Margherita Teresa-Anna Cantorna, PhD - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile
Margherita Teresa-Anna Cantorna, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Scientific Program:Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis
Recent Publications
2024
Arora, J, Froelich, NE, Tang, M, Weaver, V, Paulson, RF & Cantorna, MT 2024, 'Developmental Vitamin D Deficiency and the Vitamin D Receptor Control Hematopoiesis', Journal of Immunology, vol. 213, no. 10, pp. 1479-1487. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.2400292
2023
Meyer, MB, Bernal-Mizrachi, C, Bikle, DD, Biyani, M, Campbell, MJ, Chaudhari, SN, Christakos, S, Ingles, SA, Knuth, MM, Lee, SM, Lisse, TS, Liu, ES, Piec, I, Plum, LA, Rao, SD, Reynolds, CJ, Thacher, TD, White, JH & Cantorna, MT 2023, 'Highlights from the 24th workshop on vitamin D in Austin, September 2022', Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, vol. 228, 106247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsbmb.2023.106247
Cantorna, MT & Arora, J 2023, 'Two lineages of immune cells that differentially express the vitamin D receptor', Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, vol. 228, 106253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsbmb.2023.106253
Cantorna, MT & Arora, J 2023, Vitamin D, microbiota, and inflammatory bowel disease. in Feldman and Pike's Vitamin D: Volume Two: Disease and Therapeutics. Elsevier, pp. 1057-1073. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-91338-6.00047-1
2022
Davila, ML, Xu, M, Huang, C, Gaddes, ER, Winter, L, Cantorna, MT, Wang, Y & Xiong, N 2022, 'CCL27 is a crucial regulator of immune homeostasis of the skin and mucosal tissues', iScience, vol. 25, no. 6, 104426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104426
Arora, J, Wang, J, Weaver, V, Zhang, Y & Cantorna, MT 2022, 'Novel insight into the role of the vitamin D receptor in the development and function of the immune system', Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, vol. 219, 106084. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsbmb.2022.106084
Chai, Z, Lyu, Y, Chen, Q, Wei, CH, Snyder, LM, Weaver, V, Sebastian, A, Albert, I, Li, Q, Cantorna, MT & Ross, C 2022, 'Transcriptional Profiling of the Small Intestine and the Colon Reveals Modulation of Gut Infection with Citrobacter rodentium According to the Vitamin A Status', Nutrients, vol. 14, no. 8, 1563. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14081563
Arora, J, Patel, DR, Nicol, MJ, Field, CJ, Restori, KH, Wang, J, Froelich, NE, Katkere, B, Terwilliger, JA, Weaver, V, Luley, E, Kelly, K, Kirimanjeswara, GS, Sutton, TC & Cantorna, MT 2022, 'Vitamin D and the Ability to Produce 1,25(OH)2D Are Critical for Protection from Viral Infection of the Lungs', Nutrients, vol. 14, no. 15, 3061. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14153061
Martineau, AR & Cantorna, MT 2022, 'Vitamin D for COVID-19: where are we now?', Nature Reviews Immunology, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 529-530. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41577-022-00765-6
2021
Chai, Z, Lyu, Y, Chen, Q, Wei, CH, Snyder, LM, Weaver, V, Sebastian, A, Albert, I, Li, Q, Cantorna, MT & Ross, AC 2021, 'RNAseq studies reveal distinct transcriptional response to vitamin A deficiency in small intestine versus colon, uncovering novel vitamin A-regulated genes', Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, vol. 98, 108814. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnutbio.2021.108814