2024

Allen KN, Torres-Velarde JM, Vazquez JM, Moreno-Santillán DD, Sudmant PH, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2024. Hypoxia exposure blunts angiogenic signaling and upregulates the antioxidant system in endothelial cells derived from elephant seals. BMC Biology 23:91. PMID: 38654271

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Torres-Velarde JM, Allen KN, Salvador-Pascual A, Leija RG, Loung D, Moreno-Santillán DD, Ensminger DC, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2024. Peroxiredoxin 6 suppresses ferroptosis in lung endothelial cells. Free Radic. Biol. Med. 218, 82-93. PMID: 38579937

2023

Symon TE, Murillo-Cisneros DA, Hernández-Camacho CJ, O’Hara TM, Taylor RJ, Rosado-Berrios CA, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T. 2023. Mercury and selenium concentrations in lanugo of free-ranging California sea lions in the southern Gulf of California, Mexico. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 197, 115712. PMID: 37922756

Nakao LS, Olson MF, Vázquez-Medina JP, Valdivia A. 2023. Editorial: Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) Signaling During Cytoskeleton Dynamics. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 11, 1295263 PMID: 37860818.

Reyes-Ramos CA, J Ramírez-Jirano LJ, Bitzer-Quintero OK, Vázquez-Medina JP, Gaxiola-Robles R, Zenteno-Savín T. 2023. Dolphin leukocytes exhibit an attenuated cytokine response and increase heme oxygenase activity upon exposure to lipopolysaccharide. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A Mol. Integr. Physiol. 281, 111438. PMID: 37119961.

Brassea-Pérez E, Labrada-Martagón V, Hernández-Camacho C, Gaxiola-Robles R, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T. 2023. DEHP exposure impairs human skeletal muscle cell proliferation in primary culture conditions. Cytotechnology. 75, 335-348. PMID: 37389127.

2022

Arango BG, Ensminger DC, Moreno-Santillán DD, Harfush-Meléndez M, López-Reyes EM, Marmolejo-Valencia JA, Merchant-Larios H, Crocker DE, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2022. Oxidative stress is a potential cost of synchronous nesting in olive ridley sea turtles. Antioxidants, 11, 1772. PMID: 36139846

Khudyakov JI, Allen KN, Crocker DE, Trost NS, Roberts AH, Pirard L, Debier C, Piotrowski ER, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2022. Comprehensive molecular and morphological resolution of blubber stratification in a deep-diving, fasting-adapted seal. Front. Physiol., Aquatic Physiol., 2583. PMID: 36589428

Yu JJ, Non NL, Heinrich EC, Gu W, Alcock J, Moya EA, Lawrence ES, Tift MS, O'Brien KA, Storz JF, Signore AV, Khudyakov JI, Milsom WK, Wilson SM, Beall CM, Villafuerte CF, Stobdan T, Julian CG, Moore LG, Fuster MM, Stokes JA, Milner R, West J, Zhang J, Shyy JY, Childebayeva A, Vázquez-Medina JP, Pham LV, Mesarwi OA, Hall JE, Cheviron ZA, Sieker J, Blood AB, Yuan JX, Scott GR, Ponganis PJ, Malhotra A, Powell FL, Simonson TS. 2022. Time Domains of Hypoxia Responses and -Omics Insights. Front. Physiol., Integr. Physiol. 12, 885295. PMID: 36035495

Treidel LA, Quintanilla Ramirez GS, Chung DJ , Menze MA, Vázquez-Medina JP, Williams CM. 2022. Selection on dispersal drives evolution of metabolic capacities for energy production in female wing-polymorphic sand field crickets, Gryllus firmus. J. Evol. Biol. 35, 599-609. PMID: 35255175

Brassea-Péreza E, Hernández-Camacho CJ, Labrada-Martagón V, Vázquez-Medina JP, Gaxiola-Robles R, Zenteno-Savín T. 2022. Oxidative stress induced by phthalates in mammals: State of the art and potential biomarkers. Environ. Res. 206, 112636. PMID: 34973198

2021

Torres-Velarde JM, Kolora SRR, Khudyakov JI, Crocker DE, Sudmant PH, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2021. Elephant seal muscle cells adapt to sustained glucocorticoid exposure by shifting their metabolic phenotype. Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol. 321: R413–R428. PMID: 34260302

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Ensminger DC, Crocker DE, Lam EK, Allen KN, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2021 Repeated stimulation of the HPA axis alters white blood cell counts without increasing oxidative stress or inflammatory cytokines in fasting elephant seal pups. J. Exp. Biol. 224, jeb243198. PMID: 34524449

Ensminger DC, Salvador-Pascual A, Arango BG, Allen KN, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2021. Fasting ameliorates oxidative stress: a review of physiological strategies across life-history events in wild vertebrates. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A Mol. Integr. Physiol. 256, 110929. PMID: 34366875

