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Publications

Peer-Reviewed

Kao, A.W., R.J. Eisenhut, L.H. Martens, A. Nakamura, J.A. Bagley, A. Huang, A. de Luis, L.J. Neukomm, J. Cabello, R.V. Farese, Jr., C.J. Kenyon (2011).  A neurodegenerative disease mutation that accelerates the clearance of apoptotic cells. PNAS 108:4441-6.

Kao, A.W., C. Racine, L. Quitania, J. Kramer, C. Christine and B.L. Miller (2009).  The neurocognitive and neuropsychiatric profiles of the “Synucleinopathies”: Comparison of Parkinson’s Disease, Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Multiple System Atrophy.  Alzheimer Dis. And Assoc. Disord. 23: 365-70.

Kao, A. W. and J. E. Pessin (2000). Functional comparison of four dynamin 2 splice variants on GLUT4 endocytosis in 3T3L1 adipocytes. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 278: E825-31.

Duan, D. S., Q. Li, A. W. Kao, Y. Yue, J. E. Pessin, and J. F. Engelhardt (1999) Dynamin is required for Recombinant Adeno-associated Virus-2 Infection. J. Virology 73: 10371-6.

Summers, S. A., A. W. Kao, A. D. Kohn, G. S. Backus, R. A. Roth, J. E. Pessin and M. J. Birnbaum (1999). The role of Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3ß in insulin-simulated glucose metabolism. J. Biol. Chem. 274:17934-17940.

Kao, A. W., Y. Noda, J. H. Johnson, J. E. Pessin and A. R. Saltiel (1999). Aldolase mediates the association of F-actin with the insulin regulatable glucose transporter GLUT4. J. Biol. Chem.  274: 17742-17747.

Ceresa, B., A. W. Kao, S. Santeler and J. E. Pessin (1998). Regulation of insulin signaling pathways by clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Mol. Cell. Biol. 18: 3862-3870.

Kao, A. W., B. Ceresa, S. Santeler and J. E. Pessin (1998). Expression of a dominant interfering dynamin mutant in 3T3L1 adipocytes inhibits GLUT4 endocytosis without affecting insulin signaling. J. Biol. Chem. 273:25450-25457.

Okada, S., A. W. Kao, B. Ceresa, P. Blaikie, B. Margolis, J. E. Pessin (1997). The 66 kDa Shc isoform is a negative regulator of the Epidermal Growth Factor-simulated Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase pathway. J. Biol. Chem. 272: 28179.

Waters, S. W., D. Chen, A. W. Kao, K. H. Holt., and J. E. Pessin (1996). Insulin and Epidermal Growth Factor utilize distinct pools of Grb2-SOS in the regulation of Ras activation. J. Biol. Chem. 27: 18224-18230.

Kao, A. W., S. B. Waters, S. Okada and J. E. Pessin (1996). Insulin and osmotic shock stimulate the serine phosphorylation of the 66 kDA Shc isoform through a MEK-dependent pathway. Endocrinology 138: 2474-2480.

Bearer, E. L., J. A. DeGiorgis, R. A. Bodner, A. W. Kao and T. S. Reese (1993). Evidence for myosin motors on organelles in squid axoplasm. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 90: 11252-11256.

Reviews

Roberson, E. and A.W. Kao. “Animal Models of Dementia” in The Behavioral Neurology of Dementia, Ed. Bruce L. Miller and Bradley Boeve. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Kao, A. and R.W. Price (2004). Chemokine Receptors, Neural Progenitor Cells and the AIDS Dementia Complex. Journal of Infectious Disease 190: 211-5.

         

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