DIVISION OF VASCULAR SURGERY ResearchWeb

BASIC SCIENCE RESEARCH LABORATORY

Introduction

The Vascular Research Laboratory in its current form was established by Dr. Louis Messina in 2006. He has enjoyed continuous extrinisic NIH funding for well over a decade. He also currently serves as the associate editor for The Journal of Vascular Surgery.

Current projects include the study of:

1. Mollecular and cellular mechanisms regulating colleteral artery enlargement.

2. Effect of hypercholesterolemia and diabetes-induced oxidative stress on hematopoietic stem cells: unbalanced lineage differentiation and accelerated aging.

3. Hypercholesterolemia leads to abnormal T-Cell Development and icreased risk of cancer.

4. Diabetes (db/db) abnormal myeloid development and impaired wound healing.

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