Journal Publications

1. Daniel T. Bowers, Mary Elizabeth McCulloch, and Justin Brown, “Evaluation of focal adhesion mediated subcellular curvature sensing in response to engineered extracellular matrix“, Biointerphases 18, 021004 (2023).

2. Fattahi, P., Yeh, Y.-T., Zhao, T., Younesi, M., Huang, C., Terrones, M., Zheng, S., Brown, J.L., Huh, D.D., Zhang, S. and Butler, P.J. (2023), Endothelial Cell Selectivity to Nanoparticles Depends on Mechanical Phenotype. Adv. Mater. Interfaces, 10: 2300137.

3. Ozdemir, T., Senocak, E., Gerber, G. et al. The Pull of Tissue Engineering: A STEM Outreach Program with a Modular Cyclic Stretch Device to Engage High School StudentsBiomed Eng Education 2, 31–39 (2022).

4. Bowers, D.T., Brown, J.L. Nanofiber curvature with Rho GTPase activity increases mouse embryonic fibroblast random migration velocity. Integrative Biology. 1-14 (2022).

5. Banik, B.L., Brown, J.L. 3D-Printed Bioreactor Enhances Potential for Tendon Tissue Engineering. Regen. Eng. Transl. Med. 6, 419–428 (2020). 

6. Emily G. Long, Merve Buluk, Michelle B. Gallagher, Jennifer M. Schneider, Justin L. Brown, Human mesenchymal stem cell morphology, migration, and differentiation on micro and nano-textured titanium, Bioactive Materials, Volume 4, 2019, Pages 249-255

7. Bowers, D.T., Brown, J.L. Nanofibers as Bioinstructive Scaffolds Capable of Modulating Differentiation Through Mechanosensitive Pathways for Regenerative Engineering. Regen. Eng. Transl. Med. 5, 22–29 (2019).

8. Ozdemir, T., Bowers, D.T., Zhan, X., Ghosh, D., Brown, J.L. Identification of Key Signaling Pathways Orchestrating Substrate Topography Directed Osteogenic Differentiation Through High-Throughput siRNA Screening. Sci Rep 9, 1001 (2019).

9. Lipowsky, H.H., Bowers, D.T., Banik, B.L., Brown, J.L. Mesenchymal Stem Cell Deformability and Implications for Microvascular SequestrationAnn Biomed Eng 46, 640–654 (2018).

10. Risser, G.E., Banik, B.L., Brown, J.L. et al. Structural properties of starch-chitosan-gelatin foams and the impact of gelatin on MC3T3 mouse osteoblast cell viability. J Biol Eng 11, 43 (2017).

11. Fattahi, P.Dover, J. T.Brown, J. L., 3D Near‐Field Electrospinning of Biomaterial Microfibers with Potential for Blended Microfiber‐Cell‐Loaded Gel Composite Structures, Adv. Healthcare Mater. 20176, 1700456.

12. Banik Brittany L., Riley Thomas R., Platt Christina J., Brown Justin L. (2016) Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Morphology and Migration on Microtextured Titanium. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 4, 41.

13. Huang, COzdemir, TXu, LButler, PJSiedlecki, CABrown, JLZhang, S2016The role of substrate topography on the cellular uptake of nanoparticles. J Biomed Mater Res Part B 2016: 104B488– 495.

14. Banik, B.L., Lewis, G.S. & Brown, J.L. Multiscale Poly-(ϵ-caprolactone) Scaffold Mimicking Non-linearity in Tendon Tissue Mechanics. Regen. Eng. Transl. Med. 2, 1–9 (2016).

15. Banik, B.L., Fattahi, P. and Brown, J.L. (2016), Polymeric nanoparticles: the future of nanomedicine. WIREs Nanomed Nanobiotechnol, 8: 271-299.

