Deborah Carlson, Ph.D.

Dr. Carlson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care, graduated in 1989 from The State University of New York College at Fredonia with a BS in recombinant gene technology, and a minor in chemistry. She completed work for a PhD in 1996 from the State University of New York at Buffalo, Roswell Park Division in Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Undergraduate	State University of New York (gene Technology) (), None
Graduate School	State University of New York (gene Technology) (), None

• Cardiac function following burn injury and sepsis
• The Role of Matrix Metalloproteinases in Cardiac Dysfunction

Featured Publications

Burn Trauma Alters Calcium Transporter Protein Expression in the Heart.

Ballard-Croft C, Carlson DL, Maas DL, Horton JW J Applied Physiology 2004 97(4) 1470-1476

Endotoxin infusion in mice results in cardiac apotosis via a TNF-a dependent pathway

Carlson DL, White DJ, Horton JW and Giroir BP American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology 2003 Accepted, 2003.

Myocyte apoptosis via endotoxin

Carlson DL, LIghtfoot, Jr. E, Bryant DD, Haudek SB, Maass DL and Horton JW American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology 2002 282 H1907-H1914

Antioxidant Vitamin Therapy Alters Sepsis-related Apoptotic Myocardial Activity and Inflammatory Responses.

Carlson D, Maas DL, Tan J, Horton JW J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol December 2006 291(6) H2779-H2789

Cardiac Molecular Signaling after Burn Trauma

Carlson DL, Horton JW J Burn Care Research September 2006 27(5) 669-75

Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) is a Burn Trauma Induced Cardiac Depressant.

Willis MS, Carlson DL, DiMiao JM, White MD, White DJ, Horton JW, Giroir BP. AJP Heart and Circ. 2005 288(2) H795-H804

TNF-alpha Induced Caspase Activation Mediates Endotoxin Related Cardiac Dysfunction.

Carlson DL, Willis MS, White DJ, Horton JW, Giroir BP Critical Care Medicine 2005 33(5) 1021-1028

A three-component dicamba O-demethylase from Pseudomonas maltophilia, strain DI-6: purification and characterization.

Chakraborty S., Behrens M., Herman PL, Arendsen AF, Hagan WR, Carlson DL, Wang XZ, Weeks DP Arch Biochem Biophys 2005 437(1) 20-28

• Member since 2005
  International Shock Society Presential Committee for Publications (2007)
• Research Citation Finalist
  Society for Critical Care Medicine 36th Annual Congress (2007)
• Most Outstanding Presentation Award
  Shock Society 28th Annual Conference (2005)
• Outstanding Young Investigator Award
  James Carrico Research Forum, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (2001)
• President
  National Biological Honor Society (1989)

• 2005-2006 International Shock Society Presidential Committee for Publications
• American Burn Association
• American Heart Association
• International Shock Society
• Society of Critical Care Medicine