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Eliseo A. Eugenin is affiliated with The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the United States. Their research work spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to subfields including Molecular Biology, Virology, Infectious Diseases, Neurology, and Epidemiology.

The primary research topics covered by Eugenin include:

  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Connexins and lens biology
  • HIV-related health complications and treatments
  • RNA regulation and disease
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Eugenin include:

  • HIV infects astrocytes in vivo and egresses from the brain to the periphery, 2020, PLoS Pathogens
  • Tunneling nanotubes, TNT, communicate glioblastoma with surrounding non-tumor astrocytes to adapt them to hypoxic and metabolic tumor conditions, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Astrocytes are HIV reservoirs in the brain: A cell type with poor HIV infectivity and replication but efficient cell-to-cell viral transfer, 2021, Journal of Neurochemistry
  • COVID-19 Lung Pathogenesis in SARS-CoV-2 Autopsy Cases, 2021, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Platelets from HIV-infected individuals on antiretroviral drug therapy with poor CD4 + T cell recovery can harbor replication-competent HIV despite viral suppression, 2020, Science Translational Medicine

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Eugenin are:

  • Silvana Valdebenito
  • David Ajasin
  • Brendan Prideaux
  • Maribel Donoso
  • Morgane Bomsel

Eugenin's publications are regularly found in venues that include:

  • NeuroImmune Pharmacology and Therapeutics
  • iScience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Pathogens
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • CCL2/monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 mediates enhanced transmigration of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected leukocytes across the blood-brain barrier : A potential mechanism of HIV-CNS invasion and NeuroAIDS

    Eliseo A. Eugenin;Kristin Osiecki;Lillie Lopez;Harris Goldstein

  • Microglial stimulation of glioblastoma invasion involves epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and colony stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF-1R) signaling.

    Salvatore J Coniglio;Eliseo Eugenin;Kostantin Dobrenis;E Richard Stanley

  • MCP-1 (CCL2) protects human neurons and astrocytes from NMDA or HIV-tat-induced apoptosis.

    Eliseo Eugenin;T. G. D'Aversa;L. Lopez;T. M. Calderon

  • Tunneling nanotubes (TNT) are induced by HIV-infection of macrophages: a potential mechanism for intercellular HIV trafficking.

    Eliseo Eugenin;P. J. Gaskill;J. W. Berman

  • Inflammatory signaling in human tuberculosis granulomas is spatially organized

    Mohlopheni J. Marakalala;Ravikiran M. Raju;Kirti Sharma;Yanjia J. Zhang

  • Human immunodeficiency virus infection of human astrocytes disrupts blood-brain barrier integrity by a gap junction-dependent mechanism.

    Eliseo A. Eugenin;Janice E. Clements;M. Christine Zink;Joan W. Berman

  • Nitric oxide prevents a pathogen-permissive granulocytic inflammation during tuberculosis.

    Bibhuti B. Mishra;Rustin R. Lovewell;Andrew J. Olive;Guoliang Zhang

  • HIV-1 reservoirs in urethral macrophages of patients under suppressive antiretroviral therapy.

    Yonatan Ganor;Fernando Real;Fernando Real;Fernando Real;Alexis Sennepin;Alexis Sennepin;Alexis Sennepin;Charles Antoine Dutertre

  • Microglia at brain stab wounds express connexin 43 and in vitro form functional gap junctions after treatment with interferon-γ and tumor necrosis factor-α

    Eliseo A. Eugenín;Dominik Eckardt;Martin Theis;Klaus Willecke

  • HIV tat and neurotoxicity

    J. E. King;Eliseo Eugenin;C. M. Buckner;J. W. Berman

  • TNF-α Plus IFN-γ Induce Connexin43 Expression and Formation of Gap Junctions Between Human Monocytes/Macrophages That Enhance Physiological Responses

    Eliseo A. Eugenín;Eliseo A. Eugenín;María C. Brañes;Joan W. Berman;Juan C. Sáez;Juan C. Sáez

  • Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis induces the Warburg effect in mouse lungs.

    Lanbo Shi;Hugh Salamon;Eliseo A. Eugenin;Richard Pine

  • Monocyte maturation, HIV susceptibility, and transmigration across the blood brain barrier are critical in HIV neuropathogenesis

    Dionna W. Williams;Eliseo A. Eugenin;Tina M. Calderon;Joan W. Berman

  • Flaviviruses, an expanding threat in public health: focus on dengue, West Nile, and Japanese encephalitis virus

    Carlo Amorin Daep;Jorge L. Muñoz-Jordán;Eliseo Alberto Eugenin;Eliseo Alberto Eugenin

  • HIV-tat induces formation of an LRP–PSD-95– NMDAR–nNOS complex that promotes apoptosis in neurons and astrocytes

    Eliseo A. Eugenin;Jessie E. King;Avindra Nath;Tina M. Calderon

  • Extreme Drug Tolerance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Caseum.

    Jansy P Sarathy;Laura E Via;Laura E Via;Danielle Weiner;Landry Blanc

  • A role for CXCL12 (SDF-1α) in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis: Regulation of CXCL12 expression in astrocytes by soluble myelin basic protein

    Tina M. Calderon;Eliseo A. Eugenin;Lillie Lopez;Sridhar Sampath Kumar

  • Mechanisms of HIV entry into the CNS: increased sensitivity of HIV infected CD14+CD16+ monocytes to CCL2 and key roles of CCR2, JAM-A, and ALCAM in diapedesis.

    Dionna W. Williams;Tina M. Calderon;Lillie Lopez;Loreto Carvallo-Torres

  • Chemokine-dependent mechanisms of leukocyte trafficking across a model of the blood-brain barrier.

    Eliseo Eugenin;Joan W. Berman

  • Protective T cell immunity against respiratory syncytial virus is efficiently induced by recombinant BCG

    Susan M. Bueno;Pablo A. González;Kelly M. Cautivo;Jorge E. Mora

  • The role of gap junction channels during physiologic and pathologic conditions of the human central nervous system

    Eliseo A. Eugenin;Eliseo A. Eugenin;Daniel Basilio;Juan C. Sáez;Juan A. Orellana

Frequent Co-Authors

Joan W. Berman
Joan W. Berman Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Juan C. Sáez
Juan C. Sáez University of Valparaíso
Michael V. L. Bennett
Michael V. L. Bennett Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Alexis M. Kalergis
Alexis M. Kalergis Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Susan Morgello
Susan Morgello Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Morgane Bomsel
Morgane Bomsel Université Paris Cité
Susan M. Bueno
Susan M. Bueno Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Luis Martínez
Luis Martínez University of Jaén
Clifton E. Barry
Clifton E. Barry National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Laura E. Via
Laura E. Via National Institutes of Health

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