Division Faculty

Christopher R. Marino, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Physiology
Chief, Medical Service, V.A. Medical Center Memphis

Medical School:

Cornell University Medical College, 1982

Residency:

University of Texas, San Antonio

Fellowship:

Gastroenterology, Yale University School of Medicine

Board Cerification:

American Board of Internal Medicine

American Board of Internal Medicine, (Gastroenterology)

Clinical Interests: Pancreatic diseases

Research Interests: Plasma membrane stability and intracellular trafficking of CFTR.

Selected Publications:

1 .  Marino, C.R., Matovcik, L.M., Gorelick, F.S., and Cohn, J.A. 1991.  Localization of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator in pancreas. J. Clin. Invest. 88:712-716. [cited in the 1992 Yearbooks of Medicine and Gastroenterology].

2 .  Webster, P., Vanacore, L., Nairn, A.C., and Marino, C.R. 1994.  Subcellular localization of CFTR to endosomes in a ductal epithelium. Am. J. Physiol., 267:C340-348.

3 .  Ameen, N.A., Ardito, T., Kashgarian, M., and Marino, C.R.  1995.  A unique subset of rat and human intestinal villus cells express the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator. Gastroenterol. 108:1016-1023.

4 . Marino, C.R., Jeanes, V., Boron, W.F., and Schmitt, B.M.  1999.  Expression and distribution of the Na+-HCO3- cotransporter in human pancreas.  Am. J. Physiol., 277:G487-G494.

5. Heda, G.D., Tanwani, M., and Marino, C.R.  2001.  The DF508 mutation shortens the biochemical half-life of plasma membrane CFTR in polarized epithelial cells.  Am. J. Physiol. (Cell Physiology) 280:C166-C174.

Book Chapters:

Marino, C.R. and Gorelick, F.S.  2002. Pancreatic and Salivary Glands.  In: Medical Physiology: A Cellular and Molecular Approach. Boron, W.F. and Boulpaep, E., eds.  W.B. Saunders.