Sergio Villalta • UCI Profiles

Sergio Armando Villalta

Title(s)	Associate Professor, Physiology and Biophysics
School	School of Medicine
Address	1001 Health Sciences Road Irvine CA 92697-3950
Phone	(949) 824-6150
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Research

Research Activities and Funding

Novel macrophage and regulatory T cell interactions that promote the pathogenesis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
NIH R01NS120060Sep 30, 2020 - Aug 31, 2025
Role: Principal Investigator

Tolerization of dystrophin and adeno-associated virus immunity
NIH R21NS114918Apr 1, 2020 - Mar 31, 2022
Role: Principal Investigator

Group 2 innate lymphoid cells in tissue regeneration
NIH R21AI134657Jul 14, 2017 - Jun 30, 2020
Role: Principal Investigator

Regulatory T cells in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
NIH F32AR063575Aug 1, 2013 - Jul 31, 2016
Role: Principal Investigator

Immune and muscle cell interactions that modulate dystrophinopathy
NIH F31AR054724Sep 25, 2006 - Aug 31, 2010
Role: Principal Investigator

Bibliographic

Publications

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NAAA-regulated lipid signaling in monocytes controls the induction of hyperalgesic priming in mice. Nat Commun. 2024 Feb 24; 15(1):1705. Fotio Y, Mabou Tagne A, Squire E, Lee HL, Phillips CM, Chang K, Ahmed F, Greenberg AS, Villalta SA, Scarfone VM, Spadoni G, Mor M, Piomelli D. PMID: 38402219; PMCID: PMC10894261.

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Bio Biology Sci Science
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
Dysfunction of the aging female mouse urethra is associated with striated muscle loss and increased fibrosis: an initial report. Am J Clin Exp Urol. 2023; 11(6):516-529. Sadeghi Z, Wu YX, Vu A, Song L, Phan W, Kim J, Keast JR, Balis U, DeLancey J, Villalta SA, Zi X. PMID: 38148939; PMCID: PMC10749384.

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Microglia promote anti-tumour immunity and suppress breast cancer brain metastasis. Nat Cell Biol. 2023 Dec; 25(12):1848-1859. Evans KT, Blake K, Longworth A, Coburn MA, Insua-Rodríguez J, McMullen TP, Nguyen QH, Ma D, Lev T, Hernandez GA, Oganyan AK, Orujyan D, Edwards RA, Pridans C, Green KN, Villalta SA, Blurton-Jones M, Lawson DA. PMID: 37957324.

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Cel Cell Biology
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics identify a macrophage population associated with skeletal muscle fibrosis. Sci Adv. 2023 07 07; 9(27):eadd9984. Coulis G, Jaime D, Guerrero-Juarez C, Kastenschmidt JM, Farahat PK, Nguyen Q, Pervolarakis N, McLinden K, Thurlow L, Movahedi S, Hughes BS, Duarte J, Sorn A, Montoya E, Mozaffar I, Dragan M, Othy S, Joshi T, Hans CP, Kimonis V, MacLean AL, Nie Q, Wallace LM, Harper SQ, Mozaffar T, Hogarth MW, Bhattacharya S, Jaiswal JK, Golann DR, Su Q, Kessenbrock K, Stec M, Spencer MJ, Zamudio JR, Villalta SA. PMID: 37418531; PMCID: PMC10328414.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 6 Fields:
Sci Science
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics identify a macrophage population associated with skeletal muscle fibrosis. bioRxiv. 2023 Apr 18. Coulis G, Jaime D, Guerrero-Juarez C, Kastenschmidt JM, Farahat PK, Nguyen Q, Pervolarakis N, McLinden K, Thurlow L, Movahedi S, Duarte J, Sorn A, Montoya E, Mozaffar I, Dragan M, Othy S, Joshi T, Hans CP, Kimonis V, MacLean AL, Nie Q, Wallace LM, Harper SQ, Mozaffar T, Hogarth MW, Bhattacharya S, Jaiswal JK, Golann DR, Su Q, Kessenbrock K, Stec M, Spencer MJ, Zamudio JR, Villalta SA. PMID: 37131694; PMCID: PMC10153153.

