05B4 Markova, Dessislava - Jefferson Medical College - Thomas Jefferson University
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Dessislava Markova, PhD

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1015 Walnut Street
Curtis Building, Suite 501
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 955-7655
(215) 955-9773 fax

Most Recent Peer-reviewed Publications

  1. Human umbilical cord blood-derived mesenchymal stem cells in the cultured rabbit intervertebral disc: A novel cell source for disc repair
  2. The expression and relationship of pro-inflammatory chemokine RANTES/CCL5 and Cytokine IL-1β in painful human intervertebral discs
  3. Expression of Prolyl Hydroxylases (PHDs) is selectively controlled by HIF-1 and HIF-2 proteins in nucleus pulposus cells of the intervertebral disc: Distinct roles of PHD2 and PHD3 proteins in controlling HIF-1α activity in hypoxia
  4. Loss of fibulin-2 protects against progressive ventricular dysfunction after myocardial infarction
  5. TNF-α and IL-1β promote a disintegrin-like and metalloprotease with thrombospondin type I motif-5-mediated aggrecan degradation through syndecan-4 in intervertebral disc
  6. An organ culture system to model early degenerative changes of the intervertebral disc
  7. Histological features of the degenerating intervertebral disc in a goat disc-injury model
  8. Hypoxia activates the notch signaling pathway in cells of the intervertebral disc: Implications in degenerative disc disease
  9. Hypoxia-inducible factor regulation of ANK expression in nucleus pulposus cells: Possible implications in controlling dystrophic mineralization in the intervertebral disc
  10. Fibronectin splicing variants in human intervertebral disc and association with disc degeneration
  11. Regulation of CCN2/connective tissue growth factor expression in the nucleus pulposus of the intervertebral disc: Role of smad and activator protein 1 signaling
  12. Recessive COL6A2 C-globular missense mutations in Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy: Role of the C2a splice variant
  13. Primary bovine intervertebral disc cells transduced with adenovirus overexpressing 12 BMPs and Sox9 maintain appropriate phenotype
  14. Fibulin-2 is dispensable for mouse development and elastic fiber formation
  15. Compound heterozygous mutations in fibulin-4 causing neonatal lethal pulmonary artery occlusion, aortic aneurysm, arachnodactyly, and mild cutis laxa
  16. A comparative analysis of the fibulin protein family: Biochemical characterization, binding interactions, and tissue localization
  17. Zinc Finger Protein Zac1 Is Expressed in Chondrogenic Sites of the Mouse
  18. Post-ischemic myocardial fibrosis occurs independent of hemodynamic changes
  19. Genetic heterogeneity of cutis laxa: A heterozygous tandem duplication within the fibulin-5 (FBLN5) gene
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