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Pathology

Houston, Texas

Department of Pathology
Pathology
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Faculty

Joiner Cartwright, Jr., Ph. D.Assistant Professor

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Education

  • B.A., Univ. Texas at Austin, 1968

  • Ph.D., Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, 1978

Post-doctoral Training

  • Postdoctoral Trainee in the Cardiovascular Sciences Training Program at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas., 1979-82

Area of Interest

  • Cell Biology

  • Electron Microscopy

Current Position

  • Director, Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine

Honors and Awards

  • Scholarship in Physiology at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1972

  • Scholarship in Embryology at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, List of Honors and Awards, 1975

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship Award by the Muscular Dystrophy Association, 1980-81

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship Continua-tion Award by the Muscular Dystrophy Association, 1981-82

  • Secretary: Texas Society for Electron Microscopy, 1984-86

  • President-elect: Texas Society for Electron Microscopy, 1986-87

  • President: Texas Society for Electron Microscopy, 1987-88

Membership on professional organizations

  • Microscopy Society of America

Representative Publications

  1. X Gu, R Barrios, J Cartwright, RL Font, L Truong, GA Herrera. Light chain crystal deposition as a manifestation of plasma cell dyscrasia. The role of immunoelectron miscroscopy. Human Pathology (In press)

  2. X Gu, R Barrios, J Cartwright, RL Font, L Truong, GA Herrera. Light chain crystal deposition as a manifestation of plasma cell dyscrasia. The role of immunoelectron microscopy. Hum. Pathol. 34:270-277, 2003

  3. Nogueira M, Cartwright, J Jr., Horn K, Doe N, Shapell S, Barrios, Coroneos E, Truong LD. Thin Basement membrane disease with heavy proteinuria or nephritic syndrome at presentation. American Journal of Kidney Diseases 35,E15, 2000

  4. Nogueira M, Cartwight J Jr, Horn K, Doe N, Shapell S, Barrios, CoroneosE, Truong LD Thin Basement membrane disease with heavy proteinuria or nephrotic syndrome at presentation. American Journal of Kidney Diseases 35, E15, 2000

  5. E. Baranowska-Daca, Y.J. Choi, A. Sheth, J. Cartwright, Jr., L.D. Troung: Nephrotic Syndrome Associated With Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis in a Patient With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Membranous Glomerulonephritis in Remission. Amer. J. of Kidney Diseases34: E22, 1999

  6. C.H. Chen, J. Cartwright, Jr., Z. li, S. Lou, H. H. Nguyen, A. M. Gotto, Jr., P.D. Henry. Inhibitory Effects of Hypercholesterolemia and Ox-LDL on Angiogenesis-like Endothelial Growth in Rabbit Aortic Explants, Essential Role of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor. Aterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 17:1303-1312, 1997

  7. R.M. Lebovitz, H. Zhang, H. Vogel, J. Cartwright, Jr., L. Dionne, N. Lu, S. Huang, M.M. Matzuk. Neurodengeneration, myocardial injury, and perinatal death in mitochondrial superoxide dismutase-deficient mice. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93:9782-9787, September 1996

  8. M.E. Mawad, J.K. Mawad, J. Cartwright, Jr., Z. Gokaslan. Long-term Histopathologic Changes in Canine Aneurysms Embolized with Guglielmi Detachable Coils. AJNR AM J Neuroradiol 16:7-13, January 1995

  9. B.L. Bjornsson, L. D. Truong, J. Cartwright Jr., J. Abrams, M.L. Rutledge, T.M. Wheeler. Pelvic Lymph node histiocytosis mimicking metastatic prostatic adenocarcinoma: Association with hip prostheses. J. Urology 154:470-473, 1995

  10. M. Wakamiya, M.R. Blackburn, R. Jurecic, M.J. McArthur, R.S. Geske, J. Cartwright Jr., K. Mitani, S. Vaishnav, J.W. Belmont, R.E. Kellems, M.J. Finegold, C.A. Montgomery Jr., A. Bradley, C.T. Caskey. Disruption of the adenosine deaminase gene causes hepatocellular impairment and perinatal lethality in mice. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci 92:3673-3677, 1995

  11. L.K. Aguilar, E. Aguilar-Cordova, J.Cartwright, Jr., J.W. Belmont: Thymic nurse cells are sites of thymocyte apoptosis. J. Immunol. 152(6)2645-2651, 1994

  12. C.R. Benedict, J. Ryan, J. Todd, K. Kuwabara, P. Tijburt, J. Cartwright, Jr., D. Stern: Active site-blocked factor Xa prevents intravascular thrombus formation in the coronary vasculature in parallel with inhibition of extravascular coagulation in a canine thrombosis model. Blood 81:2059-2066, 1993

  13. P.T. Cagle, S.D. Greenberg, M.V. Gresik, J. Cartwright, Jr., L. Truong and C.A. Mattioli: Immunohistochemical Diagnosis of Pulmonary Eosinophilic Granuloma. Chest 94:1133-1137, 1988

  14. Terry Burns, Edwin Johnson, Joiner Cartwright, Jr. and S. Donald Greenberg: Desmosomes of Epithelial Malignant Mesothelioma. Ultrastructural Pathology 12:385-388, 1988

  15. Luan D. Truong, Joiner Cartwright, Jr., Jerry C. Goodman, and Dennis Woznicki: Silicone Lymphadenopathy Associated with Augmentation Mammoplasty: Morphologic features of nine cases. American Journal of Surgical Pathology 12(6):484-491, 1988