Publications authored by the faculty and students of the School of Graduate Studies, LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans.
Please note that if there are multiple LSUHSC authors, than the publication is slotted into the school of the first campus author.
Submissions from 2022
Validation Of The Forced Swim Test In Drosophila, And Its Use To Demonstrate Psilocybin Has Long-lasting Antidepressant-like Effects In Flies, M. Hibicke and C. D. Nichols
DNA extraction leads to bias in bacterial quantification by qPCR, Angela Lima, Angela França, Christina A. Muzny, Christopher M. Taylor, and Nuno Cerca
Body Size, Shape And Ecology In Tetrapods, Alice E. Maher, Gustavo Burin, Philip G. Cox, Thomas W. Maddox, Susannah C.R. Maidment, Natalie Cooper, Emma R. Schachner, and Karl T. Bates
Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening To Prevent Adverse Birth And Newborn Outcomes: Study Protocol For A Randomized-controlled Hybrid-effectiveness Trial, Andrew Medina-Marino, Susan Cleary, Christina A. Muzny, Christopher Taylor, Ashutosh Tamhane, Phuti Ngwepe, Charl Bezuidenhout, Shelley N. Facente, Koleka Mlisana, Remco P.H. Peters, and Jeffrey D. Klausner
Integrating Genomic Information With Tumor-immune Microenvironment In Triple-negative Breast Cancer, David Otohinoyi, Aditi Kuchi, Jiande Wu, and Chindo Hicks
A Combination Of Novel Nsc Small Molecule Inhibitor Along With Doxorubicin Inhibits Proliferation Of Triple-negative Breast Cancer Through Metabolic Reprogramming, Hassan Yousefi, Maninder Khosla, Lothar Lauterboeck, Samuel C. Okpechi, David Worthylake, Jone Garai, Jovanny Zabaleta, Jessie Guidry, Mohammad Amin Zarandi, Dorota Wyczechowska, Janarthanan Jayawickramarajah, Qinglin Yang, Joseph Kissil, and Suresh K. Alahari
Submissions from 2021
Synthetic Conjugate Peptide Fba-Met6 (MP12) Induces Complement-Mediated Resistance Against Disseminated Candida Albicans, Abby L. Adams, Karen Eberle, Jonothan Rosario Colón, Evan Courville, and Hong Xin
Human Genital Antibody-Mediated Inhibition of Chlamydia Trachomatis Infection and Evidence for ompA Genotype-Specific Neutralization, Caleb M. Ardizzone, Hannah L. Albritton, Rebecca A. Lillis, Caitlyn E.L. Bagnetto, Li Shen, Lisa A. Cavacini, Pamela A. Kozlowski, and Alison J. Quayle
ATR Inhibitor M6620 (VX-970) Enhances the Effect of Radiation in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Brain Metastasis Patient-Derived Xenografts, Andrew M. Baschnagel, Jacob H. Elnaggar, Haley J. VanBeek, Ashley C. Kromke, Justin H. Skiba, Saakshi Kaushik, Lindsey Abel, Paul A. Clark, Colin A. Longhurst, Kwangok P. Nickel, Ticiana A. Leal, Shuang G. Zhao, and Randall J. Kimple
The Oncogenic and Tumor Suppressive Roles of RNA-Binding Proteins in Human Cancers, Amirreza Bitaraf, Ehsan Razmara, Babak Bakhshinejad, Hassan Yousefi, Mousa Vatanmakanian, Masoud Garshasbi, William C. Cho, and Sadegh Babashah
Invaplex Functions as an Intranasal Adjuvant for Subunit and DNA Vaccines Co-Delivered in the Nasal Cavity of Nonhuman Primates, Jeremy V. Camp, Robert L. Wilson, Morgan Singletary, James L. Blanchard, Anna Aldovini, Robert W. Kaminski, Edwin V. Oaks, and Pamela A. Kozlowski
Ih From Synapses to Networks: HCN Channel Functions and Modulation in Neurons, Crescent L. Combe and Sonia Gasparini
Neurobiological Aspects of Pain in the Context of Alcohol Use Disorder, Jessica A. Cucinello-Ragland and Scott Edwards
