Barbara E. Slack, PhD
Emeritus Associate Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Biography
Barbara Slack, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine.She has been a member of the faculty since 1995. Previously, Dr. Slack was a research and postdoctoral fellow at both MIT and Harvard University. Her laboratory studies signal transduction pathways coupled to G protein-coupled receptors.
Education
- Queen's University, PhD
- Queen's University, MSc
- Queen's University, BS
Publications
- Published on 1/1/2023
Blusztajn JK, Slack BE. Accelerated Breakdown of Phosphatidylcholine and Phosphatidylethanolamine Is a Predominant Brain Metabolic Defect in Alzheimer's Disease. J Alzheimers Dis. 2023; 93(4):1285-1289. PMID: 37182883.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/28/2017
Blusztajn JK, Slack BE, Mellott TJ. Neuroprotective Actions of Dietary Choline. Nutrients. 2017 Jul 28; 9(8). PMID: 28788094.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/23/2017
Mellott TJ, Huleatt OM, Shade BN, Pender SM, Liu YB, Slack BE, Blusztajn JK. Correction: Perinatal Choline Supplementation Reduces Amyloidosis and Increases Choline Acetyltransferase Expression in the Hippocampus of the APPswePS1dE9 Alzheimer's Disease Model Mice. PLoS One. 2017; 12(3):e0174875. PMID: 28334015.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/19/2017
Mellott TJ, Huleatt OM, Shade BN, Pender SM, Liu YB, Slack BE, Blusztajn JK. Perinatal Choline Supplementation Reduces Amyloidosis and Increases Choline Acetyltransferase Expression in the Hippocampus of the APPswePS1dE9 Alzheimer's Disease Model Mice. PLoS One. 2017; 12(1):e0170450. PMID: 28103298.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/11/2013
Burke RM, Norman TA, Haydar TF, Slack BE, Leeman SE, Blusztajn JK, Mellott TJ. BMP9 ameliorates amyloidosis and the cholinergic defect in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Nov 26; 110(48):19567-72. PMID: 24218590.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/29/2012
Akle V, Guelin E, Yu L, Brassard-Giordano H, Slack BE, Zhdanova IV. F-spondin/spon1b expression patterns in developing and adult zebrafish. PLoS One. 2012; 7(6):e37593. PMID: 22768035.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/17/2011
Cissé M, Duplan E, Guillot-Sestier MV, Rumigny J, Bauer C, Pagès G, Orzechowski HD, Slack BE, Checler F, Vincent B. The extracellular regulated kinase-1 (ERK1) controls regulated alpha-secretase-mediated processing, promoter transactivation, and mRNA levels of the cellular prion protein. J Biol Chem. 2011 Aug 19; 286(33):29192-206. PMID: 21586567.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/17/2011
Carey RM, Blusztajn JK, Slack BE. Surface expression and limited proteolysis of ADAM10 are increased by a dominant negative inhibitor of dynamin. BMC Cell Biol. 2011; 12:20. PMID: 21586144.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/27/2009
Kishi S, Slack BE, Uchiyama J, Zhdanova IV. Zebrafish as a genetic model in biological and behavioral gerontology: where development meets aging in vertebrates--a mini-review. Gerontology. 2009; 55(4):430-41. PMID: 19654474.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/1/2008
Slack BE, Blusztajn JK. Differential regulation of mTOR-dependent S6 phosphorylation by muscarinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes. J Cell Biochem. 2008 Aug 1; 104(5):1818-31. PMID: 18348264.
Read at: PubMed
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