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Miller LA, Carlsten C. Environmental Exposures and the Microbiome: Where There Is Smoke, Is There Fire?. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025 Nov;211(11):1984-1985. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202505-1264ED. PubMed PMID: 40758542; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12618995.
Samarasinghe AE, Randell SH, Kulkarni HS, Weiser JN, Quinton LJ, Dickson RP, Mizgerd JP, Orihuela CJ, Parker D, Robinson KM, Prince AS, Evans SE, Kolls JK, Lee JS, Jeyaseelan S, Torres A, Miller LA, Hamilton DJ, Gómez MI, Moore BB, Walker RL, Barkal LJ, Hook JL, Lau GW, Sharma J, Witzenrath M, Dela Cruz CS. Best Practices in the Development and Use of Experimental Models of Bacterial Pneumonia: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2025 Aug;73(2):178-199. doi: 10.1165/rcmb.2025-0322ST. PubMed PMID: 40748059; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12334885.
Muthumalage T, Sarles E, Wang Q, Hensel E, Hill T 3rd, Rahman I, Robinson R, Stroup AM, Thongphanh K, Miller LA. In Vitro assessments of ENDS toxicity in the respiratory tract: Are we there yet?. NAM J. 2025;1. doi: 10.1016/j.namjnl.2025.100016. Epub 2025 Apr 3. PubMed PMID: 40264558; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12013380.
Deshmukh H, Whitsett J, Zacharias W, Way SS, Martinez FD, Mizgerd J, Pryhuber G, Ambalavanan N, Bacharier L, Natarajan A, Tamburro R, Lin S, Randolph A, Nino G, Mejias A, Ramilo O. Impact of Viral Lower Respiratory Tract Infection (LRTI) in Early Childhood (0-2 Years) on Lung Growth and Development and Lifelong Trajectories of Pulmonary Health: A National Institutes of Health (NIH) Workshop Summary. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2025 Jan;60(1):e27357. doi: 10.1002/ppul.27357. Epub 2024 Nov 20. Review. PubMed PMID: 39565217; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11740654.
Presicce P, Roland C, Senthamaraikannan P, Cappelletti M, Hammons M, Miller LA, Jobe AH, Chougnet CA, DeFranco E, Kallapur SG. IL-1 and TNF mediates IL-6 signaling at the maternal-fetal interface during intrauterine inflammation. Front Immunol. 2024;15:1416162. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1416162. eCollection 2024. PubMed PMID: 38895127; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11183269.
Siegel NA, Jimenez MT, Rocha CS, Rolston M, Dandekar S, Solnick JV, Miller LA. Helicobacter pylori infection in infant rhesus macaque monkeys is associated with an altered lung and oral microbiome. Sci Rep. 2024 May 1;14(1):9998. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-59514-5. PubMed PMID: 38693196; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11063185.
Newman J, Tong X, Tan A, Yeasky T, De Paiva VN, Presicce P, Kannan PS, Williams K, Damianos A, Tamase Newsam M, Benny MK, Wu S, Young KC, Miller LA, Kallapur SG, Chougnet CA, Jobe AH, Brambilla R, Schmidt AF. Chorioamnionitis accelerates granule cell and oligodendrocyte maturation in the cerebellum of preterm nonhuman primates. J Neuroinflammation. 2024 Jan 10;21(1):16. doi: 10.1186/s12974-024-03012-y. PubMed PMID: 38200558; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10777625.
Presicce P, Cappelletti M, Morselli M, Ma F, Senthamaraikannan P, Protti G, Nadel B, Aryan L, Eghbali M, Salwinski L, Pithia N, De Franco E, Miller LA, Pellegrini M, Jobe AH, Choughnet CA, Kallapur SG. Amnion responses to intrauterine inflammation and effects of inhibition of TNF-signaling in preterm Rhesus macaque. [Print]. iScience; 2023 October. Available from: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(23)02195-8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.108118.
Siegel NA, Jimenez MT, Santos Rocha C, Rolston M, Dandekar S, Solnick JV, Miller LA. Helicobacter pylori Infection in Infant Rhesus Macaque Monkeys is Associated with an Altered Lung and Oral Microbiome. [preprint]. 2023 August. Available from: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3225953/v1.
