2025
Senawong T, Nguyen T, Mirabile YZ, Senkus KE, Musaad S, Moran NE. Carotenoid and vitamin A intake in infants and toddlers (0-24 months) - sources, contribution to vitamin A requirements, and demographic patterns (NHANES 2015-2020). Nutr Res. 2025 Nov;143:29-43. doi: 10.1016/j.nutres.2025.09.004. Epub 2025 Sep 11. PMID: 41124779.
Moran NE, Onyekwere E, Cepni AB, Ledoux TA, Kim H, Arlinghaus KR. Skin Carotenoids Measured by Reflection Spectroscopy Correlates with Vegetable Intake Frequency in Adolescents of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Houston, Texas. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2025 Jul;125(7):1037-1043. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2024.11.010. Epub 2024 Nov 17. PMID: 39551342.
Pitts SBJ, Wu Q, Laska MN, Moran NE. Two Spectroscopy Devices Can Approximate Fruit and Vegetable Intake in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample. Curr Dev Nutr. Elsevier; 2025 Jul 1:9(7).
Wu Q, Cherry CW, Jilcott Pitts S, Laska MN, Craft N, Moran NE. A reflection-spectroscopy measured skin carotenoid score strongly correlates with plasma concentrations of all major dietary carotenoid species except for lycopene. Nutr Res. 2025 Jan;133:127-137. doi: 10.1016/j.nutres.2024.11.010. Epub 2024 Nov 29. PMID: 39721110.
2024
Dzakovich, M.P., Goggans, M.L., Thomas-Ahner, J.M., Moran, N.E., Clinton, S.K., Francis, D.M., and Cooperstone, J.L. Transcriptomics and Metabolomics Reveal Tomato Consumption Alters Hepatic Xenobiotic Metabolism and Induces Steroidal Alkaloid Metabolite Accumulation in Mice. 2024. Mol Nutr Food Res. Accepted 14 December 2023.
Juneja S, Chang J, O’Connor T, Moran NE. Relative Validity of Nutrition Assessment Tools for Estimating Infant Carotenoid Intake. Nutr Res. 128(2024) 38-49. doi.org/10.1016/j.nutres.2024.06.003
Moran, NE, Alexander B, Garg S, Marchant N, Hason, NA. Relative Uptake of Tomato Carotenoids by In Vitro intestinal and Prostate Cancer Cells. Dec 2024. J Nutr. 154 (12):3639-3651. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjnut.2024.10.012
Norman A, Palmer D, Jahns L, Moran NE, Roemmich J, Casperson S. Association of Candidate Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Genotypes with Plasma and Skin Carotenoid Concentrations in Adults Provided a Lycopene-Rich Juice. J Nutr. 2024 Jul:154(7):1985-1993, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjnut.2024.05.022
Varghese V, Cepni AB, Chang J, Kim H, Moran NE, Ledoux TA. Skin Carotenoids Measured by Reflection Spectroscopy Correlate with Dietary Carotenoid Intake in Racially and Ethnically Diverse US Toddlers from Houston, Texas. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2024 May;124(5)628-635.e1 doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2023.10.015. PMID: 39491166.
2023
Varghese V, Cepni AB, Chang J, Kim H, Moran NE, Ledoux TA. Skin Carotenoids Measured by Reflection Spectroscopy Correlate With Dietary Carotenoid Intake in Racially and Ethnically Diverse US Toddlers From Houston, Texas. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics [Internet]. Elsevier; 2023 Oct 26;0(0).
Jilcott Pitts SB, Wu Q, Moran NE, Laska MN, Harnack L. Examining potential modifiers of human skin and plasma carotenoid responses in a randomized trial of a carotenoid-containing juice interventions. J Nutr. 2023 Nov;153(11):3287-3294. doi: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2023.09.014. Epub 2023 Sep 23. PMID: 37742797
Moran NE, Wade J, Stroh R, Stoll B, Guthrie G, Hair AB, Burrin DG. Preterm Pigs Fed Donor Human Milk Have Greater Liver Beta-carotene Concentrations than Pigs Fed Infant Formula. J Nutr. 2023 Sep 2:S0022-3166(23)72554-6. doi: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2023.08.026. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37666415.
