Publications 2015-2016

Journal Articles

  1. Lopez-Cepero A, Torres R, Elias A, Rosal MC, Palacios C. Micronutrient Intake among Children in Puerto Rico: Dietary and Multivitamin-Multimineral Supplement Sources. Int J Vitam Nutr Res. 2016 Jul 20:1-11. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27439655. [Epub ahead of print] 
     

  2. Gonzalez OA, Orraca L, Kensler TB, Gonzalez-Martinez J, Maldonado E, Ebersole JL. Familial periodontal disease in the Cayo Santiago rhesus macaques. Am J Primatol. 2016 Jan;78(1):143-51. doi: 10.1002/ajp.22376. PubMed PMID: 25708960; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4547921. 
     

  3. Jardón J, Izquierdo NJ, Renta JY, García-Rodríguez O, Cadilla CL. Ocular Findings in Patients with the Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome (Types 1 and 3). Ophthalmic Genet. 2016;37(1):89-94. doi: 10.3109/13816810.2014.907920. PubMed PMID: 24766090; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4232478. 
     

  4. González-Espada W, Díaz-Muñoz G, Feliú-Mójer M, Flores-Otero J, Fortis-Santiago Y, Guerrero-Medina G, López-Casillas M, Colón- Ramos DA, Fernández-Repollet E. Assessing a Science Graduate School Recruitment Symposium. Cuad Investig Educ. 2015 Dec;30:55-70. PubMed PMID: 26770074; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4708887. 
     

  5. Jansen RJ, Fonseca-Williams S, Bamlet WR, Ayala-Peña S, Oberg AL, Petersen GM, Torres-Ramos CA. Detection of DNA damage in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from pancreatic cancer patients. Mol Carcinog. 2015 Oct;54(10):1220-6. doi: 10.1002/mc.22189. PubMed PMID: 25111947; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4478243. 
     

  6. Cantres-Rosario YM, Hernandez N, Negron K, Perez-Laspiur J, Leszyk J, Shaffer SA, Meléndez LM. Interacting partners of macrophage-secreted cathepsin B contribute to HIV-induced neuronal apoptosis. AIDS. 2015 Oct 23;29(16):2081-92. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000000823. PubMed PMID: 26208400; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4636939. 
     

  7. Zenón F, Cantres-Rosario Y, Adiga R, Gonzalez M, Rodriguez- Franco E, Langford D, Melendez LM. HIV-infected microglia mediate cathepsin B-induced neurotoxicity. J Neurovirol. 2015 Oct;21(5):544-58. doi: 10.1007/s13365-015-0358-7. PubMed PMID: 26092112; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4618197. 
     

  8. Colon K, Perez-Laspiur J, Quiles R, Rodriguez Y, Wojna V, Shaffer SA, Leszyk J, Skolasky RL Jr, Melendez LM. Macrophage secretome from women with HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders. Proteomics Clin Appl. 2016 Feb;10(2):136-43. doi: 10.1002/prca.201400203. PubMed PMID: 26220577; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4993448. 
     

  9. Guilloty NI, Soto R, Anzalota L, Rosario Z, Cordero JF, Palacios C. Diet, Pre-pregnancy BMI, and Gestational Weight Gain in Puerto Rican Women. Matern Child Health J. 2015 Nov;19(11):2453-61. doi: 10.1007/s10995-015-1764-4. PubMed PMID: 26100133; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4596788. 
     

  10. Mosquera L, Shepherd L, Torrado AI, Torres-Diaz YM, Miranda JD, Segarra AC. Comparison of Two Methods of Estradiol Replacement: their Physiological and Behavioral Outcomes. J Vet Sci Technol. 2015 Nov 30;6(6):276. PubMed PMID: 26962471; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4780423. 
     

