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, then the publication is slotted into the school of the first campus author.
Submissions from 2020
Docosahexaenoic acid reverses the promoting effects of breast tumor cell-derived exosomes on endothelial cell migration and angiogenesis, Parisa Ghaffari-Makhmalbaf, Maryam Sayyad, Katayoon Pakravan, Ehsan Razmara, Amirreza Bitaraf, Babak Bakhshinejad, Parmida Goudarzi, Hassan Yousefi, Mahmoud Pournaghshband, Fahimeh Nemati, Hossein Fahimi, Fatemeh Rohollah, Mandana Hasanzad, Mehrdad Hashemi, Seyed Hadi Mousavi, and Sadegh Babashah
Ubiquitination of the scaffold protein IQGAP1 diminishes its interaction with and activation of the Rho GTPase CDC42, Laëtitia Gorisse, Zhigang Li, Craig D. Wagner, David K. Worthylake, Francesca Zappacosta, Andrew C. Hedman, Roland S. Annan, and David B. Sacks
Effects of different autophagy inhibitors on sensitizing KG-1 and HL-60 leukemia cells to chemotherapy, Atousa Haghi, Mahdieh Salemi, Aila Fakhimahmadi, Mahnaz Mohammadi Kian, Hassan Yousefi, Marveh Rahmati, Saeed Mohammadi, Ardeshir Ghavamzadeh, Mohammad Amin Moosavi, and Mohsen Nikbakht
Knowledge gains in a professional development workshop on diversity, equity, inclusion, and implicit bias in academia, Lisa M. Harrison-Bernard, Allison C. Augustus-Wallace, Flavia M. Souza-Smith, Fern Tsien, Gregory P. Casey, and Tina P. Gunaldo
ne Dose of Psilocybin in Late Adolescence Mitigates Deleterious Effects of Developmental Stress on Cognition and Behavioral Despair in Adult Female Rats, Meghan Hibicke and Charles Nichols
Renal Sympathetic Denervation (RDN) Improves Exercise Performance and Vascular Function in the Setting of Cardiometabolic HFpEF, Hunter Hidalgo, Juan Gao, Zhen Li, Thomas E. Sharp, Huijing Xia, Daniel R. Kapusta, Traci T. Goodchild, and David J. Lefer
Social determinants of health disparities in triple-negative breast cancer in Louisiana, Fokhrul Hossain, Denise Danos, Aubrey Gilliland, Claudia Leonardi, Tekeda Ferguson, Neal Simonsen, Qingzhao Yu, Om Prakesh, Richard Scribner, and Lucio Miele
Sulindac sulfide as a non-immune suppressive gamma secretase modifier to target triple negative breast cancer, Fokhrul Hossain, Deniz A. Ucar, Samarpan Majumder, Margarite Matossian, Giulia Monticone, Keli Xu, Yong Ran, Lisa Minter, Yaguang Xi, Matthew Burow, Todd Golde, Barbara Osborne, and Lucio Miele
Cervical cancer in low and middle-income countries, Rodney Hull, Mzwandile Mbele, Tshepiso Makhafola, Chindo Hicks, Shao-Ming Wang, Rui Manuel Reis, Ravi Mehrotra, Zilungile Mkhize-Kwitshana, Gibson Kibiki, David O. Bates, and Zodwa Dlamini
Activation Of Neuronal At1R Exacerbates Hypertension-induced Reduction In Neuronal Function, Jiaxi Ju and Eric D. Lazartigues
Hypothalamic Regulation of Blood Pressure, Eric D. Lazartigues
Ethanol-Impaired Myogenic Differentiation is Associated With Decreased Myoblast Glycolytic Function, Danielle E. Levitt, Naveena Chalapati, Matthew J. Prendergast, Liz Simon, and Patricia E. Molina
The postcranial skeleton of the erythrosuchid archosauriform Garjainia prima from the Early Triassic of European Russia, Susannah C R Maidment, Andrey G. Sennikov, Martín D. Ezcurra, Emma M. Dunne, David J. Gower, Brandon P. Hedrick, Luke E. Meade, Thomas J. Raven, Dmitriy I. Paschchenko, and Richard J. Butler
Proof of Concept: Protein S As an Immune Modulatory Agent to Control Pancreatic Cancer, Samarpan Majumder, Lucio Miele, and Rinku Majumder
Alcohol Use Disorder and Hepatitis C Prevention and Care in People Who Inject Drugs: The State of Play, Fabienne Marcellin, Antoine Jaquet, Jeffrey V. Lazarus, Patricia Molina, and Patrizia Carrieri