Wan L, Thomas-Ahner JM, Pearl DK, Erdman JW Jr, Moran NE, Clinton SK. Orchestration of miRNA Patterns by Testosterone and Dietary Tomato Carotenoids during Early Prostate Carcinogenesis in TRAMP Mice. J Nutr. 2023 Jul;153(7):1877-1888. doi: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2023.05.015. Epub 2023 May 13. PMID: 37187350; PMCID: PMC10375503
Jilcott Pitts SB, Moran NE, Laska MN, Wu Q, Harnack LJ, Moe SG, Carr-Manthe P, Gates E, Chang J, Zaidi Y, Gelineau A, Berg L, Craft NE. Reflection spectroscopy-assessed skin carotenoids are sensitive to change in carotenoid intake in a six-week randomized controlled feeding trial in a racially/ethnically diverse sample. J Nutr. 2023 Apr;153(4):1133-1142.doi: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2023.02.017. Epub 2023 Feb 18
2022
Miyake CY, Lay EJ, Soler-Alfonso C, Glinton KE, Houck K, Tosur M, Moran NE, Stephens SB, Scaglia F, Howard TS, Kim JJ, Pham TD, Valdes SO, Li N, Murali C, Zhang L, Kava M, Yim D, Beach C, Webster G, Liberman L, Janson C, Kannankeril PJ, Baxter S, Singer-Berk M, Wood J, Mackenzie S, Sacher M, Gonzalez L, Pedroza C, Morris SA, Ehsan SA, Azamian M, Lalani SR. Natural History of TANGO2 Deficiency Disorder: Baseline Assessment of 73 Patients. Genet Med. 2022 Dec 3:S1098-3600(22)01057-7. doi: 10.1016/j.gim.2022.11.020. PMID: 36473599.
Moran NE, Chang J, Stroh R, Zaidi Y, Hason N,Musaad S, O'Connor T. Non-invasive, Reflection Spectroscopy Measurementof Skin Carotenoid Score in Infants is Feasible and Reliable. J Nutr. 2023 Jan 14;152(12):2966-2977. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxac182. PMID:35981784.
Zaidi Y, Stroh R, Moran NE. Systematic review of carotenoid concentrations in human milk and infant blood. Nutr Rev. 2022 Aug 8;80(9):2029-2050. doi: 10.1093/nutrit/nuac018. PMID: 35389473.
Moran NE, Thomas-Ahner JM, Wan L, Zuniga KE, Erdman JW, Clinton SK. Tomatoes, lycopene, and prostate cancer: What have we learned from experimental models? J Nutr. 2022 Jun 9;152(6):1381-1403. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxac066. PMID: 35278075; PMCID: PMC9178968.
Chumpitazi CE, Camp EA, Cuevas-Guaman M, Doughty C, Kancherla B, Lingappan K, Moran NE, Murray KO, Perez O, Shekerdemian LS, O'Connor TM. Vision 2020: How Caregiving and Work Productivity Outlook Shifted for Academic Pediatric Faculty. J Women's Health (Larchmt). 2022 May;31(5):631-639. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2021.0555. Epub 2022 Feb 14. PMID: 35167379.
Moran NE, Thomas-Ahner JM, Smith JW, Silva S, Hason NA, Erdman JW, Clinton SK. Beta-carotene Oxygenase 2 Genotype Modulates the Impact of Dietary Lycopene on Gene Expression During Early TRAMP Prostate Carcinogenesis. J Nutr. 2021;4:950-960. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxab445.
2021
Cepni AB, Taylor A, Crumbley C, Thompson D, Moran NE, Olvera N, O’Connor DP, Arlinghaus KR, Johnston CA, Ledoux TA. Feasibility and efficacy of the “FUNPALS” Playgroup” intervention to improve toddler dietary and activity behaviors: A pilot randomized, controlled trial. Int J Environ Res Pub Hlth. 2021;18:7828. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18157828
Cepni AB, Taylor A, Thompson D, Moran NE, Olvera N, O’Connor DP, Johnston CA, Ledoux TA. Exploring qualities of ethnically diverse parents related to the healthy home environment of toddlers. Appetite. 2021; 167. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.10560. Pubmed PMID: 34302899
Jilcott Pitts SB, Moran NE, Wu Q, Harnack L, Craft N, Hanchard NA, Bell R, Moe SG, Johnson N, Obasohan J, Carr-Manth PL, Laska M. Pressure-mediated reflection spectroscopy criterion validity as a biomarker of fruit and vegetable intake: a two-site cross-sectional study of four racial or ethnic groups. J Nutr. 2021 Sep 25. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxa349. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34562088
Radtke MD, Pow M, Stookey J, Jilcott Pitts S, Moran NE, Landry MJ, Rubin LP, Stage VC, Scherr RE. Recommendations for the use of the Veggie Meter® for spectroscopy-based skin carotenoid measurements in the research setting. Curr Dev Nutr. 2021. doi: 10.1093/cdn/nzab104
2020
Ross AC, Moran NE. Our current Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin A—now 20 years old. Curr Dev Nutr. 2020;4:10:nzaa096. doi: 10.1093/cdn/nzaa096 PMID: 32999953.
