Below are some of our publications for each research topic we focus on. For a full list of all the publications from our lab, visit the . Interstitial Cystitis Ward EP, Bartolone SN, Chancellor MB, Peters KM, Lamb LE. Proteomic analysis of bladder biopsies from interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome patients with and without Hunner’s lesions reveals differences in expression of inflammatory and structural proteins. BMC Uro. 2020 Nov 2;20(180).Chancellor MB, Bartolone SN, Veerecke A, Lamb LE. Crowdsourcing Disease Biomarker Discovery Research: The IP4IC Study. J Urol. 2018 May;199(5):1344-1350. Lamb LE, Janicki JJ, Bartolone SN, Peters KM, Chancellor MB. Development of an interstitial cystitis risk score for bladder permeability. PLoS One. 2017 Oct 31;12(10):e018568Lamb LE, Janicki JJ, Bartolone SN, Ward EP, Abraham N, Laudano M, Smith CP, Peters KM, Zwaans BMM, Chancelor MB. Risk Classification for Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome Using Machine Learning Based Predictions. Urology. 2024 Jul:189:19-26.Zwaans BMM, Mota S, Bartolone SN, Ward EP, Peters KM, Chancellor MB. Evaluating symptom severity and urinary cytokine levels in interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome patients, with and without Hunner's lesions. Am J Clin Exp Urol. 2024 Apr 15;12(2):110-118.Janicki JJ, Ward EP, Bartolone SN, Lamb LE, Abraham N, Laudano M, Smith CP, Peters KM, Zwaans BMM, Chancellor MB. Comparing online crowdsourcing with clinic patient enrollment: Findings from the IP4IC Study on interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome. Digit ealth. 2023 Nov21:9:20552072631216280.Sharma P, Lamb LE, Bartolone SN, Ward EP, Janicki JJ, Peters KM, Abraham N, Laudano M, Smith CP, Zwaans BMM, Chancellor MB. A Cost, Time, and Demographic Analysis of Participant Recruitment and Urine Sample Collection Through Social Media Optimization. Urol Pract. 2022 Nov;9(6):561-566.Ward EP, Bartolone SN, Sharma P, Chancellor MB, Lamb LE. Using social media to crowdsource collection of urine samples during a national pandemic. Int Urol Nephrol 2022 Mar;54(3):493-498. Radiation Cystitis Zwaans BM, Wegner KA, Bartolone SN, Vezina CM, Chancellor MB, Lamb LE. Radiation cystitis modeling: A comparative study of bladder fibrosis radiosensitivity in C57BL/6, C3H, and BALB/c mice. Physiol Rep. 2020 Feb, 8(4) e143777.Zwaans BM, Krueger S, Bartolone SN, Chancellor MB, Marples B, Lamb LE. Modeling of chronic radiation-induced cystitis in mice. Adv Radiat Oncol. 2016 Oct-Dec;1(4):333-343. Zwaans BM, Chancellor MB, Lamb LE. Modeling and Treatment of Radiation Cystitis. Urology. 2016 Feb;88:14-21. Review.Mota S, Ward EP, Bartolone SN, Chancellor MB, Zwaans BMM. Identification of Molecular Mechanisms in Radiation Cystitis: Insights from RNA Sequencing. Int J Mol Sci. 2024 Feb 23;25(5):2632.Zwaans BMM, Carabulea AL, Bartolone SN, Ward EP, Chancellor MB, Lamb LE. Voiding defects in acute radiation cystitis driven by urothelial barrier defect through loss of E-cadherin, ZO-1 and Uroplakin III. Sci Rep. 2021 Sep 29;11(1):19277.Zwaans BMM, Heinz NE, Chancellor MB, Lamb LE. Prostate cancer survivors with symptoms of radiation cystitis have elevated fibrotic and vascular proteins in urine. PLoS One. 2020 Oct 29;15(10):e0241388. Underactive Bladder Chancellor MB, Bartolone SN, Lamb LE, Ward EP, Zwaans BMM, Diokno A. Underactive Bladder: Review of Progress and Impact From The International CURE-UAB Initiative. Int Neurourol J. 2020 Jan;24(1):53-61. Chuang YC, Plata M, Lamb LE, Chancellor MB. Underactive Bladder in Older Adults. Clin Geriatr Med. 2015 Nov;31(4):523-33. Dewulf K, Abraham N, Lamb LE, Griebling TL, Yoshiura N, Tyagi P, Vereecke A, Bartolone SN, Zwaans BMM, De Ridder D, Diokno A, Chancellor MB. Addressing challenges in underactive bladder: recommendations and insights from the Congress on Underactive Bladder (CURE-UAB). Int Urol Nephrol. 2017 May;49(5):777-785. Zika Virus Bartolone SN, Tree MO, Conway MJ, Chancellor MB, Lamb LE. Reverse Transcription-Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (RT-LAMP) Assay for Zika Virus and Housekeeping Genes in Urine, Serum, and Mosquito Samples. J Vis Exp. 2018 Sep 14;(139). Lamb LE, Bartolone SN, Tree MO, Conway MJ, Rossignol J, Smith CP, Chancellor MB. Rapid Detection of Zika Virus in Urine Samples and Infected Mosquitos by Reverse Transcription-Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification. Sci Rep. 2018 Feb 28;8(1):3803. SARS-CoV2 Dhar N, Dhar S, Tiamr R, Lucas S, Lamb LE, Chancellor MB. De Novo Urinary Symptoms Associated With Covid-19: Covid-19-Associated Cystitis. J ​​Clin Med Res. 2020 Oct;12(10);681-82. Lamb LE, Bartolone SN, Ward EP, Chancellor MB. Rapid detection of novel coronavirus/Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by reverse transcription-loop-mediated isothermal amplification. PLoS One. 2020 June 12. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234682 Lamb LE, Bartolone SN, Ward EP, Chancellor MB. Rapid Detection of Novel Coronavirus (COVID19) by Reverse Transcription-Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (2/14/2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3539654 Press Releases