PUBLICATIONS
Indulekha C.L. Pillai, Shen Li, Milagros Romay, Larry Lam, Yan Lu, Jie Huang, Nathaniel Dillard, Marketa Zemanova, , Liudmilla Rubbi, Yibin Wang, Jason Lee, Ming Xia, Owen Liang, Ya-Hong Xie, Matteo Pellegrini, Aldons J. Lusis & Arjun Deb. Cardiac fibroblasts adopt osteogenic cell fates and contribute to pathologic heart calcification. Cell Stem Cell Volume 20,Issue2, p218-232.e5,2 February 2017.
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*Cover story of Cell Stem Cell February 2017 issue.
*Manuscript was highlighted by Science Magazine.
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Eric Ubil, JDuan, Indulekha CL Pillai, M Rosa-Garrido, Yong Wu, FBargiacchi, Yan Lu, SStanbouly, J Huang, MRojas, TM. Vondriska, E Stefani & Arjun Deb, Mesenchymal–endothelial transition contributes to cardiac neovascularisation. Nature 514, 585–590, October 2014.
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*Manuscript highly recommended by Faculty 1000 prime.
*Manuscript was highlighted in Nature news and Views
Cho K., Haque, M., Wang, J, Yu, M., Hao, Y., Qiu, S., Indulekha, CL Pillai., Peachey, N. and Ferreira, PA. Distinct and atypical intrinsic and extrinsic cell death pathways between photoreceptor cell types upon specific ablation of Ranbp2 in cone photoreceptors, PloS Genetics, 9(6): e1003555, June 2013.
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Indulekha CL, Divya TS, Divya MS, Sanalkumar R, Rasheed VA, Dhanesh SB, Sebin A, George A, James J. Hes-1 regulates the excitatory fate of neural progenitors through modulation of Tlx3 (HOX11L2) expression. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, Volume 69, Issue 4, pp 611-627 ,February, 2012
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CL Indulekha, R Sanalkumar, Anoop K Thekkuveettil & JJames. Seizure induces activation of multiple subtypes of neural progenitors and growth factors in hippocampus with neuronal maturation confined to dentate gyrus. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. Vol 393, Issue 4, 19, pg 864-871, March 2010.
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R Sanalkumar, CL Indulekha, T S Divya, M S Divya, R J Anto, B Vinod, S Vidyanand, B Jagatha, S Venugopal & J James. ATF2 maintains a subset of neural progenitors through CBF1/Notchindependent Hes-1 expression.. Journal of Neurochemistry, Volume 113, Issue 4, pages 807–818, May 2010.
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R Sanalkumar, S Vidyanand, C L Indulekha, & JJames. Neuronal vs.glial fates of embryonic stem cell derived neural progenitors (ES-NPs) are determined by FGF2/EGF during proliferation. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, Volume 42, Issue 1, pp 17-27, September 2010.
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B Jagatha, MS Divya, R Sanalkumar, C L. Indulekha, S Vidyanand, TS. Divya, Ani V. Das & Jackson James. In vitro differentiation of retinal ganglion-like cells from embryonic stem cell derived neural progenitors. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. Volume 380, Issue 2, 6 Pages 230-235, March 2009.
DISSERTATIONS
Indulekha CL,A Study of hippocampal neurogenesis associated with temporal lobe epilepsy and the role of Notch signaling in transcriptional regulation of Tlx3 a selector gene involved in excitatory versus inhibitory fate specification PhD Thesis. Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (degree awarded by Kerala University ), 2010