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Maria I. Morasso is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and focuses on research primarily within the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their scientific work spans several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Rehabilitation, Immunology, Oncology, and Rheumatology.

The central topics of Maria I. Morasso's research include:

  • Wound Healing and Treatments
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management
  • Skin Protection and Aging
  • Oral microbiology and periodontitis research
  • Oral Health Pathology and Treatment

Maria I. Morasso has contributed extensively to various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues consist of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, Cell, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and EMBO Reports. Their publication record includes 13 papers in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology and single contributions in several prominent journals.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Human oral mucosa cell atlas reveals a stromal-neutrophil axis regulating tissue immunity (2021) published in Cell
  • Deregulated immune cell recruitment orchestrated by FOXM1 impairs human diabetic wound healing (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • Interferon lambda promotes immune dysregulation and tissue inflammation in TLR7-induced lupus (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • FOXM1 network in association with TREM1 suppression regulates NET formation in diabetic foot ulcers (2022) published in EMBO Reports
  • Intrinsic Networks Regulating Tissue Repair: Comparative Studies of Oral and Skin Wound Healing (2022) published in Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Throughout their career, Maria I. Morasso has collaborated frequently with other researchers. Key coauthors include Andrew P. Sawaya, Andrew M. Overmiller, Kowser Hasneen, Stephen R. Brooks, and Elisabetta Palazzo.

Best Publications

  • Human oral mucosa cell atlas reveals a stromal-neutrophil axis regulating tissue immunity.

    Drake Winslow Williams;Teresa Greenwell-Wild;Laurie Brenchley;Nicolas Dutzan;Nicolas Dutzan

  • Placental failure in mice lacking the homeobox gene Dlx3

    Maria I. Morasso;Alexander Grinberg;Gertraud Robinson;Thomas D. Sargent

  • Dlx3 Transcriptional Regulation of Osteoblast Differentiation: Temporal Recruitment of Msx2, Dlx3, and Dlx5 Homeodomain Proteins to Chromatin of the Osteocalcin Gene

    Mohammad Q. Hassan;Amjad Javed;Maria I. Morasso;Jeremy Karlin

  • Epidermal stem cells: The cradle of epidermal determination, differentiation and wound healing

    Maria I. Morasso;Marjana Tomic-Canic

  • BMP2 commitment to the osteogenic lineage involves activation of Runx2 by DLX3 and a homeodomain transcriptional network.

    Mohammad Q. Hassan;Rahul S. Tare;Suk Hee Lee;Matthew Mandeville

  • Transcriptional signature primes human oral mucosa for rapid wound healing.

    Ramiro Iglesias-Bartolome;Akihiko Uchiyama;Alfredo A. Molinolo;Alfredo A. Molinolo;Loreto Abusleme

  • Dkk2 plays an essential role in the corneal fate of the ocular surface epithelium

    Mahua Mukhopadhyay;Marat Gorivodsky;Svetlana Shtrom;Alexander Grinberg

  • The MyoD family of myogenic factors is regulated by electrical activity: isolation and characterization of a mouse Myf-5 cDNA

    Andres Buonanno;Lynne Apone;Maria I. Morasso;Richard Beers

  • Dlx3 is a crucial regulator of hair follicle differentiation and cycling.

    Joonsung Hwang;Taraneh Mehrani;Sarah E. Millar;Maria I. Morasso

  • Regulation of epidermal differentiation by a Distal-less homeodomain gene.

    M I Morasso;N G Markova;T D Sargent

  • Transcriptional activation by the homeodomain protein Distal-less 3

    Jules A. Feledy;Maria I. Morasso;Shyh-Ing Jang;Thomas D. Sargent

  • Regulation of Dlx5 and Dlx6 gene expression by p63 is involved in EEC and SHFM congenital limb defects.

    Nadia Lo Iacono;Stefano Mantero;Anna Chiarelli;Elvin Garcia

  • Role of Homeobox Genes in the Patterning, Specification, and Differentiation of Ectodermal Appendages in Mammals

    Olivier Duverger;Maria I. Morasso

  • Ectodermal dysplasias: Classification and organization by phenotype, genotype and molecular pathway.

    John Timothy Wright;Mary Fete;Holm Schneider;Madelaine Zinser

  • Coiled-coil trigger motifs in the 1B and 2B rod domain segments are required for the stability of keratin intermediate filaments.

    Kenneth C. Wu;Janine T. Bryan;Maria I. Morasso;Shyh-Ing Jang

  • Epidermal patterning and induction of different hair types during mouse embryonic development.

    Olivier Duverger;Maria I. Morasso

  • A Xenopus distal-less gene in transgenic mice: conserved regulation in distal limb epidermis and other sites of epithelial-mesenchymal interaction

    Maria I. Morasso;Kathleen A. Mahon;Thomas D. Sargent

  • Bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) transactivates Dlx3 through Smad1 and Smad4: alternative mode for Dlx3 induction in mouse keratinocytes.

    Geon Tae Park;Maria I. Morasso

  • Differential expression of a Distal-less homeobox gene Xdll-2 in ectodermal cell lineages.

    Marie-Luise Dirksen;Maria I. Morasso;Thomas D. Sargent;Milan Jamrich

  • Suprabasin, a novel epidermal differentiation marker and potential cornified envelope precursor.

    Geon Tae Park;Susan E. Lim;Shyh-Ing Jang;Maria I. Morasso

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart H. Yuspa
Stuart H. Yuspa National Institutes of Health
Jane B. Lian
Jane B. Lian University of Vermont
Hong-Wei Sun
Hong-Wei Sun National Institutes of Health
Mark C. Udey
Mark C. Udey Washington University in St. Louis
Niki M. Moutsopoulos
Niki M. Moutsopoulos National Institutes of Health
Alfredo A. Molinolo
Alfredo A. Molinolo University of California, San Diego
Dean P. Edwards
Dean P. Edwards Baylor College of Medicine
Muzlifah Haniffa
Muzlifah Haniffa Newcastle University
J. Silvio Gutkind
J. Silvio Gutkind University of California, San Diego
Peter M. Steinert
Peter M. Steinert National Institutes of Health

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