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Abid Rashid Bhat, PhD

Academic Title:

Research Associate

Primary Appointment:

Emergency Medicine

Location:

655 west Baltimore st

Education and Training

2008–2013 B. Pharm., University of Kashmir, Kashmir, India
2014–2016 M. Pharm. (Pharmacology), Punjab Technical University, Kapurthala, India
2017–2021 Ph.D. (Pharmacy), JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research, Mysore, India
2018–2019 Postgraduate Diploma in Regulatory Toxicology, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research, Mysore, India

Research/Clinical Keywords

Microparticles, Hyperbaric gas physiology, Neuropathology, Glymphatics

Highlighted Publications

  1. Bhat AR, Arya AK, Bhopale VM, Imtiyaz Z, Xu S, Bedir D, et al. Persistent neuroinflammation and functional deficits in a murine model of decompression sickness. J Appl Physiol. E-pub ahead of print April 25, 2024. doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00097.2024
  2. Thom SR, Bhopale VM, Bhat AR, Arya AK, Ruhela D, Qiao G, et al. Neuroinflammation with increased glymphatic flow in a murine model of decompression sickness. J Neurophysiol. 2023 Mar 1;129(3):662-671. doi: 10.1152/jn.00005.2023. Epub 2023 Feb 8
  3. Imtiyaz Z, Bhopale VM, Arya AK, Bhat AR, Thom SR. Microparticles in human perspiration as an inflammatory response index. Diagnostics. 2024;14(12):1293. doi:10.3390/diagnostics14121293
  4. Arya AK, Balestra C, Bhopale VM, Tuominen LJ, Sokolowski AR, Dugrenot E, L’Her E, Bhat AR, et al. Elevations of extracellular vesicles and inflammatory biomarkers in closed circuit SCUBA divers. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Mar 22;24(6):5969. doi: 10.3390/ijms24065969
  5. Thom SR, Bhopale VM, Arya AK, Ruhela D, Bhat AR, Mitra N, et al. Blood-borne microparticles are an inflammatory stimulus in type 2 diabetes mellitus. ImmunoHorizons. 2023;7(1):71-80. doi:10.4049/immunohorizons.2200099. 
  6. Bhat A, Bishir M, Pandi-Perumal SR, Chang SL, Chidambaram SB. Roflumilast, a phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor, ameliorates sleep deprivation-induced cognitive dysfunction in C57BL/6J mice. ACS Chem Neurosci. 2022 Jul;13(13):1938-1947. doi: 10.1021/acschemneuro.2c00127. 
  7. Bhat A, Tan V, Heng B, Chow S, Basappa S, Essa MM, et al. Papaverine, a phosphodiesterase 10A inhibitor, ameliorates quinolinic acid-induced synaptotoxicity in human cortical neurons. Neurotox Res. 2021 Aug;39(4):1238-1250. doi: 10.1007/s12640-021-00368-4
  8. Bhat A, Tan V, Heng B, Lovejoy DB, Sakharkar MK, Essa MM, et al. Roflumilast, a cAMP-specific phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor, reduces oxidative stress and improves synapse functions in human cortical neurons exposed to the excitotoxin quinolinic acid. ACS Chem Neurosci. 2020 Dec 16;11(24):4405-4415. Epub 2020 Dec 1. doi:10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00636
  9. Bhat A, Pires AS, Tan V, Babu Chidambaram S, Guillemin GJ. Effects of sleep deprivation on the tryptophan metabolism. Int J Tryptophan Res. 2020;13. doi:10.1177/1178646920970902
  10. Bhat A, Ray B, Mahalakshmi AM, Tuladhar S, Nandakumar DN, Srinivasan M, et al. Phosphodiesterase-4 enzyme as a therapeutic target in neurological disorders. Pharmacol Res. 2020 Oct: 160:105078. doi: 10.1016/j.phrs.2020.105078
  11. Bishir M, Bhat A, Essa MM, et al. Sleep deprivation and neurological disorders. BioMed Research International. 2020; 2020: 5764017. doi: 10.1155/2020/5764017
  12. Chidambaram SB, Bhat A, Ray B, Sugumar M, Muthukumar SP, Manivasagam T, et al.  Cocoa beans improve mitochondrial biogenesis via PPARγ/PGC1α dependent signalling pathway in MPP+ intoxicated human neuroblastoma cells (SH-SY5Y). Nutr Neurosci. 2020;23(6):471-480. doi: 10.1080/1028415X.2018.1521088. 

Awards and Affiliations

20142016  Tata Trusts Medical and Healthcare Scholarships, Mumbai, India

2018            Travel grant from International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) for 3rd IBRO- Asia-Pacific Regional Committee                                  (APRC)   Associate School of Neuroscience, Punjab University Chandigarh, India

2018             Best poster award at 3rd IBRO Neuroscience School, Punjab University Chandigarh, India

2019             Young Scientist Award from Food and Brain Research Foundation

2019             Travel grant from IBRO for APRC School on Advanced Techniques to Explore the Functions of Normal & Diseased Brain                         at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Kerala, India

2020             Early Career Investigator Award from Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology

Grants and Contracts

04/201908/2021        Senior Research Fellowship (SRF)

“A study on the effects of cAMP specific PDE4 and PDE 10 inhibitors against sleep deprivation induced alterations in cognitive functions and neural plasticity in mouse model”

Indian Council of Medical Research, 45/7/2019-PHA/BMS

Annual direct costs: $6390

Total direct costs: $12780

 

08/201903/2020        Exchange Fellowship, International Brain Research Organization “Effects of PDE4 and PDE10 inhibitors on quinolinic acid induced oxidative stress in human neurons”

International Brain Research Organization

Annual direct costs: $8500

Total direct costs: $8500