Since the school's inception in 1979, students in the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMass Chan Medical School have contributed thousands of research publications to the field of biomedical sciences. This collection makes this body of work accessible to our students, faculty, potential recruits, the citizens of Massachusetts, and the world.
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Publications from 2009
Orientation of palmitoylated CaVbeta2a relative to CaV2.2 is critical for slow pathway modulation of N-type Ca2+ current by tachykinin receptor activation, Tora Mitra Ganguli, Iuliia Vitko, Edward Perez-Reyes, and Ann R. Rittenhouse
High and low glycemic index mixed meals and blood glucose in youth with type 2 diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance., Lauren A. Gellar and Tonja R. Nansel
Whole grain and legume acceptability among youths with type 1 diabetes, Lauren A. Gellar, Alisha J. Rovner, and Tonja R. Nansel
Small silencing RNAs: an expanding universe, Megha Ghildiyal and Phillip D. Zamore
Cancer stem cells: cell culture, markers, and targets for new therapies, Candace A. Gilbert and Alonzo H. Ross
Cellular redistribution of Rad51 in response to DNA damage: novel role for Rad51C., Otto S. Gildemeister, Jay M. Sage, and Kendall L. Knight
Mutations and Cell Defenses, Otto S. Gildemeister, Jay M. Sage, and Kendall L. Knight
The expanded Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events: Baseline characteristics, management practices, and hospital outcomes of patients with acute coronary syndromes, Shaun G. Goodman, Wei Huang, Andrew T. Yan, Andrzej Budaj, Brian M. Kennelly, Joel M. Gore, Keith A. A. Fox, Robert J. Goldberg, Frederick A. Anderson, and Expanded Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE2) Investigators
Evaluation of composite measures of treatment response without acute-phase reactants in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, Jeffrey D. Greenberg, Leslie R. Harrold, Mary Jane Bentley, Joel Kremer, George W. Reed, and Vibeke Strand
Adherence with urate-lowering therapies for the treatment of gout, Leslie R. Harrold, Susan E. Andrade, Becky A. Briesacher, Marsha A. Raebel, Hassan Fouayzi, Robert A. Yood, and Ira S. Ockene
Modulation of ethanol drinking-in-the-dark by mecamylamine and nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonists in C57BL/6J mice, Linzy M. Hendrickson, Rubing Zhao-Shea, and Andrew R. Tapper
The Ca2+ channel beta subunit determines whether stimulation of Gq-coupled receptors enhances or inhibits N current, John F. Heneghan, Tora Mitra Ganguli, Lee F. Stanish, Liwang Liu, Rubing Zhao, and Ann R. Rittenhouse
beta-Catenin is essential for survival of leukemic stem cells insensitive to kinase inhibition in mice with BCR-ABL-induced chronic myeloid leukemia., Yiguo Hu, Yaoyu Chen, Lory Douglas, and Shaoguang Li
Temporal trends in the use of invasive cardiac procedures for non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndromes according to initial risk stratification., Sean Jedrzkiewicz, Shaun G. Goodman, Raymond T. Yan, Robert C. Welsh, Jan Kornder, J. Paul DeYoung, Graham C. Wong, Barry Rose, Francois R. Grondin, Richard Gallo, Wei Huang, Joel M. Gore, Andrew T. Yan, and Canadian Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE/GRACE2) Investigators
Trans-synaptic transmission of vesicular Wnt signals through Evi/Wntless, Ceren Korkut, Bulent Ataman, Preethi Ramachandran, James A. Ashley, Romina Barria, Norberto G. Gherbesi, and Vivian Budnik
