ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-050523-1
Castranova, Dan
Email: castrand@mail.nih.gov
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Affiliation: Weinstein Lab
Address: Unit on Vertebrate Organogenesis Laboratory of Molecular Genetics The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Institutes of Health Building 6B, Room 309 6 Center Drive Bethesda, MD 20892 USA
Country: United States
Phone: 301-435-8264
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BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS


PUBLICATIONS
Pillay, L.M., Yano, J.J., Davis, A.E., Butler, M.G., Ezeude, M.O., Park, J.S., Barnes, K.A., Reyes, V.L., Castranova, D., Gore, A.V., Swift, M.R., Iben, J.R., Kenton, M.I., Stratman, A.N., Weinstein, B.M. (2022) In vivo dissection of Rhoa function in vascular development using zebrafish. Angiogenesis. 25(3):411-434
Castranova, D., Samasa, B., Galanternik, M.V., Gore, A.V., Goldstein, A.E., Park, J.S., Weinstein, B.M. (2022) Long-Term Imaging of Living Adult Zebrafish. Development (Cambridge, England). 149(4):
Paulissen, S., Castranova, D., Krispin, S., Burns, M.C., Menéndez, J., Torres-Vázquez, J., Weinstein, B.M. (2022) Anatomy and development of the pectoral fin vascular network in the zebrafish. Development (Cambridge, England). 149(5):
Davis, A.E., Castranova, D., Weinstein, B.M. (2021) Rapid Generation of Pigment Free, Immobile Zebrafish Embryos and Larvae in Any Genetic Background Using CRISPR-Cas9 dgRNPs. Zebrafish. 18(4):235-242
Stratman, A.N., Burns, M.C., Farrelly, O.M., Davis, A.E., Li, W., Pham, V.N., Castranova, D., Yano, J.J., Goddard, L.M., Nguyen, O., Galanternik, M.V., Bolan, T.J., Kahn, M.L., Mukouyama, Y.S., Weinstein, B.M. (2020) Chemokine mediated signalling within arteries promotes vascular smooth muscle cell recruitment. Communications biology. 3:734
Castranova, D., Samasa, B., Venero Galanternik, M., Jung, H.M., Pham, V.N., Weinstein, B.M. (2020) Live Imaging of Intracranial Lymphatics in the Zebrafish. Circulation research. 128(1):42-58
Stratman, A.N., Farrelly, O.M., Mikelis, C.M., Miller, M.F., Wang, Z., Pham, V.N., Davis, A.E., Burns, M.C., Pezoa, S.A., Castranova, D., Yano, J.J., Kilts, T.M., Davis, G.E., Gutkind, J.S., Weinstein, B.M. (2020) Anti-angiogenic effects of VEGF stimulation on endothelium deficient in phosphoinositide recycling. Nature communications. 11:1204
Jung, H.M., Hu, C.T., Fister, A.M., Davis, A.E., Castranova, D., Pham, V.N., Price, L.M., Weinstein, B.M. (2019) MicroRNA-mediated control of developmental lymphangiogenesis. eLIFE. 8:
Gore, A.V., Tomins, K.A., Iben, J., Ma, L., Castranova, D., Davis, A.E., Parkhurst, A., Jeffery, W.R., Weinstein, B.M. (2018) An epigenetic mechanism for cavefish eye degeneration. Nature ecology & evolution. 2(7):1155-1160
Nowak-Sliwinska, P., Alitalo, K., Allen, E., Anisimov, A., Aplin, A.C., Auerbach, R., Augustin, H.G., Bates, D.O., van Beijnum, J.R., Bender, R.H.F., Bergers, G., Bikfalvi, A., Bischoff, J., Böck, B.C., Brooks, P.C., Bussolino, F., Cakir, B., Carmeliet, P., Castranova, D., Cimpean, A.M., Cleaver, O., Coukos, G., Davis, G.E., De Palma, M., Dimberg, A., Dings, R.P.M., Djonov, V., Dudley, A.C., Dufton, N.P., Fendt, S.M., Ferrara, N., Fruttiger, M., Fukumura, D., Ghesquière, B., Gong, Y., Griffin, R.J., Harris, A.L., Hughes, C.C.W., Hultgren, N.W., Iruela-Arispe, M.L., Irving, M., Jain, R.K., Kalluri, R., Kalucka, J., Kerbel, R.S., Kitajewski, J., Klaassen, I., Kleinmann, H.K., Koolwijk, P., Kuczynski, E., Kwak, B.R., Marien, K., Melero-Martin, J.M., Munn, L.L., Nicosia, R.F., Noel, A., Nurro, J., Olsson, A.K., Petrova, T.V., Pietras, K., Pili, R., Pollard, J.W., Post, M.J., Quax, P.H.A., Rabinovich, G.A., Raica, M., Randi, A.M., Ribatti, D., Ruegg, C., Schlingemann, R.O., Schulte-Merker, S., Smith, L.E.H., Song, J.W., Stacker, S.A., Stalin, J., Stratman, A.N., Van de Velde, M., van Hinsbergh, V.W.M., Vermeulen, P.B., Waltenberger, J., Weinstein, B.M., Xin, H., Yetkin-Arik, B., Yla-Herttuala, S., Yoder, M.C., Griffioen, A.W. (2018) Consensus guidelines for the use and interpretation of angiogenesis assays. Angiogenesis. 21(3):425-532
Stratman, A.N., Pezoa, S.A., Farrelly, O.M., Castranova, D., Dye, L.E., Butler, M.G., Sidik, H., Talbot, W.S., Weinstein, B.M. (2017) Mural-Endothelial cell-cell interactions stabilize the developing zebrafish dorsal aorta. Development (Cambridge, England). 144(1):115-127
