Dr. Soulika received a BSc in Chemistry, from the University of Patras, Greece. She obtained her Master’s degree in Bio-molecules and Applications from the University of Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France and earned her PhD from the University of Patras, Greece. Her graduate studies focusing on interaction of immune proteins were carried out at the University of Pennsylvania. After completing her thesis, she joined the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia as a postdoctoral fellow and later at the Children Hospital of Philadelphia, where she trained at the pathogenesis of disorders of the central nervous system. In 2005, she moved to Sacramento, as a research fellow at the Institute of Pediatric Regenerative Medicine/Shriners Hospital, where, she became an Assistant Investigator in 2007. In 2010 she was recruited as an Assistant Professor at the department of Dermatology at the UC Davis School of Medicine.
Athena Soulika
Assistant Professor
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Systemic TAK-242 prevents intrathecal LPS evoked hyperalgesia in male, but not female mice and prevents delayed allodyni...
...Published in Brain Behavior and Immunity
Objective: Pain resulting from local tissue injury or inflammation typically resolves with time. Frequently, however, this pain may unexpectedly persist, becoming a pathological chronic state. Increasingly, the innate and adaptive immune systems are being implicated in the initiation and maintenance of these persistent conditions. In particular, To...
Herpes simplex virus type 1 glycoprotein gC mediates immune evasion in vivo.
...Published in Journal of Virology
Many microorganisms encode proteins that interact with molecules involved in host immunity; however, few of these molecules have been proven to promote immune evasion in vivo. Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) glycoprotein C (gC) binds complement component C3 and inhibits complement-mediated virus neutralization and lysis of infected cells in vit...
Origins and significance of astrogliosis in the multiple sclerosis model, MOG peptide EAE.
Published in Journal of the Neurological Sciences
Astroglia, the most abundant cells in the human CNS, and even more prominent in multiple sclerosis patients, participate in CNS innate and adaptive immunity, and have been hypothesized to play an important role in multiple sclerosis progression. Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis elicited in mice by immunization with myelin oligodendrocyte g...
