Vanderbilt University | School of Medicine – Basic Science

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The Reading List is a newsletter from the School of Medicine Basic Sciences in which we amplify the research from our four departments, as well as biomedical research from campus-wide collaborators.

Week of August 26

By Basic Sciences department

Biochemistry

Temporal Dissociation of COX-2-Dependent Arachidonic Acid and 2-Arachidonoylglycerol Metabolism in RAW264.7 Macrophages. Journal of Lipid Research.
Ansari Aleem*, Michelle Mitchener*, Philip Kingsley, Carol Rouzer, Lawrence Marnett*.

Cell and Developmental Biology

Patient mutations in DRP1 perturb synaptic maturation of cortical neurons (preprint). bioRxiv.
Tierney Baum, Caroline Bodnya, James Constanzo, Vivian Gama*.
Generation of Myelinating Oligodendrocytes from Pluripotent Stem Cells. Protocols.io.
Melanie Gil*, Vivian Gama*.

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Mitochondrial heterogeneity and crosstalk in aging: Time for a paradigm shift?. Aging Cell.
Antentor Hinton Jr.*, Zer Vue, Estevão Scudese, Kit Neikirk, Annet Kirabo.
The mouse metabolic phenotyping center (MMPC) live consortium: an NIH resource for in vivo characterization of mouse models of diabetes and obesity. Mammalian Genome.
Maren Laughlin* (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases), Julio Ayala, Louise Lantier, Eann Malabanan, Owen McGuinness, David Wasserman.

Pharmacology

Discovery of VU6007496: Challenges in the Development of an M₁ Positive Allosteric Modulator Backup Candidate. ACS Chemical Neuroscience.
Julie Engers*, Katrina Bollinger, Rory Capstick, Madeline Long, Aaron Bender, Jonathan Dickerson, Weimin Peng, Christopher Presley, Hyekyung Cho, Alice Rodriguez, Colleen Niswender, Sean Moran, Zixiu Xiang, Anna Blobaum, Olivier Boutaud, Jerri Rook, Darren Engers, P. Jeffrey Conn, Craig Lindsley*.

First or corresponding authors are identified with an asterisk. Faculty with appointments in Basic Sciences are listed in red. Only Vanderbilt collaborators are listed except for first authors.

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