Peer-Reviewed Research Articles
Heit B,
Yeung T, Grinstein S. Changes
in mitochondrial surface charge mediate recruitment
of signaling molecules during apoptosis. Am J Physiol Cell
Physiol. 2011 Jan;300(1):C33-41. Epub 2010
Oct 6. [PubMed] [Article]
Yeung T, Heit B, Dubuisson JF,
Fairn GD, Chiu B, Inman R, Kapus A,
Swanson M, Grinstein S. Contribution of phosphatidylserine
to membrane surface
charge and protein
targeting during phagosome maturation. J Cell Biol. 2009 Jun 1;185(5):917-28. [PubMed] [PubMed
Central] [Article].
Phillipson M, Heit B, Parsons
SA, Petri B, Mullaly SC, Colarusso P,
Gower RM, Neely G, Simon SI, Kubes P. Vav1 is essential for
mechanotactic
crawling and migration of neutrophils
out of the inflamed microvasculature. J
Immunol. 2009 Jun 1;182(11):6870-8. [PubMed] [Article]
Heit B, Robbins SM, Downey CM,
Guan Z, Colarusso P, Miller BJ, Jirik
FR, Kubes P. PTEN
functions to 'prioritize' chemotactic cues and prevent
'distraction' in migrating neutrophils.
Nat Immunol. 2008
Jul;9(7):743-52. Epub 2008 Jun
8.
[PubMed] [Article]
[F1000]
Heit B, Liu L, Colarusso P,
Puri KD, Kubes P. PI3K
accelerates, but is
not required for, neutrophil
chemotaxis to fMLP. J Cell Sci.
2008 Jan
15;121(Pt 2):205-14.
[PubMed] [Article]
Phillipson M, Heit B,
Colarusso P, Liu L, Ballantyne CM, Kubes P.
Intraluminal crawling of
neutrophils to emigration sites: a molecularly distinct
process from adhesion in the
recruitment cascade. J Exp Med.
2006 Nov
27;203(12):2569-75. Epub 2006 Nov 20. [PubMed] [PubMed
Central] [Article] [F1000]
Heit B, Jones G, Knight D,
Antony JM, Gill MJ, Brown C, Power C, Kubes
P. HIV and other
lentiviral infections cause defects in neutrophil chemotaxis,
recruitment, and cell
structure: immunorestorative effects of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating
factor. J Immunol.
2006 Nov 1;177(9):6405-14. [PubMed] [Article]
Heit B, Colarusso P, Kubes P. Fundamentally different roles for
LFA-1,
Mac-1 and alpha4-integrin
in neutrophil chemotaxis. J
Cell Sci. 2005 Nov
15;118 (Pt 22):5205-20. Epub 2005 Oct 25. [PubMed] [Article]
Khan AI, Heit B, Andonegui G,
Colarusso P, Kubes P. Lipopolysaccharide:
a p38 MAPK-dependent
disrupter of neutrophil chemotaxis. Microcirculation.
2005 Jul-Aug;12(5):421-32. [PubMed] [Article]
Khan AI, Kerfoot SM, Heit B,
Liu L, Andonegui G, Ruffell B, Johnson P,
Kubes P. Role of CD44
and hyaluronan in neutrophil recruitment. J Immunol.
2004 Dec 15;173(12):7594-601. [PubMed] [Article]
Kubes P, Heit B, van Marle G,
Johnston JB, Knight D, Khan A, Power C.
In vivo impairment
of neutrophil recruitment during lentivirus infection. J
Immunol. 2003 Nov 1;171(9):4801-8. [PubMed] [Article]
Heit B, Tavener S, Raharjo E,
Kubes P. An intracellular
signaling
hierarchy determines direction of migration in opposing chemotactic
gradients. J
Cell Biol. 2002 Oct 14;159(1):91-102. Epub 2002 Oct 7. [PubMed]
[PubMed
Central] [Article]
[F1000]
Invited Reviews and Book Chapters
Wong CH, Heit B,
Kubes P. Molecular
regulators of leucocyte
chemotaxis
during inflammation.
Cardiovasc Res. 2010 May
1;86(2):183-91. Epub 2010 Feb 2. Review. [PubMed] [Article]
Heit B and Kubes P. Bacterial
products sabotage the innate immune system. Advan Sepsis. 2004
3(4):114–20. Review. [Aritcle] [Journal]
Heit B, Kubes P. Measuring
chemotaxis and chemokinesis: the
under-agarose cell migration
assay. Sci STKE.
2003
Feb 18;2003(170):PL5. [PubMed] [Aritcle]
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