Cytokine-mediated induction of anti-apoptotic genes that are linked to nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-κB) signalling in human islets and in a mouse beta cell line

Suparna A. Sarkar, Burak Kutlu, Kalpana Velmurugan, +7

Diabetologia

InflammationCytokineCytokine-mediated InductionSignal TransductionSignaling Pathway +13

Synergistic induction of heme oxygenase-1 by the components of the antioxidant supplement Protandim

Kalpana Velmurugan, Jawed Alam, Joe M. McCord, +1

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Synergistic InductionBiochemistryHeme HomeostasisAntioxidant Supplement ProtandimMedicine +7

Anti-inflammatory action of exendin-4 in human islets is enhanced by phosphodiesterase inhibitors: potential therapeutic benefits in diabetic patients

Umarani Pugazhenthi, Kalpana Velmurugan, Anna H. Tran, +2

Diabetologia

InflammationMetabolic SyndromeDiabetes ManagementAnti-inflammatory ActionMedicine +10

Varicella-Zoster Virus Infection of Differentiated Human Neural Stem Cells

Subbiah Pugazhenthi, Sreekala Nair, Kalpana Velmurugan, +5

Journal of Virology

Environmentally prevalent polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons can elicit co-carcinogenic properties in an in vitro murine lung epithelial cell model

Alison K. Bauer, Kalpana Velmurugan, Sabine Plöttner, +6

Archives of Toxicology

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon-Induced Signaling Events Relevant to Inflammation and Tumorigenesis in Lung Cells Are Dependent on Molecular Structure

Ross S. Osgood, Brad L. Upham, Thomas Hill, +4

PLoS ONE

InflammationInflammatory Lung DiseaseLung InflammationMedicineRespiratory Toxicology +12

Antiapoptotic Actions of Exendin-4 against Hypoxia and Cytokines Are Augmented by CREB

Kalpana Velmurugan, Appakalai N. Balamurugan, Gopalakrishnan Loganathan, +3

Endocrinology

ImmunologyCell DeathInsulin ReceptorPancreas TransplantationRedox Biology +29

Neuroprotective actions of Glucagon‐like peptide‐1 in differentiated human neuroprogenitor cells

Kalpana Velmurugan, Ron J. Bouchard, Gregory Mahaffey, +1

Journal of Neurochemistry

Retinoic AcidCell DeathCellular PhysiologyInsulin SignalingSocial Sciences +24

Requirement for MUC5AC in KRAS-dependent lung carcinogenesis

Alison K. Bauer, Misha Umer, Vanessa Richardson, +19

JCI Insight

Highest Mucin LevelsTumor BiologyKras-dependent Lung CarcinogenesisKras-mutant AdcsMedicine +11

Epiregulin is required for lung tumor promotion in a murine two-stage carcinogenesis model

Alison K. Bauer, Kalpana Velmurugan, Ka-Na Xiong, +3

Molecular Carcinogenesis