Publications

Veronica Alonso-Perez, Vanessa Hernandez, Marco A. Calzado, Alba Vicente-Blazquez, Consuelo Gajate, Rafael Soler-Torronteras, Kathleen DeCicco-Skinner, Angels Sierra and Faustino Mollinedo. (2024). Suppression of metastatic organ colonization and antiangiogenic activity of the orally bioavailable membrane-raft-targeted alkylphospholipid edelfosine.  Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy; 171: 116149. https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0753-3322(24)00030-1 

Ochiai M, Fierstein S, XsSali F, DeVito N, Purkey LR, May R, Correa-Medine A, Kelley M, Page TD, DeCicco-Skinner K. (2023). Unlocking drug resistance in Multiple Myeloma: Adipocytes as modulators of treatment response. Cancers; 15(17): 4347. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15174347.

Kelley, MB, Geddes TJ, Ochiai M, Lampl NM, Kothmann WW, Fierstein SR, Kent V, DeCicco-Skinner KL (2022) Loss of Tpl2 activates compensatory signaling and resistance to EGFR/MET dual inhibition in v-RAS transduced keratinocytes. PLoS ONE 17(3): e0266017 http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266017

Kelley, M., Fierstein, S, Purkey, L, and DeCicco-Skinner, KL. (2022). Endothelial Tube Formation Assay: An in vitro model for angiogenesis, VEGF signaling, Caroline Pellet-Many (Ed.), Springer Nature, ISBN 978-1-0716-2216-2.

Rowe, C., Debridge-Perry, M., Bonan, N., DeCicco-Skinner, K.L., Davidson, T., Connaughton, V. (2022). Prolonged hyperglycemia affects cognitive performance and causes tissue-specific neurochemical and vascular changes. Under Review. 

Mandy Ng, Kathleen DeCicco-Skinner, Victoria P Connaughton. (2020) Using zebrafish to assess the effect of chronic, early developmental exposure to environmentally relevant concentrations of 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin. Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology. 76, 103356.

Nicole F. Bonan, David Kowalski, Kaitie Kudlac, Kira Flaherty, J. Curtis Gwilliam, Lauren G. Falkenberg, Erik Maradiaga, Kathleen L. DeCicco-Skinner. (2019) Inhibition of HGF/MET signaling decreases overall tumor burden and blocks malignant conversion in Tpl2-related skin cancer. Oncogenesis. 8(1),1-12.

Tanvir, Z, Nelson, RF, DeCicco-Skinner, K, Connaughton, VP. (2018) One month of hyperglycemia alters spectral responses of the zebrafish photopic ERG. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 11, dmm035220.

Bullwinkle, EM, Parker, MD, Bonan, NF, Falkenberg, LG, Davison, SP, DeCicco-Skinner, KL. (2016) Adipocytes contribute to the growth and progression of multiple myeloma: Unraveling obesity related differences in adipocyte signaling. Cancer Letters. 380(1), 114-121.

Bonan, N and DeCicco-Skinner, KL. (2018). Obesity as a promoter of cancer development and progression, Obesity, Hülya Çakmur (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-6493-7, InTech, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.80516 

Davis, CM, DeCicco-Skinner, KL, Hienz, RD. (2015) Deficits in Sustained Attention and Changes in Dopaminergic Protein Levels Following Exposure to Proton Radiation are related to Basal Dopaminergic Function. PLoS One.  10(12):e0144556.

Wetzell, BB, Muller, MM, Flax, SM, King, HE, DeCicco-Skinner, KL, Riley, AL. (2015) Effect of Preexposure on Methylphenidate-Induced Taste Avoidance and Related BDNF/TrkB Activity in the Rat. Psychopharmacology.  232, 2837-2847. 

Davis CM, DeCicco-Skinner KL, Roma PG, and Hienz RD. (2014) Changes in Neurobehavioral Performance and Dopaminergic Function Associated with Exposure to Space Radiation. Radiation Research.  181, 258–271.

Wetzell, BB, Muller, MM, Cobuzzi, JL, Hurwitz, ZE, DeCicco-Skinner, KL, Riley, AL. (2014). Effect of age on methylphenidate-induced conditioned taste avoidance and related BDNF/TrkB signaling in the insular cortex of the rat. Psychopharmacology. 231(8):1493-501.

DeCicco-Skinner KL, Henry GH, Cataisson C, Tabib T, Gwilliam JC, Watson N, Bullwinkle, EM, Falkenberg, L, O’Neill R, Moran, A, Wiest JS. (2014) Endothelial cell tube formation assay for the study of in vitro angiogenesis. J. Vis. Exp. (91), e51312.

DeCicco-Skinner KL, Jung SA, Tabib T, Gwilliam JC, Alexander H, Goodheart SE, Merchant AS, Shan M, Garber C, Wiest JS. (2013) Tpl2 knockout keratinocytes have increased biomarkers for invasion and metastasis. Carcinogenesis. 34(12):2789-98.

DeCicco-Skinner KL, Nolan SJ, Deshpande MM, Trovato EL, Dempsey TA, Wiest JS. (2013) Altered Prostanoid Signaling Contributes to Increased Skin Tumorigenesis in Tpl2 Knockout Mice. PLoS ONE 8(2):e56212.

Kohut SJ, DeCicco-Skinner KL, Johari S, Hurwitz ZE, Baumann MH, Riley AL.  (2011) Differential modulation of cocaine’s discriminative cue by repeated and variable stress exposure: Relation to monoamine transporter levels. Neuropharmacology. 2012 Aug;63(2):330-7.

DeCicco-Skinner KL, Trovato EL, Simmons JK, Lepage PK, Wiest J. (2011) Loss of Tumor Progression Locus 2 (TPL2) enhances tumorigenesis and inflammation in two-stage skin carcinogenesis.  Oncogene 30(4):389-97.