Scholars@Duke
Laura Jameson

Selected Publications

Regulatory trends of organophosphate and pyrethroid pesticides in cannabis and applications of the Comparative Toxicogenomics Database and Caenorhabditis elegans.

Journal Article Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · April 2025 Organophosphate and pyrethroid pesticides are common contaminants in cannabis. Due to the status of cannabis as an illicit Schedule I substance at the federal level, there are no unified national guidelines in the United States to mitigate the health risk ... Full text Cite

Comparison of State-Level Regulations for Cannabis Contaminants and Implications for Public Health.

Journal Article Environmental health perspectives · September 2022 BackgroundThe presence of contaminants in cannabis presents a potential health hazard to recreational users and susceptible patients with medical conditions. Because of the federally illegal status of cannabis, there are no unified regulatory guid ... Full text Cite

Caenorhabditis elegans Neurotoxicity Testing: Novel Applications in the Adverse Outcome Pathway Framework.

Journal Article Frontiers in toxicology · January 2022 Neurological hazard assessment of industrial and pesticidal chemicals demands a substantial amount of time and resources. Caenorhabditis elegans is an established model organism in developmental biology and neuroscience. It presents an ideal test sy ... Full text Cite

The Nesprin-1/-2 ortholog ANC-1 regulates organelle positioning in C. elegans independently from its KASH or actin-binding domains.

Journal Article eLife · April 2021 KASH proteins in the outer nuclear membrane comprise the cytoplasmic half of linker of nucleoskeleton and cytoskeleton (LINC) complexes that connect nuclei to the cytoskeleton. Caenorhabditis elegans ANC-1, an ortholog of Nesprin-1/2, contains actin ... Full text Cite

Xenobiotic metabolism and transport in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Journal Article Journal of toxicology and environmental health. Part B, Critical reviews · February 2021 Caenorhabditis elegans has emerged as a major model in biomedical and environmental toxicology. Numerous papers on toxicology and pharmacology in C. elegans have been published, and this species has now been adopted by investigators in academ ... Full text Cite

Regulatory Status of Pesticide Residues in Cannabis: Implications to Medical Use in Neurological Diseases.

Journal Article Current research in toxicology · January 2021 Medical cannabis represents a potential route of pesticide exposure to susceptible populations. We compared the qualifying conditions for medical use and pesticide testing requirements of cannabis in 33 states and Washington, D.C. Movement disorders were t ... Full text Cite