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Terrance J. Kavanagh

University of Washington
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
4225 Roosevelt Way NE #100
Box 354695
Seattle, WA 98105-6099
Phone: 206-685-8479
Fax: 206-685-4696
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Projects

Publications

2007
  • Giordano, Gennaro, Zahra Afsharinejad, Marina Guizzetti, Annabella Vitalone, Terrance J. Kavanagh, and Lucio G. Costa. 2007. Organophosphorus insecticides chlorpyrifos and diazinon and oxidative stress in neuronal cells in a genetic model of glutathione deficiency. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. (http://www.academicpress.com/tap) Exit NIEHS Website 219(2-3):181-189.
2006
  • Bekris, Lynn M., Hanna A. Viernes, Federico M. Farin, Lisa A. Maier, Terrance J. Kavanagh, and Timothy K. Takaro. 2006. Chronic beryllium disease and glutathione biosynthesis genes. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. (http://www.joem.org/) Exit NIEHS Website 48(6):599-606.
  • Botta, Dianne, Shengli Shi, Collin C. White, Michael J. Dabrowski, Cassie L. Keener, Sengkeo L. Srinouanprachanh, Federico M. Farin, Carol B. Ware, Warren C. Ladiges, Robert H. Pierce, Nelson Fausto, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 2006. Acetaminophen-induced Liver Injury Is Attenuated in Male Glutamate-cysteine Ligase Transgenic Mice. Journal of Biological Chemistry. (http://www.jbc.org/) Exit NIEHS Website 281(39):28865-28875.
2004
  • Botta, Dianne, Christopher C. Franklin, Collin C. White, Cecile M. Krejsa, Michael J. Dabrowski, Robert H. Pierce, Nelson Fausto, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 2004. Glutamate-cysteine ligase attenuates TNF-induced mitochondrial injury and apoptosis. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 37(5):632-642.
  • Diaz, Delores, Cecile M. Krejsa, Collin C. White, Jay S. Charleston, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 2004. Effect of methylmercury on glutamate-cysteine ligase expression in the placenta and yolk sac during mouse development. Reproductive Toxicology. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/ 08906238) Exit NIEHS Website 19(1):117-129.
  • Kevil, Christopher G., Heather M. Pruitt, Terrance J. Kavanagh, Jasmine Wilkerson, Federico M. Farin, D. Moellering, Victor M. Darley-Usmar, Daniel C. Bullard, and Rakesh P. Patel. 2004. Regulation of endothelial glutathione by ICAM-1: implications for inflammation. FASEB Journal. (http://www.fasebj.org/) Exit NIEHS Website 18(11):1321-3.
  • Krzywanski, David M., Dale A. Dickinson, Karen E. Iles, Amanda F. Wigley, Christopher C. Franklin, Rui-Ming Liu, Terrance J. Kavanagh, and Henry Jay Forman. 2004. Variable regulation of glutamate cysteine ligase subunit proteins affects glutathione biosynthesis in response to oxidative stress. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/0003-9861) Exit NIEHS Website 423(1):116-125.
  • Tran, Phuong Oanh T., Sarah M. Parker, Eric LeRoy, Christopher C. Franklin, Terrance J. Kavanagh, Tao Zhang, Huarong Zhou, Portia A. Vliet, Elizabeth Oseid, Jamie S. Harmon, and R. Paul Robertson. 2004. Adenoviral overexpression of the glutamylcysteine ligase catalytic subunit protects pancreatic islets against oxidative stress. Journal of Biological Chemistry. (http://www.jbc.org/) Exit NIEHS Website 279(52):53988-53993.
2003
  • Barrus, H., Sengkeo L. Srinouanprachanh, Michael J. Hooper, George P. Cobb, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 2003. Metallothionein and glutamate-cysteine ligase gene expression in metal-exposed small mammals. In: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Toxicology (SOT), March 9-13, 2003. Salt Lake City, UT.
  • Bea, Florian, Francesca N. Hudson, Alan Chait, Terrance J. Kavanagh, and Michael E. Rosenfeld. 2003. Induction of glutathione synthesis in macrophages by oxidized low-density lipoproteins is mediated by consensus antioxidant response elements. Circulation Research. (http://circres.ahajournals.org/) Exit NIEHS Website 92(4):386-393.
