Preprints
Arango BG, Ensminger DC, Xing D, Godard-Codding CA, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2024. Hypoxia exposure fine-tunes mitochondrial function in sea turtle cells. bioRxiv.
Vazquez JM, Lauterbur ME, Mottaghinia S, Bucci M, Fraser D, Gray-Sandoval G, Gaucherand L, Haider ZR, Han M, Kohler W, Lama TM, Lecorf A, Maesen S, McMillan D, Li S, Lo J, Rey C, Capel SLR, Singer M, Slocum K, Thomas W, Tyburec JD, Santos Villa SG, Miller R, Buchalski M, Vázquez-Medina JP, Pfeffer S, Etienne L, Enard D, Sudmant PH. 2024. Extensive longevity and DNA virus-driven adaptation in nearctic Myotis bats. bioRxiv.
In Press
Leija RG, Arevalo JA, Xing D, Vázquez-Medina JP, Brooks GA. 2025. The Mitochondrial Lactate Oxidation Complex: endpoint for carbohydrate carbon disposal. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab.
2025
Brassea-Pérez E, Vázquez-Medina JP, Hernández-Camacho CJ, Ramírez-Jirano LJ, Gaxiola-Robles R, Labrada-Martagón V, Zenteno-Savín T. 2025. Species-specific responses to di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate reveal activation of defense signaling pathways in California sea lion but not in human skeletal muscle cells in primary culture. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. C Toxicol. Pharmacol. 289, 110106. PMID: 39647646
2024
Vazquez JM, Khudyakov JI, Madelaire CB, Godard-Codding CA, Lam EK, Piotrowski ER, Merrill GB, Routti H, Conner J, Wisse J, Allen KN, Blevin P, Spyropoulos DD, Goksøyr A, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2024. Ex vivo and in vitro Methods as a Platform for Studying Anthropogenic Effects on Marine Mammals: Four challenges and how to meet them. Front. Mar. Sci., Global Change and the Future Ocean. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1466968
Allen KN, Torres-Velarde JM, Vazquez JM, Moreno-Santillán DD, Sudmant PH, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2024. Hypoxia exposure blunts angiogenic signaling and upregulates the antioxidant system in endothelial cells derived from elephant seals. BMC Biology 23:91. PMID: 38654271
Torres-Velarde JM, Allen KN, Salvador-Pascual A, Leija RG, Loung D, Moreno-Santillán DD, Ensminger DC, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2024. Peroxiredoxin 6 suppresses ferroptosis in lung endothelial cells. Free Radic. Biol. Med. 218, 82-93. PMID: 38579937
2023
Symon TE, Murillo-Cisneros DA, Hernández-Camacho CJ, O’Hara TM, Taylor RJ, Rosado-Berrios CA, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T. 2023. Mercury and selenium concentrations in lanugo of free-ranging California sea lions in the southern Gulf of California, Mexico. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 197, 115712. PMID: 37922756
Nakao LS, Olson MF, Vázquez-Medina JP, Valdivia A. 2023. Editorial: Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) Signaling During Cytoskeleton Dynamics. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 11, 1295263 PMID: 37860818.
Reyes-Ramos CA, J Ramírez-Jirano LJ, Bitzer-Quintero OK, Vázquez-Medina JP, Gaxiola-Robles R, Zenteno-Savín T. 2023. Dolphin leukocytes exhibit an attenuated cytokine response and increase heme oxygenase activity upon exposure to lipopolysaccharide. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A Mol. Integr. Physiol. 281, 111438. PMID: 37119961.
Brassea-Pérez E, Labrada-Martagón V, Hernández-Camacho C, Gaxiola-Robles R, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T. 2023. DEHP exposure impairs human skeletal muscle cell proliferation in primary culture conditions. Cytotechnology. 75, 335-348. PMID: 37389127.