  11. Ortiz-Zuazaga HG, Arce-Corretjer R, Solá-Sloan JM, Conde JG. SalHUD--A Graphical Interface to Public Health Data in Puerto Rico. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2015 Dec 22;13(1):ijerph13010018. doi: 10.3390/ijerph13010018. PubMed PMID: 26703677; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4730409. 
     

  12. De Jesús-Burgos MI, González-García S, Cruz-Santa Y, Pérez- Acevedo NL. Amygdalar activation of group I metabotropic glutamate receptors produces anti- and pro-conflict effects depending upon animal sex in a sexually dimorphic conditioned conflict-based anxiety model. Behav Brain Res. 2016 Apr 1;302:200-12. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.01.009. PubMed PMID: 26777900; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4839301. 
     

  13. Rosti RO, Uyguner ZO, Nazarenko I, Bekerecioglu M, Cadilla CL, Ozgur H, Lee BH, Aggarwal AK, Pehlivan S, Desnick RJ. Setleis syndrome: clinical, molecular and structural studies of the first TWIST2 missense mutation. Clin Genet. 2015 Nov;88(5):489-93. doi: 10.1111/cge.12539. PubMed PMID: 25410422; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4769376. 
     

  14. Duconge J, Cadilla CL, Seip RL, Ruaño G. Why admixture matters in genetically-guided therapy: missed targets in the COAG and EUPACT trials. P R Health Sci J. 2015 Sep;34(3):175-7. PubMed PMID: 26454897; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4770896. 
     

  15. Claudio-Campos K, Orengo-Mercado C, Renta JY, Peguero M, García R, Hernández G, Corey S, Cadilla CL, Duconge J. Pharmacogenetics of healthy volunteers in Puerto Rico. Drug Metab Pers Ther. 2015 Dec;30(4):239-49. doi: 10.1515/dmpt-2015-0021. Review. PubMed PMID: 26501165; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4768757. 
     

  16. Duconge J, Ramos AS, Claudio-Campos K, Rivera-Miranda G, Bermúdez-Bosch L, Renta JY, Cadilla CL, Cruz I, Feliu JF, Vergara C, Ruaño G. A Novel Admixture-Based Pharmacogenetic Approach to Refine Warfarin Dosing in Caribbean Hispanics. PLoS One. 2016 Jan 8;11(1):e0145480. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145480. PubMed PMID: 26745506; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4706412. 
     

  17. Bernabe-Dones RD, Gonzalez-Pons M, Villar-Prados A, Lacourt- Ventura M, Rodríguez-Arroyo H, Fonseca-Williams S, Velazquez FE, Diaz-Algorri Y, Lopez-Diaz SM, Rodríguez N, Yamamura Y, Cruz-Correa M. High Prevalence of Human Papillomavirus in Colorectal Cancer in Hispanics: A Case-Control Study. Gastroenterol Res Pract. 2016;2016:7896716. doi: 10.1155/2016/7896716. PubMed PMID: 26904111; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4745930. 
     

  18. Padín-Irizarry V, Colón-Lorenzo EE, Vega-Rodríguez J, Castro Mdel R, González-Méndez R, Ayala-Peña S, Serrano AE. Glutathionedeficient Plasmodium berghei parasites exhibit growth delay and nuclear DNA damage. Free Radic Biol Med. 2016 Jun;95:43-54. doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2016.02.032. PubMed PMID: 26952808; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4934901. 
     

  19. Barreto-Torres G, Javadov S. Possible Role of Interaction between PPARα and Cyclophilin D in Cardioprotection of AMPK against In Vivo Ischemia-Reperfusion in Rats. PPAR Res. 2016;2016:9282087. doi: 10.1155/2016/9282087. PubMed PMID: 27051413; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4802016. 
     

  20. Suárez E, González L, Pérez-Mitchell C, Ortiz AP, Ramírez-Sola M, Acosta J, Bernabe-Dones RD, González-Aquino C, Montes- Rodríguez I, Cadilla CL. Pathway Analysis using Gene-expression Profiles of HPV-positive and HPV-negative Oropharyngeal Cancer Patients in a Hispanic Population: Methodological Procedures. P R Health Sci J. 2016 Mar;35(1):3-8. PubMed PMID: 26932277; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4999560. 
     

