Lucy Liaw, PhD
Faculty Scientist III
Center for Molecular Medicine
Liaw Lab
Tackling cardiometabolic disease
A complete list of publications can be found on My NCBI
Yang X, Yang C, Friesel R, Liaw L. 2022. Sprouty1 has a protective role in atherogenesis and modifies the migratory and inflammatory phenotype of vascular smooth muscle cells. Submitted to ATVB
Tero BW, Fortier B, Soucy AN, Paquette G, Liaw L. Quantification of lipid area within thermogenic mouse perivascular adipose tissue using standardized image analysis in FIJI. J Vascular Res 2021, in press.
Angueira AR, Sakers AP, Holman CD, Cheng L, Arbocco MN, Shamsi F, Lynes MD, Shrestha R, Okada C, Batmanov K, Susztak K, Tseng Y-H, Liaw L, Seale P. Defining the lineage of thermogenic perivascular adipose tissue. Nat Metab 2021 3(4):469-484.
Boucher JM, Ryzhova L, Harrington A, Davis-Knowlton J, Turner JE, Cooper E, Maridas D, Ryzhov S, Rosen CJ, Vary CPH, Liaw L. Pathological conversion of mouse perivascular adipose tissue by Notch activation. Arterioscler, Thromb, Vasc Biol, 2020, 40(9):2227-2243. PMCID: PMC7483939.
Dickson D, Stohn P, Rodriguez LS, Hernandez A, Harrington A, Liaw L, Feig LA. Involvement of early embryonic miR-409-3p in the establishment of anxiety levels in female mice. Dev Neurobiol 2020, 80(5-6):160-167.
Stieber K, Malka K, Boucher JM, Liaw L. Human perivascular adipose tissue as a regulator of vascular microenvironment and coronary artery and aortic disease. J Cardiology and Cardiovasc Sci 2019, 3(4):10-15. PMCID: PMC7224402.
Channabasavaiah G…Liaw L, Miano JM, Burgio G. Reproducibility of CRISPR-Cas9 Methods for generation of conditional mouse alleles: a multi-center evaluation. Genome Biol, 2019, 20(1):171.
Scott SS, Yang X, Robich M, Liaw L, Boucher JM. Differentiation capacity of human aortic perivascular adipose progenitor cells. J Vis Exp 2019, 145, e59337, doi:10.3791/59337.
Su S, Guntur AR, Nguyen DC, Fakory SS, Doucette CC, Leech C, Lotana H, Kelley M, Kohli J, Martino J, Sims-Lucas S, Liaw L, Vary C, Rosen CJ, Brown AC. A renewable source of human beige adipocytes for development of therapies to treat metabolic syndrome. Cell Reports 2018.
Boucher JM, Robich M, Scott SS, Yang X, Ryzhova L, Turner JE, Pinz I, Liaw L. Rab27a regulates human perivascular adipose progenitor cell differentiation. Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy: PVAT Biology 2018, 32(5):519-530.
Peterson SM, Turner JE, Harrington A, Davis-Knowlton J, Lindner V, Gridley T, Vary CPH, Liaw L. Notch2 and proteomic signatures in mouse neointimal lesion formation. Arterio Thromb Vasc Biol 2018, 38(7):1576-1593, NIHMSID 968681.
Davis-Knowlton J, Turner JE, Turner A, Damian-Loring S, Hagler N, Henderson T, Emery IF, Duarte CW, Vary CPH, Eldrup-Jorgensen J, Liaw L. Characterization of smooth muscle cells from human atherosclerotic lesions and their responses to Notch signaling. Laboratory Investigation 2018, 38(7):1576-1593.
Yang X*, Gong Y, He Q, Licht JD, Liaw L, Friesel RE*. 2018. Loss of Spry1 attenuates vascular smooth muscle proliferation by impairing mitogen-mediated changes in cell cycle regulatory circuits. J Cell Biochem. Apr; 119(4):3267-3279. PMCID:PMC5826877. *: co-corresponding author.
Liaw L, Freedman JE, Becker LB, Mehta NN, Liscum L. Peer review practices for evaluating biomedical research grants: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circ Res 2017, 121(4):e9-e19.
