Dhimant Desai

Associate Professor of Pharmacology

Dhimant Desai

Huck Affiliations

Publication Tags

Therapeutics Neoplasms Selenium Cholesterol Glycine Proteins Ceramides Tumors Muricholic Acid Acid Ceramidase Acute Myeloid Leukemia Genes Pharmaceutical Preparations Intestines Metabolism Celecoxib Leukemia Pharmacology Protein Casein Kinase Ii Obesity P Glycoprotein Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptors Melanoma Vorinostat

Most Recent Publications

Glycine-β-muricholic acid antagonizes the intestinal farnesoid X receptor–ceramide axis and ameliorates NASH in mice

Jie Jiang, Yuandi Ma, Yameng Liu, Dasheng Lu, Xiaoxia Gao, Kristopher W. Krausz, Dhimant Desai, Shantu G. Amin, Andrew D. Patterson, Frank J. Gonzalez, Cen Xie, 2022, Hepatology Communications on p. 3363-3378

Therapeutic Benefits of Selenium in Hematological Malignancies

Melanie A. Ehudin, Upendarrao Golla, Devnah Trivedi, Shobha D. Potlakayala, Sairam V. Rudrabhatla, Dhimant Desai, Sinisa Dovat, David Claxton, Arati Sharma, 2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Influence of ceramide on lipid domain stability studied with small-angle neutron scattering: The role of acyl chain length and unsaturation

Mitchell DiPasquale, Tye G. Deering, Dhimant Desai, Arun K. Sharma, Shantu Amin, Todd E. Fox, Mark Kester, John Katsaras, Drew Marquardt, Frederick A. Heberle, 2022, Chemistry and Physics of Lipids

Transcriptional regulation of Rab21 GTPase in leukemia

Sinisa Dovat, Yali Ding, Chunhua Song, Daniel Bogush, Diwakar Bastihali Tukaramrao, Arati Sharma, Dhimant Desai, 2022, FASEB Journal

Targeting Protein Translation in Melanoma by Inhibiting EEF-2 Kinase Regulates Cholesterol Metabolism though SREBP2 to Inhibit Tumour Development

Saketh S. Dinavahi, Yu Chi Chen, Raghavendra Gowda, Pavan Kumar Dhanyamraju, Kishore Punnath, Dhimant Desai, Arthur Berg, Scot R. Kimball, Shantu Amin, Jin Ming Yang, Gavin P. Robertson, 2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Selenium-Based Novel Epigenetic Regulators Offer Effective Chemotherapeutic Alternative with Wider Safety Margins in Experimental Colorectal Cancer

Preety Ghanghas, Monika Sharma, Dhimant Desai, Kaisar Raza, Aman Bhalla, Pramod Kumar, Dipika Narula, Shantu Amin, Sankar Nath Sanyal, Naveen Kaushal, 2022, Biological Trace Element Research on p. 635-646

Selenocoxib-3, a novel anti-inflammatory therapeutic effectively resolves colitis

Ramanpreet Kaur, Dhimant Desai, Shantu Amin, Kaisar Raza, Aman Bhalla, Pooja Yadav, Naveen Kaushal, 2022, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Chromatin remodeling by the histone methyltransferase EZH2 drives lung pre-malignancy and is a target for cancer prevention

Carmen S. Tellez, Maria A. Picchi, Daniel Juri, Kieu Do, Dhimant H. Desai, Shantu G. Amin, Julie A. Hutt, Piotr T. Filipczak, Steven A. Belinsky, 2021, Clinical Epigenetics

Dj4 targets the rho-associated protein kinase pathway and attenuates disease progression in preclinical murine models of acute myeloid leukemia

Upendarrao Golla, Melanie A. Ehudin, Charyguly Annageldiyev, Zheng Zeng, Diwakar Bastihalli Tukaramrao, Anna Tarren, Abhijit A. Date, Irina Elcheva, Arthur Berg, Shantu Amin, Thomas P. Loughran, Mark Kester, Dhimant Desai, Sinisa Dovat, David Claxton, Arati Sharma, 2021, Cancers

Increased Incidence of IKZF1 deletions and IGH-CRLF2 translocations in B-ALL of Hispanic/Latino children—a novel health disparity

Gordana Raca, Hisham Abdel-Azim, Feng Yue, James Broach, Jonathon L. Payne, Mark E. Reeves, Chandrika Gowda, Joseph Schramm, Dhimant Desai, Elanora Dovat, Tommy Hu, Arthur S. Berg, Deepa Bhojwani, Kimberly J. Payne, Sinisa Dovat, 2021, Leukemia on p. 2399-2402

