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• Structure of an AMPK complex in an inactive, ATP-bound state..  Science (New York, N.Y.).  373:413-419. 2021
• Knowledge and Attitudes of two Latino Groups about Alzheimer Disease: a Qualitative Study..  Journal of cross-cultural gerontology.  36:265-284. 2021
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• Immigration-Related Trauma Associated With Metabolic Risk and Cognition in Hispanic and Latino Immigrant Populations.  Innovation in aging.  2021
• Partnering with Middle Eastern/Arab American and Latino Immigrant Communities to Increase Participation in Alzheimer's Disease Research..  Ethnicity & disease.  30:765-774. 2020
• Validation of recombinant human protein purified from bacteria: An important step to increase scientific rigor..  Analytical biochemistry.  -. 2020
• Glycosylated hemoglobin level, race/ethnicity, and cognition in midlife and early old age..  Research in human development.  17:20-40. 2020
• Hemispheric asymmetry in the human brain and in Parkinson's disease is linked to divergent epigenetic patterns in neurons..  Genome biology.  21:-. 2020
• Age of Migration and Cognitive Function Among Older Latinos in the United States..  Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD.  76:1493-1511. 2020
• EFhd2 Affects Tau Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation..  Frontiers in neuroscience.  -. 2019
• Tau13 Antibody Preferentially Immunoprecipitates High Molecular Weight Tau Proteins..  Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD.  68:511-516. 2019
• Tau's Three-Repeat Domain and EFhd2 Co-incubation Leads to Increased Thioflavin Signal..  Frontiers in neuroscience.  -. 2018
• A functional proteomics platform to reveal the sequence determinants of lysine methyltransferase substrate selectivity..  Science advances.  4:-. 2018
• EF Hand Domain Family Member D2 Is Required for T Cell Cytotoxicity..  Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950).  201:2824-2831. 2018
• Ezrin Expression is Increased During Disease Progression in a Tauopathy Mouse Model and Alzheimer's Disease..  Current Alzheimer research.  15:1086-1095. 2018
• A START-domain-containing protein is a novel marker of nervous system components of the sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima..  Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part B, Biochemistry & molecular biology.  57-65. 2017
• Oxidative stress in neurodegenerative disease: causation or association?.  Oncotarget.  8:10777-10778. 2017
• Alzheimer's Disease in the Latino Community: Intersection of Genetics and Social Determinants of Health..  Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD.  58:979-992. 2017
• Biomarkers for the Early Detection and Progression of Alzheimer's Disease..  Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics.  14:35-53. 2017
• Editorial: Unraveling Neuroprotective and Neurodegenerative Signals in Neurodegeneration..  Frontiers in neuroscience.  -. 2016
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• Solution structure of the tandem acyl carrier protein domains from a polyunsaturated fatty acid synthase reveals beads-on-a-string configuration..  PloS one.  8:-. 2013
• EFhd2 is a novel amyloid protein associated with pathological tau in Alzheimer's disease..  Journal of neurochemistry.  125:921-31. 2013
• Frequency and clinicopathological characteristics of presenilin 1 Gly206Ala mutation in Puerto Rican Hispanics with dementia..  Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD.  33:1089-95. 2013
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• Ethnoracial differences in the clinical characteristics of Alzheimer's disease at initial presentation at an urban Alzheimer's disease center..  The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry.  19:430-9. 2011
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• A novel calcium-binding protein is associated with tau proteins in tauopathy..  Journal of neurochemistry.  106:96-106. 2008
• Geographical differences in the occurrence of Alzheimer's disease mortality: United States versus Puerto Rico..  American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.  23:462-9. 2008
• Taxol and tau overexpression induced calpain-dependent degradation of the microtubule-destabilizing protein SCG10..  Experimental neurology.  202:152-60. 2006
• Synthesis of acid-cleavable light isotope-coded affinity tags (ICAT-L) for potential use in proteomic expression profiling analysis..  Bioconjugate chemistry.  17:248-54. 2006
• Increase in tau tyrosine phosphorylation correlates with the formation of tau aggregates..  Brain research. Molecular brain research.  138:135-44. 2005
• Recent advances in experimental modeling of the assembly of tau filaments..  Biochimica et biophysica acta.  1739:125-39. 2005
• Phosphorylated p38MAPK specific antibodies cross-react with sarkosyl-insoluble hyperphosphorylated tau proteins..  Journal of neurochemistry.  90:829-38. 2004
• The septin protein Nedd5 associates with both the exocyst complex and microtubules and disruption of its GTPase activity promotes aberrant neurite sprouting in PC12 cells..  Neuroreport.  14:31-7. 2003
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