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Overview

Teresita Bellido is affiliated with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with specific emphasis on molecular biology, oncology, orthopedics and sports medicine, genetics, and biomedical engineering.

Their work includes significant contributions to the study of bone metabolism and diseases, bone health and treatments, osteoporosis research, bone tissue engineering materials, multiple myeloma research and treatments, vitamin D studies, and the effects of estrogen and related hormones.

Frequent coauthors working alongside Bellido include Lila M. Gierasch, F. Peter Guengerich, Ruma Banerjee, Roger Colbran, and Peter Cresswell.

Publications by Bellido have appeared in prominent scientific journals. Regular venues include the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, JBMR Plus, Bone Research, and Cancer Research.

Among recent papers associated with Bellido are:

  • The osteocyte as a signaling cell, 2021, Physiological Reviews
  • Ex Vivo Organ Cultures as Models to Study Bone Biology, 2020, JBMR Plus
  • A novel decellularized matrix of Wnt signaling-activated osteocytes accelerates the repair of critical-sized parietal bone defects with osteoclastogenesis, angiogenesis, and neurogenesis, 2022, Bioactive Materials
  • Targeting Notch Inhibitors to the Myeloma Bone Marrow Niche Decreases Tumor Growth and Bone Destruction without Gut Toxicity, 2021, Cancer Research
  • Reversal of the diabetic bone signature with anabolic therapies in mice, 2023, Bone Research

Best Publications

  • Nongenotropic, sex-nonspecific signaling through the estrogen or androgen receptors: dissociation from transcriptional activity.

    S. Kousteni;T. Bellido;L. I. Plotkin;C. A. O'Brien

  • Osteoblast Programmed Cell Death (Apoptosis): Modulation by Growth Factors and Cytokines

    Robert L. Jilka;Robert S. Weinstein;Teresita Bellido;A. Michael Parfitt

  • Skeletal Involution by Age-associated Oxidative Stress and Its Acceleration by Loss of Sex Steroids

    Maria Almeida;Li Han;Marta Martin-Millan;Lilian I. Plotkin

  • Wnt Proteins Prevent Apoptosis of Both Uncommitted Osteoblast Progenitors and Differentiated Osteoblasts by β-Catenin-dependent and -independent Signaling Cascades Involving Src/ERK and Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase/AKT

    Maria Almeida;Li Han;Teresita Bellido;Stavros C. Manolagas

  • Novel actions of bisphosphonates in bone: Preservation of osteoblast and osteocyte viability

    Teresita Bellido;Lilian I. Plotkin

  • Osteocyte-Driven Bone Remodeling

    Teresita Bellido;Teresita Bellido

  • Control of Bone Mass and Remodeling by PTH Receptor Signaling in Osteocytes

    Charles A O'Brien;Lilian I. Plotkin;Carlo Galli;Joseph J. Goellner

  • Transduction of cell survival signals by connexin-43 hemichannels

    Lilian I. Plotkin;Stavros C. Manolagas;Teresita Bellido

  • Role and mechanism of action of sclerostin in bone

    Jesus Delgado-Calle;Amy Y. Sato;Teresita Bellido;Teresita Bellido

  • Transcriptional activation of the p21(WAF1,CIP1,SDI1) gene by interleukin-6 type cytokines. A prerequisite for their pro-differentiating and anti-apoptotic effects on human osteoblastic cells

    Teresita Bellido;Charles A. O'Brien;Paula K. Roberson;Stavros C. Manolagas

  • Mechanical stimulation prevents osteocyte apoptosis: requirement of integrins, Src kinases, and ERKs.

    L. I. Plotkin;I. Mathov;J. I. Aguirre;A. M. Parfitt

  • Bisphosphonates and estrogens inhibit osteocyte apoptosis via distinct molecular mechanisms downstream of extracellular signal-regulated kinase activation.

    Lilian I. Plotkin;J. Ignacio Aguirre;Stavroula Kousteni;Stavros C. Manolagas

  • Activation of the Janus kinase/STAT (signal transducer and activator of transcription) signal transduction pathway by interleukin-6-type cytokines promotes osteoblast differentiation.

    Teresita Bellido;Victoria Z. C. Borba;Paula Roberson;Stavros C. Manolagas

  • Osteocytes mediate the anabolic actions of canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling in bone

    Xiaolin Tu;Jesus Delgado-Calle;Keith W. Condon;Marta Maycas

  • Detection of receptors for interleukin-6, interleukin-11, leukemia inhibitory factor, oncostatin M, and ciliary neurotrophic factor in bone marrow stromal/osteoblastic cells.

    Teresita Bellido;Neil Stahl;Thomas J. Farruggella;Victoria Borba

  • Notch-dependent repression of miR-155 in the bone marrow niche regulates hematopoiesis in an NF-κB-dependent manner

    Lin Wang;Huajia Zhang;Sonia Rodriguez;Liyun Cao

  • Dissociation of the pro-apoptotic effects of bisphosphonates on osteoclasts from their anti-apoptotic effects on osteoblasts/osteocytes with novel analogs.

    Lilian I. Plotkin;Stavros C. Manolagas;Teresita Bellido

  • Transient Versus Sustained Phosphorylation and Nuclear Accumulation of ERKs Underlie Anti-Versus Pro-apoptotic Effects of Estrogens

    Jin Ran Chen;Lilian I. Plotkin;José Ignacio Aguirre;Li Han

  • Osteocytic signalling pathways as therapeutic targets for bone fragility

    Lilian I. Plotkin;Teresita Bellido;Teresita Bellido

  • Effects of PTH on osteocyte function.

    Teresita Bellido;Vaibhav Saini;Paola Divieti Pajevic

Frequent Co-Authors

Stavros C. Manolagas
Stavros C. Manolagas University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
G. David Roodman
G. David Roodman Indiana University
Robert L. Jilka
Robert L. Jilka University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Robert S. Weinstein
Robert S. Weinstein University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Munro Peacock
Munro Peacock Indiana University
Jill A. Helms
Jill A. Helms Stanford University
Toshiyuki Yoneda
Toshiyuki Yoneda Osaka University
Ricardo Boland
Ricardo Boland Universidad Nacional del Sur
Charles H. Turner
Charles H. Turner Indiana University
Connie M. Weaver
Connie M. Weaver San Diego State University

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