Mayumi Prins, PhD
Professor, Director BIRC Education Program
Hospital Affiliation
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Department of Neurosurgery
PO Box 956901
Los Angeles, CA 90095-6901
Contact: (310) 825-0646
mprins@mednet.ucla.edu
EDUCATION
- Postdoctoral Degree, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Medical College of Virginia Richmond, VA 1998-2001
- Postdoctoral Degree, Neurosurgery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 1997-1998
- Ph.D., Neurobiology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 1992-1997
- B.S., Biology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 1991
RESEARCH AREA
Dr. Prins’s research interests include understanding the changes in brain metabolism that occur after pediatric traumatic brain injury and how alternative fuels can be used as therapeutic options for the young brain after head injury. In addition to this main focus, she is interested in repeat mild head injuries as they apply to both children and young adult athletes.
LINKS
http://neurosurgery.ucla.edu
AWARDS/INVENTIONS
- 2003 Young Investigator Award, UCLA Brain Injury Research Center
- 2005 Young Investigator Award, Brain Injury Association of America
PUBLICATIONS (recent articles)
- Wu, H., Kreissl, M.C., Schelber, H.R., Ladno, W., Prins, M., Shoghi-Jadid, K. , Chatziioannon, A., Phelps, M.E., Huang, S.C. First-pass angiography in mice using FDG-PET- A new method of deriving the cardiovascular transit time without the need of region-of-interest drawing. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2005, 52(5)1311-1315.
- Prins, M.L., Fujima, L..S. , Hovda, D.A. Age-dependent reduction of cortical contusion volume by ketones following traumatic brain injury. Journal of Neuroscience Research 2005, 82(3)413-420.
- Kreissl, M.C., Wu, H.M., Stout, D.B., Ladno, W., Schindler, T.H., Zhang, X., Prior, J.O., Prins, M.L., Chatziioannou, A.F., Huang, S.C., Schelbert, H.R. Non-invasive measurement of cardiovascular function in mice with ultra-high temporal resolution small animal PET. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2006, 47(6)974-980.
- Prins, M.L., Giza, C. Induction of Monocarboxylate transporter2 expression and ketone transport following TBI in juvenile and adult rats. Developmental Neuroscience 2006 28:447-456.
- Giza, C., Prins, M.L. Is Being Plastic Fantastic? Mechanisms of Altered Plasticity after Developmental TBI. Developmental Neuroscience, 2006 28:364-379.
- Wu. H.M., Sui, G., Lee, C.C., Prins, M.L., Ladno, W., Lin H.D., Yu A. SJ., Phelps, M.E., Huang, S.C. In vivo quantitation of glucose metabolism in mice using small animal PET imaging and a microfluidic device. J Nucl Med, 2007 48(5) 837-45.
- Prins, M.L. Cerebral Metabolic Adaptation and Ketone Metabolism After Brain Injury. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism , 2008 (1) 1-16.
- Prins, M.L. Diet, Ketones and Neurotrauma. Epilepsia, 2008
- Appelberg, S.K., Hovda, D.A., Prins, M.L. The effects of ketones on behavioral outcome after controlled cortical impact injury in the juvenile and adult rat. Journal Neurotrauma (in press)
- Prins, M.L. and Hovda, D.A. The effects of age and ketogenic diet on local cerebral metabolic rates of glucose after controlled cortical impact injury. Journal Neurotrauma (in press)
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