Arjun Deb

Arjun Deb

Professor, Medicine, University of California Los Angeles

310-825-9911

Publications

  1. Hilser JR, Spencer NJ, Afshari K, Gilliland FD, Hu H, Deb A, Lusis AJ, Wilson Tang WH, Hartiala JA, Hazen SL, Allayee H. COVID-19 Is a Coronary Artery Disease Risk Equivalent and Exhibits a Genetic Interaction With ABO Blood Type.. Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology, 2024.
  2. Kelly-Scumpia KM, Archang MM, Purbey PK, Yokota T, Wu R, McCourt J, Li S, Crosbie RH, Scumpia PO, Deb A. Modulating the extracellular matrix to treat wound healing defects in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.. iScience, 2024.
  3. Sun Q, Chen W, Wu R, Tao B, Wang P, Sun B, Alvarez JF, Ma F, Galindo DC, Maroney SP, Saviola AJ, Hansen KC, Li S, Deb A. Serine protease inhibitor, SerpinA3n, regulates cardiac remodelling after myocardial infarction.. Cardiovascular research, 2024.
  4. Lin YJ, Tan XHM, Wang Y, Chung PS, Zhang X, Wu TH, Wu TY, Deb A, Chiou PY. Label-Free Optical Mapping for Large-Area Biomechanical Dynamics of Multicellular Systems.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2024.
  5. Marvin Tan XH, Wang Y, Zhu X, Mendes FN, Chung PS, Chow YT, Man T, Lan H, Lin YJ, Zhang X, Zhang X, Nguyen T, Ardehali R, Teitell MA, Deb A, Chiou PY. Massive field-of-view sub-cellular traction force videography enabled by Single-Pixel Optical Tracers (SPOT).. Biosensors & bioelectronics, 2024.
  6. Tang WHW, Nemet I, Li XS, Wu Y, Haghikia A, Witkowski M, Koeth RA, Demuth I, König M, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Bäckhed F, Fischbach MA, Deb A, Landmesser U, Hazen SL. Prognostic value of gut microbe-generated metabolite phenylacetylglutamine in patients with heart failure.. European journal of heart failure, 2024.
  7. Palermo A, Li S, Ten Hoeve J, Chellappa A, Morris A, Dillon B, Ma F, Wang Y, Cao E, Shabane B, Acín-Perez R, Petcherski A, Lusis AJ, Hazen S, Shirihai OS, Pellegrini M, Arumugaswami V, Graeber TG, Deb A. A ketogenic diet can mitigate SARS-CoV-2 induced systemic reprogramming and inflammation.. Communications biology, 2023.
  8. Wang Y, Li Q, Tao B, Angelini M, Ramadoss S, Sun B, Wang P, Krokhaleva Y, Ma F, Gu Y, Espinoza A, Yamauchi K, Pellegrini M, Novitch B, Olcese R, Qu Z, Song Z, Deb A. Fibroblasts in heart scar tissue directly regulate cardiac excitability and arrhythmogenesis.. Science (New York, N.Y.), 2023.
  9. Jeyachandran AV, Irudayam JI, Dubey S, Chakravarty N, Konda B, Shah A, Su B, Wang C, Cui Q, Williams KJ, Srikanth S, Shi Y, Deb A, Damoiseaux R, Stripp BR, Ramaiah A, Arumugaswami V. Comparative Analysis of Molecular Pathogenic Mechanisms and Antiviral Development Targeting Old and New World Hantaviruses.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023.
  10. Marvin Tan XH, Wang Y, Zhu X, Mendes FN, Chung PS, Chow YT, Man T, Lan H, Lin YJ, Zhang X, Zhang X, Nguyen T, Ardehali R, Teitell MA, Deb A, Chiou PY. Massively Concurrent Sub-Cellular Traction Force Videography enabled by Single-Pixel Optical Tracers (SPOTs).. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023.
  11. Deb A. CPR: cardiac phosphatase in resuscitation.. The Journal of clinical investigation, 2023.
  12. Romano KA, Nemet I, Prasad Saha P, Haghikia A, Li XS, Mohan ML, Lovano B, Castel L, Witkowski M, Buffa JA, Sun Y, Li L, Menge CM, Demuth I, König M, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, DiDonato JA, Deb A, Bäckhed F, Tang WHW, Naga Prasad SV, Landmesser U, Van Wagoner DR, Hazen SL. Gut Microbiota-Generated Phenylacetylglutamine and Heart Failure.. Circulation. Heart failure, 2022.
