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The Longevity-promoting Factor, TCER-1, Widely Represses Stress Resistance and Innate Immunity Amrit FRG, Naim N, Ratnappan R, Loose J, Mason C, Steenberge L, McClendon BT, Wang G, Driscoll M, Yanowitz JL, Ghazi A Nature Communications 17 Jul 2019 See Also: PittHealthSciences/UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh news release
Proteomic Identification of Virulence-Related Factors in Young and Aging C. elegans Exposed to Pseudomonas aeruginosa King CD, Singh D, Holden K, Govan AB, Keith SA, Ghazi A* and Robinson RASR* Journal of Proteomics 2018 Jun 15
Analysis of C. elegans Transcriptomic Data by the Tuxedo Suite of the Galaxy Pipeline Amrit FRG and Ghazi A* Journal of Visual Experimentation 2017 Apr 8
Influences of Germline Cells on Organismal Lifespan and Healthspan Amrit FRG and Ghazi A* Invited, peer-reviewed chapter C. elegans and its Contribution to our Understanding of Aging and Longevity Editors: Gill MS, Olsen A 2017
X Chromosome Crossover Formation and Genome Stability in Caenorhabditis elegans are Independently Regulated by xnd-1 McClendon TB, Rana M, Amrit FR, Fukushige T, Krause M, Ghazi A, Yanowitz JL* G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 2016 Sep 27
DAF-16 and TCER-1 Facilitate Adaptation to Germline Loss by Restoring Lipid Homeostasis and Repressing Reproductive Physiology in C. elegans Amrit FRG, Steenkiste E, Ratnappan R, Chen SW, Kostka, D, McClendon B, Yanowitz J, Olsen CP, Ghazi A* PLoS Genet 2016 Feb 10
Nuclear hormone receptors as mediators of metabolic adaptability in response to reproductive perturbations Ratnappan R, Ward, JD, Yamamoto, KR, Ghazi A* Worm 2016 Jan-Mar
Graded Proteasome Dysfunction in C. elegans Activates an Adaptive Response Involving the Conserved SKN-1 and ELT-2 Transcription Factors and the Autophagy-lysosome Pathway Keith SA, Maddux S, Zhong Y, Ferguson AA, Ghazi A, Fisher AL PLoS Genet 2016 Feb 1
Stress Signaling: Serotonin Spreads Systemic Stress Ghazi A*, Lamitina T* Current Biology 2015 Jan 19
Recent Discoveries in the Reproductive Control of Aging (Abstract) Keith SA, Ghazi A* Current Genetic Medicine Reports 2015 Mar
Germline Signals Deploy NHR-49 to Enhance Fatty-Acid β -Oxidation and Desaturation in Somatic Tissues of C. elegans Ratnappan R, Amrit FG, Chen S-W, Gill H, Holden K, Ward J, Yamamoto K, Olsen CP, Ghazi A* PLoS Genet 2014 Dec 4
The C. elegans Healthspan and Stress-response Assay Toolkit (PubMed Abstract) Keith SA, Amrit FG, Ratnappan R and Ghazi A Methods 2014 Aug
The C. elegans Lifespan Assay Toolkit Amrit FG, Ratnappan R, Keith SA and Ghazi A Methods 2014 Apr
Transciptional Networks that Mediate Signals from Reproductive Tissues to Influence Lifespan Ghazi A Genesis 2013 Jan
A Transcription Elongation Factor that Links Signals from the Reproductive System to Lifespan Extension in Caenorhabditis elegans Ghazi A, Henis-Korenblit S, Kenyon C PLoS Genet 2009 Sep 11 Recommended by Faculty of 1000
Regulation of Caenorhabditis elegans Lifespan by a Proteasomal E3 Ligase Complex Ghazi A*, Henis-Korenblit S*, Kenyon C (*equal contribution) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2007 Apr 3
Above research was the focus of the ‘Dispatch’ article C. elegans Aging: Proteolysis Cuts Both Ways Bowerman B Current Biology 2007 Jul 3
Muscle Development in Drosophila (PDF) Ghazi A, VijayRaghavan K Proc Ind Natl Sci Acad 2003 No. 5
Prepattern Genes and Signaling Molecules Regulate Stripe Expression to Specify Drosophila Flight Muscle Attachment Sites Ghazi A, Paul L, VijayRaghavan K Mech Dev 2003 May Puzzling Over Research on Aging Ghazi, A SAGE KE 2002 Jun 5
Developmental Biology: Control by Combinatorial Codes (abstract) Ghazi A, VijayRaghavan K Nature 2000 Nov 23
Apterous Mediates Development of Direct Flight Muscles Autonomously and Indirect Flight Muscles through Epidermal Cues Ghazi A, Anant S, VijayRaghavan K Development 2000 Dec
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