School of Medicine

Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Thomas Flanagan, PhD

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Education

 

 

Postdoctoral Researcher

 

MEB 5258 

 

504 568 5227

 

B.S., Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

M.S. Biomedical Sciences, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 

 

 

PhD Biochemistry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS

 

 Associations

Phi Kappa Phi

The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)

International Society for Serotonin Research

International Society for Research on Psychedelics

 

Publications  

 

Peer Reviewed Research Articles

Flanagan TW, Sebastian MN, Battaglia DM, Foster TP, Cormier SA, Nichols CD (2019). 5-HT2 receptor activation alleviates airway inflammation and structural remodeling in a chronic mouse asthma model. Life Sci. [Epub ahead of print].

Flanagan TW, Sebastian MN, Battaglia DM, Foster TP, Maillet EL, Nichols CD (2019). Activation of 5-HT2 receptors reduces inflammation in vascular tissues and cholesterol levels in high-fat diet-fed apolipoprotein E knockout mice. Sci. Rep. 9: 13444.

Selimovic D, Wahl RU, Ruiz E, Aslam R, Flanagan TW, Hassan SY, Santourlidis S, Haikel Y, Friedlander P, Megahed M, Kandil E, Hassan M (2019). Tumor necrosis factor-a triggers opposing signals in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and induces apoptosis via mitochondrial- and non-mitochondrial-dependent pathways. Int. J. Oncol. [Epub ahead of print].

Flanagan TW, Files JK, Casano KR, George EM, Brown DT (2016). Systematic analysis of the chromatin-binding properties of mouse somatic histone H1 variants. Biol. Open.5: 372-380.

Flanagan TW, Brown DT. Linker histones are rapidly evicted from damaged chromatin regions in a PARP-dependent manner (2015). J. Biol. Chem. (In preparation).

Peer Reviewed Review Articles

Flanagan, TW, Nichols CD. Psychedelics as anti-inflammatory agents (2018). Int. Rev. Psychiatry. 13: 1-13.

 Flanagan TW, Brown DT.  Molecular dynamics of histone H1 (2015). Biochem. Biophys. Acta. 1859: