School of Medicine Publications and Presentations
Open access research published by the UTRGV School of Medicine-affiliated faculty, residents, fellows, and students. For all publications, please visit this page.
Submissions from 2013
Mobile Personal Health System for Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring, Luis J. Mena, Vanessa G. Felix, Rodolfo Ostos, Jesus A. Gonzalez, Armando Cervantes, Armando Ochoa, Carlos Ruiz, Roberto Ramos, and Gladys E. Maestre
Global prefrontal and fronto-amygdala dysconnectivity in bipolar I disorder with psychosis history, Alan Anticevic, Margaret S. Brumbaugh, Anderson M. Winkler, Lauren E. Lombardo, Jennifer Barrett, Phillip R. Corlett, Hedy Kober, June Gruber, Grega Repovs, and Michael W. Cole
Default mode network activity and white matter integrity in healthy middle-aged ApoE4 carriers, Krishna T. Patel, Michael C. Stevens, Godfrey D. Pearlson, Anderson M. Winkler, Keith A. Hawkins, Pawel Skudlarski, and Lance O. Bauer
Gene Flow Pattern Among Aedes aegypti Populations in Mexico, María de Lourdes Muñoz, Ricardo F. Mercado-Curiel, Alvaro Diaz-Badillo, Gerardo Pérez-Ramírez, and William C. Black
Testing the hypothesis of accelerated cerebral white matter aging in schizophrenia and major depression, Peter Kochunov, David C. Glahn, Laura M. Rowland, Rene L. Olvera, Anderson M. Winkler, Hemalatha Sampath, Ravi Duggirala, Joanne E. Curran, John Blangero, and L. Elliot Hong
Identification of pleiotropic genetic effects on obesity and brain anatomy, Joanne E. Curran, D Reese McKay, Anderson M. Winkler, Rene L. Olvera, Thomas D. Dyer, Peter T. Fox, Laura Almasy, Ravi Duggirala, John Blangero, and David C. Glahn
Is bisphenol-A exposure during pregnancy associated with blood glucose levels or diagnosis of gestational diabetes?, Candace A. Robledo, Jennifer D. Peck, Julie A. Stoner, Hélène Carabin, Linda Cowan, Holger M. Koch, and Jean R. Goodman
Management Options for Patients with Chronic Back Pain Without an Etiology, Lenny D. Salzberg and Eron G. Manusov
Proteomic Identification of Dengue Virus Binding Proteins in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes and Aedes albopictus Cells, Maria de Lourdes Muñoz, Gustavo Limón-Camacho, Rosalinda Tovar, Alvaro Diaz-Badillo, Guillermo Mendoza-Hernández, and William C. Black
Short-term exercise training improves insulin sensitivity but does not inhibit inflammatory pathways in immune cells from insulin-resistant subjects, Sara M. Reyna, Puntip Tantiwong, Eugenio Cersosimo, Ralph A. DeFronzo, Apiradee Sriwijitkamol, and Nicolas Musi
Submissions from 2012
Genetic architecture of declarative memory: implications for complex illnesses, Carrie E. Bearden, Katherine H. Karlsgodt, Peter Bachman, Theo G. van Erp, Anderson M. Winkler, and David C. Glahn
Inhibition of neddylation represses lipopolysaccharide-induced proinflammatory cytokine production in macrophage cells, Fang-Mei Chang, Sara M. Reyna, Jose C. Granados, Sung-Jen Wei, Wendy Innis-Whitehouse, Shivani K. Maffi, Edward Rodriguez, Thomas J. Slaga, and John D. Short
Association of differential gene expression with imatinib mesylate and omacetaxine mepesuccinate toxicity in lymphoblastoid cell lines, Hemant Kulkarni, Harald H. H. Goring, Vincent P. Diego, Shelley A. Cole, Ken R. Walder, Greg R. Collier, John Blangero, and Melanie A. Carless
Machine Learning Approach to Extract Diagnostic and Prognostic Thresholds: Application in Prognosis of Cardiovascular Mortality, Luis J. Mena, Eber E. Orozco, Vanessa G. Felix, Rodolfo Ostos, Jesus D. Melgarejo, and Gladys E. Maestre
Measuring and comparing brain cortical surface area and other areal quantities, Anderson M. Winkler, Mert R. Sabuncu, B T. Yeo, Bruce Fischl, Douglas N. Greve, Peter Kochunov, Thomas E. Nichols, John Blangero, and David C. Glahn
Effect of social capital and personal autonomy on the incidence of depressive symptoms in the elderly: evidence from a longitudinal study in Mexico, Ietza Bojorquez-Chapela, Betty Soledad Manrique-Espinoza, Silvia Mejía-Arango, Martha M. Solís, and Aarón Salinas-Rodríguez
Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes, Jason L. Stein, Anderson M. Winkler, Laura Almasy, Joanne E. Curran, Marcio Almeida, Ravi Duggirala, Thomas D. Dyer, Harald H. H. Goring, Matthew P. Johnson, and John Blangero
Assessing Dementia in Resource-Poor Regions, Gladys E. Maestre
Curcumin nanoformulations: a future nanomedicine for cancer, Murali M. Yallapu, Meena Jaggi, and Subhash C. Chauhan
High dimensional endophenotype ranking in the search for major depression risk genes, David C. Glahn, Joanne E. Curran, Anderson M. Winkler, Melanie A. Carless, Matthew P. Johnson, Harald H. H. Goring, Thomas D. Dyer, Ravi Duggirala, Laura Almasy, and John Blangero
Submissions from 2011
Genetic influence on the working memory circuitry: behavior, structure, function and extensions to illness, Katherine H. Karlsgodt, Peter Bachman, Anderson M. Winkler, Carrie E. Bearden, and David C. Glahn
[Diabetes mellitus as a risk factor for dementia in the Mexican elder population] Diabetes mellitus como factor de riesgo de demencia en la población adulta mayor mexicana, Silvia Mejía-Arango and Clemente Zúñiga-Gil
Prevalence and incidence rates of dementia and cognitive impairment no dementia in the Mexican population: data from the Mexican Health and Aging Study, Silvia Mejía-Arango and Luis Miguel Gutierrez
Effects of Insulin and Oral Antidiabetic Agents on Glucose Metabolism, Vascular Dysfunction and Skeletal Muscle Inflammation in Type 2 Diabetic Subjects, J. Joya-Galeana, M. Fernandez, A. Cervera, Sara M. Reyna, S. Ghosh, C. Triplitt, N. Musi, Ralph A. DeFronzo, and Eugenio Cersosimo
Blood pressure and cerebral white matter share common genetic factors in Mexican Americans, Peter Kochunov, David C. Glahn, Jack Lancaster, Anderson M. Winkler, Rene L. Olvera, Joanne E. Curran, Thomas D. Dyer, Laura Almasy, Ravi Duggirala, Peter T. Fox, and John Blangero
Genetic analysis of cortical thickness and fractional anisotropy of water diffusion in the brain, Peter Kochunov, David C. Glahn, Thomas E. Nichols, Anderson M. Winkler, Elliot L. Hong, Joanne E. Curran, Rene L. Olvera, Matthew P. Johnson, Shelley A. Cole, and John Blangero
Minimally Invasive Approaches for the Management of “Difficult” Colonic Polyps, Roberto A. Cruz, Madhu Ragupathi, Rodrigo Pedraza, T. Bartley Pickron, Anne T. Le, and Eric M. Haas
Submissions from 2010
Cortical thickness or grey matter volume? The importance of selecting the phenotype for imaging genetics studies, Anderson M. Winkler, Peter Kochunov, John Blangero, Laura Almasy, Karl Zilles, Peter T. Fox, Ravi Duggirala, and David C. Glahn
Transforming grief: The use of images during bereavement in Mexico and the United States, Rebecca M. Reséndiz Rodriguez
Whole brain and regional hyperintense white matter volume and blood pressure: overlap of genetic loci produced by bivariate, whole-genome linkage analyses, Peter Kochunov, David Glahn, Jack Lancaster, Anderson M. Winkler, Jack W. Kent Jr., Rene L. Olvera, Shelley A. Cole, Thomas D. Dyer, Laura Almasy, Ravi Duggirala, Peter T. Fox, and John Blangero
A multimodal assessment of the genetic control over working memory, Katherine H. Karlsgodt, Peter Kochunov, Anderson M. Winkler, Angela R. Laird, Laura Almasy, Ravi Duggirala, Rene L. Olvera, Peter T. Fox, John Blangero, and David C. Glahn
Socioeconomic Status and Prevalence of Obesity and Diabetes in a Mexican American Community, Cameron County, Texas, 2004-2007, Susan P. Fisher-Hoch, Anne R. Rentfro, Jennifer Salinas, Adriana Perez, H. Shelton Brown, Belinda M. Reininger, Blanca I. Restrepo, Gaines Wilson, Monir Hossain, Mohammad H. Rahbar, Craig Hanis, and Joseph B. Mccormick
Genetic control over the resting brain, David C. Glahn, Anderson M. Winkler, Peter Kochunov, Laura Almasy, Ravi Duggirala, Joanne E. Curran, Rene L. Olvera, Angela R. Laird, Peter T. Fox, and John Blangero
