Publications by authors named "Sonia Amin"

Pediatric patients often work with multiple health care providers for complex presenting concerns. This complexity has called for pediatric health care providers to strengthen interdisciplinary relationships with mental health providers to meet patient needs. Integrated behavioral health collaborative practice models, using the Interprofessional Education Collaborative competencies, provide the necessary scaffolding to train medical and mental health professionals.

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The constitutively-expressed cyclooxygenase 1 (COX-1) and the inducible COX-2 are both involved in the conversion of arachidonic acid (AA) to prostaglandins (PGs). However, the functional roles of COX-1 at the cellular level remain unclear. We hypothesized that by comparing differential gene expression and eicosanoid metabolism in lung fibroblasts from wild-type (WT) mice and COX-2(-/-) or COX-1(-/-) mice may help address the functional roles of COX-1 in inflammation and other cellular functions.

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