Publications
1. Upmacis RK, RS Deeb and DP Hajjar: Role of nitrogen oxides on eicosanoid production during atherosclerosis: understanding the controversies. Current Atherosclerosis Reports, 3(3):181-182, 2001.2. Deeb RS, D Mittar, TA McCaffrey, DP Hajjar, and RK Upmacis: Tyrosine nitration of prostaglandin H2 synthase. Journal of Lipid Research, 43:1718-1726, 2002.
3. Paoletti R, AM Gotto, DP Hajjar: Inflammation in atherosclerosis and implications for therapy. Circulation, 109(I):1-7, 2004.
4. Upmacis RK, MJ Resnick, D Mittar, RS Deeb and DP Hajjar: Involvement of the mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade in peroxynitrite-mediated arachidonic acid release in vascular smooth muscle cells. American Journal of Physiology, Cell Physiology, 286:C1271-1280, 2004.
5. Deeb, RS, Shen, H, Gamss, C, Gavrilova, T, Summers, BD, Kraemer, R, Hao, G, Gross, S, Maeda, N, Laine', M, Hajjar, DP and Upmacis, RK: Inducible nitric oxide synthase mediates nitration of prostaglandin H2 synthase and suppresses eicosanoid production in atherosclerotic lesions. American Journal of Pathology, 168:349-362, 2006.
6. Deeb, RS, Hao, G, Gross, SS, Laine', M, Qiu, JH, Resnick, B, Barbar, E, Hajjar, DP and Upmacis, RK: Heme mediates catalysis of Tyr385 nitration and inactivation of prostaglandin H2 synthase-1 by peroxynitrite. Journal of Lipid Research, 47:898-911, 2006.
7. Upmacis, RK, Deeb, RS and Hajjar, DP: Oxidative alterations of cyclooxygenase during atherogenesis. Prostaglandins and Other Lipid Mediators, 80(1-2): 1-14, 2006.
8. Hajjar DP, RS Deeb, and RK Upmacis: Complex cross talk involving nitric oxide metabolites: Who's listening? Current Atherosclerosis Reports, 8:347-348, 2006.
