Research
Recent
Publications:
Kang YM, Ma Y, Zheng JP, Elks C, Sriramula S, Yang ZM, and Joseph Francis. Brain nuclear factor-kappa B activation contributes to neurohumoral excitation in angiotensin II-induced hypertension. Cardiovascular Research, EPub ahead of print, Feb 25th, 2009.
Carrie M. Elks, Nithya Mariappan, Masudul Haque, Anuradha Guggilam,Dewan S.A. Majid and Joseph Francis . Chronic NF-kB blockade reduces cytosolic and mitochondrial oxidative stress and attenuates renal injury and hypertension in SHR rats. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 262:F298-305, 2009.
Yu-Ming Kang, Ying Ma, Carrie Elks, Jin-Ping Zheng, Zhi-Ming Yang, and Joseph Francis. Cross talk between cytokines and renin-angiotensin in hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus in heart failure: role of nuclear factor-κB. Cardiovascular Research 2008 Sep 1;79(4): 671-8.
Srinivas Sriramula,Masudul Haque, Dewan Majid, and Joseph Francis . Involvement of tumor necrosis factor-alpha in Angiotensin II mediated effects on salt intake, blood pressure and cardiac hypertrophy. Hypertension 2008 May;51(5):1345-51.
Anuradha Guggilam, Kaushik P Patel, Masudul Haque, Philip J Ebenezer, Daniel R Kapusta and Joseph Francis. Cytokine blockade attenuates sympathoexcitation in heart failure: cross-talk between nNOS, AT-1R and cytokines in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus. European Journal of Heart Failure 2008 Jul;10(7):625-34. |