Most-Cited Papers

Intestinal farnesoid X receptor signaling promotes nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Changtao Jiang, Cen Xie, Fei Li, Limin Zhang, Robert G. Nichols, Kristopher W. Krausz, Jingwei Cai, Yunpeng Qi, Zhong Ze Fang, Shogo Takahashi, Naoki Tanaka, Dhimant Desai, Shantu G. Amin, Istvan Albert, Andrew D. Patterson, Frank J. Gonzalez, 2015, Journal of Clinical Investigation on p. 386-402

Intestine-selective farnesoid X receptor inhibition improves obesity-related metabolic dysfunction

Changtao Jiang, Cen Xie, Ying Lv, Jing Li, Kristopher W. Krausz, Jingmin Shi, Chad N. Brocker, Dhimant Desai, Shantu G. Amin, William H. Bisson, Yulan Liu, Oksana Gavrilova, Andrew D. Patterson, Frank J. Gonzalez, 2015, Nature Communications

Targeting casein kinase II restores Ikaros tumor suppressor activity and demonstrates therapeutic efficacy in high-risk leukemia

Chunhua Song, Chandrika Gowda, Xiaokang Pan, Yali Ding, Yongqing Tong, Bi Hua Tan, Haijun Wang, Sunil Muthusami, Zheng Ge, Mansi Sachdev, Shantu G. Amin, Dhimant Desai, Krishne Gowda, Raghavendra Gowda, Gavin P. Robertson, Hilde Schjerven, Markus Muschen, Kimberly J. Payne, Sinisa Dovat, 2015, Blood on p. 1813-1822

Genetic and pharmacological analysis identifies a physiological role for the AHR in epidermal differentiation

Ellen H. Van Den Bogaard, Michael A. Podolsky, Jos P. Smits, Xiao Cui, Christian John, Krishne Gowda, Dhimant Desai, Shantu G. Amin, Joost Schalkwijk, Gary H. Perdew, Adam B. Glick, 2015, Journal of Investigative Dermatology on p. 1320-1328

Crucial role of macrophage selenoproteins in experimental colitis

Naveen Kaushal, Avinash K. Kudva, Andrew D. Patterson, Christopher Chiaro, Mary J. Kennett, Dhimant Desai, Shantu Amin, Bradley A. Carlson, Margherita T. Cantorna, K. Sandeep Prabhu, 2014, Journal of Immunology on p. 3683-3692

Acid ceramidase is upregulated in AML and represents a novel therapeutic target

Su Fern Tan, Xin Liu, Todd E. Fox, Brian M. Barth, Arati Sharma, Stephen D. Turner, Andy Awwad, Alden Dewey, Kenichiro Doi, Barbara Spitzer, Mithun Vinod Shah, Samy A.F. Morad, Dhimant Desai, Shantu Amin, Junjia Zhu, Jason Liao, Jong Yun, Mark Kester, David F. Claxton, Hong Gang Wang, Myles C. Cabot, Edward H. Schuchman, Ross L. Levine, David J. Feith, Thomas P. Loughran, 2016, Oncotarget on p. 83208-83222

Chemoprevention of prostate cancer by D,L-sulforaphane is augmented by pharmacological inhibition of autophagy

Avani R. Vyas, Eun Ryeong Hahm, Julie A. Arlotti, Simon Watkins, Donna Beer Stolz, Dhimant Desai, Shantu Amin, Shivendra V. Singh, 2013, Cancer Research on p. 5985-5995

Simultaneous targeting of COX-2 and AKT using selenocoxib-1-GSH to inhibit melanoma

Raghavendra Gowda, Subbarao V. Madhunapantula, Dhimant Desai, Shantu Amin, Gavin P. Robertson, 2013, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics on p. 3-15

Acid ceramidase promotes drug resistance in acute myeloid leukemia through NF-κB-dependent P-glycoprotein upregulation

Su Fern Tan, Wendy Dunton, Xin Liu, Todd E. Fox, Samy A.F. Morad, Dhimant Desai, Kenichiro Doi, Mark R. Conaway, Shantu Amin, David F. Claxton, Hong Gang Wang, Mark Kester, Myles C. Cabot, David J. Feith, Thomas P. Loughran, 2019, Journal of Lipid Research on p. 1078-1086

The regulatory roles of ROCK and MRCK kinases in the plasticity of cancer cell migration

Vijay Pralhad Kale, Jeremy A. Hengst, Dhimant H. Desai, Shantu G. Amin, Jong K. Yun, 2015, Cancer Letters on p. 185-196