Name: Breanna Wallace
Major Professor: Martha E. O'Donnell
Department: Physiology and Membrane Biology
Lab Phone: 26123
Email: bkwallace@ucdavis.edu
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BS -
CSU Sacramento -
Molecular Biology, Minor in Chemistry -
2006
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Research Interests
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I am interested in studying signaling cascades and their effects on disease. I am currently investigating the Na-K-Cl cotransporter of the blood brain barrier endothelium. Studies have shown that NKCC activity is up-regulated during ischemic events leading to edema formation and eventual brain damage. I am interested in the signaling pathways that up-regulate NKCC in this situation. I feel it is imperative to studies these pathways so we can develop new drug therapies for a disease that is difficult to treat with current methods.
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Publications
B.K. Wallace, K.A. Jelks and M.E. O'Donnell. Ischemia-induced stimulation of the BBB Na-K-Cl cotransporter: evidence for a role of p38 MAP kinase. FASEB J. 22: A734.4, 2008
B Wallace, S Eckles, TR Peavy; Is glycosylation of the Xenopus laevis cortical granule lectin essential for its function to prevent polyspermic fertilization? CSUPERB 01/2006 (Abstract)
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