Stanic, Golos co-author articles in Frontiers in Immunology and Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging


Aleks Stanic, MD, PhD, associate professor in the divisions of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and Reproductive Sciences, as well as Thaddeus Golos, PhD, professor in Comparative Bioscience and Ob-Gyn, co-authored recent articles in two journals.
In “Decidual leukocytes respond to African lineage Zika virus infection with mild anti-inflammatory changes during acute infection in rhesus macaques”, published in Frontiers in Immunology, Stanic, Golos and co-authors evaluated the effect of the Zika virus on pregnant rhesus macaques, and believed the infection creates a pro-inflammatory response. Co-authors on this article include Michelle R. Koenig, Jessica Vazquez, Fernanda B. Leyva Jaimes, and Ann M. Mitzey.
“We found that ZIKV infection was overall associated with mild phenotypic changes in decidual leukocytes that were consistent with an anti-inflammatory response … We believe that the lack of a pro-inflammatory response in the decidua to ZIKV infection is consistent with the results presented in Koenig et al., showing that ZIKV infection in the decidua is mainly restricted to endovascular EVTs and that ZIKV infection causes no clear pathology in the decidua.”
You can read the full article here.
With “Cotyledon-Specific Flow Evaluation of Rhesus Macaque Placental Injury Using Ferumoxytol Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI”, published in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Stanic, Golos and co-authors wanted to measure placental blood flow in rhesus macaques with injuries to their placentas. Co-authors include Ruiming Chen, Daniel Seiter, Logan T. Keding, Jessica Vazquez, Kathleen M. Antony, MD, Heather A. Simmons, Puja Basu, Andres F. Mejia, Kevin M. Johnson, Ruo-Yu Liu, Dinesh M. Shah, and Oliver Wieben.
“This study demonstrates the feasibility of cotyledon-specific functional analysis at multiple gestational time points and injury detection in a placental rhesus macaque model through ferumoxytol-enhanced DCE MRI.”
You can read the full article here.
**by Ob-Gyn Communications Intern Paige Stevenson