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Phone: 212-305-4899

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Division of Molecular Medicine

Jeannine D'Armiento, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine

 

 

Research Summary

The research in our laboratory centers on several projects directed at understanding the role of matrix metalloproteinases in tissue destruction during certain disease processes. Our laboratory has made use of transgenic mice in which to express these enzymes at pathophysiological levels in specific tissues so as to recreate the natural proteolytic imbalance that occurs during a disease process. Through the generation of these transgenic animals we have been able to develop several mouse models of emphysema, atherosclerosis and heart failure and also gain insight into the role these enzymes may be playing in the pathogenesis of these diseases.

 

Education and Training

BA, Rutgers University, 1995
M.D., Ph.D., UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson, 1992
Residency, Columbia University
Fellowship, Columbia University

 

Honors

Henry Rutgers Honors, 1985

 

Publications

1. Berg, R.A., Capodici, C., and D’Armiento, J. (1989). Collagenase Activation. In Therapeutic Approaches to Inflammatory Diseases, Lewis, A., Doherty, N. and Ackerman, N. Elsevier Science Publishing Co.

2. Buttice, G., Kaytes, P., D’Armiento, J., Bogeli, G., and Kurkinen, M. (1990). Evolution of Collagen IV Genes From a 54-Base Pair Exon: A Role for Introns in Gene Evolution. J. Mol. Evol., 30:479-488.

3. D’Armiento, J., Dalal, S., Okada, Y., Berg, R. A., and Chada, K. (1992). Collagenase Expression in the Lungs of Transgenic Mice Causes Pulmonary Emphysema. Cell, 71:955-961.

4. D'Armiento, J. and Chada, K. (1995). Frontiers in Transgenics. Trends in Pharmacology 19:26-28.

5. D'Armiento, J., DiColandrea, T., Dalal, S., Okada, Y. and Chada, K. (1995). Transgenic Overexpression of Collagenase in Mouse Skin Increases the Susceptibility to Tumorigenesis. Mol. Cell. Biol., 15:5732-5739.

6. Cherath, L., Tkachenko, A., D'Armiento, J., Welsh, J., McClelland, M., and Chada, K. (1996). RNA Fingerprinting by Arbitrarily-Primed PCR. In: Laboratory Guide to RNA: Isolation, Analysis and Synthesis. Ed. Paul Kreig. Wiley-Liss Inc., N.Y.; pp..251-271.

7. D'Armiento, J., Dalal, S., and Chada, K. (1997). Tissue Expression of Haptoglobin. Gene 195:19-27

8. Jiang, X., D’Armiento, J., Mallampalli, R. K., Mar, J., Yan, S-F., and Lin, M. (1998). Expression of plasma phospholipid transfer protein mRNA in normal and emphysematous lungs and regulation by hypoxia. J. Biol. Chem, 273:15714-15718.

9. DiColandrea, T., Wang, L., Wille, J., D’Armiento, J. and Chada, K. (1998) Epidermal expression of callgenase delays wound-healing in transgenic mice. J. Invest. Dermatol. 111:1029-103.

10. Lemaitre, V., O’Byrne, T.K., Dalal, S.S., Tall, A.R. and D’Armiento, J. (1999) Macrophage-Specific Expression of Human Collagenase (MMP-1) in Transgenic Mice. Annals New York Acad. Sci. 878:736-739.

11. DiColandrea, T., D’Armiento, J., Kesari, K.V., and Chada, K. (2000) Collagenase Induction Promotes Mouse Tumorigenesis via Two Independent Pathways. Molecular Carcinogenesis 29:8-16.

12. Kim, H., Dalal., S.S., Young, E., Legado,M., Weisfeldt, M.L., and D’Armiento, J. (2000) Disruption of the cardiac matrix leads to altered myocardial function in transgenic mice expressing collagenase (MMP-1) in the heart. J. Clin. Invest. 106:857-866.

13. Dalal, S., Chen, E.S., Downey, R., Shulman, L., Ginsburg, M., and D’Armiento, J. (2001) Presence of Human Collagenase (MMP-1) in the lung of Patients with Emphysema. Am. J. Resp, Crit. Care Med. 163:786-791.

14. Lemaitre, V., O’Byrne, T.K., Okada, Y., Borczuk, A. C., Tall, A.R. and D’Armiento, J (2001) Apo E knock-out mice expressing human interstitial collagenase (MMP-1) in macrophages have less advanced atherosclerosis. J. Clin. Invest. 107:1227-1234.

15. Foronjy, B. and D’Armiento, J. (2001) The role of collagenase in emphysema. Respiratory Review. 2:348-352.

16. Schluger, N. W. and D’Armiento, J. (2002) The Pathogenesis and Pathophysiology of Emphysema. In:Lung Volume Reduction Surgery Ed. M Argenziano and M. Ginsburg Humana Press, Totowa, N.J; pp.3-15.

17. Arbiser, J.L., Brat, D., Hunter, S., D’Armiento, J., Henske, E.P., Arbiser, Z.K., Bai, X., Goldberg, G., Cohen, C., and Weiss, S.W. (2002) Tuberous Sclerosis-Associated Lesions of the Kidney, Brain, and Skin are Angiogenic Neoplasms J. Am. Acad. Dermatol. 46:376-80.

18. D’Armiento, J. (2002) Matrix Metalloproteinase Disruption of the Extracellular Matrix and Cardiac Dysfunction. Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine 12:97-101.

19. Marx, S., Kurokawa, J., Reiken, S., Motoike, H., D’Armiento, J., Marks, A.R., Kass, R.S. (2002) Requirement of a Macromolecular Signaling Complex for b Adrenergic Receptor Modulation of the KCNQ1-KCNE1 Potassium Channel Science 295:466-9.

20. Reiken, S., Gaburjakova, M., Guatimosim, S., Gomez, A.M., D'Armiento, J., Burkhoff, D., Wang, J., Vassort, G., Lederer, W. J., and Marks, A.. (2003) PKA phosphorylation of the cardiac calcium release channel in normal and failing hearts: role of phosphatases and response to isoproterenol. J. Biol. Chem. 278:444-53..

21. Shiomi, T., Okada, Y., Foronjy, B., Schiltz, J., Jaenish, R., and D'Armiento, J. (2003). Emphysematous changes are caused by degradation of type III collagen in transgenic mice overexpressing tissue collagenase. Exp. Lung Res. 29:1-15.

22. Lemaitre, V., Soloway, P.D., and D’Amiento, J. (2003) Increased medial Degradation with Pseudo-aneurysm Formation in ApoE Knockout Mice deficient in Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinases-1. Circulation.107:333-338.

23. Foronjy, R. F., Okada, Y., Cole, R., and D’Armiento, J. (2003) Progressive Adult-Onset Emphysema in Transgenic Mice Expressing Human MMP-1 in the Lung. In Press Am. J. Physiology

 

 

 

 

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