Children’s Nutrition Research Center Staff Publications
The Children’s Nutrition Research Center (CNRC) is a unique cooperative venture between Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital and the U.S. Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service (USDA/ARS). The center has 50 faculty members conducting nutrition-related research and a total staff of more than 200.
Texas Children's is creating a healthier future for children and women across our global community through our leadership in patient care, education and research. We’re proud of the daily efforts that build into cumulative medical results and discoveries accomplished by each of our institutions.
The Children’s Nutrition Research Center is the first federal nutrition research center to investigate the nutritional needs of children from conception through adolescence, and that of pregnant women and nursing mothers. It is 1 of 6 U.S. Department of Agriculture human nutrition research centers conducting scientific investigations designed to provide Americans with a clear understanding of the role of nutrition in maintaining a healthy, active life.
Submissions from 2023
Unraveling the Serotonin Saga: From Discovery to Weight Regulation and Beyond – a Comprehensive Scientific Review, Kristine Conde, Shuzheng Fang, and Yong Xu
Tracking the Evolution of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Under Dynamic Immune Selection by Multi-Omics Sequencing, Sijia Cui, Nicholas McGranahan, Jing Gao, et al.
Randomized Controlled Trial of a Novel Lifestyle Intervention Used With or Without Meal Replacements in Work Sites, Sai Krupa Das, Rachel E Silver, Taylor A Vail, et al.
Alternative Polyadenylation Alters Protein Dosage by Switching Between Intronic and 3’UTR Sites, Nicola de Prisco, Caitlin Ford, Nathan D Elrod, et al.
Association of Metformin With The Development of Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Amitha Domalpally, Samuel A Whittier, Qing Pan, et al.
Site-Specific Pathophysiology in a Neonatal Mouse Model of Gastroparesis, Price T Edwards, Krishnakant G Soni, Margaret E Conner, et al.
Conditioning on Parental Mating Types Can Reduce Necessary Assumptions for Mendelian Randomization, Keisuke Ejima, Nianjun Liu, Luis Miguel Mestre, et al.
Trajectories of eGFR and Risk of Albuminuria in Youth with Type 2 Diabetes: Results from the TODAY Cohort Study, Laure El Ghormli, Hui Wen, Diane Uschner, et al.
Many Pediatric Patients with Gastroparesis Do Not Receive Dietary Education, Debra Eseonu, Deepa Dongarwar, Hamisu Salihu, et al.
Factors, Enablers and Challenges for COVID-19 Vaccine Development, Jean-Louis Excler, Melanie Saville, Lois Privor-Dumm, et al.
Asprosin Promotes Feeding Through SK Channel-Dependent Activation of AgRP Neurons, Bing Feng, Hesong Liu, Ila Mishra, et al.
Creativity in Energy Balance, Obesity and Feeding Behavior Research, Some Thoughts, Stephen J French and David B Allison
IntS6 and the Integrator Phosphatase Module Tune the Efficiency of Select Premature Transcription Termination Events, Rina Fujiwara, Si-Nan Zhai, Dongming Liang, et al.
QA-SNARE Syntaxin 18 Mediates Lipid Droplet Fusion with SNAP23 and SEC22B, Yuhui Fu, Binbin Ding, Xiaoxia Liu, et al.
Metabolomic Profile of the Healthy Eating Index-2015 in the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, Meghana D Gadgil, Alexis C Wood, Ibrahim Karaman, et al.
The Landscape of Tolerated Genetic Variation in Humans and Primates, Hong Gao, Tobias Hamp, Jeffrey Ede, et al.
Sex-Specific Associations Between Urinary Bisphenols Concentrations During Pregnancy and Problematic Child Behaviors at Age 2 Years, Sarah Dee Geiger, Salma Musaad, Jennifer Hill, et al.
Dimeric p53 Mutant Elicits Unique Tumor-Suppressive Activities through an Altered Metabolic Program, Jovanka Gencel-Augusto, Xiaoping Su, Yuan Qi, et al.
I2N: Image to Nutrients, a Sensor Guided Semi-Automated Tool for Annotation of Images for Nutrition Analysis of Eating Episodes, Tonmoy Ghosh, Megan A McCrory, Tyson Marden, et al.
Unreliable Findings Due to Miscalculations and Errors Comment on Nally et al The Effectiveness of School-Based Interventions on Obesity-Related Behaviours in Primary School Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials Children 2021, 8, 489, Keara Ginell, Beate Henschel, Lilian Golzarri-Arroyo, et al.
Diabetes of Unclear Type in an Adolescent Boy With Multiple Islet-cell Autoantibody Positivity Successfully Managed With Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist Alone: A Case Report, Olivia Z B Ginnard, Maria J Redondo, and Sarah K Lyons
Genetic Loci of Beta-Aminoisobutyric Acid Are Associated With Aging-Related Mild Cognitive Impairment, Einat Granot-Hershkovitz, Brian Spitzer, Yunju Yang, et al.
Systemic Interindividual Epigenetic Variation in Humans is Associated With Transposable Elements and Under Strong Genetic Control, Chathura J Gunasekara, Harry MacKay, C Anthony Scott, et al.
A Myeloid Program Associated With COVID-19 Severity Is Decreased by Therapeutic Blockade of IL-6 Signaling, Jason A Hackney, Haridha Shivram, Jason Vander Heiden, et al.
Greater Male Variability in Daily Energy Expenditure Develops Through Puberty, Lewis G Halsey, Vincent Careau, Philip N Ainslie, et al.