Dr. Pandurangan Ramaraj
Kirksville College of Osteopathic
Medicine
A. T. Still University, USA
Associate Professor
Email: pramaraj@atsu.edu, p_ramaraj@hotmail.com
Qualifications
1993 Ph.D., Biochemistry, Indian Institute
of Science, India
1985 M.Sc., Medical Biochemistry,
University of Madras, India
1982 B.Sc., Chemistry, University of
Madras, India
Publications
(Selected)
1. Douglas
C.Leder, Jason R. Brown, Pandurangan Ramaraj. In-Vitro Rescue and Recovery
Studies of Human Melanoma (BLM) Cell Growth, Adhesion and Migration Functions After
Treatment with Progesterone. Int J Clin Exp Med 2015;8 (8):12275-12285. PMID:26550137 [PubMed] PMCID:PMC4612822
2. Cox
JL., Chang Yz. and Ramaraj P. In-Vitro Determination of Biological and Anabolic
Functions of Weak Androgen Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) Using a Variety of
Cell Lines. Open Journal of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, 2015, 5(8)
105-116. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojemd.2015.58014
3. Pandurangan
Ramaraj, Jorge N. Artaza, Indrani Sinha-Hikim and Wayne E. Taylor. Effect of
Androstenedione on Adipogenesis in Murine C3H10T1/2 Mesenchymal Cells. Open
Journal of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, 2015;5(2): 9-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojemd.2015.52002
4. Ramaraj,
P. and Cox, JL. In-vitro Effect of Progesterone on Human Melanoma (BLM) Cell
Growth – Int J Clin Exp Med 2014;7(11):3941-3953 PMID:25550902:
PMCID: PMC4276160
5. Ramaraj,
P. and Cox, JL. In-Vitro effect of sex steroids on mouse melanoma (B16F10) cell
growth. CellBio, 2014;3:60-71, http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/cellbio.2014.32007
6. Ravi
Jasuja, Pandurangan Ramaraj, Ricky Phong Mac, Atam B. Singh, Thomas W. Storer,
Jorge Artaza, Aria Miller, Rajan singh, Wayne E. Taylor, Martin Lee, Tina
Davidson, Indrani Sinha-Hikim, Nestor Gonzalez-Cadavid, Shalender Bhasin (2005)-4-Androstene-3,
17-Dione Binds Androgen Receptor, Promotes Myogenesis in vitro, and Increases
serum Testosterone levels, Fat-Free Mass and Muscle Strength in Hypogonadal Men
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 90 (2): 855-863. PubMed ID:
15522925
7. Pandurangan
Ramaraj, Harjeet Singh, Ning Niu, Su Chu, Melissa Holtz, Jiing Kuan Yee and
Ravi Bhatia (2004). Effect of mutational inactivation of tyrosine kinase
activity on cell growth and adhesion abnormalities resulting from BCR/ABL
expression in human hematopoietic progenitor cells Cancer Research, 64(15):
5322-5331. PubMed ID:
15289338
8. Ramaraj,
P. and Jagannadha Rao, A. (1999) Studies on LH modulated 8 KDa peptide involved
regulation of testosterone Production in rat Leydig cells. Asian J Androl. 1(4)
191-194. PubMed ID:
11225893
9. Ramaraj,
P. and Jagannadha Rao, A. (1999) Regulation of an 8 Kda peptide involved in
testosterone production by Luteinizing Hormone in rat Leydig cells. Biochem Mol
Biol Intl. 47 (5) 857-63. PubMed ID:
10365257
10. Ramaraj,
P., Kessler, S.P., Colmenares, C. and Sen, G.C. (1998) Selective restoration of
male fertility in mice lacking angiotensin converting enzymes by sperm-specific
expression of the testicular isozyme J. Clin. Invest. 102 (2)371. PubMed
ID: 9664078
11. Ghosh,
A., Desai, S.Y., Sarkar, S., Ramaraj, P.,Ghosh, S.K., Bandyopadhyay, S.
and Sen, G.C. (1997) Effects of mutating
specific residues present near the amino-terminus of 2’-5’ oligoadenylate Synthetase.J. Biol.
Chem. 272(24) 15452-15458. PubMed ID:
9182577
12. Ramaraj,
P., Subbarayan, V.S.R. and Jagannadha Rao, A. (1991) A possible role for a low
molecular weight peptide in the regulation of testosterone production by rat
Leydig cell. Indian J. Biochem. Biophysics 28 536-540. PubMed ID:
1812092