Mia DeFino - Medical & Science Writer

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Baumblatt GL and DeFino MC. When Side Effects Get in the Way. Association for Patient Experience Blog. June 14, 2017. http://www.patient-experience.org/Resources/Blogs/DM-Blog/Blogs/June-2017-(1)/When-Side-Effects-Get-in-the-Way.aspx.
Ahmed SM, DeFino M, Connors E, Visotcky A, Kissack A, Franco Z. Science Cafés: Transforming citizens to scientific citizens-What influences participants' perceived change in health and scientific literacy? J Clin Transl Sci. 2017 Apr;1(2):129-134. doi: 10.1017/cts.2016.24. Epub 2017 Apr 19. PubMed PMID: 28649455; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5471816.
Koch H, Franco ZE, O’Sullivan T, DeFino MC, Ahmed SM. Community Views of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s “Whole Community” Strategy in a Complex US City: Re-envisioning Societal Resilience. Technol Forecast Soc Change. 2017 Aug; 121: 31-38.
Franco ZE, Ahmed SM, Maurana CA, DeFino MC, Brewer DD. A Social Network Analysis of 140 Community-Academic Partnerships for Health: Examining the Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program. Clin Transl Sci. 2015 Aug;8(4):311-9. doi: 10.1111/cts.12288. Epub 2015 May 14. PubMed PMID: 25974413.
Ahmed S, DeFino MC, Connors ER, Kissack A, Franco Z. Science cafés: engaging scientists and community through health and science dialogue. Clin Transl Sci. 2014 Jun;7(3):196-200. doi: 10.1111/cts.12153. Epub 2014 Apr 9. PubMed PMID: 24716626; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4410806.
Lyssand JS, Lee KS, DeFino M, Adams ME, Hague C. Syntrophin isoforms play specific functional roles in the α1D-adrenergic receptor/DAPC signalosome. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2011 Sep 9;412(4):596-601. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.08.004. Epub 2011 Aug 9. PubMed PMID: 21846462; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4045409.
Olson VG, Rockett HR, Reh RK, Redila VA, Tran PM, Venkov HA, Defino MC, Hague C, Peskind ER, Szot P, Raskind MA. The role of norepinephrine in differential response to stress in an animal model of posttraumatic stress disorder. Biol Psychiatry. 2011 Sep 1;70(5):441-8. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.11.029. Epub 2011 Jan 20. PubMed PMID: 21251647; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3740168.
DeFino MC, Wacker JL, Lyssand JS, Wang EH, Hague C. Differential regulation of GPR54 transcription by specificity protein-1 and partial estrogen response element in mouse pituitary cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2010 Mar 19;393(4):603-8. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.02.026. Epub 2010 Feb 10. PubMed PMID: 20152817; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2849983.
Wacker JL, Feller DB, Tang XB, Defino MC, Namkung Y, Lyssand JS, Mhyre AJ, Tan X, Jensen JB, Hague C. Disease-causing mutation in GPR54 reveals the importance of the second intracellular loop for class A G-protein-coupled receptor function. J Biol Chem. 2008 Nov 7;283(45):31068-78. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M805251200. Epub 2008 Sep 4. PubMed PMID: 18772143; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2576551.
Lyssand JS, DeFino MC, Tang XB, Hertz AL, Feller DB, Wacker JL, Adams ME, Hague C. Blood pressure is regulated by an alpha1D-adrenergic receptor/dystrophin signalosome. J Biol Chem. 2008 Jul 4;283(27):18792-800. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M801860200. Epub 2008 May 9. PubMed PMID: 18468998; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2441552.
Bruchas MR, Yang T, Schreiber S, Defino M, Kwan SC, Li S, Chavkin C. Long-acting kappa opioid antagonists disrupt receptor signaling and produce noncompetitive effects by activating c-Jun N-terminal kinase. J Biol Chem. 2007 Oct 12;282(41):29803-11. Epub 2007 Aug 16. PubMed PMID: 17702750; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2096775.
Opperman L, Hook B, DeFino M, Bernstein DS, Wickens M. A single spacer nucleotide determines the specificities of two mRNA regulatory proteins. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2005 Nov;12(11):945-51. PubMed PMID: 16244662.

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