Recent Faculty Publications

de Santana Barros AKO, Gomes-Filho IS, da Cruz SS, Trindade SC, Miranda SS, Figueiredo ACMG, Carneiro DO, Dos Santos MCAM, de Souza Sacramento I, de Moraes Marcílio Cerqueira E, Batista JET, Hintz AM, Seymour GJ, Scannapieco FA, Loomer PM, de Santana Passos-Soares J. (2026) Obesity and Oral Health-Related Quality of Life: An Exploratory Analysis of Associated Factors. Oral diseases (Apr).
Ghazy MA, Chodavarapu S, Ramcharan S, Stowell GA, Kaguni JM, Sutton MD. (2026) The loop domains of the E. coli ß sliding clamp are required for Hda-dependent inactivation of DnaA. Genetics (Mar).
Bisseling Q, Parker MD, Kerst S, Pasternack RA, Tondreau J, Breur M, van Rooijen-van Leeuwen GM, Tonduti D, Salsano E, Darling A, van Wijk JAE, Törnroth-Horsefield S, Bugiani M, Pouwels PJW, Waisfisz Q, van der Knaap MS, Min R. (2026) A Depolarizing Leak in Sodium Bicarbonate Cotransporter NBCe1 Causes Brain Edema. Annals of clinical and translational neurology (Mar).
Arany PR, Charles-Ayinde M, Fontana M, Huang G, Levy SM, Messadi DV, Moffat R, Naavaal S, Tomar SL, Yu YH, Fox CH. (2026) The AADOCR Position Statement on Topical Fluoride. Journal of dental research (Mar), 105(3): 285-289.
Chizuk H, Miecznikowski JC, Rawlings A, Sayeed J, Haider MN, Leddy J, Arany P. (2026) miR-26b-5p responds to aerobic exercise intervention for concussion recovery in adolescent athletes: a pilot trial. Brain injury (Mar), 40(5): 357-364.
Isola G, Annunziata M, Angjelova A, Alibrandi A, Tartaglia GM, Scannapieco FA. (2026) Effectiveness of two supportive periodontal care protocols and outcome predictors during periodontitis: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of periodontology (Mar), 97(3): 435-449.
David AC, Amin M, Varsani R, Tang MZ, Kalshetti D, Junior JAS, Zamuner SR, Arany P. (2026) Photobiomodulation Activated TGF-ß1 Has Discrete Roles in Modulating Macrophage Responses to Bothrops jararacussu Venom. Journal of biophotonics (Feb), 19(2): e70238.
Alhaddad B, Wrynn T, Kiripolsky J, Kasperek EM, Miecznikowski JC, Perez P, Twohig J, Warner BM, Romano RA, Kramer JM. (2026) IL-36 mediates immune activation in Sjögren's disease and may represent a novel biomarker of disease. Journal of leukocyte biology (Feb), 118(2)
Hanna R, Chow R, Dalvi S, Arany PR, Bensadoun RJ, Santos-Silva AR, Tunér J, Carroll JD, Hamblin MR, Anders J, Rochkind S, Heiskanen V, Raber-Durlacher JE, Laakso EL. (2026) Photobiomodulation Therapy in the Management of Orofacial Neuropathic Pain-WALT Position Paper 2026. Journal of clinical medicine (Feb), 15(3).
Shetty S, Vijayan S, George BM, Mohandas Rao KG, Arany P, Bensadoun RJ, Houreld N, Laakso EL, Maiya GA. (2026) Effect of photobiomodulation on pain and clinical outcomes after total knee arthroplasty in individuals with knee osteoarthritis: A scoping review. Journal of orthopaedics (Feb), 72: 133-142.
Ponnusamy S, Amin M, Bhat A, Garczynski S, Rahman SU, Rasam S, Govindool SR, Khan I, Arany P. (2026) Photobiomodulation Activates Coordinated Signaling Networks to Modulate Inflammation, Adaptive Stress, and Tissue Healing via Redox-Mediated NF?B-TGF-ß1-ATF-4 Axis. Cells (Jan), 15(1).
Biswas S, Kramer JM. (2026) TLR7 and TLR9 have overlapping but distinct roles in systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjögren's disease. Frontiers in immunology (Jan), 17: 1802432.
Eberhart T, Charles KN, Salumbides-Torres B, Price N, Fliesler SJ, Faust PL, Kovacs WJ. (2026) Dysregulated lipid metabolism and hypomyelination in postnatal peroxisome-deficient Pex2 knockout Zellweger mice. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience (Jan), 19: 1636268.
Corral JG, Cheli VT, Santiago-Gonzalez DA, Kedari KG, Paez PM. (2026) Chemogenetic Schwann cell activation impairs early myelination and triggers adult demyelination in the peripheral nervous system. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience (Jan), 20: 1771951.
Saleem K, Xiao Z, Zhu B, Ren Y, Yan Z, Feng J. (2026) Elevated SGK1 increases Tau phosphorylation and microtubule instability in Alzheimer's patient-derived cortical neurons. Molecular psychiatry (Jan), 31(1): 332-342.
Zhai H, Jin X, Moghaddam AO, Spieker MF, Seiffert-Sinha K, Sinha AA, Yang R, Meng F. (2026) 3D organotypic skin models recapitulate autoantibody-driven pemphigus pathomechanisms and targeted therapeutic response. Science advances (Jan), 12(2): eadz5003.
Genovesi EA, Canallatos JE, Hulyalkar LD, Varsani RV, Makowka S, Atalla D, Arany P. (2026) In vitro Assessment of Open-Access Digital Workflow for Presurgical Nasoalveolar Molding in Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate. Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dentistry (Jan), 18: 588444.
Solis LM, Melendez WL, Fuke SH, Paul S, Garza AB, Garcia R, Halfon MS, Girgis HZ. (2025) EnhancerMatcher: comparing cell-type-specific enhancer activity of DNA sequences using deep convolutional neural networks and explainable AI. NAR genomics and bioinformatics (Dec), 7(4): lqaf151.
Bynum KT, Panasiewicz M, Kay JG. (2025) Neutrophil Activation Decreases Ability to Kill Oral Streptococcus gordonii. Molecular oral microbiology (Dec)e70019.