Zane LH, Ensminger DC, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2021. Short-term elevations in glucocorticoids do not alter telomere lengths: A systematic review and meta-analysis of non-primate vertebrate studies. PLOS One, 16, e0257370. PMID: 34597314

Rodriguez R, Lee A, Godoy-Lugo J, Martinez B, Ohsaki H, Nakano D, Parkes D, Nishiyama A, Vázquez-Medina JP, Ortiz RM. 2021. Chronic AT1 blockade improves hyperglycemia by decreasing adipocyte inflammation and hepatic PCK1 and G6PC1 expression in obese rats. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 321: E714-E727. PMID: 34658252

Piotrowski ER, Tift MS, Crocker DE, Pearson AB, Vázquez-Medina JP, Keith AD, Khudyakov JI. 2021. Ontogeny of carbon monoxide-related gene expression in a deep-diving marine mammal. Front. Physiol., Environmental, Aviation and Space Physiology, 12, 762102. PMID: 34744798

Reyes-Ramos CA, Ramón Gaxiola-Robles, Vázquez-Medina JP, Ramirez-Jirano LJ, Bitzer Quintero OK, Zenteno-Savín T. 2021. In silico characterization of the heme oxygenase 1 from the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): evidence of changes in the active site and purifying selection. Front. Physiol., Aquatic Physiology,12, 711645. PMID: 34456750

Akther F, Razan R, Shaligram S, Graham JL, Stanhope KL, Allen KN, Vázquez-Medina JP, Havel PJ, Rahimian, R. 2021. Potentiation of acetylcholine-induced relaxation of the aorta in male UC Davis type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (UCD-T2DM) rats: sex-specific responses. Front. Physiol., Vascular Physiology, 12, 860. PMID: 34366875

2020

Lam EK, Allen KN, Torres-Velarde JM, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2020. Functional studies with primary cells provide a system for genome-to-phenome investigations in marine mammals. Integr. Comp. Biol. icaa065. PMID: 32516367

Allen KN, Vázquez-Medina JP. Reactive oxygen species (ROS), redox signaling, and regulation of vascular endothelial signaling. 2020. Chatterjee, S. (Ed). Endothelial Signaling in Vascular Dysfunction and Disease: From Bench to Bedside. Academic Press. ISBN: 9780128161968

Vasquez MC, Joyner-Matos J, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T, Freitas R. 2020. Oxidative stress in aquatic ecosystems: Integrated responses to multiple stressors and preparation for oxidative stress. Selected papers from the 3rd international conference. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A Mol. Integr. Physiol. 249, 110770. PMID: 32679265

Del Aguila-Vargas AC, Vázquez-Medina JP, Crocker DE, Méndez-Rodríguez LC, Gaxiola-Robles R, de Anda-Montanez JA, Ramírez-Jirano LJ, Lugo-Lugo O, Zenteno-Savín T. 2020. Antioxidant response to cadmium exposure in primary skeletal muscle cells isolated from humans and elephant seals. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. C Toxicol. Pharmacol. 227:108641. PMID: 31654830

2019

Allen KN, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2019. Natural tolerance to Ischemia and hypoxemia in diving mammals: a review. Time Domains of Hypoxia Adaptation: Evolutionary Insights and Applications Research Topic. Front. Physiol., Integrative Physiology, 10, 1199. PMID: 31620019

Allen KN, Vázquez-Medina JP, Lawler JM, Mellish JE, Horning M, Hindle AG. 2019. Muscular apoptosis but not oxidative stress increases with old age in a long-lived diver, the Weddell seal. J. Exp. Biol. 222, jeb200246. PMID: 31171605

Vázquez-Medina JP, Tao, JQ, Patel P, Bannitz Fernandes R, Dodia C, Sorokina E, Feinstein SI, Chatterjee S, Fisher AB. 2019. Genetic inactivation of the phospholipase A2 activity of peroxiredoxin 6 protects against LPS-induced acute lung injury. Am. J. Physiol. Lung Cell. Mol. Physiol. 316: L656–L668. PMID: 30702344

Bannitz-Fernandes R, Aleixo-Silva R, Silva JP, Dodia C, Vázquez-Medina JP, Tao JQ, Fisher A, Netto L. 2019. Non-mammalian Prdx6 enzymes (proteins with 1-Cys Prdx mechanism) display PLA2 activity similar to the human orthologue. Antioxidants 8, 52. PMID: 30832204

2018

Arevalo JA, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2018. The role of peroxiredoxin 6 in cell signaling. Antioxidants 7, 172. PMID: 30477202

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Vázquez-Medina JP. 2018. Redox signaling and the onset of the inflammatory cascade. S Chatterjee, Jungraithmayr W, Bagchi D. (Eds). Emerging Roles of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods in Immune Support: Immunity and Inflammation in Health and Disease, p. 37-41. Elsevier Press. ISBN: 9780128054178

