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Phua YL, Chen KH, Hemker SL, Marrone AK, Bodnar AJ, Liu X, Clugston A, Kostka D, Butterworth MB and Ho J. Loss of miR-17~92 results in dysregulation of Cftr in nephron progenitors. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol, 2019 May 1;316(5):F993-F1005. PMID: 30838872.
Cerqueira DM, Hemker SL, Bodnar AJ, Ortiz DM, Oladipupo FO, Mukherjee E, Gong Z, Appolonia C, Muzumdar RH, Sims-Lucas S and Ho J. In utero exposure to maternal diabetes impairs nephron progenitor differentiation. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol, 2019 Nov 1;317(5):F1318-F1330. PMID: 31509011. *APS Select article, recognizing distinction in scholarship.
Anslow MJ, Bodnar AJ, Cerqueira DM, Bushnell D, Shrom BE, Sims-Lucas S, Bates CM and Ho J. Increased rates of vesicoureteral reflux in mice from deletion of Dicer in the peri-Wolffian duct stroma. Pediatr Res. 2020 Feb 3;. doi: 10.1038/s41390-020-0788-7. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 32015493.
Hemker SL, Cerqueira DM, Bodnar AJ, Cargill KR, Clugston A, Anslow MJ, Sims-Lucas S, Kostka D and Ho J. Deletion of hypoxia-responsive microRNA-210 results in a sex-specific decrease in nephron number. FASEB J. 2020 Mar 5; doi: 10.1096/fj.201902767R. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 32141129.
Chiba T, Cerqueira DM, Li Y, Bodnar AJ, Mukherjee E, Pfister K, Phua YL, Shaikh K, Sanders BT, Hemker SL, Pagano PJ, Wu YL, Ho J+ and Sims-Lucas S+. Endothelial-derived miR-17~92 promotes angiogenesis to protect against renal ischemia-reperfusion injury. J Am Soc Nephrol, 2021 Jan 29 ASN.2020050717. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2020050717. PMID: 33514560.
Clugston A, Bodnar AJ, Cerqueira DM, Phua YL, Lawler A, Boggs K, Pfenning A, Ho J+ and Kostka D+. Chromatin accessibility and microRNA expression in nephron progenitor cells during kidney development. Genomics, 2021 Dec 20; 114(1): 278-291. doi: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2021.12.017. PMID: 34942352.