Graduate Students
Graduate Students
Awards
Yuyan Han, John Reneau, and Kiran Vangara each received an SGS Student Travel Award in 2011 to present their research findings at national meetings.
Presentations
"Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Human MSCs and its Secreted Protein TSG-6 in Models
of Acute Lung Injury" Conference title: Cells and Cell Therapies in Lung Biology and
Lung Diseases Conference, Burlington, VT, July 25 - 28, 2011. Andrea M
Foskett, Nikolay Bazhanov (equally contributed with the first author), April
Tiblow and Darwin J Prockop.
"The anti-inflammatory protein TSG-6 improves arterial oxygen in a model of
Bleomycin-induced acute lung injury". Conference title: "Moving Adult Stem Cells and
the Therapeutic Proteins They Produce from the Laboratory to the Patient, College
Station, TX, November 4, 2011. Andrea M Foskett, Nikolay Bazhanov
(equally contributed with the first author), April Tiblow and Darwin J Prockop
"Increased serum bile acids after extrahepatic biliary obstruction causes leakiness
to the blood brain barrier via disruption of tight junctions"---presented as a poster
at Digestive Disease Week in Chicago, IL May 2011. M. Quinn and S.
DeMorrow.
"The Bile Acid Deoxycholic Acid acts as a Neuroendocrine Hormone to modulate the HPA
axis." American Association for the Study of Liver Disease in San Fransisco, CA
November, 2011 and Society for Neuroscience in Washington DC November, 2011.
M.Quinn and S. DeMorrow.
"The Role of Heat Shock Proteins in Preventing Amylin Aggregation in Type 2 Diabetes
Mellitus" presented in the Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
in Temple. P. Rosas and A. Asea
"The Role of Heat Shock Proteins in Preventing Amylin Aggregation: A new approach
towards treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus" at the Cardiovascular Research
Institute in Temple. P. Rosas and A. Asea
“Role of Heat Shock Proteins in the Prevention of Amylin Aggregation in Type 2
Diabetes Mellitus”. 16th Annual COM GSO Student Research Symposium, TAMHSC.
P. Rosas, G. Nagaraja, P. Kaur, Khalid B. Abdulrahman, L. Garcia, A.
Asea
“Role of Heat Shock Proteins in the Prevention of Amylin Aggregation in Type 2
Diabetes Mellitus”. 2011 Society of Thermal Medicine Annual Meeting.
P. Rosas, G. Nagaraja, P. Kaur, Khalid B. Abdulrahman, L. Garcia, A. Asea
Publications
Lee RH, Oh JY, Choi H, Bazhanov N. Therapeutic factors secreted
by mesenchymal stromal cells and tissue repair. J Cell Biochem 112(11):3073-8,
2011.
Choi H, Lee RH, Bazhanov N, Oh JY, Prockop DJ. Anti-inflammatory
protein TSG-6 secreted by activated MSCs attenuates zymosan-induced mouse peritonitis
by decreasing TLR2/NF-kB signaling in resident macrophages. Blood 118(2):330-8,
2011.
L. Huang, M.Quinn, G. Frampton, L. Golden and S. DeMorrow. "Recent
advances in the understanding of the role of the endocannabinoid system in liver
disease" Digestive and Liver Disease, 43; 188-193. 2011 (Review)
V. Chiasson, M. Quinn, K. Young and B. Mitchell. "Protein kinase C
Bii mediated phosphorylation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase threonine 495
mediates the endothelial dysfunction induced by FK506 (tacrolimus)". JPET, 337; 718-
723. 2011
L. Huang, J. Ramirez, G. Frampton, L. Golden, M. Quinn, H. Pae, D.
Horvat, L. Liang and S. DeMorrow. "Anandamide exerts its antiproliferative actions on
cholangiocarcinoma by activation of the GPR55 receptor." Laboratory Investigations,
91; 1007-1017. 2011
G. Frampton, P. Invernizzi, F. Bernuzzi, H. Pae, M. Quinn, D.
Horvat, C. Galindo, L. Huang, M. McMillin, B. Cooper, L. Rimassa and S. DeMorrow. "
Interleukin-6-driven progranulin expression increases cholangiocarcinoma growth by
and Akt-dependent mechanism". Gut, epub. 2011.
M. Quinn, Y. Ueno, H. Pae, L. Huang, G. Frampton, C. Galindo, H.
Francis, D. Horvat, M. McMillin and S. DeMorrow. "Suppression of the HPA axis during
extrahepatic biliary obstruction induces cholangiocyte proliferation in the rat". Am
J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiology, epub. 2011.
M. Quinn, M. McMillin, G. Frampton, S. Afroze, L. Huang and S.
DeMorrow. "The role of microenvironment in pathogenesis of cholangiocarcinoma" in
Liver Tumors (ISBN 979-953-307-069-7) Intech publishing group. 2011.
Peng BW, Justice JA, Zhang K, Li JX, He XH, Sanchez RM.
“Gabapentin promotes inhibition by enhancing hyperpolarization-activated cation
currents and spontaneous firing in hippocampal CA1 interneurons” Neuroscience
Letters 20:494(1):19-23, 2011.
Achievements
Dr. Alexzander Asea and Paola Rosas filed a patent application for "Therapeutic
Effect of Heat Shock Proteins in Preventing Amylin Aggregation in Type II Diabetes
Mellitus".
The following students successfully completed their prelims and were admitted to
candidacy:
- Nikolay Bazhanov
- Christi Parham
- Devendra Sawant
