[HTML][HTML] Alzheimer's disease is associated with altered expression of genes involved in immune response and mitochondrial processes in astrocytes

S Sekar, J McDonald, L Cuyugan, J Aldrich… - Neurobiology of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by deficits in cerebral metabolic rates of glucose
in the posterior cingulate (PC) and precuneus in AD subjects, and in APOEε4 carriers …

[HTML][HTML] Immunization with a Trypanosoma cruzi cyclophilin-19 deletion mutant protects against acute Chagas disease in mice

BK Jha, S Varikuti, C Verma, R Shivahare, N Bishop… - npj Vaccines, 2023 - nature.com
Human infection with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi causes Chagas disease for
which there are no prophylactic vaccines. Cyclophilin 19 is a secreted cis-trans peptidyl …

Turnover of variant surface glycoprotein in Trypanosoma brucei is a bimodal process

P Garrison, U Khan, M Cipriano, PJ Bush, J McDonald… - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
African trypanosomes utilize glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored variant surface
glycoprotein (VSG) to evade the host immune system. VSG turnover is thought to be …

Sensing Host Arginine Is Essential for Leishmania Parasites' Intracellular Development

A Goldman-Pinkovich, S Kannan, R Nitzan-Koren… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Arginine homeostasis in lysosomes is critical for the growth and metabolism of mammalian
cells. Phagolysosomes of macrophages are the niche where the parasitic protozoan …

[HTML][HTML] The transcriptome of Balamuthia mandrillaris trophozoites for structure-guided drug design

IQ Phan, CA Rice, J Craig, RE Noorai, JR McDonald… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Balamuthia mandrillaris, a pathogenic free-living amoeba, causes cutaneous skin lesions as
well as granulomatous amoebic encephalitis, a 'brain-eating'disease. As with the other …

Exposure to 17α-Ethinylestradiol Results in Differential Susceptibility of Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) to Bacterial Infection

JK Leet, JB Greer, CA Richter… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Disease outbreaks, skin lesions, mortality events, and reproductive abnormalities have been
observed in wild populations of centrarchids. The presence of estrogenic endocrine …

Impact of COVID-19 stress on food insecurity and fruit and vegetable consumption among college students

TM Levy, RD Williams, M Odum… - Journal of American …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: This cross-sectional study utilized structural equation modeling to examine effects
of COVID-19 stress on food insecurity and fruit and vegetable consumption mediated …

Chromatin-Associated Protein Complexes Link DNA Base J and Transcription Termination in Leishmania

BC Jensen, IQ Phan, JR McDonald, A Sur… - Msphere, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Unlike most other eukaryotes, Leishmania and other trypanosomatid protozoa have largely
eschewed transcriptional control of gene expression, relying instead on posttranscriptional …

Dynamic colocalization of 2 simultaneously active VSG expression sites within a single expression-site body in Trypanosoma brucei

J Budzak, LE Kerry, A Aristodemou… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Monoallelic exclusion ensures that the African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei
exclusively expresses only 1 of thousands of different variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical implementation of integrated genomic profiling in patients with advanced cancers

MJ Borad, JB Egan, RM Condjella, WS Liang… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
DNA focused panel sequencing has been rapidly adopted to assess therapeutic targets in
advanced/refractory cancer. Integrated Genomic Profiling (IGP) utilising DNA/RNA with …