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Claudette M. St. Croix - Publications

Refereed Articles (past 5 years)

  1. Stitt, M.S., Wasserloos, K.J. Tang, Z., Liu, X., Pitt, B.R. and St. Croix, C.M. Nitric Oxide-Induced Nuclear Translocation of the Metal Responsive Transcription Factor, MTF-1 is Mediated by Zinc Release from Metallothionein. Vascular Pharmacology. 44(3):149-55, 2006. PMID: 16423564


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  2. Zhang L, St. Croix CM, Cao R, Wasserloos K, Watkins SC, Stevens T, Li S, Tyurin V, Kagan VE and Pitt BR. Cell-surface protein disulfide isomerase is required for transnitrosation of metallothionein by S-nitroso-albumin in intact rat pulmonary vascular endothelial cells. Experimental Biology and Medicine. 231: 1507-1515, 2006. Abstract


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  3. Chengelis, DA, Shade, CM, Yingling,AM, Oxley, DS, Badger, P, Watkins, SC, St Croix, CM and Petoud, S. Semiconductor CdSe Nanocrystals Emit Near-infrared Light. Journal of the American Chemical Society. Submitted March, 2006.


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  4. Bernal, PJ, Leelavanichkul, K, Bauer, EM, Cao, R, Wilson, A, Wasserloos, KJ, Watkins,SC, Watkins, SC, Pitt, BR,Watkins, SC and St. Croix, C.M. Nitric oxide mediated zinc release contributes to hypoxic regulation of pulmonary vascular tone. Circ Res. 2008 May 15 PMID: 18483408


  5. Garner AL, St Croix CM, Pitt BR, Leikauf GD, Ando S and Koide K. Specific fluorogenic probes for ozone in biological and atmospheric samples. Nature Chemistry 1: 316 – 321, 2009.


  6. Tang JB, Goellner EM, Wang XH, Trivedi RN, St Croix CM, Jelezcova E, Svilar D, Brown AR, Sobol RW. Bioenergetic Metabolites Regulate Base Excision Repair-Dependent Cell Death in Response to DNA Damage. Mol Cancer Res. 2010 Jan 12. PubMed PMID: 20068071.


  7. Li H, Cao R, Wasserloos KJ, Bernal P, Liu ZQ, Pitt BR, St Croix CM. Nitric oxide and zinc homeostasis in pulmonary endothelium. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2010 Aug;1203:73-8. PubMed PMID: 20716286


  8. Thambiayya K, Wasserloos KJ, Huang Z, Kagan VE, St Croix CM, Pitt BR. LPS-induced decrease in intracellular labile zinc [Zni] contributes to apoptosis in cultured sheep pulmonary artery endothelial cells (SPAEC). Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2011 Jan 14. PMID: 21239534


  9. Bhatia S, Fei M, Yarlagadda M, Qi Z, Akira S, Saijo S, Iwakura Y, van Rooijen N, Gibson GA, St Croix CM, Ray A, Ray P.et al. 2011 Rapid Host Defense against Aspergillus fumigatus Involves Alveolar Macrophages with a Predominance of Alternatively Activated Phenotype. PLoS ONE 6(1): e15943, 2011. PMID: 21246055


  10. Bernal PJ, Bauer EM, Cao R, Maniar S, Mosher M, Chen J, Wang QJ, Glorioso JC, Pitt BR, Watkins SC, St Croix CM. A Role for Zinc in Regulating Hypoxia-Induced Contractile Events in Pulmonary Endothelium. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2011 Mar 4. PMID: 21378023

Invited Articles (past 5 years)

  1. St. Croix, C.M. and Watkins, S.C. Intravital fluorescence microscopy in pulmonary research. Advanced Drug Discovery Reviews. 58: 834-840, 2006.


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  2. St. Croix, C.M., Zipfel, W.R., and Watkins S.C. Potential Solutions for Confocal Imaging of Living Animals. Biotechniques 43(1): 14S-19S, 2007.


  3. St Croix CM, Bauer EM.  Use of spectral fluorescence resonance energy transfer to detect nitric oxide-based signaling events in isolated perfused lung.  Curr Protoc Cytom. 2008 Jul;Chapter 12:Unit12.13.  PMID: 18770645

Published Abstracts

  1. Cao R, Wang QJ, Chen J, Wasserloos KJ, Leelavanichkul K, Manzano EL, Pitt BR, St Croix. Acute hypoxic increases in labile zinc in cultured pulmonary endothelial cells are associated with activation of PKC-epsilon. FASEB J. 2007;21:lb353.


  2. Paula Jimena Bernal, Simon Charles Watkins, and Claudette Marie St Croix Metallothionein and Zinc Signaling During Hypoxia Induced Contraction of Isolated Rat Pulmonary Microvascular Endothelial Cells (RPMVECs)  ASCB 47th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, Nov 2007


  3. Paula Jimena Bernal, Simon Charles Watkins, and Claudette Marie St Croix Isolated pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells contract in response to hypoxia FASEB J. 2007 21:745.6


  4. Paula Jimena Bernal, Simon Charles Watkins and Claudette Marie St Croix Hypoxia Induces Contraction in Isolated Rat Pulmonary Microvascular Endothelial Cells (RPMECs) Microscopy and Microanalysis, Volume 13, Supplement S02, Aug 2007, pp 228-22


  5. Eileen Maria Bauer, Bruce Pitt, and Claudette Marie St. Croix Zinc mediated vasoconstriction in the isolated perfused rat lung FASEB J. 2008 22:1174.6


  6. Paula Jimena Bernal, Simon Charles Watkins, and Claudette Marie St Croix Nitric oxide and zinc contribute to hypoxia induced contractile events in pulmonary endothelial cells FASEB J. 2008 22:1174.


  7. Bernal PJ, Watkins SC, and St Croix CM. Hypoxia and zinc induced changes in the contractile machinery of isolated rat pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells (RPMVECs). FASEB J. 2009 23:LB161.


  8. Bauer EM, Cao R, Glorioso J, Pitt BR, and St Croix CM. Role of PKCepsilon in hypoxia induced contraction of pulmonary endothelium. FASEB J. 2009 23:1024.9