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Alina Iuga

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Verified email at unchealth.unc.edu
Cited by 3719

Cysteine depletion induces pancreatic tumor ferroptosis in mice

…, ES Seeley, E Stone, G Georgiou, U Manor, A Iuga… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Ferroptosis is a form of cell death that results from the catastrophic accumulation of lipid
reactive oxygen species (ROS). Oncogenic signaling elevates lipid ROS production in many …

A genome-wide Drosophila RNAi screen identifies DYRK-family kinases as regulators of NFAT

Y Gwack, S Sharma, J Nardone, B Tanasa, A Iuga… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Precise regulation of the NFAT (nuclear factor of activated T cells) family of transcription factors
(NFAT1–4) is essential for vertebrate development and function 1 . In resting cells, NFAT …

[HTML][HTML] Hepatic pathology in patients dying of COVID-19: a series of 40 cases including clinical, histologic, and virologic data

SM Lagana, S Kudose, AC Iuga, MJ Lee… - Modern …, 2020 - nature.com
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus disease 19, or COVID-19) primarily causes
pulmonary injury, but has been implicated to cause hepatic injury, both by serum markers …

[PDF][PDF] β2 adrenergic-neurotrophin feedforward loop promotes pancreatic cancer

…, DL Worthley, J Neumann, J Werner, AC Iuga… - Cancer cell, 2018 - cell.com
Catecholamines stimulate epithelial proliferation, but the role of sympathetic nerve signaling
in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is poorly understood. Catecholamines …

A functional genomics predictive network model identifies regulators of inflammatory bowel disease

LA Peters, J Perrigoue, A Mortha, A Iuga, W Song… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
A major challenge in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is the integration of diverse IBD data
sets to construct predictive models of IBD. We present a predictive model of the immune …

Perineural and intraneural invasion in posttherapy pancreaticoduodenectomy specimens predicts poor prognosis in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

…, MH Katz, A Rashid, H Wang, AC Iuga… - The American journal …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Perineural invasion (PNI) is one of the established prognostic factors in pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinoma (PDAC). However, the prognostic significance of PNI in patients with PDAC …

Cholinergic signaling via muscarinic receptors directly and indirectly suppresses pancreatic tumorigenesis and cancer stemness

…, YH Tailor, K Nagar, RA Friedman, AC Iuga… - Cancer discovery, 2018 - AACR
In many solid tumors, parasympathetic input is provided by the vagus nerve, which has been
shown to modulate tumor growth. However, whether cholinergic signaling directly regulates …

Experimental microdissection enables functional harmonisation of pancreatic cancer subtypes

…, AR Sepulveda, JM Genkinger, J Zhang, AC Iuga… - Gut, 2019 - gut.bmj.com
Objective Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) has among the highest stromal
fractions of any cancer and this has complicated attempts at expression-based molecular …

Lysosomal acid lipase deficiency allograft recurrence and liver failure-clinical outcomes of 18 liver transplantation patients

DL Bernstein, S Lobritto, A Iuga, H Remotti… - Molecular genetics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Alina Iuga and Helen Remotti provided pathology images and analyses. Steven Lobritto,
Marie Isabel Fiel, Thomas Schiano and Manisha Balwani provided clinical and pathology data, …

Plasticity of intragraft alloreactive T cell clones in human gut correlates with transplant outcomes

…, XV Guo, Y Zhang, WI Kuo, HM Ko, A Iuga… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - rupress.org
The site of transition between tissue-resident memory (TRM) and circulating phenotypes of
T cells is unknown. We integrated clonotype, alloreactivity, and gene expression profiles of …