Contact us:

Viapiano Lab

Center for Molecular Neurobiology
The Ohio State University
226B Rightmire Hall
1060 Carmack Rd
Columbus, Ohio (43210)

Office:  (614) 292-4362
Lab:     (614) 292-4956
Fax:     (614) 292-5379

E-mail: mariano.viapiano@osumc.edu

Publications

Journal articles:

(For a complete list of publications from Dr. Viapiano, see here)

• Sim H., Hu B., Viapiano M. S. Reduced expression of the hyaluronan- and proteoglycan-link proteins in malignant gliomas (submitted)
  
  
• Hu B., Thirtamara-Rajamani KK, Sim H, Viapiano MS. Fibulin-3 is uniquely upregulated in malignant gliomas and promotes tumor cell motility and invasion (submitted).
  
  
• Johnson J, Nowicki MO, Lee CH, Chiocca EA, Viapiano MS, Lawler SE, Lannutti JJ. Quantitative analysis of glioma cell migration on electrospun polycaprolactone using time-lapse microscopy. Tissue Eng. (Epub ahead of print).
  
  
• Hu B, Kong LL, Matthews RT, Viapiano MS. The proteoglycan brevican binds to fibronectin after proteolytic cleavage and promotes glioma cell motility. J Biol Chem. 2008 Sep 5;283(36):24848-24859.
  
  
• Viapiano MS, Hockfield S, Matthews RT. BEHAB/brevican requires ADAMTS-mediated proteolytic cleavage to promote glioma invasion. J Neurooncol. 2008 Jul;88(3):261-272.
  
  
• Massey JM, Amps J, Viapiano MS, Matthews RT, Wagoner MR, Whitaker CM, Alilain W, Yonkof AL, Khalyfa A, Cooper NG, Silver J, Onifer SM. Increased chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan expression in denervated brainstem targets following spinal cord injury creates a barrier to axonal regeneration overcome by chondroitinase ABC and neurotrophin-3. Exp Neurol. 2008 Feb;209(2):426-445.
  
  
• Viapiano MS, Matthews RT. From barriers to bridges: chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans in neuropathology.Trends Mol Med. 2006 Oct;12(10):488-496.
  
  
• Viapiano MS, Bi WL, Piepmeier J, Hockfield S, Matthews RT. Novel tumor-specific isoforms of BEHAB/brevican identified in human malignant gliomas.Cancer Res. 2005 Aug 1;65(15):6726-6733.
  
  
• Teixeira SA, Viapiano MS, Ganiko L, Roque-Barreira MC, Martins AR. The novel lectin KM+ detects a specific subset of mannosyl-glycoconjugates in the rat cerebellum. Glycoconj J. 2004;20(7-8):501-508.
  
  
• Viapiano MS, Matthews RT, Hockfield S. A novel membrane-associated glycovariant of BEHAB/brevican is up-regulated during rat brain development and in a rat model of invasive glioma. J Biol Chem. 2003 Aug 29;278(35):33239-33247.
  
  

Book Chapters:

• Viapiano, MS and Lawler, SE. Glioma invasion: Mechanisms and challenges. In CNS cancer: models, prognostic factors and targets (E. Van Meir, ed.), Humana Press, NJ (in press)