WNTs tune up the neuromuscular junction, Ceren Korkut and Vivian Budnik
A neural circuit mechanism integrating motivational state with memory expression in Drosophila, Michael Jonathan Krashes, Shamik DasGupta, Andrew Vreede, Benjamin White, J. Douglas Armstrong, and Scott Waddell
Macrophage apoptosis in tuberculosis, Jinhee Lee, Michelle Hartman, and Hardy Kornfeld
A Prospective Nested Case-Control Study of Dengue in Infants: Rethinking and Refining the Antibody-Dependent Enhancement Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Model., Daniel H. Libraty, Luz P. Acosta, Veronica Tallo, Edelwisa Segubre-Mercado, Analisa Bautista, James A. Potts, Richard G. Jarman, In-Kyu Yoon, Robert V. Gibbons, Job D. Brion, and Rosario Z. Capeding
Collapse of germline piRNAs in the absence of Argonaute3 reveals somatic piRNAs in flies, Chengjian Li, Vasily V. Vagin, Soohyun Lee, Jia Xu, Shengmei Ma, Hualin Xi, Herve Seitz, Michael D. Horwich, Monika Syrzycka, Barry M. Honda, Ellen L. W. Kittler, Maria L. Zapp, Carla Andrea Klattenhoff, Nadine Schultz, William E. Theurkauf, Zhiping Weng, and Phillip D. Zamore
Nuclear receptor unfulfilled regulates axonal guidance and cell identity of Drosophila mushroom body neurons, Suewei Lin, Yaling Huang, and Tzumin Lee
Individual calcium syntillas do not trigger spontaneous exocytosis from nerve terminals of the neurohypophysis, James M. McNally, Valerie De Crescenzo, Kevin E. Fogarty, John V. Walsh Jr., and Jose R. Lemos
TLR agonists prevent the establishment of allogeneic hematopoietic chimerism in mice treated with costimulation blockade, David M. Miller, Thomas B. Thornley, Todd Pearson, Annie J. Kruger, Masahiro Yamazaki, Leonard D. Shultz, Raymond M. Welsh, Michael A. Brehm, Aldo A. Rossini, and Dale L. Greiner
Discovery of a novel activator of KCNQ1-KCNE1 K channel complexes., Karen Mruk and William R. Kobertz
InAKTivation of insulin/IGF-1 signaling by dephosphorylation., Sri Devi Narasimhan, Arnab Mukhopadhyay, and Heidi A. Tissenbaum
Converging pathways in lifespan regulation., Sri Devi Narasimhan, Kelvin Yen, and Heidi A. Tissenbaum
Cellular microRNA and P bodies modulate host-HIV-1 interactions, Robin S. Nathans, Chia-ying Chu, Anna Kristina Serquina, Chih-Chung Lu, Hong Cao, and Tariq M. Rana
Elders with Serious Mental Illness: Lost Opportunities and New Policy Options, Darlene M. O'Connor, Faith C. Little, and Richard H. McManus
Neuronal death or dismemberment mediated by Sox14, Jeannette M. Osterloh and Marc R. Freeman
A PP2A regulatory subunit regulates C. elegans insulin/IGF-1 signaling by modulating AKT-1 phosphorylation., Srivatsan Padmanabhan, Arnab Mukhopadhyay, Sri Devi Narasimhan, Gregory J. Tesz, Michael P. Czech, and Heidi A. Tissenbaum
Recent Trends in Clinical Outcomes and Resource Utilization for Pulmonary Embolism in the United States: Findings From the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, B. Park, Louis M. Messina, Phong Dargon, Wei Huang, R. Ciocca, and Frederick A. Anderson
Notch-responsive cells initiate the secondary transition in larval zebrafish pancreas, Michael J. Parsons, Harshan Pisharath, Shamila Yusuff, John C. Moore, Arndt F. Siekmann, Nathan D. Lawson, and Steven D. Leach
PTEN is a tumor suppressor in CML stem cells and BCR-ABL induced leukemias in mice., Cong Peng, Yaoyu Chen, Zhongfa Yang, Haojian Zhang, Lori Osterby, Alan G. Rosmarin, and Shaoguang Li
Five siRNAs targeting three SNPs may provide therapy for three-quarters of Huntington's disease patients, Edith L. Pfister, Lori A. Kennington, Juerg R. Straubhaar, Sujata Wagh, Wanzhou Liu, Marian DiFiglia, Bernhard Landwehrmeyer, Jean-Paul Vonsattel, Phillip D. Zamore, and Neil Aronin