Structural Polymorphism of Chitin and Chitosan in Fungal Cell Walls From Solid-State NMR and Principal Component Analysis, Liyanage D. Fernando, Malitha C. Dickwella Widanage, Jackson Penfield, Andrew S. Lipton, Nancy Washton, Jean Paul Latgé, Ping Wang, Liqun Zhang, and Tuo Wang
SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines Elicit Durable Immune Responses in Infant Rhesus Macaques, Carolina Garrido, Alan D. Curtis, Maria Dennis, Sachi H. Pathak, Hongmei Gao, David Montefiori, Mark Tomai, Christopher B. Fox, Pamela A. Kozlowski, Trevor Scobey, Jennifer E. Munt, Michael L. Mallory, Pooja T. Saha, Michael G. Hudgens, Lisa C. Lindesmith, Ralph S. Baric, Olubukola M. Abiona, Barney S. Graham, Kizzmekia S. Corbett, and Darin Edwards
Toward an Anti-racist Approach to Biomedical and Neuroscience Research, Nicholas W. Gilpin and Michael A. Taffe
Alcohol-Associated Intestinal Dysbiosis Alters Mucosal-Associated Invariant T-Cell Phenotype and Function, Min Gu, Derrick R. Samuelson, Christopher M. Taylor, Patricia E. Molina, Meng Luo, Robert W. Siggins, Judd E. Shellito, and David A. Welsh
Regulation of Glutamate Signaling in the Extended Amygdala by Adolescent Alcohol Exposure, Eleanor B. Holmgren and Tiffany A. Wills
The Roles of Tumor-Derived Exosomes in Altered Differentiation, Maturation and Function of Dendritic Cells, Reza Hosseini, Leila Asef-Kabiri, Hassan Yousefi, Hamzeh Sarvnaz, Majid Salehi, Mohammad Esmaeil Akbari, and Nahid Eskandari
ISG15 Attenuates Post-Translational Modifications of Mitofusins and Congression of Damaged Mitochondria in Ataxia Telangiectasia Cells, Meredith Juncker, Catherine Kim, Ryan Reed, Arthur Haas, Joshua Schwartzenburg, and Shyamal Desai
Immune and Metabolic Checkpoints Blockade: Dual Wielding Against Tumors, Mohammad Hossein Kazemi, Alireza Najafi, Jafar Karami, Foad Ghazizadeh, Hassan Yousefi, Reza Falak, and Elahe Safari
Intranasal Boosting With MVA Encoding Secreted Mycobacterial Proteins Ag85A and ESAT-6 Generates Strong Pulmonary Immune Responses and Protection Against M. Tuberculosis in Mice Given BCG as Neonates, Mayank Khanna, Hamada Rady, Guixiang Dai, and Alistair J. Ramsay
Hydrogen Sulfide as a Potential Therapy for Heart Failure—Past, Present, and Future, Kyle B. Lapenna, David J. Polhemus, Jake E. Doiron, Hunter A. Hidalgo, Zhen Li, and David J. Lefer
Opposite Trends of GAS6 and GAS6-AS Expressions in Breast Cancer Tissues, Ali Lavasani, Bashdar Mahmud Hussen, Forough Taheri, Ali Sattari, Hassan Yousefi, Mir Davood Omrani, Naghme Nazer, Soudeh Ghafouri-Fard, and Mohammad Taheri
AMPK Modulation Ameliorates Dominant Disease Phenotypes of CTRP5 Variant in Retinal Degeneration, Kiyoharu J. Miyagishima, Ruchi Sharma, Malika Nimmagadda, Katharina Clore-Gronenborn, Zoya Qureshy, Davide Ortolan, Devika Bose, Mitra Farnoodian, Congxiao Zhang, Andrew Fausey, Yuri V. Sergeev, Mones Abu-Asab, Bokkyoo Jun, Khanh V. Do, Marie Audrey Kautzman Guerin, Jorgelina Calandria, Aman George, Bin Guan, Qin Wan, and Rachel C. Sharp
Hippo Pathway: Regulation, Deregulation and Potential Therapeutic Targets in Cancer, Suman Mohajan, Praveen Kumar Jaiswal, Mousa Vatanmakarian, Hassan Yousefi, Saikolappan Sankaralingam, Suresh K. Alahari, Sweaty Koul, and Hari K. Koul