Moore, J.C., Mulligan, T.S., Torres Yordán, N., Castranova, D., Pham, V.N., Tang, Q., Lobbardi, R., Anselmo, A., Liwski, R.S., Berman, J.N., Sadreyev, R.I., Weinstein, B.M., Langenau, D.M. (2016) T cell immune deficiency in zap70 mutant zebrafish. Molecular and cellular biology. 36(23):2868-2876
Castranova, D., Davis, A.E., Lo, B.D., Miller, M.F., Paukstelis, P.J., Swift, M.R., Pham, V.N., Torres-Vázquez, J., Bell, K., Shaw, K.M., Kamei, M., Weinstein, B.M. (2016) Aminoacyl-Transfer RNA Synthetase Deficiency Promotes Angiogenesis via the Unfolded Protein Response Pathway. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. 36(4):655-62
Gore, A.V., Athans, B., Iben, J.R., Johnson, K., Russanova, V., Castranova, D., Pham, V.N., Butler, M.G., Williams-Simons, L., Nichols, J.T., Bresciani, E., Feldman, B., Kimmel, C.B., Liu, P.P., Weinstein, B.M. (2016) Epigenetic regulation of hematopoiesis by DNA methylation. eLIFE. 5:e11813
Jung, H.M., Isogai, S., Kamei, M., Castranova, D., Gore, A.V., Weinstein, B.M. (2016) Imaging blood vessels and lymphatic vessels in the zebrafish. Methods in cell biology. 133:69-103
Ulrich, F., Carretero-Ortega, J., Menéndez, J., Narvaez, C., Sun, B., Lancaster, E., Pershad, V., Trzaska, S., Véliz, E., Kamei, M., Prendergast, A., Kidd, K.R., Shaw, K.M., Castranova, D.A., Pham, V.N., Lo, B.D., Martin, B.L., Raible, D.W., Weinstein, B.M., Torres-Vazquez, J. (2016) Reck enables cerebrovascular development by promoting canonical Wnt signaling. Development (Cambridge, England). 143(1):147-59
Yu, J.A., Castranova, D., Pham, V.N., Weinstein, B.M. (2015) Single cell analysis of endothelial morphogenesis in vivo. Development (Cambridge, England). 142(17):2951-61
Swift, M.R., Pham, V.N., Castranova, D., Bell, K., Poole, R.J., Weinstein, B.M. (2014) SoxF factors and Notch regulate nr2f2 gene expression during venous differentiation in zebrafish. Developmental Biology. 390:116-25
Pan, W., Pham, V.N., Stratman, A.N., Castranova, D., Kamei, M., Kidd, K.R., Lo, B.D., Shaw, K.M., Torres-Vazquez, J., Mikelis, C.M., Gutkind, J.S., Davis, G.E., and Weinstein, B.M. (2012) CDP-diacylglycerol synthetase-controlled phosphoinositide availability limits VEGFA signaling and vascular morphogenesis. Blood. 120(2):489-498
Avraham-Davidi, I., Ely, Y., Pham, V.N., Castranova, D., Grunspan, M., Malkinson, G., Gibbs-Bar, L., Mayseless, O., Allmog, G., Lo, B., Warren, C.M., Chen, T.T., Ungos, J., Kidd, K., Shaw, K., Rogachev, I., Wan, W., Murphy, P.M., Farber, S.A., Carmel, L., Shelness, G.S., Iruela-Arispe, M.L., Weinstein, B.M., and Yaniv, K. (2012) ApoB-containing lipoproteins regulate angiogenesis by modulating expression of VEGF receptor 1. Nature medicine. 18(6):967-973
Gore, A.V., Swift, M.R., Cha, Y.R., Lo, B., McKinney, M.C., Li, W., Castranova, D., Davis, A., Mukouyama, Y.S., and Weinstein, B.M. (2011) Rspo1/Wnt signaling promotes angiogenesis via Vegfc/Vegfr3. Development (Cambridge, England). 138(22):4875-4886
Castranova, D., Lawton, A., Lawrence, C., Baumann, D.P., Best, J., Coscolla, J., Doherty, A., Ramos, J., Hakkesteeg, J., Wang, C., Wilson, C., Malley, J., and Weinstein, B.M. (2011) The Effect of Stocking Densities on Reproductive Performance in Laboratory Zebrafish (Danio rerio). Zebrafish. 8(3):141-6
Pham, V.N., Lawson, N.D., Mugford, J.W., Dye, L., Castranova, D., Lo, B., and Weinstein, B.M. (2007) Combinatorial function of ETS transcription factors in the developing vasculature. Developmental Biology. 303(2):772-783
Yaniv, K., Isogai, S., Castranova, D., Dye, L., Hitomi, J., and Weinstein, B.M. (2007) Imaging the developing lymphatic system using the zebrafish. Novartis Foundation symposium. 283(1):139-148
Shaw, K.M., Castranova, D.A., Pham, V.N., Kamei, M., Kidd, K.R., Lo, B.D., Torres-Vazquez, J., Ruby, A., and Weinstein, B.M. (2006) fused-somites-like mutants exhibit defects in trunk vessel patterning. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 235(7):1753-1760
Yaniv, K., Isogai, S., Castranova, D., Dye, L., Hitomi, J., and Weinstein, B.M. (2006) Live imaging of lymphatic development in the zebrafish. Nature medicine. 12(6):711-716

NON-ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS
Castranova, D.A., King V, W., Woods III, L.C. 2005. The effects of stress on androgen production, spermiation response and sperm quality in high and low cortisol responsive domesticated male striped bass. Aquaculture 246, 413-422.