Journal ArticleAnn Clin Transl Neurol · September 2023
BACKGROUND: White matter hyperintensities (WMH), a marker of cerebral small vessel disease and predictor of cognitive decline, are observed at higher rates in persons with HIV (PWH). The use of cocaine, a potent central nervous system stimulant, is disprop ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · August 15, 2023
PURPOSE: Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) is an effective minimally invasive treatment option for intracranial tumors. Our group produced plasmonics-active gold nanostars (GNS) designed to preferentially accumulate within intracranial tumors and a ...
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Journal ArticleNPJ Breast Cancer · March 30, 2023
Leptomeningeal metastases (LM) are a devastating complication of HER2 + metastatic breast cancer (MBC), with no effective treatments. In a case series of 8 patients with heavily pretreated HER2 + MBC and progressing LM, all 8 patients (100%) derived clinic ...
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Journal ArticleClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · January 2023
PurposeBrain metastases can occur in up to 50% of patients with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer. Because patients with active brain metastases were excluded from previous pivotal clinical trials, the central nervous system (CNS) activity of ...
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Journal ArticleNeurocrit Care · February 2022
BACKGROUND: Endogenous apolipoprotein (apo) E mediates neuroinflammatory responses and recovery after brain injury. Exogenously administered apoE-mimetic peptides effectively penetrate the central nervous system compartment and downregulate acute inflammat ...
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Journal ArticleNeurocrit Care · October 2021
BACKGROUND: Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a devastating form of cerebrovascular disease for which there are no approved pharmacological interventions that improve outcomes. Apolipoprotein E (apoE) has emerged as a promising therapeutic target given its ...
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Journal ArticleFront Syst Neurosci · 2021
We describe preliminary results from the application of time-varying caloric vestibular stimulation (tvCVS) to volunteers during a continuous blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) functional MRI (fMRI) acquisition, recording baseline, during-tvCVS and post-t ...
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Journal ArticleNeurosurgery · May 1, 2020
BACKGROUND: An impermeable blood-brain barrier and drug efflux via ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters such as p-glycoprotein may contribute to underwhelming efficacy of peripherally delivered agents to treat diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). OB ...
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Journal ArticleSci Rep · April 20, 2020
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...
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Journal Article · 2020
Background Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a devastating form of cerebrovascular disease for which there are no approved pharmacological interventions that improve outcomes. Apolipoprotein E (apoE) has emerged as a promising therapeutic target g ...
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Journal ArticleImmunotherapy · October 2019
Brain tumors present unique therapeutic challenges and they include glioblastoma (GBM) and metastases from cancers of other organs. Current treatment options are limited and include surgical resection, radiation therapy, laser interstitial thermal therapy ...
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Journal ArticleTransl Stroke Res · April 2019
Sex dimorphism has been demonstrated after experimental intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Decreased mortality and improved neurobehavioral outcomes occur in female compared to male mice after intrastriatal autologous blood or collagenase injection. Sex-speci ...
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Journal ArticleFront Neurosci · 2019
Neuroinflammation initiated by damage-associated molecular patterns, including high mobility group box 1 protein (HMGB1), has been implicated in adverse neurological outcomes following lethal hemorrhagic shock and polytrauma. Emergency preservation and res ...
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Journal ArticleNeuro Oncol · September 1, 2017
BACKGROUND: Of the 4 medulloblastoma subgroups, Group 3 is the most aggressive but the importance of angiogenesis is unknown. This study sought to determine the role of angiogenesis and identify clinically relevant biomarkers of tumor vascularity and survi ...
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Journal ArticleCirculation · July 18, 2017
BACKGROUND: Critical limb ischemia is a manifestation of peripheral artery disease that carries significant mortality and morbidity risk in humans, although its genetic determinants remain largely unknown. We previously discovered 2 overlapping quantitativ ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Clin Transl Neurol · September 2023
BACKGROUND: White matter hyperintensities (WMH), a marker of cerebral small vessel disease and predictor of cognitive decline, are observed at higher rates in persons with HIV (PWH). The use of cocaine, a potent central nervous system stimulant, is disprop ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · August 15, 2023
PURPOSE: Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) is an effective minimally invasive treatment option for intracranial tumors. Our group produced plasmonics-active gold nanostars (GNS) designed to preferentially accumulate within intracranial tumors and a ...
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Journal ArticleNPJ Breast Cancer · March 30, 2023
Leptomeningeal metastases (LM) are a devastating complication of HER2 + metastatic breast cancer (MBC), with no effective treatments. In a case series of 8 patients with heavily pretreated HER2 + MBC and progressing LM, all 8 patients (100%) derived clinic ...
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Journal ArticleClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · January 2023
PurposeBrain metastases can occur in up to 50% of patients with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer. Because patients with active brain metastases were excluded from previous pivotal clinical trials, the central nervous system (CNS) activity of ...
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Journal ArticleNeurocrit Care · February 2022
BACKGROUND: Endogenous apolipoprotein (apo) E mediates neuroinflammatory responses and recovery after brain injury. Exogenously administered apoE-mimetic peptides effectively penetrate the central nervous system compartment and downregulate acute inflammat ...
