Expanded Publication List - Laura Crisa MD, PhD

Di Mario U, Dotta F, Crisa L, Anastasi E, Andreani D, Dib S, Eisenbarth GS: “Circulating anti-immunoglobulin antibodies in recent onset Type I diabetic patients.” Diabetes (1986) 37: 462-466.

Di Mario U, Crisa L, Anastasi E, Contreas G, Andreani D, Raponi MP, Napoleone E, Candela A, Vela M, Campea L: “Anti-goat immunoglobulin antibodies in diabetic children at diagnosis and follow up: comparison with islet cell antibodies and other autoantibodies.”  Acta Endocrinol (1989) 120: 326-330.

Di Mario U, Perfetti R, Anastasi E, Contreas G, Crisa L, Tiberti C, Amendolea MA, Masala C: “Autoantibodies to insulin do appear in non-diabetic patients with autoimmune disorders: comparison with anti-immunoglobulin antibodies and other phenomena.” Acta Endocrinol. (1990) 122: 203-308.

Crisa L, Greiner DL, Mordes JP, MacDonald RG, Handler ES, Czech MP, Rossini AA: “Biochemical studies of RT6 alloantigens in BB/Wor and normal rats. Evidence for intact unexpressed RT6a structural gene in diabetes prone BB rats.” Diabetes (1990) 39:1279-1288.

Vardi P, Crisa L, Jackson RA: “Predictive value of intravenous glucose tolerance test insulin secretion less than or greater than the first percentile in islet antibodies positive relatives of Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetic patients.”  Diabetologia (1991) 34:94-102.

Crisa L, Sarkar P, Haag F, Kock-Nolte F, Thiele HG, Handler ES, Mordes JP, Rossini AA, Greiner DL: “An RT6a gene is transcribed and translated in the lymphopenic diabetes prone BB rat.”   Diabetes (1993) 42:688-695.

Sarkar P, Crisa L, McKeever U, Bortell R, Handler ES, Mordes JP, Waite D, Schoenbaum A, Haag F, Koch-Nolte F, Greiner DL, and Rossini AA: “Loss of RT6 message and T cells after thymectomy of diabetes prone BB rats.”   Autoimmunity (1994) 18(1):15-22.

Crisa L, Cirulli V, Ellisman M, Ishii JK, Elices MJ and Salomon DR: “Cell adhesion and migration is regulated at distinct stages of thymic T cell development: the role of fibronectin, VLA4 and VLA5.”   J. Exp. Med. (1996) 184: 215-228.

Todd SC, Lipps SG, Crisa L, Salomon DR, and Tsoukas CD: “CD81 expressed on human thymocytes mediates integrin activation and IL2 proliferation.”   J. Exp. Med. (1996) 184:2055-2060.

Salomon DR, Crisa L, Mojcik CF, Ishii J, Klier G, and Shevach EM: “Human thymic epithelial cells express vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) and bind thymocytes via the integrin a4b.”   Blood (1997) 89(7):2461-71.

Crisa L, McMaster M, Ishii JK, Fisher SJ, and Salomon DR: “Identification of a thymic epithelial cell subset sharing expression of the class Ib HLA-G molecule with fetal trophoblasts.”  J. Exp. Med. (1997) 186:289-298. 

Cirulli V, Crisa L, Beattie GM, Mally MI, Lopez AD, Fannon A, Ptasznik A, Inverardi  L,  Ricordi C, Deerinck T, Ellisman M,  Reisfeld RA, and Hayek A: “KSA antigen (Ep-CAM) mediates cell-cell adhesion of pancreatic epithelial cells: morphoregulatory roles in pancreatic islet development.“  J. Cell Biol. (1998) 140:1519-1534.

Mallet V, Blaschitz A, Crisa L, Schmitt C, Fournel S, King A, Loke YW, Dohr G, Le Bouteiller P: “HLA-G in the human thymus: a subpopulation of medullary epithelial but not CD83(+) dendritic cells expresses HLA-G as a membrane-bound and soluble protein.”   Int Immunol. (1999) 11(6):889-898.

Crisa L, Cirulli V, Smith KA, Ellisman MH, Torbett BE, and Salomon DR: “Human Cord blood progenitors sustain thymic T cell development and a novel form of angiogenesis.“  Blood  (1999) 94:3928-3940.

Kikuchi T, Ichimiya S, Kojima T, Crisa L, Koshiba S, Tonooka A, Van Der Saag PT, Yokoyama S, Sato N: “Expression profiles and functional implications of p53-like transcription factors in thymic epithelial cell subtypes.”  Int. Immunol. (2004) 16(6):831-841.

Hildbrand P, Cirulli V, Prinsen RC, Smith KA, Torbett BE, Salomon DR, Crisa L:
“The role of angiopoietins in the development of endothelial cells from cord blood CD34+ progenitors.”   Blood (2004) 104 (7): 2010-2019.

Cirulli V, Zalatan J, McMaster M, Prinsen R, Salomon DR, Ricordi C, Torbett BE, Meda P and Crisa L:   “The class I HLA repertoire of pancreatic islets comprises the non-classical class Ib antigen HLA-G”.   Diabetes (2006) 55:1214-1222.

Miller R, Cirulli V, Diaferia GR, Ninniri S, Hardiman G Torbett BE, Benezra R, & Crisa L:
“Switching-on survival and repair response programs by bone marrow-derived vasculogenic cells”.   Diabetes (2008) 57(9):2402-2412.