Manuscripts

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Leung HM, Birket SE, Hyun C, Ford TN, Cui D, Solomon GM, Shei RJ, Adewale AT, Lenzie AR, Fernandez-Petty CM, Zheng H, Palermo JH, Cho DY, Woodworth BA, Yonker LM, Hurley BP, Rowe SM, Tearney GJ. Intranasal micro-optical coherence tomography imaging for cystic fibrosis studies. Sci Transl Med. 2019 Aug 7;11(504).

Courtney M Fernandez-Petty, Gareth W Hughes, Hannah L Bowers, John D Watson, Brad H Rosen, Stacy M Townsend, Carlo Santos, Caroline E Ridley, Kengyeh K Chu, Susan E Birket, Yao Li, Marina Mazur, Emily Falk Libby, Heather Hathorne, Teodor Duro, Justin Hanes, Guillermo J. Tearney, John P Clancy, John F Englehardt, David J Thornton, William P Wiesmann, Shenda M Baker, Steven M Rowe. A novel glycopolymer improves abnormal cystic fibrosis mucus. JCI Insight. Accepted. ZE Plyler, SE Birket, BD Schultz, JS Hong, SM Rowe, CF Petty, MR Crowley, DK Crossman, TR Schoeb, E Sorscher. Non-obstructive vas deferens and epididymis loss in cystic fibrosis rats. Mechanisms of Development. Mech Dev. Feb;155:15-26. PMID: 30391480.

ZE Plyler, SE Birket, BD Schultz, JS Hong, SM Rowe, CF Petty, MR Crowley, DK Crossman, TR Schoeb, E Sorscher. Non-obstructive vas deferens and epididymis loss in cystic fibrosis rats. Mechanisms of Development. Mech Dev. Feb;155:15-26. PMID: 30391480.

Susan E Birket, Joy M Davis, Courtney M Fernandez, Katherine L Tuggle, Ashley M Oden, Kengyeh K Chu, Guillermo J Tearney, Michelle V Fanucchi, Eric J Sorscher, Steven M Rowe. Development of an Airway Mucus Defect in the CF Rat. JCI Insight. 2018 Jan 11;3(1). PMID: 29321377.

Kengyeh Chu, Diana Mojahed, Courtney Fernandez, Yao Li, Linbo Liu, Eric Wilsterman, Bradford Diephuis, Susan Birket, Hannah Bowers, George Solomon, Benjamin Schuster, Justin Hanes, Steven Rowe, Guillermo Tearney. Particle tracking microrheology using micro-optical coherence tomography. Biophys J. 2016 Sep 6;111(5):1053-63. PMID 27602733.

Susan E. Birket, Linbo Liu, Grace H. Houser, Kengyeh K. Chu, Courtney M. Fernandez, George M. Solomon, Vivian Lin, Suresh Shastry, Marina Mazur, Peter A. Sloane, Justin Hanes, William E. Grizzle, Eric J. Sorscher, Guillermo J. Tearney, Steven M. Rowe. Combination Therapy with Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Modulators Augment the Airway Functional Microanatomy. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2016 May;310(1):L928-39. PMID 26968770.

Linbo Liu, Suresh Shastry, Suzanne Byan-Parker, Grace Houser, Kengyeh K. Chu, Susan E. Birket, Courtney M. Fernandez, Joseph A. Gardecki, William E. Grizzle, Eric J. Wilsterman, Eric J. Sorscher, Steven M. Rowe, and Guillermo J. Tearney "An Autoregulatory Mechanism Governing Mucociliary Transport Is Sensitive to Mucus Load", American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, Vol. 51, No. 4 (2014), pp. 485-493. PMID 24937762.

