Epernicus: Elsa Quintana-Fernandez, Ph.D.

Elsa Quintana-Fernandez, Ph.D.

Positions:
scientist

OncoMed Pharmaceuticals

Post Doctoral Fellow

Cell and Developmental Biology

Center for Stem Cell Biology

Life Sciences Institute (Ann Arbor, MI)
Degrees:

Ph.D., Pharmacology, University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain)

B.S., Phramacology, University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain)
Past Advisors:

Sean J. Morrison (as Post Doctoral Fellow)

Alberto Alvarez-Barrientos (as Post Doctoral Fellow)

Maria Dolores Barrachina-Sancho (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)

Juan V. Esplugues-Mota (as Undergraduate Student)
Research:
Characterization of human melanoma initiating cells

Communities:

Elsa Quintana-Fernandez's Genealogy

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Elsa Quintana-Fernandez's Publications (16)

Enteric glia are multipotent in culture but primarily form glia in the adult rodent gut.
Joseph NM, He S, Quintana E, Kim YG, Núñez G, Morrison SJ

The Journal of clinical investigation. 2011 Sep 1;121(9):3398-411
Phenotypic heterogeneity among tumorigenic melanoma cells from patients that is reversible and not hierarchically organized.
Quintana E, Shackleton M, Foster HR, Fullen DR, Sabel MS, Johnson TM, Morrison SJ

Cancer cell. 2010 Nov 16;18(5):510-23
Progress in understanding melanoma propagation.
Shackleton M, Quintana E

Molecular oncology. 2010 Oct;4(5):451-7
Nitric oxide, derived from inducible nitric oxide synthase, decreases hypoxia inducible factor-1alpha in macrophages during aspirin-induced mesenteric inflammation.
Díez I, Calatayud S, Hernández C, Quintana E, O'Connor JE, Esplugues JV, Barrachina MD

British journal of pharmacology. 2010 Apr;159(8):1636-45
iNOS-derived nitric oxide mediates the increase in TFF2 expression associated with gastric damage: role of HIF-1.
Ortiz-Masiá D, Hernández C, Quintana E, Velázquez M, Cebrián S, Riaño A, Calatayud S, Esplugues JV, Barrachina MD

The FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. 2010 Jan;24(1):136-45
Heterogeneity in cancer: cancer stem cells versus clonal evolution.
Shackleton M, Quintana E, Fearon ER, Morrison SJ

Cell. 2009 Sep 4;138(5):822-9
Melanoma: do we need a hatchet or a scalpel?
Shackleton MJ, Quintana E, Fullen DR, Sabel MS, Johnson TM

Archives of dermatology. 2009 Mar;145(3):307-8
Efficient tumour formation by single human melanoma cells.
Quintana E, Shackleton M, Sabel MS, Fullen DR, Johnson TM, Morrison SJ

Nature. 2008 Dec 4;456(7222):593-8
Nitrergic modulation of gastrointestinal function during early endotoxemia.
Quintana E, Barrachina MD, Esplugues JV

Current pharmaceutical design. 2006;12(34):4525-35
Transcriptional up-regulation of nNOS in the dorsal vagal complex during low endotoxemia.
Quintana E, Hernández C, Moran AP, Esplugues JV, Barrachina MD

Life sciences. 2005 Jul 15;77(9):1044-54
Synthesis of nitric oxide in postganglionic myenteric neurons during endotoxemia: implications for gastric motor function in rats.
Quintana E, Hernández C, Alvarez-Barrientos A, Esplugues JV, Barrachina MD

The FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. 2004 Mar;18(3):531-3
Endotoxin stimulates fecal pellet output in rats through a neural mechanism.
Calatayud S, Barrachina MD, Quintana E, Ibiza S, Esplugues JV

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology. 2003 Jan;367(1):51-5
Downregulation of nNOS and synthesis of PGs associated with endotoxin-induced delay in gastric emptying.
Calatayud S, García-Zaragozá E, Hernández C, Quintana E, Felipo V, Esplugues JV, Barrachina MD

American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology. 2002 Dec;283(6):G1360-7
A cerebral nitrergic pathway modulates endotoxin-induced changes in gastric motility.
Quintana E, García-Zaragozá E, Martínez-Cuesta MA, Calatayud S, Esplugues JV, Barrachina MD

British journal of pharmacology. 2001 Sep;134(2):325-32
Endotoxin inhibits gastric emptying in rats via a capsaicin-sensitive afferent pathway.
Calatayud S, Barrachina MD, García-Zaragozá E, Quintana E, Esplugues JV

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology. 2001 Mar;363(3):276-80
Role of central oxytocin in the inhibition by endotoxin of distension-stimulated gastric acid secretion.
Calatayud S, Quintana E, Esplugues J, Barrachina MD

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology. 1999 Dec;360(6):676-82

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Elsa Quintana-Fernandez, Ph.D.

scientist

Post Doctoral Fellow

Characterization of human melanoma initiating cells

Elsa Quintana-Fernandez's Genealogy

Elsa Quintana-Fernandez's Publications (16)

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