  13. Garcia G, Jeyachandran AV, Wang Y, Irudayam JI, Cario SC, Sen C, Li S, Li Y, Kumar A, Nielsen-Saines K, French SW, Shah PS, Morizono K, Gomperts BN, Deb A, Ramaiah A, Arumugaswami V. Hippo signaling pathway activation during SARS-CoV-2 infection contributes to host antiviral response.. PLoS biology, 2022.
  14. Muthukrishnan SD, Kawaguchi R, Nair P, Prasad R, Qin Y, Johnson M, Wang Q, VanderVeer-Harris N, Pham A, Alvarado AG, Condro MC, Gao F, Gau R, Castro MG, Lowenstein PR, Deb A, Hinman JD, Pajonk F, Burns TC, Goldman SA, Geschwind DH, Kornblum HI. P300 promotes tumor recurrence by regulating radiation-induced conversion of glioma stem cells to vascular-like cells.. Nature communications, 2022.
  15. Garcia G, Wang Y, Ignatius Irudayam J, Jeyachandran AV, Cario SC, Sen C, Li S, Li Y, Kumar A, Nielsen-Saines K, French SW, Shah PS, Morizono K, Gomperts B, Deb A, Ramaiah A, Arumugaswami V. Hippo Signaling Pathway Activation during SARS-CoV-2 Infection Contributes to Host Antiviral Response.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2022.
  16. Li S, Yokota T, Wang P, Ten Hoeve J, Ma F, Le TM, Abt ER, Zhou Y, Wu R, Nanthavongdouangsy M, Rodriguez A, Wang Y, Lin YJ, Muranaka H, Sharpley M, Braddock DT, MacRae VE, Banerjee U, Chiou PY, Seldin M, Huang D, Teitell M, Gertsman I, Jung M, Bensinger SJ, Damoiseaux R, Faull K, Pellegrini M, Lusis AJ, Graeber TG, Radu CG, Deb A. Cardiomyocytes disrupt pyrimidine biosynthesis in nonmyocytes to regulate heart repair.. The Journal of clinical investigation, 2022.
  17. Deb A. PLucKing at Vascular Fibrosis.. JACC. Basic to translational science, 2021.
  18. Hilser JR, Han Y, Biswas S, Gukasyan J, Cai Z, Zhu R, Tang WHW, Deb A, Lusis AJ, Hartiala JA, Allayee H. Association of serum HDL-cholesterol and apolipoprotein A1 levels with risk of severe SARS-CoV-2 infection.. Journal of lipid research, 2021.
  19. Li S, Ma F, Yokota T, Garcia G, Palermo A, Wang Y, Farrell C, Wang YC, Wu R, Zhou Z, Pan C, Morselli M, Teitell MA, Ryazantsev S, Fishbein GA, Hoeve JT, Arboleda VA, Bloom J, Dillon B, Pellegrini M, Lusis AJ, Graeber TG, Arumugaswami V, Deb A. Metabolic reprogramming and epigenetic changes of vital organs in SARS-CoV-2-induced systemic toxicity.. JCI insight, 2021.
  20. Wu R, Ma F, Tosevska A, Farrell C, Pellegrini M, Deb A. Cardiac fibroblast proliferation rates and collagen expression mature early and are unaltered with advancing age.. JCI insight, 2020.
  21. Yokota T, McCourt J, Ma F, Ren S, Li S, Kim TH, Kurmangaliyev YZ, Nasiri R, Ahadian S, Nguyen T, Tan XHM, Zhou Y, Wu R, Rodriguez A, Cohn W, Wang Y, Whitelegge J, Ryazantsev S, Khademhosseini A, Teitell MA, Chiou PY, Birk DE, Rowat AC, Crosbie RH, Pellegrini M, Seldin M, Lusis AJ, Deb A. Type V Collagen in Scar Tissue Regulates the Size of Scar after Heart Injury.. Cell, 2020.
  22. Yang H, Sun L, Cai W, Gu J, Xu D, Deb A, Duan J. DDR2, a discoidin domain receptor, is a marker of periosteal osteoblast and osteoblast progenitors.. Journal of bone and mineral metabolism, 2020.