Huntington's disease: silencing a brutal killer, Edith L. Pfister and Phillip D. Zamore
A Tyramine-Gated Chloride Channel Coordinates Distinct Motor Programs of a Caenorhabditis elegans Escape Response, Jennifer K. Pirri, Adam D. McPherson, Jamie L. Donnelly, Michael M. Francis, and Mark J. Alkema
There are many ways to train a fly, Jena L. Pitman, Shamik DasGupta, Michael J. Krashes, Benjamin Leung, Paola N. Perrat, and Scott Waddell
The Tec kinases Itk and Rlk regulate conventional versus innate T-cell development, Amanda L. Prince, Catherine C. Yin, Megan E. Enos, Martin Felices, and Leslie J. Berg
A critical step for postsynaptic F-actin organization: regulation of Baz/Par-3 localization by aPKC and PTEN, Preethi Ramachandran, Romina Barria, James A. Ashley, and Vivian Budnik
The C. elegans Snail homolog CES-1 can activate gene expression in vivo and share targets with bHLH transcription factors, John S. Reece-Hoyes, Bart Deplancke, M. Inmaculada Barrasa, Julia Hatzold, Ryan B. Smit, H. Efsun Arda, Patricia A. Pope, Jeb Gaudet, Barbara Conradt, and Albertha J. M. Walhout
Regulation of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels by lipids, Mandy L. Roberts-Crowley, Tora Mitra Ganguli, Liwang Liu, and Ann R. Rittenhouse
The effect of a low-glycemic diet vs a standard diet on blood glucose levels and macronutrient intake in children with type 1 diabetes, Alisha J. Rovner, Tonja R. Nansel, and Lauren A. Gellar
Characterization of a novel interaction between transcription factor TFII-I and the inducible tyrosine kinase in T cells., Catarina Sacristan, Stefan A. Schattgen, Leslie J. Berg, Stephen C. Bunnell, Ananda L. Roy, and Yvonne Rosenstein
Constipation and Risk of Cardiovascular Events in Menopausal Women, Elena Salmoirago Blotcher, Sybil L. Crawford, Elizabeth A. Jackson, Judith K. Ockene, and Ira S. Ockene
Methodological limitations of psychosocial interventions in patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) A systematic review., Elena Salmoirago Blotcher and Ira S. Ockene
Dynein light intermediate chain 1 is required for progress through the spindle assembly checkpoint, Mylavarapu V. S. Sivaram, Thomas Wadzinski, Sambra D. Redick, Tapas K. Manna, and Stephen J. Doxsey
Elastomeric high-mineral content hydrogel-hydroxyapatite composites for orthopedic applications, Jie Song, Jianwen Xu, Tera M. Filion, Eduardo Saiz, Antoni P. Tomsia, Jane B. Lian, Gary S. Stein, David C. Ayers, and Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Mortality following placement of drug-eluting and bare-metal stents for ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction in the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events, Phillippe Gabriel Steg, Keith A. A. Fox, Kim A. Eagle, Mark I. Furman, Frans Van de Werf, Gilles Montalescot, Shaun G. Goodman, Alvaro Avezum, Wei Huang, and Joel M. Gore
T-bet knockout prevents Helicobacter felis-induced gastric cancer, Calin Stoicov, Xueli Fan, Jian Hua Liu, Glennice N. Bowen, Mark Whary, Evelyn A. Kurt-Jones, and JeanMarie Houghton
How the study of Helicobacter infection can contribute to the understanding of carcinoma development, Calin Stoicov, Hanchen Li, Jan Cerny, and JeanMarie Houghton
Examining the Effects of Treatment and Patient Characteristics on Patient Profiles of Depression, Anxiety and Functionality after an Acute Coronary Syndrome, Mayra Tisminetzky, B. C. Bray, Ruben Miozzo, and Thomas J. McLaughlin
