Name:  Alissa Blum
Major Professor:  
Department:  
Lab Phone:  4-8714
Email:  acblum@ucdavis.edu
Web Site:  http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/pmi/Wilson%20Lab/WilsonLab/Welcome.html
BS - Cornell University - Biology - Animal Physiology - 2002
DVM - UC Davis - small animal and equine medicine - 2013
Research Interests
Role of endothelial progenitor cells in the monocrotaline rat model of primary pulmonary hypertension. Specifically, characterizing EPCs in the animal model, looking at the stimulus that causes mobilization, and potentially, repairing pulmonary endothelium.
 
Publications Beinfeld MC, Blum A, Vishnuvardhan D, Fanous S, Marchand JE. Cholecysokinin (CCK) levels in prohormone convertase 2 knockout mouse brain regions reveal a complex phenotype of region-specific alterations. J Biol Chem 2005 Nov 18;280(46):38410-5.

Pratt JS, Blum A, Vishnuvardhan D, Kitagawa K, Beinfeld MC. Cleavage-site mutagenesis alters post-translation processing of Pro-CCK in AtT-20 cells. Biochemistry. 2004 Jul 27;43929):9502-11.

Cain BM, Connolly K, Blum AC, Vishnuvardhan D, Marchand JE, Zhu X, Seiner DF, Beinfeld MC. Genetic inactivation of prohormone convertase (PC1) causes a reduction in cholecystokinin (CCK) levels n he hippocampus, amygdala, pons, and medulla in mouse brain that correlates with the degree of colocatization of PC1 and CCK mRNA in these structures in rat brain. J Neurochem. 2004 apr;89(2):307-13.

Cain BM, Connolly K, Blum A, Vishnuvardhan D, Marchand JE, Beinfeld MC. Distribution and colocalization of cholecystokinin with the prohormone convertase enzymes PC1, PC2, and PC5 in rat brain. J Comp Neurol. 2003 Dec 15;467(3):307-25.

Beinfeld MC, Vishnuvardhan D, Blum A, Reynolds N, Fannous S, Kitagawa K, and Marchand JE. Inhibition of prohormone convertase 1 (PC1) expression in cholecystokinin (CCK) expressing At-T20 cells decreased cellular content and secretion of CCK and caused a shift in molecular forms of CCK secreted. Peptides 27:905-910.

Reynolds NA, Blum A, Kitagawa K and Beinfeld MC. Inhibition of PC5 expression decreases CCK secretion and increases PC2 expression. Peptides 27:901-904.

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