Thomas Ma
Professor and Chair of Medicine

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500 University Drive
Hershey, PA - tum606@psu.edu
Huck Affiliations
Publication Tags
Tight Junctions Permeability Caco 2 Cells Intestinal Mucosa Myosin Light Chain Kinase Inflammation Lipopolysaccharides Ethanol Inbred C57bl Mouse Transcriptional Activation Signal Transduction Toll Like Receptor 4 Small Interfering Rna Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 Mice Knockout Mice Interleukin 1 Tight Junction Proteins Phosphotransferases In Vitro Techniques Genes Epithelial Cells Liver Colitis Up RegulationMost Recent Papers
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Jonathan G. Stine, Ian R. Schreibman, Alison J. Faust, Jessica Dahmus, Benjamin Stern, Christopher Soriano, Gloriany Rivas, Breianna Hummer, Scot R. Kimball, Nate R. Geyer, Vernon M. Chinchilli, Rohit Loomba, Kathryn Schmitz, Christopher Sciamanna, Cindy Strine, Rachel Wentzel, Sara Marlin, Chris Sica, Jeff Vesek, Elaine Eyster, Lawrence Sinoway, Kathy Bentz, Nancy Handley, Brenda Hershey Fell, Shirlynn Mottilla, Christine Christ, Susan George, Terry Novchich, Megan Beyer, Kofi Clarke, Tiffany Myers, Martha Glading-Steinruck, Karen Krok, Thomas Ma, Thomas Riley, Elizabeth Thompson, Heather Tressler, James Broach, Trang Doan, Sue Patrick, Syndi Reed, Chris Hamilton, Kristin Slavoski, Deborah Tregea, 2022, Hepatology on p. 172-185
IL-1β and the Intestinal Epithelial Tight Junction Barrier
Lauren W. Kaminsky, Rana Al-Sadi, Thomas Y. Ma, 2021, Frontiers in Immunology
Matrix Metalloproteinase MMP-12 Promotes Macrophage Transmigration across Intestinal Epithelial Tight Junctions and Increases Severity of Experimental Colitis
Meghali Nighot, Ashwinkumar Subramenium Ganapathy, Kushal Saha, Eric Suchanec, Eliseo F. Castillo, Alyssa Gregory, Steven Shapiro, Thomas Ma, Prashant Nighot, 2021, Journal of Crohn's and Colitis on p. 1751-1765
Lactobacillus acidophilus Induces a Strain-specific and Toll-Like Receptor 2–Dependent Enhancement of Intestinal Epithelial Tight Junction Barrier and Protection Against Intestinal Inflammation
Rana Al-Sadi, Prashant Nighot, Meghali Nighot, Mohammad Haque, Manmeet Rawat, Thomas Y. Ma, 2021, American Journal of Pathology on p. 872-884
Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) induced disruption of intestinal epithelial tight junction barrier is mediated by NF-κB activation
Rana Al-Sadi, Jessica Engers, Mohammad Haque, Steven King, Deemah Al-Omari, Thomas Y. Ma, 2021, PLoS One
Endocytosis of Intestinal Tight Junction Proteins
Prashant Nighot, Thomas Ma, 2021, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases on p. 283-290
The gut microbiome and alcoholic liver disease
Erick S. Lebrun, Meghali Nighot, Viszwapriya Dharmaprakash, Anand Kumar, Chien Chi Lo, Patrick S.G. Chain, Thomas Y. Ma, 2021, Life on p. 1-11
Investigating intestinal permeability and gut microbiota roles in acute coronary syndrome patients
T. Alhmoud, A. Kumar, Chien Chi Lo, Rana Al-Sadi, Stacey Clegg, Ihab Alomari, T. Zmeili, Cheryl Diane Gleasne, Kim Mcmurry, Armand Earl Ko Dichosa, Momchiloo Vuyisich, Patrick Sam Guy Chain, Shiraz Mishra, Thomas Ma, 2019, Human Microbiome Journal
