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Alison Peck

Program Director, National Science Foundation
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Cited by 7986

Unraveling the pathophysiology of Sjogren syndrome-associated dry eye disease

CQ Nguyen, AB Peck - The ocular surface, 2009 - Elsevier
Sjogren syndrome (SS) is one of the most common autoimmune diseases. Early clinical
manifestations of SS are primarily decreased tear and saliva secretion, leading to dry eye and …

Reversal of insulin-dependent diabetes using islets generated in vitro from pancreatic stem cells

…, M Maraist, KE Arfors, DA Schatz, AB Peck… - Nature medicine, 2000 - nature.com
Ductal structures of the adult pancreas contain stem cells that differentiate into islets of
Langerhans. Here, we grew pancreatic ductal epithelial cells isolated from prediabetic adult non-…

Adult hematopoietic stem cells provide functional hemangioblast activity during retinal neovascularization

…, BJ Byrne, T Vaught, PE Spoerri, AB Peck… - Nature medicine, 2002 - nature.com
Adults maintain a reservoir of hematopoietic stem cells that can enter the circulation to reach
organs in need of regeneration. We developed a novel model of retinal neovascularization …

[HTML][HTML] Sjögren's syndrome: studying the disease in mice

N Delaleu, CQ Nguyen, AB Peck, R Jonsson - Arthritis research & therapy, 2011 - Springer
Sjögren's syndrome (SS), a systemic autoimmune disease, is characterized by inflammation
of exocrine tissues accompanied by a significant loss of their secretory function. Clinical …

Progress in understanding autoimmune exocrinopathy using the non-obese diabetic mouse: an update

S Cha, AB Peck… - Critical Reviews in Oral …, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
Sjögren's Syndrome (SS) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by histological and
functional alterations of salivary and lacrimal glands that result in a severe dryness of the …

In vitro trans-differentiation of adult hepatic stem cells into pancreatic endocrine hormone-producing cells

…, JG Cornelius, BE Petersen, AB Peck - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
Although organ-specific stem cells possess plasticity that permit differentiation along new
lineages, production of endocrine pancreas and insulin-secreting β cells from adult …

A compact supermassive binary black hole system

…, GB Taylor, RT Zavala, AB Peck… - The Astrophysical …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on the discovery of a supermassive binary black hole system in the radio galaxy
0402+ 379, with a projected separation between the two black holes of just 7.3 pc. This is the …

The VLBA calibrator survey—VCS1

AJ Beasley, D Gordon, AB Peck, L Petrov… - The Astrophysical …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
A catalog containing milliarcsecond-accurate positions of 1332 extragalactic radio sources
distributed over the northern sky is presented—the Very Long Baseline Array Calibrator …

Salivary gland tissue expression of interleukin‐23 and interleukin‐17 in Sjögren's syndrome: findings in humans and mice

…, MH Hu, YI Li, C Stewart, AB Peck - Arthritis & Rheumatism …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Objective. Recently, the Th1/Th2 paradigm has been expanded by the discovery of Th17 cells,
a subset of CD4 memory T cells characterized by their unique ability to secrete interleukin-…

Transfer of human serum IgG to nonobese diabetic Igμnull mice reveals a role for autoantibodies in the loss of secretory function of exocrine tissues in Sjögren's …

…, S Yamachika, TR Esch, AB Peck… - Proceedings of the …, 1998 - National Acad Sciences
… Infusion of purified serum IgG or F(ab′) 2 fragments from parental NOD mice or human
primary Sjögren’s syndrome patients, but not serum IgG from healthy controls, alters stimulated …