Mary Cowman
Associate Professor of Biochemistry


General Information

Tel: 718.260.3054
Room: RH 805
Email: mcowman@poly.edu
Website: http://chem.poly.edu/people/mc/mc.html



PUBLICATIONS

Cowman Publications 1996 ~

Cowman, M.K., Hittner, D.M., and Feder-Davis, J., (1996). "13C-NMR Studies of Hyaluronan: Conformational Sensitivity to Varied Environments." Macromolecules 29, 2894-2902.

Noble, P.W., McKee, C.M., Cowman, M., and Shin, H.S. (1996). "Hyaluronan Fragments Activate an NF-?B/I-?Ba Autoregulatory Loop in Murine Macrophages." J. Exp. Med. 183, 2373-2378.

McKee, C.M., Penno, M.B., Cowman, M., Bao, C., and Noble, P.W. (1996). "Hyaluronan (HA) Fragments Induce Chemokine Gene Expression in Murine Alveolar Macrophages. The Role of HA Size and CD44." J. Clin. Invest. 98, 2403-2413.

Behrends, R., Cowman, M.K., Eggers, F., Eyring, E.M., Kaatze, U., Majewski, J., Petrucci, S., Richmann, K-H., and Reich, M. (1997). "Ultrasonic Relaxation and Fast Chemical Kinetics of Some Carbohydrate Aqueous Solutions." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 119, 2182-2186.

Li, M., Rosenfeld, L., Vilar, R.E., and Cowman, M.K. (1997). "Degradation of Hyaluronan by Peroxynitrite." Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 341, 245-250.

Vilar, R.E., Ghael, D., Li, M., Bhagat, D.D., Arrigo, L.M., Cowman, M.K., Dweck, H.S., and Rosenfeld, L. (1997). "Nitric Oxide Degradation of Heparin and Heparan Sulfate." Biochem. J. 324, 473-479.

Cowman, M.K., Liu, J., Li, M., Hittner, D.M., and Kim, J.S. (1998). "Hyaluronan Interactions: Self, Water, Ions.", in The Chemistry, Biology and Medical Applications of Hyaluronan and its Derivatives, T.C. Laurent, ed., Wenner-Gren International Series No. 72, Portland Press, London, pp. 17-24.

Cowman, M.K., Li, M., and Balazs, E.A. (1998). "Tapping Mode Atomic Force Microscopy of Hyaluronan: Extended and Intramolecularly Interacting Chains." Biophys. J. 75, 2030-203.

Cowman, M., Eggers, F., Eyring, E.M., Horoszewski, D., Kaatze, U., Kreitner, R., Petrucci, S., Klöppel-Riech, M., and Stenger, J. (1999) "Microsecond to Subnanosecond Molecular Relaxation Dynamics of the Interaction of Ca+2 with some Carbohydrates in Aqueous Solution." J. Phys. Chem. 103, 239-242.

Liu, J. and Cowman, M.K. (2000) "Thermal Analysis of Semi-Dilute Hyaluronan Solutions." J. Therm. Anal. Calorim. 59, 547-557.

Cowman, M.K., Li, M., Dyal, A., and Balazs, E.A. (2000) "Tapping Mode Atomic Force Microscopy of the Hyaluronan Derivative, Hylan A." Carbohydr. Polym. 41, 229-235.

Kwei, T.K., Nakazawa, M., Matsuoka, S., Cowman, M.K., and Okamoto, Y. (2000) "The Concentration Dependence of Solution Viscosities of Rigid Polymers." Macromolecules 33, 235-236.

Stenger, J., Cowman, M., Eggers, F., Eyring, E.M., Kaatze, U., and Petrucci, S. (2000) "Molecular Dynamics and Kinetics of Monosaccharides in Solution. A Broadband Ultrasonic Relaxation Study." J. Phys. Chem. B 104, 4782-4790.

Cowman, M.K., Feder-Davis, J., and Hittner, D.M. (2001) "13C-NMR Studies of Hyaluronan. 2. Dependence of Conformational Dynamics on Chain Length and Solvent." Macromolecules 34, 110-115.

Cowman, M.K., Li, M., Dyal, A., and Kanai, S. (2002, in press) "Tapping Mode Atomic Force Microscopy of Hyaluronan and Hylan A", in Hyaluronan, J.F. Kennedy, G.O. Phillips, P.A. Williams, eds., Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge.

Cowman, M.K. and Matsuoka, S. (2002, in press) "The Intrinsic Viscosity of Hyaluronan", in Hyaluronan, J.F. Kennedy, G.O. Phillips, P.A. Williams, eds., Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge.

Matsuoka, S. and Cowman, M.K. (2002, in press) "Viscosity of Polymer Solutions Revisited", in Hyaluronan, J.F. Kennedy, G.O. Phillips, P.A. Williams, eds., Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge.

Hoefling, J.M., Cowman, M.K., Matsuoka, S., and Balazs, E.A. (2002, in press) "Temperature Effect on the Dynamic Rheological Characteristics of Hyaluronan, Hylan A, and SynviscÒ", in Hyaluronan, J.F. Kennedy, G.O. Phillips, P.A. Williams, eds., Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge.