Sergio Cortes, PhD

Research Program: Cancer Biology Faculty Rank: Post Doctoral Fellow Campus: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College: College of Medicine Department: Pharmacology & Toxicology

Cancer Research Interest

• Disease Site Focus: Prostate
• Research Focus Area: Carcinogenesis
• Type of Research: Basic
• Research Keywords: environmental health, prostate cancer, genomics
• Research Interest Statement: Prostate cancer genomics and environmental health and toxicology

Contact Information

• Email Address: SACortes@uams.edu

Recent Publications

• Cortes-Ramirez SA, Ho SM, Leung YK. Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: A Looming Threat to Current and Future Generations. International journal of molecular sciences. 2024 25(15). PMID: 39125790. PMCID: PMC11311772.
• Lee H, Stead JDH, Williams A, [et al., including Cortés Ramírez SA]. Empirical Characterization of False Discovery Rates of Differentially Expressed Genes and Transcriptomic Benchmark Concentrations in Zebrafish Embryos. Environmental science & technology. 2024 58(14):6128-6137. PMID: 38530926. PMCID: PMC11008580.
• Cruz-Burgos M, Cortés-Ramírez SA, Losada-García A, [et al.]. Unraveling the Role of EV-Derived miR-150-5p in Prostate Cancer Metastasis and Its Association with High-Grade Gleason Scores: Implications for Diagnosis. Cancers. 2023 15(16). PMID: 37627176. PMCID: PMC10453180.
• Cortés-Ramírez SA, Salazar AM, Sordo M, [et al.]. Transcriptome-Wide Analysis of Low-Concentration Exposure to Bisphenol A, S, and F in Prostate Cancer Cells. International journal of molecular sciences. 2023 24(11). PMID: 37298413. PMCID: PMC10253990.
• Losada-García A, Salido-Guadarrama I, Cortes-Ramirez SA, [et al.]. SFRP1 induces a stem cell phenotype in prostate cancer cells. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology. 2023 11:1096923. PMID: 36968194. PMCID: PMC10033548.
• Cruz-Hernández CD, Rodríguez-Martínez G, Cortés-Ramírez SA, [et al.]. Aptamers as Theragnostic Tools in Prostate Cancer. Biomolecules. 2022 12(8). PMID: 36008950. PMCID: PMC9406110.
• Barroso-Hernández A, Ramírez-Higuera A, Peña-Montes C, [et al., including Cortés-Ramírez SA]. Beneficial effects of an algal oil rich in ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on locomotor function and D(2) dopamine receptor in haloperidol-induced parkinsonism. Nutritional neuroscience. 2022 25(3):519-529. PMID: 32420816.
• Contreras-López EF, Cruz-Hernández CD, Cortés-Ramírez SA, [et al.]. Inhibition of Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase by Sterculic Oil Reduces Proliferation and Induces Apoptosis in Prostate Cancer Cell Lines. Nutrition and cancer. 2022 74(4):1308-1321. PMID: 34282662.
• Losada-García A, Cortés-Ramírez SA, Cruz-Burgos M, [et al.]. Hormone-Related Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases: A Complex Interplay to be Discovered. Frontiers in genetics. 2021 12:673180. PMID: 35111194. PMCID: PMC8801914.
• Gonzalez-Covarrubias V, Sánchez-Ibarra H, Lozano-Gonzalez K, [et al., including Cortés-Ramírez S]. Transporters, TBC1D4, and ARID5B Variants to Explain Glycated Hemoglobin Variability in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes. Pharmacology. 2021 106(11-12):588-596. PMID: 34265779.
• Cruz-Burgos M, Losada-Garcia A, Cruz-Hernández CD, [et al., including Cortés-Ramírez SA]. New Approaches in Oncology for Repositioning Drugs: The Case of PDE5 Inhibitor Sildenafil. Frontiers in oncology. 2021 11:627229. PMID: 33718200. PMCID: PMC7952883.
• Rodríguez-Dorantes M, Cruz-Hernandez CD, Cortés-Ramírez SA, [et al.]. Prostate Cancer Spheroids: A Three-Dimensional Model for Studying Tumor Heterogeneity. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2021 2174:13-17. PMID: 32813241.
• Rodríguez-Dorantes M, Cortés-Ramírez SA, Cruz-Burgos JM, [et al.]. Cell-Internalization SELEX of RNA Aptamers as a Starting Point for Prostate Cancer Research. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2021 2174:245-254. PMID: 32813254.
• Cruz-Hernández CD, Cruz-Burgos M, Cortés-Ramírez SA, [et al.]. SFRP1 increases TMPRSS2-ERG expression promoting neoplastic features in prostate cancer in vitro and in vivo. Cancer cell international. 2020 20:312. PMID: 32694934. PMCID: PMC7364616.