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Pugazendhi (Pugal) Murugan Erusappan

Senior Engineer

Email: p.m.erusappan@medisin.uio.no

Education

– PhD, University of Bergen, Norway
– M.Phil in Oral sciences, University of Bergen, Norway
– Bachelor of Dental surgery, Dr. Tamilnadu MGR Medical University, India

Academic interests

– Cell biology
– Cell adhesion signaling
– Integrins
– Extracellular matrix
– Fibrosis

Research area

  • Advanced light microscopy
  • Cell signaling
  • Fibroblast signaling
  • Fibrosis

Latest publications

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Sasi A, Romaine A, Erusappan PM, Melleby AO, Hasic A, Dahl CP, Broch K, Almaas VM, Puertas RD, Roderick HL, Lunde IG, Sjaastad I, Vistnes M, Christensen G (2023)
Temporal expression and spatial distribution of the proteoglycan versican during cardiac fibrosis development
Matrix Biol Plus, 19-20, 100135
PubMed 38076279 DOI 10.1016/j.mbplus.2023.100135
Vistnes M, Erusappan PM, Sasi A, Nordén ES, Bergo KK, Romaine A, Lunde IG, Zhang L, Olsen MB, Øgaard J, Carlson CR, Wang CH, Riise J, Dahl CP, Fiane AE, Hauge-Iversen IM, Espe E, Melleby AO, Tønnessen T, Aronsen JM, Sjaastad I, Christensen G (2023)
Inhibition of the extracellular enzyme A disintegrin and metalloprotease with thrombospondin motif 4 prevents cardiac fibrosis and dysfunction
Cardiovasc Res, 119 (10), 1915-1927
PubMed 37216909 DOI 10.1093/cvr/cvad078
Andreassen K, Rixon C, Hansen MH, Hauge-Iversen IM, Zhang L, Sadredini M, Erusappan PM, Sjaastad I, Christensen G, Haugaa KH, Edvardsen T, Lunde IG, Stokke MK (2023)
Beneficial effects of exercise initiated before development of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in genotype-positive mice
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol, 324 (6), H881-H892
PubMed 37115627 DOI 10.1152/ajpheart.00701.2022
Rixon C, Andreassen K, Shen X, Erusappan PM, Almaas VM, Palmero S, Dahl CP, Ueland T, Sjaastad I, Louch WE, Stokke MK, Tønnessen T, Christensen G, Lunde IG (2022)
Lumican accumulates with fibrillar collagen in fibrosis in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
ESC Heart Fail, 10 (2), 858-871
PubMed 36444917 DOI 10.1002/ehf2.14234
Rypdal KB, Erusappan PM, Melleby AO, Seifert DE, Palmero S, Strand ME, Tønnessen T, Dahl CP, Almaas V, Hubmacher D, Apte SS, Christensen G, Lunde IG (2021)
The extracellular matrix glycoprotein ADAMTSL2 is increased in heart failure and inhibits TGFβ signalling in cardiac fibroblasts
Sci Rep, 11 (1), 19757
PubMed 34611183 DOI 10.1038/s41598-021-99032-2
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