Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Neuronal Death Protection

A number of faculty from the Department of Anesthesiology and the Center for Shock, Trauma and Anesthesiology Research (STAR), were among the co-authors of a paper to be published early summer.

The work is titled, “Transcriptional activation of antioxidant gene expression by Nrf2 protects against mitochondrial dysfunction and neuronal death associated with acute and chronic neurodegeneration.” It is set to publish in the June 2020 issue of Experimental Neurology.

The following faculty are co-authors:

• Molly Goodfellow, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
• Apurva Borcar, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
• Julie Proctor, MS, Lab Manager
• Tiffany Greco, PhD, former UMB PhD student
• Robert Rosenthal, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director, Hyperbaric Medicine
• Gary Fiskum, PhD, Matjasko Professor for Research in Anesthesiology and Vice-Chair