Royer C, Miller LA, Haczku A. A Novel Nonhuman Primate Model of Nonatopic Asthma. Methods Mol Biol. 2022;2506:83-94. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2364-0_6. PubMed PMID: 35771465; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11069454.
Langel SN, Garrido C, Phan C, Travieso T, Kirshner H, DeMarco T, Ma ZM, Reader JR, Olstad KJ, Sammak RL, Shaan Lakshmanappa Y, Roh JW, Watanabe J, Usachenko J, Immareddy R, Pollard R, Iyer SS, Permar S, Miller LA, Van Rompay KKA, Blasi M. Dam-Infant Rhesus Macaque Pairs to Dissect Age-Dependent Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Immunohorizons. 2022 Dec 1;6(12):851-863. doi: 10.4049/immunohorizons.2200075. PubMed PMID: 36547390; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10538284.
Schmidt AF, Schnell DJ, Eaton KP, Chetal K, Kannan PS, Miller LA, Chougnet CA, Swarr DT, Jobe AH, Salomonis N, Kamath-Rayne BD. Fetal maturation revealed by amniotic fluid cell-free transcriptome in rhesus macaques. JCI Insight. 2022 Sep 22;7(18). doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.162101. PubMed PMID: 35980752; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9675452.
Stevens J, Steinmeyer S, Bonfield M, Peterson L, Wang T, Gray J, Lewkowich I, Xu Y, Du Y, Guo M, Wynn JL, Zacharias W, Salomonis N, Miller L, Chougnet C, O'Connor DH, Deshmukh H. The balance between protective and pathogenic immune responses to pneumonia in the neonatal lung is enforced by gut microbiota. Sci Transl Med. 2022 Jun 15;14(649):eabl3981. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abl3981. Epub 2022 Jun 15. PubMed PMID: 35704600; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10032669.
Kadur Lakshminarasimha Murthy P, Sontake V, Tata A, Kobayashi Y, Macadlo L, Okuda K, Conchola AS, Nakano S, Gregory S, Miller LA, Spence JR, Engelhardt JF, Boucher RC, Rock JR, Randell SH, Tata PR. Human distal lung maps and lineage hierarchies reveal a bipotent progenitor. Nature. 2022 Apr;604(7904):111-119. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04541-3. Epub 2022 Mar 30. PubMed PMID: 35355018; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9169066.
Toth A, Steinmeyer S, Kannan P, Gray J, Jackson CM, Mukherjee S, Demmert M, Sheak JR, Benson D, Kitzmiller J, Wayman JA, Presicce P, Cates C, Rubin R, Chetal K, Du Y, Miao Y, Gu M, Guo M, Kalinichenko VV, Kallapur SG, Miraldi ER, Xu Y, Swarr D, Lewkowich I, Salomonis N, Miller L, Sucre JS, Whitsett JA, Chougnet CA, Jobe AH, Deshmukh H, Zacharias WJ. Inflammatory blockade prevents injury to the developing pulmonary gas exchange surface in preterm primates. Sci Transl Med. 2022 Mar 30;14(638):eabl8574. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abl8574. Epub 2022 Mar 30. PubMed PMID: 35353543; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9082785.
Jackson CM, Demmert M, Mukherjee S, Isaacs T, Thompson R, Chastain C, Gray J, Senthamaraikannan P, Presicce P, Chetal K, Salomonis N, Miller LA, Jobe AH, Kallapur SG, Zacharias WJ, Lewkowich IP, Deshmukh H, Chougnet CA. A potent myeloid response is rapidly activated in the lungs of premature Rhesus macaques exposed to intra-uterine inflammation. Mucosal Immunol. 2022 Apr;15(4):730-744. doi: 10.1038/s41385-022-00495-x. Epub 2022 Mar 21. PubMed PMID: 35314757; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9259482.
Cossette C, Miller LA, Ye Q, Chourey S, Reddy CN, Rokach J, Powell WS. Targeting the OXE receptor with a selective antagonist inhibits allergen-induced pulmonary inflammation in non-human primates. Br J Pharmacol. 2022 Jan;179(2):322-336. doi: 10.1111/bph.15721. Epub 2021 Dec 16. PubMed PMID: 34766334; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8793878.
