Dr. Lakshmanan Annamalai

Assistant Professor
Oregon Health and Science University, USA


Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Indian Veterinary Research Institute, India

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Area of Interest:

Molecular Sciences
Biochemistry
Molecular Virology
HIV/SIV
Veterinary Pathology

Selected Publications

  1. Ratai, E.M., S. Pilkenton, J. He, R. Fell and J. Bombardier et al., 2011. CD8+ lymphocyte depletion without siv infection does not produce metabolic changes or pathological abnormalities in the rhesus macaque brain. J. Med. Primatol., 10.1111/j.1600-0684.2011.00475.x.
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  2. Ratai, E.M., L. Annamalai, T. Burdo, C.G. Joo and J. Bombardier et al., 2011. Brain creatine elevation and N-acetylaspartate reduction indicates neuronal dysfunction in the setting of enhanced glial energy metabolism in a macaque model of NeuroAIDS. Magn. Reson. Med., 10.1002/mrm.22821.
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  3. Ratai, E.M., J.P. Bombardier, C.G. Joo, L. Annamalai and T.H. Burdo et al., 2010. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy reveals neuroprotection by oral minocycline in a nonhuman primate model of accelerated NeuroAIDS. PLoS One, 5: e10523-e10523.
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  4. Balamurugan, V., G. Venkatesan, A. Sen, L. Annamalai, V. Bhanuprakash and R.K. Singh, 2010. Recombinant protein-based viral disease diagnostics in veterinary medicine. Expert Rev. Mol. Diagn., 10: 731-753.
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  5. Annamalai, L., V. Bhaskar, D.R. Pauley, H. Knight and K. Williams et al., 2010. Impact of short-term combined antiretroviral therapy on brain virus burden in simian immunodeficiency virus-infected and CD8+ lymphocyte-depleted rhesus macaques. Am. J. Pathol., 177: 777-791.
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  6. Annamalai, L., S.V. Westmoreland, H.G. Domingues, D.G. Walsh, R.G. Gonzalez and S.P. O`Neil, 2010. Myocarditis in CD8-depleted SIV-infected rhesus macaques after short-term dual therapy with nucleoside and nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors. PLoS One, 5: e14429-e14429.
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  7. Mitra, S., L. Annamalai, S. Chakraborty, K. Johnson, X.H. Song, S. Batra and P.P. Mehta, 2006. Androgen-regulated formation and degradation of gap junctions in androgen-responsive human prostate cancer cells. Mol. Biol. Cell, 17: 5400-5416.
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