
Associate Professor
Surgery
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Amar Nijagal, MD investigates how the immune system affects the development of fetal tissues. His research focuses on liver and bile duct development and how immune cells and their hematopoietic progenitors contribute to the pathogenesis of pediatric liver disease.
Publications
Immunology of Biliary Atresia.
Seminars in pediatric surgery
Perinatal liver inflammation is associated with persistent elevation of CXCL10 and its canonical receptor CXCR3 on common myeloid progenitors.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
Index admission cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis reduces 30-day readmission rates in pediatric patients.
Surgical endoscopy
Neonatal Hepatic Myeloid Progenitors Expand and Propagate Liver Injury in Mice.
Journal of clinical medicine
Advances in the Treatment of Neonatal Biliary Disease.
Clinics in perinatology
Hepatic Ly6CLo Non-Classical Monocytes Have Increased Nr4a1 (Nur77) in Murine Biliary Atresia.
Journal of clinical medicine
Single-cell analysis of hepatoblastoma identifies tumor signatures that predict chemotherapy susceptibility using patient-specific tumor spheroids.
Nature communications
The need for early Kasai portoenterostomy: a Western Pediatric Surgery Research Consortium study.
Pediatric surgery international
Neutrophils are important for the development of pro-reparative macrophages after irreversible electroporation of the liver in mice.
Scientific reports
The Role of Myeloid Populations during Perinatal Liver Injury and Repair.
Journal of cellular immunology
The natural history of fetal gallstones: a case series and updated literature review.
The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians
The relative abundance of monocyte subsets determines susceptibility to perinatal hepatic inflammation.
Journal of clinical & cellular immunology
Ly6cLo non-classical monocytes promote resolution of rhesus rotavirus-mediated perinatal hepatic inflammation.
Scientific reports
Natural history of acute pediatric iliofemoral artery thrombosis treated with anticoagulation.
Journal of vascular surgery
De novo somatic mutations and KRAS amplification are associated with cholangiocarcinoma in a patient with a history of choledochal cyst.
Journal of pediatric surgery
Congenital superior mesenteric artery aneurysm in a 6-week-old infant presenting with upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
Journal of vascular surgery
Treating Biliary Atresia: The Challenge Continues.
Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition
Editorial: Treating Biliary Atresia: The Challenge Continues.
Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition
Late-onset hypertrophic pyloric stenosis with gastric outlet obstruction: case report and review of the literature.
Pediatric surgery international
Fetal intervention increases maternal T cell awareness of the foreign conceptus and can lead to immune-mediated fetal demise.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)
Clinical implications of maternal-fetal cellular trafficking.
Seminars in pediatric surgery
The diagnosis and management of intradiaphragmatic extralobar pulmonary sequestrations: a report of 4 cases.
Journal of pediatric surgery
Alterations in maternal-fetal cellular trafficking after fetal surgery.
Journal of pediatric surgery
Long-term outcomes after fetal therapy for congenital high airway obstructive syndrome.
Journal of pediatric surgery
In utero hematopoietic cell transplantation for the treatment of congenital anomalies.
Clinics in perinatology
Maternal microchimerism in patients with biliary atresia: Implications for allograft tolerance.
Chimerism
Decreased risk of graft failure with maternal liver transplantation in patients with biliary atresia.
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Dynamic tracheal occlusion improves lung morphometrics and function in the fetal lamb model of congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
Journal of pediatric surgery
The maternal immune response inhibits the success of in utero hematopoietic cell transplantation.
Chimerism
A mouse model of in utero transplantation.
Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE
Maternal T cells limit engraftment after in utero hematopoietic cell transplantation in mice.
The Journal of clinical investigation
Intrauterine umbilical cord hemorrhage with associated jejunal atresia captured by real-time ultrasound.
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology
Colonic atresia and choledochal cyst: a rare combination.
Pediatric surgery international
Molecular markers for gastric adenocarcinoma: an update.
Molecular diagnosis & therapy
Normal immune development and glucocorticoid-induced thymocyte apoptosis in mice deficient for the T-cell death-associated gene 8 receptor.
Molecular and cellular biology
Visualization of a primary anti-tumor immune response by positron emission tomography.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Differential proton sensitivity of related G protein-coupled receptors T cell death-associated gene 8 and G2A expressed in immune cells.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Spontaneous resolution of prenatal megalourethra.
Journal of pediatric surgery
Gastroschisis: small hole, big cost.
Journal of pediatric surgery
Endoscopic techniques in fetal surgery.
Yonsei medical journal