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Donna G. Albertson

Donna G. Albertson

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D-Index
85
Citations
37564
World Ranking
1285
National Ranking
611

Overview

Donna G. Albertson is a researcher affiliated with New York University in the United States, with a focus primarily on Medicine. Their work spans several interconnected subfields including Molecular Biology, Physiology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Sensory Systems.

The primary research topics addressed by Albertson involve Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Cancer related stress and immune responses, Ion Channels and Receptors, Pediatric Pain Management Techniques, Extracellular Vesicles in Disease, Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology, and studies on Head and Neck Cancer.

Among their recent scientific publications are:

  • Peripheral nerve injury and sensitization underlie pain associated with oral cancer perineural invasion (2020), published in Pain
  • Oncogenes overexpressed in metastatic oral cancers from patients with pain: potential pain mediators released in exosomes (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • The Histopathology of Oral Cancer Pain in a Mouse Model and a Human Cohort (2020), published in Journal of Dental Research
  • Calcitonin Related Polypeptide Alpha Mediates Oral Cancer Pain (2023), published in Cells
  • PAR2 on oral cancer cells and nociceptors contributes to oral cancer pain that can be relieved by nanoparticle-encapsulated AZ3451 (2024), published in Biomaterials

Frequent collaborators in Albertson's work include Brian L. Schmidt, Nguyen Huu Tu, Malvin N. Janal, Angie K. Wu, and Aditi Bhattacharya.

Albertson has contributed to publications in established venues such as Pain, Scientific Reports, Cells, Biomaterials, and the Journal of Dental Research, indicating a consistent presence across multidisciplinary biomedical research journals.

Best Publications

  • A collection of breast cancer cell lines for the study of functionally distinct cancer subtypes

    Richard M. Neve;Richard M. Neve;Koei Chin;Jane Fridlyand;Jennifer Yeh

  • High resolution analysis of DNA copy number variation using comparative genomic hybridization to microarrays

    Daniel Pinkel;Daniel Pinkel;Richard Segraves;Damir Sudar;Steven Clark

  • Rac1b and reactive oxygen species mediate MMP-3-induced EMT and genomic instability

    Derek C. Radisky;Dinah D. Levy;Laurie E. Littlepage;Hong Liu

  • Fine-scale structural variation of the human genome.

    Eray Tuzun;Andrew J Sharp;Jeffrey A Bailey;Rajinder Kaul

  • Assembly of microarrays for genome-wide measurement of DNA copy number.

    Antoine M. Snijders;Norma Nowak;Richard Segraves;Stephanie Blackwood

  • Segmental Duplications and Copy-Number Variation in the Human Genome

    Andrew J. Sharp;Devin P. Locke;Sean D. McGrath;Ze Cheng

  • Chromosome aberrations in solid tumors.

    Donna G Albertson;Colin Collins;Frank McCormick;Joe W Gray;Joe W Gray

  • The Pharynx of Caenorhabditis elegans

    Donna G. Albertson;J. N. Thomson

  • Array comparative genomic hybridization and its applications in cancer.

    Daniel Pinkel;Donna G Albertson

  • The Caenorhabditis elegans male: postembryonic development of nongonadal structures.

    J.E. Sulston;D.G. Albertson;J.N. Thomson

  • Determinants of BRAF Mutations in Primary Melanomas

    Janet L. Maldonado;Jane Fridlyand;Hetal Patel;Ajay N. Jain

  • A tiling resolution DNA microarray with complete coverage of the human genome.

    Adrian S. Ishkanian;Chad A. Malloff;Spencer K. Watson;Ronald J. DeLeeuw

  • Quantitative mapping of amplicon structure by array CGH identifies CYP24 as a candidate oncogene.

    Donna G. Albertson;Bauke Ylstra;Richard Segraves;Colin Collins

  • Discovery of previously unidentified genomic disorders from the duplication architecture of the human genome

    Andrew J Sharp;Sierra Hansen;Rebecca R Selzer;Ze Cheng

  • Comparative genomic hybridization

    Daniel J. Pinkel;Joe W Gray;Anne Kallioniemi;Olli-Pekka Kallioniemi

  • High density array fabrication and readout method for a fiber optic biosensor

    Daniel Pinkel;Joe Gray;Donna G. Albertson

  • Genomic microarrays in human genetic disease and cancer

    Donna G. Albertson;Daniel Pinkel

  • Hidden Markov models approach to the analysis of array CGH data

    Jane Fridlyand;Antoine M. Snijders;Dan Pinkel;Donna G. Albertson

  • Fully Automatic Quantification of Microarray Image Data

    Ajay N. Jain;Taku A. Tokuyasu;Antoine M. Snijders;Richard Segraves

  • Production of antisense RNA leads to effective and specific inhibition of gene expression in C. elegans muscle.

    A. Fire;D. Albertson;S.W. Harrison;D.G. Moerman

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Pinkel
Daniel Pinkel University of California, San Francisco
Joe W. Gray
Joe W. Gray Oregon Health & Science University
Colin Collins
Colin Collins University of British Columbia
Ajay N. Jain
Ajay N. Jain University of California, San Francisco
Bauke Ylstra
Bauke Ylstra Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ernst J. Kuipers
Ernst J. Kuipers Nanyang Technological University
Gerrit A. Meijer
Gerrit A. Meijer Netherlands Cancer Institute
Katherine A. Rauen
Katherine A. Rauen University of California, Davis
Norma J. Nowak
Norma J. Nowak University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Evan E. Eichler
Evan E. Eichler University of Washington

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