Program Publications: University of Alabama at Birmingham: Impact of Airborne Heavy Metals on Lung Disease and the Environment

Superfund Research Program

Impact of Airborne Heavy Metals on Lung Disease and the Environment

Center Director: Veena Antony
Grant Number: P42ES027723
Funding Period: 2020-2025

Publications

2022

• Li FJ, Surolia R, Singh P, Dsouza K, Stephens CT, Wang Z, Liu R, Bae S, Kim Y, Athar M, Dransfield MT, Antony V. 2022. Fibrinogen mediates cadmium-induced macrophage activation and serves as a predictor of cadmium exposure in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol doi:10.1152/ajplung.00475.2021 PMID:35200041

2021

• Chanda D, Rehan M, Smith S, Dsouza K, Bernard K, Memula V, Kojima K, Mobley JA, Benavides G, Darley-Usmar VM, Kim Y, Zmijewski J, Deshane J, De Langhe S, Thannickal V. 2021. Mesenchymal stromal cell aging impairs the self-organizing capacity of lung alveolar epithelial stem cells. Elife doi:10.7554/eLife.68049 PMID:34528872 PMCID:PMC8445616
• Gu L, Surolia R, Larson-Casey JL, He C, Davis D, Kang J, Antony V, Carter AB. 2021. Targeting Cpt1a-Bcl-2 interaction modulates apoptosis resistance and fibrotic remodeling. Cell Death Differ 29(1):doi:10.1038/s41418-021-00840-w PMID:34413485 (ahead of print)
• Kolloli A, Kumar R, Singh P, Narang A, Kaplan G, Sigal A, Subbian S. 2021. Aggregation state of Mycobacterium tuberculosis impacts host immunity and augments pulmonary disease pathology. Commun Biol 4:doi:10.1038/s42003-021-02769-9 PMID:34732811 PMCID:PMC8566596
• Kore S, Theodore M, Pillai R, Thomas V, Vaidya U. 2021. Improvement of interfacial adhesion of unidirectional textile grade carbon fiber (TCF) with unsized, epoxy and urethane sizing reinforced in thermoset urethane composites. Mater Today Commun 28(10):
• Kore S, Theodore M, Vaidya U. 2021. Effect of the segmental structure of thermoplastic polyurethane (hardness) on the interfacial adhesion of textile-grade carbon fiber composites. ACS Appl. Polym. Mater 3:
• Larson-Casey JL, Gu L, Davis D, Cai G, Ding Q, He C, Carter AB. 2021. Post-translational regulation of PGC-1(alpha) modulates fibrotic repair. FASEB J 35:e21675. doi:10.1096/fj.202100339R PMID:34038004
• Larson-Casey JL, Gu L, Kang J, Dhyani A, Carter AB. 2021. NOX4 regulates macrophage apoptosis resistance to induce fibrotic progression. J Biol Chem 297:12. doi:10.1016/j.jbc.2021.100810 PMID:34023385 PMCID:PMC8214193
• Li FJ, Surolia R, Li H, Wang Z, Liu G, Kulkarni T, Massicano AV, Mobley JA, Mondal S, de Andrade JA, Coonrod SA, Thompson PR, Wille K, Lapi SE, Athar M, Thannickal V, Carter AB, Antony V. 2021. Citrullinated vimentin mediates development and progression of lung fibrosis. Sci Transl Med 13(585):doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.aba2927 PMID:33731433
• Ranjan P, Thomas V, Kumar P. 2021. 2D materials as a diagnostic platform for the detection and sensing of the SARS-CoV-2 virus: A bird's-eye view. J Mater Chem B Mater Biol Med 9(23):doi:10.1039/d1tb00071c PMID:34013310 (ahead of print)
• Surolia R, Li FJ, Wang Z, Kashyap M, Srivastava RK, Traylor AM, Singh P, Dsouza K, Kim H, Pittet J, Zmijewski J, Agarwal A, Athar M, Ahmad A, Antony V. 2021. NETosis in the pathogenesis of acute lung injury following cutaneous chemical burns. JCI Insight 6(10):e147564. doi:10.1172/jci.insight.147564 PMID:34027893 PMCID:PMC826236
• Vasilyev S, Moskalev I, Smolski V, Peppers J, Merov M, Fedorov V, Barnakov Y, Martyshkin D, Mirov S, Gapontsev V. 2021. Kerr-lens mode-locked Cr:ZnS oscillator reaches the spectral span of an optical octave. Opt Express 29:doi:10.1364/OE.411984