Brown AP, Cai L, Laufer BI, Miller LA, LaSalle JM, Ji H. Long-term effects of wildfire smoke exposure during early life on the nasal epigenome in rhesus macaques. Environ Int. 2022 Jan;158:106993. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106993. Epub 2021 Nov 24. PubMed PMID: 34991254; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8852822.
Bai H, Capitanio JP, Miller LA, Clougherty JE. Social status and susceptibility to wildfire smoke among outdoor-housed female rhesus monkeys: A natural experiment. Heliyon. 2021 Nov;7(11):e08333. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08333. eCollection 2021 Nov. PubMed PMID: 34816037; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8591456.
Cappelletti M, Presicce P, Feiyang M, Senthamaraikannan P, Miller LA, Pellegrini M, Sim MS, Jobe AH, Divanovic S, Way SS, Chougnet CA, Kallapur SG. The induction of preterm labor in rhesus macaques is determined by the  strength of immune response to intrauterine infection. PLoS Biol. 2021 Sep;19(9):e3001385. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001385. eCollection 2021 Sep. PubMed PMID: 34495952; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8452070.
Gu C, Upchurch K, Horton J, Wiest M, Zurawski S, Millard M, Kane RR, Joo H, Miller LA, Oh S. Dectin-1 Controls TSLP-Induced Th2 Response by Regulating STAT3, STAT6, and p50-RelB Activities in Dendritic Cells. Front Immunol. 2021;12:678036. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.678036. eCollection 2021. PubMed PMID: 34305908; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8293820.
Schmidt AF, Kannan PS, Bridges J, Presicce P, Jackson CM, Miller LA, Kallapur SG, Chougnet CA, Jobe AH. Prenatal inflammation enhances antenatal corticosteroid-induced fetal lung maturation. JCI Insight. 2020 Dec 17;5(24). doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.139452. PubMed PMID: 33328385; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7819743.
Pabst R, Miller LA, Schelegle E, Hyde DM. Organized lymphatic tissue (BALT) in lungs of rhesus monkeys after air pollutant exposure. Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2020 Nov;303(11):2766-2773. doi: 10.1002/ar.24456. Epub 2020 Jul 14. Review. PubMed PMID: 32445535; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8793891.
Presicce P, Cappelletti M, Senthamaraikannan P, Ma F, Morselli M, Jackson CM, Mukherjee S, Miller LA, Pellegrini M, Jobe AH, Chougnet CA, Kallapur SG. TNF-Signaling Modulates Neutrophil-Mediated Immunity at the Feto-Maternal Interface During LPS-Induced Intrauterine Inflammation. Front Immunol. 2020;11:558. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.00558. eCollection 2020. PubMed PMID: 32308656; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7145904.
Miller LA, Cossette C, Chourey S, Ye Q, Reddy CN, Rokach J, Powell WS. Inhibition of allergen-induced dermal eosinophilia by an oxoeicosanoid receptor antagonist in non-human primates. Br J Pharmacol. 2020 Jan;177(2):360-371. doi: 10.1111/bph.14872. Epub 2020 Jan 17. PubMed PMID: 31655023; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6989951.
Flayer CH, Larson ED, Joseph A, Kao S, Qu W, Van Haren A, Royer CM, Miller LA, Capitanio JP, Sielecki T, Christofidou-Solomidou M, Haczku A. Ozone-induced enhancement of airway hyperreactivity in rhesus macaques: Effects of antioxidant treatment. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2020 Jan;145(1):312-323. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2019.08.034. Epub 2019 Oct 15. PubMed PMID: 31627909; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6949398.
Engler AE, Mostoslavsky G, Miller L, Rock JR. Isolation, Maintenance and Differentiation of Primary Tracheal Basal Cells from Adult Rhesus Macaque. Methods Protoc. 2019 Oct 1;2(4). doi: 10.3390/mps2040079. PubMed PMID: 31581513; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6961120.
Schmidt AF, Kemp MW, Milad M, Miller LA, Bridges JP, Clarke MW, Kannan PS, Jobe AH. Oral dosing for antenatal corticosteroids in the Rhesus macaque. PLoS One. 2019;14(9):e0222817. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222817. eCollection 2019. PubMed PMID: 31536601; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6752828.
