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Research Articles

  • Martinez de la Torre C, Freshwater KA, Looney-Sanders MA, Wang Q, Bennewitz MF*. Caveat Emptor: Commercialized Manganese Oxide Nanoparticles Exhibit Unintended Properties. ACS Omega, 2023. 8(21): 18799-18810. *Senior author. PMID: 37273625.

  • Snoderly HT, Alkhadrawi H, Panchal DM, Weaver KL, Vito JN, Freshwater KA, Santiago SP, Olfert IM, Nurkiewicz TR, Bennewitz MF*. Short-term exposure of female BALB/cJ mice to e-cigarette aerosol promotes neutrophil recruitment and enhances neutrophil-platelet aggregation in pulmonary microvasculature. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A, 2023. 86(8):246-262. *Senior author. PMID: 36859793. 

  • Snoderly HT, Freshwater KA, Martinez de la Torre C, Panchal DM, Vito JN, Bennewitz MF*. PEGylation of metal oxide nanoparticles modulates neutrophil extracellular trap formation. Biosensors, 2022. 12(2): 123. *Senior author. Link to article.

  • Snoderly HT, Nurkiewicz TR, Bowdridge EC, Bennewitz MF*. E-cigarette use: device market, study design, and emerging evidence of biological consequences. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021. 22(22): 12452. *Senior author. PMID: 34830344.

  • Brzoska T, Kaminski TW, Bennewitz MF, Sundd P. Live Imaging of the Lung. Current Protocols in Cytometry, 2020. 95(1): e80. PMID: 33226733.

  • Martinez de la Torre C, Grossman JH, Bobko AA, Bennewitz MF*. Tuning the size and composition of manganese oxide nanoparticles through varying temperature ramp and aging time. PLOS ONE, 2020. 15(9): e0239034. *Senior author. Link to article.

  • Martinez de la Torre C, Bennewitz MF*. Manganese oxide nanoparticle synthesis by thermal decomposition of manganese(II) acetylacetonate. J. Vis. Exp., 2020.  160:e61572. *Senior author. Link to article.

  • Bennewitz MF†, Tutuncuoglu E†, Gudapati S, Brzoska T, Pradhan-Sundd T, Sundd P. P-selectin deficient mice to study pathophysiology of Sickle Cell Disease. Blood Advances, 2020. 4(2): 266–273. † Co-first authors. PMID: 31968076.

  • Vats R†, Brzoska T†, Bennewitz MF†, Jimenez MA†, Pradhan-Sundd T, Tutuncuoglu E, Jonassaint J, Gutierrez E, Watkins SC, Shiva S, Scott M, Morelli AE, Neal MD, Kato GJ, Gladwin MT, Sundd P. Platelet extracellular vesicles drive inflammasome-IL1β-dependent lung injury in Sickle Cell Disease. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., 2020. 201(1):33-46. †Co-first authors. PMID: 31498653.

  • Snoderly HT, Boone BA, Bennewitz MF*. Neutrophil extracellular traps in breast cancer and beyond: Current perspectives on NET stimuli, thrombosis and metastasis, and clinical utility for diagnosis and treatment. Breast Cancer Research, 2019. 21:145. Published December 18, 2019. *Senior author. PMID: 31852512.

  • Bennewitz MF†, Jimenez MA†, Vats R, Tutuncuoglu E, Jonassaint J, Kato GJ, Gladwin MT, Sundd P. Lung vaso-occlusion in sickle cell disease mediated by arteriolar neutrophil-platelet microemboli. JCI Insight, 2017. 2(1): e89761. †Co-first authors. PMID: 28097236. PMCID: PMC5214368.
  • Afridi MJ, Ross A, Liu X, Bennewitz MF, Shuboni DD, Shapiro EM. Intelligent and automatic in vivo detection and quantification of transplanted cells in MRI. Magn Reson Med., 2016. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 28019017. PMCID: PMC5817897.
  • Bennewitz MF, Watkins SC, Sundd P. Quantitative intravital two-photon excitation microscopy reveals absence of pulmonary vaso-occlusion in unchallenged sickle cell disease mice. IntraVital, 2014. 3(2): e29748. PMID: 25995970. PMCID: PMC4435611.
  • Granot D, Nkansah MK, Bennewitz MF, Tang KS, Markakis EA, Shapiro EM. Clinically viable magnetic poly(lactide-co-glycolide) particles for MRI-based cell tracking. Magn Reson Med., 2014. 71(3):1238-1250. PMID: 23568825. PMCID: PMC4336220.
  • Bennewitz MF, Williams SS, Nkansah MK, Shapiro EM. Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) encapsulated gadolinium oxide nanoparticles for MRI-based cell tracking. J Nanosci Nanotechnol., 2013. 13(6):3778-3783. PMID: 23862407.
  • Bennewitz MF, Tang KS, Markakis EA, Shapiro EM. Specific chemotaxis of magnetically labeled mesenchymal stem cells: Implications for MRI of glioma. Mol Imaging Biol., 2012. 14(6):676-687. PMID: 22418788. PMCID: PMC3388177.
  • Bennewitz MF, Lobo TL, Nkansah MK, Ulas G, Brudvig GW, Shapiro EM. Biocompatible and pH-sensitive PLGA encapsulated MnO nanocrystals for molecular and cellular MRI. ACS Nano., 2011. 5(5): 3438-3446. PMID: 21495676. PMCID: PMC3102302.
  • Bennewitz MF, Saltzman WM. Nanotechnology for delivery of drugs to the brain for epilepsy. Neurotherapeutics, 2009. 6(2):323-336. PMID: 19332327. PMCID: PMC2673491.

Book Chapters

  • Sundd P, Bennewitz MF. Leukocyte kinetics and migration in the lungs. In Lee JS, Donahoe MP (Ed.), Hematologic Abnormalities and Acute Lung Syndromes. Springer Respiratory Medicine. Pg 19-45, 2016.

Conference Proceedings

  • Bennewitz MF, Hartogs R, Besterfield-Sacre ME. Mimicking bone bioscaffolds with K’NEXTM: developing student creativity and problem solving skills. ASEE Conference Proceedings, 2016.