Rajesh Sekar, MD, PhD, MSc
HS Clinical Instructor
Surgery
School of Medicine

Publications (11)

Top publication keywords:
LentivirusLoeys-Dietz SyndromeFluorescence Resonance Energy TransferArrhythmias, CardiacConnexin 43Fluorescent DyesMembrane PotentialsMyocytes, CardiacAction PotentialsMicroscopy, FluorescenceTachycardia, VentricularPotassium Channels, Inwardly RectifyingVentricular FibrillationEukaryotic CellsGreen Fluorescent Proteins

• Long-term risk of arch complications in Loeys Dietz syndrome patients undergoing proximal ascending aortic replacement.
  Journal of cardiac surgery 2022 Weininger G, Zafar M, Ziganshin BA, Mori M, Papanikolaou D, Sekar RB, Amabile A, Degife E, O'Marr J, Geirsson A, Elefteriades JA, Assi R, Vallabhajosyula P
• Intracardiac polymethylmethacrylate cement embolism.
  JTCVS techniques 2021 Weininger G, Sekar RB, Elefteriades JA
• Heart transplant outcomes in recipients of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) high risk donors.
  Journal of cardiac surgery 2016 Tsiouris A, Wilson L, Sekar RB, Mangi AA, Yun JJ
• Precisely parameterized experimental and computational models of tissue organization.
  Integrative biology : quantitative biosciences from nano to macro 2016 Molitoris JM, Paliwal S, Sekar RB, Blake R, Park J, Trayanova NA, Tung L, Levchenko A
• An enhancer polymorphism at the cardiomyocyte intercalated disc protein NOS1AP locus is a major regulator of the QT interval.
  American journal of human genetics 2014 Kapoor A, Sekar RB, Hansen NF, Fox-Talbot K, Morley M, Pihur V, Chatterjee S, Brandimarto J, Moravec CS, Pulit SL, QT Interval-International GWAS Consortium, Pfeufer A, Mullikin J, Ross M, Green ED, …

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• IK1 heterogeneity affects genesis and stability of spiral waves in cardiac myocyte monolayers.
  Circulation research 2009 Sekar RB, Kizana E, Cho HC, Molitoris JM, Hesketh GG, Eaton BP, Marbán E, Tung L
• Cell cultures as models of cardiac mechanoelectric feedback.
  Progress in biophysics and molecular biology 2008 Zhang Y, Sekar RB, McCulloch AD, Tung L
• Lentiviral vector-mediated expression of GFP or Kir2.1 alters the electrophysiology of neonatal rat ventricular myocytes without inducing cytotoxicity.
  American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 2007 Sekar RB, Kizana E, Smith RR, Barth AS, Zhang Y, Marbán E, Tung L
• Gene transfer of connexin43 mutants attenuates coupling in cardiomyocytes: novel basis for modulation of cardiac conduction by gene therapy.
  Circulation research 2007 Kizana E, Chang CY, Cingolani E, Ramirez-Correa GA, Sekar RB, Abraham MR, Ginn SL, Tung L, Alexander IE, Marbán E
• Proarrhythmic potential of mesenchymal stem cell transplantation revealed in an in vitro coculture model.
  Circulation 2006 Chang MG, Tung L, Sekar RB, Chang CY, Cysyk J, Dong P, Marbán E, Abraham MR
• Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) microscopy imaging of live cell protein localizations.
  The Journal of cell biology 2003 Sekar RB, Periasamy A