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Journal ArticleNeurocrit Care · October 2021
BACKGROUND: Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a devastating form of cerebrovascular disease for which there are no approved pharmacological interventions that improve outcomes. Apolipoprotein E (apoE) has emerged as a promising therapeutic target given its ...
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Journal ArticleFront Syst Neurosci · 2021
We describe preliminary results from the application of time-varying caloric vestibular stimulation (tvCVS) to volunteers during a continuous blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) functional MRI (fMRI) acquisition, recording baseline, during-tvCVS and post-t ...
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Journal ArticleNeurosurgery · May 1, 2020
BACKGROUND: An impermeable blood-brain barrier and drug efflux via ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters such as p-glycoprotein may contribute to underwhelming efficacy of peripherally delivered agents to treat diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). OB ...
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Journal ArticleSci Rep · April 20, 2020
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...
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Journal Article · 2020
Background Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a devastating form of cerebrovascular disease for which there are no approved pharmacological interventions that improve outcomes. Apolipoprotein E (apoE) has emerged as a promising therapeutic target g ...
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Journal ArticleImmunotherapy · October 2019
Brain tumors present unique therapeutic challenges and they include glioblastoma (GBM) and metastases from cancers of other organs. Current treatment options are limited and include surgical resection, radiation therapy, laser interstitial thermal therapy ...
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Journal ArticleTransl Stroke Res · April 2019
Sex dimorphism has been demonstrated after experimental intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Decreased mortality and improved neurobehavioral outcomes occur in female compared to male mice after intrastriatal autologous blood or collagenase injection. Sex-speci ...
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Journal ArticleFront Neurosci · 2019
Neuroinflammation initiated by damage-associated molecular patterns, including high mobility group box 1 protein (HMGB1), has been implicated in adverse neurological outcomes following lethal hemorrhagic shock and polytrauma. Emergency preservation and res ...
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Journal ArticleNeuro Oncol · September 1, 2017
BACKGROUND: Of the 4 medulloblastoma subgroups, Group 3 is the most aggressive but the importance of angiogenesis is unknown. This study sought to determine the role of angiogenesis and identify clinically relevant biomarkers of tumor vascularity and survi ...
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Journal ArticleCirculation · July 18, 2017
BACKGROUND: Critical limb ischemia is a manifestation of peripheral artery disease that carries significant mortality and morbidity risk in humans, although its genetic determinants remain largely unknown. We previously discovered 2 overlapping quantitativ ...
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Journal ArticleSci Rep · October 7, 2016
Presently, no pharmacological treatments have been demonstrated to improve long-term functional outcomes following intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Clinical evidence associates apolipoprotein E (apoE) genotype with ICH incidence and outcome. While apoE modi ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroendocrinology · 2016
BACKGROUND: Preclinical evidence suggests that progesterone improves recovery after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH); however, gonadal hormones have sex-specific effects. Therefore, an experimental model of ICH was used to assess recovery after progesterone ...
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Journal ArticleFree Radic Biol Med · December 2015
Ascorbate (Asc) as a single agent suppressed growth of several tumor cell lines in a mouse model. It has been tested in a Phase I Clinical Trial on pancreatic cancer patients where it exhibited no toxicity to normal tissue yet was of only marginal efficacy ...
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Journal ArticleJ Natl Cancer Inst · May 2015
Exercise has been shown to improve postischemia perfusion of normal tissues; we investigated whether these effects extend to solid tumors. Estrogen receptor-negative (ER-, 4T1) and ER+ (E0771) tumor cells were implanted orthotopically into syngeneic mice ( ...
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Journal ArticleHeart Lung Circ · October 2014
BACKGROUND: Neurologic injury is common after cardiac surgery and disruption of the blood brain barrier (BBB) has been proposed as a contributing factor. We sought to study BBB characteristics in a rodent model of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and deep hypo ...
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Journal ArticleJ Vis Exp · July 3, 2014
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a common form of cerebrovascular disease and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Lack of effective treatment and failure of large clinical trials aimed at hemostasis and clot removal demonstrate the nee ...
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Journal ArticleNeurocrit Care · February 2014
BACKGROUND: Despite intensive research, neurological morbidity from delayed cerebral ischemia remains common after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). In the current study, we evaluate the neuroprotective effects of a pH-dependent GluN2B subunit-sele ...
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Journal ArticleExp Neurol · March 2013
Growing clinical evidence implicates isoform-specific effects of apolipoprotein E (apoE) in reducing neuroinflammation and mediating adaptive responses following ischemic and traumatic brain injury. However, the intact apoE holoprotein does not cross the b ...
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Journal ArticleAJNR Am J Neuroradiol · March 2013
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The aim of CT-guided CTSI is to inject medication into the foraminal region where the nerve root is inflamed. The optimal location for needle placement and therapeutic delivery, however, remain uncertain. The purpose of this study w ...
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Journal ArticleAJNR Am J Neuroradiol · January 2013
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: There is a paucity of information present in the current literature with regard to the role of SPMI performance in academic radiology centers. Our aim was to evaluate the current practice patterns for the performance of SPMIs in aca ...
