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