Recent Publications

Recent Publications of Biomedical Sciences 

Adekunle, Rafiat Damilola, Mohammed Sohel Chowdhury, Lisa Z. Fang, and Michiru Hirasawa. "Electrophysiological properties of melanin-concentrating hormone neuron subpopulations defined by anatomical localization and CART expression." Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 18 (2025): 1439752.

Braun, Ursula, and Michael Leitges. "A Protein Kinase Cε/Protein Kinase D3 Signalling Axis Modulates RhoA Activity During Cytokinesis." Biomedicines 13, no. 2 (2025): 345.

Karwi, Qutuba G., Liyan Zhang, Keshav Gopal, Cory S. Wagg, Kim L. Ho, Qiuyu Sun, Sai Panidarapu et al. "Lowering Cardiac Branched-Chain Keto Acid Levels Enhances Cardiac Glucose Oxidation and Cardiac Efficiency via Enhancing Mitochondrial Insulin Signaling in Heart Failure." Circulation: Heart Failure 18, no. 9 (2025): e012012.

Kwabiah, Rebecca R., Lauren E. Murphy, Hélène Paradis, Rand Al-Badoosh, Trung Cao, Vimbai I. Machimbirike, Hajarooba Gnanagobal et al. "Spatial regulation of CD14-like epitope in hematopoietic and ocular tissues of cultured North Atlantic lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) and spotted wolffish (Anarhichas minor) during bacterial infection and temperature variations." Journal of Pharmacological and Toxicological Methods (2025): 108383.

Liu, Ming, Andrew Furey, Proton Rahman, and Guangju Zhai. "Postoperative joint pain is associated with long-term all-cause mortality after total joint arthroplasty." PloS one 20, no. 7 (2025): e0327757.

Needle, Robert, Yang Yu, Hafid Soualhine, Catherine Yoshida, Lei Jiao, and Rodney Russell. "Evaluating the Impact of a Molecular Diagnostic Algorithm on Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada." Biomedicines 13, no. 10 (2025): 2416.

Russell McEvoy, Gaylene M., Brenda N. Wells, Meghan E. Kiley, Hamza Shogan, and Graham M. Fraser. "Skeletal muscle microvascular hemodynamic responses during hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp in a Zucker Diabetic Sprague Dawley rat model of type 2 diabetes." Frontiers in Physiology 16 (2025): 1568145.

Samy, Asmaa, Cheng Yong Tham, Matthew Dyer, and Touati Benoukraf. "NanoVar: a comprehensive workflow for structural variant detection to uncover the genome’s hidden patterns." Nature Protocols (2025): 1-26.

Thompson, Cassandra E., Sheila Loshi, Samantha J. Carew, Tangyne R. Berry, Matthew P. Parsons, Jack P. Antel, and Craig S. Moore. "MiR‐146b‐5p Decreases Cytokine Release From Astrocytes and Preserves Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cell Complexity During Inflammation." European Journal of Neuroscience 62, no. 5 (2025): e70248.

Tiwari, Abhishek, Varsha Tiwari, Ajay Sharma, Arya Lakshmi Marrisetti, Manish Kumar, Ankit Rochani, Deepak Kaushik et al. "Unlocking the potential: integrating phytoconstituents and nanotechnology in skin cancer therapy–A comprehensive review." Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine 22, no. 2 (2025): 237-257.

Dyer, M., Siu, G., Thieffry, D., & Benoukraf, T. (2025). Leveraging the methMotif toolkit to characterize context‐specific features and roles of methylation sensitive transcription factors. Current Protocols5(4), e70129.

Hawkey-Noble, A., Tobin, C., Ameen, M. T., Osmond, L., Gill, C., Bottaro, C. S., ... & French, C. R. (2025). The P4-phospholipid flippase Atp11a is required for maintenance of eye and ear structure in zebrafishJournal of Cell Science138(10), jcs263657.

Incognito, A. V., Barioni, N. O., Sharkey, K. A., & Wilson, R. J. (2025). Carotid Body Stress and Inflammatory Mediators Uniformly Excite Autonomic OutputCirculation Research.

MacKenzie, E. G., Bray, N. W., Raza, S. Z., Newell, C. J., Murphy, H. M., & Ploughman, M. (2025). Age‐related differences in agility are related to both muscle strength and corticospinal tract function.Physiological Reports13(4), e70223.

Noort, R. J., Salman, W., Fuchs, C., Braun, U., Pace, D., Hodgkinson, K. A., & Esseltine, J. L. (2025). GSK3 inhibition ameliorates the abnormal contractility of Newfoundland ACM patient iPSC-cardiomyocytesAmerican Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology328(4), C1206-C1219.

Zagrodnik, J. L., Blandford, S. N., Fudge, N. J., Arsenault, S. T., Anthony, S., McGrath, L., ... & Moore, C. S. (2025). Investigating T-cell-derived extracellular vesicles as biomarkers of disease activity, axonal injury, and disability in multiple sclerosisClinical and Experimental Immunology219(1), uxaf003.

Omoluabi, T., Hasan, Z., Piche, J. E., Flynn, A. R., Doré, J. J., Walling, S. G., ... & Yuan, Q. (2025). Locus coeruleus vulnerability to tau hyperphosphorylation in a rat model. Aging Cell24(3), e14405.

Rice, C. P., Chelakkot, V. S., Conohan, N. T., & Hirasawa, K. (2025). Cancer stem cell populations are resistant to 5-aminolevulinic acid-photodynamic therapy (5-ALA-PDT). Scientific Reports15(1), 4367.

Russell, R. S. (2024). A Series of Articles About T Cells and VaccinesViral Immunology37(2), 59-60.

Sun, Q., Güven, B., Wagg, C. S., Almeida de Oliveira, A., Silver, H., Zhang, L., ... & Lopaschuk, G. D. (2024). Mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation is the major source of cardiac adenosine triphosphate production in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Cardiovascular Research, 120(4), 360-371.