2020

• Bartel S, Deshane J, Wilkinson T, Gabrielsson S. 2020. Extracellular Vesicles as Mediators of Cellular Cross Talk in the Lung Microenvironment. Front Med (Lausanne) 7:326. doi:10.3389/fmed.2020.00326 PMID:32850874 PMCID:PMC7417309
• Gafarov O, Watkins R, Fedorov V, Mirov S. 2020. Cross-section of electrical impact excitation in bulk n-type monocrystalline Al:Cr:ZnSe. Opt Mater Express 10:2135-2141. doi:10.1364/OME.402399
• Hiremath N, Young S, Ghossein H, Penumadu D, Vaidya U, Theodore M. 2020. Low cost textile-grade carbon-fiber epoxy composites for automotive and wind energy applications. Composites Part B: Engineering 198:108156. doi:10.1016/j.compositesb.2020.108156
• Hough KP, Curtiss ML, Blain TJ, Liu R, Trevor J, Deshane J, Thannickal V. 2020. Airway remodeling in asthma. Front Med (Lausanne) 7:191. doi:10.3389/fmed.2020.00191 PMID:32509793 PMCID:PMC7253669
• Hough KP, Deshane J. 2020. Cutting edge approaches for rapid characterization of airway exosomes. Methods 177:27-34. doi:10.1016/j.ymeth.2020.01.003 PMID:31953152 PMCID:PMC7198350
• Kooduvalli K, Vaidya U, Ozcan S. 2020. Life cycle assessment of compostable coffee pods: a US university based case study. Sci Rep 10:9158. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-65058-1 PMID:32513993 PMCID:PMC7280196
• Larson-Casey JL, Gu L, Fiehn O, Carter AB. 2020. Cadmium-mediated lung injury is exacerbated by the persistence of classically activated macrophages. J Biol Chem 295:15754-15766. doi:10.1074/jbc.RA120.013632 PMID:32917723 PMCID:PMC7667973
• Nam S, Fedorov V, Mirov S, Hong K. 2020. Octave-spanning mid-infrared femtosecond OPA in a ZnGeP2 pumped by a 2.4 mu m Cr:ZnSe chirped-pulse amplifier. Opt Express 28:32403-32414. doi:10.1364/OE.405648 PMID:33114927 PMCID:PMC7679192
• Pemmada R, Zhu X, Dash M, Zhou Y, Ramakrishna S, Peng X, Thomas V, Jain S, Nanda HS. 2020. Science-based strategies of antiviral coatings with viricidal properties for the COVID-19 like pandemics. Materials (Basel) 13:doi:10.3390/ma13184041 PMID:32933043 PMCID:PMC7558532
• Rana T, Jiang C, Liu G, Miyata T, Antony V, Thannickal V, Liu R. 2020. PAI-1 regulation of TGF-B1-induced alveolar type II cell senescence, SASP secretion, and SASP-mediated activation of alveolar macrophages. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 62:319-330. doi:10.1165/rcmb.2019-0071OC PMID:31513752 PMCID:PMC7055702
• Singh DK, Vaidya A, Thomas V, Theodore M, Kore S, Vaidya U. 2020. Finite element modeling of the fiber-matrix interface in polymer composites. Journal of Composites Science 4(2):58. doi:10.3390/jcs4020058
• Wang ML, Behrman P, Dulin A, Baskin ML, Buscemi J, Alcaraz KI, Goldstein CM, Carson TL, Shen M, Fitzgibbon M. 2020. Addressing inequities in COVID-19 morbidity and mortality: research and policy recommendations. Transl Behav Med 10:516-519. doi:10.1093/tbm/ibaa055 PMID:32542349 PMCID:PMC7337775

2019

• Larson-Casey JL, Vaid M, Gu L, He C, Cai G, Ding Q, Davis D, Berryhill TF, Wilson LS, Barnes S, Neighbors JD, Hohl RJ, Zimmerman KA, Yoder BK, Longhini AF, Hanumanthu VS, Surolia R, Antony V, Carter AB. 2019. Increased flux through the mevalonate pathway mediates fibrotic repair without injury. J Clin Invest 129:4962-4978. doi:10.1172/JCI127959 PMID:31609245 PMCID:PMC6819144
• Surolia R, Li FJ, Wang Z, Li H, Dsouza K, Thomas V, Mirov S, Perez-Sala D, Athar M, Thannickal V, Antony V. 2019. Vimentin intermediate filament assembly regulates fibroblast invasion in fibrogenic lung injury. JCI Insight 4:doi:10.1172/jci.insight.123253 PMID:30944258 PMCID:PMC6483650