Heather Himburg, PhD

Publications

• Biomarkers to Predict Lethal Radiation Injury to the Rat Lung.

  (Medhora M, Gao F, Gasperetti T, Narayanan J, Himburg H, Jacobs ER, Clough AV, Fish BL, Szabo A.) Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Mar 15;24(6) PMID: 36982722 PMCID: PMC10053311 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85152016549 03/30/2023

• Analysis of the urinary metabolic profiles in irradiated rats treated with Activated Protein C (APC), a potential mitigator of radiation toxicity.

  (Bansal S, Bansal S, Fish BL, Li Y, Xu X, Fernandez JA, Griffin JH, Himburg HA, Boerma M, Medhora M, Cheema AK.) Int J Radiat Biol. 2023 Feb 24:1-10 PMID: 36827630 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85148957703 02/25/2023

• IPW-5371 mitigates the delayed effects of acute radiation exposure in WAG/RijCmcr rats when started 15 days after PBI with bone marrow sparing.

  (Fish BL, Hart B, Gasperetti T, Narayanan J, Gao F, Veley D, Pierce L, Himburg HA, MacVittie T, Medhora M.) Int J Radiat Biol. 2023 Feb 15:1-11 PMID: 36794325 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85148532473 02/17/2023

• Cord Blood-Derived Endothelial Progenitor Cells Promote In Vivo Regeneration of Human Hematopoietic Bone Marrow.

  (Doan PL, Frei AC, Piryani SO, Szalewski N, Fan E, Himburg HA.) Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2023 Feb 14 PMID: 36792018 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85150303948 02/16/2023

• Delayed renal injury in survivors of hematologic acute radiation syndrome.

  (Gasperetti T, Frei A, Prasad Sharma G, Pierce L, Veley D, Szalewski N, Munjal Mehta S, Fish BL, Pleimes D, Himburg HA.) Int J Radiat Biol. 2023 Jan 25:1-9 PMID: 36688956 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85147298374 01/24/2023

• Organ-Specific Endothelial Dysfunction Following Total Body Irradiation Exposure.

  (Sharma GP, Himburg HA.) Toxics. 2022 Dec 01;10(12) PMID: 36548580 PMCID: PMC9781710 12/23/2022

• Mitigation of Multi-Organ Radiation Injury with ACE2 Agonist Diminazene Aceturate.

  (Gasperetti T, Sharma GP, Frei AC, Pierce L, Veley D, Szalewski N, Narayanan J, Fish BL, Himburg HA.) Radiat Res. 2022 Oct 01;198(4):325-335 PMID: 35904437 PMCID: PMC9641750 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85139804264 07/30/2022

• Chronic stress promotes an immunologic inflammatory state and head and neck cancer growth in a humanized murine model.

  (Zenga J, Awan MJ, Frei A, Petrie E, Sharma GP, Shreenivas A, Shukla M, Himburg HA.) Head Neck. 2022 Jun;44(6):1324-1334 PMID: 35261119 PMCID: PMC9081149 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85125920861 03/10/2022

• Pharmacologic ACE-Inhibition Mitigates Radiation-Induced Pneumonitis by Suppressing ACE-Expressing Lung Myeloid Cells.

  (Sharma GP, Fish BL, Frei AC, Narayanan J, Gasperetti T, Scholler D, Pierce L, Szalewski N, Blue N, Medhora M, Himburg HA.) Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2022 May 01;113(1):177-191 PMID: 35093482 PMCID: PMC9018504 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85125928392 01/31/2022

• Autologous CD34+ stem cell humanization in head and neck cancer modeling: The translational importance of T cell maturation

  (Zenga J, Awan MJ, Frei A, Shukla M, Shreenivas A, Wong SJ, Himburg HA.) Oral Oncology Reports. 2022, 100010. ISSN 2772-9060, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oor.2022.100010. 12/30/2022

• Neuropilin 1 regulates bone marrow vascular regeneration and hematopoietic reconstitution.

  (Termini CM, Pang A, Fang T, Roos M, Chang VY, Zhang Y, Setiawan NJ, Signaevskaia L, Li M, Kim MM, Tabibi O, Lin PK, Sasine JP, Chatterjee A, Murali R, Himburg HA, Chute JP.) Nat Commun. 2021 Nov 30;12(1):6990 PMID: 34848712 PMCID: PMC8635308 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85120176028 12/02/2021

• Brain-derived neurotrophic factor promotes immune reconstitution following radiation injury via activation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells.

  (Sharma GP, Frei AC, Narayanan J, Gasperetti T, Veley D, Amjad A, Albano K, Fish BL, Himburg HA.) PLoS One. 2021;16(10):e0259042 PMID: 34695155 PMCID: PMC8544859 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85117930366 10/26/2021