Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Chief, Division of Neonatology UC, Davis School of Medicine

Neonat/Perinatology

Mark Underwood is an expert in the field of Neonat/Perinatology. He studied medicine at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He over the years received 1 awards: "Fellow (FAAP)". Mark Underwood is a published MD. He has 63 papers published. The most current publication "Overexpression of p53 protein and its significance for recurrent progressive bladder tumours."

Publications

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• Prevention of Necrotizing Enterocolitis Through Manipulation of the Intestinal Microbiota of the Premature Infant.
• Buccal administration of human colostrum: impact on the oral microbiota of premature infants.
• Validating bifidobacterial species and subspecies identity in commercial probiotic products.
• Human Milk Glycomics and Gut Microbial Genomics in Infant Feces Show a Correlation between Human Milk Oligosaccharides and Gut Microbiota: A Proof-of-Concept Study.
• The Impact of the Milk Glycobiome on the Neonate Gut Microbiota.
• Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis: champion colonizer of the infant gut.
• Detection of milk oligosaccharides in plasma of infants.
• Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis in experimental necrotizing enterocolitis: alterations in inflammation, innate immune response, and the microbiota.
• Stool Microbiota and Vaccine Responses of Infants.
• Intestinal dysbiosis: Novel mechanisms by which gut microbes trigger and prevent disease.
• An 'all-human' diet decreases days of parenteral nutrition compared with formula in premature infants.
• Rapid Measurement of Human Milk Macronutrients in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Accuracy and Precision of Fourier Transform Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy.
• Prebiotic Oligosaccharides In Premature Infants.
• Whole blood polymerase chain reaction in a neonate with disseminated herpes simplex virus infection and liver failure.
• A Comparison of Two Probiotic Strains of Bifidobacteria in Premature Infants.
• Helicobacter Hepaticus Increases Intestinal Injury in a Rat Model of Necrotizing Enterocolitis.
• Response to Letter to the Editor regarding "A quantitative and comprehensive method to analyze human milk oligosaccharide structures in the urine and feces of infants"
• Probiotic administration in congenital heart disease: a pilot study.
• A quantitative and comprehensive method to analyze human milk oligosaccharide structures in the urine and feces of infants.
• Human milk for the premature infant.
• Use of bifidobacterial specific terminal restriction fragment length polymorphisms to complement next generation sequence profiling of infant gut communities.
• Routine habitat change: a source of unrecognized transient alteration of intestinal microbiota in laboratory mice.
• Paneth cells and necrotizing enterocolitis: a novel hypothesis for disease pathogenesis.
• Lacto-N-Tetraose, Fucosylation, and Secretor Status Are Highly Variable in Human Milk Oligosaccharides From Women Delivering Preterm.
• Paneth cells and necrotizing enterocolitis.
• Human α-defensin 6 promotes mucosal innate immunity through self-assembled peptide nanonets.
• Hyperleukocytosis in a premature infant with intrauterine herpes simplex encephalitis.
• N-Linked Glycan Profiling of Mature Human Milk by High-Performance Microfluidic Chip Liquid Chromatography Time-of-Flight Tandem Mass Spectrometry.
• Intestinal microbiota and blue baby syndrome: Probiotic therapy for term neonates with cyanotic congenital heart disease.
• Defensin-barbed innate immunity: clinical associations in the pediatric population.
• A randomized placebo-controlled comparison of 2 prebiotic/probiotic combinations in preterm infants: impact on weight gain, intestinal microbiota, and fecal short-chai...
• Rapid determination of the bacterial composition of commercial probiotic products by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis.
• Vitamin antioxidants, lipid peroxidation and the systemic inflammatory response in patients with prostate cancer.
• Amniotic fluid: not just fetal urine anymore.
• Rapid discrimination of Bifidobacterium animalis subspecies by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry.
• Expression of hypoxia inducible factor-1 alpha in matched hormone naive and castrate resistant prostate cancer specimens.
• Systemic inflammatory response, prostate-specific antigen and survival in patients with metastatic prostate cancer.
• Near-infrared spectroscopy as a screening tool for patent ductus arteriosus in extremely low birth weight infants.
• Paneth cells, defensins, and the commensal microbiota: a hypothesis on intimate interplay at the intestinal mucosa.
• The relationship between angiogenesis and cyclooxygenase-2 expression in prostate cancer.
• Upregulation of MAPK pathway is associated with survival in castrate-resistant prostate cancer.
• Raf-1 expression may influence progression to androgen insensitive prostate cancer.
• Cost, causes and rates of rehospitalization of preterm infants.
• The relationship of circulating insulin-like growth factor 1, its binding protein-3, prostate-specific antigen and C-reactive protein with disease stage in prostate ca...
• Amplification of the androgen receptor may not explain the development of androgen-independent prostate cancer.
• The relationship between T-lymphocyte subset infiltration and survival in patients with prostate cancer.
• The CAG trinucleotide repeat length in the androgen receptor does not predict the early onset of prostate cancer.
• Comparison of total, complexed and free prostate-specific antigens and their ratios in the detection of prostate cancer in a non-screened population.
• The relationship between the systemic inflammatory response, tumour proliferative activity, T-lymphocytic infiltration and COX-2 expression and survival in patients wi...
• Heregulin expression and prognosis in prostate adenocarcinoma.
• The relationship between reduced vitamin antioxidant concentrations and the systemic inflammatory response in patients with common solid tumours.
• The relationship between interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein in patients with benign and malignant prostate disease.
• The relationship between the systemic inflammatory response and survival in patients with transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder.
• Overexpression of p53 protein and its significance for recurrent progressive bladder tumours.
• Gene amplification and overexpression of HER2 in renal cell carcinoma.
• Genetic aberrations of c-myc and CCND1 in the development of invasive bladder cancer.
• HER2/neu overexpression in the development of muscle-invasive transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder.
• Presence of tumoural C-reactive protein correlates with progressive prostate cancer.
• HER2/neu gene amplification and protein overexpression in G3 pT2 transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder: a role for anti-HER2 therapy?
• An improved method for semiquantification of gene amplification from archival material.
• Innate immunity and the role of defensins in otitis media.
• Necrotizing enterocolitis.

Schools

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• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center At Dallas

• UCLA Med Center

• UC Davis

Doctors Specialties

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• Neonatal Medicine
• Neonat/Perinatology

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow (FAAP)

Education

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• University of California Davis
• UCLA Medical Center
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical School

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