  21. Caraballo EV, Hunsperger E, Martínez I. Characterization of Puerto Rican West Nile Virus isolates in mice. Virol J. 2015 Sep 11;12:137. doi: 10.1186/s12985-015-0363-8. PubMed PMID: 26357867; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4566862. 
     

  22. Morou-Bermudez E, Rodriguez S, Bello AS, Dominguez-Bello MG. Urease and Dental Plaque Microbial Profiles in Children. PLoS One. 2015 Sep 29;10(9):e0139315. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139315. PubMed PMID: 26418220; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4587978. 
     

  23. Palacio S, Velázquez-Marrero C, Marrero HG, Seale GE, Yudowski GA, Treistman SN. Time-Dependent Effects of Ethanol on BK Channel Expression and Trafficking in Hippocampal Neurons. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2015 Sep;39(9):1619-31. doi: 10.1111/acer.12808. PubMed PMID: 26247146; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4873156. 
     

  24. Palacios C, Trak MA, Betancourt J, Joshipura K, Tucker KL. Validation and reproducibility of a semi-quantitative FFQ as a measure of dietary intake in adults from Puerto Rico. Public Health Nutr. 2015 Oct;18(14):2550-8. doi: 10.1017/S1368980014003218. PubMed PMID: 25621587; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4955524. 
     

  25. Zenón F, Jorge I, Cruz A, Suárez E, Segarra AC, Vázquez J, Meléndez LM, Serrano H. 18O proteomics reveal increased human apolipoprotein CIII in Hispanic HIV-1+ women with HAART that use cocaine. Proteomics Clin Appl. 2016 Feb;10(2):144-55. doi: 10.1002/prca.201400204. PubMed PMID: 26255783; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4977997. 
     

  26. Montes-Rodríguez IM, Rivera LE, López-Garriga J, Cadilla CL. Characterization and Expression of the Lucina pectinata Oxygen and Sulfide Binding Hemoglobin Genes. PLoS One. 2016 Jan 29;11(1):e0147977. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147977. PubMed PMID: 26824233; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4732748. 
     

  27. Martinez NA, Ayala AM, Martinez M, Martinez-Rivera FJ, Miranda JD, Silva WI. Caveolin-1 Regulates the P2Y2 Receptor Signaling in Human 1321N1 Astrocytoma Cells. J Biol Chem. 2016 Jun 3;291(23):12208-22. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M116.730226. PubMed PMID: 27129210; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4933270. 
     

  28. Rijpma SR, van der Velden M, González-Pons M, Annoura T, van Schaijk BC, van Gemert GJ, van den Heuvel JJ, Ramesar J, Chevalley-Maurel S, Ploemen IH, Khan SM, Franetich JF, Mazier D, de Wilt JH, Serrano AE, Russel FG, Janse CJ, Sauerwein RW, Koenderink JB, Franke-Fayard BM. Multidrug ATP-binding cassette transporters are essential for hepatic development of Plasmodium sporozoites. Cell Microbiol. 2016 Mar;18(3):369-83. doi: 10.1111/cmi.12517. PubMed PMID: 26332724; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4984424. 
     

  29. Ramos E, Conde JG, Berrios RA, Pardo S, Gómez O, Mas Rodríguez MF. Prevalence and Genetic Profile of Duchene and Becker Muscular Dystrophy in Puerto Rico. J Neuromuscul Dis. 2016 May 27;3(2):261-266. PubMed PMID: 27854217; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5117109. 
     

  30. Kristofco LA, Cruz LC, Haddad SP, Behra ML, Chambliss CK, Brooks BW. Age matters: Developmental stage of Danio rerio larvae influences photomotor response thresholds to diazinion or diphenhydramine. Aquat Toxicol. 2016 Jan;170:344-54. doi: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2015.09.011. PubMed PMID: 26431593; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4968053. 
     

