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Citations
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9297
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4105

Overview

Hava Avraham is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with significant contributions in cancer research, molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, surgery, and physiology.

Their main research topics cover cancer, lipids, and metabolism, prostate cancer treatment and research, cholesterol and lipid metabolism, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors study, calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism, sirtuins and resveratrol in medicine, and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors.

Frequent co-authors in their work include Othman Benchama, Michael S. Malamas, Mark Williams, Sergiy Tyukhtenko, and Alexandros Makriyannis.

Avraham has published in several scientific journals, notably:

  • Scientific Reports
  • British Journal of Cancer
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Oncogene

Recent papers by Avraham include:

  • "Nicotine exposure potentiates lung tumorigenesis by perturbing cellular surveillance" (2020), British Journal of Cancer
  • "Inhibition of triple negative breast cancer-associated inflammation, tumor growth and brain colonization by targeting monoacylglycerol lipase" (2022), Scientific Reports
  • "Inhibition of triple negative breast cancer-associated inflammation and progression by N-acylethanolamine acid amide hydrolase (NAAA)" (2022), Scientific Reports
  • "Targeting Monoacylglycerol Lipase in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Reduced Tumor-Associated Inflammation, Tumor Growth and Tumor Colonization in the Brain" (2021), Research Square (Research Square)
  • "Retraction Note: Genetic alterations of the NRP/B gene are associated with human brain tumors" (2023), Oncogene

Best Publications

  • RAFTK/Pyk2-mediated cellular signalling.

    Hava Avraham;Shin-Young Park;Karin Schinkmann;Shalom Avraham

  • Vascular endothelial growth factor-related protein: a ligand and specific activator of the tyrosine kinase receptor Flt4

    James Lee;Alane Gray;Jean Yuan;Shiuh-Ming Luoh

  • Identification and Characterization of a Novel Related Adhesion Focal Tyrosine Kinase (RAFTK) from Megakaryocytes and Brain

    Shalom Avraham;Roanna London;Yigong Fu;Setsuo Ota

  • Involvement of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 and its ligand stromal cell-derived factor 1alpha in breast cancer cell migration through human brain microvascular endothelial cells.

    Byeong-Chel Lee;Tae-Hee Lee;Shalom Avraham;Hava Karsenty Avraham

  • Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Mediates Intracrine Survival in Human Breast Carcinoma Cells through Internally Expressed VEGFR1/FLT1

    Tae-Hee Lee;Seyha Seng;Masayuki Sekine;Cimona Hinton

  • Role of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in the Stimulation of Cellular Invasion and Signaling of Breast Cancer Cells

    Daniel J. Price;Tihomir Miralem;Shuxian Jiang;Robert Steinberg

  • Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Up-regulates ICAM-1 Expression via the Phosphatidylinositol 3 OH-kinase/AKT/Nitric Oxide Pathway and Modulates Migration of Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells

    Zivotije Radisavljevic;Hava Avraham;Shalom Avraham

  • Vascular endothelial growth factor modulates the transendothelial migration of MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells through regulation of brain microvascular endothelial cell permeability.

    Tae-Hee Lee;Hava Karsenty Avraham;Shuxian Jiang;Shalom Avraham

  • Overexpression of histone deacetylase HDAC1 modulates breast cancer progression by negative regulation of estrogen receptor alpha.

    Hideki Kawai;Huchun Li;Shalom Avraham;Shuxian Jiang

  • The related adhesion focal tyrosine kinase is tyrosine-phosphorylated after beta1-integrin stimulation in B cells and binds to p130cas.

    Anne Astier;Hava Avraham;Serge N. Manie;Jerome Groopman

  • Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Modulates Neutrophil Transendothelial Migration via Up-regulation of Interleukin-8 in Human Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells

    Tae-Hee Lee;Hava Avraham;Seung-Hoon Lee;Shalom Avraham

  • Activation of P2Y2 Receptors by UTP and ATP Stimulates Mitogen-activated Kinase Activity through a Pathway That Involves Related Adhesion Focal Tyrosine Kinase and Protein Kinase C

    Stephen P. Soltoff;Hava Avraham;Shalom Avraham;Lewis C. Cantley

  • Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Regulates Focal Adhesion Assembly in Human Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells through Activation of the Focal Adhesion Kinase and Related Adhesion Focal Tyrosine Kinase

    Hava Karsenty Avraham;Tae-Hee Lee;Youngho Koh;Tae-Aug Kim

  • The hematopoiesis-specific GTP-binding protein RhoH is GTPase deficient and modulates activities of other Rho GTPases by an inhibitory function.

    Xiaoyu Li;Xia Bu;Binfeng Lu;Hava Avraham

  • Direct interaction between BRCA1 and the estrogen receptor regulates vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) transcription and secretion in breast cancer cells.

    Hideki Kawai;Huchun Li;Philip Chun;Shalom Avraham

  • RAFTK/Pyk2 activation is mediated by trans-acting autophosphorylation in a Src-independent manner.

    Shin-Young Park;Hava Karsenty Avraham;Shalom Avraham

  • Characterization of RAFTK, a novel focal adhesion kinase, and its integrin-dependent phosphorylation and activation in megakaryocytes.

    Junzhi Li;Hava Avraham;Rick A. Rogers;Sandhya Raja

  • Effects of the stem cell factor, c-kit ligand, on human megakaryocytic cells

    Hava Avraham;Edouard Vannier;Sally Cowley;Shuxian Jiang

  • Heregulin induces phosphorylation of BRCA1 through phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase/AKT in breast cancer cells.

    Soner Altiok;David Batt;Nedret Altiok;Anna Papautsky

  • Regulation of megakaryocytopoiesis.

    Hava Avraham

Frequent Co-Authors

Shalom Avraham
Shalom Avraham Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Jerome E. Groopman
Jerome E. Groopman Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Sally A. Cowley
Sally A. Cowley University of Oxford
Alexandros Makriyannis
Alexandros Makriyannis Northeastern University
Rick A. Rogers
Rick A. Rogers Harvard University
David T. Scadden
David T. Scadden Harvard University
Bing Lim
Bing Lim Thymmune Therapeutics
Ramesh K. Ganju
Ramesh K. Ganju The Ohio State University

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