Cardiac Regenerative Medicine Laboratory





Refereed Journal Publications

These articles may be found online at Pubmed or PMC using the links below.
  1. Brown K, Legros S, Ortega FA, Dai Y, Doss MX, Christini DJ, Foley, AC. 2017. "Overexpression of Map3k7 activates sinoatrial node-like differentiation in mouse ES-derived cardiomyocytes." PLoS ONE. 12(12): e0189818. PMCID: PMC5744947

  2. Rivers ER, Horton AJ, Hawk AF, Favre EG, Senf KM, Nietert PJ, Chang EY, Foley AC, Robinson CJ, Lee K.H. 2014. "Placental Nkx2-5 and target gene expression in early-onset and severe preeclampsia." Hypertens Pregnancy. Jul 2:1-15. PMCID: PMC4192008

  3. Viotti M, Foley AC and Hadjantonakis AK 2014 "Gutsy moves in mice: cellular and molecular dynamics of endoderm morphogenesis". Philisophical Transactions B. 369 20130547; doi:10.1098/rstb.2013.0547 (published 27 October 2014).

  4. Liu, W, Brown, K, Legros, S, Foley, AC. 2012. "Nodal mutant eXtraembryonic ENdoderm (XEN) stem cells upregulate markers for the anterior visceral endoderm and impact the timing of cardiac differentiation in mouse embryoid bodies". Biology Open (000) 1-12. doi:10.1242/bio.2012038.
    PMCID: PMC3507291

  5. Brown KE, Doss MX, Legros S, Artus J, Hadjantonakis AK, Foley AC. 2010."Extraembryonic Endoderm Stem Cells (XEN cells) secrete factors that activate heart formation". PloS ONE. 5(10): e13446. PMCID: PMC2958120

  6. Brown, KE, Artus, J, Legros, S, Khanin, R, Hadjantonakis, A-K, Foley, AC. 2010. "A genome wide comparative analysis of Extraembryonic Endoderm Cell lines". PLoS ONE 5(8): e12016. PMCID: PMC2919048

  7. Foley, AC, Korol, O, Timmer, AM and Mercola M. 2007 "Nodal and Cerberus cooperate in heart induction". Developmental Biology 303(1): 57-65.
    PMCID: PMC1855199

  8. Foley, AC, Gupta, RW, Guzzo, RM, Korol, O and Mercola, M. 2006. "Embryonic Heart Induction." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1080: 85-96. PMID: 17132777

  9. Foley, AC and Mercola, M. 2005. "Heart Induction by Wnt Antagonists depends on the homeodomain transcription factor Hex." Genes and Development 19, 387-396. PMCID: PMC546516

  10. Foley AC, Skromne I, Stern, CD. 2000. "Reconciling different models of forebrain induction and patterning: a dual role for the hypoblast". Development 127(17): 3839-54. PMID: 10934028

  11. Foley AC, Storey KG,Stern CD. 1997. "The prechordal region lacks neural-inducing ability, but can confer anterior character to more posterior neuroepithelium". Development 124(4): 2983-2996. PMID: 9247340
Other Scholarly Publications
  1. Sheng G, Foley AC. 2012. Diversification and conservation of the extraembryonic tissues in mediating nutrient uptake during amniote development. Annals of the New York Academy of Science. 1271(1): 97–103. PMCID: PMC3499656

  2. Liu W, Foley AC. 2010. Signaling pathways in cardiomyocyte specification. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine DOI: 10.1002/wsbm.112 PMID 20830688. PMCID pending

  3. Foley, AC 2009. Cardiac Lineage Selection: Integrating biological complexity into computational models. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine 1, p. 334-347. PMID: 20836001. PMCID pending

  4. Foley AC and Mercola M. 2004. Heart induction: Embryology to cardiomyocyte regeneration. Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine. 14(3):121-5.
    PMID: 15121161

  5. Foley, AC, Stern, CD 2001. Evolution of vertebrate forebrain development: How many different mechanisms? Journal of Anatomy 199(1/2), 35-52.
    PMCID: PMC1594957

  6. Stern, CD, Foley, AC 1998. Molecular Dissection of Hox Gene Induction and Maintenance in the Hindbrain. Cell 94: 143-145. PMID: 9695941
Book Chapters
  1. Dai Y., Foley A.C. Tissue engineering approaches to heart repair. In: Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering (2014); 42 (3-4), p. 213-27.

  2. Mercola, M, Guzzo, RM, Foley, AC2010.  Cardiac Development in the Frog. In: Heart Development Volume 1  (Rosenthal, N. and Harvey, R. eds.)  Academic Press, p. 87-102.

  3. Guzzo, RG, Foley, AC, Ibarra, Y, Mercola M 2008. Signaling Pathways in Embryonic Heart Induction.  In: Cardiovascular Development Advances in Developmental Biology Series, (Bodmer, R., ed.), Elsevier, (Volume18), p.117-152.
Platform Presentations

Exploring signaling through TAK1 during SAN development
Cassandra Awgulewitsch, Stephanie Legros, Ann Foley

1) Was presented at the 2014 Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium,October 25th at Rice University.
2) This will be presented at Perry Halushka Student Research Day at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC. November 13, 2014

Posters
  1. "The role of TAK1 in Sinoatrial Node Differentiation" Yunkai Dai, Ann C.Foley, Ph.D.
    Will be presented by Yunkai Dai at Perry Halushka Student Research Day at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC. November 13, 2014

  2. "Using mouse stem cells to identify new genes involved in endoderm formation" Marin Miller, Cassandra Awgulewitsch, Stephanie Legros, Ann Foley
    Is currently on display at Academic Magnet High School.