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Brian Dixon

University of WaterlooORCID 0000-0003-4213-5483Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Organism:zebrafish· 1

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Nicholas J. BernieriD· 2 shared Brett M. CulbertiD· 1 shared Daniel D. HeathiD· 1 shared Jonathon LeBlanc· 1 shared Kelvin Vuu· 1 shared Kenneth M. JeffriesiD· 1 shared Leah GrosmaniD· 1 shared Phillip A. KarpowicziD· 1 shared

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PhysiologyMolecular and Cellular EndocrinologyPeer-reviewedAug 7, 2026

Transcriptional regulation of the rainbow trout spleen corticotropin-releasing factor system in response to inflammatory challenges: roles of NF-kB and cortisol

Brett M. Culbert, Leah Grosman, Tania Rodríguez‐Ramos…·Nicholas J. Bernier

This study investigates how the CRF system in rainbow trout spleen responds to inflammation, showing differential regulation of CRFR1 and CRFR2 by cortisol and NF-κB.

DOI 10.1016/j.mce.2026.112892

zebrafishbulk RNA-seq

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GenomicsbioRxivPreprintSep 25, 2024

Development of multi-species qPCR assays for a stress transcriptional profiling (STP) Chip to assess the resilience of salmonids to changing environments

Shahinur S. Islam, Daniel D. Heath, Brian Dixon…·Kenneth M. Jeffries

The paper develops multi-species qPCR assays for a STP-Chip to assess salmonid resilience to environmental stressors, finding tissue and genus-specific amplification success across 8 species.

6 citations

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