Effect of histone deacetylase inhibitors on patient-derived neoadjuvant chemotherapy resistant triple negative breast cancer xenografts that represent understudied patients, Margarite Matossian, Steven Elliott, Maryl Wright, Tiffany Chang, Madlin Alzoubi, Henri Wathieu, Rachel Sabol, Alex Alfortish, Hope Burks, Van Hoang, Deniz Ucar, Gabrielle Windsor, Thomas Yan, Jovanny Zabaleta, Fokhrul Hossain, Bruce Bunnell, Krzysztof Moroz, Arnold Zea, Adam Riker, and Steven Jones
Chronic inflammatory pain alters alcohol-regulated frontocortical signaling and associations between alcohol drinking and thermal sensitivity, M Adrienne McGinn, Kimberly N. Edwards, and Scott Edwards
Rethinking student study strategies, Jason Charles Mussell and Polly R. Husmann
Psilocybin, After Only a Single Treatment, has Persistent Antidepressant-Like Effects in a Rat Experimental System for the Study of Mood Disorders, Charles Nichols and Meghan Hibicke
Effects of Chronic Nicotine Inhalation on Systemic and Pulmonary Blood Pressure and Right Ventricular Remodeling in Mice, Joshua M. Oakes, Jiaxi Xu, Tamara M. Morris, Nicholas D. Fried, Charlotte S. Pearson, Thomas D. Lobell, Nicholas W. Gilpin, Eric Lazartigues, Jason D. Gardner, and Xinping Yue
Modulation of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 Activity by Ubiquitination, Blessing Ogunlade, Jesse J. Guidry, Eric Lazartigues, and Catalin Filipeanu
Small molecule compound induces cell cycle arrest and subsequent apoptosis in an in-vitro model of triple negative breast cancer, S. Okpechi, S. Dong, H. Yousefi, J. Harman, T. Nguyen, Guidry, and S. Alahari
Molecular, Structural, Functional, and Pharmacological Sites for Vesicular Glutamate Transporter Regulation, Nicolas Pietrancosta, Mahamadou Djibo, Stephanie Daumas, Salah El Mestikawy, and Jeffrey D. Erickson
Non-coding RNAs underlying chemoresistance in gastric cancer, Arash Poursheikhani, Zahra Bahmanpour, Ehsan Razmara, Ladan Mashouri, Mohammad Taheri, Dorsa Morshedi Rad, Hassan Yousefi, Amirreza Bitaraf, and Sadegh Babashah
Clinicopathological Significance of Long Non-Coding RNA GHET1 in Human Cancers: A Meta-Analysis, Arash Poursheikhani, Negin Nokhandani, Hassan Yousefi, Dorsa M. Rad, and Amirhossein Sahebkar
Unhealthy Alcohol Use is Associated with a Higher Prevalence of Dysglycemia in Persons Living with HIV, Stefany Primeaux, Tekeda Ferguson, Meghan Brashear, Alice Yeh, Danielle Levitt, Liz Simon, and Patricia Molina
Variation of CD36 genotype in Adolescent Females, Stefany Primeaux, Allyson L. Schreiber, Kara D. Denstel, Corby K. Martin, Daniel Hsia, and Amanda E. Staiano
In Utero Exposure to Second-Hand Cigarette Smoke Promotes Epigenetically-Mediated Cardiac Dysfunction in High-Fat Fed Male Mice, Martin Ronis, Huijing Xia, Samya Lima Rodrigues, Eli El Haji, Alexandra Noel, Arthur Penn, Casey Pulliam, Jason Gardner, Kartik Shankar, and Kurt Varner
Expression of the IL-2R in Human Podocytes and the Effect of Activation on Autophagy and Apoptosis, Tyrus Stewart, Arnold Zea, and Diego Aviles
‘Must See’ Videos? Why Educators Need Better Video Analytics to Measure Learning, Sonya E. Van Nuland and Natalie R. Langley
Central Amygdala Projections to Lateral Hypothalamus Mediates Avoidance Behavior in Rats, Marcus Weera, Jason Middleton, and Nicholas Gilpin
Development of genetic assays for the surveillance of HPV 90 in New Orleans, LaKia M. Williams, Alex Berry, and Jennifer Cameron
