, Pharmacology**, Center for Bioenvironmental Research***, Structural and Cellular Biology****, Tulane Cancer Center*****, Tulane University Health Sciences Center; 1430 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, 70112.
"Adult human mesenchymal stem cells enhance breast cancer tumorigenesis and promote hormone independence"
Kelly D. Peters*, Joseph I. Constans, Ph.D.*,**
*Neuroscience Program, Tulane University; **Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System
"Manipulation of Attributional Style Modifies Emotional Resilience to Stress"
B. Kathirvelu*, C. A. Smith**, & P. J. Colombo*,
*Department of Psychology, **Neuroscience Program, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118
"Socially transmitted food preference (STFP) learning-associated changes in the levels of phosphorylated T286 Calcium/ Calmodulin-dependent protein kinase-II (pT286 CaM KII) in the hippocampal formation."
Geeta Ramesh*, Juan T. Borda**, Amy Gill**, Erin P. Ribka***, Lisa A. Morici****, Peter Mottram*, Dale S. Martin*, Mary B. Jacobs* and Mario T. Philipp*.
*Divisions of Bacteriology and Parasitology, **Comparative Pathology, and ***Veterinary Medicine, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, LA, and ****Department of Microbiology and Immunology Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA.
"Innate immunity in Lyme neuroborreliosis: studies in vivo"
Joseph P Nemargut, Junling Zhu, Guoyong Wang
Structural and Cellular Biology
"Visual response properties of morphologically identified retinal ganglion cells in the dark- and light-adapted retina"
Xia Bai, Junling Zhu, Joseph Nemargut, Guoyong Wang
Structural and Cellular Biology
"The mechanism that gates the frequency following through the APB sensitive rod Off-pathway"
Scott, A, Dyer*, Lakisha, Mack**, Soheila, J, Maleki**
*Section of Clinical Immunology, Allergy & Rheumatology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, **USDA-ARS-Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, LA
"Structural, chemical and immunogenic effects of roasting on Ara h 3, a major peanut allergen"
Steven J Springer*, Vijeth Iyengar**, Laura A Schrader**
* Neuroscience ** Cell and Molecular Biology
"Modulation of Afterhyperpolarization Current by PI3 kinase in Hippocampal CA1 Neurons."
Mollie N Dahlgren, MS, Hugh Jr McGrath, MD
Tulane University Hospital & Clinic
"UVA-1 Therapy in SLE-induced Interstitial Lung Disease"
Alvarez X, Borda JT, Mohan M, Hasegawa A, Bernardino A, Jean S, Aye P, Lackner AA
Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University, 18703 Three Rivers Road Covington, LA 70433
"CD163, a marker of perivascular macrophages is upregulated on microglia in SIVE after Hp-Hb complex stimulation and is suggestive of breakdown of the blood brain barrier"
Vinet-Oliphant H,1 Alvarez X1, Susko E1, Borda J1, Williams K2 and Lackner A1
1Division of Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Research Center,
"Vectorial measurements in encephalitic brains of SIV infected macaques suggests bidirectional movement of Leukocytes across the blood brain barrier"
Lori Guillot*, Melyssa Bratton*, Juan P. Fonseca*, Shannon Muir*, Lyndsay Vanhoy-Rhodes*, Virgilio A. Salvo*, Steven Elliott*, Brian G. Rowan*, John A. McLachlan**, Barbara S. Beckman*, Scott Wadsworth***, Tyler J. Curiel****, Matthew E. Burow*
*Department of Medicine- Hematology/Oncology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA **Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA ***Center for Biomaterials and Advanced Technology, Somerville, NJ *****Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX
"Inhibition of p38 mitogen activated protein kinase signaling suppresses estrogen receptor positive breast cancer tumorigenesis"
C DiTommaso, J Feagans MD, J Wiese MD
Tulane SOM Department of Internal Medicine
"Sex, Drugs, and NF - 1"
Daniel Kravitz*, Ramesh S Ayyala*, Nurettin Sahiner**, Diane Blake**, Vijay John***, Curtis Margo*, Rabah Qadir*.
Departments of Ophthalmology*, Biochemistry**, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering***, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA 70112.