  • Bekris, Lynn M., Cindy Shephard, M. Zarghami, W.C. Griffith, Terrance J. Kavanagh, and Ake Lernmark. 2003. Glutamate cysteine ligase catalytic subunit trinucleotide repeat polymorphism and type I diabetes. Toxicological Sciences. (http://www3.oup.co.uk/toxsci/) Exit NIEHS Website 72(1):480Suppl.S.
  • Franklin, Christopher C., Maryland E. Rosenfeld-Franklin, Collin C. White, Terrance J. Kavanagh, and Nelson Fausto. 2003. TGF beta 1-induced suppression of glutathione antioxidant defenses in hepatocytes: caspase-dependent posttranslational and caspase-independent transcriptional regulatory mechanisms. FASEB Journal. (http://www.fasebj.org/) Exit NIEHS Website 17(11):1535-1537.
  • Garry, M.R., Jaspreet S. Sidhu, Terrance J. Kavanagh, and Elaine M. Faustman. 2003. Differential modulation of stress and ubiquitination signaling pathways by cadmium, H202, and serum withdrawal in cultured mouse fibroblasts. Society of Toxicology 42nd annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2003. Toxicological Sciences. (http://www3.oup.co.uk/toxsci/) Exit NIEHS Website 72(1):311Suppl.S.
  • Kavanagh, Terrance J., Shengli Shi, Dianne Botta, Collin C. White, Michael J. Dabrowski, Cindy Shephard, Sean D. Quigley, Federico M. Farin, Richard Beyer, Robert H. Pierce, Christopher C. Franklin, Helmet F. Zarbl, and Theodor K. Bammler. 2003. Using toxicogenomic analysis to assess the protective effects of enhanced glutathione synthesis in glutamate cysteine ligase transgenic mice. Toxicological Sciences. (http://www3.oup.co.uk/toxsci/) Exit NIEHS Website 72(1):805Suppl.S.
  • Luderer, Ulrick, Delores Diaz, Elaine M. Faustman, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 2003. Localization of glutamate cysteine ligase subunit mRNA within the rat ovary and relationship to follicular apoptosis. Molecular Reproduction and Development. (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/37 692/home) Exit NIEHS Website 65(3):254-261.
  • Shao, Jianhua, E.F. McKone, Cassie L. Keener, Cindy Shephard, Federico M. Farin, M.L. Aitken, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 2003. The modification of cystic fibrosis lung disease by a polymorphism in a glutamate cysteine ligase gene. Toxicological Sciences. (http://www3.oup.co.uk/toxsci/) Exit NIEHS Website 72(1):487Suppl.S.
  • Shi, Shengli, Dianne Botta, Collin C. White, Michael J. Dabrowski, Cindy Shephard, Sean D. Quigley, Federico M. Farin, Richard Beyer, Robert H. Pierce, Christopher C. Franklin, Helmet F. Zarbl, Theodor K. Bammler, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 2003. Effects of enhanced glutathione synthesis on carbon tetracholoride-induced differential gene expression in glutamate-cysteine ligase transgenic mice livers. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 35(1):227Suppl.S.
  • Shi, Shengli, M.B. Hendsch, C.E. Ogburn, Peter S. Rabinovitch, G.M. Martin, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 2003. Female mice transgenic for mitochondrial directed catalase have altered glutathione redox cycle enzyme activities coincident with tissue specific catalase expression. Toxicological Sciences. (http://www3.oup.co.uk/toxsci/) Exit NIEHS Website 72(1):394Suppl.S.
  • Thompson, J.A., Terrance J. Kavanagh, Collin C. White, Nelson Fausto, and Christopher C. Franklin. 2003. Distinct molecular mechanisms mediate AS3+-induced glutamate-cysteine ligase subunit gene expression in murine hepatocytes. Free Radical Biology and Medicine Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, November 2003. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 35:188Suppl.1.
  • White, Collin C., Hanna A. Viernes, Cecile M. Krejsa, Dianne Botta, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 2003. Fluorescence-based microtiter plate assay for glutamate-cysteine ligase activity. Analytical Biochemistry. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/ 00032697) Exit NIEHS Website 318(2):175-180.
2002
  • Diaz, Delores, Cecile M. Krejsa, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 2002. Expression of glutamate-cysteine ligase during mouse development. Molecular Reproduction and Development. (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/37 692/home) Exit NIEHS Website 62:83-91.
  • Faustman, Elaine M., Rafael A. Ponce, Ying C. Ou, Ma Aileen C. Mendoza, Thomas A. Lewandowski, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 2002. Investigations of methylmercury-induced alterations in neurogenesis. Environmental Health Perspectives. 110(Supp5):859-864.
  • Franklin, Christopher C., Cecile M. Krejsa, Robert H. Pierce, Collin C. White, Nelson Fausto, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 2002. Caspase-3-Dependent Cleavage of the Glutamate-L-Cysteine Ligase Catalytic Subunit during Apoptotic Cell Death. American Journal of Pathology. (http://ajp.amjpathol.org/) Exit NIEHS Website 160(5):1887-1894.
2001
  • Adams, Michael L., Robert H. Pierce, Mary E. Vail, Collin C. White, Robert P. Tonge, Terrance J. Kavanagh, Nelson Fausto, Sidney D. Nelson, and Sam A. Bruschi. 2001. Enhanced Acetaminophen Hepatotoxicity in Transgenic Mice Overexpressing BCL-2. Molecular Pharmacology. (http://molpharm.aspetjournals.org/) Exit NIEHS Website 60(5):907-915.
  • Diaz, Delores, Cecile M. Krejsa, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 2001. Localization of glutamate-cysteine ligase mRNA and protein in mouse kidney and induction with methylmercury. Toxicology Letters. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/ 03784274) Exit NIEHS Website 123(1):33-41.
  • Diaz, Delores, Cecile M. Krejsa, Collin C. White, Cassie L. Keener, Federico M. Farin, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 2001. Tissue specific changes in the expression of glutamate-cysteine ligase mRNAs in mice exposed to methylmercury. Toxicology Letters. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/ 03784274) Exit NIEHS Website 122(2):119-129.
  • Luderer, Ulrick, Terrance J. Kavanagh, Collin C. White, and Elaine M. Faustman. 2001. Gonadotropin regulation of glutathione synthesis in the rat ovary. Reproductive Toxicology. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/ 08906238) Exit NIEHS Website 15:495-504.
  • Rosato, Michael T., Abdallah J. Jabbour, Rafael A. Ponce, Terrance J. Kavanagh, Timothy K. Takaro, Juliane P. Hill, Martin Poot, Peter S. Rabinovitch, and Elaine M. Faustman. 2001. Simultaneous analysis of surface marker expression and cell cycle progression in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Journal of Immunological Methods. 256(1-2):35-46.
2000
  • Hudson, Francesca N. and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 2000. Cloning and characterization of the proximal promoter region of the mouse glutamate-L-cysteine ligase regulatory subunit gene. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/bba) Exit NIEHS Website 1492:447-451.
  • Jarvinen, Kristiina, Petra Pietarinen-Runtti, Kaija Linnainmaa, Kari O. Raivio, Cecile M. Krejsa, Terrance J. Kavanagh, and Vuokko L. Kinnula. 2000. Antioxidant defense mechanisms of human mesothelioma and lung adenocarcinoma cells. American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. (http://ajplung.physiology.org/) Exit NIEHS Website 278(4):L696-702.
  • Kirlin, Ward G., Jiyang Cai, Sally A. Thompson, Delores Diaz, Terrance J. Kavanagh, and Dean P. Jones. 2000. Glutathione redox potential in response to differentiation and enzyme inducers. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 27(11-12):1208-1218.
  • Pierce, Robert H., Jean S. Campbell, Alyssa B. Stephenson, Christopher C. Franklin, M. Chaisson, Martin Poot, Terrance J. Kavanagh, Peter S. Rabinovitch, and Nelson Fausto. 2000. Disruption of redox homeostasis in tumor necrosis factor-induced apoptosis in a murine hepatocyte cell line. American Journal of Pathology. (http://ajp.amjpathol.org/) Exit NIEHS Website 157(1):221-36.
  • Thompson, Sally A., Collin C. White, Cecile M. Krejsa, David L. Eaton, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 2000. Modulation of glutathione and glutamate-L-cysteine ligase by methylmercury during mouse development. Toxicological Sciences. (http://www3.oup.co.uk/toxsci/) Exit NIEHS Website 57:141-6.
1999
  • Nelson, Kasey C., Joanne L. Carlson, Melanie L. Newman, Paul Sternberg, Dean P. Jones, Terrance J. Kavanagh, Delores Diaz, Jiyang Cai, and Min Wu. 1999. Effect of dietary inducer dimethylfumarate on glutathione in cultured retinal pigment epithelial cells. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. (http://www.iovs.org/) Exit NIEHS Website 40(9):1927-1935.
  • Ou, Ying C., Sally A. Thompson, Rafael A. Ponce, Julian I. Schroeder, Terrance J. Kavanagh, and Elaine M. Faustman. 1999. Induction of the cell cycle regulatory gene p21 (Waf1, Cip1) following methylmercury exposure in vitro and in vivo. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. (http://www.academicpress.com/tap) Exit NIEHS Website 157:203-212.
  • Ou, Ying C., Collin C. White, Cecile M. Krejsa, Rafael A. Ponce, Terrance J. Kavanagh, and Elaine M. Faustman. 1999. The Role of intracellular glutathione in methylmercury-induced toxicity in embryonic neuronal cells. NeuroToxicology. (http://www.neurotoxicology.com/) Exit NIEHS Website 20:784-793.
  • Siitonen, T., P. Alaruikka, P. Mantymaa, E.R. Savolainen, Terrance J. Kavanagh, Cecile M. Krejsa, Christopher C. Franklin, Vuokko L. Kinnula, and P. Koistinen. 1999. Protection of acute myeloblastic leukemia cells against apoptotic cell death by high glutathione and gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase levels during etoposide-induced oxidative stress. Annals of Oncology. (http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0923-7534) Exit NIEHS Website 10(11):1361-1367.
  • Thompson, Sally A., Collin C. White, Cecile M. Krejsa, Delores Diaz, James S. Woods, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 1999. Induction of glutamate-cysteine ligase in the brains of adult female mice sub-chronically exposed to methylmercury. Toxicology Letters. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/ 03784274) Exit NIEHS Website 110:1-10.
  • Woods, James S., Terrance J. Kavanagh, Jeannette Corral, Annabelle W. Reese, Delores Diaz, and Maureen E. Ellis. 1999. The role of glutathione in chronic adaptation to oxidative stress: studies in a normal rat kidney epithelial (NRK52E) cell model of sustained upregulation of glutathione biosynthesis. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. (http://www.academicpress.com/tap) Exit NIEHS Website 160(3):207-216.
1998
  • Broudy, Virginia C., Nancy L. Lin, Hans-Jorg Buhring, Norio Komatsu, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 1998. Analysis of c-Kit receptor dimerization by fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Blood. (http://www.bloodjournal.org/) Exit NIEHS Website 91:898-906.
  • Calverley, David C., Terrance J. Kavanagh, and Gerald J. Roth. 1998. Human signaling protein 14-3-3 zeta interacts with platelet glycoprotein Ib subunits Ib alpha and Ib beta. Blood. (http://www.bloodjournal.org/) Exit NIEHS Website 91(4):1295-1303.
  • Ponce, Rafael A., Scott M. Bartell, Terrance J. Kavanagh, James S. Woods, Robert C. Lee, Timothy K. Takaro, and Elaine M. Faustman. 1998. Uncertainty analysis methods for comparing predictive models and biomarkers: A case study of dietary methylmercury exposures. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology. 28(2):96-105.
  • Thompson, Sally A., K.L. Roellich, Angelika Grossmann, Steven G. Gilbert, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 1998. Alterations in immune parameters associated with low level methylmercury exposure in mice. Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology. (http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~conten t=t713597257) Exit NIEHS Website 20(2):299-314.
1997
  • Krejsa, Cecile M., Steven G. Nadler, James M. Esselstyn, Terrance J. Kavanagh, Jeffery A. Ledbetter, and Gary L. Schieven. 1997. Role of oxidative stress in the action of vanadium phosphotyrosine phosphotase inhibitors: Redox independent activation of NF-ÇB. Journal of Biological Chemistry. (http://www.jbc.org/) Exit NIEHS Website 272(17):11541-11549.
  • Ou, Ying C., Sally A. Thompson, Sandy C. Kirchner, Terrance J. Kavanagh, and Elaine M. Faustman. 1997. Induction of growth arrest and DNA damage-inducible genes Gadd45 and Gadd153 in primary rodent embryonic cells following exposure to methylmercury. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. (http://www.academicpress.com/tap) Exit NIEHS Website 147:31-38.
  • Potter, Alan J., Angelika Grossmann, Peter S. Rabinovitch, David L. Eaton, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 1997. The effect of in vitro phorone exposure on glutathione content and T-cell antigen receptor stimulated calcium mobilization in murine splenic T lymphocytes. In Vitro & Molecular Toxicology. (http://www.liebertonline.com/ivt?cookieSet=1) Exit NIEHS Website 11(4):355-363.
  • Reid, Lynnda L., Dianne Botta, Y. Lu, Evan P. Gallagher, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 1997. Molecular cloning and sequencing of the cDNA encoding the catalytic subunit of mouse glutamate-cysteine ligase. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/bba) Exit NIEHS Website 1352(2):233-237.
  • Reid, Lynnda L., Dianne Botta, Jianhua Shao, Francesca N. Hudson, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 1997. Molecular cloning and sequencing of the cDNA encoding mouse glutamate-cysteine ligase regulatory subunit. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/bba) Exit NIEHS Website 1353:107-110.
1996
  • Heinonen, John T., Jaspreet S. Sidhu, Maureen T. Reilly, Federico M. Farin, Curtis J. Omiecinski, David L. Eaton, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 1996. Assessment of regional cytochrome P450 activities in rat liver slices using resorufin substrates and fluorescence confocal laser cytometry. Environmental Health Perspectives. 104(5):535-543.
  • Krejsa, Cecile M., Steven G. Nadler, James M. Esselstyn, Terrance J. Kavanagh, Jeffery A. Ledbetter, and Gary L. Schieven. 1996. The differenetial role of oxidative stress in the activation of protein tyrosine kinases, MAP kinase, and NF-χB by vanadium phosphotyrosine phosphatase inhibitors. FASEB Journal. (http://www.fasebj.org/) Exit NIEHS Website 10(6):P10.
  • Li, Sue, Sally A. Thompson, Terrance J. Kavanagh, and James S. Woods. 1996. Localization by in situ hybridizatioin of glutamylcysteine synthetase mRNA expression in rat kidney following acute methylmercury treatment. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. (http://www.academicpress.com/tap) Exit NIEHS Website 141:59-67.
  • Poot, Martin, Francesca N. Hudson, Angelika Grossmann, Peter S. Rabinovitch, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 1996. Probenicid inhibition of fluorescence extrusion after MCB-staining of rat-1 fibroblasts. Cytometry. (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jt oc?ID=33945) Exit NIEHS Website 23(1):78-81.
1995
  • Grossmann, Angelika, Peter S. Rabinovitch, Terrance J. Kavanagh, John C. Jinneman, Lisa K. Gilliland, Jeffery A. Ledbetter, and Steven B. Kanner. 1995. Activation of murine T-cells via phospholipase-Cg1-associated protein tyrosine phosphorylation is reduced with aging. Journals of Gerontology. (http://biomed.gerontologyjournals.org/) Exit NIEHS Website 50(4):B205-B212.
  • Krejsa, Cecile M., Jeffery A. Ledbetter, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 1995. Oxidant induced changes in red autofluorescence in lymphocytes and lymphoblastoid cell lines correlates with decreased glutathione. The Toxicologist. (http://www.toxicology.org/ai/pub/journals.asp #toxicologist) Exit NIEHS Website 15:158a.
  • Poot, Martin, Heidi Teubert, Peter S. Rabinovitch, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 1995. De novo synthesis of glutathione is required for both entry into and progression through the cell cycle. Journal of Cellular Physiology. (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0021 -9541/) Exit NIEHS Website 163(3):555-560.
  • Reid, Lynnda L. and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 1995. Cloning and sequencing of the mouse cDNAs encoding the light and heavy subunits of g-glutamylcysteine synthetase. The Toxicologist. (http://www.toxicology.org/ai/pub/journals.asp #toxicologist) Exit NIEHS Website 15:1613a.
  • Thompson, Sally A., Angelika Grossmann, Collin C. White, David L. Eaton, Steven G. Gilbert, and Terrance J. Kavanagh. 1995. Strain specific effects of sub-chronic, low level methylmercury exposure on GSH levels in mice. The Toxicologist. (http://www.toxicology.org/ai/pub/journals.asp #toxicologist) Exit NIEHS Website 15:1616a.
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