University of South Carolina  DEPARTMENT GRAD PROGRAM SEMINARS UNIVERSITY

 
Dr Prakash Nagarkatti Ph.D. Jiwaji University (India), 1980
Professor of Pathology and Microbiology
Associate Dean for Basic Science

  

 

Office: 803 733 3180
Fax: 803 733 3192
E-mail:
pnagark
@med.sc.edu

Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC 29208


Research Interests
 

Recent Publications

 

 
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Recent Publications

1. McKallip,R.J., Nagarkatti, M. and Nagarkatti, P. Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol enhances breast cancer growth and metastasis by suppression of the antitumor immune response.
J Immunol. 174:3281-9, 2005.
2. Fisher, M.T., Nagarkatti, M. and Nagarkatti, P.S. 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) enhances negative selection of T cells in the thymus while allowing auto-reactive T cells to escape deletion and migrate to the periphery. Molecular Pharmacol. 67(1):327-35,2005.
3. McKallip,R.J., Szakal, A.K., Nagarkatti, P.S. and Nagarkatti, M. The role of CD44 in SEB-induced hepatitis: CD44 deficiency leads to reduced lymphocyte apoptosis resulting in increased liver damage. Infection and Immunity 73(1):50-61,2005.
4. Do, Y., McKallip R. J., Nagarkatti, P. S. and Nagarkatti, M. Activation through cannabinoid receptots 1 and 2 on dendritic cells triggers NF-kappaB-dependent apoptosis: Novel role for endogenous and exogenous cannabinoids in immunoregulation. J. Immunol. 173:2373-2382, 2004.
5. Do, Y., Hegde, V., Nagarkatti, P. S. and Nagarkatti, M. Bryostatin-1 enhances the maturation and antigen-presenting ability of murine and human dendritic cells. Cancer Res. 64:6756-6765, 2004.

Representative Past Publications

6. McKallip, R.J., Do., Y., Fisher, M., Szakal, A.K., Gunthert, U., Nagarkatti, P. S. and Nagarkatti, M. Targeted deletion of CD44v7 exon leads to decreased endothelial cell injury and vascular leak syndrome induced by IL-2 activated cytolytic lymphocytes J. Biol. Chem. 278 :43818-30, 2003
7. Zeytun, A., Nagarkatti, M. and Nagarkatti, P. S. Growth of FasL-bearing tumor cells in syngeneic murine host induces apoptosis and toxicity in Fas+ organs. Blood 95:2111-2117,2000
8. Kamath, A. B., Camacho, I., Nagarkatti, P. S. and Nagarkatti, M. Role of Fas-Fas ligand interactions in 2, 3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)-induced immunotoxicity. Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 160:141-155, 1999.
9. Nagarkatti, M., Hassuneh, M., Seth, A., Manickasundari, K. and Nagarkatti, P. S. Constitutive activation of IL 2 gene in the induction of spontaneous in vitro transformation and tumorigenicity of a T cell line. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:7638-7642, 1994.
10. Hammond, D., Nagarkatti, P. S., Gote, L., Seth, A., Hassuneh, M. and Nagarkatti, M. Double negative T cells from MRL lpr/lpr mice mediate cytolytic activity when triggered through adhesion molecules and constitutively express perforin gene. J. Exp.Med. 178:2225 2230, 1993.
11. Seth, A., Gote, L., Nagarkatti, M. and Nagarkatti, P. S. T cell receptor independent activation of cytolytic activity of cytotoxic T lymphocytes mediated through CD44 and gp90MEL-14. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88:7877 7881, 1991.
 


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