Schmidt AF, Kannan PS, Bridges JP, Filuta A, Lipps D, Kemp M, Miller LA, Kallapur SG, Xu Y, Whitsett JA, Jobe AH. Dosing and formulation of antenatal corticosteroids for fetal lung maturation and gene expression in rhesus macaques. Sci Rep. 2019 Jun 21;9(1):9039. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-45171-6. PubMed PMID: 31227752; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6588577.
Barrios J, Kho AT, Aven L, Mitchel JA, Park JA, Randell SH, Miller LA, Tantisira KG, Ai X. Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Cells Secrete γ-Aminobutyric Acid to Induce Goblet Cell Hyperplasia in Primate Models. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2019 Jun;60(6):687-694. doi: 10.1165/rcmb.2018-0179OC. PubMed PMID: 30571139; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6543741.
Presicce P, Park CW, Senthamaraikannan P, Bhattacharyya S, Jackson C, Kong F, Rueda CM, DeFranco E, Miller LA, Hildeman DA, Salomonis N, Chougnet CA, Jobe AH, Kallapur SG. IL-1 signaling mediates intrauterine inflammation and chorio-decidua neutrophil recruitment and activation. JCI Insight. 2018 Mar 22;3(6). doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.98306. PubMed PMID: 29563340; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5926925.
Miller LA, Royer CM, Pinkerton KE, Schelegle ES. Nonhuman Primate Models of Respiratory Disease: Past, Present, and Future. ILAR J. 2017 Dec 1;58(2):269-280. doi: 10.1093/ilar/ilx030. Review. PubMed PMID: 29216343; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5886323.
Black C, Tesfaigzi Y, Bassein JA, Miller LA. Wildfire smoke exposure and human health: Significant gaps in research for a growing public health issue. Environ Toxicol Pharmacol. 2017 Oct;55:186-195. doi: 10.1016/j.etap.2017.08.022. Epub 2017 Aug 30. Review. PubMed PMID: 28892756; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5628149.
Dela Pena-Ponce MG, Jimenez MT, Hansen LM, Solnick JV, Miller LA. The Helicobacter pylori type IV secretion system promotes IL-8 synthesis in a model of pediatric airway epithelium via p38 MAP kinase. PLoS One. 2017;12(8):e0183324. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183324. eCollection 2017. PubMed PMID: 28813514; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5557493.
Crowley CM, Fontaine JH, Gerriets JE, Schelegle ES, Hyde DM, Miller LA. Early life allergen and air pollutant exposures alter longitudinal blood immune profiles in infant rhesus monkeys. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2017 Aug 1;328:60-69. doi: 10.1016/j.taap.2017.05.006. Epub 2017 May 18. PubMed PMID: 28529118; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5535809.
Black C, Gerriets JE, Fontaine JH, Harper RW, Kenyon NJ, Tablin F, Schelegle ES, Miller LA. Early Life Wildfire Smoke Exposure Is Associated with Immune Dysregulation and Lung Function Decrements in Adolescence. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2017 May;56(5):657-666. doi: 10.1165/rcmb.2016-0380OC. PubMed PMID: 28208028; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5449494.
Miller LA. The best defense is a good (Protease) offense: How Pseudomonas aeruginosa evades mucosal immunity in the lung. Virulence. 2017 Aug 18;8(6):625-627. doi: 10.1080/21505594.2016.1278335. Epub 2017 Jan 19. PubMed PMID: 28102763; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5626340.
Senthamaraikannan P, Presicce P, Rueda CM, Maneenil G, Schmidt AF, Miller LA, Waites KB, Jobe AH, Kallapur SG, Chougnet CA. Intra-amniotic Ureaplasma parvum-Induced Maternal and Fetal Inflammation and Immune Responses in Rhesus Macaques. J Infect Dis. 2016 Nov 15;214(10):1597-1604. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiw408. Epub 2016 Sep 6. PubMed PMID: 27601620; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6392471.
Schmidt AF, Kannan PS, Chougnet CA, Danzer SC, Miller LA, Jobe AH, Kallapur SG. Intra-amniotic LPS causes acute neuroinflammation in preterm rhesus macaques. J Neuroinflammation. 2016 Sep 6;13(1):238. doi: 10.1186/s12974-016-0706-4. PubMed PMID: 27596440; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5011884.