2022
Arango BG, Ensminger DC, Moreno-Santillán DD, Harfush-Meléndez M, López-Reyes EM, Marmolejo-Valencia JA, Merchant-Larios H, Crocker DE, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2022. Oxidative stress is a potential cost of synchronous nesting in olive ridley sea turtles. Antioxidants, 11, 1772. PMID: 36139846
Khudyakov JI, Allen KN, Crocker DE, Trost NS, Roberts AH, Pirard L, Debier C, Piotrowski ER, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2022. Comprehensive molecular and morphological resolution of blubber stratification in a deep-diving, fasting-adapted seal. Front. Physiol., Aquatic Physiol., 2583. PMID: 36589428
Yu JJ, Non NL, Heinrich EC, Gu W, Alcock J, Moya EA, Lawrence ES, Tift MS, O'Brien KA, Storz JF, Signore AV, Khudyakov JI, Milsom WK, Wilson SM, Beall CM, Villafuerte CF, Stobdan T, Julian CG, Moore LG, Fuster MM, Stokes JA, Milner R, West J, Zhang J, Shyy JY, Childebayeva A, Vázquez-Medina JP, Pham LV, Mesarwi OA, Hall JE, Cheviron ZA, Sieker J, Blood AB, Yuan JX, Scott GR, Ponganis PJ, Malhotra A, Powell FL, Simonson TS. 2022. Time Domains of Hypoxia Responses and -Omics Insights. Front. Physiol., Integr. Physiol. 12, 885295. PMID: 36035495
Treidel LA, Quintanilla Ramirez GS, Chung DJ , Menze MA, Vázquez-Medina JP, Williams CM. 2022. Selection on dispersal drives evolution of metabolic capacities for energy production in female wing-polymorphic sand field crickets, Gryllus firmus. J. Evol. Biol. 35, 599-609. PMID: 35255175
Brassea-Péreza E, Hernández-Camacho CJ, Labrada-Martagón V, Vázquez-Medina JP, Gaxiola-Robles R, Zenteno-Savín T. 2022. Oxidative stress induced by phthalates in mammals: State of the art and potential biomarkers. Environ. Res. 206, 112636. PMID: 34973198
2021
Torres-Velarde JM, Kolora SRR, Khudyakov JI, Crocker DE, Sudmant PH, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2021. Elephant seal muscle cells adapt to sustained glucocorticoid exposure by shifting their metabolic phenotype. Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol. 321: R413–R428. PMID: 34260302
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Ensminger DC, Crocker DE, Lam EK, Allen KN, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2021 Repeated stimulation of the HPA axis alters white blood cell counts without increasing oxidative stress or inflammatory cytokines in fasting elephant seal pups. J. Exp. Biol. 224, jeb243198. PMID: 34524449
Ensminger DC, Salvador-Pascual A, Arango BG, Allen KN, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2021. Fasting ameliorates oxidative stress: a review of physiological strategies across life-history events in wild vertebrates. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A Mol. Integr. Physiol. 256, 110929. PMID: 34366875
Zane LH, Ensminger DC, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2021. Short-term elevations in glucocorticoids do not alter telomere lengths: A systematic review and meta-analysis of non-primate vertebrate studies. PLOS One, 16, e0257370. PMID: 34597314
Rodriguez R, Lee A, Godoy-Lugo J, Martinez B, Ohsaki H, Nakano D, Parkes D, Nishiyama A, Vázquez-Medina JP, Ortiz RM. 2021. Chronic AT1 blockade improves hyperglycemia by decreasing adipocyte inflammation and hepatic PCK1 and G6PC1 expression in obese rats. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 321: E714-E727. PMID: 34658252
Piotrowski ER, Tift MS, Crocker DE, Pearson AB, Vázquez-Medina JP, Keith AD, Khudyakov JI. 2021. Ontogeny of carbon monoxide-related gene expression in a deep-diving marine mammal. Front. Physiol., Environmental, Aviation and Space Physiology, 12, 762102. PMID: 34744798
Reyes-Ramos CA, Ramón Gaxiola-Robles, Vázquez-Medina JP, Ramirez-Jirano LJ, Bitzer Quintero OK, Zenteno-Savín T. 2021. In silico characterization of the heme oxygenase 1 from the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): evidence of changes in the active site and purifying selection. Front. Physiol., Aquatic Physiology,12, 711645. PMID: 34456750
Akther F, Razan R, Shaligram S, Graham JL, Stanhope KL, Allen KN, Vázquez-Medina JP, Havel PJ, Rahimian, R. 2021. Potentiation of acetylcholine-induced relaxation of the aorta in male UC Davis type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (UCD-T2DM) rats: sex-specific responses. Front. Physiol., Vascular Physiology, 12, 860. PMID: 34366875
