Professor
Regulation of gene expression by growth factors in animal cells
Imaging of gene expression in vivo
Applications of aptamers to medical technology
Selected Publications
Cong, X. and Nilsen-Hamilton, M. (2005) Allosteric aptamers:
targeted reversibly attenuated probes. Biochemistry 44, 7945-7954.
Determan, A.S., Trewyn, B.G., Lin, V.S., Nilsen-Hamilton, M. and Narasimhan,
B. (2004) Encapsulation, stabilization, and release of BSA-FITC from
polyanhydride microspheres. J. Control. Release 100, 97-109.
Nilsen-Hamilton, M., Liu, Q., Ryon, J., Bendickson, L., Lepont, P. and
Chang, Q. (2003) Tissue involution and the acute phase response. Ann.
NY Acad. Sci. 995, 94-108.
Ryon, J., Bendickson, L. and Nilsen-Hamilton, M. (2002) High expression
in involuting reproductive tissues of uterocalin/24p3, a lipocalin and
acute phase protein. Biochem. J. 367, 271-277.
Levine, H.A., Tucker, A.L. and Nilsen-Hamilton, M. (2002) A mathematical
model for the role of cell signal transduction in the initiation and
inhibition of angiogenesis. Growth Factors 20, 155-175.
Burke, D.H., Ozerova, N.D. and Nilsen-Hamilton, M. (2002) Allosteric
hammerhead ribozyme TRAPs. Biochemistry 41, 6588-6594.
Levine, H.A., Sleeman, B.D. and Nilsen-Hamilton, M. (2001) Mathematical
modeling of the onset of capillary formation initiating angiogenesis.
J. Math. Biol. 42, 195-238.
Levine, H.A., Pamuk, S., Sleeman, B.D. and Nilsen-Hamilton, M. (2001)
Mathematical modeling of capillary formation and development in tumor
angiogenesis: penetration into the stroma. Bull. Math. Biol.
63, 801-863.
Fassett, J.T. and Nilsen-Hamilton, M. (2001) Mrp3, a mitogen-regulated
protein/proliferin gene expressed in wound healing and in hair follicles.
Endocrinology 142, 2129-2137.
Levine, H.A., Sleeman, B.D. and Nilsen-Hamilton, M. (2000) A mathematical
model for the roles of pericytes and macrophages in the initiation of
angiogenesis. I. The role of protease inhibitors in preventing angiogenesis.
Math. Biosci. 168, 77-115.
Fassett, J.T., Hamilton, R.T. and Nilsen-Hamilton, M. (2000) Mrp4, a
new mitogen-regulated protein/proliferin gene; unique in this gene family
for its expression in the adult mouse tail and ear. Endocrinology
141, 1863-1871.
Mohideen, M.A., Hruska-Hageman, A. and Nilsen-Hamilton, M. (1999) A
unique bFGF-responsive transcriptional element. Gene 237, 81-90.
Fang, Y., Lepont, P., Fassett, J.T., Ford, S.P., Mubaidin, A., Hamilton,
R.T. and Nilsen-Hamilton, M. (1999) Signaling between the placenta and
the uterus involving the mitogen-regulated protein/proliferins.
Endocrinology 140, 5239-5249.
Allen, M.P. and Nilsen-Hamilton, M. (1998) Granzymes D, E, F, and G
are regulated through pregnancy and by IL-2 and IL-15 in granulated
metrial gland cells. J. Immunol. 161, 2772-2779.
Liu, Q., Ryon, J. and Nilsen-Hamilton, M. (1997) Uterocalin: a mouse
acute phase protein expressed in the uterus around birth. Mol. Reprod.
Dev. 46, 507-514.
