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Patricia L. Morris, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist

Selected Publications

Aravin, Alexei, Dimos Gaidatzis, Sébastien Pfeffer, Mariana Lagos-Quintana, Pablo Landgraf, Nicola Iovino, Patricia L. Morris, Michael J. Brownstein, Satomi Kuramochi-Miyagawa, Toru Nakano, Minchen Chien, James J. Russo, Jingyue Ju, Robert Sheridan, Chris Sander, Mihaela Zavolan, and Thomas Tuschl. 2006. "A novel class of small RNAs bind to MILI protein in mouse testes," Nature 442(7099): 203–207. (abstract)

Ishikawa, Tomomoto and Patricia L. Morris. 2006. "Interleukin-1β signals through a c-Jun N-terminal kinase-dependent inducible nitric oxide synthase and nitric oxide production pathway in Sertoli epithelial cells," Endocrinology 147(11): 5424–5430. (abstract)

Ishikawa, Tomomoto and Patricia L. Morris. 2006. "A multistep kinase-based Sertoli cell autocrine-amplifying loop regulates prostaglandins, their receptors, and cytokines," Endocrinology 147(4): 1706–1716. (abstract)

Vigodner, Margarita, Tomomoto Ishikawa, Peter N. Schlegel, and Patricia L. Morris. 2006. "SUMO-1, human male germ cell development and the androgen receptor in the testis of men with normal and abnormal spermatogenesis," American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism (Translational Series) 290(5): E1022–E1033. (abstract)

Falender, Allison E., Richard N. Freiman, Kenneth G. Geles, Kirk C. Lo, KeumSil Hwang, Dolores J. Lamb, Patricia L. Morris, Robert Tijan, and JoAnne S. Richards. 2005. "Maintenance of spermatogenesis requires TAF4b, a gonad-specific subunit of TFIID," Genes and Development 19(7): 794–803. (abstract)

Ishikawa, Tomomoto, KeumSil Hwang, Deborah Lazzarino, and Patricia L. Morris. 2005. "Sertoli cell expression of steroidogenic acute regulatory protein-related lipid transfer 1 and 5 domain-containing proteins and sterol regulatory element binding protein-1 are interleukin-1β regulated by activation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase and cyclooxygenase-2 and cytokine induction," Endocrinology 146(12): 5100–5111. (abstract)

Vigodner, Margarita and Patricia L. Morris. 2005. "Testicular expression of small ubiquitin-related modifier-1 (SUMO-1) supports multiple roles in spermatogenesis: Silencing of sex chromosomes in spermatocytes, spermatid microtubule nucleation, and nuclear reshaping," Developmental Biology 282(2): 480-492. (abstract)

Walch, Laurence, Emanuela Clavarino, and Patricia L. Morris. 2003. "Prostaglandin (PG) FP and EP1 receptors mediate PDF2α and PGE2 regulation of interleukin-1β expression in Leydig cell progenitors," Endocrinology 144(4): 1284–1291. (offsite full text)

Walch, Laurence and Patricia L. Morris. 2002. "Cyclooxygenase 2 pathway mediates IL-1β regulation of IL-1α, -1β, and IL-6 mRNA levels in Leydig cell progenitors," Endocrinology 143(9): 3276–3283. (offsite full text)

Maiti, Sourindra, Marvin L. Meistrich, Gene Wilson, Gunapala Shetty, Marco Marcelli, Michael J. McPhaul, Patricia L. Morris, and Miles F. Wilkinson. 2001. "Irradiation selectively inhibits expression from the androgen-dependent Pem homeobox gene promoter in Sertoli cells," Endocrinology 142(4): 1567–1577. (offsite full text)

Zhang, Di, Tarja-Leena Penttila, Patricia L. Morris, and Robert G. Roeder. 2001. "Cell- and stage-specific high-level expression of TBP-related factor 2 (TRF2) during mouse spermatogenesis," Mechanisms of Development 106(1–2): 203–205. (offsite link)

Zhang, Di, Tarja-Leena Penttila, Patricia L. Morris, Martin Teichmann, and Robert G. Roeder. 2001. "Spermiogenesis deficiency in mice lacking the Trf2 gene," Science 292(5519): 1153–1155. (offsite abstract)

Jenab, Shirzad and Patricia L. Morris. 2000. "Interleukin-6 regulation of kappa opioid receptor gene expression in primary Sertoli cells," Endocrine 13(1): 11–15.

Kanzaki, Masanori and Patricia L. Morris. 1999. "Growth hormone regulates steroidogenic acute regulatory protein expression and steroidogenesis in Leydig cell progenitors," Endocrinology 140(4): 1681–1686. (offsite full text)

Bellefroid, E.J., M. Sahin, D.A. Poncelet, M. Riviere, J.A. Martial, Patricia L. Morris, T. Pieler, C. Szpirer, and D.C. Ward. 1998. "KZF-1, a novel rat KRAB zinc finger encoding gene, is expressed during spermatogenesis," Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1398: 321–329 (offsite link).

Jenab, Shirzad and Patricia L. Morris. 1998. "Testicular leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and LIF receptor mediate phosphorylation of signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT)-3 and STAT-1 and induce c-fos transcription and activator protein-1 activation in rat Sertoli but not germ cells," Endocrinology 139(4): 1883–1890. (offsite full text)

Kanzaki, Masanori and Patricia L. Morris. 1998. "Identification and regulation of testicular interferon-γ (IFNγ) receptor subunits: IFNγ enhances interferon regulatory factor-1 (IRF-1) and interleukin-1β converting enzyme expression," Endocrinology 139(5): 2636–2644. (offsite full text)

Kanzaki, Masanori and Patricia L. Morris. 1998. "Lactogenic hormone-inducible phosphorylation and gamma-activated binding site-binding activities of Stat5b in primary rat Leydig cells and MA-10 mouse Leydig tumor cells," Endocrinology 139(4): 1872–1882. (offsite full text)

Kharbanda, Surender, Pramod Pandey, Patricia L. Morris, Young Whang, Yuhui Xu, Satin Sawant, Li-Ji Zhu, Narender Kumar, Zhi-Min Yuan, Ralph Weichselbaum, Charles L Sawyers, Tej K Pandita, and Donald Kufe. 1998. "Functional role of the c-Abl tyrosine kinase in meiosis I," Oncogene 16(14): 1773–1777. (offsite PDF)

Jenab, Shirzad and Patricia L. Morris. 1997. "Transcriptional regulation of Sertoli cell immediate early genes by interleukin-6 and interferon-γ is mediated through phosphorylation of STAT-3 and STAT-1 proteins," Endocrinology 138(7): 2740–2746. (offsite full text)

Jenab, Shirzad and Patricia L. Morris. 1996. "Differential activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT)-3 and STAT-1 transcription factors and c-fos messenger ribonucleic acid by interleukin-6 and interferon-gamma in Sertoli cells," Endocrinology 137(11): 4738–4743. (offsite abstract)



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31 October 2007