Publications
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Selected Publications:
Rosenquist TH, Bennett GD, Brauer PR, Stewart ML, Chaudoin TR, Finnell RH. Microarray analysis of homocysteine-responsive genes in cardiac neural crest cells in vitro. Dev Dyn, 236(4):1044-1054, 2007.
Brauer, P.R. (2006) MMPs: Role in cardiovascular development and disease. Frontiers in Bioscience 11:447-478.
Karas, K., Brauer, P.R., and Petzel, D.H. (2005) Actin redistribution in mosquito Malpighian tubules after a blood meal and cyclic AMP stimulation. J. Insect Physiol. 51:1041-1054.
Brauer. P.R., Sanmann, J.N., and Petzel, D.H. (2005) Effect of warm acclimation of Na+,K+-ATPase a-subunit expression in chloride cells of Antarctic fish. Anat. Rec. 285A:600-609. Also cover photo for the issue.
Linask, K.K., Han, M., Cai, D.H., Brauer, P.R., and Manisastry, S.M. (2005) Cardiac morphogenesis: matrix metalloproteinase coordination of cellular mechanisms underlying heart tube formation and directionality of looping. Dev. Dyn. 233:739-753.
Cantemir, V., Cai, D.H., Reedy, M.V., and Brauer, P.R. (2004) Tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinase-2 (TIMP-2) expression during cardiac neural crest cell migration and its role in proMMP-2 activation. Dev. Dyn. 231:709-719.
Brauer, P.R. and Tierney, B.J. (2004) Consequences of elevated homocysteine during embryonic development and possible modes of action. In: “Recent Advances in Developmental Toxicology”, (G.M. Tiboni, ed.), Current Pharmaceutical Design 10:2719-2732.
Tierney, B.J., Ho, T., Reedy, M.V., and Brauer, P.R. (2004) Homocysteine inhibits cardiac neural crest cell formation and morphogenesis in vivo. Dev. Dyn. 229:63-73.
Brauer, P.R. (2003) “Human Embryology: The Ultimate USMLE Step 1 Review”, Hanley and Belfus Medical Publishers, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. Available via Amazon.com
Cai, D.H. and Brauer, P.R. (2002) A synthetic matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor decreases early cardiac neural crest migration in chicken embryos. Dev. Dyn. 224:441-449.
Zhao, Q., Brauer, P.R., Xiao, L., McGuire, M.H., and Yee, J.A. (2002) Parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTHrP) and its receptor (PTH1R) influence the growth of the chicken mandibular process J. Anat. 201:137-151.
Brauer, P.R. and Rosenquist, T.H. (2002) The effects of homocysteine on the migration of cardiac neural crest cells in vitro. Devel. Dyn. 224:222-230.
Cai, D.H., T.M. Vollberg, Sr., E. Hahn-Dantona, J.P. Quigley, and P.R. Brauer (2000) MMP-2 expression during early avian cardiac and neural crest morphogenesis. Anat. Rec. 259:168-179.
Gorny, K.N. and P.R. Brauer (1999) Embryonic cardiac cushion cell migration in vitro does not involve a plasminogen/plasmin component. Anat. Rec. 256:269-278.
Agrawal, M. and P.R. Brauer (1996) Urokinase-type plasminogen activator regulates cranial neural crest cell migration in vitro. Develop. Dyn. 207:281-290.
Ghosh, S. and P.R. Brauer (1996) Latent TGF-ß is present in the extracellular matrix of embryonic hearts in situ. Develop. Dyn. 205:126-134.
Brauer, P.R. and J.A.Yee (1993) Cranial neural crest cells synthesize and secrete latent TGF-ß that can be activated by neural crest cell proteolysis. Devel. Biol., 155:281-285.