"Creation of A Drug- Coated Glaucoma Drainage Device Using Polymer and Nanotechnology: In Vitro and In Vivo Studies"
Catherine Baucom, Quan D Nguyen, Marco Hildalgo, Douglas Slakey
General Surgery
"Laparascopic Repair of Spigelain Hernia"
Ann Mullin
Cell and Molecular Biology
"The Tulane Transgenic Mouse Facility"
Shaowei Chen*,**, Christine Bellew*, Xiao Yao*, Jana Stefkova*, Susana Dipp* and Samir S. El-Dahr*
*Section of Pediatric Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics; ** Department of Physiology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA.
"Histone Deacetylases (HDACs) are critical epigenetic regulators of metanephric gene expression, growth and survival"
Hong T. Nguyen* {comma} Joseph A. Lasky** {comma} Tso-Pang Yao*** {comma} Ying Zhuo** {comma} and Bin Shan**
*Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences and **Department of Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA; ***Department of Pharmacology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
"HDAC6 MEDIATES TGF-beta1-INDUCED EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION"
William D Meacham*, James W Antoon*, Matthew E Burow**, Chuck D Smith***, Evelyn M Slaughter*, Lyndsay V Rhodes**, Shannon E Muir**, Maria C. Zimmerman*, Lori M Guillot**, Melyssa R Bratton**, Barbara S Beckman*
* Tulane University, Dept of Pharmacology, **Tulane University, Dept of Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, ***Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
"Effect of Novel Sphingosine Kinase Inhibitors on Estrogen Receptor in Endocrine Sensitive and Endocrine Resistant Breast Cancer"
Diederik van Bodegom* **, Wijnand Roessingh**, Zubaida Saifudeen** and Samir El Dahr**
Departments of Physiology* and Pediatrics, Section of pediatric nephrology**, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112
"Differential Roles of p53 in the Regulation of the Human Polycystic Kidney Disease Gene 1 (PKD-1) Promoter"
Srikrishna S Ramachandra*, Arvind Kasthuri**.
*MPH Candidate 2008, Department of International Health and Development, TUSPHTM, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA. ** Professor, Department of Community Health, St. Johns Medical College, Bangalore 560034, Karnataka, India.
"Anemia in the Elderly Residing in a South Indian Rural Community"
Jonathan E. Pottle and Ming Li
Department of Physiology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA.
"Conditional Expression of T-type Ca2+ Channels Is Vital For Breast Cancer Cell Proliferation"
Ajay D Rao, MD*, Nitesh Kuhadiya, MBBS**, Kristi Reynolds, PhD, MPH***, Vivian A. Fonseca, MD*
*Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA **Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA ***Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA and Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Pasadena, CA
"Is the combination of sulfonylureas and metformin associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease or all-cause mortality?"
Lipi Roy, Latha Rajan
Tulane University School of Medicine and School of Public Health
"Assessment of Clinical Tropical Medicine Competency Among U.S.-Trained Medical Students and Residents."
Zhuang Feng*, Naveen K. Somanna**, Kathleen S. Hering-Smith* ** *** and L. Lee Hamm* ** ***
*Department of Physiology; **Department of Medicine, Tulane University; ***Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System, New Orleans, LA.
"Transforming Growth Factor-β1 Inhibits Epithelial Sodium Channel Activity in Cortical Collecting Duct Cells"
Paul J Primeaux, MD*, Samir K Patel, MD*, Henry A Hawney, MD*, Sebastian Villarreal, MD*, Philip L Kalarickal, MD, MPH*, Bian P McClure, MD*, Frederic G Regenstein, MD***, Mary Killackey, MD**, Anil Paramesh, MD**, Douglas P Slakey, MD** and Sander S Florman, MD**
*=Department of Anesthesiology, **=Department of Surgery, ***=Department of Hepatology; all at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
"PERCUTANEOUS VENOVENOUS BYPASS DURING ORTHOTOPIC LIVER TRANSPLANTATION IS SAFE AND EFFECTIVE"
Maria C. Zimmermann*, Melanie H. Howell*, James W. Antoon*, Steven M. Boue***, Steven Elliott*, John A. McLachlan*, Thomas E. Wiese**, Matthew E. Burow*, Barbara S. Beckman*
*Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans LA., **Xavier University, New Orleans LA, ***US Department of Agriculture
"Phytochemical glyceollin I, a novel anti-estrogenic isolated from soy."
