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Wendy Baur

  Director of Cell Culture Core
Molecular Cardiology Research Center

Tufts Medical Center

800 Washington Street, Box 080

Boston, MA 02111

    617-636-1441

Wendy Baur




Wendy Baur is responsible for the supervision and function of the Cell Culture Core. She obtained a B.A. from Montclair State College in New Jersey and graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a Masters of Science in 1978. She has been with Tufts Medical Center since 1979 working and consulting with various research investigators, mainly in the departments of Surgery and Cardiology. She has extensive expertise with all aspects of cell culture, especially with vascular cells. Her duties include the establishment and maintenance of cell lines utilized by the MCRI staff, training and supervision of cell culture technicians, coordination and communications with laboratory personnel and upkeep of supplies and equipment for the core.
Key Publications

Koike H, Karas RH, Baur WE, O'Donnell TF Jr, Mendelsohn ME.  Defferential-display polymerase chain reaction identifies nucleophosmin as an estrogen- regulated gene in human vascular smooth muscle cells.  J Vasc Surg.  1996 Mar; 23(3): 477-82. PubMed Abstract

 

Martin A, Wu K, Baur W, Meydani SN, Blumberg JB, Meydani M.  Effect of vitamin E on human aortic endothelial cell responses to oxidative injury.  Free Radic Biol Med.  1996:21(4):505-11. PubMed Abstract

 

Karas RH, Baur WE, Van Eickles M, Mendelsohn ME.  Human vascular smooth muscle cells express an estrogen receptor isoform.  FEBS Lett.  1995 Dec 18;377(2):103-8. PubMed Abstract

 

Yamaguchi M, Gallati H, Baur W, Cruess DF, Sharefkin JB.  Both lisinopril and verapamil reduced platelet-derived growth factor-A chain mRNA levels in human saphenous vein endothelial cells stimulated by thrombin.  Surgery.  1994 Apr;115(4):495-502. PubMed Abstract