 

Published Abstracts

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Courtney M Fernandez, Gareth W Hughes, Andrew Lenzie, Ren-Jay Shei, James D Johns, Hannah L Bowers, John D Watson, Susan E Birket, Emily Falk Libby, Heather Hathorne, Guillermo J Tearney, David J Thornton, William P Wiesmann, Shenda M Baker, Steven M Rowe. PAAG Alters the Viscoelasticity and Transport of CF Mucus. (2017), Poster Session Abstracts. Pediatr Pulmonol. 52: S207.

Morgan L. Locy, Courtney M. Fernandez, Mark Johnson, Andrew Lenzie, Steven M. Rowe, Victor J. Thannickal. Protein Oxidative Tyrosine Cross-linking Disrupts Cystic Fibrosis Mucus Viscoelastic Dynamics. (2017), Poster Session Abstracts. Pediatr Pulmonol. 52: S113.

Andrew R. Lenzie, Courtney M. Fernandez, Henry K Fortinberry, Timothy Adewale, Susan E. Birket, Emily Falk Libby, Peter Heifetz, Dan Copeland, Carolyn Durham, Guillermo J. Tearney, Steven M. Rowe. Densitometry Analysis by μOCT Quantifies Improved Dispersion and Viscosity of Treated Sputum Samples. (2017), Poster Session Abstracts. Pediatr Pulmonol. 52: S77.

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Courtney M. Fernandez, George A. Nelson IV, Susan E. Birket, Ashley M. Oden, Charles O. Elson III, William Wiesmann, Shenda Baker, Steven M. Rowe. PAAG Improves Survival of CFTR-/- Mice with Distal Intestinal Obstructive Syndrome (DIOS). Pediatric Pulmonary 51:S242 (2016).

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Susan E. Birket, Katherine L. Tuggle, Ashley M. Oden, Courtney M. Fernandez, Kengyeh K. Chu, Gary J. Tearney, Michelle V. Fanucchi, Eric J. Sorscher, Steven M. Rowe. The Mucus Transport Defect In The CF Rat Airway Is Normalized By Addition Of Bicarbonate. Pediatric Pulmonary 51:S77 (2016).

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Courtney M. Fernandez, Susan E. Birket, George A. Nelson IV, John D. Watson, Charles O. Elson III, Shenda Baker, Steven M. Rowe. CFTR-/- Rat with Distal Intestinal Obstructive Syndrome (DIOS). Pediatric Pulmonary 50:S281 (2015).

 

Kengyeh K. Chu, Tim N. Ford, Diana Mojahed, Courtney Fernandez, Susan E. Birket,  George M. Solomon, Steven M. Rowe*, and Guillermo J. Tearney*. In situ rheology and pH measurement of airway mucus with dual modality µOCT/fluorescence imaging. Pediatric Pulmonary 50:S298 (2015).

 

Matthew D. Fain, S.Vamsee Raju, Vivian Y. Lin, Li Ping Tang, Courtney M. Fernandez, Marina Mazur, J.E. Blalock, Patricia L. Jackson, Steven M. Rowe. Effect of E-Cigarettes on Airway Epithelial Ion Transport and Implications for Mucociliary Clearance Defense. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 191:A3868 (2015).

 

Diana Mojahed, Kengyeh K. Chu, Susan E. Birket, Courtney Fernandez, Steven M. Rowe, Guillermo J. Tearney. Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) implementation in micro-optical coherence tomography rheology. International Society of Optics and Photonics (SPIE) West Conference. San Francisco, CA (2015).

 

Courtney M. Fernandez, Hannah Bowers, John D. Watson, Susan E. Birket, Kengyeh K. Chu, S Vamsee Raju, Shenda Baker, Guillermo J. Tearney, Steven M. Rowe. (2014) PAAG Decreases Viscosity and Improves Transportability of Cystic Fibrosis Mucus In Situ. Pediatric Pulmonary 50:S306 (2014).

 

Courtney M. Fernandez, Lianwu Fu, James F. Collawn. Correcting the Folding Defect of ΔF508 CFTR using Pharmaceutical Chaperones. Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS). San Jose, CA (2012).