  23. Deb A. How Stem Cells Turn into Bone and Fat.. The New England journal of medicine, 2019.
  24. Huo R, Hu C, Zhao L, Sun L, Wang N, Lu Y, Ye B, Deb A, Li F, Xu H. Enhancement of β-catenin/T-cell factor 4 signaling causes susceptibility to cardiac arrhythmia by suppressing NaV1.5 expression in mice.. Heart rhythm, 2019.
  25. Shigeta A, Huang V, Zuo J, Besada R, Nakashima Y, Lu Y, Ding Y, Pellegrini M, Kulkarni RP, Hsiai T, Deb A, Zhou B, Nakano H, Nakano A. Endocardially Derived Macrophages Are Essential for Valvular Remodeling.. Developmental cell, 2019.
  26. Lin LY, Chun Chang S, O'Hearn J, Hui ST, Seldin M, Gupta P, Bondar G, Deng M, Jauhiainen R, Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Sinsheimer JS, Deb A, Rau C, Ren S, Wang Y, Lusis AJ, Wang JJ, Huertas-Vazquez A. Systems Genetics Approach to Biomarker Discovery: GPNMB and Heart Failure in Mice and Humans.. G3 (Bethesda, Md.), 2018.
  27. Yu J, Seldin MM, Fu K, Li S, Lam L, Wang P, Wang Y, Huang D, Nguyen TL, Wei B, Kulkarni RP, Di Carlo D, Teitell M, Pellegrini M, Lusis AJ, Deb A. Topological Arrangement of Cardiac Fibroblasts Regulates Cellular Plasticity.. Circulation research, 2018.
  28. Foulquier S, Daskalopoulos EP, Lluri G, Hermans KCM, Deb A, Blankesteijn WM. WNT Signaling in Cardiac and Vascular Disease.. Pharmacological reviews, 2018.
  29. Lluri G, Renella P, Finn JP, Vorobiof G, Aboulhosn J, Deb A. Prognostic Significance of Left Ventricular Fibrosis in Patients With Congenital Bicuspid Aortic Valve.. The American journal of cardiology, 2017.
  30. Monaghan MG, Holeiter M, Brauchle E, Layland SL, Lu Y, Deb A, Pandit A, Nsair A, Schenke-Layland K. Exogenous miR-29B Delivery Through a Hyaluronan-Based Injectable System Yields Functional Maintenance of the Infarcted Myocardium.. Tissue engineering. Part A, 2017.
  31. Seldin MM, Kim ED, Romay MC, Li S, Rau CD, Wang JJ, Krishnan KC, Wang Y, Deb A, Lusis AJ. A systems genetics approach identifies Trp53inp2 as a link between cardiomyocyte glucose utilization and hypertrophic response.. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2017.
  32. Pillai ICL, Li S, Romay M, Lam L, Lu Y, Huang J, Dillard N, Zemanova M, Rubbi L, Wang Y, Lee J, Xia M, Liang O, Xie YH, Pellegrini M, Lusis AJ, Deb A. Cardiac Fibroblasts Adopt Osteogenic Fates and Can Be Targeted to Attenuate Pathological Heart Calcification.. Cell stem cell, 2016.
  33. Wang Z, Zhang XJ, Ji YX, Zhang P, Deng KQ, Gong J, Ren S, Wang X, Chen I, Wang H, Gao C, Yokota T, Ang YS, Li S, Cass A, Vondriska TM, Li G, Deb A, Srivastava D, Yang HT, Xiao X, Li H, Wang Y. The long noncoding RNA Chaer defines an epigenetic checkpoint in cardiac hypertrophy.. Nature medicine, 2016.
  34. Murray IR, Baily JE, Chen WCW, Dar A, Gonzalez ZN, Jensen AR, Petrigliano FA, Deb A, Henderson NC. Skeletal and cardiac muscle pericytes: Functions and therapeutic potential.. Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2016.
  35. Brumm AJ, Nunez S, Doroudchi MM, Kawaguchi R, Duan J, Pellegrini M, Lam L, Carmichael ST, Deb A, Hinman JD. Astrocytes Can Adopt Endothelial Cell Fates in a p53-Dependent Manner.. Molecular neurobiology, 2016.
  36. Deb A, Wang Y. Hypertrophic preconditioning: short-term tricks for long-term gain.. Circulation, 2015.
  37. Ubil E, Duan J, Pillai IC, Rosa-Garrido M, Wu Y, Bargiacchi F, Lu Y, Stanbouly S, Huang J, Rojas M, Vondriska TM, Stefani E, Deb A. Mesenchymal-endothelial transition contributes to cardiac neovascularization.. Nature, 2014.