Rodriguez R, Minas JN, Vázquez-Medina JP, Nakano D, Nishiyama A, Ortiz RM. 2018. Chronic AT1 blockade improves glucose homeostasis in obese OLETF rats. J. Endocrinol. 237, 1-14. PMID: 29643115

Fisher AB, Vázquez-Medina JP, Dodia C, Sorokina E, Tao, JQ, Feinstein SI. 2018. Peroxiredoxin 6 phospholipid hydroperoxidase activity in the repair of peroxidized cell membranes. Redox Biol. 14, 41-46. PMID: 28865296

2016

Vázquez-Medina JP, Dodia C, Weng L, Mesaros C, Blair IA, Feinstein SI, Chatterjee S, Fisher AB. 2016. The phospholipase A2 activity of peroxiredoxin 6 modulates NADPH oxidase 2 activation via lysophosphatidic acid receptor signaling in the pulmonary endothelium and alveolar macrophages. FASEB J. 30, 2885-2898. PMID: 27178323

Tao JQ, Sorokina EM, Vázquez-Medina JP, Mishra MK, Yamada Y, Satalin J, Nieman GF, Nellen JR, Beduhn B, Cantu E, Habashi NM, Jungraithmayr W, Christie JD, Chatterjee S. 2016. Onset of inflammation with ischemia: implications for donor lung preservation and transplant survival. Am. J. Transplant. 16, 2598-2611. PMID: 26998598

Joyner-Matos J, Abele D, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T. 2016. Oxidative stress in aquatic ecosystems: selected papers from the Second International Conference. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A Mol. Integr. Physiol., 200, 1-2. PMID: 27302891

2015

Sharick JT, Vázquez-Medina JP, Ortiz RM, Crocker DE. 2015. Oxidative stress is a potential cost of breeding in male and female northern elephant seals. Funct. Ecol., 29, 367-376. PMID: 25983364

Suzuki M, Lee A, Vázquez-Medina JP, Visccarra JA, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2015. Plasma FGF21concentrations and adipose fibroblast growth factor receptor-1 and β-klotho expression decrease with fasting in Northern elephant seals. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol., 216, 86-89. PMID: 25857751

Minas JN, Thorwald MA, Conte D, Vázquez-Medina JP, Nishiyama A, Ortiz RM. 2015. Angiotensin and mineralocorticoid receptor antagonism attenuates cardiac oxidative stress in angiotensin II-infused rats. Clin. Exp. Pharmacol. Physiol., 42, 1178-1188. PMID: 26234762

2014

Lopez-Cruz RI, Barjau Perez-Milicua M, Crocker DE, Gaxiola-Robles R, Bernal J, de la Rosa A, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savin T. 2014. Purine nucleoside phosphorylase and xanthine oxidase activities in erythrocytes and plasma from marine, semiaquatic and terrestrial mammals. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A Mol. Integr. Physiol., 171, 31-35. PMID: 24530799

2013

Vázquez-Medina JP, Popovich I, Thorwald MA, Rodriguez R, Soñanez-Organis JG, Viscarra JA, Lam L, Peti-Peterdi J, Nakano D, Nishiyama A, Ortiz RM. 2013. Angiotensin receptor mediated oxidative stress is associated with impaired cardiac redox signaling and mitochondrial function in insulin-resistant rats. Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol., 305, H599-H4607. PMID: 23771688

Suzuki M, Vázquez-Medina JP, Viscarra JA, Soñanez-Organis JG, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2013. Activation of systemic, but not local, renin-angiotensin system is associated with local inflammation during prolonged fasting in northern elephant seal pups. J. Exp. Biol., 216, 3215-3221. PMID: 23685967

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Vázquez-Medina JP, Soñanez-Organis JG, Rodriguez R, Viscarra JA, Nishiyama A, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2013. Prolonged fasting activates Nrf2 in postweaned elephant seals. J. Exp. Biol., 216, 2870-2878. PMID: 23619404

Soñanez-Organis JG, Vázquez-Medina JP, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2013. Prolonged fasting activates hypoxia-inducible factors -1α, -2α, and -3α in a tissue-specific manner in northern elephant seal pups. Gene, 526, 155-163. PMID: 23707926

Viscarra JA, Rodriguez R, Vázquez-Medina JP, Lee A, Tift MS, Tavoni S, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2013. Insulin and GLP-1 infusions demonstrate the onset of adipose-specific insulin resistance in a large fasting mammal: potential glucogenic role for GLP-1. Physiol. Rep., 1, p.e00023. PMID: 23997935