Insulin receptor tyrosine kinase substrate links the E. coli O157:H7 actin assembly effectors Tir and EspF(U) during pedestal formation, Didier F. Vingadassalom, Arunas Kazlauskas, Brian M. Skehan, Hui-Chun Cheng, Loranne Magoun, Douglas Robbins, Michael K. Rosen, Kalle Saksela, and John M. Leong
Compartmentalized beta subunit distribution determines characteristics and ethanol sensitivity of somatic, dendritic, and terminal large-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels in the rat central nervous system, Patricia M. Wynne, Sylvie I. Puig, Gilles E. Martin, and Steven N. Treistman
Betaalpha-hairpin clamps brace betaalphabeta modules and can make substantive contributions to the stability of TIM barrel proteins, Xiaoyan Yang, Sagar V. Kathuria, Ramakrishna Vadrevu, and C. Robert Matthews
Twin-spot MARCM to reveal the developmental origin and identity of neurons, Hung-Hsiang Yu, Chun-Hong Chen, Lei Shi, Yaling Huang, and Tzumin Lee
Endodomain diversity in the Drosophila Dscam and its roles in neuronal morphogenesis, Hung-Hsiang Yu, Jacob S. Yang, Jian Wang, Yaling Huang, and Tzumin Lee
Publications from 2008
Rudra interrupts receptor signaling complexes to negatively regulate the IMD pathway, Kamna Aggarwal, Florentina Rus, Christie Vriesema-Magnuson, Deniz Erturk Hasdemir, Nicholas Paquette, and Neal S. Silverman
Phenotypic transcription factors epigenetically mediate cell growth control, Syed A. Ali, Sayyed K. Zaidi, Caroline S. Dacwag, Nunciada Salma, Daniel W. Young, A. Rauf Shakoori, Martin A. Montecino, Jane B. Lian, Andre J. Van Wijnen, Anthony N. Imbalzano, Gary S. Stein, and Janet L. Stein (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
Mouse Eri1 interacts with the ribosome and catalyzes 5.8S rRNA processing, K. Mark Ansel, William A. Pastor, Nicola Rath, Ariya D. Lapan, Elke Glasmacher, Christine Wolf, Laura C. Smith, Nikoletta Papadopoulou, Edward D. Lamperti, Mamta Tahiliani, Joachim W. Ellwart, Yujiang Shi, Elisabeth Kremmer, Anjana Rao, and Vigo Heissmeyer
Protective effect of Cox-2 allelic variants on risk of colorectal adenoma development in African Americans, Hassan Ashktorab, Shirley Tsang, Brian T. Luke, Zhonghe Sun, Lucile L. Adams-Campbell, John Kwagyan, Richard Poirier, Shahina Akter, Ahmad Akhgar, Duane T. Smoot, David Munroe, and Iqbal Unnisa Ali
Rapid activity-dependent modifications in synaptic structure and function require bidirectional Wnt signaling, Bulent Ataman, James A. Ashley, Michael Gorczyca, Preethi Ramachandran, Wernher Fouquet, Stephan J. Sigrist, and Vivian Budnik
Organization and postembryonic development of glial cells in the adult central brain of Drosophila, Takeshi Awasaki, Sen-Lin Lai, Kei Ito, and Tzumin Lee
Metabolic stress induces the lysosomal degradation of neuropilin-1 but not neuropilin-2, Donggoo Bae, Shaolei Lu, Cherie A. Taglienti, and Arthur M. Mercurio
The leukemogenic t(8;21) fusion protein AML1-ETO controls rRNA genes and associates with nucleolar-organizing regions at mitotic chromosomes, Rachit Bakshi, Sayyed K. Zaidi, Sandhya Pande, Mohammad Q. Hassan, Daniel W. Young, Martin A. Montecino, Jane B. Lian, Andre J. Van Wijnen, Janet L. Stein, and Gary S. Stein (Journal of cell science)
Structural analysis of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 CRF01_AE protease in complex with the substrate p1-p6., Rajintha M. Bandaranayake, Moses Prabu-Jeyabalan, Junko Kakizawa, Wataru Sugiura, and Celia A. Schiffer
