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Last published 2025
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Caitlin Caperton

Researcher

Also affiliated: Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (2021)

Faculty Researcher

3 h-index 10 pubs 44 cited

  • Animals
  • Female
  • Metabolomics
  • Animals, Newborn
  • Buprenorphine
  • Fetus
  • Opioid-Related Disorders
  • Pregnancy
  • Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects
  • Risk
  • Substance Withdrawal Syndrome
  • Rats
  • Collaborative Cross Mice
  • Butadienes
  • Carcinogens

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Caitlin Caperton studies the metabolic and molecular mechanisms underlying cancer development and progression, with a particular focus on thyroid and lung cancers. Her research has explored the development of novel follicular thyroid cancer models that progress to poorly differentiated and anaplastic thyroid cancer. She has also investigated the role of the lung metabolome in response to environmental exposures, such as 1,3-butadiene, and its reflection of human lung cancer phenotypes. Dr. Caperton's work also extends to understanding macrophage-tumor crosstalk in thyroid cancer pathogenesis and identifying associations between macrophage abundance and PD-L1 expression in oncocytic thyroid cancer. Additionally, her research has addressed rare metabolic disorders, including uncovering late-onset urea cycle deficiency following valproate initiation.

Her scholarship metrics include an h-index of 3, with 10 total publications and 42 citations. Dr. Caperton has collaborated with several researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Nicole Massoll, Samidha Tripathi, Marjorie L Hershberger, and Gunnar Boysen, with whom she shares multiple publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 3
  • Publications: 10
  • Citations: 44

Selected Publications

  • 53. Uncovering Late Onset Urea Cycle Deficiency Following Initiation of Valproate: A Smoldering Disease With Fatal Consequences (2025)
    Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry DOI OpenAlex
  • Macrophage abundance in oncocytic thyroid cancer is associated with PD-L1 expression (2025)
    Endocrine Oncology DOI OpenAlex
  • Lung metabolome of 1,3-butadiene exposed Collaborative Cross mice reflects metabolic phenotype of human lung cancer (2021)
    Toxicology 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Macrophage-Tumor Crosstalk in the Pathogenesis of Follicular Thyroid Cancer (2021)
    Journal of the Endocrine Society DOI OpenAlex
  • Development of Novel Follicular Thyroid Cancer Models Which Progress to Poorly Differentiated and Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer (2021)
    Cancers 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • In Utero Exposure to Norbuprenorphine, a Major Metabolite of Buprenorphine, Induces Fetal Opioid Dependence and Leads to Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (2019)
    Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 24 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • 2421 Development and validation of a translational rat model of neonatal abstinence syndrome (2018)
    Journal of Clinical and Translational Science DOI OpenAlex
  • The Role of Norbuprenorphine in Buprenorphine‐Induced Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: A Pilot Study (2017)
    The FASEB Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Effects of Synthetic Cannabinoid JWH‐018 and Phytocannabinoid Δ <sup>9</sup> ‐THC on Learning and Memory in Mice (2015)
    The FASEB Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Convulsant effects of high efficacy synthetic cannabinoid JWH‐018 in mice (2015)
    The FASEB Journal DOI OpenAlex

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