Deoraj, Alok
- Associate Teaching Professor, Environmental Health Sciences , Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work

Overview
overview
- Dr. Alok Deoraj has extensive teaching, research and management experience in academic and industry settings. His current primary focus is on teaching undergraduate, graduate and PhD students. Dr. Deoraj conducts research in the area of environmental toxicology to investigate the influence of complex environmental exposures on the neuroendocrine regulation (e.g., via Kisseptin, GABA and other neuropeptides) of Gonadotropin-releasing Hormone-II (GnRH-II) release and its downstream signaling on the timing of the onset of the puberty/adolescence. He is interested in finding whether timing of puberty is a risk factor for reproductive cancer and/or neurodegenerative diseases. His research may lead to identify exposome(s), environmental and epigenetic biomarkers which can be applied to conduct environmental health risk assessment for reproductive aging/cancer and neurodegenerative disorders.
research interests
- Environmental Toxicology
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected publications
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Article
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2017Environmental estrogen-like endocrine disrupting chemicals and breast cancerFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2016.10.003 Web of Science: 000413128000011
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2003Effects of controlled delivery and acute injections of LHRHa on bullseye puffer fish (Sphoeroides annulatus) spawningFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/S0044-8486(02)00299-5 Web of Science: 000181376100050
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2001Recombinant perciform GnRH-R activates different signaling pathways in fish and mammalian heterologous cell linesFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/S1096-4959(01)00325-6 Web of Science: 000169374800021
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1998GnRH analog stimulates gonadotropin II gene expression in maturing sockeye salmonFull Text via DOI: 10.2108/zsj.15.761 Web of Science: 000077864200021
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1998Gonadotropin-releasing hormone analog and sex steroids shorten homing duration of sockeye salmon in Lake ShikotsuFull Text via DOI: 10.2108/zsj.15.767 Web of Science: 000077864200022
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1998Multiple induced spawnings of the Indian catfish Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch) within a prolonged spawning seasonFull Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-7345.1998.tb00985.x Web of Science: 000074324100014
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1993INDUCED SPAWNING OF CATFISH, HETEROPNEUSTES-FOSSILIS (BLOCH), USING D-LYS(6) SALMON GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING-HORMONE ANALOGFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/0044-8486(93)90366-7 Web of Science: A1993LU21900014
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1989Gene transfer in fish embryos for increased productivityFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/0093-691X(89)90575-X
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Book Chapter
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2010Approaches to Identify Environmental and Epigenomic Components or Covariates of Cancer and Disease Susceptibility. 197-219.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6752-7_8 Web of Science: 000282535900008
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Conference
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2018Exosomal ID3 is pro-metastatic through guiding NRF1-induced breast cancer stem cells across the blood-brain-barrierFull Text via DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.AM2018-1128 Web of Science: 000468818903101
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Other Scholarly Work
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2010Differential role of estrogen receptor positive NRF1(High) and NRF1(Low) cells in breast cancer development and progression. S25-S25.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2010.01.021 Web of Science: 000209825000061
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Preprint
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Review
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2020The gut microbiome and neuropsychiatric disorders: implications for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). 14-24.Full Text via DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.001112 Web of Science: 000518384100003
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2011Estrogen-induced reactive oxygen species-mediated signalings contribute to breast cancer. 115-133.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2010.10.005 Web of Science: 000287124400009
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full name
- Alok Deoraj
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ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3725-3971 (confirmed)
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