Unraveling the Genomic-Epigenomic Interaction Landscape in Triple Negative and Non-Triple Negative Breast Cancer, Jiande Wu, Tarun Karthik Kumar Mamidi, Lu Zhang, and Chindo Hicks
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
Macrophage M2 polarization induced by exosomes from adipose-derived stem cells contributes to the exosomal proangiogenic effect on mouse ischemic hindlimb, Dihan Zhu, Takerra K. Johnson, Yang Wang, Miracle Thomas, Ky Huynh, Qinglin Yang, Vincent C. Bond, Y Eugene Chen, and Dong Liu
Submissions from 2019
Knockout model reveals the role of Nischarin in mammary gland development, breast tumorigenesis and response to metformin treatment, Shengli Dong, Bernardo Ruiz-Calderon, Rajamani Rathinam, Steven Eastlack, Mazvita Maziveyi, and Suresh K. Alahari
Activation of 5-HT2 Receptors Reduces Inflammation in Vascular Tissue and Cholesterol Levels in High-Fat Diet-Fed Apolipoprotein E Knockout Mice, Thomas W. Flanagan, Melaine N. Sebastian, Diana M. Battaglia, Timothy P. Foster, Emeline L. Maillet, and Charles D. Nichols
A Novel Role for the Endocannabinoid System in Ameliorating Motivation for Alcohol Drinking and Negative Behavioral Affect after Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats, Elizabeth A. Fucich, Jacques P. Mayeux, M Adrienne McGinn, Nicholas W. Gilpin, Scott Edwards, and Patricia E. Molina
A review of U.S. Medical schools’ promotion standards for educational excellence, Leslie A. Hoffman, Rebecca S. Lufler, Kirsten M. Brown, Kathryn DeVeau, Nicole DeVaul, Lawrence M. Fatica, Jason Mussell, Jessica N. Byram, Stacey M. Dunham, and Adam B. Wilson
The Non-Coding RNA Journal Club: Highlights on Recent Papers—7, Hua Xiao, Patrick K T Shiu, Marta Gabryleska, Simon J. Conn, Abhishek Dey, Kausik Chakrabarti, Manuel Regouc, Martin Pichler, Ulf Andersson Vang Ørom, Gaetano Santulli, Satoshi Nishiwada, Ajay Goel, Vaishnavi Nagarajan, Lisa Timmons, and Suresh K. Alahari
Submissions from 2018
Redox Pioneer: Professor Hideo Kimura, David Lefer
Submissions from 2017
Ethical Considerations for Successfully Navigating the Research Process, Lauri O. Byerley, Helen Lane, Mary-Jon Ludy, Mara Z. Vitolins, Ellen Anderson, Kathleen Niedert, Karin Pennington, Jimin Yang, and Jenica K. Abram
Changes in the gut microbial communities following addition of walnuts to the diet, Lauri O. Byerley, Derrick Samuelson, Eugene Blanchard, Meng Luo, Brittany N. Lorenzen, Shelia Banks, Monica A. Ponder, David A. Welsh, and Christopher M. Taylor
Submissions from 2016
Chronic Binge Alcohol Administration Dysregulates Hippocampal Genes Involved in Immunity and Neurogenesis in Simian Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Macaques, John K Maxi, Matt Dean, Jovanny Zabaleta, Krzysztof Reiss, Gregory J. Bagby, Steve Nelson, Peter J. Winsauer, Francesca Peruzzi, and Patricia E. Molina
Submissions from 2011
Cannabinoid administration attenuates the progression of simian immunodeficiency virus, Patricia E. Molina, Peter Winsauer, Ping Zhang, Edith Walker, Leslie Birke, Angela Amedee, Curtis Vande Stouwe, Dana Troxclair, Robin McGoey, Kurt Varner, Lauri O. Byerley, and Lynn LaMotte
Submissions from 2010
Development of a serum profile for healthy aging, Lauri O. Byerley, Larry Leamy, Sun W. Tam, Chau-Wen Chou, Eric Ravussin, and Louisiana Healthy Aging Study
Evidence for a novel serum factor distinct from zinc alpha-2 glycoprotein that promotes body fat loss early in the development of cachexia, Lauri O. Byerley, Sang Ho Lee, Steve Redmann, Cathy Culberson, Mark Clemens, and Mark O. Lively
Are ethanol and fructose similar?, Lauri O. Byerley and Wai-Nang Paul Lee