Research Interests
cancer/oncogenesis
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computer science
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cross(mult/tnslat/inter)discip
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drugs/therapeutic agents pharm
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hormones/cytokines/signalling
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immunology/allergy/inflammatio
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metabolism
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molecular biology/molecular me
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radiology/imaging
Recent Publications
Ding X, Singh R, Burke A, Hatcher H, Olson J, Kraft RA, Schmid M, Carroll D, Bourland JD, Akman S, Torti FM, Torti SV.
Development of iron-containing multiwalled carbon nanotubes for MR-guided laser-induced thermotherapy. Nanomedicine (Lond).
2011;
6(8):1341-1352.
Li L, Fang CJ, Ryan JC, Niemi EC, Lebron JA, Bjorkman PJ, Arase H, Torti FM, Torti SV, Nakamura MC, et al.
Binding and uptake of H-ferritin are mediated by human transferrin receptor-1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
2010;
107(8):3505-3510.
Pinnix ZK, Miller LD, Wang W, D'Agostino R Jr, Kute T, Willingham MC, Hatcher H, Tesfay L, Sui G, Di X, Torti SV, Torti FM.
Ferroportin and iron regulation in breast cancer progression and prognosis. Sci Transl Med.
2010;
2(43):43ra56.
Jiao Y, Wilkinson J IV, Di X, Wang W, Hatcher H, Kock ND, D'Agostino R Jr, Knovich MA, Torti FM, Torti SV.
Curcumin, a cancer chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic agent, is a biologically active iron chelator. Blood.
2009;
113(2):462-469.
Rylander MN, Fisher J, Buchanan C, Szot C, Whitney J, Kraft R, Torti S, Burke A, Ding X.
Controlling heat shock protein expression in laser cancer therapy using multi-walled carbon nanotubes [abstract]. Lasers Surg Med.
2009;
(Suppl 21):5-6.
Laubenbacher R, Hower V, Jarrah A, Torti SV, Shulaev V, Mendes P, Torti FM, Akman S.
A systems biology view of cancer. Biochim Biophys Acta.
2009;
1796(2):129-139.
Storey JA, Connor RF, Lewis ZT, Hurd D, Pomper G, Keung YK, Lovato J, Torti SV, Torti FM, Molnar I, et al.
The transplant iron score as a predictor of stem cell transplant survival. J Hematol Oncol.
2009;
2():article 44.
Burke A, Singh R, Kraft RA, Levi-Polyachenko N, Hatcher HC, D'Agostino R Jr, Kock ND, Carroll DL, Akman S, Torti FM, Torti SV, et al.
Long-term survival following a single treatment of kidney tumors with multiwalled carbon nanotubes and near-infrared radiation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
2009;
106(31):12897-902.
Blish KR, Wang W, Willingham MC, Du W, Brown JC, Hawkins GA, Garvin AJ, D'Agostino RB Jr, Torti FM, Torti SV, et al.
A human bone morphogenetic protein antagonist is down-regulated in renal cancer. Mol Biol Cell.
2008;
19(2):457-464.
Coffman LG, Brown JC, Johnson DA, Parthasarathy N, D'Agostino RB Jr, Lively MO, Hua X, Willingham MC, Torti FM, Torti SV, et al.
Cleavage of high-molecular-weight kininogen by elastase and tryptase is inhibited by ferritin. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol.
2008;
294(3):L505-L515.
Hatcher HC, Kock ND, Pettus J, Richard JR, Torti SV.
Cytoprotective effect of ferritin following oxidative stress in renal ischemia-reperfusion injury [abstract]. Free Radic Biol Med.
2008;
45(Suppl 1):S83.
Huber WW, Haslinger E, Schachner D, Parzefall W, Grasl-Kraupp B, Hochreiter A, Lang H, Torti SV, Torti FM, Schulte-Hermann R.
The carcinogen azonymethane causes necrosis and oxidative stress in rat liver within 48 hours after injection, a toxic effect that is however strongly mitigated by pretreatment with the coffee components kahweol and cafestol [abstract]. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol.
2007;
375(Suppl 1):94.
Jiao Y, Kennedy DP, Cho JH, Planalp R, Bou-Abdallah F, Chasteen ND, Wilkinson J, Wang W, Torti FM, Torti SV.
Curcumin, a cancer chemopreventive agent, is a biologically relevant iron chelator [abstract]. Am J Hematol.
2007;
82(6):515.
Han J, Seaman WE, Torti FM, Torti SV.
Ferritin-mediated iron transport via TIM-2 in mouse kidney cells [abstract]. Am J Hematol.
2007;
82(6):517.
Li L, Torti SV, Torti FM, Hayashi S, Seaman WE.
Structural requirements for the endocytosis of H-ferritin by murine TIM-2 [abstract]. Am J Hematol.
2007;
82(6):586.
Torti FM, Coffman LG, Brown JC, Torti SV, Parthasarathy N, D'Agostino RB.
Ferritin inhibits cleavage of high molecular weight kininogen by elastase and mast cell tryptase [abstract]. Am J Hematol.
2007;
82(6):508-509.
Torti FM, Wang W, Di X, Torti SV.
Extensive excess capacity of the IRP system in cellular iron regulation [abstract]. Am J Hematol.
2007;
82(6):565.
Torti SV, Byrne F, Whelan O, Levi N, Ucer B, Schmid M, Torti FM, Akman S, Liu J, Ajayan PM, et al.
Thermal ablation therapeutics based on CN(x) multi-walled nanotubes. Int J Nanomedicine.
2007;
2(4):707-714.
All Publications
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