Biographical Info

Lauren Aleksunes’Lab 

Recent Publications

1. Kinkade, CW, Brinker, A, Buckley, B, Waysack, O, Fernandez, ID, Kautz, A, Meng, Y, Shi, H, Brunner, J, Ohman-Strickland, P et al.. Sociodemographic and dietary predictors of maternal and placental mycoestrogen concentrations in a US pregnancy cohort. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2024; :. doi: 10.1038/s41370-024-00722-6. PubMed PMID:39363096
2. Taylor, R, Basaly, V, Kong, B, Yang, I, Brinker, AM, Capece, G, Bhattacharya, A, Henry, ZR, Otersen, K, Yang, Z et al.. Effects of Therapeutically Approved Individual Bile Acids on The Development of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis a Low Bile Acid Mouse Model. Toxicol Sci. 2024; :. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfae110. PubMed PMID:39302723
3. Aleksunes, LM, Gray, JP, Meshanni, J, Laskin, JD, Laskin, DL. Repurposing FDA-approved drugs to treat chemical weapon toxicities: Interactive case studies for trainees. Pharmacol Res Perspect. 2024;12 (4):e1229. doi: 10.1002/prp2.1229. PubMed PMID:38965070 PubMed Central PMC11223991
4. Wen, X, Doherty, C, Thompson, LE, Kim, C, Buckley, BS, Jaimes, EA, Joy, MS, Aleksunes, LM. Determination of unbound platinum concentrations in human plasma using ultrafiltration and precipitation methods. J Pharmacol Toxicol Methods. 2024;128 :107535. doi: 10.1016/j.vascn.2024.107535. PubMed PMID:38955285
5. Kinkade, CW, Aleksunes, LM, Brinker, A, Buckley, B, Brunner, J, Wang, C, Miller, RK, O’Connor, TG, Rivera-Núñez, Z, Barrett, ES et al.. Associations between mycoestrogen exposure and sex steroid hormone concentrations in maternal serum and cord blood in the UPSIDE pregnancy cohort. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2024;260 :114405. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2024.114405. PubMed PMID:38878407 PubMed Central PMC11441442
6. Gutgarts, V, Gerardine, S, Shingarev, RA, Knezevic, A, Zabor, EC, Latcha, S, Joy, MS, Aleksunes, LM, Jaimes, EA. Evaluation of Cisplatin-Induced Acute Kidney Injury in Patients Coprescribed Serotonin Receptor Antagonists: A Retrospective Analysis. Kidney360. 2024;5 (8):1094-1100. doi: 10.34067/KID.0000000000000464. PubMed PMID:38814726 PubMed Central PMC11371355
7. Chung, E, Wen, X, Jia, X, Ciallella, HL, Aleksunes, LM, Zhu, H. Hybrid non-animal modeling: A mechanistic approach to predict chemical hepatotoxicity. J Hazard Mater. 2024;471 :134297. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.134297. PubMed PMID:38677119 PubMed Central PMC11519847
8. Galetin, A, Brouwer, KLR, Tweedie, D, Yoshida, K, Sjöstedt, N, Aleksunes, L, Chu, X, Evers, R, Hafey, MJ, Lai, Y et al.. Membrane transporters in drug development and as determinants of precision medicine. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2024;23 (4):255-280. doi: 10.1038/s41573-023-00877-1. PubMed PMID:38267543 PubMed Central PMC11464068
9. Kozlosky, D, Doherty, C, Buckley, B, Goedken, MJ, Miller, RK, Huh, DD, Barrett, ES, Aleksunes, LM. Fetoplacental Disposition and Toxicity of Cadmium in Mice Lacking the Bcrp Transporter. Toxicol Sci. 2023;197 (2):132-46. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfad115. PubMed PMID:37941438 PubMed Central PMC10823776
10. Zhang, R, Walker, L, Wen, X, Doherty, C, Gorczyca, L, Buckley, B, Barrett, ES, Aleksunes, LM. Placental BCRP transporter reduces cadmium accumulation and toxicity in immortalized human trophoblasts. Reprod Toxicol. 2023;121 :108466. doi: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2023.108466. PubMed PMID:37660740 PubMed Central PMC10591833