***Dorothy C Scholl, *Tom Mather **Lisa Morici, ***Mario Philipp
* University of Rhode Island, Center for Vector-Borne Infectious Disease; ** Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Dept of Micro & Immunology; ***Tulane National Primate Research Center, Dept of Bac & Parasitology, **
"Immunomodulatory effects of tick saliva on human monocytes stimulated with Borrelia burgdorferi: a cytokine expression analysis by bead array."
Louise B. Lawson, Zaid K. Mahdi, Kerstin Honer zu Bentrup, Lucia C.Freytag and John D. Clements
Department ofMicrobiology and immunology, Tulane school of Medicine ,New Orleans ,LA
"The utilization of nanoparticles in transdermal vaccination using recombinant proteins from Y. pestis as model antigens."
Salim K Durrani, M.S., James Moon Mok, M.D.; Samantha L Piper, B.A.; Shane Burch, M.D.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
"Extravasation of rhBMP-2 with use of postoperative drains after posterolateral spinal fusion"
Vicky F. Rands, * Jared Fackrell,** Laura K Schrader PhD**, ***
*Physiology, ** Cell and Molecular Biology, *** Neuroscience, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
"The Role of KChIP3 in Contextual Memory: Regulation by Estrogen"
Prerna Kumar, Gevoni Bolden and Kailash N. Pandey
Department of Physiology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center and School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA.
"Enhanced expression and transcriptional regulation of Natriuretic Peptide Receptor-A gene by transcription factor Ets-1"
*Sidhartha Hazari, *Partha K Chandra, **Robert F Garry, ***Takaji Wakita and *Srikanta Dash
*Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, **Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA-70112, USA and ***Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
"Green fluorescence based assays for hepatitis C virus replication and infectivity in cell culture"
Litao Ruan, MD, PhD, Wei Chen, MD, PhD, Sathanur R. Srinivasan, PhD, Toprak A, MD, Gerald S. Berenson, MD
Tulane Center for Cardiovascular Health and Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA
"Gender-Specific Effect of Adiposity and Blood Pressure on Carotid Artery Lumen Diameter in Young Adults: The Bogalusa Heart Study"
Satyabha Tripathi*, Katerina O. Kimonis**, and Kailash N. Pandey*,**
*Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology, ** Department of Physiology. Tulane University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA-70112.
"Inhibition of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-Stimulated Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase and Downstream Signaling by Guanylyl Cyclase-A/Natriuretic Peptide Receptor-A"
Wei Chen, MD, PhD*, Sathanur R. Srinivasan, PhD*, Michael D Hallman**, PhD, Gerald S. Berenson, MD*
* Tulane Center for Cardiovascular Health and Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA ; ** Human Genetics Center, University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center, Houston, TX
"The Relationship between Birth Weight and Blood Pressure is Modulated by Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Genes: The Bogalusa Heart Study"
Gerald S. Berenson, Wei Chen, Sathanur R. Srinivasan
Tulane Center for Cardiovascular Health and Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA
"Low Birth Weight is Associated with Elevated White Blood Cells in Black and White Young Adults: The Bogalusa Heart Study"
Sergei Y Ponomarev, Thomas C Bishop
Mathematics
"Studies of Yeast Nucleosome Solvation"
M Ehrlich*, E Harville*, X Xiong*, P Buekens*, G Pridjian**, K Elkind-Hirsch***
*Tulane University School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology, New Orleans, LA. **Tulane University Medical School Depaterment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New Orleans, LA. ***Woman\'s Hospital, Baton Rouge, LA
"Loss of Resources and Hurricane Experience as Predictors of Post-Partum Depression Among Women in Southern Louisiana"
Arvind K. Pandey, Yusuke Higashi, Sergiy Sukhanov, Jane Titterington, and Patrice Delafontaine
