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Recent Publications for the Neurosciences PhD Program

Rafal Gulej Publications

  1. Thomas L, Smith N, Saunders D, Zalles M, Gulej R, Lerner M, Fung KM, Carcaboso AM, Towner RA. OKlahoma Nitrone-007: novel treatment for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma. J Transl Med. 2020 Nov 10;18(1):424. doi: 10.1186/s12967-020-02593-5. PMID: 33168005; PMCID: PMC7654606.
  2. Yabluchanskiy A, Nyul-Toth A, Csiszar A, Gulej R, Saunders D, Towner R, Turner M, Zhao Y, Abdelkari D, Rypma B, Tarantini S. Age-related alterations in the cerebrovasculature affect neurovascular coupling and BOLD fMRI responses: Insights from animal models of aging. Psychophysiology. 2020 Nov 3:e13718. doi: 10.1111/psyp.13718. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33141436.
  3. Zalles M, Smith N, Saunders D, Saran T, Thomas L, Gulej R, Lerner M, Fung KM, Chung J, Hwang K, Jin J, Battiste J, Towner RA. Assessment of an scFv Antibody Fragment Against ELTD1 in a G55 Glioblastoma Xenograft Model. Transl Oncol. 2020 Mar;13(3):100737. doi: 10.1016/j.tranon.2019.12.009. Epub 2020 Mar 21. PMID: 32208341; PMCID: PMC7090355.
  4. Piekarz KM, Bhaskaran S, Sataranatarajan K, Street K, Premkumar P, Saunders D, Zalles M, Gulej R, Khademi S, Laurin J, Peelor R, Miller BF, Towner R, Van Remmen H. Molecular changes associated with spinal cord aging. Geroscience. 2020 Apr;42(2):765-784. doi: 10.1007/s11357-020-00172-6. Epub 2020 Mar 6. PMID: 32144690; PMCID: PMC7205981.
  5. Zalles M, Smith N, Ziegler J, Saunders D, Remerowski S, Thomas L, Gulej R, Mamedova N, Lerner M, Fung KM, Chung J, Hwang K, Jin J, Wiley G, Brown C, Battiste J, Wren JD, Towner RA. Optimized monoclonal antibody treatment against ELTD1 for GBM in a G55 xenograft mouse model. J Cell Mol Med. 2020 Jan;24(2):1738-1749. doi: 10.1111/jcmm.14867. Epub 2019 Dec 21. PMID: 31863639; PMCID: PMC6991683.
  6. Towner RA, Saunders D, Smith N, Gulej R, McKenzie T, Lawrence B, Morton KA. Anti-inflammatory agent, OKN-007, reverses long-term neuroinflammatory responses in a rat encephalopathy model as assessed by multi-parametric MRI: implications for aging-associated neuroinflammation. Geroscience. 2019 Aug;41(4):483-494. doi: 10.1007/s11357-019-00094-y. Epub 2019 Sep 2. PMID: 31478121; PMCID:PMC6815317.
  7. Głowacka IE, Gulej R, Grzonkowski P, Andrei G, Schols D, Snoeck R, Piotrowska DG. Synthesis and the Biological Activity of Phosphonylated 1,2,3-Triazolenaphthalimide Conjugates. Molecules. 2016 Oct 26;21(11):1420. doi: 10.3390/molecules21111420. PMID: 27792200; PMCID: PMC6273621.

Katarzyna Piekarz

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Layne Rodden

  1. Layne N Rodden, Yogesh K Chutake, Kaitlyn Gilliam, Christina Lam, Elisabetta Soragni, Lauren Hauser, Matthew Gilliam, Graham Wiley, Michael P Anderson, Joel M Gottesfeld, David R Lynch, Sanjay I Bidichandani, Methylated and unmethylated epialleles support variegated epigenetic silencing in Friedreich ataxia, Human Molecular Genetics. January 2021.
  2. In preparation: DNA methylation silences frataxin isoform E in Friedreich ataxia.

Michelle Zalles

  1. Towner RA, Smith N, Zalles M, Morris S, Toliver M, Saunders D. Lerner M, Kumar G, Axtell RC. ELTD1 as a biomarker for multiple sclerosis: Pre-clinical molecular-targeted studies in a mouse experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis model. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. Volume 49, 2021, 102786, ISSN 2211-0348, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msard.2021.102786.
  2. Thomas L, Smith N, Saunders D, Zalles M, Gulej R, Lerner M, Fung KM, Carcaboso AM, Towner RA. OKlahoma Nitrone-007: novel treatment for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma. J Transl Med. 2020; 18: 424.
  3. Smith N, Saunders D, Lerner M, Zalles M, Mamedova N, Cheong D, Mohammadi E, Yuan T, Luo Y, Hurst RE, Greenwood-Van Meerveld B, Towner RA. In vivo and ex vivo assessment of bladder hyper-permeability and using molecular targeted magnetic resonance imaging to detect claudin-2 in a mouse model for interstitial cystitis. PLoS One. 2020 Oct 23;15(10):e0239282. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239282. PMID: 33095778; PMCID: PMC7584247.
  4. Towner RA, Zalles M, Saunders D, Smith N. Novel approaches to combat chemoresistance against glioblastomas. Cancer Drug Resistance. 2020; 3: [Online First].
  5. Piekarz KM, Bhaskaran S, Sataranatarajan K, Street K, Premkumar P, Saunders D, Zalles M, Gulej R, Khademi S, Laurin J, Peelor R, Miller BF, Towner R, Van Remmen H. Molecular changes associated with spinal cord aging. Geroscience. 2020; 42: 765-84.
  6. Zalles M, Smith N, Saunders D, Saran T, Thomas L, Gulej R, Lerner M, Fung KM, Chung J, Hwang K, Jin J, Battiste J, Towner RA. Assessment of an scFv Antibody Fragment Against ELTD1 in a G55 Glioblastoma Xenograft Model. Transl Oncol. 2020; 13: 100737.
  7. Zalles M, Smith N, Ziegler J, Saunders D, Remerowski S, Thomas L, Gulej R, Mamedova N, Lerner M, Fung KM, Chung J, Hwang K, Jin J, Wiley G, Brown C, Battiste J, Wren JD, Towner RA. Optimized monoclonal antibody treatment against ELTD1 for GBM in a G55 xenograft mouse model. J Cell Mol Med. 2020; 24: 1738-49.
  8. Ziegler J, Zalles M, Smith N, Saunders D, Lerner M, Fung KM, Patel M, Wren JD, Lupu F, Battiste J, Towner RA. Targeting ELTD1, an angiogenesis marker for glioblastoma (GBM), also affects VEGFR2: molecular-targeted MRI assessment. Am J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2019; 9: 93-109.
  9. Reagan AM, Gu X, Paudel S, Ashpole NM, Zalles M, Sonntag WE, Ungvari Z, Csiszar A, Otalora L, Freeman WM, Stout MB, Elliott MH. Age-related focal loss of contractile vascular smooth muscle cells in retinal arterioles is accelerated by caveolin-1 deficiency. Neurobiol Aging. 2018; 71: 1-12.