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Journal ArticleAnesthesiology · December 2012
BACKGROUND: Xenon has been proven to be neuroprotective in experimental brain injury. The authors hypothesized that xenon would improve outcome from focal cerebral ischemia with a delayed treatment onset and prolonged recovery interval. METHODS: Rats were ...
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Journal ArticleJ Endourol · November 2012
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: In this study, we investigated the potential of a new class of therapeutic Mn porphyrins as molecular MRI probes for prostate cancer imaging. Two compounds of different bioavailibility were investigated: Mn(III) meso-tetrakis(N-ethy ...
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Journal ArticleJ Appl Physiol (1985) · July 2012
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of exercise on cancer progression, metastasis, and underlying mechanisms in an orthotopic model of murine prostate cancer. C57BL/6 male mice (6-8 wk of age) were orthotopically injected with transgeni ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Radiopharm · January 2012
PURPOSE: Chloroquine has demonstrated high affinity for aldehyde dehydrogenase 1A1 (ALDH1), an enzyme expressed in the highly tumorigenic CD133+ brain tumor initiating subpopulation. The purpose of this study is to report the novel synthesis of a chloroqui ...
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Journal ArticleJ Endourol · November 3, 2011
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: In this study, we investigated the potential of a new class of therapeutic Mn porphyrins as molecular MRI probes for prostate cancer imaging. Two compounds of different bioavailibility were investigated: Mn(III) meso-tetrakis(N-ethy ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · October 2011
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to compare the radiation dose of conventional fluoroscopy-guided lumbar epidural steroid injections (ESIs) and CT fluoroscopy (CTF)-guided lumbar ESI using both clinical data and anthropomorphic phantoms. MATERIALS ...
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Journal ArticleNature · April 28, 2011
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) comprise a range of disorders that share a core of neurobehavioural deficits characterized by widespread abnormalities in social interactions, deficits in communication as well as restricted interests and repetitive behavio ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2011
OBJECTIVE: Chronic fibrosing liver injury is a major risk factor for hepatocarcinogenesis in humans. Mice with targeted deletion of Mdr2 (the murine ortholog of MDR3) develop chronic fibrosing liver injury. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) emerges spontaneou ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · October 2010
OBJECTIVE: CT fluoroscopy-assisted cervical transforaminal steroid injection is an effective therapeutic option for cervical radiculopathy, yet it is approached with trepidation by some interventionalists. CT fluoroscopy is superior to conventional fluoros ...
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Journal ArticleJ Neurotrauma · January 2010
There is emerging evidence to suggest that brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) is elevated after acute brain injury, and that it may play an adaptive role in recovery through augmentation of cerebral blood flow (CBF). Through a series of experiments, we tested ...
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Journal ArticleStroke · February 2009
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effect of APOE genotype and the feasibility of administering an apolipoprotein E-mimetic therapeutic to modify outcomes in a murine model of intracerebral hemorrhage. METHODS: Intracerebr ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroimaging Clin N Am · November 2005
Molecular imaging represents a new term for a long-standing quest to image cellular and molecular processes in vivo. The development of a successful molecular imaging approach starts with a well-defined diagnostic question best answered using in vivo imagi ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · December 2004
OBJECTIVE: Gliosis refers to a range of glial cell transformations that vary according to specific brain pathologic states. Disease, however, is not a prerequisite for gliosis because glial reactivity may also be seen in regions of increased physiologic ac ...
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Journal ArticleJ Neurosci · March 1, 1998
Increases in astroglial Cl- conductance accompany changes in cell morphology and disassembly of cytoskeletal actin, but Cl- channels underlying these conductance increases have not been described. We characterize an outwardly rectifying Cl- channel in rode ...
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Journal ArticleNeurosci Biobehav Rev · March 1997
Biochemical, histological, and physiological evidence suggest strongly that astrocytes may either defend or damage brain tissue, depending on the brain carbohydrate content preceding global ischemia (28,43). This paper will first review the concept of acid ...
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Journal ArticleJ Neurosci · April 15, 1996
Astrocytes can change shape dramatically in response to increased physiological and pathological demands, yet the functional consequences of morphological change are unknown. We report the expression of Cl- currents after manipulations that alter astrocyte ...
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Journal ArticleMethods in Neurosciences · January 1, 1995
Ion-selective microelectrodes (ISMs) provide an unparalleled tool for the simultaneous characterization of electrophysiologic and ionic properties of identified cells within functioning tissue. A simultaneous measurement of ionic activities and cell electr ...
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Journal ArticleTransplantation · August 1993
The brain is "immunologically privileged," in part because class I and II MHC antigens are not normally present on glia or neurons. However, under certain conditions such as transplantation, glial cells express MHC proteins at levels sufficient for glia to ...
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Journal ArticleBr J Ophthalmol · August 1991
Cultured rat retinal astrocytes were tested by indirect immunofluorescence staining for their ability to express class I and II major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigens under basal culture conditions and after three days of stimulation with two reco ...
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