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Correlations of disease severity outcome measures in inclusion body myositis. Neuromuscul Disord. 2022 10; 32(10):800-805. Goyal NA, Greenberg SA, Cauchi J, Araujo N, Li V, Wencel M, Irani T, Wang LH, Palma AM, Villalta SA, Mozaffar T. PMID: 36050251; PMCID: PMC10069380.

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Neu Neurology
Translation:Humans
Immunophenotyping of Inclusion Body Myositis Blood T and NK Cells. Neurology. 2022 03 29; 98(13):e1374-e1383. Goyal NA, Coulis G, Duarte J, Farahat PK, Mannaa AH, Cauchii J, Irani T, Araujo N, Wang L, Wencel M, Li V, Zhang L, Greenberg SA, Mozaffar T, Villalta SA. PMID: 35131904; PMCID: PMC8967422.

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Neu Neurology
Translation:Humans Cells
Epidermis-Intrinsic Transcription Factor Ovol1 Coordinately Regulates Barrier Maintenance and Neutrophil Accumulation in Psoriasis-Like Inflammation. J Invest Dermatol. 2022 03; 142(3 Pt A):583-593.e5. Dragan M, Sun P, Chen Z, Ma X, Vu R, Shi Y, Villalta SA, Dai X. PMID: 34461129; PMCID: PMC9968377.

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Der Dermatology
Translation:Animals Cells
Exosome loaded immunomodulatory biomaterials alleviate local immune response in immunocompetent diabetic mice post islet xenotransplantation. Commun Biol. 2021 06 03; 4(1):685. Mohammadi MR, Rodriguez SM, Luong JC, Li S, Cao R, Alshetaiwi H, Lau H, Davtyan H, Jones MB, Jafari M, Kessenbrock K, Villalta SA, de Vos P, Zhao W, Lakey JRT. PMID: 34083739; PMCID: PMC8175379.

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A stromal progenitor and ILC2 niche promotes muscle eosinophilia and fibrosis-associated gene expression. Cell Rep. 2021 04 13; 35(2):108997. Kastenschmidt JM, Coulis G, Farahat PK, Pham P, Rios R, Cristal TT, Mannaa AH, Ayer RE, Yahia R, Deshpande AA, Hughes BS, Savage AK, Giesige CR, Harper SQ, Locksley RM, Mozaffar T, Villalta SA. PMID: 33852849; PMCID: PMC8127948.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 15 Fields:
Cel Cell Biology Mol Molecular Biology
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
QuantiMus: A Machine Learning-Based Approach for High Precision Analysis of Skeletal Muscle Morphology. Front Physiol. 2019; 10:1416. Kastenschmidt JM, Ellefsen KL, Mannaa AH, Giebel JJ, Yahia R, Ayer RE, Pham P, Rios R, Vetrone SA, Mozaffar T, Villalta SA. PMID: 31849692; PMCID: PMC6895564.

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Erratum to: Functional Analysis of Membrane Proteins Produced by Cell-Free Translation. Methods Mol Biol. 2018; 1687:E1. Kastenschmidt JM, Avetyan I, Villalta SA. PMID: 29427267.

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Mol Molecular Biology
Characterization of the Inflammatory Response in Dystrophic Muscle Using Flow Cytometry. Methods Mol Biol. 2018; 1687:43-56. Kastenschmidt JM, Avetyan I, Villalta SA. PMID: 29067655; PMCID: PMC5920697.

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Mol Molecular Biology
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
Identification of IL-40, a Novel B Cell-Associated Cytokine. J Immunol. 2017 11 01; 199(9):3326-3335. Catalan-Dibene J, Vazquez MI, Luu VP, Nuccio SP, Karimzadeh A, Kastenschmidt JM, Villalta SA, Ushach I, Pone EJ, Casali P, Raffatellu M, Burkhardt AM, Hernandez-Ruiz M, Heller G, Hevezi PA, Zlotnik A. PMID: 28978694; PMCID: PMC5667921.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 9 Fields:
All Allergy and Immunology
Translation:Humans Animals Cells