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Bellina Mushala
Graduate Student Researcher
bem111@pitt.edu
Education
B. S.in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wells College, Aurora, New York
Advisor
Iain Scott, PhD
Research Details
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Journal Articles
Thapa D, Xie B, Mushala BAS, Zhang M, Manning JR, Bugga P, Stoner MW, Jurczak MJ, Scott I. Diet-induced obese mice are resistant to improvements in cardiac function resulting from short-term adropin treatment. Curr Res Physiol. 2022 Jan 25;5:55-62. doi: 10.1016/j.crphys.2022.01.005. PMID: 35128468; PMCID: PMC8803554.
Mushala BAS
, Scott I. Adropin: a hepatokine modulator of vascular function and cardiac fuel metabolism. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2021 Jan 1;320(1):H238-H244. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00449.2020. Epub 2020 Nov 20. PMID: 33216612; PMCID: PMC7847067.
Thapa D, Bugga P,
Mushala BAS
, Manning JR, Stoner MW, McMahon B, Zeng X, Cantrell PS, Yates N, Xie B, Edmunds LR, Jurczak MJ, Scott I. GCN5L1 impairs diastolic function in mice exposed to a high fat diet by restricting cardiac pyruvate oxidation. Physiol Rep. 2022 Aug;10(15):e15415. doi: 10.14814/phy2.15415. PMID: 35924321; PMCID: PMC9350469.
Awards and Honors
Molecular Pharmacology Predoctoral Training in Pharmacological Sciences, T32 GM133332 September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2022