Education

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Teaching

Fall Semester

Introduction to Biochemistry and Tissues
Course Director

Basic Science Foundations for Osteopathic Medicine Course Director

Spring Semester

Basic Science Foundations for Osteopathic Medicine Course Director

Pregnancy Partners Program Course Director

PA-Clinical Medicine II: Heme-Onc Participant

PA-Cinical Medicine III: Gastrointestinal
Participant

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Research Interests

My research interests have included the effects of nutritional factors in preventative medicine (especially diabetes) and in wound healing. My interests also include methods of educational enhancement both in the classroom and online.

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Honors & Awards

1977-1979 Mayo Foundation Fellow in Molecular Medicine
The Mayo Clinic
Department of Molecular Medicine
Rochester, MN.

1974-1976 National Research Council Research Associateship
NASA Ames Research Center
Mountain View, CA.

1972-73 Sigma Xi Student Research Award
Tulane Chapter Sigma Xi

1966 Phi Beta Kappa
University of Vermont

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Publications

Rothstein, H., J. Fortin, and M.L. Youngerman. Synthesis of macromolecules in epithelial cells of the cultured amphibian lens. I. Deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid. Exp. Cell Res. 44: 303-311 (1966).

2. Mazzotta, M. Adenylate kinase from Thiobacillus neapolitanus: Purification, characterization and consideration of a possible regulatory role. Ph.D dissertation, Dept. of Biochemistry, Tulane University, 1972.

3. Mazzotta, M., and E.J. Johnson. Adenylate kinase from Thiobacillus neapolitanus: Unique properties possibly designed to serve a unique metabolic function. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 321: 512-525 (1973).

4. Li, Y-T., M. Mazzotta, C.C. Wan, R. Orth and S.C. Li. Hydrolysis of Tay-Sachs ganglioside by Beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase A. J. Biol. Chem. 248: 7512-7515 (1973).

5. Li, S-C., C.C. Wan, M. Mazzotta, and Y-T. Li. Requirement of an activator for the hydrolysis of sphingoglycolipids by glycosidases of human liver. Carbohydrates Research 34: 189- 193 (1974).

6. Li, S-C., M. Y. Mazzotta, S-F Chien and Y-T. Li. Isolation and characterization of Jack Bean Beta-galactosidase. J. Biol. Chem. 250: 6786-6791 (1975).

7. M. Y. Mazzotta and C. M. Veneziale. Concentration of liver and kidney fructose-1,6-diphosphatase determined by specific radioimmunoassay. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 611: 156- 167 (1980).

8. J. Donofrio, M. Mazzotta, C.M. Veneziale. The effects of hormones on liver fructose-bis-phosphatase concentration and activity. Application of a new specific radioimmunoassay. Biochem. Pharm. 29:
2891-2894 (1980).

9. J. Donofrio, C.M. Veneziale and M. Mazzotta. Liver fructose bis- phosphatase concentration and activity in alloxan-induced diabetes. Biochem Pharm. 30(l): 98-102 (1981).

10. C.M. Veneziale, J. Donofrio, J. Hansen, M. Johnson and M.Y. Mazzotta. Specific radioimmunoassays for rabbit liver fructose-bis-phosphatase, pyruvate kinase, and glycero l-3- phosphate dehydrogenase in Methods in Enzymology, Vol. 74: Immunological Techniques Part C: 210-232, Academic Press, N.Y. 1981.

11. C.M. Veneziale, J. Donofrio, J. Hansen, M. Johnson, and M.Y. Mazzotta. The intracellular concentration and specific activities of carbohydrate metabolizing enzymes: The application of specific radioimmunoassays, Chap 2 in Regulation of Carbohydrate Formation and Utilization in Mammals, C.M. Veneziale, ed.,-Baltimore University Press, Baltimore, 1981.

12 M.Y. Mazzotta. The Glucose Bowl: Carbohydrate Metabolism Can Be Fun. Biochemical Education 18(2): 93-94, 1990.

13. M.Y. Mazzotta. Nutrition and Wound Healing. JAPMA 84(9): 456-462, 1994.

14. R. Hermo, C. Mier, M. Mazzotta, M. Tsuji, S. Kimua, and A. Gugliucci. Circulating Levels of Nitrated Apolipoprotein A-I are Increased in Type 2 Diabetic Patients. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine 2005;43(6):601-606.

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