Faculty Biography

Dr. J. Marc Rhoads

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Education:

B.A., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

M.D., Johns Hopkins Medical School

Residency, UCLA Hospital and Clinics, Los Angeles, CA

Fellowship, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Clinical and Research Interests:

1. Diarrheal disease, particularly rotavirus diarrhea
2. Infantile colic
3. Irritable bowel syndrome
4. Inflammatory bowel disease

Publications (selected):

• Blikslager AT, Rhoads JM, Bristol DG, Roberts MC, Argenzio RA. Glutamine and transforming growth factor-a stimulate extracellular regulated kinases and enhance recovery of villous surface area in porcine ischemic-injured intestine. Surgery 1999; 125: 186-194.
• Blikslager AT, Roberts MC, Young K, Rhoads JM, Argenzio RA. Genistein augments prostaglandin-induced recovery of barrier function in ischemic-injured porcine ileum. Am J Physiol 278(2):G207-G216, 2000.
• JM Rhoads, RA Argenzio, W Chen, LM Graves, LL Licato, AT Blikslager, J Smith, J Gatzy, DA Brenner. Glutamine metabolism stimulates intestinal cell MAPKs by a cAMP-inhibitable, Raf-independent mechanism. Gastroenterology 2000; 118:90-100.
• Blikslager A, Hunt E, Guerrant R, Rhoads M, Argenzio R. Glutamine transporter in crypts compensates for loss of villus absorption in bovine cryptosporidiosis. Am. J. Physiol. 2001; 281(3): G645-G653.
• E Hunt, Q Fu, M Armstrong, D Rennix, D Webster, J Galanko, W Chen, E Weaver, R Argenzio, JM Rhoads. Oral bovine serum concentrate improves cryptosporidial enteritis in calves. Pediatr Res. 2002, 51(3):370-6.
• Gookin J. Rhoads JM, Argenzio RA. Inducible nitric oxide synthase mediates early epithelial repair of porcine ileum. Am. J. Physiol. 283(1): G157-G168, 2002.
• Rhoads JM, Gookin J, Chen W, Wu G, Fu Q, Blikslager AT, Rippe RA, Argenzio RA, Cance WG, Weaver EM, Romer LH. Arginine stimulates intestinal cell migration through a focal adhesion kinase-dependent mechanism. Gut, 2004;53: 514-522.
• J. Marc Rhoads, Xiao Mei Niu, Jack Odle, Jody Gookin, Qiang Fu, and Lee M. Graves. mTor signaling is required for intestinal cell migration. Am J Physiol. Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2006; 291:G510-G517.
• Rhoads JM, Corl B, Harrell R, Niu X, Gatlin L, Phillips O, Blikslager A, Moeser A, Wu G, Odle J. Intestinal ribosomal p70s6k signaling is increased in piglet rotavirus enteritis. Am J Physiol. Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2007; in press.

Clinical Papers

• Bhutta ZA, Ghishan F, Lindley K, Memon IA, Mittal S, Rhoads JM. Commonwealth Association of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. Persistent and chronic diarrhea and malabsorption: Working Group report of the second World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2004 Jun;39 Suppl 2:S711-6.
• Rhoads JM, Emily Plunkett, Joseph Galanko, Steven Lichtman, Lesli Taylor, Angela Maynor, Timothy Weiner, Katherine Freeman, J Lindhe Guarisco, and GuoYao Wu. Serum citrulline levels correlate with enteral tolerance and bowel length in infants with short bowel syndrome. J Pediatr. 2005 Apr;146(4):542-7.
• Lichtman SN, Freeman KB, Rhoads JM. Corticosteroid-responsive enteropathy of infancy. J. Health, Population, Nutr. 2005; 23(4):331-338.

 

Location & Contact

6431 Fannin Street
MSB 3.020
Houston, Texas 77030
713-500-5757 (Voice)

Faculty Biography

• Dr. J. Marc Rhoads
  Professor
• Department of Pediatrics
  Division of Gastroenterology & Nutrition
• University of Texas-Houston Medical School
  6431 Fannin Street, MSB 3.137
  Houston, Texas 77030
• phone: (713) 500-5663
  fax: (713) 500-5750
  e-mail: j.marc.rhoads@ uth.tmc.edu