Raber M, Basen-Engquist K, Moran NE, Chandra J. The Healthy Cooking Index dose not Predict the Carotenoid Content of Home-Cooked Meals. Nutrients. 2020; 12;2:524.
2019
Moran NE, Thomas-Ahner JM, Fleming JF, McElroy JP, Mehl R, Grainger EM, Riedl KM, Toland AE, Schwartz SJ, Clinton SK. Single nucleotide polymorphisms in beta-carotene oxygenase 1 are associated with plasma lycopene responses to a tomato-soy juice intervention in men with prostate cancer. J Nutr. 2019. Epub 25 Feb 2019. PMID: 30801647.
2018
Grainger EM, Moran NE, Francis DM, Schwartz SJ, Wan L, Thomas-Ahner J, Kopec RE, Riedl KM, Young GS, Abaza R, Bahnson RR, Clinton SK. A Novel Tomato-Soy Juice Induces a Dose-Response Increase in Urinary and Plasma Phytochemical Biomarkers in Men with Prostate Cancer. J Nutr. 2019 Jan 1;149(1):26-35. Pubmed PMID: 30476157.
Zuniga KE & Moran NE. Low serum carotenoids are associated with self-reported cognitive dysfunction and inflammatory markers in breast cancer survivors. Nutrients. 2018;10:1111. Pubmed PMID: 30126098.
Moran NE, Mohn ES, Hason N, Erdman, Jr. JW, Johnson EJ. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Impacting Absorption, Metabolism, and Health Effects of Dietary Carotenoids. Adv Nutr. 2018;9:465–92. Pubmed PMID: 30032230.
Cichon M, Moran N, Riedl K, Schwartz S, Clinton S. Identification of an Epoxide Metabolite of Lycopene in Human Plasma Using 13C-Labeling and QTOF-MS. Metabolites. 2018;8(1):24. Pubmed PMID: 29558381.
Jilcott Pitts SB, Jahns L, Wu Q, Moran NE, Bell RA, Truesdale KP, Laska MN. A non-invasive assessment of skin carotenoid status through reflection spectroscopy is a feasible, reliable and potentially valid measure of fruit and vegetable consumption in a diverse community sample. Publ Health Nutr. 2018;21(9):1664-1670. Pubmed PMID: 29455692.
2017
Tan HL, Thomas-Ahner JM, Moran NE, Cooperstone JL, Erdman JW Jr, Young GS, Clinton SK. β-Carotene 9',10' Oxygenase Modulates the Anticancer Activity of Dietary Tomato or Lycopene on Prostate Carcinogenesis in the TRAMP Model. Cancer Prev Res. 2017 Feb;10(2):161-169. Pubmed PMID: 27807077
Moran NE, Johnson EJ. Closer to clarity on the effect of lipid consumption on fat-soluble vitamin and carotenoid absorption: do we need to close in further? Am J Clin Nutr. 2017 Oct;106(4):969-970. PMID: 28903956
2016
Smith JW, Ford NA, Thomas-Ahner JM, Moran NE, Bolton EC, Wallig MA, et al. Mice lacking β-carotene-15,15'-dioxygenase exhibit reduced serum testosterone, prostatic androgen receptor signaling, and prostatic cellular proliferation.Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2016;311:R1135–48. Pubmed PMID: 27629887
Moran NE, Novotny JA, Cichon MJ, Grainger EM, Rogers RB, Riedl KM, Schwartz SJ, Erdman JW Jr, Clinton SK Absorption and Distribution Kinetics of the 13C-Labeled Tomato Carotenoid Phytoene in Healthy Adults. J Nutr. 2016 February;146(2):368-76. Pubmed PMID:26674763