Recent (2004-2009):
Robinson JM, Ackerman WE, Behrendt N, Vandre DD: “While dysferlin and myoferlin are co-expressed in the human placenta, only dysferlin expression is responsive to trophoblast fusion in model systems.” Accepted, Biology of Reproduction 2009 Feb 18 [Epub ahead of print]
Robinson JM, Ackerman WE 4th, Tewari AK, Kniss DA, Vandre DD: “Isolation of highly enriched apical plasma membranes of the placental syncytiotrophoblast for proteomics analysis.” Analytical Biochemistry 2009;387:87-94.
Robinson JM, Vandre DD, and Ackerman WE. Placental proteomics: A shortcut to biological insight. Placenta 30 Suppl A, Trophoblast Research, 2009;23:S83-S89. (Invited review)
Ackerman WE 4th, Summerfield TL, Vandre DD, Robinson JM, and Kniss DA. Nuclear factor-kappa B regulates inducible prostaglandin E synthase expression in human amnion mesenchymal cells. Biology of Reproduction 2008;78:68-76.
Robinson JM, Ackerman WE 4th, Kniss DA, Takizawa T, and Vandre DD. Proteomics of the human placenta: promises and realities. Placenta 2008;29:135-43. (Invited review)
Powell HM, Ayodeji O, Summerfield TL, Powell DM, Kniss DA, Tomasko DL, and Lannutti JJ. Chemotherapeutic implants via supercritical CO2 modification. Biomaterials 2007; 28: 5562-5569
Vandre DD, Ackerman WE IV, Kniss DA, Tewari AK, Mori M, Takizawa T, and Robinson JM. Dysferlin is expressed in human placenta but does not associate with caveolin. Biology of Reproduction 2007; 77: 533-542
Ayodeji O, Kniss DA, Tomasko D, and Lannutti JJ. Carbon dioxide impregnation of electrospun polycaprolactone fibers, Journal of Supercritical Fluids 2007; 41(1): 173-178
Kang X, Xie Y, Powell H, Lee J, Belury M, Lannutti JJ, and Kniss DA. Adipogenesis of murine embryonic stem cells in a three-dimensional culture system using electrospun polymer scaffolds, Biomaterials 2007; 28(3):450-8
Ackerman WE IV, Robinson JM, Kniss DA. Association of PAT proteins with lipid storage droplets in term fetal membranes, Placenta 2006; 28(5-6): 465-476
Powell HM, Kniss DA, and Lannutti JJ. Nanotopographic control of cytoskeletal organization, Langmuir 2006;22(11): 5087-94
Yang Y, Xie Y, Kang X, Lee LJ, and Kniss DA. Assembly of three-dimensional polymeric constructs containing cells/biomolecules using carbon dioxide, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2006; 128(43):14040-1
Nelson DM, Sadovsky Y, Robinson JM, Croy BA, Rice G, and Kniss DA. Advanced techniques in placental biology—workshop report, Placenta 2006; 27(Supplement 1): 87-90
Ackerman WE IV, Hughes LH, Robinson JM, Kniss DA. In situ immunolabeling allows for detailed localization of prostaglandin synthesizing enzymes within amnion epithelium, Placenta 2006; 27: 919-923
Xie Y, Kang X, Ackerman WE IV, Belury MA, Koster C, Rovin BH, Landon MB, and Kniss DA. Differentiationdependent regulation of the cyclooxygenase cascade during adipogenesis suggests a complex role for prostaglandins, Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism 2006; 8(1): 83-93
Ackerman WE IV, Robinson JM, Kniss DA. Despite transcriptional and functional coordination, cyclooxygenase-2 and microsomal prostaglandin E synthase-1 largely reside in discrete lipid domains in WISH epithelial cells, Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry 2005; 53(11): 1391-1401
Ackerman WE IV, Zhang XL, Rovin BH, and Kniss DA. Modulation of cytokine-induced cyclooxygenase 2 expression by PPARgamma ligands through NFkappaB signal disruption in human WISH and amnion cells, Biology of Reproduction 2005; 73(3): 527-35
Kang X, Xie Y, Kniss DA. Adipose tissue model using three-dimensional cultivation of preadipocytes seeded onto fibrous polymer scaffolds, Tissue Engineering 2005; 11: 458-468
Ackerman WE IV, Rovin BH, and Kniss DA. Epidermal growth factor and interleukin-1ß utilize divergent signaling pathways to synergistically up-regulate cyclooxygenase-2 gene expression in human amnion-derived WISH cells, Biology of Reproduction 2004; 71:2079-86
Dunn-Albanese LR, Ackerman WEA IV, Xie Y, Iams JD, and Kniss DA. Reciprocal expression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma and cyclooxygenase-2 in human term parturition. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2004; 190: 809-16