GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES (ONCOLOGY)

LUIS A. SOLCHAGA, PhD Assistant Professor General Medical Sciences (Oncology) Director of the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Core Facility Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Phone: 216/368-6287 Fax: 216/368-4077 email: las29@case.edu

Research Interests

Hematopoietic Stem Cells

Recent Publications

Wang F, Dennis JE, Awadallah A, Solchaga LA, Molter J, Kuang Y, Salem N, Lin Y, Tian H, Kolthammer JA, Kim Y, Love ZB, Gerson SL, Lee Z. Transcriptional profiling of human mesenchymal stem cells transduced with reporter genes for imaging. Physiol Genomics. In press, 2009.

Ataergin S, Tasar M, Solchaga L, Ozet A, Arpaci F. Unusual severe complication following transarterial chemoembolization for metastatic malignant melanoma: giant intrahepatic cyst and fatal hepatic failure. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. In press, 2008.

Ataergin S, Arpaci F, Turan M, Solchaga L, Cetin T, Ozturk M, Ozet A, Komurcu S, Ozturk B. Reduced dose of lenograstim is as efficacious as standard dose of filgrastim for peripheral blood stem cell mobilization and transplantation: a randomized study in patients undergoing autologous peripheral stem cell transplantation. Am J Hematol 83:644-648, 2008.

van Heeckeren WJ, Fanning LR, Meyerson HJ, Fu P, Lazarus HM, Cooper BW, Tse WW, Kindwall-Keller TL, Jaroscak J, Finney MR, Fox RM, Solchaga L, Forster M, Creger RJ, Laughlin MJ. Influence of human leucocyte antigen disparity and graft lymphocytes on allogeneic engraftment and survival after umbilical cord blood transplant in adults. Br J Haematol 139:464-474, 2007.

Welter JF, Solchaga LA, Penick KJ. Simplification of aggregate culture of human mesenchymal stem cells as a chondrogenic screening assay. Biotechniques 42:732, 734-737, 2007.

Solchaga LA, Tognana E, Penick K, Baskaran H, Goldberg VM, Caplan AI, Welter JF. A rapid seeding technique for the assembly of large cell/scaffold composite constructs. Tissue Eng 12:1851-1863, 2006.

Wenger R, Hans MG, Welter JF, Solchaga LA, Sheu YR, Malemud CJ. Hydrostatic pressure increases apoptosis in cartilage-constructs produced from human osteoarthritic chondrocytes. Front Biosci 11:1690-1695, 2006.