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Casey D. Morrow is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with particular focus on several subfields including Molecular Biology, Physiology, Immunology, Genetics, and Infectious Diseases.

Their work covers a variety of topics centered around gut microbiota and health, diet and metabolism studies, nutritional studies and diet, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, probiotics and fermented foods, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, and immune cells in cancer.

Morrow has contributed to multiple publications, including the following recent papers:

  • Changes in the gut microbiome community of nonhuman primates following radiation injury, 2021, published in BMC Microbiology
  • Associations between Dietary Fiber, the Fecal Microbiota and Estrogen Metabolism in Postmenopausal Women with Breast Cancer, 2020, published in Nutrition and Cancer
  • Human gut microbial communities dictate efficacy of anti-PD-1 therapy in a humanized microbiome mouse model of glioma, 2021, published in Neuro-Oncology Advances
  • A Dietary Intervention High in Green Leafy Vegetables Reduces Oxidative DNA Damage in Adults at Increased Risk of Colorectal Cancer: Biological Outcomes of the Randomized Controlled Meat and Three Greens (M3G) Feasibility Trial, 2021, published in Nutrients
  • Nutritional combinatorial impact on the gut microbiota and plasma short-chain fatty acids levels in the prevention of mammary cancer in Her2/neu estrogen receptor-negative transgenic mice, 2020, published in PLoS ONE

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Morrow include Hyunmin Koo, Stephen Barnes, William Van Der Pol, William J. Van Der Pol, and Andrew D. Frugé.

Morrow's research outputs have appeared in several publication venues with repeated contributions in Research Square, Current Developments in Nutrition, Neuro-Oncology, Nutrients, and PLoS ONE.

Best Publications

  • Influences of diet and the gut microbiome on epigenetic modulation in cancer and other diseases

    Bidisha Paul;Stephen Barnes;Wendy Demark-Wahnefried;Casey Morrow

  • Production and purification of a recombinant elastomeric polypeptide, G-(VPGVG)19-VPGV, from Escherichia coli.

    David T. Mcpherson;Casey Morrow;Daniel S. Minehan;Jianguo Wu

  • Overexpression of the gag-pol precursor from human immunodeficiency virus type 1 proviral genomes results in efficient proteolytic processing in the absence of virion production.

    Jinseu Park;C. D. Morrow

  • Characterization of a Circulating Subpopulation of Spontaneous Antitetanus Toxoid Antibody Producing B Cells Following in Vivo Booster Immunization

    Ronald H. Stevens;Eric Macy;Casey Morrow;Andrew Saxon

  • Altered microbiota associated with abnormal humoral immune responses to commensal organisms in enthesitis-related arthritis.

    Matthew L Stoll;Ranjit Kumar;Casey D Morrow;Elliot J Lefkowitz

  • The Airway Microbiome at Birth.

    Charitharth Vivek Lal;Colm Travers;Zubair H. Aghai;Peter Eipers

  • The nonmyristylated Pr160gag-pol polyprotein of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 interacts with Pr55gag and is incorporated into viruslike particles.

    J Park;C D Morrow

  • Construction of a type 1 human immunodeficiency virus that maintains a primer binding site complementary to tRNA(His).

    J. K. Wakefield;Sang-Moo Kang;C. D. Morrow

  • Getting started with microbiome analysis: sample acquisition to bioinformatics.

    Ranjit Kumar;Peter Eipers;Rebecca B. Little;Michael Crowley

  • Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 can use different tRNAs as primers for reverse transcription but selectively maintains a primer binding site complementary to tRNA(3Lys).

    J K Wakefield;A G Wolf;C D Morrow

  • Cervical Microbiota Associated with Higher Grade Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia in Women Infected with High-Risk Human Papillomaviruses

    Chandrika J Piyathilake;Nicholas J. Ollberding;Ranjith Kumar;Maurizio Macaluso

  • Gastric microbiome and gastric cancer.

    Kyle M. Brawner;Casey D. Morrow;Phillip D. Smith

  • In vitro enzymatic activity of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase mutants in the highly conserved YMDD amino acid motif correlates with the infectious potential of the proviral genome.

    J K Wakefield;S A Jablonski;C D Morrow

  • Subpopulations of circulating B cells and regulatory T cells involved in in vitro immunoglobulin E production in atopic patients with elevted serum immunoglobulin E.

    A Saxon;C Morrow;R H Stevens

  • Preventing dysbiosis of the neonatal mouse intestinal microbiome protects against late-onset sepsis

    Jeffrey R Singer;Emily G Blosser;Emily G Blosser;Carlene L Zindl;Daniel J Silberger

  • Mutation of the aspartic acid residues of the GDD sequence motif of poliovirus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase results in enzymes with altered metal ion requirements for activity.

    S A Jablonski;C D Morrow

  • Enzymatic activity of poliovirus RNA polymerase mutants with single amino acid changes in the conserved YGDD amino acid motif.

    S. A. Jablonski;Ming Luo;C. D. Morrow

  • Deletions in the tRNA(Lys) primer-binding site of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 identify essential regions for reverse transcription.

    Hyangshuk Rhim;Jinseu Park;C. D. Morrow

  • Identification of a sequence within U5 required for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 to stably maintain a primer binding site complementary to tRNA(Met).

    S M Kang;Z Zhang;C D Morrow

  • The gut microbiome of the sea urchin, Lytechinus variegatus, from its natural habitat demonstrates selective attributes of microbial taxa and predictive metabolic profiles.

    Joseph A. Hakim;Hyunmin Koo;Ranjit Kumar;Elliot J. Lefkowitz

  • Encapsidation of poliovirus replicons encoding the complete human immunodeficiency virus type 1 gag gene by using a complementation system which provides the P1 capsid protein in trans.

    D C Porter;D C Ansardi;C D Morrow

Frequent Co-Authors

Elliot J. Lefkowitz
Elliot J. Lefkowitz University of Alabama at Birmingham
Zina Moldoveanu
Zina Moldoveanu University of Alabama at Birmingham
Phillip D. Smith
Phillip D. Smith University of Alabama at Birmingham
Stephen Barnes
Stephen Barnes University of Alabama at Birmingham
Wendy Demark-Wahnefried
Wendy Demark-Wahnefried University of Alabama at Birmingham
Asim K. Bej
Asim K. Bej University of Alabama at Birmingham
Etty N. Benveniste
Etty N. Benveniste University of Alabama at Birmingham
Charles O. Elson
Charles O. Elson University of Alabama at Birmingham
Michael J. Crowley
Michael J. Crowley Yale University
Trygve O. Tollefsbol
Trygve O. Tollefsbol University of Alabama at Birmingham

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