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MCIP Ph.D. students publish their research findings in some of the leading international scientific journals in their disciplines. Here are some of their recently published works.
(student names are indicated by*)

2008

Wehling-Henricks, M., Sokolow, S., Lee, J.J., Myung, K.H., *Villalta, S.A. and J.G. Tidball. (2008) Major basic protein-1 promotes fibrosis of dystrophic muscle and attenuates the cellular immune response in muscular dystrophy. Human Molec. Genetics 17: 2280-2292.

Hao, M., Akrami, C., *Wei, K., De Diego, C.,Che, N., Ku, J.H., Tidball, J.G., Graves, M.C. Shieh, P.B. and F. Chen. (2008) Muscleblind-like 2 (Mbnl2) -deficient mice as a model for myotonic dystrophy. Dev. Dyn. 237:403-10.

Theobald, J.C., *Duistermars, B.J., Ringach, D.L., Frye, M.A. (2008) Flies see second order motion. Curr Biol. 18(11):464-465.

*Duistermars, B.J. and Frye, M.A. (2008) Cross-modal visual input for odor tracking during fly flight. Curr. Biol. 18:270-275.

*Duistermars, B.J., *Chow, D.M., *Condro, M., and Frye, M.A. (2007) The spatial, temporal and contrast properties of expansion and rotation flight optomotor responses in Drosophila. J. Exp Biol. 210: 3218-3227.

Katz, A., *Mirzatoni, A,. Zhen, Y., and Schlinger B. A. (2008) Sex differences in cell proliferation and glucocorticoid responsiveness in the zebra finch brain. Eur. J. Neurosci. 28:99-106.

*Spence, R., Zhen, Y., White, S.A., Schlinger, B.A., Day, L. B. (2008) Recovery of motor and cognitive function after cerebellar lesions in a songbird: role of estrogens. In Press.

Burton, J.B., *Johnson, M., Sato, M., Koh, S.B., Mulholland, D.J., Stout, D., Chatziioannou, A.F., Phelps, M.E., Wu, H., and Wu, L. (2008) Adenovirus-mediated gene expression imaging to directly detect sentinel lymph node metastasis of prostate cancer. Nat Med. 14(8):882-8.

Choi, H.J., Lee, C.J., *Schroeder, A., Kim, Y.S., Jung, S.H., Kim, J.S., Kim, do Y., Son, E.J., Han, H.C., Hong, S.K., Colwell, C.S., Kim, Y.I. (2008) Excitatory actions of GABA in the suprachiasmatic nucleus. J Neurosci. 21:5450-9.

Wang, L.M., *Schroeder, A., Loh, D., Smith, D., Lin, K., Han, J.H., Michel, S., Hummer, D.L., Ehlen, J.C., Albers, H.E., and Colwell, C.S. (2008) Role for the NR2B subunit of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor in mediating light input to the circadian system. Eur J Neurosci. 7:1771-9.

*Richler, E., Chaumont, S., Shigetomi, E., Sagasti, A. and Khakh BS. (2008) Tracking transmitter-gated P2X cation channel activation in vitro and in vivo. Nat Methods. 5(1):87-93.

*Streicher, J.M. and Wang, Y. (2008) The role of COX-2 in heart pathology. Cardiovasc. Hematol. Agents in Medicinal Chem. 6:69-79.

*Peter, A.P., *Marshall, J.L., Crosbie, R.H. (2008) Sarcospan reduces dystrophic pathology: stabilization of the utrophin-glycoprotein complex" J. Cell Biol. In Press.

Faham, S., *Watanabe, A., *Besserer, G.M., Cascio, D. Specht, A., Hirayama, B.A., Wright, E.M. and Abramson, J. (2008) The crystal structure of a sodium galactose transporter reveals mechanistic insights into Na+/Sugar symport. Science 8 August: 810-814.

*Chow, D.M., and Frye, M.A. (2008) Context-dependent olfactory enhancement of optomotor flight control in Drosophila.
J Exp Biol. 211:2478-85.

Soss, J., *Ferando, I., and Engel J., Jr. (2008) Diagnostic and localizing behavioral features of epileptic seizures. In: Fisch BF, ed. Principles and Practice of Electrophysiological and Video Monitoring in Epilepsy and Intensive Care. Demos Press

Fulton, D., *Condro, M.C., Pearce, D. and D. L. Glanzman. (2008) The potential role of postsynaptic phospholipase C activity in synaptic facilitation and behavioral sensitization in Aplysia. J. Neurophysiol. 100: 108-116.

Miller, J.E., Spiteri, E., *Condro, M.C., Dosumu-Johnson, R.T., Geschwind, D.H. and S. White. (2008) Birdsong decreases protein levels of FoxP2, a molecule required for human speech. J. Neurophysiol. in press.

