Rachel C. Blitzblau, MD, PhD
Department / Division
Radiation Oncology /
Radiation Onc-Clinical Sup
Address
DUMC 3085
Durham, NC 27710
Appointment Telephone
919-660-2100
Office Telephone
919-613-3795
Fax Telephone
919-668-7345
- MD, Tufts University School of Medicine (Massachusetts), 2005
- Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital (Massachusetts), 2005-2006
- Radiation Oncology, Yale New Haven Hospital (Connecticut), 2006-2010
- PhD, Neuroscience, Tufts University (Massachusetts), 2005
Clinical Interests
Radiotherapy for breast cancer, clinical and translational research in breast cancer
This faculty member has no reported relationships with industry.
Representative Publications
Ratner E, Lu L, Boeke M, Barnett R, Nallur S, Chin LJ, Pelletier C, Blitzblau R, Tassi R, Paranjape T, Hui P, Godwin AK, Yu H, Risch H, Rutherford T, Schwartz P, Santin A, Matloff E, Zelterman D, Slack FJ, Weidhaas JB. A KRAS-variant in ovarian cancer acts as a genetic marker of cancer risk. Cancer Res. 2010 Aug 15;70(16):6509-15.
(2010)
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Yu JB, Blitzblau RC, Patel SC, Decker RH, Wilson LD. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database analysis of microcystic adnexal carcinoma (sclerosing sweat duct carcinoma) of the skin. Am J Clin Oncol. 2010 Apr;33(2):125-7.
(2010)
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Blitzblau R, Storer EK, Jacob MH. Dystrophin and utrophin isoforms are expressed in glia, but not neurons, of the avian parasympathetic ciliary ganglion. Brain Res. 2008 Jul 7;1218:21-34.
(2008)
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Yu JB, Blitzblau RC, Decker RH, Housman DM, Wilson LD. Analysis of primary CD30+ cutaneous lymphoproliferative disease and survival from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. J Clin Oncol. 2008 Mar 20;26(9):1483-8.
(2008)
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Chen W, Aoki C, Mahadomrongkul V, Gruber CE, Wang GJ, Blitzblau R, Irwin N, Rosenberg PA. Expression of a variant form of the glutamate transporter GLT1 in neuronal cultures and in neurons and astrocytes in the rat brain. J Neurosci. 2002 Mar 15;22(6):2142-52.
(2002)
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Rosenberg MM, Blitzblau RC, Olsen DP, Jacob MH. Regulatory mechanisms that govern nicotinic synapse formation in neurons. J Neurobiol. 2002 Dec;53(4):542-55.
(2002)
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Sinor JD, Du S, Venneti S, Blitzblau RC, Leszkiewicz DN, Rosenberg PA, Aizenman E. NMDA and glutamate evoke excitotoxicity at distinct cellular locations in rat cortical neurons in vitro. J Neurosci. 2000 Dec 1;20(23):8831-7.
(2000)
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Temburni MK, Blitzblau RC, Jacob MH. Receptor targeting and heterogeneity at interneuronal nicotinic cholinergic synapses in vivo. J Physiol. 2000 May 15;525 Pt 1:21-9.
(2000)
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Blitzblau R, Gupta S, Djali S, Robinson MB, Rosenberg PA. The glutamate transport inhibitor L-trans-pyrrolidine-2,4-dicarboxylate indirectly evokes NMDA receptor mediated neurotoxicity in rat cortical cultures. Eur J Neurosci. 1996 Sep;8(9):1840-52.
(1996)
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Speliotes EK, Hartnett KA, Blitzblau RC, Aizenman E, Rosenberg PA. Comparison of the potency of competitive NMDA antagonists against the neurotoxicity of glutamate and NMDA. J Neurochem. 1994 Sep;63(3):879-85.
(1994)
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