Recognition and Select Publications

Award: Research to Prevent Blindness Special Scholars Award

Wang, L., Pedroja, B.S., Meyers, E.E , Garcia, A.L, Twining, S.S., Bernstein, A.M. (2012) Degradation of internalized avb5 integrin is controlled by uPAR bound uPA: Effect on b1 integrin activity and a-SMA stress fiber assembly, PLoS ONE, 7(3):e33915. (PMID: 22470492).

Wang, L., Ko, C., Meyers, E.E, Pedroja, B.S, Pelaez, N, Bernstein, A.M. (2011) Concentration-dependent effects of Transforming Growth Factor b1 on corneal wound healing, Molecular Vision, Vol 17 pp2835-46 (PMID: 22128231).

Pedroja, B.S., Kang, L.E., Imas A.O., Carmeliet P, Bernstein A.M. Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Regulates Integrin αvβ3 Expression and Autocrine TGFβ Signaling, Journal of Biological Chemistry 2009, Vol 284(31) pp20708-17.

Bernstein A, Twining SS, Warejcka DJ, Tall DJ, Masur SK. Urokinase receptor cleavage: a crucial step in fibroblast to myofibroblast differentiation. Molecular Biology of the Cell 2007 Sep; 18(7): 2716-2727.

Greenberg RS, Bernstein AM, Benezra M, Gelman IH, Taliana L, Masur SK. FAK-dependent regulation of myofibroblast differentiation. FASEB 2006; 20 (7): 1006-8.

Taliana L, Benezra M, Greenberg RS, Masur SK, Bernstein AM. ZO-1: Lamellipodial Localization in a Corneal Fibroblast Wound Model. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 2005; 46: 96-103.

Bernstein AM, Greenberg RS, Taliana LD, Masur SK. Urokinase Anchors uPAR to the Actin Cytoskeleton. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 2004; 45(9): 2967-2977.