Intestinal epithelial tight junction barrier regulation by autophagy-related protein ATG6/beclin 1
Morgan Wong, Ashwinkumar Subramenium Ganapathy, Eric Suchanec, Laura Laidler, Thomas Ma, Prashant Nighot, 2019, American Journal of Physiology on p. C753-C765
Lipopolysaccharide-induced increase in intestinal permeability is mediated by TAK-1 activation of IKK and MLCK/MYLK gene
Meghali Nighot, Manmeet Rawat, Rana Al-Sadi, Eliseo F. Castillo, Prashant Nighot, Thomas Y. Ma, 2019, American Journal of Pathology on p. 797-812
Most-Cited Papers
Lipopolysaccharide causes an increase in intestinal tight junction permeability in vitro and in vivo by inducing enterocyte membrane expression and localization of TLR-4 and CD14
Shuhong Guo, Rana Al-Sadi, Hamid M. Said, Thomas Ma, 2013, American Journal of Pathology on p. 375-387
Lipopolysaccharide regulation of intestinal tight junction permeability is mediated by TLR4 signal transduction pathway activation of FAK and MyD88
Shuhong Guo, Meghali Nighot, Rana Al-Sadi, Tarik Alhmoud, Prashant Nighot, Thomas Ma, 2015, Journal of Immunology on p. 4999-5010
Interleukin-6 modulation of intestinal epithelial tight junction permeability is mediated by JNK pathway
Rana Al-Sadi, Dongmei Ye, Michel Boivin, Shuhong Guo, Mariam Hashimi, Lisa Ereifej, Thomas Y. Ma, 2014, PLoS One
TNF-α modulation of intestinal epithelial tight junction barrier is regulated by ERK1/2 activation of Elk-1
Rana Al-Sadi, Shuhong Guo, Dongmei Ye, Thomas Y. Ma, 2013, American Journal of Pathology on p. 1871-1884
TNF-α Modulation of Intestinal Tight Junction Permeability Is Mediated by NIK/IKK-α Axis Activation of the Canonical NF-κB Pathway
Rana Al-Sadi, Shuhong Guo, Dongmei Ye, Manmeet Rawat, Thomas Y. Ma, 2016, American Journal of Pathology on p. 1151-1165
Autophagy enhances intestinal epithelial tight junction barrier function by targeting claudin-2 protein degradation
Prashant K. Nighot, Chien An Andy Hu, Thomas Y. Ma, 2015, Journal of Biological Chemistry on p. 7234-7246
Mechanism of IL-1β modulation of intestinal epithelial barrier involves p38 kinase and activating transcription factor-2 activation
Rana Al-Sadi, Shuhong Guo, Dongmei Ye, Karol Dokladny, Tarik Alhmoud, Lisa Ereifej, Hamid M. Said, Thomas Ma, 2013, Journal of Immunology on p. 6596-6606
Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Increase in Intestinal Epithelial Tight Permeability Is Mediated by Toll-Like Receptor 4/Myeloid Differentiation Primary Response 88 (MyD88) Activation of Myosin Light Chain Kinase Expression
Meghali Nighot, Rana Al-Sadi, Shuhong Guo, Manmeet Rawat, Prashant Nighot, Martin D. Watterson, Thomas Y. Ma, 2017, American Journal of Pathology on p. 2698-2710
Matrix metalloproteinase 9-induced increase in intestinal epithelial tight junction permeability contributes to the severity of experimental DSS colitis
Prashant Nighot, Rana Al-Sadi, Manmeet Rawat, Shuhong Guo, D. Martin Watterson, Thomas Ma, 2015, American Journal of Physiology on p. G988-G997
Mechanism of Interleukin-1β induced-increase in mouse intestinal permeability in vivo
Rana Al-Sadi, Shuhong Guo, Karol Dokladny, Matthew A. Smith, Dongmei Ye, Archana Kaza, D. Martin Watterson, Thomas Ma, 2012, Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research on p. 474-484