Intrinsic and synaptic long-term depression of NTS relay of nociceptin- and capsaicin-sensitive cardiopulmonary afferents hyperactivity, Armenak Bantikyan, Gang Song, Paula Leslie Feinberg-Zadek, and Chi-Sang Poon
Modulation of N-type Calcium Channel Activity by G-proteins and Protein Kinase C, Curtis F. Barrett and Ann R. Rittenhouse
Recruitment and endo-lysosomal activation of TLR9 in dendritic cells infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, Daniella C. Bartholomeu, Catherine Ropert, Mariane B. Melo, Peggy Parroche, Caroline F. Junqueira, Santuza M. R. Teixeira, Cherilyn M. Sirois, Pia Kasperkovitz, Cathrine F. Knetter, Egil Lien, Eicke Latz, Douglas T. Golenbock, and Ricardo T. Gazzinelli
Robert Menard: Tailing malaria parasites to the red blood cell. Interviewed by Hema Bashyam, Hema Sundara Bashyam
Reducing glutamate signaling pays off in fragile X, Gary J. Bassell and Christina Gross
Fragile X syndrome: loss of local mRNA regulation alters synaptic development and function, Gary J. Bassell and Stephen T. Warren
PRG-1 and 21U-RNAs interact to form the piRNA complex required for fertility in C. elegans, Pedro J. Batista, J. Graham Ruby, Julie M. Claycomb, H. Rosaria Chiang, Noah Fahlgren, Kristin D. Kasschau, Daniel A. Chaves, Weifeng Gu, Jessica J. Vasale, Shenghua Duan, Darryl Conte, Shujun Luo, Gary P. Schroth, James C. Carrington, David P. Bartel, and Craig C. Mello
Cross-reactive memory CD8(+) T cells alter the immune response to heterologous secondary dengue virus infections in mice in a sequence-specific manner, Coreen Michele Beaumier, Anuja Mathew, Hema Sundara Bashyam, and Alan L. Rothman
Elevated levels of soluble ST2 protein in dengue virus infected patients, Aniuska Becerra, Rajas V. Warke, Norma B. de Bosch, Alan L. Rothman, and Irene Bosch
Analysis of Glucose Transporter Topology and Structural Dynamics., David M. Blodgett, Christopher A. Graybill, and Anthony Carruthers
A gene signature predicting for survival in suboptimally debulked patients with ovarian cancer, Tomas Bonome, Douglas A. Levine, Joanna H. Shih, Mike Randonovich, Cynthia Ann Pise-Masison, Faina Bogomolniy, Laurent L. Ozbun, John N. Brady, J. Carl Barrett, Jeff Boyd, and Michael J. Birrer
A 'BOLD' experiment in defining the utility of fMRI in drug development, David Borsook, David Bleakman, Richard J. Hargreaves, Jaymin Upadhyay, Karl F. Schmidt, and Lino R. Becerra
Amphetamine-induced decreases in dopamine transporter surface expression are protein kinase C-independent, Ekaterina Boudanova, Deanna M. Navaroli, and Haley E. Melikian
Dopamine transporter endocytic determinants: carboxy terminal residues critical for basal and PKC-stimulated internalization, Ekaterina Boudanova, Deanna M. Navaroli, Zachary H. Stevens, and Haley E. Melikian
Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of a Series of Liver-Selective Phosphonic Acid Thyroid Hormone Receptor Agonists and Their Prodrugs, Serge H. Boyer, Hongjian Jiang, Jason D. Jacintho, Mali Venkat Reddy, Haiqing Li, Wenyu Li, Jennifer L. Godwin, William G. Schulz, Edward Earl Cable, Jinzhao Hou, Rongrong Wu, James M. Fujitaki, Scott J. Hecker, and Mark D. Erion
Small RNAs: keeping stem cells in line, Michael Stadler Bradford and Hannele Ruohola-Baker
Sequential expression of pluripotency markers during direct reprogramming of mouse somatic cells, Tobias Brambrink, Ruth K. Foreman, G. Grant Welstead, Christopher Joachim Lengner, Marius Wernig, Heikyung Suh, and Rudolf Jaenisch
Comparison of drug adherence rates among patients with seven different medical conditions, Becky A. Briesacher, Susan E. Andrade, Hassan Fouayzi, and K. Arnold Chan