Cardiology Section, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
"Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 Activates Glutathione Peroxidase and Inhibits Oxidative Stress in Human Endothelial Cells"
Andrew Harbin, BA*; Douglas P Slakey, MD, MPH*; Ya-Hui Hsueh, MSPH**; C Lillian Yau, PhD**
*Surgery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States and **Biostatistics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States
"Assessing Racial Disparity In Rates Of Second And Third Kidney"
Rachel D. Levitan*, Drew Flansbaum^, Micelle J. Haydel MD*^, Lisa D. Mills MD*^, Trevor J. Mills MD, MPH*^
Tulane School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine*Louisiana State University at New Orleans, Section of Emergency Medicine^
"Drug and Alcohol Use in Patients with Facial Fractures"
Surabhi Chandra, Debasis Mondal and Krishna C Agrawal
Department of Pharmacology, Tulane University School of Medcine, New Orleans, LA
"Molecular Mechanisms of HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors Induced Insulin Resistance: Protection with Thymoquinone (TQ)"
Saurabh Dixit*, Vida A. Dennis*, Shannon O. Brein*, Xavier Alvarez**, Bapi Pahar*** and Mario T. Philipp*
Division of Bacteriology and Parasitology, Tulane National Primate Research Center*, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, USADivision of Bacteriology and Parasitology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, USADivision of Bacteriology and Parasitology*, Division of Comparative Pathology** and Division of Immunology***,Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, USA
"The Toll-Like Receptor Signaling Pathway Mediates Release of Inflammatory Mediators in Human Monocytes Stimulated with Borrelia burgdorferi Spirochetes"
Shannon Muir*, Lyndsay Vanhoy-Rhodes*, Yun Zhu*, Virgilio A. Salvo*, Steven Elliott*, Lori Guillot*, James W. Antoon**, Juan P. Fonseca*, John A. McLachlan**, Brian Barnett, Barbara S. Beckman**, Tyler J. Curiel*, Matthew E. Burow*
*Departments of Medicine, Section of Hematology & Medical Oncology*, Pharmacology**, Tulane University Health Sciences Center
"The chemokine receptor CXCR7 mediates estrogen-stimulated breast cancer tumorigenesis"
Evan James Hawkins, Douglas Slakey*
*Department of Surgery
"Evaluation of Single Stage Iliac Endarterectomy-Kidney Transplant"
Ann Jirapongsuwan M.Sc.*, Andrew J. Englande Ph.D., P.E.*
* Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
"A Multicriteria Decision Model of Water-Related Disaster Preparedness and Response for Nursing in Thailand"
Aram J. Krauson, William C. Wimley
Department of Biochemistry, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA
"Screening for Stable Pore-Forming Peptides Designed to Mimic Beta-barrel Proteins"
Jenny Morgenweck**, Omar S. Abdel-Aleem**, Bradley K. Taylor*
*Pharmacology Department, **Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Supraspinal but not systemic injection of PPARγ ligands reduces inflammatory pain"
Christopher D. Malone, Adam Oskowitz, Makoto Shoji, Radhika Pochampally
Tulane Center for Gene Therapy
"Human multi-potent stromal cells from bone marrow (MSCs) regulate inflammation in an atherosclerotic mouse model"
Ning Wu* and Jeffrey G. Tasker*,**
*Neurobiology Division, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, and **Neuroscience Program, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
"Rapid Glucocorticoid Modulation of the A-Type Potassium Current in Hypothalamic Magnocellular Neurons following Chronic Dehydration"
Jane S. Titterington, Cyril Y. Bowers, and Patrick Delafontaine
Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA.
"Growth Hormone-Releasing Peptide-2 Administration to Dyslipidemic Mice"
M. Schultz, C. Bassett, G. Chakravarty and D. Mondal
Dept. of Pharmacology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA 70112
"Overcoming the MDR phenotype of breast cancer using clinically approved P-gp inhibitors: Fluoxetine and Nelfinavir coexposure chemosensitizes the MCF-7/ADR cells."
