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Marcelo Kuroda

Marcelo Kuroda

Professor and Professor in Residence

Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology


Active Research Grants
Principal Investigator, Effects of Opioids on SIV Reservoirs in Brain Macrophages of Rhesus Macaques, (Principal Investigator), NIH/NIDA
Other, Targeting Brain Macrophage Reservoirs of SIV during HAART, Kim W-K (Principal Investigator), NIH/ NIMH
Co-Principal Investigator, Targeting Macrophages in Aging SIV-Infected Rhesus Macaques, Didier E (Principal Investigator), NIH/NIA
Principal Investigator, Targeting of SIV Macrophage Reservoirs in the CNS by CSF1R Inhibition, (Principal Investigator), NIH/NIMH
Principal Investigator, Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases-Seed Grant, (Principal Investigator), UC Davis-Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Co-Investigator, Nonhuman Primate Core Cellular Immunology Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine Research and Development, Kaur A (Principal Investigator), NIH/NIAID
Principal Investigator, AAV-mediated delivery of eCD4-Ig for prevention and treatment of perinatal HIV infection, (Principal Investigator), University of Florida, NIH National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Most Recent Five Book Chapters
1998 Letvin NL, Yasutomi Y, Shen L, Reimann KA, Chen ZW, Schmitz JE, Kuroda MJ
: The CD8+ T lymphocyte response during primary SIVmac infection, Gupta S, Sher A, Ahmed R, (ed), Mechanisms of lymphocyte activation and immune, New York. .
Research Focus
Immunology, AIDS, Aging
Specialty Focus
Innate immunity, macrophages, chronic inflammation
Ten Recent Publications

2022
Beddingfield BJ, Sugimoto C, Wang E, Weaver SC, Russell-Lodrigue KE, Killeen SZ, Kuroda MJ, Roy CJ
Phenotypic and Kinetic Changes of Myeloid Lineage Cells in Innate Response to Chikungunya Infection in Cynomolgus Macaques.

2021
He Z, Fahlberg MD, Takahashi N, Slisarenko N, Rout N, Didier ES, Kuroda MJ
Declining neutrophil production despite increasing G-CSF levels is associated with chronic inflammation in elderly rhesus macaques.

2021
Takahashi N, Ardeshir A, Holder GE, Cai Y, Sugimoto C, Mori K, Araínga M, He Z, Fukuyo Y, Kim WK, Didier ES, Kuroda MJ
Comparison of predictors for terminal disease progression in simian immunodeficiency virus/simian-HIV-infected rhesus macaques.

2020
Olstad KJ, Imai DM, Keesler RI, Reader R, Morrison JH, Roberts JA, Capitanio JP, Didier ES, Kuroda MJ, Simmons H, Salimi S, Mattison JA, Ikeno Y, Ladiges W
Development of a Geropathology Grading Platform for nonhuman primates.

2020
Walker EM, Slisarenko N, Gerrets GL, Kissinger PJ, Didier ES, Kuroda MJ, Veazey RS, Jazwinski SM, Rout N
Correction to: Inflammaging phenotype in rhesus macaques is associated with a decline in epithelial barrier-protective functions and increased pro-inflammatory function in CD161-expressing cells.

2020
Merino KM, Slisarenko N, Taylor JM, Falkenstein KP, Gilbert MH, Bohm RP, Blanchard JL, Ardeshir A, Didier ES, Kim WK, Kuroda MJ
Clinical and Immunological Metrics During Pediatric Rhesus Macaque Development.

2020
Bohannon DG, Okhravi HR, Kim J, Kuroda MJ, Didier ES, Kim WK
A subtype of cerebrovascular pericytes is associated with blood-brain barrier disruption that develops during normal aging and simian immunodeficiency virus infection.

2020
Dupont M, Souriant S, Balboa L, Vu Manh TP, Pingris K, Rousset S, Cougoule C, Rombouts Y, Poincloux R, Ben Neji M, Allers C, Kaushal D, Kuroda MJ, Benet S, Martinez-Picado J, Izquierdo-Useros N, Sasiain MDC, Maridonneau-Parini I, Neyrolles O, Vérollet C, Lugo-Villarino G
Tuberculosis-associated IFN-I induces Siglec-1 on tunneling nanotubes and favors HIV-1 spread in macrophages

2020
Bohannon DG, Wang Y, Reinhart CH, Hattler JB, Luo J, Okhravi HR, Zhang J, Li Q, Kuroda MJ, Kim J, Kim WK
Perivascular macrophages in the neonatal macaque brain undergo massive necroptosis after simian immunodeficiency virus infection

2019
Walker EM, Slisarenko N, Gerrets GL, Kissinger PJ, Didier ES, Kuroda MJ, Veazey RS, Jazwinski SM, Rout N
Inflammaging phenotype in rhesus macaques is associated with a decline in epithelial barrier-protective functions and increased pro-inflammatory function in CD161-expressing cells