Publications (co-)authored by Natalia Higuita Castro with students in the Biophysics program

Tatiana Z Cuellar-Gaviria, Maria Angelica Rincon-Benavides, Hatice Nur Halipci Topsakal, Ana Isabel Salazar-Puerta, Shara Jaramillo-Garrido, Mia Kordowski, Carlos A Vasquez-Martinez, Kim Truc Nguyen, Xilal Y Rima, Pranav S J B Rana, Orlando Combita-Heredia, Binbin Deng, Kavya Dathathreya, David W McComb, Eduardo Reategui, Daniel Wozniak, Natalia Higuita-Castro, and Daniel Gallego-Perez
"Tissue nano-transfection of antimicrobial genes drives bacterial biofilm killing in wounds and is potentially mediated by extracellular vesicles."
J Control Release 376, 1300-1315 (2024).

Shirley N Tang, Ana I Salazar-Puerta, Mary K Heimann, Kyle Kuchynsky, María A Rincon-Benavides, Mia Kordowski, Gilian Gunsch, Lucy Bodine, Khady Diop, Connor Gantt, Safdar Khan, Anna Bratasz, Olga Kokiko-Cochran, Julie Fitzgerald, Damien M Laudier, Judith A Hoyland, Benjamin A Walter, Natalia Higuita-Castro, and Devina Purmessur
"Engineered extracellular vesicle-based gene therapy for the treatment of discogenic back pain."
Biomaterials 308, 122562 (2024).

Silvia Duarte-Sanmiguel, Ana I Salazar-Puerta, Ana Panic, Daniel Dodd, Carlie Francis, Diego Alzate-Correa, Lilibeth Ortega-Pineda, Luke Lemmerman, Maria A Rincon-Benavides, Kavya Dathathreya, William Lawrence, Neil Ott, Jingjing Zhang, Binbin Deng, Shipeng Wang, Sandra P Santander, David W McComb, Eduardo Reategui, Andre F Palmer, William E Carson, Natalia Higuita-Castro, and Daniel Gallego-Perez
"ICAM-1-decorated extracellular vesicles loaded with miR-146a and "
Biomater Sci 11, 6834-6847 (2023).

Ana I Salazar-Puerta, Mia Kordowski, Tatiana Z Cuellar-Gaviria, Maria A Rincon-Benavides, Jad Hussein, Dorma Flemister, Gabriel Mayoral-Andrade, Grant Barringer, Elizabeth Guilfoyle, Britani N Blackstone, Binbin Deng, Diana Zepeda-Orozco, David W McComb, Heather Powell, Lakshmi P Dasi, Daniel Gallego-Perez, and Natalia Higuita-Castro
"Engineered Extracellular Vesicle-Based Therapies for Valvular Heart Disease."
Cell Mol Bioeng 16, 309-324 (2023).

Ana I Salazar-Puerta, María A Rincon-Benavides, Tatiana Z Cuellar-Gaviria, Julian Aldana, Gabriela Vasquez Martinez, Lilibeth Ortega-Pineda, Devleena Das, Daniel Dodd, Charles A Spencer, Binbin Deng, David W McComb, Joshua A Englert, Samir Ghadiali, Diana Zepeda-Orozco, Loren E Wold, Daniel Gallego-Perez, and Natalia Higuita-Castro
"Engineered Extracellular Vesicles Derived from Dermal Fibroblasts Attenuate Inflammation in a Murine Model of Acute Lung Injury."
Adv Mater 35, e2210579 (2023).

Megan M Allyn, Maria A Rincon-Benavides, Heather L Chandler, Natalia Higuita-Castro, Andre F Palmer, and Katelyn E Swindle-Reilly
"Sustained release of heme-albumin as a potential novel therapeutic approach for age-related macular degeneration."
Biomater Sci 10, 7004-7014 (2022).

Luke R Lemmerman, Hallie N Harris, Maria H H Balch, Maria A Rincon-Benavides, Natalia Higuita-Castro, David W Arnold, and Daniel Gallego-Perez
"Transient Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion with an Intraluminal Suture Enables Reproducible Induction of Ischemic Stroke in Mice."
Bio Protoc 12, e4305 (2022).

Luke R Lemmerman, Maria H H Balch, Jordan T Moore, Diego Alzate-Correa, Maria A Rincon-Benavides, Ana Salazar-Puerta, Surya Gnyawali, Hallie N Harris, William Lawrence, Lilibeth Ortega-Pineda, Lauren Wilch, Ian B Risser, Aidan J Maxwell, Silvia Duarte-Sanmiguel, Daniel Dodd, Gina P Guio-Vega, Dana M McTigue, W David Arnold, Shahid M Nimjee, Chandan K Sen, Savita Khanna, Cameron Rink, Natalia Higuita-Castro, and Daniel Gallego-Perez
"Nanotransfection-based vasculogenic cell reprogramming drives functional recovery in a mouse model of ischemic stroke."
Sci Adv 7, eabd4735 (2021).