Rueda CM, Presicce P, Jackson CM, Miller LA, Kallapur SG, Jobe AH, Chougnet CA. Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Chorioamnionitis Promotes IL-1-Dependent Inflammatory FOXP3+ CD4+ T Cells in the Fetal Rhesus Macaque. J Immunol. 2016 May 1;196(9):3706-15. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1502613. Epub 2016 Apr 1. PubMed PMID: 27036917; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4868637.
Lynn TM, Molloy EL, Masterson JC, Glynn SF, Costello RW, Avdalovic MV, Schelegle ES, Miller LA, Hyde DM, O'Dea S. SMAD Signaling in the Airways of Healthy Rhesus Macaques versus Rhesus Macaques with Asthma Highlights a Relationship Between Inflammation and Bone Morphogenetic Proteins. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2016 Apr;54(4):562-73. doi: 10.1165/rcmb.2015-0210OC. PubMed PMID: 26414797; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4821057.
Dugger DT, Gerriets JE, Miller LA. Attenuated Airway Epithelial Cell Interleukin-22R1 Expression in the Infant Nonhuman Primate Lung. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2015 Dec;53(6):761-8. doi: 10.1165/rcmb.2014-0452RC. PubMed PMID: 26309027; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4742937.
Herring MJ, Putney LF, St George JA, Avdalovic MV, Schelegle ES, Miller LA, Hyde DM. Early life exposure to allergen and ozone results in altered development in adolescent rhesus macaque lungs. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2015 Feb 15;283(1):35-41. doi: 10.1016/j.taap.2014.12.006. Epub 2014 Dec 27. PubMed PMID: 25545987; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5922427.
Presicce P, Senthamaraikannan P, Alvarez M, Rueda CM, Cappelletti M, Miller LA, Jobe AH, Chougnet CA, Kallapur SG. Neutrophil recruitment and activation in decidua with intra-amniotic IL-1beta in the preterm rhesus macaque. Biol Reprod. 2015 Feb;92(2):56. doi: 10.1095/biolreprod.114.124420. Epub 2014 Dec 23. PubMed PMID: 25537373; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4342792.
Murphy SR, Oslund KL, Hyde DM, Miller LA, Van Winkle LS, Schelegle ES. Ozone-induced airway epithelial cell death, the neurokinin-1 receptor pathway, and the postnatal developing lung. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2014 Sep 15;307(6):L471-81. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00324.2013. Epub 2014 Jul 25. PubMed PMID: 25063800; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4166783.
Moore BD, Hyde DM, Miller LA, Wong EM, Schelegle ES. Persistence of serotonergic enhancement of airway response in a model of childhood asthma. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2014 Jul;51(1):77-85. doi: 10.1165/rcmb.2013-0387OC. PubMed PMID: 24484440; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4091858.
Clay CC, Reader JR, Gerriets JE, Wang TT, Harrod KS, Miller LA. Enhanced viral replication and modulated innate immune responses in infant airway epithelium following H1N1 infection. J Virol. 2014 Jul;88(13):7412-25. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00188-14. Epub 2014 Apr 16. PubMed PMID: 24741104; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4054429.
Phillips KA, Bales KL, Capitanio JP, Conley A, Czoty PW, 't Hart BA, Hopkins WD, Hu SL, Miller LA, Nader MA, Nathanielsz PW, Rogers J, Shively CA, Voytko ML. Why primate models matter. Am J Primatol. 2014 Sep;76(9):801-27. doi: 10.1002/ajp.22281. Epub 2014 Apr 10. Review. PubMed PMID: 24723482; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4145602.
Clay CC, Maniar-Hew K, Gerriets JE, Wang TT, Postlethwait EM, Evans MJ, Fontaine JH, Miller LA. Early life ozone exposure results in dysregulated innate immune function and altered microRNA expression in airway epithelium. PLoS One. 2014;9(3):e90401. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090401. eCollection 2014. PubMed PMID: 24594710; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3942419.
Clay CC, Miller LA. Infant airway epithelium is susceptible to persistent effects of tobacco smoke exposure. Differential regulation of innate responses to virus and bacteria. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2014; Suppl 1:S75-S76.
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