Determining an optimal testing strategy for infants at risk for mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 during the late postnatal period, Elizabeth R. Brown, Benjamin H. Chi, Jennifer S. Read, Taha E. Taha, Usha Sharma, Irving F. Hoffman, Cheryl A. Pikora, Robert L. Goldenberg, and Susan A. Fiscus
L-theanine intervention enhances human gammadeltaT lymphocyte function, Jack F. Bukowski and Susan S. Percival
A method to assay inhibitors of DNA polymerase IIIC activity, Michelle Marie Butler and George E. Wright
Muscle-specific expression of PPARgamma coactivator-1alpha improves exercise performance and increases peak oxygen uptake, Jennifer Ann Calvo, Thomas G. Daniels, Xiaomei Wang, Angelika C. Paul, Jiandie Lin, Bruce M. Spiegelman, Susan C. Stevenson, and Shamina M. Rangwala
Repetitive N-WASP-binding elements of the enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli effector EspF(U) synergistically activate actin assembly, Kenneth Geno Campellone, Hui-Chun Cheng, Douglas Robbins, Anosha D. Siripala, Emma J. McGhie, Richard D. Hayward, Matthew D. Welch, Michael K. Rosen, Vassilis Koronakis, and John M. Leong
WHAMM is an Arp2/3 complex activator that binds microtubules and functions in ER to Golgi transport, Kenneth Geno Campellone, Neil J. Webb, Elizabeth A. Znameroski, and Matthew D. Welch
Evolutionary emergence of microRNAs in human embryonic stem cells, Hong Cao, Chao-shun Yang, and Tariq M. Rana
IL-13 is required for eosinophil entry into the lung during respiratory syncytial virus vaccine-enhanced disease, Elaine M. Castilow, David K. Meyerholz, and Steven Michael Varga
Transcriptional repression of the RUNX3/AML2 gene by the t(8;21) and inv(16) fusion proteins in acute myeloid leukemia, Chi-Keung Cheng, Libby Li, Suk-Hang Cheng, Kin-Mang Lau, Natalie P. H. Chan, Raymond S. M. Wong, Matthew M. K. Shing, Chi-Kong Li, and Margaret H. L. Ng
Structural mechanism of WASP activation by the enterohaemorrhagic E. coli effector EspF(U), Hui-Chun Cheng, Brian M. Skehan, Kenneth Geno Campellone, John M. Leong, and Michael K. Rosen
In vitro CpG methylation increases the transformation efficiency of Borrelia burgdorferi strains harboring the endogenous linear plasmid lp56, Qiang Chen, Joshua Richard Fischer, Vivian M. Benoit, Nicholas P. Dufour, Philip Youderian, and John M. Leong
Species differences in Cl- affinity and in electrogenicity of SLC26A6-mediated oxalate/Cl- exchange correlate with the distinct human and mouse susceptibilities to nephrolithiasis, Jeffrey S. Clark, David H. Vandorpe, Marina N. Chernova, John F. Heneghan, Andrew K. Stewart, and Seth L. Alper
Endocrine issues in the pediatric intensive care unit, Lowell Clark, Catherine M. Preissig, Mark R. Rigby, and Frank Bowyer
p37Ing1b regulates B-cell proliferation and cooperates with p53 to suppress diffuse large B-cell lymphomagenesis, Andrew H. Coles, Concetta G. A. Marfella, Anthony N. Imbalzano, Heather Anne Steinman, David S. Garlick, Rachel M. Gerstein, and Stephen N. Jones
Hepcidin regulation of iron transport, James F. Collins, Marianne Wessling-Resnick, and Mitchell D. Knutson
Improved pulmonary and growth outcomes in cystic fibrosis by newborn screening, Melanie Sue Collins, Mary-Alice Abbott, Dorothy B. Wakefield, Craig D. Lapin, Ginny Drapeau, Sidney M. Hopfer, Robert M. Greenstein, and Michelle M. Cloutier
DNA methylation changes in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Caroline M. Connor and Schahram Akbarian