Bernice Nounamo

Researcher

UAMS

Also affiliated: Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (2025)

Faculty Researcher

4 h-index 13 pubs 101 cited

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Bernice Nounamo's research focuses on the immune response to viral infections and the impact of dietary components on health, particularly in the context of metabolic conditions. Her work investigates how viral components, such as those from Myxoma virus, can stimulate immune pathways like the cGAS-dependent type 1 interferon response in human monocytes and macrophages. Nounamo also studies the effects of soy protein concentrates, varying in isoflavone content, on serum isoflavone levels and inflammatory markers in Zucker rats, examining potential differences between lean and obese subjects. Additionally, her research extends to the immunological consequences of environmental stressors, including simulated microgravity and chronic irradiation, in mouse models, and the characterization of immune correlates in cancer patients undergoing vaccination therapies. She collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Behjatolah Monzavi‐Karbassi and Fariba Jousheghany, and has published 13 papers with 99 citations and an h-index of 4.

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h-index: 4
Publications: 13
Citations: 101

Selected Publications

Sex-specific immune alterations in mice following long-term simulated microgravity and chronic irradiation (2025)

npj Microgravity 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Abstract PO5-02-05: Assessing Vaccine-Mediated Cellular Immune Responses in Patients Receiving Combined Vaccine and Chemotherapy Treatment (2024)

Cancer Research DOI OpenAlex
Abstract 3860: Characterizing peripheral immune correlates of tumor response in breast cancer patients immunized with the P10s-PADRE vaccine (2024)

Cancer Research DOI OpenAlex
Abstract 700: Induction of cancer-specific T-cell responses in patients immunized with P10s-PADRE vaccine (2023)

Cancer Research DOI OpenAlex
Feeding Soy Protein Concentrates with Low and High Isoflavones Alters 9 and 18 Weeks Serum Isoflavones and Inflammatory Protein Levels in Lean and Obese Zucker Rats (2023)

Journal of Medicinal Food 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
VT68.2: An Antibody to Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycan 4 (CSPG4) Displays Reactivity against a Tumor-Associated Carbohydrate Antigen (2023)

International Journal of Molecular Sciences 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Myxoma virus lacking the host range determinant M062 stimulates cGAS-dependent type 1 interferon response and unique transcriptomic changes in human monocytes/macrophages (2022)

PLoS Pathogens 15 citations DOI OpenAlex
Feeding Obese Zucker Rats With Soy Protein Concentrate With High Isoflavones Compared to Low Isoflavones Leads to a Significant Reduction of Serum Tumor Necrosis Factor-α (2022)

Current Developments in Nutrition DOI OpenAlex
Myxoma virus lacking the host range determinant M062 stimulates cGAS-dependent type 1 interferon response and unique transcriptomic changes in human macrophages (2022)

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
Abstract TMIM-077: MYXOMA VIRUS ENHANCES TREATMENT BENEFIT OF CHEMOTHERAPY AND DENDRITIC CELL IMMUNOTHERAPY IN OVARIAN CANCER PRECLINICAL MODEL (2019)

Clinical Cancer Research DOI OpenAlex
Myxoma Virus Optimizes Cisplatin for the Treatment of Ovarian Cancer In Vitro and in a Syngeneic Murine Dissemination Model (2017)

Molecular Therapy — Oncolytics 30 citations DOI OpenAlex
An interaction domain in human SAMD9 is essential for myxoma virus host-range determinant M062 antagonism of host anti-viral function (2017)

Virology 39 citations DOI OpenAlex