Curriculum Vitae 

Research Interest

Myocardial contractility; electron microscopy; ultrastructure of atherosclerosis.

Representative Publications

Haberland, M.E., G. Mottino, M. Le, and J. S. Frank, Sequestration of aggregated LDL by macrophages studied with freeze-etch electron microscopy, J. Lipid Res., 42:605-619, 2001.

Tamminen, M., G. Mottino, J. H. Qiao, J. L. Breslow, and J. S. Frank, Ultrastructure of early lipid accumulation in apo-E-deficient mice, Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol., 19:847-853, 1999.

Nievelstein-Post, P., G. Mottino, A. Fogelman, and J. Frank, An ultrastructural study of lipoprotein accumulation in cardiac valves of the rabbit, Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol., 14:1151-1161, 1994.

Frank, J. S. and A. Garfinkel, Immunolocalization and structural configuration of membrane and cytoskeletal proteins involved in excitation-coupling or cardiac muscle, in The Myocardium, Second edition, G. Langer, ed., Academic Press, 1997.