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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Louis J. Muglia is affiliated with the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in the United States. Their research spans primarily within the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health as well as Obstetrics and Gynecology. Additional subfields include Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Epidemiology.

Their scientific work concentrates on several key topics, including:

  • Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
  • Birth, development, and health
  • Preterm birth and chorioamnionitis
  • Neonatal respiratory health research
  • Epigenetics and DNA methylation
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • RNA modifications and cancer

Louis J. Muglia has published numerous papers, with a selection of recent works illustrating the scope of their study:

  • Maternal factors during pregnancy influencing maternal, fetal, and childhood outcomes, 2022, BMC Medicine
  • Dissecting maternal and fetal genetic effects underlying the associations between maternal phenotypes, birth outcomes, and adult phenotypes: A mendelian-randomization and haplotype-based genetic score analysis in 10,734 mother-infant pairs, 2020, PLoS Medicine
  • Chronic psychosocial stress during pregnancy affects maternal behavior and neuroendocrine function and modulates hypothalamic CRH and nuclear steroid receptor expression, 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • Acute histologic chorioamnionitis independently and directly increases the risk for brain abnormalities seen on magnetic resonance imaging in very preterm infants, 2022, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Transcriptome and regulatory maps of decidua-derived stromal cells inform gene discovery in preterm birth, 2020, Science Advances

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Bo Jacobsson
  • Mikko Hallman
  • Pol Solé-Navais
  • Ge Zhang

Louis J. Muglia's publications appear regularly in various venues, with the most frequent being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMC Medicine
  • American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Nature Communications
  • Placenta

This scientist has been recognized with several awards and honors, including membership in the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) since 2013, fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2009, and membership in the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Knobil and Neill's Physiology of reproduction

    T. M. Plant;Anthony J Zeleznik;David F. Albertini;Robert L. Goodman

  • The Enigma of Spontaneous Preterm Birth

    L.J. Muglia;M. Katz

  • Corticotropin-releasing hormone deficiency reveals major fetal but not adult glucocorticoid need

    Louis Muglia;Lauren Jacobson;Pieter Dikkes;Joseph A. Majzoub

  • Maternal and fetal genetic effects on birth weight and their relevance to cardio-metabolic risk factors

    Nicole M Warrington;Robin N Beaumont;Momoko Horikoshi;Felix R Day

  • Calcium-Stimulated Adenylyl Cyclase Activity Is Critical for Hippocampus-Dependent Long-Term Memory and Late Phase LTP

    Scott T Wong;Jaime Athos;Xavier A Figueroa;Victor V Pineda

  • Acquired deficit of forebrain glucocorticoid receptor produces depression-like changes in adrenal axis regulation and behavior

    Maureen P. Boyle;Judson A. Brewer;Michiyo Funatsu;David F. Wozniak

  • Interleukin-6 is an essential, corticotropin-releasing hormone-independent stimulator of the adrenal axis during immune system activation

    Kathleen E. Bethin;Sherri K. Vogt;Louis J. Muglia

  • An estrogen-dependent four-gene micronet regulating social recognition: A study with oxytocin and estrogen receptor-α and -β knockout mice

    Elena Choleris;Jan Åke Gustafsson;Kenneth S. Korach;Louis J. Muglia

  • Glucocorticoids suppress bone formation via the osteoclast

    Hyun Ju Kim;Haibo Zhao;Hideki Kitaura;Sandip Bhattacharyya

  • Amyloid Precursor Protein Regulates Brain Apolipoprotein E and Cholesterol Metabolism through Lipoprotein Receptor LRP1

    Qiang Liu;Celina V. Zerbinatti;Juan Zhang;Hyang Sook Hoe

  • An Fgf8 mouse mutant phenocopies human 22q11 deletion syndrome.

    Deborah U. Frank;Lori K. Fotheringham;Judson A. Brewer;Louis J. Muglia

  • Apoptotic neurodegeneration induced by ethanol in neonatal mice is associated with profound learning/memory deficits in juveniles followed by progressive functional recovery in adults.

    David F. Wozniak;Richard E. Hartman;Maureen P. Boyle;Sherri K. Vogt

  • Genetic Associations with Gestational Duration and Spontaneous Preterm Birth

    Ge Zhang;Bjarke Feenstra;Jonas Bacelis;Xueping Liu

  • Genetic Elimination of Behavioral Sensitization in Mice Lacking Calmodulin-Stimulated Adenylyl Cyclases

    Feng Wei;Chang Shen Qiu;Susan J Kim;Lisa Muglia

  • Impaired synaptic plasticity and cAMP response element-binding protein activation in Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase type IV/Gr-deficient mice.

    Nga Ho;Jason A. Liauw;Frank Blaeser;Feng Wei

  • Opposing actions of prostaglandins and oxytocin determine the onset of murine labor

    Gil A. Gross;Takuji Imamura;Christina Luedke;Sherri K. Vogt

  • CRH and the immune system

    Katia Karalis;Louis J. Muglia;Donald Bae;Harold Hilderbrand

  • Macrophage glucocorticoid receptors regulate Toll-like receptor 4-mediated inflammatory responses by selective inhibition of p38 MAP kinase

    Sandip Bhattacharyya;Diane E. Brown;Judson A. Brewer;Sherri K. Vogt

  • Ethanol-induced caspase-3 activation in the in vivo developing mouse brain.

    John W. Olney;Tatyana Tenkova;Krikor Dikranian;Louis J. Muglia

  • Stress-induced behaviors require the corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) receptor, but not CRH

    Stacie C. Weninger;Adrian J. Dunn;Louis J. Muglia;Pieter Dikkes

Frequent Co-Authors

Mikko Hallman
Mikko Hallman Oulu University Hospital
Mads Melbye
Mads Melbye University of Copenhagen
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Scott M. Williams
Scott M. Williams Case Western Reserve University
Pål R. Njølstad
Pål R. Njølstad University of Bergen
Judson A. Brewer
Judson A. Brewer Brown University
Mika Rämet
Mika Rämet Oulu University Hospital
Bjarke Feenstra
Bjarke Feenstra Statens Serum Institut
Antonis Rokas
Antonis Rokas Vanderbilt University

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