2020
Lam EK, Allen KN, Torres-Velarde JM, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2020. Functional studies with primary cells provide a system for genome-to-phenome investigations in marine mammals. Integr. Comp. Biol. icaa065. PMID: 32516367
Allen KN, Vázquez-Medina JP. Reactive oxygen species (ROS), redox signaling, and regulation of vascular endothelial signaling. 2020. Chatterjee, S. (Ed). Endothelial Signaling in Vascular Dysfunction and Disease: From Bench to Bedside. Academic Press. ISBN: 9780128161968
Vasquez MC, Joyner-Matos J, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T, Freitas R. 2020. Oxidative stress in aquatic ecosystems: Integrated responses to multiple stressors and preparation for oxidative stress. Selected papers from the 3rd international conference. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A Mol. Integr. Physiol. 249, 110770. PMID: 32679265
Del Aguila-Vargas AC, Vázquez-Medina JP, Crocker DE, Méndez-Rodríguez LC, Gaxiola-Robles R, de Anda-Montanez JA, Ramírez-Jirano LJ, Lugo-Lugo O, Zenteno-Savín T. 2020. Antioxidant response to cadmium exposure in primary skeletal muscle cells isolated from humans and elephant seals. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. C Toxicol. Pharmacol. 227:108641. PMID: 31654830
2019
Allen KN, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2019. Natural tolerance to Ischemia and hypoxemia in diving mammals: a review. Time Domains of Hypoxia Adaptation: Evolutionary Insights and Applications Research Topic. Front. Physiol., Integrative Physiology, 10, 1199. PMID: 31620019
Allen KN, Vázquez-Medina JP, Lawler JM, Mellish JE, Horning M, Hindle AG. 2019. Muscular apoptosis but not oxidative stress increases with old age in a long-lived diver, the Weddell seal. J. Exp. Biol. 222, jeb200246. PMID: 31171605
Vázquez-Medina JP, Tao, JQ, Patel P, Bannitz Fernandes R, Dodia C, Sorokina E, Feinstein SI, Chatterjee S, Fisher AB. 2019. Genetic inactivation of the phospholipase A2 activity of peroxiredoxin 6 protects against LPS-induced acute lung injury. Am. J. Physiol. Lung Cell. Mol. Physiol. 316: L656–L668. PMID: 30702344
Bannitz-Fernandes R, Aleixo-Silva R, Silva JP, Dodia C, Vázquez-Medina JP, Tao JQ, Fisher A, Netto L. 2019. Non-mammalian Prdx6 enzymes (proteins with 1-Cys Prdx mechanism) display PLA2 activity similar to the human orthologue. Antioxidants 8, 52. PMID: 30832204
2018
Arevalo JA, Vázquez-Medina JP. 2018. The role of peroxiredoxin 6 in cell signaling. Antioxidants 7, 172. PMID: 30477202
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Vázquez-Medina JP. 2018. Redox signaling and the onset of the inflammatory cascade. S Chatterjee, Jungraithmayr W, Bagchi D. (Eds). Emerging Roles of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods in Immune Support: Immunity and Inflammation in Health and Disease, p. 37-41. Elsevier Press. ISBN: 9780128054178
Rodriguez R, Minas JN, Vázquez-Medina JP, Nakano D, Nishiyama A, Ortiz RM. 2018. Chronic AT1 blockade improves glucose homeostasis in obese OLETF rats. J. Endocrinol. 237, 1-14. PMID: 29643115
Fisher AB, Vázquez-Medina JP, Dodia C, Sorokina E, Tao, JQ, Feinstein SI. 2018. Peroxiredoxin 6 phospholipid hydroperoxidase activity in the repair of peroxidized cell membranes. Redox Biol. 14, 41-46. PMID: 28865296
2016
Vázquez-Medina JP, Dodia C, Weng L, Mesaros C, Blair IA, Feinstein SI, Chatterjee S, Fisher AB. 2016. The phospholipase A2 activity of peroxiredoxin 6 modulates NADPH oxidase 2 activation via lysophosphatidic acid receptor signaling in the pulmonary endothelium and alveolar macrophages. FASEB J. 30, 2885-2898. PMID: 27178323
Tao JQ, Sorokina EM, Vázquez-Medina JP, Mishra MK, Yamada Y, Satalin J, Nieman GF, Nellen JR, Beduhn B, Cantu E, Habashi NM, Jungraithmayr W, Christie JD, Chatterjee S. 2016. Onset of inflammation with ischemia: implications for donor lung preservation and transplant survival. Am. J. Transplant. 16, 2598-2611. PMID: 26998598
