Evengelia Litsa Tsiani
Associate Professor
Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
Brock University
Canada
Biography
Evengelia Litsa Tsiani research focus is understanding the intracellular signaling pathways that are activated and control muscle glucose transport, metabolism and the defects contributing to insulin resistance/diabetes. An additional research focus is understanding cancer biology and the defects leading to enhanced cell proliferation. Her goal/aim is to find food components, nutraceuticals, or functional foods that could modulate certain signaling pathways and be used against insulin resistance /diabetes and cancer.
Research Interest
Cell signaling, Cell signaling, Muscle metabolism, Cell signaling pathways in cancer, Investigation of the biological effects of food components
Publications
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Pereira S, Yu W Q, Moore J, Mori Y, Tsiani E, and Giacca A. Effect of a p38 MAPK inhibitor on FFA-induced hepatic insulin resistance in vivo. Nutrition & Diabetes, 2016 May 2;6:e210.
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Barron CC, Bilan PJ, Tsakiridis T, Tsiani E. Facilitative glucose transporters: Implications for cancer detection, prognosis and treatment. Metabolism. 2016 Feb;65(2):124-39
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Moore J, Megaly M, MacNeil AJ, Klentrou P, Tsiani E. Rosemary extract reduces Akt/mTOR/p70S6K activation and inhibits proliferation and survival of A549 human lung cancer cells. Biomed Pharmacother. 2016 Jul 28;83:725-732.
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Jessy Moore, Michael Yousef, Evangelia Tsiani. Anticancer Effects of Rosemary (Rosmarinus Officinalis L.) Extract and Rosemary Extract Polyphenols. Nutrients. 2016 Nov 17;8(11). pii: E731.
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Naimi M, Vlavcheski F, Murphy B, Hudlicky T, Tsiani E. Carnosic acid as a component of rosemary extract stimulates skeletal muscle cell glucose uptake via AMPK activation. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol. 2017 Jan;44(1):94-102.
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Yousef M, Tsiani E. Metformin in Lung Cancer: Review of in Vitro and in Vivo Animal Studies. Cancers (Basel). 2017 May 6;9(5). pii: E45.
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Kurgan N, Tsakiridis E, Kouvelioti R, Moore J, Klentrou P, Tsiani E. Inhibition of Human Lung Cancer Cell Proliferation and Survival by Post-Exercise Serum Is Associated with the Inhibition of Akt, mTOR, p70 S6K, and Erk1/2. Cancers (Basel). 2017 May 8;9(5).
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Shamshoum H, Vlavcheski F, Tsiani E. Anticancer effects of oleuropein. Biofactors. 2017 Jun 14.