Ramesh Rathinakumar, William Wimley
Biochemistry Department, TUHSC
"Biomolecular Engineering by Rational Combinatorial Chemistry: Small, Soluble Pore-forming beta-Strand Peptides that are Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics"
Samantha L. Gerlach*, Debasis Mondal**, Ulf Göransson***, Robert Burman***, and Steven P. Darwin*
*Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118; **Department of Pharmacology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70112; ***Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Uppsala University, Sweden.
"Discovery and anti-tumor activity of novel cyclotides from the Micronesian plant Psychotria leptothyrsa."
Atsuhiko Hasegawa* Huining Liu*, Kenneth C. Williams***, Andrew A. Lackner**, Ronald S. Veazey** & Marcelo J. Kuroda*
*Division of Immunology, **Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Science Center, 18703 Three Rivers Road, Covington, Louisiana 70433, USA. ***Department of Biology, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave. Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.
"The importance of monocyte/macrophages in the pathogenesis of AIDS"
Charlotte E Vaughn, Sergiy Sukhanov, Jane S Titterington, and Patrick Delafontaine.
Department of Medicine, Cardiology Section, Tulane University School of Medicine
"Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 Reduces the Expression of Pro-atherogenic Genes in the Aortae of ApoE Deficient Mice"
Marc M Maxson, Jeffrey G Tasker, Laura A Schrader
Tulane University Dept of Cell and Molecular Biology
"Combined patch clamp and fluorometric calcium and nitric oxide measurements in brain slices"
*Thomas Gage, *Nicolle Dally, *Sidhartha Hazari, *Salima Haque and *Srikanta Dash
*Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, 1430 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA-70112
"Identification of cellular microRNAs that block IFN-alpha action against hepatitis C virus"
Johannes Bohacek*, Amanda M. Bearl**, Jill M. Daniel*,**
* Neuroscience Program, Tulane University, ** Department of Psychology, Tulane University
"Long-term ovarian hormone deprivation alters the ability of subsequent estradiol replacement to regulate choline acetyltransferase protein levels in hippocampus and prefrontal cortex of middle-aged ovariectomized rats"
*Sen Wang, Eduardo C. Echeverry*, Thomas C. Stuart*, Cherif Boudaba*, Marina E. Wolf*** and Jeffrey G. Tasker*.**
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology* and Neuroscience Program**, Tulane University; Department of Neuroscience, Rosalind Frank University of Medicine and Science**
"Ionotropic Glutamate Receptor Plasticity in Magnocellular Neurons of the Rat Hypothalamic Supraoptic Nucleus"
Michael R Harris*, Trivia P Frazier*, Patrice Penfornis* and Radhika R Pochampally**
* Tulane Center for Gene Therapy , **Department of Pharmacology and Tulane Cancer Center
"Is Osteosarcoma Initiation and Progression Influenced by Multipotential Mesenchymal Stem Cells?"
Padma S. Koka*, Musa Ali*, Debasis Mondal*, Asim B Abdel-Mageed**, Krishna C. Agrawal*.
* Dept of Pharmacology, ** Dept of Urology.
"Thymoquinone induced apoptosis in PC3 Cells involves generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), activation of MAPK pathway and inhibition of Akt phosphorylation."
*Roy E. Dory, *Mark W. Young, *David A. Rice
*Tulane University, Department od Biomedical Engineering, New Orleans, Lousiana.
"Characterizing Fatigue in the Surgeon\'s Physiologic Tremor"
Michael Tabony, Yusuke Higashi, and Patrice Delafontaine
Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
"Caspase-3 Inhibition may prevent skeletal muscle wasting by blocking upregulation of ubiquitin ligases atrogin-1 and MuRF-1"
Navyata Mruthinti*, Jennifer McGee*, Tareq M. Islam**, Bernard M. Jaffe*, Sander S. Florman*, Douglas P. Slakey*
*Tulane School of Medicine, Department of Surgery; **Tulane School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology
"Body Mass Index Matching of Donors and Recipients: Does it Improve Graft Survival in Kidney Transplantation?"
