Reviews:
Roy, D. and Tedeschi, A., 2021. The role of lipids, lipid metabolism, and ectopic lipid accumulation in axon growth, regeneration, and repair after CNS injury and disease. Cells, PMID: 34062747
Research Articles:
Shantaram D., Rima XY., Bradley D., Wright VP., Liu J., Smith AJ., Jalilvand A., Amari A., Roy D., and Hsueh, WA. 2025. The GLP-1 receptor agonist dulaglutide attenuates hepatic steatosis by inhibiting de novo lipogenesis in a weight-independent manner. Diabetes. PMID: 40663700
Journal Cover:
https://diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/issue/74/9
Roy, D., Dion, E., Sepeda, J.A., Peng, J., Lingam, S.R., Townsend, K., Sas, A., Sun, W. and Tedeschi, A., 2024. α2δ1-mediated maladaptive sensory plasticity disrupts adipose tissue homeostasis following spinal cord injury. Cell Reports Medicine. PMID: 38663398
Media coverage:
https://www.njspineandortho.com/news/metabolic-disorders-linked-to-spinal-injury-study-finds/
https://neurosciencenews.com/spinal-injurie-metabolic-disorders-25979/
https://www.quicknews.co.za/tag/spinal-cord-injury/
Roy, D*., Myers, J.M. and Tedeschi, A*., 2022. Protocol for assessing ex vivo lipolysis of murine adipose tissue. STAR protocols, PMID: 35779261 *corresponding author.
Meriin, A.B., Zaarur, N., Roy, D. and Kandror, K.V., 2022. Egr1 plays a major role in the transcriptional response of white adipocytes to insulin and environmental cues. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, PMID: 36246998
Mohtar, O., Ozdemir, C., Roy, D., Shantaram, D., Emili, A. and Kandror, K.V., 2019. Egr1 mediates the effect of insulin on leptin transcription in adipocytes. Journal of Biological Chemistry, PMID: 30846562
Media coverage:
Driving expression of leptin. Science Signaling
Roy, D., Farabaugh, K.T., Wu, J., Charrier, A., Smas, C., Hatzoglou, M., Thirumurugan, K. and Buchner, D.A., 2017. Coordinated transcriptional control of adipocyte triglyceride lipase (Atgl) by transcription factors Sp1 and peroxisome proliferator–activated receptor γ (PPARγ) during adipocyte differentiation. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 292(36), pp.14827-14835. PMID: 2872664.
James, J., Fiji, N., Roy, D., MG, D.A., Shihabudeen, M.S., Chattopadhyay, D. and Thirumurugan, K., 2015. A rapid method to assess reactive oxygen species in yeast using H 2 DCF-DA. Analytical methods, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C5AY02278A
Chattopadhyay, D., James, J., Roy, D., Sen, S., Chatterjee, R. and Thirumurugan, K., 2015. Effect of semolina-jaggery diet on survival and development of Drosophila melanogaster. Fly, PMID: 26252611
Roy, D., Kumar, V., James, J., Shihabudeen, M.S., Kulshrestha, S., Goel, V. and Thirumurugan, K., 2015. Evidence that chemical chaperone 4-phenylbutyric acid binds to human serum albumin at fatty acid binding sites. PLoS One, PMID: 26181488
Shihabudeen, M.S., Roy, D., James, J. and Thirumurugan, K., 2015. Chenodeoxycholic acid, an endogenous FXR ligand alters adipokines and reverses insulin resistance. Molecular and cellular endocrinology. PMID: 26188168
Priscilla, D.H., Roy, D*., Suresh, A., Kumar, V. and Thirumurugan, K., 2014. Naringenin inhibits α-glucosidase activity: A promising strategy for the regulation of postprandial hyperglycemia in high-fat diet-fed streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Chemico-Biological Interactions, *equal contribution. PMID: 24412302
Roy, D., Kumar, V., Acharya, K.K. and Thirumurugan, K., 2014. Probing the binding of syzygium-derived α-glucosidase inhibitors with N-and C-terminal human maltase glucoamylase by docking and molecular dynamics simulation. Applied biochemistry and biotechnology, PMID: 24046257
Book Chapter:
James, J., Gideon, D.A.M., Roy, D. and Mandal, A., 2022. Iron-Sulfur Clusters and ROS in Cancer. In Handbook of Oxidative Stress in Cancer: Mechanistic Aspects (pp. 291-306). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.