  31. Pézier AP, Jezzini SH, Bacon JP, Blagburn JM. Shaking B Mediates Synaptic Coupling between Auditory Sensory Neurons and the Giant Fiber of Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS One. 2016 Apr 4;11(4):e0152211. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152211. PubMed PMID: 27043822; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4833477. 
     

  32. Cruz N, Miranda JD, Crespo MJ. Modulation of Vascular ACE by Oxidative Stress in Young Syrian Cardiomyopathic Hamsters: Therapeutic Implications. J Clin Med. 2016 Jul 13;5(7). pii: E64. doi: 10.3390/jcm5070064. PubMed PMID: 27420103; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4961995. 
     

  33. Javadov S, Jang S, Rodriguez-Reyes N, Rodriguez-Zayas AE, Soto Hernandez J, Krainz T, Wipf P, Frontera W. Mitochondria-targeted antioxidant preserves contractile properties and mitochondrial function of skeletal muscle in aged rats. Oncotarget. 2015 Nov 24;6(37):39469-81. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.5783. PubMed PMID: 26415224; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4741839. 
     

  34. Acevedo J, Santana-Almansa A, Matos-Vergara N, Marrero- Cordero LR, Cabezas-Bou E, Díaz-Ríos M. Caffeine stimulates locomotor activity in the mammalian spinal cord via adenosine A1 receptor-dopamine D1 receptor interaction and PKA-dependent mechanisms. Neuropharmacology. 2016 Feb;101:490-505. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2015.10.020. PubMed PMID: 26493631; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4855515. 
     

  35. Cruz-Correa M, Diaz-Algorri Y, Pérez-Mayoral J, Suleiman- Suleiman W, Gonzalez-Pons Mdel M, Bertrán C, Casellas N, Rodríguez N, Pardo S, Rivera K, Mosquera R, Rodriguez-Quilichini S. Clinical characterization and mutation spectrum in Caribbean Hispanic families with Lynch syndrome. Fam Cancer. 2015 Sep;14(3):415-25. doi: 10.1007/s10689-015-9795-y. PubMed PMID: 25782445; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4560599. 
     

  36. Molina J, Amaro K, Pérez CM, Palacios C. Sleep Duration, Sedentary Behaviors, and Physical Activity across Weight Status in Hispanic Toddlers' Participants of the WIC Program. J Child Obes. 2016;1(4). pii: 18. PubMed PMID: 28018993; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5180606. 
     

  37. Casellas-Cabrera N, Díaz-Algorri Y, Carlo-Chévere VJ, González- Pons M, Rodríguez-Mañón N, Pérez-Mayoral J, Bertrán-Rodríguez C, Soto-Salgado M, Giardiello FM, Rodríguez-Quilichini S, Cruz- Correa M. Risk of thyroid cancer among Caribbean Hispanic patients with familial adenomatous polyposis. Fam Cancer. 2016 Apr;15(2):267-74. doi: 10.1007/s10689-015-9862-4. PubMed PMID: 26690363; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4803522. 
     

  38. Ordoñez P, Schwarz N, Figueroa-Jiménez A, Garcia-Lebron LA, Roche-Lima A. Learning stochastic finite-state transducer to predict individual patient outcomes. Health Technol (Berl). 2016;6(3):239- 245. PubMed PMID: 27942425; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5124435. 
     

  39. Roche-Lima A. Implementation and comparison of kernel-based learning methods to predict metabolic networks. Netw Model Anal Health Inform Bioinform. 2016;5:26. PubMed PMID: 27471658; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4947111. 
     

  40. Ríos EM, Sinigaglia O, Diaz B, Campos M, Palacios C. Development of a Diet Quality Score for Infants and Toddlers and its association with weight. J Nutrit Health Food Sci. 2016;4(4). doi: 10.15226/jnhfs.2016.00171. PubMed PMID: 28154840; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5283385. 
     