Ramesh Prabhu*, Allyson Haislip*, Thomas G. Voss*, Christopher S. LeBlanc*, Joseph Barbercheck*, Bryan Kaplan*, Peter Kulakosky**, Russell Wilson**, and Robert F. Garry*
*Tulane School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, **Autoimmune Technologies, LLC New Orleans, USA.
"Peptide-based Entry Inhibitors for Influenza"
Dan Herleth* Gil Morris, PhD* Yu Wang* Derek Cociask**
Department of Pathology* University of Pittsburgh**
"Cooperative induction of lung adenocarcinoma in mice by mutant p53 and oncogenic K-ras"
Seokyoung Kang, Young S. Hong
Department of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA
"Knockdown of Argonaute 1 Enhances piggyBac Transposition in Aedes aegypti"
Shi Di * and Jeffrey G. Tasker * **
*Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, **Neuroscience Program
"Rapid Glucocorticoid Actions on GABA Release via Nitric Oxide in Hypothalamic Magnocellular Neurons"
Sebastian Laluf*, Jennifer McGee*, John Baber*, Philip J. Kadowitz**, Keith VanMeter***, Douglas P. Slakey*
*Tulane School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Tulane School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, ***VanMeter and Associates Hyperbaric Center
"The Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy during Cold Storage of Rat Hearts"
Weijian Shao, Dale M. Seth, L. Gabriel Navar
Dept. of Physiology, Hypertension and Renal Center, Tulane University Health Science Center
"Augmentation of Endogenous Angiotension II Levels In Val5-Ang II Infused Rats"
Trivia P. Frazier *, Patrice Penfornis *, Michael Harris *, Zheng Chen **, Radhika R. Pochampally **
* Tulane Center for Gene Therapy , ** Department of Pharmacology and Tulane Cancer Center , Tulane University Health Science Center, New Orleans, LA
"A Study of Antioxidant Cytotoxic Effects with Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Development of an in vivo Osteogenic Sarcoma Tumor Xenograft Model"
James F. Guenther*/**, Hong T. Nguyen**, Jennifer E. Cameron*, Svitlana D. Danchuk**, Deborah E. Sullivan***, Joseph A. Lasky**, Erik K. Flemington*, Gilbert F. Morris*
Program in Lung Biology *Department of Pathology **Division of Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care and Environmental Medicine, Department of Medicine *** Department of Microbiology-Immunology
"Expression of the Epstein-Barr virus protein Zta alters lung inflammation in a mouse model"
Nitesh Kuhadiya*, Hayden Smith**, Shipra Singh*, Lillian Yau***, Kristi Reynolds****, Lizheng Shi***, Roberta McDuffie*****, Vivian Fonseca*****
*- Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Department of Medicine, Endocrinology,LA; ** - University of Iowa, Iowa; *** -Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, LA; ****- Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Pasadena, California; ***** - Tulane University Health Sciences Center,Department of Medicine, Endocrinology
"Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Diabetes and its co-morbidities: Exacerbation of Disparities"
Jessica R Marks, William Wimley
Department of Biochemistry
"A high-throughput screen used to reveal translocation into lipid vesicles."
Feng-Ju Weng*, Juhee Haam*, Joshua Crichton**, Jeffrey Tasker* **
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology* and neuroscience program**
"Αlpha-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone Effects on Neuroendocrime Neurons in the Paraventricular Nucleus of the Hypothalamus"
*P K Chandra, *S. Hazari, **S. Pamujula, **G. Bolden, **D. M. Devanga Chinta, **V. Kishore,
*Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana-70112
"Poly (DL-lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) nanoparticles for Plasmid DNA delivery to Huh7 cells"
Elizabeth R. Abboud*, Brian D. Shelby**, MaryBeth Ferris*, Anne B. Nelson*, Cindy A. Morris* and Deborah E. Sullivan*
*Tulane University School of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New Orleans, LA., **Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NCIRD/DVD/MMRHLB/Herpesvirus Team, Atlanta, GA.
"Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) vGPCR promotes survival and induces expression of Bcl-2 in endothelial cells."