Kubasak, M.D., Jindrich, D.L., Zhong, H., *Takeoka, A., McFarland, K.C., Munoz-Quiles, C., Roy, R.R., Edgerton, V.R., Ramon-Cueto, A. and Phelps, P.E. (2008) OEG implantation and step training enhance hindlimb-stepping ability in adult spinal transected rats Brain 131, 264-76.

2007

Chaptal, V., *Besserer, G.M., Ottolia, M., Nicoll, D.A., Cascio, D., Philipson, K.D.and J. Abramson (2007) How does regulatory Ca2+ regulate the Na+-Ca2+ exchanger?Channels 1(6):397-9.

*Besserer, G.M., Ottolia, M., Nicoll, D.A., Chaptal, V., Cascio, D., Philipson, K.D. and J. Abramson. (2007) The second Ca2+-binding domain of the Na+ Ca2+ exchanger is essential for regulation: crystal structures and mutational analysis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104(47):18467-72.

Gudzenko, V., Shiferaw, Y., Savalli, N., *Vyas, R., Weiss, J.N., and R. Olcese. (2007) Influence of Channel Subunit Composition on L-Type Ca2+ Current Kinetics and Cardiac Wave Stability. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. Vosko, A.M, *Schroeder, A., Loh, D,H. and C.S. Colwell. (2007) Vasoactive intestinal peptide and the mammalian circadian system. Gen Comp Endocrinol. 152:165-75.

*Zer, C., Sachs, G. and J.M. Shin. (2007) Identification of genomic targets downstream of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway mediating tumor necrosis factor alpha-signaling. Physiol Genomics. (in press).

Brakenhielm, E., Burton, J., *Johnson, M., Chavarria, N., Morizono, K., Chen, I., Alitalo, K. and L. Wu. (2007). Modulating metastasis by a lymphangiogenic switch in prostate cancer. Int J Cancer. (in press).

Kostenuik, P.J., Ferrari, S., Pierroz, D., Bouxsein, M., *Morony, S., Warmington K., Adamu, S., Geng, Z., Grisanti, M., Shalhoub, V., Martin, S., Biddlecome, G., Shimamoto, G., Boone, T., Shen, V. and D. Lacey. (2007) Infrequent delivery of a long-acting PTH-Fc fusion protein has potent anabolic effects on cortical and cancellous bone. J Bone Miner Res. (in press).

*Tran, D.X., Yang, M., Weiss, J.N., Garfinkel, A. and Z. Qu. (2007) Vulnerability to reentry in simulated two-dimensional cardiac tissue: effects of electrical restitution and stimulation sequence. Chaos (in press).

Yang, M.J., *Tran D.X., Weiss J.N., Garfinkel A. and Z. Qu. (2007) The pinwheel experiment revisited: effects of cellular electrophysiological properties on vulnerability to cardiac reentry. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 293(3):H1781-90.

Pott, C., Ren, X., *Tran, D.X., Yang, M.J., Henderson, S., Jordan, M., Roos, K.P., Garfinkel, A., Philipson, K.D. and J. Goldhaber. (2007). Mechanism of shortened action potential duration in Na+-Ca2+ exchanger knockout mice. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 292(2):C968-73.

Huang, M.S., *Morony, S., Lu, J., Zhang, Z., Bezouglaia, O., Tseng, W., Tetradis, S., Demer, L.L. and Y. Tintut. (2007). Atherogenic phospholipids attenuate osteogenic signaling by BMP-2 and parathyroid hormone in osteoblasts. J Biol Chem. 282(29):21237-43.

Lauriat, T.L., *Richler, E. and L.A. McInnes. (2007) A quantitative regional expression profile of EAAT2 known and novel splice variants reopens the question of aberrant EAAT2 splicing in disease. Neurochem. Int. 50(1): 271-80.

Acharyya, S., *Villalta, S.A., Bakkar, N., Bupha-Intr, T., Janssen, P.M., Carathers, M., Li, Z., Beg, A., Ghosh, S., Sahenk, Z., Weinstein, M., Gardner, K.L., Rafael-Fortney, J.A., Karin, M., Tidball, J.G., Baldwin, A.S. and D.C. Guttridge. (2007). Interplay of IKK/NF-kappaB signaling in macrophages and myofibers promotes muscle degeneration in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. J Clin Invest. 117(4):889-901.

*Lu G., Ren S., Korge P., Choi J., Dong Y., Weiss J., Koehler C., Chen J. and Y. Wang. (2007) A novel mitochondrial matrix serine/threonine protein phosphatase Is essential to cellular survival and embryonic development by regulating mitochondrial permeability transition. Genes Dev, 21(7):784-96.

*Duistermars, B.J., Chow, D.M., *Condro, M. and M.A. Frye. (2007) The spatial, temporal and contrast properties of expansion and rotation flight optomotor responses in Drosophila. J Exp Biol. 210(Pt 18):3218-3227.

