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Athena Starlard-Davenport

University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Verified email at uthsc.edu
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Role of ferritin alterations in human breast cancer cells

…, O Kovalchuk, A Starlard-Davenport… - Breast cancer research …, 2011 - Springer
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women. Successful treatment of breast
cancer relies on a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in breast cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Difference in expression of hepatic microRNAs miR-29c, miR-34a, miR-155, and miR-200b is associated with strain-specific susceptibility to dietary …

IP Pogribny, A Starlard-Davenport, VP Tryndyak… - Laboratory …, 2010 - nature.com
The importance of dysregulation of microRNA (miRNA) expression in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis
(NASH) has been increasingly recognized; however, the association between altered …

[HTML][HTML] Distinct microbial communities that differ by race, stage, or breast-tumor subtype in breast tissues of non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White women

…, B Lyn-Cook, L Lu, G Vidal, A Starlard-Davenport - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Growing evidence highlights an association between an imbalance in the composition and
abundance of bacteria in the breast tissue (referred as microbial dysbiosis) and breast …

[HTML][HTML] MIR-144-mediated NRF2 gene silencing inhibits fetal hemoglobin expression in sickle cell disease

B Li, X Zhu, CM Ward, A Starlard-Davenport… - Experimental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Inherited genetic modifiers and pharmacologic agents that enhance fetal hemoglobin (HbF)
expression reverse the clinical severity of sickle cell disease (SCD). Recent efforts to …

[HTML][HTML] SNPs and breast cancer risk prediction for African American and Hispanic women

…, JL Hopper, O Gordon, A Starlard-Davenport… - Breast cancer research …, 2015 - Springer
For African American or Hispanic women, the extent to which clinical breast cancer risk
prediction models are improved by including information on susceptibility single nucleotide …

Sickle cell disease: progress towards combination drug therapy

BS Pace, A StarlardDavenport… - British journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dr. John Herrick described the first clinical case of sickle cell anaemia (SCA) in the United
States in 1910. Subsequently, four decades later, Ingram and colleagues characterized the A …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting genetic modifiers of HBG gene expression in sickle cell disease: the miRNA option

A Starlard-Davenport, Q Gu, BS Pace - Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy, 2022 - Springer
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is one of the most common inherited hemoglobinopathy disorders
that affects millions of people worldwide. Reactivation of HBG (HBG1, HBG2) gene …

[HTML][HTML] Restoration of the methylation status of hypermethylated gene promoters by microRNA-29b in human breast cancer: A novel epigenetic therapeutic approach

A Starlard-Davenport, K Kutanzi… - Journal of …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
It is well established that transcriptional silencing of critical tumor-suppressor genes by DNA
methylation is a fundamental component in the initiation of breast cancer. However, the …

Racial disparities in survival outcomes by breast tumor subtype among African American women in Memphis, Tennessee

…, S White‐Means, A StarlardDavenport - Cancer …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Racial disparities in survival among African American ( AA ) women in the United States
have been well documented. Breast cancer mortality rates among AA women is higher in …

[HTML][HTML] Human breast tissue microbiota reveals unique microbial signatures that correlate with prognostic features in adult Ethiopian women with breast cancer

…, EJ Kantelhardt, T Abebe, A Starlard-Davenport - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Breast cancer (BC) is the leading cause of cancer deaths among adult
women in Ethiopia. The death toll associated with breast cancer is high among women of …