  41. Rivera Rivera A, Castillo-Pichardo L, Gerena Y, Dharmawardhane S. Anti-Breast Cancer Potential of Quercetin via the Akt/AMPK/Mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) Signaling Cascade. PLoS One. 2016 Jun 10;11(6):e0157251. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157251. PubMed PMID: 27285995; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4902235. 
     

  42. Torres-Hernández BA, Colón LR, Rosa-Falero C, Torrado A, Miscalichi N, Ortíz JG, González-Sepúlveda L, Pérez-Ríos N, Suárez-Pérez E, Bradsher JN, Behra M. Reversal of pentylenetetrazole-altered swimming and neural activity-regulated gene expression in zebrafish larvae by valproic acid and valerian extract. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2016 Jul;233(13):2533-47. doi: 10.1007/s00213-016-4304-z. PubMed PMID: 27165438; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4908174. 
     

  43. Delgado-Peraza F, Ahn KH, Nogueras-Ortiz C, Mungrue IN, Mackie K, Kendall DA, Yudowski GA. Mechanisms of Biased β-Arrestin- Mediated Signaling Downstream from the Cannabinoid 1 Receptor. Mol Pharmacol. 2016 Jun;89(6):618-29. doi: 10.1124/mol.115.103176. PubMed PMID: 27009233; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4885504. 
     

  44. Santiago E, Akamine P, Snider J, Wong V, Jessulat M, Deineko V, Gagarinova A, Aoki H, Minic Z, Phanse S, San Antonio A, Cubano LA, Rymond BC, Babu M, Stagljar I, Rodriguez-Medina JR. Novel Interactome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Myosin Type II Identified by a Modified Integrated Membrane Yeast Two-Hybrid (iMYTH) Screen. G3 (Bethesda). 2016 May 3;6(5):1469-74. doi: 10.1534/g3.115.026609. PubMed PMID: 26921299; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4856097. 
     

  45. Delgado-Vélez M, Báez-Pagán CA, Gerena Y, Quesada O, Santiago-Pérez LI, Capó-Vélez CM, Wojna V, Meléndez L, León- Rivera R, Silva W, Lasalde-Dominicci JA. The α7-nicotinic receptor is upregulated in immune cells from HIV-seropositive women: consequences to the cholinergic anti-inflammatory response. Clin Transl Immunology. 2015 Dec 11;4(12):e53. doi: 10.1038/cti.2015.31. PubMed PMID: 26719799; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4685439. 
     

  46. Mun JY, Kensler RW, Harris SP, Craig R. The cMyBP-C HCM variant L348P enhances thin filament activation through an increased shift in tropomyosin position. J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2016 Feb;91:141-7. doi: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2015.12.014. PubMed PMID: 26718724; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4764391. 
     

  47. Díaz-Ayala R, Moya-Rodríguez A, Pietri R, Cadilla CL, López- Garriga J. Molecular Cloning and Characterization of a (Lys)6- Tagged Sulfide-Reactive Hemoglobin I from Lucina pectinata. Mol Biotechnol. 2015 Dec;57(11-12):1050-62. PubMed PMID: 26482241; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4937220. 
     

  48. Crespo MJ, Quidgley J. Simvastatin, atorvastatin, and pravastatin equally improve the hemodynamic status of diabetic rats. World J Diabetes. 2015 Aug 25;6(10):1168-78. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v6.i10.1168. PubMed PMID: 26322162; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4549667. 
     

  49. Palacios C, Rivas-Tumanyan S, Morou-Bermúdez E, Colon AM, Torres RY, Elías-Boneta AR. Association between Type, Amount, and Pattern of Carbohydrate Consumption with Dental Caries in 12- Year-Olds in Puerto Rico. Caries Res. 2016;50(6):560-570. doi: 10.1159/000450655. PubMed PMID: 27788518; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5311111.