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Katherine C Wood

University of Pennsylvania
Verified email at pennmedicine.upenn.edu
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Body image dissatisfaction in preadolescent children

KC Wood, JA Becker, JK Thompson - Journal of applied developmental …, 1996 - Elsevier
This study was designed to explore preadolescent children's body image dissatisfaction
and to identify psychometrically sound measures of dissatisfaction for this population. …

Sickle cell disease vasculopathy: a state of nitric oxide resistance

KC Wood, LL Hsu, MT Gladwin - Free radical biology and medicine, 2008 - Elsevier
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hereditary hemoglobinopathy characterized by microvascular
vaso-occlusion with erythrocytes containing polymerized sickle (S) hemoglobin, erythrocyte …

[PDF][PDF] Sickle cell disease: role of reactive oxygen and nitrogen metabolites.

KC Wood, DN Granger - Clinical & Experimental Pharmacology & …, 2007 - Citeseer
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited disorder of haemoglobin synthesis that is associated
with significant morbidity and mortality due to sequelae of episodic vaso-occlusive events: …

[PDF][PDF] Integration of visual information in auditory cortex promotes auditory scene analysis through multisensory binding

H Atilgan, SM Town, KC Wood, GP Jones, RK Maddox… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
How and where in the brain audio-visual signals are bound to create multimodal objects
remains unknown. One hypothesis is that temporal coherence between dynamic multisensory …

Circulating blood endothelial nitric oxide synthase contributes to the regulation of systemic blood pressure and nitrite homeostasis

KC Wood, MM Cortese-Krott, JC Kovacic… - … , and vascular biology, 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
Objective— Mice genetically deficient in endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS −/− ) are
hypertensive with lower circulating nitrite levels, indicating the importance of constitutively …

Cortical inhibitory interneurons control sensory processing

KC Wood, JM Blackwell, MN Geffen - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2017 - Elsevier
… Author links open overlay panel Katherine C Wood , Jennifer M Blackwell , Maria Neimark
… (c) Example neuron showing increasing levels of SOM activation in visual cortex decreases …

The hydrogen highway to reperfusion therapy

KC Wood, MT Gladwin - Nature medicine, 2007 - nature.com
… The opening of this channel causes a loss of membrane potential, mitochondrial swelling
with membrane rupture, cytochrome C release and apoptotic cell death. … Ischemia-reperfusion …

Endothelial cell NADPH oxidase mediates the cerebral microvascular dysfunction in sickle cell transgenic mice

KC Wood, RP Hebbel, DN Granger - The FASEB journal, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Although blood cell‐endothelial cell adhesion and oxidative stress have been implicated in
the pathogenesis of sickle cell disease (SCD), the nature of the linkage between these …

Report of the national heart, lung, and blood institute working group on epigenetics and hypertension

…, MB Soares, M Szyf, HE Tolunay, KC Wood… - …, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
Hypertension, defined as a condition associated with 140-mm Hg systolic blood pressure or
90-mm Hg diastolic blood pressure, affects 1 billion people worldwide, 1 and in 2009 it cost …

Cytochrome b5 reductase 3 modulates soluble guanylate cyclase redox state and cGMP signaling

…, NT Carew, N Cantu-Medellin, KC Wood… - Circulation …, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Rationale: Soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) heme iron, in its oxidized state (Fe 3+ ), is
desensitized to NO and limits cGMP production needed for downstream activation of protein …