Bishop KA, Harrington A, Kouranova E, Weinstein EJ, Rosen CJ, Cui X, Liaw L. CRISPR/Cas9 mediated insertion of loxP sites in the mouse Dock7 gene provides an effective alternative to use of targeted embryonic stem cells. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 2016, 6:2051-2061.
Liaw L, Prudovsky I, Koza RA, Anunciado-Koza RV, Siviski ME, Lindner V, Friesel RE, Rosen CJ, Baker PR, Simons B, Vary CP. Lipid profiling of in vitro cell models of adipogenic differentiation: relationships with mouse adipose tissues. J Cell Biochem 2016 117:182-193.
He Q, Jing H, Liaw L, Gower L, Vary C, Hua S, Yang X. 2016. Suppression of Spry1 inhibits triple-negative breast cancer malignancy by decreasing EGF/EGFR mediate mesenchymal phenotype. Sci Rep; Mar;15(6):23216.
Jing H, Liaw L, Friesel R, Vary C, Hua S, Yang X. 2016. Suppression of Spry4 enhances cancer stem cell properties of human MDA-MB-231 breast carcinoma cells. Cancer cell international. 16:19. PMCID: PMC4787021.
Rostama B, Turner JE, Seavey GT, Norton CR, Gridley T, Vary CPH, Liaw L. DLL4/Notch1 and BMP9 interdependent signaling induces human endothelial cell quiescence via P27KIP1 and thrombospondin-1. Arter Thromb Vasc Biol 2015, 35(12):2626-2637. PMID: 26471266
Rostama B, Peterson SM, Vary CPH, Liaw L. Notch signal integration in the vasculature during remodeling. Vasc Pharmacol 2014, 63:97-104. NIHMSID #636614.
Boucher JM, Harrington A, Rostama B, Lindner V, Liaw L. A receptor-specific function for Notch2 in mediating vascular smooth muscle cell growth arrest through p27kip1. Circ Res 2013, 113:975-985. PMCID: PMC3882755.
Tang Y, Bai H, Urs S, Wang Z, Liaw L. Notch1 activation in embryonic VE-cadherin populations selectively blocks hematopoietic stem cell generation and fetal liver hematopoiesis. Transgenic Res 2013, 22:403-410. PMCID: PMC3594084.
Young K, Conley B, Romero D, Tweedie E, O’Neill C, Pinz I, Brogan L Lindner V, Liaw L, Vary CP. BMP9 regulates endoglin-dependent chemokine responses in endothelial cells. Blood 2012, 120:4263-4273. PMCID:PMC3501721.
Urs S, Henderson T, Le P, Rosen CJ, Liaw L. Tissue specific expression of Sprouty1 in mice protects against high fat diet induced fat accumulation, bone loss, and metabolic dysfunction. Br J Nutrition 2012, 6:1-9. NIHMSID #415296.
Tang Y, Boucher JM, Liaw L. Histone deacetylase activity selectively regulates Notch-mediated smooth muscle differentiation in human vascular cells. J Amer Heart Assoc 2012, Jun;1(3):e000901, PMCID: PMC3487326.
Urs S, Turner B, Tang Y, Rostama B, Small D, Liaw L. Effect of soluble Jagged-1- mediated inhibition of Notch signaling on proliferation and differentiation of an adipocyte progenitor cell model. Adipocyte 2012, 1:46-57.
Boucher J, Gridley T, Liaw L. Molecular pathways of Notch signaling in vascular smooth muscle cells. Frontiers in Physiology, 2012, 3:81. PMCID: PMC3151075.
Boucher JM, Peterson, SM, Urs S, Zhang C, Liaw L. The miR143/145 cluster is a novel transcriptional target of Jagged-1/Notch signaling in vascular smooth muscle cells. J Biol Chem 2011, 286:28312-28321. PMCID:PMC3151075.
Tang Y, Yang X, Friesel RE, Vary CPH, Liaw L. Mechanisms of TGFbeta induced differentiation in human vascular smooth muscle cells. J Vasc Res 2011, 48:485-494. PMCID: PMC3169366.