Submissions from 2009
Analysis of genetic variability and whole genome linkage of whole-brain, subcortical, and ependymal hyperintense white matter volume, Peter Kochunov, David Glahn, Anderson M. Winkler, Ravi Duggirala, Rene L. Olvera, Shelley A. Cole, Thomas D. Dyer, Laura Almasy, Peter T. Fox, and John Blangero
Impaired regulation of the TNF-alpha converting enzyme/tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase 3 proteolytic system in skeletal muscle of obese type 2 diabetic patients: a new mechanism of insulin resistance in humans, A Monroy, S Kamath, A O. Chavez, V E. Centonze, M Veerasamy, A Barrentine, J J. Wewer, D K. Coletta, C Jenkinson, and Sara M. Reyna
Trastorno bipolar en los niños: Hechos actuales [Pediatric Bipolar Disorder: Actual Facts], Víctor M. Joffre-Velázquez, Gerardo García-Maldonado, Atenogenes H. Saldívar-González, and Roberto A. Cruz
Beyond AICA riboside: in search of new specific AMP-activated protein kinase activators, Bruno Guigas, Kei Sakamoto, Nellie Taleux, Sara M. Reyna, Nicolas Musi, Benoit Viollet, and Louis Hue
Risk of Dementia Associated with Elevated Plasma Homocysteine in a Latin American Population, Inara J. Chacon, Aldrín E. Molero, Gloria Pino-Ramírez, José A. Luchsinger, Joseph H. Lee, and Gladys E. Maestre
Submissions from 2008
Elevated toll-like receptor 4 expression and signaling in muscle from insulin-resistant subjects, Sara M. Reyna, Sangeeta Ghosh, Puntip Tantiwong, C S. Reddy Meka, Phyllis Eagan, Christopher P. Jenkinson, Eugenio Cersosimo, Ralph A. DeFronzo, Dawn K. Coletta, and Apiradee Sriwijitkamol
Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia in developing countries: prevalence, management, and risk factors, Raj N. Kalaria, Gladys E. Maestre, Raul Arizaga, Robert P. Friedland, Doug Galasko, Kathleen Hall, José A. Luchsinger, Adesola Ogunniyi, Elaine K. Perry, and Felix Potocnik
Apolipoprotein E epsilon4, Alzheimer's disease, and cognitive performance in elderly Mexican Mestizos, Juan Manuel Villalpando-Berumen, Silvia Mejía-Arango, Carlos Alberto Aguilar-Salinas, Maria Luisa Ordonez-Sanchez, and Luis Miguel Gutierrez-Robledo
Dementia in Latin America and the Caribbean: an overlooked epidemic, Gladys E. Maestre
Submissions from 2007
Clinical indicators for success of misoprostol treatment after early pregnancy failure, Candace Robledo, J. Zhang, J Troendle, K. Barnhart, M. D. Creinin, C. Westhoff, X. Huang, and M. Frederick
Peripheral disruption of the Grb10 gene enhances insulin signaling and sensitivity in vivo, Lixin Wang, Bogdan Balas, Christine Y. Christ-Roberts, Ryang Yeo Kim, Fresnida J. Ramos., Chintan K. Kikani, Cuiling Li, Chuxia Deng, Sara M. Reyna, and Nicolas Musi
Delayed angiogenesis and VEGF production in CCR2−/− mice during impaired skeletal muscle regeneration, Oscar Ochoa, Dongxu Sun, Sara M. Reyna, Lindsay L. Waite, Joel E. Michalek, Linda M. McManus, and Paula K. Shireman
[Factors associated with functional dependence in older adults: a secondary analysis of the National Study on Health and Aging, Mexico, 2001] Factores asociados con la dependencia funcional en los adultos mayores: un análisis secundario del Estudio Nacional sobre Salud y Envejecimiento en México, 2001, Guadalupe Dorantes-Mendoza, José Alberto Avila-Funes, Silvia Mejía-Arango, and Luis Miguel Gutiérrez-Robledo
Heritability of Determinants of the Metabolic Syndrome among Healthy Arabs of the Oman Family Study, Riad A. Bayoumi, Saeed A.S. Al-Yahyaee, Sulayma A. Albarwani, Syed G. Rizvi, Saleh Al-Hadab, Firial F. Al-Ubaidi, Ali T. Al-Hinai, Mohammed N. Al-Kindi, Haleema T. Adnan, and Juan Carlos Lopez Alvarenga
Effect of Acute Exercise on AMPK Signaling in Skeletal Muscle of Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes, Apiradee Sriwijitkamol, Dawn K. Coletta, Estela Wajcberg, Gabriela B. Balbontin, Sara M. Reyna, John Barrientes, Phyllis Eagan, Christopher P. Jenkinson, Eugenio Cersosimo, Ralph A. DeFronzo, Kei Sakamoto, and Nicolas Musi