Differences in the Genital Microbiota in Women Who Naturally Clear Chlamydia trachomatis Infection Compared to Women Who Do Not Clear; A Pilot Study, Patricia Dehon Mott, Christopher M. Taylor, Rebecca A. Lillis, Caleb M. Ardizzone, Hannah L. Albritton, Meng Luo, Kaitlyn G. Calabresi, David H. Martin, Leann Myers, and Alison J. Quayle
Gut Microbiota Composition and Predicted Microbial Metabolic Pathways of Obesity Prone and Obesity Resistant Outbred Sprague-Dawley CD Rats May Account for Differences in Their Phenotype, Diana N. Obanda, Michael J. Keenan, Ryan Page, Anne M. Raggio, Christopher Taylor, Brian D. Marx, Rhett W. Stout, Justin Guice, Meng Luo, David A. Welsh, Diana Coulon, and Claudia Husseneder
Global Sex Disparity of COVID-19: A Descriptive Review of Sex Hormones and Consideration for the Potential Therapeutic Use of Hormone Replacement Therapy in Older Adults, Samuel C. Okpechi, Jordyn T. Fong, Shawn S. Gill, Jarrod C. Harman, Tina H. Nguyen, Queendaleen Chukwurah, Ifeanyichukwu O. Onor, and Suresh K. Alahari
Association of Serum Magnesium with Blood Pressure in Patients with Hypertensive Crises: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study, Ifeanyichukwu O. Onor, Lashira M. Hill, Modupe M. Famodimu, Mallory R. Coleman, Carolkim H. Huynh, Robbie A. Beyl, Casey J. Payne, Emily K. Johnston, John I. Okogbaa, Christopher J. Gillard, Daniel F. Sarpong, Amne Borghol, Samuel C. Okpechi, Ifeyinwa Norbert, Shane E. Sanne, and Shane G. Guillory
Role of Inflammasome Activation in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Are Innate Immune Cells Activated?, Rodolfo Perez-Alamino, Raquel Cuchacovich, Luis R. Espinoza, Constance P. Porretta, and Arnold H. Zea
Bispecific Anti-Hiv Immunoadhesins That Bind gp120 and gp41 Have Broad and Potent Hiv-Neutralizing Activity, Seth H. Pincus, Ryan B. Craig, Lauren Weachter, Celia C. Labranche, Rafiq Nabi, Connie Watt, Mark Raymond, Tami Peters, Kejing Song, Grace A. Maresh, David C. Montefiori, and Pamela A. Kozlowski
A Yeast Expressed RBD-Based SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Formulated With 3M-052-Alum Adjuvant Promotes Protective Efficacy in Non-Human Primates, Maria Pino, Talha Abid, Susan Pereira Ribeiro, Venkata Viswanadh Edara, Katharine Floyd, Justin C. Smith, Muhammad Bilal Latif, Gabriela Pacheco-Sanchez, Debashis Dutta, Shelly Wang, Sanjeev Gumber, Shannon Kirejczyk, Joyce Cohen, Rachelle L. Stammen, Sherrie M. Jean, Jennifer S. Wood, Fawn Connor-Stroud, Jeroen Pollet, Wen Hsiang Chen, Junfei Wei, Bin Zhan, Jungsoon Lee, Zhuyun Liu, Ulrich Strych, Neeta Shenvi, Kirk Easley, Daniela Weiskopf, and Alesandro Sette
Trojan Horses and Tunneling Nanotubes Enable α-Synuclein Pathology to Spread in Parkinson Disease, Santhanasabapathy Rajasekaran and Stephan N. Witt
Graves' Disease: Introducing New Genetic and Epigenetic Contributors, Ehsan Razmara, Mehrnaz Salehi, Saeed Aslani, Amirreza Bitaraf, Hassan Yousefi, Jonathan Rosario Colón, and Mahdi Mahmoudi
Candida Cell‐surface‐specific Monoclonal Antibodies Protect Mice Against Candida Auris Invasive Infection, Jonothan Rosario‐colon, Karen Eberle, Abby Adams, Evan Courville, and Hong Xin
Pulmonary Immune Cell Trafficking Promotes Host Defense against Alcohol-Associated Klebsiella Pneumonia, Derrick R. Samuelson, Min Gu, Judd E. Shellito, Patricia E. Molina, Christopher M. Taylor, Meng Luo, and David A. Welsh