Yuriy V Sereda, Thomas C Bishop, Richard Stolz
Center for Computational Science, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
"Chromatin Folding at Transcription Start Sites"
Amalia DeComas, M.D. *1, Michael R. Harris **1, Patrice Penfornis **, Mark S. Meyer, M.D. *, Radhika R. Pochampally, Ph.D. ***
* Ochsner Medical Center, Department of Orthopaedics, New Orleans, ** Tulane Center for Gene Therapy, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, *** Department of Pharmacology, Tulane Medical School, New Orleans, 1: equal contribution
"Derivation and Characterization of a New Human Parachordoma Cell Line From a Scapular Tumor. A Case Report."
Mette Flaat*,**, Jeanne M. Fisher**, Xiaoling Kuai**, Cyndi Trygg**, Bruce A. Bunnell*,**,***,****
*Department of Biochemistry, TUHSC, **Division of Gene Therapy, TNPRC, ***Department of Pharmacology, ****Tulane Center for Gene Therapy
"Neural stem cells for the treatment of Krabbe disease"
Catherine Baucom MD/PhD*, Quan Nguyen*,Marco Hidalgo MD*, & Douglas Slakey MD/MPH*
*Department of Surgery
"Minimmally Invasive Spigelian Hernia"
Jennifer McGee*, Tareq M. Islam**, Navyata Mruthiniti*, Sander S. Florman*, Douglas P. Slakey*
*Tulane School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, **Tulane School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology
"Body Mass Index does not Influence Outcomes in African-American Kidney Transplant Patients"
David Nielsen*, Yancy Hrobrowski* , Robert Garry*
*Tulane Microbiology
"Development of a Novel Peptide therapeutic to Dengue Fever"
Shuang Liu, Yan Dong
Department of Structural and Cellular Biology, Tulane University Health Science Center, New Orleans, LA 70112
"Down-regulation of telomerase by selenium in prostate cancer cells"
Mark J Wilson, Charles Miller, Roy Rando,
Environmental Health Sciences Department, Tulane University School of Public Health, New Orleans LA, 70112
"Toxic Activities in Wood Dust"
Ben Bradley*, Prashant Gupta*, Cynthia Ripoll**, Ryan Jones*, Ekhart Alt*,***,Bruce A. Bunnell**,****, and Reza Izadpanah*
*Applied Stem Cell Laboratory, Cardiology Section, Department of Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, **Division of Gene Therapy, Tulane National Primate Center, **Center of Gene Therapy, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, ***Department of Molecular Pathology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, ****Department of Pharmacology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
"Identification of a migratory subpopulation within adult mesenchymal stem cell populations."
William C. Kethman, Joseph R. Kramer, David C. Ladd, Bryan D. Molter, David A. Rice, Stephanie M. Roberts, William D. Sprott, Westbrook M. Weaver, Robert J. Whitman, Mark W. Young
Tulane University, Department of Biomedical Engineering
"SafeSnip Umbilical Cord Clamp and Cutter"
Julie Heang, Kerstin Honer zu Bentrup, and Lisa A. Morici
Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
"Identification of bacterial virulence determinants by immunoproteomics"
Christina C. Harris* and Jeffrey G Tasker* **
Cell and Molecular Biology*
"Rapid glucocorticoid signaling involves postsynaptic activation of PKC"
V.Traina-Dorge*, R. Lorino*, P. Marx*, Y. Ou**, W. Gray**
*Division of Microbiology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, LA; and **University of Arkansas Medical School, Little Rock, AR.
"Recombinant Varicella-SIV Vaccines Reduce Viral Loads in Immunized Rhesus Macaques"
Sarah Galvez *, Dustin Hill *, Upal Roy *, Joseph Fuselier **, David Coy ** and Debasis Mondal *
*Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Dept of Pharmacology, **Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Peptide Research Laboratories
"Somatostatin (SST) Receptor Expression Profiling in HIV-infected Lymphocytes: Development of SST-analog Conjugated Anti-HIV Drugs in order to Target the Sequestered Viral Reservoirs"
William C. Kethman, Cedric F. Walker
Tulane University, Department of Biomedical Engineering
"Design and Application of a 3-Axis Control Device"
Muralidharan Anbalagan*, Seth Glodowski*, David Hangauer**, *** and Brian Rowan*
*- Department of Structural and Cellular Bilogy, Tulane University School of Medicine, **Kinex Pharmaceuticals LLC, ***State University of New york at Buffalo
"Combinational treatment with clinical Src kinase inhibitor KX-01 and tamoxifen exhibits synergistic growth inhibition of MCF-7 breast cancer cells."