Fat accumulation with altered inflammation and regeneration in skeletal muscle of CCR2-/- mice following ischemic injury, Verónica Contreras-Shannon, Oscar Ochoa, Sara M. Reyna, Dongxu Sun, Joel E. Michalek, William A. Kuziel, Linda M. McManus, and Paula K. Shireman
[Cognitive impairment and associated factors in older adults in Mexico], Silvia Mejía-Arango, Alejandro Miguel-Jaimes, Antonio Villa, Liliana Ruiz-Arregui, and Luis Miguel Gutiérrez-Robledo
Conocimientos, creencias y reporte de la práctica de los médicos generales en Maracaibo, Venezuela, acerca de las demencias, Alexis Romero-Salazar, Raima Rujano Roque, and Gladys E. Maestre
[Pain in the elderly: prevalence and associated factors] Dolor en adultos mayores de 50 años: prevalencia y factores asociados, Abel Jesús Barragán-Berlanga, Silvia Mejía-Arango, and Luis Miguel Gutiérrez-Robledo
Prevalence of self-reported overweight-obesity and its association with socioeconomic and health factors among older Mexican adults, Liliana Ruiz-Arregui, Lilia Castillo-Martínez, Arturo Orea-Tejeda, and Silvia Mejía-Arango
Submissions from 2006
MCP-1 Parallels Inflammatory and Regenerative Responses in Ischemic Muscle, Paula K. Shireman, Verónica Contreras-Shannon, Sara M. Reyna, Susan C. Robinson, and Linda M. McManus
Quantification of phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrate-1 by HPLC-ESI-MS/MS, Zhengping Yi, Moulun Luo, Lawrence J. Mandarino, Sara M. Reyna, Christopher A. Carroll, and Susan T. Weintraub
Submissions from 2005
Identification of Insulin Receptor Substrate 1 Serine/Threonine Phosphorylation Sites Using Mass Spectrometry Analysis: Regulatory Role of Serine 1223, Moulun Luo, Sara M. Reyna, Lishan Wang, ZhengPing Yi, Christopher Carroll, Lily Q. Dong, Paul R. Langlais, Susan T. Weintraub, and Lawrence J. Mandarino
Mortality Trend due to Ischemic Heart Diseases in the City of Curitiba – Brazil, from 1980 to 1998, Edevar Daniel, Helio Germiniani, Eleusis Ronconi Nazareno, Simone Viana Braga, Anderson M. Winkler, and Claudio L. Pereira da Cunha
Nutritional deficiencies in adults and elderly, Luis Falque Madrid, Gladys E. Maestre, Raquel Zambrano, and Yoraida Morán de Villalobos
Submissions from 2003
Efecto de la Terapia Hormonal de Reemplazo Sobre la Funcion Cognitiva en la Menopausia, Belinda Hómez de Delgado, Gloria Pino, and Gladys E. Maestre
Submissions from 2001
POLIMORFISMO DE APOLIPOPROTEÍNA E Y VALORES DE PRESIÓN ARTERIAL AMBULATORIA DURANTE 24 HORAS EN ADOLESCENTES [Apolipoprotein E polimorphisms and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring during 24 hours in adolescents], Egle Silva, Tulio Sulbarán, Gladys E. Maestre, Aldrin Molero, and Waleska Fulkado
Relación entre monitoreo ambulatorio de presión arterial de 24 horas y alteraciones en la memoria reciente de adultos mayores de 55 años [Ambulatory blood pressure monitorization statement with recent memory disturbs in adults oldness than 55 years], Egle Silva, Aldrin Molero, Gloria Pino, Tulio Sulbarán, and Gladys E. Maestre
Submissions from 2000
Group B coxsackievirus myocarditis and pancreatitis: connection between viral virulence phenotypes in mice, S Tracy, K Höfling, S Pirruccello, P H. Lane, Sara M. Reyna, and C J. Gauntt
Submissions from 1999
A glyconutritional mixture (Ambrotose®) provides some amelioration to mice with coxsackievirus-induced pancreatitis, C J. Gauntt, D Busbee, H J. Wood, Sara M. Reyna, R Barhoumi, R Burghardt, W McAnalley, and H R. McDaniel
Submissions from 1995
Synergistic effects of traumatic head injury and apolipoprotein 4 in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, R. Mayeux, R. Ottman, Gladys E. Maestre, C. Ngai, M.-X. Tang, H. Ginsberg, M. Chun, B. Tycko, and M. Shelanski
Submissions from 1994
The apolipoprotein ϵ4 allele in Parkinson's disease with and without dementia, K. Marder, Gladys E. Maestre, L. Cote, H. Mejia, B. Alfaro, A. Halim, M. Tang, B. Tycko, and R. Mayeux