Recent Publications
Abstracts (Not yet published in full)
Songlin Xie, Yandan Wang, Kathleen G. Morgan. “Anti-inflammatory Drugs- A Treatment for Vascular Dementia?”, Society for Neuroscience Boston Meeting 2021.
Songlin Xie, Evangeline W. Cornwell, Serafina Zotter, Lova P. Kajuluri, Kathleen Kantak, Basilis Zikopoulos, Kathleen G. Morgan. “The Role of Inflammation and Aortic Stiffness on Aging-Induced Cerebral Microbleeds and Associated Cognitive Impairments.”, Evans Days Symposium Presentation 2022.
Publications
Nicholson, C. J., Xing, Y., Lee, S., Liang, S., Mohan, S., O’Rourke, C., Kang, J., & Morgan, K. G. (2022). Ageing causes an aortic contractile dysfunction phenotype by targeting the expression of members of the extracellular signal-regulated kinase pathway. Journal of cellular and molecular medicine, 26(5), 1456–1465. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcmm.17118
Singh, K., Kim, A. B., & Morgan, K. G. (2021). Non-muscle myosin II regulates aortic stiffness through effects on specific focal adhesion proteins and the non-muscle cortical cytoskeleton. Journal of cellular and molecular medicine, 25(5), 2471–2483. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcmm.16170
Valisno, J., May, J., Singh, K., Helm, E. Y., Venegas, L., Budbazar, E., Goodman, J. B., Nicholson, C. J., Avram, D., Cohen, R. A., Mitchell, G. F., Morgan, K. G., & Seta, F. (2021). BCL11B Regulates Arterial Stiffness and Related Target Organ Damage. Circulation research, 128(6), 755–768. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.120.316666
Kajuluri, L. P., Singh, K., & Morgan, K. G. (2021). Vascular aging, the vascular cytoskeleton and aortic stiffness. Exploration of medicine, 2, 186–197. https://doi.org/10.37349/emed.2021.00041
Wang, Y., Taylor, E., Zikopoulos, B., Seta, F., Huang, N., Hamilton, J. A., Kantak, K. M., & Morgan, K. G. (2021). Aging-induced microbleeds of the mouse thalamus compared to sensorimotor and memory defects. Neurobiology of aging, 100, 39–47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2020.11.017
Taylor, E. N., Huang, N., Wisco, J., Wang, Y., Morgan, K. G., & Hamilton, J. A. (2020). The brains of aged mice are characterized by altered tissue diffusion properties and cerebral microbleeds. Journal of translational medicine, 18(1), 277. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12967-020-02441-6
Nicholson, C. J., Singh, K., Saphirstein, R. J., Gao, Y. Z., Li, Q., Chiu, J. G., Leavis, P., Verwoert, G. C., Mitchell, G. F., AortaGen Consortium, Porter, T., & Morgan, K. G. (2018). Reversal of Aging-Induced Increases in Aortic Stiffness by Targeting Cytoskeletal Protein-Protein Interfaces. Journal of the American Heart Association, 7(15), e008926. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.118.008926
Nicholson, C. J., Seta, F., Lee, S., & Morgan, K. G. (2017). MicroRNA-203 mimics age-related aortic smooth muscle dysfunction of cytoskeletal pathways. Journal of cellular and molecular medicine, 21(1), 81–95. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcmm.12940
Brozovich, F. V., Nicholson, C. J., Degen, C. V., Gao, Y. Z., Aggarwal, M., & Morgan, K. G. (2016). Mechanisms of Vascular Smooth Muscle Contraction and the Basis for Pharmacologic Treatment of Smooth Muscle Disorders. Pharmacological reviews, 68(2), 476–532. https://doi.org/10.1124/pr.115.010652
Saphirstein, R. J., & Morgan, K. G. (2014). The contribution of vascular smooth muscle to aortic stiffness across length scales. Microcirculation (New York, N.Y. : 1994), 21(3), 201–207. https://doi.org/10.1111/micc.12101