Thaidra Gaufin*, Melissa Pattison*, Jamie Cherry*, Jeanne MacFarland*, Crystal Stoulig*, Rajeev Gautam*, Mary Barnes*, Christopher Monjure*, Matthew Marx*, Daniel Mandell*, David Montefiori**, Cristian Apetrei*, and Ivona Pandrea*
*Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University, Covington, LA **Duke University, Durham, NC
"Humoral Immune Responses Have Little Impact on Controlling Viremia during SIVagm Infection of African Green Monkeys (AGMs)"
Ghugey Satish* MBBS, Tran Tri** MD MPH
MPH Candidate 2008, Department- Epidemiology, Tulane University, School Of Public Health/Tropical Medicine, New Orleans LA 70112, ** Office of Public Health, EPI/MCH Department, Metairie, New Orleans 70001
"Relationship between Early Initiation of Anti Social Behavior and Early Initiation of Alcohol Drinking in Louisiana"
Monika Sawhney* and Dr. M Mahmud Khan**
* Department of International Health and ** Department of Health Systems Management and Department of International Health, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
"Can nutrition related millennium development goals be achieved? Exploring the inter-linkages between nutrition, poverty, socio-economic development and literacy"
Maxcie M. Sikora, Jane M. El-Dahr
Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology
"HEAL-ing New Orleans: The Post-Katrina Pediatric Asthma Study"
Tamika T Duplessis* and Brian G Rowan*
*Department of Structural and Cellular Biology
"Differential ERα phosphorylation in promoter recruitment and target gene expression"
Elizabeth B. Norton*, Lucy Freytag*
Dept of Microbiology and Immunology
"Evaluation of Vaccine Adjuvants Cholera Toxin (CT), mutant heat-labile E. coli enterotoxin mLT (R192G), and CpG ODN, on the pulmonary mucosa."
Carolyn, Marsden*,*****, Mary, J, Wright**,*****,Latonya,M, Carrier*,*****, Zengshan, Li*,*****, Rani,Thiyagarajah****, Radhika, Pochampally***,*****,******, Brian,G,Rowan*,*****
Structural and Cellular Biology*, Surgery**, Pharmacology***, Environmental Health Sciences****, Tulane Cancer Center*****, Center for Gene Therapy******
"Isolation of Tumor Initiating Cells with Metastatic Potential from Human Primary Invasive Ductal Carcinoma"
Mack Sarah K
Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Dept ENHS
"Wetland Assimilation Feasibiltiy Planning: A Decison Analytic Approach"
Ashok Manepali, James Donahue Ph. D.
Ashok Manepalli
"SYNTHESIS OF A STRUCTURAL ANALOGUE OF THE MONONUCLEAR COPPER ELECTRON TRANSFER SITE IN PLASTOCYANIN"
Gena M. Guidry*, Bradley K. Taylor**, Xing Zhang**, James E. Zadina**
* Tulane University, New Orleans, LA ** VA Medical Center/ Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
"INTRATHECAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE ENDOMORPHIN-1 ANALOG CK1/CYT1010 DECREASES ALLODYNIA IN THE SPARED NERVE INJURY MODEL OF NEUROPATHIC PAIN"
Anuj Chawla, Marcis Cruz, Camilla Coleman, Mitzie Grant, Sanjeev Kothare
"A Comparison of Sleeping Patterns between Healthy Children From the Inner City to Children From a Middle Class Environment."
X. Hu1, M.M. Li1,2,3.
. 1) Louisiana Cancer Research Consortium, 2) Hayward Genetics Center; 3) Dept. of Pediatrics; Tulane Univ. Sch. Med, New Orleans, LA.
"VERIFICATION OF CNVS IDENTIFIED WITH HIGH DENSITY OLIGO ACGH USING AN OPTIMIZED Q-RT PCR ASSAY"
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