Donald J. Alcendor, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Comprehensive Center for Health Disparities Research in
HIV and Department of Microbial Pathogenesis & the Immune Response, Department of Biomedical Sciences

(615) 327-6449
1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Boulevard
Nashville, TN  37208

dalcendor@mmc.edu

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• Identification of Dysregulated Genes in the Brain after HIV Infection: Implications for Therapy in HIV-Associated Dementia
• The Role of Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus in the Downregulation of Vascular Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecules: Implications for Immune Pathogenesis
• Cytomegalovirus Upregulation of G-Protein Coupled Receptors in Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells: Implications for CMV Induced Congenital Disease

Davison, A.J., Dolan, A., Akter, P., Addison, C.,  Dargan, D.J., Alcendor, D.J., McGeoch, D.J., and Hayward, G.S. (2003). The Human Cytomegalovirus Genome Revisited: Comparison with the Chimpanzee Cytomegalovirus Genome.  J Gen Virol.  84: 17-28.

Chiou C. J R,  Poole L., Kim P.S., Ciufo D.M., Cannon J.S., Ap Rhys C.M.,  Alcendor,  D.J  Zong J.C., Ambinder R.F., and Hayward G. S.,  2002.  Patterns of gene expression and a transactivation function exhibited by the vGCR (ORF74) chemokine receptor protein of kaposi’s sarcoma –associated herpesvirus J. Virol. 76:3421-3439.

Zong, JC, Ciufo DM, Alcendor D. J, Wan X, Nicholas J, Browning  P, Rady P, Orenstein JM, Rabkin C,  Su IJ, and GS Hayward.  1999.  High level variability in the ORF-K1 membrane protein gene at the left end of the kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus genome defines four major virus subtypes and multiple variants or clades in different human populations.  J. Virol.  73:4156-4170.

Alcendor, D. J, and Hayward G. S. 2001.  In Springer Verlag Index of Viruses: "Cytomegalovirus Betaherpesviridae) @ 1st ed. pp156-162.

Wu, F., Ahn, J-H., Alcendor, D.J., Jang W-J., Xiao, J., Hayward, S.D., Hayward, G.S. (2001).  Origin Independent Assembly of Kaposi=s Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus (KSHV) DNA Replication Compartments in Transient Cotransfection Assays and Association with the ORF-K8 Protein and Cellular PML (PODs). J. Virol. 75:1487-1506.

Arav-Boger, R., Willoughby, R.F., Pass, R.F., Zong, J-C., Jang, W.J., Alcendor, D.J., and Hayward, G.S. (2002).          Polymorphisms of the Cytomegalovirus-Encoded TNFα and β-Chemokine Receptors in Congenital CMV Disease.  J Infect Dis. 186:1057-1064.

D.J., Zong R. Arav-Boger, Alcendor DJ., and Hayward G.S., 2007.  Reflections on the interpretations of heterogenety and strain differences based on very limited PCR Sequence data from Kaposi’s sarcoma associated herpesvirus. A review. J. Clin. Virol. (in press) 2007.

Alcendor, D. J, and Hayward G. S. 2001.  In Springer Verlag Index of Viruses: "Simain Cytomegalovirus”) 3rd ed. (in press). 2008