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16. Jaiswal, R James, NB Shelke, MD Harmon, JL Brown, et al. Gelatin Nanofiber Matrices Derived from Schiff Base Derivative for Tissue Engineering Applications, Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology 11 (11), 2015, 2067-2080.

17. A. M. Higgins, B. L. Banik, J. L. Brown, Geometry sensing through POR1 regulates Rac1 activity controlling early osteoblast differentiation in response to nanofiber diameter, Integrative Biology, Volume 7, Issue 2, February 2015, Pages 229–236

18. Tran, RTWang, LZhang, CHuang, MTang, WZhang, CZhang, ZJin, DBanik, BBrown, JLXie, ZBai, XYang, J2014Synthesis and characterization of biomimetic citrate‐based biodegradable compositesJ Biomed Mater Res Part A 2014: 102A2521– 2532.

19. Tugba Ozdemir, Li-Chong Xu, Christopher Siedlecki, Justin L. Brown, Substrate curvature sensing through Myosin IIa upregulates early osteogenesisIntegrative Biology, Volume 5, Issue 11, November 2013, Pages 1407–1416.

20. Higgins, Andrew M. (08/2013). “Nanotopography Sensing Through Intracellular Signaling and Mechanotransduction with an Emphasis on Bone“. Journal of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering (2157-9083), 3 (4), p. 396.

21. Ozdemir, Tugba; M. Higgins, Andrew; L. Brown, Justin (2013). “Osteoinductive biomaterial geometries for bone regenerative engineering.”. Current pharmaceutical design (1873-4286), 19 (19), p. 3446.

22. Jaiswal, D. and Brown, J.L. (2012), Nanofiber diameter‐dependent MAPK activity in osteoblasts. J. Biomed. Mater. Res., 100A: 2921-2928.

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23. Carruthers, R., Tho, L.M., Brown, J., Kakumanu, S., McCartney, E. and McDonald, A.C. (2012), Systemic inflammatory response is a predictor of outcome in patients undergoing preoperative chemoradiation for locally advanced rectal cancer. Colorectal Disease, 14: e701-e707.

24. Brown, J.L., Peach, M.S., Nair, L.S., Kumbar, S.G. and Laurencin, C.T. (2010), Composite scaffolds: Bridging nanofiber and microsphere architectures to improve bioactivity of mechanically competent constructs. J. Biomed. Mater. Res., 95A: 1150-1158.

25. Deng, M., Nair, L.S., Nukavarapu, S.P., Kumbar, S.G., Brown, J.L., Krogman, N.R., Weikel, A.L., Allcock, H.R. and Laurencin, C.T. (2010), Biomimetic, bioactive etheric polyphosphazene‐poly(lactide‐co‐glycolide) blends for bone tissue engineering. J. Biomed. Mater. Res., 92A: 114-125.

26. M. Sean Peach, Sangamesh G. Kumbar, Justin L. Brown and Cato T. Laurencin, “Recent Developments in Nanoparticle Based Targeted Delivery of Chemotherapeutics”, Current Bioactive Compounds (2009) 5: 170.

27. Brown, J.L., Nair, L.S. and Laurencin, C.T. (2008), Solvent/non‐solvent sintering: A novel route to create porous microsphere scaffolds for tissue regeneration. J. Biomed. Mater. Res., 86B: 396-406.

28. Syam P. Nukavarapu, Sangamesh G. Kumbar, Justin L. Brown, Nicholas R. Krogman, Arlin L. Weikel, Mark D. Hindenlang, Lakshmi S. Nair, Harry R. Allcock, and Cato T. Laurencin. Polyphosphazene/Nano-Hydroxyapatite Composite Microsphere Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering. Biomacromolecules. 9 (7), 1818-1825 (2008).

29. Brown JL, Nair LS, Bender J, Allcock HR and Laurencin CT.  Laurencin. The formation of an apatite coating on carboxylated polyphosphazenes via a biomimetic process, Mater. Lett. 2007; 61 (17): 3692-3695.