Joyner-Matos J, Abele D, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T. 2016. Oxidative stress in aquatic ecosystems: selected papers from the Second International Conference. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A Mol. Integr. Physiol., 200, 1-2. PMID: 27302891
2015
Sharick JT, Vázquez-Medina JP, Ortiz RM, Crocker DE. 2015. Oxidative stress is a potential cost of breeding in male and female northern elephant seals. Funct. Ecol., 29, 367-376. PMID: 25983364
Suzuki M, Lee A, Vázquez-Medina JP, Visccarra JA, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2015. Plasma FGF21concentrations and adipose fibroblast growth factor receptor-1 and β-klotho expression decrease with fasting in Northern elephant seals. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol., 216, 86-89. PMID: 25857751
Minas JN, Thorwald MA, Conte D, Vázquez-Medina JP, Nishiyama A, Ortiz RM. 2015. Angiotensin and mineralocorticoid receptor antagonism attenuates cardiac oxidative stress in angiotensin II-infused rats. Clin. Exp. Pharmacol. Physiol., 42, 1178-1188. PMID: 26234762
2014
Lopez-Cruz RI, Barjau Perez-Milicua M, Crocker DE, Gaxiola-Robles R, Bernal J, de la Rosa A, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savin T. 2014. Purine nucleoside phosphorylase and xanthine oxidase activities in erythrocytes and plasma from marine, semiaquatic and terrestrial mammals. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A Mol. Integr. Physiol., 171, 31-35. PMID: 24530799
2013
Vázquez-Medina JP, Popovich I, Thorwald MA, Rodriguez R, Soñanez-Organis JG, Viscarra JA, Lam L, Peti-Peterdi J, Nakano D, Nishiyama A, Ortiz RM. 2013. Angiotensin receptor mediated oxidative stress is associated with impaired cardiac redox signaling and mitochondrial function in insulin-resistant rats. Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol., 305, H599-H4607. PMID: 23771688
Suzuki M, Vázquez-Medina JP, Viscarra JA, Soñanez-Organis JG, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2013. Activation of systemic, but not local, renin-angiotensin system is associated with local inflammation during prolonged fasting in northern elephant seal pups. J. Exp. Biol., 216, 3215-3221. PMID: 23685967
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Vázquez-Medina JP, Soñanez-Organis JG, Rodriguez R, Viscarra JA, Nishiyama A, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2013. Prolonged fasting activates Nrf2 in postweaned elephant seals. J. Exp. Biol., 216, 2870-2878. PMID: 23619404
Soñanez-Organis JG, Vázquez-Medina JP, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2013. Prolonged fasting activates hypoxia-inducible factors -1α, -2α, and -3α in a tissue-specific manner in northern elephant seal pups. Gene, 526, 155-163. PMID: 23707926
Viscarra JA, Rodriguez R, Vázquez-Medina JP, Lee A, Tift MS, Tavoni S, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2013. Insulin and GLP-1 infusions demonstrate the onset of adipose-specific insulin resistance in a large fasting mammal: potential glucogenic role for GLP-1. Physiol. Rep., 1, p.e00023. PMID: 23997935
Martinez B, Soñanez-Organis JG, Vázquez-Medina JP, Viscarra JA, MacKenzie DS, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2013. Prolonged food deprivation increases mRNA expression of deiodinase 1 & 2, and thyroid hormone receptor β-1 in a fasting-adapted mammal. J. Exp. Biol., 216, 4647-4654. PMID: 24307712
Joyner-Matos J, Puntarulo S, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T. 2013. Oxidative stress in aquatic ecosystems: selected papers from the First International Conference. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A Mol. Integr. Physiol., 165, 381-383. PMID: 23608366
2012
Montez P, Vázquez-Medina JP, Rodriguez R, Thorwald MA, Lam L, Peti-Peterdi J, Nakano D, Nishiyama A, Ortiz RM. 2012. Angiotensin receptor blockade recovers UCP2 expression and aconitase and SDH activities, and ameliorates hepatic oxidative damage in insulin resistant rats. Endocrinology, 153, 5746-5759. PMID: 23087176
Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T, Elsner R, Ortiz RM. 2012. Coping with physiological oxidative stress: a review of antioxidant strategies in seals. J. Comp. Physiol. B, 182, 741-750. PMID: 22327141
