Anna Petryk, M.D.

Current Position:
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Publications:

1. McCullough J, Przybysz A, Jankowski J.  Transforming growth factor alpha expression in  dysplastic mucosa and colonic  adenocarcinomas.  GUT 33: S36, 1992.

2. Petryk A, Crockett RK, Kessler R. Hydrops of the gallbladder  and acute acalculous cholecystitis in typhoid fever. International Pediatrics 11(1): 44-46, 1996.

3. Freemark M, Driscoll P, Maaskant R, Petryk A, Kelly PA. Ontogenesis of prolactin receptors in the human fetus in early gestation: Implications  for  tissue differentiation and development. J Clin Invest 99:  1107-1117, 1997.

4. Petryk A, Richton S, Kemp S. Aarskog syndrome. Genentech National Cooperative Growth Study Summary Report 23, March 1998.

5. Petryk A, Richton S, Sy JP, Blethen SL.  The effect of growth hormone treatment on stature in Aarskog syndrome. J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab 12: 161-165, 1999.

6. Fleenor D, Petryk A, Driscoll P, Freemark M. Constitutive expression of placental lactogen in pancreatic beta cells: effects on cell morphology, growth and gene expression.  Pediatr Res 47: 136-142, 2000

7. Petryk A, Fleenor D, Driscoll P, Freemark M. Prolactin induction of insulin gene expression: The roles of glucose and glucose transporter-2. J Endocrinol 164: 277-286, 2000

8. Ross J, Shimmi O, Vilmos P, Petryk A, Kim H, Gaudenz K, Hermanson S, Ekker S, O'Connor MB, Marsh L. Twisted gastrulation is a conserved extracellular BMP antagonist. Nature 410: 479-483, 2001

9. Warren JT, Petryk A, Marques G, Jarcho MP, Gilbert LI, O'Connor MB (2001) Characterization of disembodied and shadow: Ecdysteroidogenic cytochrome P450 monooxygenase enzymes in Drosophila. Manuscript in preparation.

10. Petryk A, Warren JT, Marques G, Jarcho MP, Gilbert LI, O'Connor MB (2001) The Halloween group genes phantom, spook, and shade regulate ecdysone biosynthesis in Drosophila. Manuscript in preparation.

Abstracts

1. Petryk A, Richton S, Sy JP, Blethen SL.  Long term effect of growth hormone (GH) treatment on the short stature of Aarskog Syndrome: The National Cooperative Growth Study (NCGS) experience.  Abstract presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of The Endocrine Society, 1997.

2. Petryk A, Hsia S, Canada A, Freemark M. Lactogenic hormones and differentiation of the fetal lung.  Abstract and oral presentation at the 79th Annual Meeting of The Endocrine  Society, 1997.

3. Littman E, Opara EC, Petryk A, Freemark M.  Acute effects of prolactin on pancreatic insulin secretion:  Possible role for oxygen free radicals or membrane thiols.  Abstract presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of The Endocrine Society, 1997.

4. Petryk A, Driscoll P, Freemark M. Prolactin induction of gene expression in pancreatic insulinoma cells: Time course of effects on mRNAs encoding Glut-2, glucokinase, preproinsulin, and IGF-II. Abstract presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society, 1998.

5. Petryk A, Fleenor D, Driscoll P, Freemark M. Prolactin induction of insulin gene expression: the roles of glucose transport and glucose metabolism. Abstract presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society, 1999.

6. Fleenor D, Petryk A, Driscoll P, Freemark M. Effects of lactogenic hormones on islet maturation. Abstract presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society, 1999.

7. Petryk A, Hirsch B, Shimmi O, Jarcho M, O'Connor M. Twisted gastrulation is an evolutionarily conserved early developmental gene. Abstract presented at the National Child Health Research Center Meeting, Bethesda, 2000.

8. Petryk A, Warren JT, Marques G, Jarcho MP, Gilbert LI, O'Connor MB. The Halloween group genes disembodied, spook and phantom regulate ecdysone biosynthesis. Abstract presented at the 42nd Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Washington, D.C., 2001.

9. Petryk A, Shawlot W, Jarcho M, Leaf I, O'Connor M. Generation of mutant mice with a conditional twisted gastrulation gene allele. Oral presentation at the National Child Health Research Center Meeting, Harriman, NY, 2001.

10. Warren JT, Petryk A, Marqués G, Jarcho MP, O'Connor MB, Gilbert LI. Molecular and biochemical characterization of two P450 enzymes in the ecdysteroidogenic pathway of Drosophila melanogaster. Abstract to be presented at the XV International Ecdysone Workshop, Crete, Greece, 2002.

11. Petryk A, Warren JT, Marqués G, Jarcho MP, Gilbert LI, O'Connor MB. The Halloween group genes spook, phantom, and shade regulate ecdysone biosynthesis. Abstract to be presented at the XV International Ecdysone Workshop, Crete, Greece, 2002.