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Shamimunisa Mustafa, Ph.D.
Assistant professor of pediatrics

Phone: 210-567-5278
Fax: 210-567-5169
Email: mustafa@uthscsa.edu

Education:
Ph.D., biological chemistry, University College London, 1992
B.S., medicinal chemistry, University College London, 1988

Training:
Fellowship, biochemistry, UT Health Science Center, San Antonio, 1992-98

Recent Publications:
Reeves, AA, Mustafa SB, Henson, BM, Vasquez MM, Castro R. Trafficking and Function of the Epithelial Sodium Channel Is Inhibited By Epidermal Growth Factor In A Rat Parotid Gland Cell Line 2007 Jan. (Journal of Investigative Medicine).
McAdams RM, Mustafa SB, Shenberger JS, Dixon PS, Henson BM, Digeronimo RJ. Cyclic stretch attenuates the effects of hyperoxia on cell proliferation and viability in human alveolar epithelial cells. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2006 Feb;291:L166-L174.
Mustafa SB, DiGeronimo RJ, Petershack JA, Alcorn JL, Seidner SR. Postnatal glucocorticoids induce alpha-ENaC formation and regulate glucocorticoid receptors in the preterm rabbit lung. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2004 Jan;286(1):73-80.