About

Brown, Dennis, PhD

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Phone: 617-726-5665
Email: Brown.Dennis@mgh.harvard.edu
Lab: Brown

Research

Dennis Brown is a Ph. D. cell biologist who specializes in the use of state-of-the art fluorescence imaging and electron microscopy techniques to follow and dissect physiologically-relevant membrane protein trafficking events in epithelial and non-epithelial cells. He serves as the Associate Director of the CSB and the Director of the MGH Program in Membrane Biology (PMB) which uses use state of the art technologies in the pursuit of important biological questions at the system level. He became Professor of Medicine at Harvard in 2001 and has been at MGH since 1985.

Publications

Shum WW, Da Silva N, McKee M, Smith PJ, Brown D, Breton S
Transepithelial Projections from Basal Cells are Luminal Sensors in Pseudostratified Epithelia
Cell. 2008;135:1108-17 - PMID: 19070580 - PMCID: PMC2646085
Russo LM, Sandoval RM, Campos SB, Molitoris BA, Comper WD, Brown D
Impaired Tubular Uptake Explains Albuminuria in Early Diabetic Nephropathy.
J Am Soc Nephrol. 2008;:ePub - PMID: 19118149 - PMCID: PMC2653682
Hasler U, Nunes P, Bouley R, Lu HA, Matsuzaki T, Brown D
Acute hypertonicity alters aquaporin-2 trafficking and induces a MAP kinase-dependent accumulation at the plasma membrane of renal epithelial cells.
J Biol Chem. 2008;283(39):26643-61 - PMID: 18664568 - PMCID: PMC2546545
Miller RL, Lucero OM, Riemondy KA, Baumgartner BK, Brown D, Breton S, Nelson RD
The V-ATPase B1-subunit promoter drives expression of Cre recombinase in intercalated cells of the kidney.
Kidney Int. 2008;:ePub - PMID: 19052537
Zalyapin EA, Bouley R, Hasler U, Vilardaga JP, Lin HY, Brown D, Ausiello DA
Effects of the renal medullary pH and ionic environment on vasopressin binding and signaling.
Kidney Int. 2008;74(12):1557-67 - PMID: 18813286
Lu HA, Matsuzaki T, Bouley R, Hasler U, Qin Q, Brown D
The phosphorylation state of serine 256 is dominant over that of serine 261 in the regulation of AQP2 trafficking in renal epithelial cells.
Am J Physiol-Renal. 2008;295(1):F290-4 - PMID: 18434387 - PMCID: PMC2494506
Nunes P, Hasler U, McKee M, Lu HA, Bouley R, Brown D
A fluorimetry-based ssYFP secretion assay to monitor vasopressin-induced exocytosis in LLC-PK1 cells expressing aquaporin-2 (AQP2).
Am J Physiol-cell ph. 2008;295(6):C1476-87 - PMID: 18799651 - PMCID: PMC2603565
Paunescu TG, Jones AC, Tyszkowski R, Brown D
V-ATPase expression in the mouse olfactory epithelium.
Am J Physiol-cell ph. 2008;295(4):C923-30 - PMID: 18667600 - PMCID: PMC2575830
Brown D, Hasler U, Nunes P, Bouley R, Lu H
Phosphorylation events and the modulation of aquaporin 2 cell surface expression.
Curr Opin Nephrol Hy. 2008;17(5):491-8 - PMID: 18695390
Russo LM, Brown D, Lin HY
The soluble transforming growth factor-beta receptor: Advantages and applications.
Int J Biochem Cell B. 2008;:ePub - PMID: 18339576
Belleannee C, Da Silva N, Shum WW, Marsolais M, Laprade R, Brown D, Breton S
Segmental Expression of the Bradykinin Type 2 Receptor in Rat Efferent Ducts and Epididymis and Its Role in the Regulation of Aquaporin 9.
Biol Reprod. 2008;80(1):134-43 - PMID: 18829705
Bouley R, Hasler U, Lu HA, Nunes P, Brown D
Bypassing vasopressin receptor signaling pathways in nephrogenic diabetes insipidus.
Semin Nephrol. 2008;28:266-78 - PMID: 18519087 - PMCID: PMC2494582
Brown D
Aquaporins and vasopressin signaling in kidney health and disease: introduction.
Semin Nephrol. 2008;28:215-6 - PMID: 18519082

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