Elizabeth St Lezin, MD

Professor Emeritus
Laboratory Medicine
+1 415 221-4810 ext. 3680
Publications: 

Early and sustained improvement in fatigue-related quality of life following red blood cell transfusion in outpatients.

Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation

Bruhn R, Karafin MS, Hilton JF, Kaidarova Z, Spencer BR, Qu L, Snyder EL, Olin R, Murphy EL, St Lezin E

Association of donor age, body mass index, hemoglobin, and smoking status with in-hospital mortality and length of stay among red blood cell-transfused recipients.

Transfusion

Roubinian NH, Westlake M, St Lezin EM, Edgren G, Brambilla DJ, Lee C, Bruhn R, Cable RG, Triulzi DJ, Glynn SA, Kleinman S, Murphy EL

The impact of recipient factors on the lower-than-expected hemoglobin increment in transfused outpatients with hematologic diseases.

Transfusion

Karafin MS, Bruhn R, Roubinian NH, Chowdhury D, Qu L, Snyder EL, Murphy EL, Brambilla D, Cable RG, Hilton JF, St Lezin E

Association of Blood Donor Sex and Prior Pregnancy With Mortality Among Red Blood Cell Transfusion Recipients.

JAMA

Edgren G, Murphy EL, Brambilla DJ, Westlake M, Rostgaard K, Lee C, Cable RG, Triulzi D, Bruhn R, St Lezin EM, Erikstrup C, Ullum H, Glynn SA, Kleinman S, Hjalgrim H, Roubinian NH

Therapeutic impact of red blood cell transfusion on anemic outpatients: the RETRO study.

Transfusion

St Lezin E, Karafin MS, Bruhn R, Chowdhury D, Qu L, Bialkowski W, Merenda S, D'Andrea P, McCalla AL, Anderson L, Keating SM, Stone M, Snyder EL, Brambilla D, Murphy EL, Norris PJ, Hilton JF, Spencer BR, Kleinman S, Carson JL

Genetic isolation of quantitative trait loci for blood pressure development and renal mass on chromosome 5 in the spontaneously hypertensive rat.

Physiological research

Pravenec M, Kren V, Krenová D, Zídek V, Simáková M, Musilová A, Vorlícek J, Lezin ES, Kurtz TW

Transgenic expression of CD36 in the spontaneously hypertensive rat is associated with amelioration of metabolic disturbances but has no effect on hypertension.

Physiological research

Pravenec M, Landa V, Zídek V, Musilová A, Kazdová L, Qi N, Wang J, St Lezin E, Kurtz TW

Genetic analysis of metabolic defects in the spontaneously hypertensive rat.

Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society

Pravenec M, Zídek V, Musilová A, Simáková M, Kostka V, Mlejnek P, Kren V, Krenova D, Bílá V, Míková B, Jáchymová M, Horký K, Kazdová L, St Lezin E, Kurtz TW

Genetic isolation of a blood pressure quantitative trait locus on chromosome 2 in the spontaneously hypertensive rat.

Journal of hypertension

Pravenec M, Zídek V, Musilová A, Vorlícek J, Kren V, St Lezin E, Kurtz TW

Y-chromosome transfer induces changes in blood pressure and blood lipids in SHR.

Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)

Kren V, Qi N, Krenova D, Zidek V, Sladká M, Jáchymová M, Míková B, Horky K, Bonne A, Van Lith HA, Van Zutphen BF, Lau YF, Pravenec M, St Lezin E

Hypoalgesia and hyperalgesia with inherited hypertension in the rat.

American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology

Taylor BK, Roderick RE, St Lezin E, Basbaum AI

Transgenic rescue of defective Cd36 ameliorates insulin resistance in spontaneously hypertensive rats.

Nature genetics

Pravenec M, Landa V, Zidek V, Musilova A, Kren V, Kazdova L, Aitman TJ, Glazier AM, Ibrahimi A, Abumrad NA, Qi N, Wang JM, St Lezin EM, Kurtz TW

Genetic susceptibility to renal injury in hypertension.

Experimental nephrology

Bidani AK, Griffin KA, Churchill PC, Churchill MC, St Lezin E, Kurtz TW

Genetic analysis of rat chromosome 1 and the Sa gene in spontaneous hypertension.

Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)

St Lezin E, Liu W, Wang JM, Yang Y, Qi N, Kren V, Zidek V, Kurtz TW, Pravenec M

Genetic isolation of a chromosome 1 region affecting susceptibility to hypertension-induced renal damage in the spontaneously hypertensive rat.

Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)

St Lezin E, Griffin KA, Picken M, Churchill MC, Churchill PC, Kurtz TW, Liu W, Wang N, Kren V, Zidek V, Pravenec M, Bidani AK

Congenic strains for genetic analysis of hypertension and dyslipidemia in the spontaneously hypertensive rat.

Transplantation proceedings

Pravenec M, Krenová D, Kren V, Zídek V, Simáková M, Musilová A, Bottger A, van Zutphen BF, St Lezin E, Kurtz TW

Effect of chromosome 19 transfer on blood pressure in the spontaneously hypertensive rat.

Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)

St Lezin E, Zhang L, Yang Y, Wang JM, Wang N, Qi N, Steadman JS, Liu W, Kren V, Zidek V, Krenova D, Churchill PC, Churchill MC, Pravenec M

Identification of Cd36 (Fat) as an insulin-resistance gene causing defective fatty acid and glucose metabolism in hypertensive rats.

Nature genetics

Aitman TJ, Glazier AM, Wallace CA, Cooper LD, Norsworthy PJ, Wahid FN, Al-Majali KM, Trembling PM, Mann CJ, Shoulders CC, Graf D, St Lezin E, Kurtz TW, Kren V, Pravenec M, Ibrahimi A, Abumrad NA, Stanton LW, Scott J

Effect of renin gene transfer on blood pressure in the spontaneously hypertensive rat.

Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)

St Lezin E, Liu W, Wang N, Wang JM, Kren V, Zidek V, Zdobinska M, Krenova D, Bottger A, van Zutphen BF, Pravenec M

Genetic isolation of a chromosome 1 region affecting blood pressure in the spontaneously hypertensive rat.

Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)

St Lezin E, Liu W, Wang JM, Wang N, Kren V, Krenova D, Musilova A, Zdobinska M, Zidek V, Lau D, Pravenec M

Genetic susceptibility to hypertension-induced renal damage in the rat. Evidence based on kidney-specific genome transfer.

The Journal of clinical investigation

Churchill PC, Churchill MC, Bidani AK, Griffin KA, Picken M, Pravenec M, Kren V, St Lezin E, Wang JM, Wang N, Kurtz TW

Linkage mapping of the mixed-lineage leukemia (Mll) gene to rat chromosome 8.

Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society

Pravenec M, Wang J, Kren V, St Lezin E

Mapping genes controlling hematocrit in the spontaneously hypertensive rat.

Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society

Pravenec M, Zidek V, Zdobinska M, Kren V, Krenova D, Bottger A, van Zutphen LF, Wang J, St Lezin E