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Illimar Altosaar
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Latest papers
Human milk extracellular vesicles modulate inflammation and cell survival in intestinal and immune cells.
Pediatric research · 2025
Gestational age at birth influences protein and RNA content in human milk extracellular vesicles.
Journal of extracellular biology · 2024
An ABA-serotonin module regulates root suberization and salinity tolerance.
The New phytologist · 2022
Latest funding
- $999,999
Rapid Research Response to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak: Development of Targeted Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Comparative Pathogenicity Assessment
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
- $661,726
Effect of human milk exosomal microRNAs on intestinal cells
CIHR · 2018 · Co-investigator
- $23,000
Dairy cow management may benefit from plant nucleic acids - testing microRNAs from milk and meadowgrass wildflower, Heal-All or Selfheal - Prunella vulgaris
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
34 publications.
Human milk extracellular vesicles modulate inflammation and cell survival in intestinal and immune cells.
Vahkal B, Altosaar I, Ariana A, Jabbour J, Pantieras F, Daniel R, Tremblay É, Sad S, Beaulieu JF, Côté M, Ferretti E
Gestational age at birth influences protein and RNA content in human milk extracellular vesicles.
Vahkal B, Altosaar I, Tremblay E, Gagné D, Hüttman N, Minic Z, Côté M, Blais A, Beaulieu JF, Ferretti E
An ABA-serotonin module regulates root suberization and salinity tolerance.
Lu HP, Gao Q, Han JP, Guo XH, Wang Q, Altosaar I, Barberon M, Liu JX, Gatehouse AMR, Shu QY
Three Diverse Granule Preparation Methods for Proteomic Analysis of Mature Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Starch Grain.
Provost Z, Hansen EO, Lynds MV, Flinn BS, Minic Z, Berezovski MV, Altosaar I
Review of Methodological Approaches to Human Milk Small Extracellular Vesicle Proteomics.
Vahkal B, Kraft J, Ferretti E, Chung M, Beaulieu JF, Altosaar I
Roles of MicroRNA across Prenatal and Postnatal Periods.
Floris I, Kraft JD, Altosaar I
Ingested soluble CD14 contributes to the functional pool of circulating sCD14 in mice.
Ward TL, Goto K, Altosaar I
Ingested soluble CD14 from milk is transferred intact into the blood of newborn rats.
Ward TL, Spencer WJ, Davis LD, Harrold J, Mack DR, Altosaar I
Indica rice cultivar IRGA 424, transformed with cry genes of B. thuringiensis, provided high resistance against Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).
Pinto LM, Fiuza LM, Ziegler D, De Oliveira JV, Menezes VG, Bourrié I, Meynard D, Guiderdoni E, Breitler JC, Altosaar I, Gantet P
Human milk metagenome: a functional capacity analysis.
Ward TL, Hosid S, Ioshikhes I, Altosaar I
Rapid Research Response to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak: Development of Targeted Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Comparative Pathogenicity Assessment
Principal investigators: Langlois, Marc-Andre
Keywords: 2019-Ncov; Coronavirus; Covid-19; Diagnostics; Mers; Pathogenicity; Sars; Sars-Cov-2; Vaccine; Viral Evolution
Effect of human milk exosomal microRNAs on intestinal cells
Principal investigators: Beaulieu, Jean-François
Keywords: Cytokine Expression; Exosomes; Extracellular Vesicles; Human Milk; Immune Tolerance; Intestinal Cells; Intestinal Inflammatory Response; Microrna; Organ Culture; Targets Of Micrornas
Dairy cow management may benefit from plant nucleic acids - testing microRNAs from milk and meadowgrass wildflower, Heal-All or Selfheal - Prunella vulgaris
Principal investigators: Altosaar, Illimar
Growth and development of the wheat starch granule associated proteome during growth and development of the seed
Principal investigators: Altosaar, Illimar
Identification and characterization of antimicrobial proteins from the starch granule surface proteome
Principal investigators: Altosaar, Illimar
A liquid scintillation counter for biochemical research
Principal investigators: Baenziger, John
Starch granule membrane lipid transfer protein as piggyback carrier of molecular pharming production of recombinant proteins
Principal investigators: Altosaar, Illimar
Enhancing food safety of the table egg: understanding and augmenting antibacterial activity in the eggshell and egg white
Principal investigators: Hincke, Maxwell
Green Crop Network
Principal investigators: Smith, Donald
Grain softness protein, puroindolines, tryptophanins: molecular basis for milling softness
Principal investigators: Altosaar, Illimar
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Subash Sad and Alexandre Blais: 3 shared papers
- Alexandre Blais and Ilya Ioshikhes: 3 shared papers
- Emanuela Ferretti and Illimar Altosaar: 3 shared papers
- Subash Sad and Emanuela Ferretti: 1 shared paper
- Subash Sad and Illimar Altosaar: 1 shared paper
- Daniel Figeys and Alexandre Blais: 1 shared paper
- Daniel Figeys and Illimar Altosaar: 1 shared paper
- Daniel Figeys and Jeffrey Smith: 1 shared paper
- Alexandre Blais and Emanuela Ferretti: 1 shared paper
- Alexandre Blais and Illimar Altosaar: 1 shared paper
- May Griffith and Illimar Altosaar: 1 shared paper
- Illimar Altosaar and Ilya Ioshikhes: 1 shared paper
- Illimar Altosaar and Jeffrey Smith: 1 shared paper
- Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
- Pediatrics
- Department of Chemistry
- Other
Co-authors at University of Ottawa, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Emanuela Ferretti
Pediatrics
3 shared papers, latest 2025
Jeffrey Smith
Department of Chemistry
1 shared papers, latest 2010
Ilya Ioshikhes
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
1 shared papers, latest 2013
Subash Sad
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Daniel Figeys
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
1 shared papers, latest 2010
Alexandre Blais
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
1 shared papers, latest 2024
May Griffith
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2005
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