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10259
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4472

Overview

Jason C. Mills is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States. Their research prominently spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant focus on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Surgery, Oncology, Immunology, and Cell Biology.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Digestive system and related health
  • Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Cancer-related gene regulation
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes

Mills has contributed extensively to several publication venues. The most frequent include:

  • Gastroenterology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • Physiology
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Mills include:

  • "Cellular Plasticity, Reprogramming, and Regeneration: Metaplasia in the Stomach and Beyond" (2021) published in Gastroenterology
  • "Mitochondrial dysfunction during loss of prohibitin 1 triggers Paneth cell defects and ileitis" (2020) published in Gut
  • "Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveals a Conserved Metaplasia Program in Pancreatic Injury" (2021) published in Gastroenterology
  • "Single-Cell Transcriptional Analyses Identify Lineage-Specific Epithelial Responses to Inflammation and Metaplastic Development in the Gastric Corpus" (2020) published in Gastroenterology
  • "DDIT4 Licenses Only Healthy Cells to Proliferate During Injury-induced Metaplasia" (2020) published in Gastroenterology

Frequent co-authors in Mills's research work include:

  • Charles J. Cho
  • Jeffrey W. Brown
  • Ramon U. Jin
  • Mahliyah Adkins-Threats
  • Yang-Zhe Huang

Best Publications

  • A human natural killer cell subset provides an innate source of IL-22 for mucosal immunity

    Marina Cella;Anja Fuchs;William Vermi;Fabio Facchetti

  • Activated macrophages are an adaptive element of the colonic epithelial progenitor niche necessary for regenerative responses to injury.

    Sarah L. Pull;Jason M. Doherty;Jason C. Mills;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  • Differentiated Troy+ Chief Cells Act as Reserve Stem Cells to Generate All Lineages of the Stomach Epithelium

    Daniel E. Stange;Daniel E. Stange;Bon-Kyoung Koo;Bon-Kyoung Koo;Meritxell Huch;Greg Sibbel

  • Matrix Metalloproteinases Expressed by Astrocytes Mediate Extracellular Amyloid-β Peptide Catabolism

    Ke Jie Yin;John R. Cirrito;Ping Yan;Xiaoyan Hu

  • Helicobacter pylori Immune Escape Is Mediated by Dendritic Cell–Induced Treg Skewing and Th17 Suppression in Mice

    John Y. Kao;Min Zhang;Mark J. Miller;Jason C. Mills

  • Extranuclear apoptosis. The role of the cytoplasm in the execution phase.

    Jason C. Mills;Nicole L. Stone;Randall N. Pittman

  • Mature Chief Cells Are Cryptic Progenitors for Metaplasia in the Stomach

    Ki Taek Nam;Hyuk–Joon Lee;Hyuk–Joon Lee;Josane F. Sousa;Victoria G. Weis

  • Gastric Epithelial Stem Cells

    Jason C. Mills;Ramesh A. Shivdasani;Ramesh A. Shivdasani

  • Molecular properties of adult mouse gastric and intestinal epithelial progenitors in their niches.

    Marios Giannakis;Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck;Jason C. Mills;Douglas G. Leip

  • The maturation of mucus-secreting gastric epithelial progenitors into digestive-enzyme secreting zymogenic cells requires Mist1

    Victoria G. Ramsey;Jason M. Doherty;Christopher C. Chen;Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck

  • Molecular features of adult mouse small intestinal epithelial progenitors

    Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck;Jason C. Mills;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  • GATA2 functions at multiple steps in hemangioblast development and differentiation

    Jesse J. Lugus;Yun Shin Chung;Jason C. Mills;Shin-Il Kim

  • DNA microarrays and beyond: completing the journey from tissue to cell

    Jason C. Mills;Kevin A. Roth;Ross L. Cagan;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  • A molecular signature of gastric metaplasia arising in response to acute parietal cell loss

    Koji Nozaki;Koji Nozaki;Masako Ogawa;Janice A. Williams;Bonnie J. Lafleur

  • Spasmolytic Polypeptide-Expressing Metaplasia and Intestinal Metaplasia: Time for Reevaluation of Metaplasias and the Origins of Gastric Cancer

    James R. Goldenring;Ki Taek Nam;Timothy C. Wang;Jason C. Mills

  • Regenerative proliferation of differentiated cells by mTORC1‐dependent paligenosis

    Spencer G Willet;Mark A Lewis;Zhi‐Feng Miao;Zhi‐Feng Miao;Dengqun Liu

  • Reserve stem cells: Differentiated cells reprogram to fuel repair, metaplasia, and neoplasia in the adult gastrointestinal tract

    Jason C. Mills;Owen J. Sansom

  • The intestinal stem cell niche: There grows the neighborhood

    Jason C. Mills;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  • The origin of pre-neoplastic metaplasia in the stomach: Chief cells emerge from the Mist

    James R. Goldenring;Ki Taek Nam;Ki Taek Nam;Jason C. Mills

  • The Hyaluronic Acid Receptor CD44 Coordinates Normal and Metaplastic Gastric Epithelial Progenitor Cell Proliferation

    Shradha S. Khurana;Terrence E. Riehl;Benjamin D. Moore;Matteo Fassan

Frequent Co-Authors

James R. Goldenring
James R. Goldenring Vanderbilt University
Jeffrey I. Gordon
Jeffrey I. Gordon Washington University in St. Louis
Nicholas O. Davidson
Nicholas O. Davidson Washington University in St. Louis
Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck
Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck Washington University in St. Louis
Stephen F. Konieczny
Stephen F. Konieczny Purdue University West Lafayette
Richard M. Peek
Richard M. Peek Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Elizabeth M. Brunt
Elizabeth M. Brunt Washington University in St. Louis
Eun-Young Choi
Eun-Young Choi Vanderbilt University
Ramesh A. Shivdasani
Ramesh A. Shivdasani Harvard University
Irene Oi-Lin Ng
Irene Oi-Lin Ng University of Hong Kong

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