Dr. Hemric was born in Winston-Salem, NC. Prior to joining the faculty at LU 2006,
he taught for 12 years at Oklahoma Baptist University and Lander University. His research
interest is in the biochemistry of muscle and non-muscle contractile proteins. His wife,
Kelly, home-schools their 4 children: Brett, Kenan, Danae and Marlee. Dr. Hemric enjoys
traveling, playing sports, coaching his children and officiating soccer.

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Protection against Experimental Autoimmune Myocarditis Is Mediated by Interleukin-10-Producing T Cells that Are Controlled by Dendritic Cells (with Ya Li, Janet S. Heuser, Stanley D. Kosanke, and Madeleine W. Cunningham), American Journal of Pathology (2005)

Experimental autoimmune myocarditis (EAM) can be induced in the Lewis rat by cardiac myosin or...

 

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Induction of Myocarditis and Valvuluitis in Lewis Rats by Different Epitopes of Cardiac Myosin and its Implications in Rheumatic Carditis (with Jeffrey E. Galvin, Stanley D. Konsanke, Stephen M. Factor, Anthony Quinn, and Madeleine W. Cunningham), American Journal of Pathology (2002)

Immune responses against cardiac myosin and group A streptococcal M protein have been implicated in...

 

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Cytotoxic mAb from Rheumatic Carditis Recognizes Heart Valves and Laminin (with Jeffrey E. Galvin, Kent Ward, and Madeleine W. Cunningham), Journal of Clinical Investigations (2000)

Anti-streptococcal antibodies cross-reactive with N-acetyl-bD-glucosamine (GlcNAc) and myosin are present in the sera of patients...

 

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Immunological Relationship Between the Class I Epitope of Streptococcal M Protein and Myosin (with Anthony Quinn, Kent Ward, Vincent A. Fischetti, and Medeleine W. Cunningham), Infection and Immunity (1998)

The class I epitope of streptococcal M protein is an epidemiological marker for acute rheumatic...

 

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A Model for the Coregulation of Smooth Muscle Actomyosin by Caldesmon, Calponin, Tropomyosin and Myosin Light Chain Phosphorylation (with Joe R. Haeberle), Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (1994)

The purpose of these studies was to evaluate the effects of the actin-binding proteins tropomyosin....