Kevin Prifti

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Antonina Frolova, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Missouri Baptist University, 2016

Enrollment year: 2022

Research summary
Elucidating the effects of maternal obesity on myometrial contractility

Graduate publications
Murata T, Prifti KK, Ma X, Kent LN, Frolova AI, England SK. 2025 Myometrial smooth muscle KATP channel activity is attenuated in a mouse model of diet-induced obesity during pregnancy†. Biol Reprod, 113(3):615-25. PMCID: PMC12448598

Prifti KK, McCarthy R, Ma X, Finck BN, England SK, Frolova A. 2024 Obese mice have decreased uterine contractility and altered energy metabolism in the uterus at term gestation. Biol Reprod, 111(3):678-93. PMCID: 10.1093/biolre/ioae086

Frolova AI, Prifti KK, Raghuraman N, