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Adi L. Tarca is a researcher affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on Obstetrics and Gynecology, Epidemiology, Immunology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's research topics cover various critical areas related to pregnancy and reproductive health. These include:

  • Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
  • Preterm Birth and Chorioamnionitis
  • Reproductive System and Pregnancy
  • COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Pregnancy-related medical research
  • Gestational Diabetes Research and Management

Adi L. Tarca has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Does the human placenta express the canonical cell entry mediators for SARS-CoV-2? (2020, eLife)
  • Maternal-fetal immune responses in pregnant women infected with SARS-CoV-2 (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Crowdsourcing assessment of maternal blood multi-omics for predicting gestational age and preterm birth (2021, Cell Reports Medicine)
  • Regulatory T Cells Play a Role in a Subset of Idiopathic Preterm Labor/Birth and Adverse Neonatal Outcomes (2020, Cell Reports)
  • A single-cell atlas of the myometrium in human parturition (2022, JCI Insight)

The scientist frequently publishes in a range of venues relevant to maternal-fetal medicine and reproductive health. These include:

  • American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Perinatal Medicine
  • Scientific Reports

Collaboration is an essential component of their work, reflected in frequent co-authorships with other researchers. Their notable collaborators include:

  • Roberto Romero
  • Nardhy Gomez-Lopez
  • Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa
  • Eunjung Jung
  • Gaurav Bhatti

Best Publications

  • A systems biology approach for pathway level analysis

    Sorin Draghici;Purvesh Khatri;Adi Laurentiu Tarca;Kashyap Amin

  • A novel signaling pathway impact analysis

    Adi Laurentiu Tarca;Sorin Draghici;Purvesh Khatri;Sonia S. Hassan

  • Machine learning and its applications to biology.

    Adi L Tarca;Vincent J Carey;Xue-wen Chen;Roberto Romero

  • Distinct subsets of microRNAs are expressed differentially in the human placentas of patients with preeclampsia.

    Beth L. Pineles;Roberto Romero;Roberto Romero;Daniel Montenegro;Adi L. Tarca;Adi L. Tarca

  • The vaginal microbiota of pregnant women who subsequently have spontaneous preterm labor and delivery and those with a normal delivery at term.

    Roberto Romero;Roberto Romero;Roberto Romero;Sonia S Hassan;Sonia S Hassan;Pawel Gajer;Adi L Tarca

  • Analysis of microarray experiments of gene expression profiling

    Adi L. Tarca;Roberto Romero;Roberto Romero;Sorin Draghici

  • Single cell transcriptional signatures of the human placenta in term and preterm parturition.

    Roger Pique-Regi;Roger Pique-Regi;Roberto Romero;Adi L Tarca;Adi L Tarca;Edward D Sendler

  • Does the human placenta express the canonical cell entry mediators for SARS-CoV-2?

    Roger Pique-Regi;Roger Pique-Regi;Roberto Romero;Adi L. Tarca;Adi L. Tarca;Adi L. Tarca;Francesca Luca

  • Villitis of unknown etiology is associated with a distinct pattern of chemokine up-regulation in the feto-maternal and placental compartments: implications for conjoint maternal allograft rejection and maternal anti-fetal graft-versus-host disease.

    Mi Jeong Kim;Roberto Romero;Chong Jai Kim;Adi L. Tarca

  • A primate subfamily of galectins expressed at the maternal–fetal interface that promote immune cell death

    Nandor Gabor Than;Roberto Romero;Morris Goodman;Amy Weckle

  • A comparison of gene set analysis methods in terms of sensitivity, prioritization and specificity.

    Adi L. Tarca;Adi L. Tarca;Gaurav Bhatti;Roberto Romero;Roberto Romero;Roberto Romero

  • Integrated Systems Biology Approach Identifies Novel Maternal and Placental Pathways of Preeclampsia.

    Nandor Gabor Than;Roberto Romero;Adi Laurentiu Tarca;Adi Laurentiu Tarca;Katalin Adrienna Kekesi

  • An M1-like Macrophage Polarization in Decidual Tissue during Spontaneous Preterm Labor That Is Attenuated by Rosiglitazone Treatment.

    Yi Xu;Roberto Romero;Derek Miller;Leena Kadam

  • Down-weighting overlapping genes improves gene set analysis.

    Adi Laurentiu Tarca;Adi Laurentiu Tarca;Sorin Draghici;Gaurav Bhatti;Roberto Romero

  • miR-210 targets iron-sulfur cluster scaffold homologue in human trophoblast cell lines: siderosis of interstitial trophoblasts as a novel pathology of preterm preeclampsia and small-for-gestational-age pregnancies.

    Deug Chan Lee;Roberto Romero;Roberto Romero;Jung Sun Kim;Adi L. Tarca;Adi L. Tarca

  • Evidence of perturbations of the cytokine network in preterm labor

    Roberto Romero;Roberto Romero;Jean Charles Grivel;Adi L. Tarca;Piya Chaemsaithong;Piya Chaemsaithong

  • Characterization of the myometrial transcriptome and biological pathways of spontaneous human labor at term

    Pooja Mittal;Roberto Romero;Roberto Romero;Adi L. Tarca;Adi L. Tarca;Juan Gonzalez;Juan Gonzalez

  • The transcriptome of the fetal inflammatory response syndrome.

    Sally A. Madsen-Bouterse;Roberto Romero;Roberto Romero;Adi L. Tarca;Adi L. Tarca;Juan Pedro Kusanovic;Juan Pedro Kusanovic

  • Placental protein 13 (galectin-13) has decreased placental expression but increased shedding and maternal serum concentrations in patients presenting with preterm pre-eclampsia and HELLP syndrome

    Nandor Gabor Than;Nandor Gabor Than;Omar Abdul Rahman;Rita Magenheim;Balint Nagy

  • Strengths and limitations of microarray-based phenotype prediction: lessons learned from the IMPROVER Diagnostic Signature Challenge

    Adi L. Tarca;Mario Lauria;Michael Unger;Erhan Bilal

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto Romero
Roberto Romero National Institutes of Health
Sonia S. Hassan
Sonia S. Hassan Wayne State University
Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa
Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa Wayne State University
Nardhy Gomez-Lopez
Nardhy Gomez-Lopez Wayne State University
Offer Erez
Offer Erez Soroka Medical Center
Chong Jai Kim
Chong Jai Kim Asan Medical Center
Juan Pedro Kusanovic
Juan Pedro Kusanovic Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Lami Yeo
Lami Yeo National Institutes of Health
Sorin Draghici
Sorin Draghici Wayne State University
Jimmy Espinoza
Jimmy Espinoza Baylor College of Medicine

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