Chandrakant Tayade

(DVM Nagpur, MVSc, PhD Izatnagar | Adjunct Professor)

Contact Information

Email: ctayade@uoguelph.ca | tayadec@queensu.ca

Areas of Interest

  • Regulation of angiogenesis at the maternal-fetal interface
  • Role of natural killer cells and dendritic cells in successful or abortive porcine pregnancy
  • Role of chemokines and decoy receptors during pregnancy

Current Graduate Students

Kasra Khalaj, B.Sc. (Waterloo)
- M.Sc. candidate

 

Andrew Edwards, B.Sc. (Guelph)
Pro-angiogenic and anti-angiogenic factors and their relation to porcine pregnancy success or failure.
- M.Sc. candidate - GRADUATED S'10

Ashley Kerr, B.Sc.H. (Guelph)
Expression of Leptin & its Long Form Receptor at the Porcine Maternal-Fetal Interface: Contrasting Healthy & Arresting Attachment Sites during Early and Mid-Pregnancy.
- MBS candidate - GRADUATED W'12

Nicola Linton, B.Sc. (Scotland)
Contributions of cytokines, dendritic cells and toll like receptors in conceptus success and failure during porcine pregnancy.
- M.Sc. candidate - GRADUATED S'08

Adam Long, B.Sc. (Guelph)
Lymphangiogenesis as it pertains to successful and abortive porcine fetuses.
- M.Sc. candidate - GRADUATED S'09

Germaine Miese-Looy, B.Sc.H. (Guelph)
The insulin-like growth factor family members and their role in porcine placental development.
- M.Sc. candidate - GRADUATED S'09

Jocelyn Wessels, B.Sc. (Guelph)
Chemokine and chemokine decoy receptor contributions to fetal success and failure during porcine pregnancy.
- M.Sc. candidate GRADUATED W'08

Selected References

  • Miese-Looy G, van den Heuvel MJ, Edwards AK, Lamarre J, Tayade C. 2011. Expression of insulin like growth factor family members in porcine pregnancy. Journal of Reprod and Dev ( In Press).
  • Edwards AK, van den Heuvel MJ, Wessels JM, Lamarre J, Croy BA, Tayade C. 2011. Expression of angiogenic basic fibroblast growth factor, platelet derived growth factor, thrombospondin-1 and their receptors at the porcine maternal-fetal interface. Reprod Biol Endocrinol. 2011 Jan 17;9:5.
  • Wessels JM, Linton NF, van den Heuvel MJ, Cnossen SA, Edwards AK, Croy BA, Tayade C. 2011. Expression of chemokine decoy receptors and their ligands at the porcine maternal-fetal interface. Immunol Cell Biol. 2011 Feb;89(2):304-13. Epub 2010 Aug 3.
  • Croy BA, Zhang J, Tayade C, Colucci F, Yadi H, Yamada AT. 2010. Analysis of uterine natural killer cells in mice. Methods Mol Biol. 2010;612:465-503.
  • Croy BA, Wessels JM, Linton NF, van den Heuvel M, Edwards AK, Tayade C. 2009. Cellular and molecular events in early and mid gestation porcine implantation sites: a review. Soc Reprod Fertil Suppl. 2009;66:233-44. Review.
  • Linton NF, Wessels JM, Cnossen SA, Croy BA, Tayade C. 2008. Immunological mechanisms affecting angiogenesis and their relation to porcine pregnancy success or failure. Immunol Invest. 37: 1-19.
  • Wessels JM, Linton NF, Croy BA, Tayade C. 2007. A review of molecular contrasts between arresting and viable porcine attachment sites. Am J Reprod Immunol. 58(6):470-80.
  • Tayade C, Fang Y, Hilchie D, Croy BA. 2007. Lymphocyte contributions to altered endometrial angiogenesis during early and midgestation fetal loss. J Leukoc Biol. 82(4):877-86.
  • Tayade C, Hilchie D, He H, Fang Y, Moons L, Carmeliet P, Foster RA, Croy BA. 2007. Genetic deletion of placenta growth factor in mice alters uterine NK cells. J Immunol. 178(7):4267-75.
  • Tayade C, Black GP, Fang Y, Croy BA. 2006. Differential gene expression in endometrium, endometrial lymphocytes, and trophoblasts during successful and abortive embryo implantation. J Immunol. 176(1):148-56.
  • Tayade C, Fang Y, Black GP, V A P Jr, Erlebacher A, Croy BA. 2005. Differential transcription of Eomes and T-bet during maturation of mouse uterine natural killer cells. J Leukoc Biol. 78(6):1347-55.
  • Tayade C, Esadeg S, Fang Y, Croy BA. 2005. Functions of alpha 2 macroglobulins in pregnancy. Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2005 Dec 21;245(1-2):60-6.