*Duistermars, B.J., Reiser, M., Zhu, Y. M.A. Frye. Dynamic properties of large-field and small-field optomotor flight responses in Drosophila. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 193(7):787-99.

Vosko, A.M., *Schroeder, A., Loh, D. and C.S. Colwell. (2007) Vasoactive intestinal peptide and the mammalian circadian system. Gen. Comp. Endocrin. 152: 165-75.

*Peter, A.K., Miller G. and R.H. Crosbie. (2007) Disrupted mechanical stability of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex causes severe muscular dystrophy in sarcospan transgenic mice. J Cell Sci. 120:996-1008.

Miller, G., Wang, E.L., Nassar, K., *Peter, A.K. and R.H. Crosbie. (2007) Structural and functional analysis of the sarcoglycan-sarcospan subcomplex. Exp Cell Res. 313(4):639-51.

*Tran, D.X., Yang, M.J., Weiss, J.N., Garfinkel, A. and Qu, Z. (2007) Vulnerability to re-entry in simulated two-dimensional cardiac tissue: effects of electrical restitution and stimulation sequence. Chaos. 17(4):043115

2006

Yang, J., *Tran, D.X., Weiss, J.N., Garfinkel, A. and Z. Qu. (2006) Vulnerability to reentry by premature excitations in homogeneous cardiac tissue model: roles of electrical restitutions. Heart Rhythm, 3(5):S309 6-24.

Miller, G., *Peter, A.K., Heighway, J., Espinoza, E. and R.H. Crosbie. (2006) Over-expression of Microspan, a novel component of the sarcoplasmic reticulum, causes severe muscle pathology with triad abnormalities. J Muscle Res Cell Motil. 27(8):545-58.

*Peter, A.K. and Crosbie, R.H. (2006). Hypertrophic response of Duchenne and limb-girdle muscular dystrophies is associated with activation of Akt pathway. Exp Cell Res. 312(13):2580-91.

*Lu G., Kang Y., Han J., Herschman H. R., Stefani E. and Y. Wang. (2006) TAB-1 modulates intracellular localization of p38 MAP kinase and downstream signaling. J Biol Chem 281(9): 6087-95.

*Johnson, M., Huyn, S., Burton, J., Sato, M. and L. Wu. (2006) Differential biodistribution of adenoviral vector in vivo as monitored by bioluminescence imaging and quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Hum Gene Ther. 17(12):1262-9

Figueiredo, M.L., Sato, M., *Johnson, M. and L. Wu. (2006) Specific targeting of gene therapy to prostate cancer using a two-step transcriptional amplification system. Future Oncol. 2(3):391-406.

Waters, M.F., *Minassian, N.A., Stevanin, G., Figueroa, K.P., Bannister, J.P., Nolte, D.,Mock, A.F., Evidente, V.G., Fee, D.B., Muller, U., Durr, A., Brice, A. and D.M. Papazian. (2006) Pulst SM mutations in voltage-gated potassium channel KCNC3 cause degenerative and developmental central nervous system phenotypes. Nature Genetics Apr; 38(4): 447-51.

Li, J., Sarosi, I., Cattley, R.C., Pretorius, J., Asuncion, F., Grisanti, M., *Morony, S., Adamu, S., Geng, Z., Qiu, W., Kostenuik, P., Lacey, D.L., Simonet, W.S., Bolon, B., Qian, X., Shalhoub, V., Ominsky, M.S., Zhu, K.H., Li, X. and W.G. Richards. (2006) Dkk1-mediated inhibition of Wnt signaling in bone results in osteopenia. Bone 39: 754-766.

Jones, D.H., Nakashima, T., Sanchez, O.H., Kozieradzki, I., Komarova, S.V., Sarosi, I., *Morony, S., Rubin, E., Sarao, R., Hojilla, C.V., Komnenovic, V., Kong, Y,Y., Schreiber, M., Dixon, S.J., Sims, S., Khokha, R., Wada, T. and J.M. Penninger. (2006) Regulation of cancer cell migration and bone metastasis by RANKL. Nature 440: 692-6.

Padagas, J., Colloton, M., Shalhoub, V., Kostenuik, P., *Morony, S., Munyakazi, L., Guo, M., Gianneschi, D., Shatzen, E., Geng, Z., Tan, H.L., Dunstan, C., Lacey, D. and D. Martin. (2006) The receptor activator of nuclear ctor-kappaB ligand inhibitor osteoprotegerin is a bone-protective agent in a rat model of chronic renal insufficiency and hyperparathyroidism. Calcif Tissue Int. 78: 35-44

*Richler, E., Reichert, J.G., Buxbaum, J.D. and L.A. McInnes. (2006) Autism and ultraconserved non-coding sequence on chromosome 7q. Psychiatr. Genet. Feb; 16(1): 19-23.

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