Viscarra JA, Vázquez-Medina JP, Champagne CD, Adams S, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2012. Decreased expression of adipose CD36 and FATP1 contributes to increased plasma free fatty acids during prolonged fasting in northern elephant seal pups (Mirounga angustirostris). J. Exp. Biol., 215, 2455-2464. PMID: 22723485
Soñanez-Organis JG, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savin T, Aguilar A, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2012. Prolonged fasting increases purine recycling in postweaning northern elephant seals. J. Exp. Biol., 215, 1448-1455. PMID: 22496280
2011
Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T, Tift MS, Forman HJ, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2011. Apnea stimulates the adaptive response to oxidative stress in elephant seal pups. J. Exp. Biol., 214, 4193-4200. PMID: 22116762
Cantú-Medellín N, Byrd B, Hon A, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T. 2011. Differential antioxidant protection in tissues from marine mammals with distinct diving capacities. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A Mol. Integr. Physiol., 158, 438-443. PMID: 21147244
Vázquez-Medina JP, Soñanez-Organis JG, Burns JM, Zenteno-Savín T., Ortiz R.M. 2011. Antioxidant capacity develops with maturation in the deep diving hooded seal. J. Exp. Biol., 214, 2903-2910. PMID: 21832133
Viscarra J, Vázquez-Medina JP, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2011. Glut4 is upregulated despite decreased insulin signaling during prolonged fasting in northern elephant seal pups. Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol., 300, R150-R154. PMID: 20980624
Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T, Forman HJ, Crocker DE, Ortiz RM. 2011. Prolonged fasting increases glutathione biosynthesis in postweaned northern elephant seals. J. Exp. Biol., 214, 1294-1299. PMID: 21430206
Vázquez-Medina JP, Olguín-Monroy NO, Maldonado PD, Konigsberg M, Santamaria A, Elsner R, Hammill MO, Burns JM, Zenteno-Savín T. 2011. Maturation increases superoxide radical production without increasing oxidative damage in the skeletal muscle of hooded seals (Cystophora cristata). Can. J. Zool., 89, 206-2012. https://doi.org/10.1139/Z10-107
Abele D, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T. 2011. Oxidative Stress in Aquatic Ecosystems. Wiley-Blackwell, U.K. 548 pp. ISBN: 9781444335484
Abele D, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T. 2011. Introduction to oxidative stress in aquatic ecosystems. Abele D, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T. (Eds). Oxidative Stress in Aquatic Ecosystems, p.1-6, Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 9781444335484
Zenteno-Savín T, Vázquez-Medina JP, Cantú-Medellín N, Ponganis PJ, Elsner R. 2011. Ischemia/reperfusion in diving birds and mammals: how they avoid oxidative damage. Abele D, Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T. (Eds). Oxidative Stress in Aquatic Ecosystems, p.178-190. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 9781444335484
2010
Vázquez-Medina JP, Crocker DE, Forman HJ, Ortiz RM. 2010. Prolonged fasting does not increase oxidative damage or inflammation in northern elephant seal pups. J. Exp. Biol., 213, 2524-2530. PMID: 20581282
2008
Zenteno-Savín T, Cortés-Jacinto E, Vázquez-Medina JP, Villareal-Colmenares H. 2008. Oxidative stress of juvenile redclaw crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus): Response to varying protein and lipid levels. Hidrobiológica, 18, 147-154. http://www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/hbio/v18n2/v18n2a7.pdf
2007
Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T, Elsner R. 2007. Glutathione protects against dive-associated ischemia/reperfusion in ringed seals. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 345, 110-118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2007.02.003
2006
Vázquez-Medina JP, Zenteno-Savín T, Elsner R. 2006. Antioxidant enzymes in ringed seal tissues: Potential protection against dive-associated ischemia/reperfusion. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. C Toxicol. Pharmacol., 142, 198-204. PMID: 16269268