Phosphatidylserine and Phosphatidylethanolamine Regulate the Structure and Function of FVIIa and Its Interaction With Soluble Tissue Factor, Tanusree Sengupta, Tilen Koklic, Barry R. Lentz, and Rinku Majumder
SARS-CoV-2 Induces Robust Germinal Center CD4 T Follicular Helper Cell Responses in Rhesus Macaques, Yashavanth Shaan Lakshmanappa, Sonny R. Elizaldi, Jamin W. Roh, Brian A. Schmidt, Timothy D. Carroll, Kourtney D. Weaver, Justin C. Smith, Anil Verma, Jesse D. Deere, Joseph Dutra, Mars Stone, Sergej Franz, Rebecca Lee Sammak, Katherine J. Olstad, J. Rachel Reader, Zhong Min Ma, Nancy K. Nguyen, Jennifer Watanabe, Jodie Usachenko, and Ramya Immareddy
Dynamic Modulation of Leishmania Cytochrome C Oxidase Subunit IV (LmCOX4) Expression in Response to Mammalian Temperature, Farhana Shaheen, Isabel Stephany-Brassesco, and Ben L. Kelly
Aerosolized Liposomal Amikacin and Laryngeal Injury, Colin Swenson and Juzar Ali
Platelet-Rich and Platelet-Poor Plasma Might Play Supportive Roles in Cancer Cell Culture: A Replacement for Fetal Bovine Serum?, Mehdi Talebi, Mousa Vatanmakanian, Ali Mirzaei, Yaghoub Barfar, Maryam Hemmatzadeh, Milad A. Nahayati, Kobra Velaei, Asghar Hosseinzadeh, Behruz Yazdanpanah, Yahya Yahyavi, Ako Azimi, Mina Rahmani, and Milad Z. Heydarabad
Oral Vaccination Approaches for Anti-SHIV Immunity, Erandi Velarde de la Cruz, Lingyun Wang, Deepanwita Bose, Sailaja Gangadhara, Robert L. Wilson, Rama R. Amara, Pamela A. Kozlowski, and Anna Aldovini
Monoclonal Antibodies Protect Aged Rhesus Macaques From SARS-CoV-2-Induced Immune Activation and Neuroinflammation, Anil Verma, Chase E. Hawes, Yashavanth Shaan Lakshmanappa, Jamin W. Roh, Brian A. Schmidt, Joseph Dutra, William Louie, Hongwei Liu, Zhong Min Ma, Jennifer K. Watanabe, Jodie L. Usachenko, Ramya Immareddy, Rebecca L. Sammak, Rachel Pollard, J. Rachel Reader, Katherine J. Olstad, Lark L. Coffey, Pamela A. Kozlowski, Dennis J. Hartigan-O'Connor, and Michel Nussenzweig
Understanding the Role of Integrins in Breast Cancer Invasion, Metastasis, Angiogenesis, and Drug Resistance, Hassan Yousefi, Mousa Vatanmakanian, Mojdeh Mahdiannasser, Ladan Mashouri, Nikhilesh V. Alahari, Mohammad Rafiee Monjezi, Shahrzad Ilbeigi, and Suresh K. Alahari
The Rice Blast Fungus MoRgs1 Functioning in cAMP Signaling and Pathogenicity Is Regulated by Casein Kinase MoCk2 Phosphorylation and Modulated by Membrane Protein MoEmc2, Rui Yu, Xuetong Shen, Muxing Liu, Xinyu Liu, Ziyi Yin, Xiao Li, Wanzhen Feng, Jiexiong Hu, Haifeng Zhang, Xiaobo Zheng, Ping Wang, and Zhengguang Zhang
ATPAF1 Deficiency Impairs ATP Synthase Assembly and Mitochondrial Respiration, Zhou Zhou, Kailiang Zhang, Zhiheng Liu, Xu Gao, Kai Huang, Chen Chen, Daowen Wang, Qinglin Yang, and Qinqiang Long
Submissions from 2020
NLRP6 Modulates Neutrophil Homeostasis in Bacterial Pneumonia-Derived Sepsis, Shanshan Cai, Sagar Paudel, Liliang Jin, Laxman Ghimire, Christopher M. Taylor, Nobuko Wakamatsu, Dinesh Bhattarai, and Samithamby Jeyaseelan
Expression of the IL-2R in Human Podocytes and the Effect of Activation on Autophagy and Apoptosis, Tyrus Stewart, Arnold Zea, and Diego Aviles
Repurposing Existing Drugs for the Treatment of COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Review Describing Drug Mechanisms of Action, Hassan Yousefi, Ladan Mashouri, Samuel C. Okpechi, Nikhilesh Alahari, and Suresh K. Alahari