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Published Works

Milner, SM, Buja, LM, Gulati, S, Bhat, S, Poindexter, BJ, Bick, RJ. Expression of Human ? Defensin 2 in thermal injury. Burns 2004;30:649-654

Kozar, RA, Verner-Cole, E, Schultz, SG, Sato, N, Bick, RJ, DeSoignie, R, Poindexter, BJ, Moore, FA. The immune enhancing enteral agents, arginine and glutamine, differentially modulate gut barrier function following mesenteric ischemia/reperfusion. J. Trauma, Injury, Infection and Critical Care 57:1150-1156, 2004

Schiess, MC, Poindexter, BJ, Brown, BS, Bick, RJ. The effects of CGRP on calcium transients of dedifferentiating cultured adult rat cardiomyocytes compared to non-cultured adult cardiomyocytes: possible protective and deleterious results in cardiac function. Peptides, 26(3):525-530, 2004

Bick RJ, Poindexter BJ, Schiess MC. Localization of Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide in cardiomyocytes; Comparison of neonatal and dedifferentiating cells to adult myocytes. Peptides, 26(2):331-336, 2004

Grigore, A., Poindexter, B., Vaughn, W.K., Nussmeier, N., Frazier, O.H., Cooper, J.R., Gregoric, I.D., Buja, L.M. and Bick, R.J. Alterations in Alpha Adrenoreceptor Density and Localization After Mechanical Left Ventricular Unloading With the Jarvik Flowmaker Left Ventricular Assist Device. J. Heart and Lung Transplantation. 2005;24(5):609-613

Bick RJ, Grigore AM, Poindexter BJ, Schnee PM, Nussmeier NA, Gregoric ID, Shah NA, Myers TJ, Buja LM and Frazier OH. Left Ventricular unloading with an assist device results in receptor relocalization as well as increased beta-adrenergic receptor numbers. Are these changes indications for outcome? J. Cardiac Surg., 20:1-5, 2005

Bick RJ, Poindexter, BJ, Davis, RA, Schiess MC. Determination of the site of action of calcitonin gene-related peptide in the alteration of intracellular calcium levels in adult and neonatal rodent myocytes. Peptides, 26(11):2231-2238, 2005

Poindexter, BJ, Buja, LM, Bhat, S, Milner, SM, Bick, RJ. Localization of the antimicrobial peptides human beta defensins, human neutrophil defensin, and LL-37 in normal and burned skin. Burns, 32(4), 402-407, 2006

Poindexter, B.J., Allison, A.W., Bick, R.J. and Dasgupta, A. Ginseng: Cardiotonic in adult cardiomyocytes, cardiotoxic in neonatal cardiomyocytes. Life Sciences, 79:2337-2344, 2006

Davis, RA, van Winkle, WB, Buja, LM, Poindexter, BJ, Bick, RJ. The effect of a simple versus a complex matrix on the polarity of cardiomyocytes in culture. Journal of Burns and Wounds, 5:16-25, 2006

Poindexter, B.J., Feng, W., Dasgupta, A., Bick, R.J. Oleandrin produces changes in intracellular calcium levels in isolated cardiomyocytes; a real-time fluorescence imaging study comparing adult to neonatal cardiomyocytes. J. Toxicol. Envir. Health, 70(6):568-574, 2006

Schnee, P.M., Shah, N., Bergheim, M., Poindexter, B.J., Buja, L.M., Myers, T.J., Radovancevic, B., Frazier, O.H., Bick, R.J. Reversal of myocyte hypertrophy by ventricular unloading; Cardiac improvement without adrenergic receptor up-regulation and relocalization. Medscape General Medicine http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/530973_print, 8(2):45, 2006

Merritt, T.M., Bick, R., Poindexter, B.J. and Hecht, J.T. Unique matrix structure in the rER cisternae of pseudoachondroplasia chondrocytes. Amer. J. Pathol., 170(1), 293-300, 2007

Chakraborty, A., Brooks, H., Zhang, P., Smith, C., McReynolds, M., Hoying, J., Bick, R., Truong, L., Poindexter, B., Lan, H., Elbjeirami, W., Sheikh-Hamad, D. Stanniocalcin-1 regulates endothelial gene expression and modulates trans-endothelial migration of leukocytes. American Journal of Physiology; Renal, 292(2):F895-904, 2007

Fant, M., Barerra-Saldana, H., Dubinsky, W., Poindexter, B., Bick, R. The PLAC1 protein localizes to membranous compartments of the apical region of the syncytiothrophoblasts. Mol Reprod Dev. 2007 74(7):922-9

Bick, R.J., Bhat, S., Poindexter, B.J., Buja, L.M., Lawyer, C.H. and Milner, S.M. Nuclear localization of HBD-1 in human keratinocytes. J Burns Wounds. 2007 Aug 24;7:e3

Kanellis, J, Bick, R, Garcia, G, Truong, L.D, Tsao, CC, Poindexter, B, Feng, L, Johnson, R, Sheikh-Hamad, D. Stanniocalcin-1 Inhibits MCP1-Mediated Chemotaxis in Murine Macrophage-Like RAW264.7 cells. Submitted November 2006, Amer. J. Physiol., Renal Physiol.

Schnee, P.M., Shah, N., Bergheim, M., Poindexter, B.J., Buja, L.M., Gemmato, C., Radovancevic, B., Letsou, G.V., Frazier, O.H. and Bick, R.J. Location and Density of Alpha and Beta Adrenoreceptor Subtypes in Myocardium following Mechanical Left Ventricular Unloading. Accepted J Heart Lung Transpl. January 2008

Achour, H, Tamareille, S, Amirian, J, Felli, P, Bick, RJ, Poindexter, B, Geng, YJ, Barry, WM and Smalling, R. Left Ventricular Unloading Prior to Reperfusion Reduces Endothelin-1 Release and Calcium Overload in Porcine Myocardial Infarction. Accepted. J. Thorac. Cardiovas. Surg. January 2008

Klein, G.L, Enkhbataar, P., Traber, D.L., Buja, L.M., Jonkam, C.C., Poindexter, B.J., Bick, R.J. Cardiovascular distribution of the calcium sensing receptor before and after burns. Burns. 34; 370-375, 2008

Bick, RJ, Poindexter BJ, Kott MM, an Liang Y, Dinh, K, Kaur B, Bick, DL, Doursout, MF, Schiess, MC. Cytokines disrupt intracellular patterns of Parkinson's disease associated proteins alpha-synuclein, tau and ubiquitin in cultured glial cells. In Press, Brain Research, March 2008

Bick, RJ, Mann M, Poindexter, B. and Schiess, MC. Calcium movements in CGRP-treated cultured skeletal muscle cells: Is there a role for CGRP in tension headaches? Int. Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics. 14(2):193-199, 2008

Rodriguez, ME, Poindexter, BJ, Bick, RJ, Dasgupta, A. A comparison of the effects of commercially available Hawthorne preparations on calcium transients of isolated cardiomyocytes. In Press, J. Medicinal Food, April 2008