Martinez B, Soñanez-Organis JG, Vázquez-Medina JP, Viscarra JA, MacKenzie DS, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2013. Prolonged food deprivation increases mRNA expression of deiodinase 1 & 2, and thyroid hormone receptor β-1 in a fasting-adapted mammal. J. Exp. Biol., 216, 4647-4654. PMID: 24307712

Joyner-Matos J, Puntarulo S, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T. 2013. Oxidative stress in aquatic ecosystems: selected papers from the First International Conference. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A Mol. Integr. Physiol., 165, 381-383. PMID: 23608366

2012

Montez P, Vázquez-Medina JP, Rodriguez R, Thorwald MA, Lam L, Peti-Peterdi J, Nakano D, Nishiyama A, Ortiz RM. 2012. Angiotensin receptor blockade recovers UCP2 expression and aconitase and SDH activities, and ameliorates hepatic oxidative damage in insulin resistant rats. Endocrinology, 153, 5746-5759. PMID: 23087176

Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T, Elsner R, Ortiz RM. 2012. Coping with physiological oxidative stress: a review of antioxidant strategies in seals. J. Comp. Physiol. B, 182, 741-750. PMID: 22327141

Viscarra JA, Vázquez-Medina JP, Champagne CD, Adams S, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2012. Decreased expression of adipose CD36 and FATP1 contributes to increased plasma free fatty acids during prolonged fasting in northern elephant seal pups (Mirounga angustirostris). J. Exp. Biol., 215, 2455-2464. PMID: 22723485

Soñanez-Organis JG, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savin T, Aguilar A, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2012. Prolonged fasting increases purine recycling in postweaning northern elephant seals. J. Exp. Biol., 215, 1448-1455. PMID: 22496280

2011

Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T, Tift MS, Forman HJ, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2011. Apnea stimulates the adaptive response to oxidative stress in elephant seal pups. J. Exp. Biol., 214, 4193-4200. PMID: 22116762

Cantú-Medellín N, Byrd B, Hon A, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T. 2011. Differential antioxidant protection in tissues from marine mammals with distinct diving capacities. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A Mol. Integr. Physiol., 158, 438-443. PMID: 21147244

Vázquez-Medina JP, Soñanez-Organis JG, Burns JM, Zenteno-Savín T., Ortiz R.M. 2011. Antioxidant capacity develops with maturation in the deep diving hooded seal. J. Exp. Biol., 214, 2903-2910. PMID: 21832133

Viscarra J, Vázquez-Medina JP, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2011. Glut4 is upregulated despite decreased insulin signaling during prolonged fasting in northern elephant seal pups. Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol., 300, R150-R154. PMID: 20980624

Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T, Forman HJ, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2011. Prolonged fasting increases glutathione biosynthesis in postweaned northern elephant seals. J. Exp. Biol., 214, 1294-1299. PMID: 21430206

Vázquez-Medina JP, Olguín-Monroy NO, Maldonado PD, Konigsberg M, Santamaria A, Elsner R, Hammill MO, Burns JM, Zenteno-Savín T. 2011. Maturation increases superoxide radical production without increasing oxidative damage in the skeletal muscle of hooded seals (Cystophora cristata). Can. J. Zool., 89, 206-2012. https://doi.org/10.1139/Z10-107

Abele D, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T. 2011. Oxidative Stress in Aquatic Ecosystems. Wiley-Blackwell, U.K. 548 pp. ISBN: 9781444335484

Abele D, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T. 2011. Introduction to oxidative stress in aquatic ecosystems. Abele D, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T. (Eds). Oxidative Stress in Aquatic Ecosystems, p.1-6, Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 9781444335484

Zenteno-Savín T, Vázquez-Medina JP, Cantú-Medellín N, Ponganis PJ, Elsner R. 2011. Ischemia/reperfusion in diving birds and mammals: how they avoid oxidative damage. Abele D, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T. (Eds). Oxidative Stress in Aquatic Ecosystems, p.178-190. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 9781444335484

2010

Vázquez-Medina JP, Crocker DE, Forman HJ, Ortiz RM. 2010. Prolonged fasting does not increase oxidative damage or inflammation in northern elephant seal pups. J. Exp. Biol., 213, 2524-2530. PMID: 20581282

2008

Zenteno-Savín T, Cortés-Jacinto E, Vázquez-Medina JP, Villareal-Colmenares H. 2008. Oxidative stress of juvenile redclaw crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus): Response to varying protein and lipid levels. Hidrobiológica, 18, 147-154. http://www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/hbio/v18n2/v18n2a7.pdf

2007

Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T, Elsner R. 2007. Glutathione protects against dive-associated ischemia/reperfusion in ringed seals. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 345, 110-118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2007.02.003

2006

Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T, Elsner R. 2006. Antioxidant enzymes in ringed seal tissues: Potential protection against dive-associated ischemia/reperfusion. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. C Toxicol. Pharmacol., 142, 198-204. PMID: 16269268