Citations: www.scholar.google.com/citations?user=9S-yoHMAAAAJ​
Lab members in Bold:

• Rajan SG*, Gallik KL*, Monaghan JR, Uribe RA, Bronner ME, Saxena A.  Tracking neural crest cell cycle progression in vivo.  genesis, In Press.
• Suarez-Bregua P, Saxena A, Bronner ME, Moran P, Rotllant, J.  Targeted Pth4-expressing cell ablation impairs skeletal mineralization in zebrafish.  PLOS ONE, 12(10), e0186444 (2017). doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186444 PDF
• Gallik K*, Treffy R*, Nacke L, Ahsan K, Rocha M, Green-Saxena A, Saxena A.  Neural Crest and Cancer: Divergent Travelers on Similar Paths.  Mechanisms of Development (Invited Review), 148, 89-99 (2017). doi.org/10.1016/j.mod.2017.08.002 PDF
• Suarez-Bregua P, Torres-Nuñez E, Saxena A, Guerreiro P, Braasch I, Prober D, Moran P, Cerda-Reverter JM, Du SJ, Adrio F, Power DM, Canario AVM, Bronner ME, Postlethwait J, Cañestro C, Rotllant J.  Pth4, an ancient parathyroid hormone lost in eutherian mammals, reveals a new brain-to-bone signaling pathway.  FASEB J., 31(2), 569-83 (2017). doi.org/10.1096/fj.201600815R PDF
• Saxena A & Bronner ME.  A novel HoxB cluster protein expressed in the hindbrain and pharyngeal arches.  genesis (Cover Image), 52(10), 858-63 (2014). PDF
• Wang K, Milkie D, Saxena A, Engerer P, Misgeld T, Bronner ME, Mumm J, Betzig E.  Rapid adaptive optical recovery of optimal resolution over large multicellular volumes.  Nature Methods, 11(6), 625-8 (2014). PDF
• Maier EC, Saxena A, Alsina B, Bronner ME, Whitfield TT.  Sensational placodes: Neurogenesis in the otic and olfactory systems. (Review)  Developmental Biology (Cover Image), 389(1), 50-67 (2014). PDF
• Rogers CD, Saxena A, Bronner ME.  Sip1 mediates an E-cadherin-to-N-cadherin switch during cranial neural crest EMT.  Journal of Cell Biology (Cover Image; Highlighted), 203(5), 835-47 (2013). PDF
• Saxena A, Peng BN, Bronner ME.  Sox10-dependent neural crest origin of olfactory microvillous neurons in zebrafish.  eLife (Editor's Choice; Highlighted), 2:e00336 (2013). PDF  www.caltech.edu/content/developing-our-sense-smell  Insight: dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00648
• Trinh LA, Hochgreb T, Graham M, Wu D, Ruf-Zamojski F, Jayasena CS, Saxena A, Hawk R, Gonzalez-Serricchio A, Dixson A, Chow E, Gonzales C, Leung HY, Solomon I, Bronner-Fraser M, Megason SG, Fraser SE.  A versatile gene trap to visualize and interrogate the function of the vertebrate proteome.  Genes & Development (Cover Image), 25(21), 2306-20 (2011). PDF
• Saxena A & Tabin CJ.  The miRNA-processing enzyme Dicer is necessary for cardiac outflow tract alignment and chamber septation.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107(1), 87-91 (2010). PDF
• Saxena A, Fish JE, White MD, Yu S, Smyth JWP, Shaw RM, DiMaio JM, Srivastava D.  Stromal cell-derived factor-1 alpha is cardioprotective during myocardial infarction.  Circulation, 117(17), 2224-31 (2008). PDF
• Srivastava D, Saxena A, Dimaio JM, Bock-Marquette I.  Thymosin B4 is cardioprotective after myocardial infarction. (Review)  Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 1112, 161-170 (2007). PDF
• Gao J*, Lee K*, Zhao M, Qiu J, Zhan X, Saxena A, Moore CJ, Cohen SN, Georgiou G.  Differential modulation of E. coli mRNA abundance by inhibitory proteins that alter the composition of the degradosome.  Molecular Microbiology, 61(2), 394-406 (2006). PDF
• Bock-Marquette I*, Saxena A*, White MD, DiMaio JM, Srivastava D.  Thymosin b4 activates integrin-linked kinase and promotes cardiac cell migration, survival and cardiac repair.  Nature (Article; Highlighted), 432(7016), 466-72 (2004).  (Co-1st authors contributed equally.) PDF
• Cowan CA*, Yokoyama N*, Saxena A, Chumley MJ, Silvany RE, Baker LA, Srivastava D, Henkemeyer M.  Ephrin-B2 reverse signaling is required for axon pathfinding and cardiac valve formation but not early vascular development.  Developmental Biology, 271(2), 263-71 (2004). PDF

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