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Research Faculty Member Profile
    • Chris G. Engeland, PhD
    • Research Assistant Professor

    • Research Interests:
      • Effects of stress, age and gender on oral wound healing in humans
      • Influence of sex hormones on oral wound healing in pre- and post-menopausal women
      • Differences between dermal and mucosal tissue healing and its regulation by corticosteroids
      • Gene microarray analysis: Differences between mucosal and dermal tissue healing
      • Effects of chronic stress and morphine on dermal wound healing in mice
      • Determination of biomarkers as predictors for breast cancer, mucositis and preterm birth
      • Relationships between stress, inflammation and the prognosis of breast cancer or mucositis
    • Recent Publications:
      • Engeland CG, Jang P, Alves M, Marucha PT, Califano J. (In Press) HIV infection and tooth loss. Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral pathology, Oral Radiology and Endodontology, 105(3), 321-326.
      • Bosch JA, Engeland CG, Cacioppo JT, Marucha PT. 2007. Depressive symptoms predict mucosal wound healing. Psychosomatic Med 69(7):597-605.
      • Eijkelkamp N, Engeland CG, Gajendrareddy PK, Marucha PT. 2007. Restraint stress impairs early wound healing in mice via alpha-adrenergic but not beta-adrenergic receptors. Brain Behav Immun 21(4):409-12.
      • Engeland CG, Bosch JA, Cacioppo JT, Marucha PT. 2006. Mucosal wound healing: the roles of age and sex. Arch Surg 141(12):1193-7.
      • Hawkley LC, Bosch JA, Engeland CG, Marucha PT and Cacioppo JT. 2007 Loneliness, dysphoria, stress, and immunity: A role for cytokines. In: Plotnikoff NP, Faith RE, Murgo AJ and Good RA (Eds.), Cytokines: Stress and Immunity, 2nd Edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press: 67-85.