  38. Deb A, Ubil E. Cardiac fibroblast in development and wound healing.. Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology, 2014.
  39. Deb A. Cell-cell interaction in the heart via Wnt/β-catenin pathway after cardiac injury.. Cardiovascular research, 2014.
  40. Duan J, Gherghe C, Liu D, Hamlett E, Srikantha L, Rodgers L, Regan JN, Rojas M, Willis M, Leask A, Majesky M, Deb A. Wnt1/βcatenin injury response activates the epicardium and cardiac fibroblasts to promote cardiac repair.. The EMBO journal, 2011.
  41. Gherghe CM, Duan J, Gong J, Rojas M, Klauber-Demore N, Majesky M, Deb A. Wnt1 is a proangiogenic molecule, enhances human endothelial progenitor function, and increases blood flow to ischemic limbs in a HGF-dependent manner.. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 2011.
  42. Huang J, Zhang Z, Guo J, Ni A, Deb A, Zhang L, Mirotsou M, Pratt RE, Dzau VJ. Genetic modification of mesenchymal stem cells overexpressing CCR1 increases cell viability, migration, engraftment, and capillary density in the injured myocardium.. Circulation research, 2010.
  43. Deb A, Patterson C. Hard luck stories: the reality of endothelial progenitor cells continues to fall short of the promise.. Circulation, 2010.
  44. Zhang Z, Deb A, Zhang Z, Pachori A, He W, Guo J, Pratt R, Dzau VJ. Secreted frizzled related protein 2 protects cells from apoptosis by blocking the effect of canonical Wnt3a.. Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology, 2008.
  45. Deb A, Davis BH, Guo J, Ni A, Huang J, Zhang Z, Mu H, Dzau VJ. SFRP2 regulates cardiomyogenic differentiation by inhibiting a positive transcriptional autofeedback loop of Wnt3a.. Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio), 2007.
  46. Mirotsou M, Zhang Z, Deb A, Zhang L, Gnecchi M, Noiseux N, Mu H, Pachori A, Dzau V. Secreted frizzled related protein 2 (Sfrp2) is the key Akt-mesenchymal stem cell-released paracrine factor mediating myocardial survival and repair.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007.
  47. Noiseux N, Gnecchi M, Lopez-Ilasaca M, Zhang L, Solomon SD, Deb A, Dzau VJ, Pratt RE. Mesenchymal stem cells overexpressing Akt dramatically repair infarcted myocardium and improve cardiac function despite infrequent cellular fusion or differentiation.. Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2006.
  48. Friday BB, Deb A. Images in cardiovascular medicine. Systemic complications of infective endocarditis.. Circulation, 2005.
  49. Deb A, Wang SH, Skelding K, Miller D, Simper D, Caplice N. Bone marrow-derived myofibroblasts are present in adult human heart valves.. The Journal of heart valve disease, 2005.
  50. Wolk R, Deb A, Caplice NM, Somers VK. Leptin receptor and functional effects of leptin in human endothelial progenitor cells.. Atherosclerosis, 2005.
  51. Caplice NM, Deb A. Myocardial-cell replacement: the science, the clinic and the future.. Nature clinical practice. Cardiovascular medicine, 2004.
  52. Deb A, Skelding KA, Wang S, Reeder M, Simper D, Caplice NM. Integrin profile and in vivo homing of human smooth muscle progenitor cells.. Circulation, 2004.
  53. Deb A, Caplice NM. Lipoprotein(a): new insights into mechanisms of atherogenesis and thrombosis.. Clinical cardiology, 2004.
  54. Deb A, Tefferi A. Images in clinical medicine. Systemic mastocytosis.. The New England journal of medicine, 2003.
  55. Simper D, Wang S, Deb A, Holmes D, McGregor C, Frantz R, Kushwaha SS, Caplice NM. Endothelial progenitor cells are decreased in blood of cardiac allograft patients with vasculopathy and endothelial cells of noncardiac origin are enriched in transplant atherosclerosis.. Circulation, 2003.
  56. Deb A, Wang S, Skelding KA, Miller D, Simper D, Caplice NM. Bone marrow-derived cardiomyocytes are present in adult human heart: A study of gender-mismatched bone marrow transplantation patients.. Circulation, 2003.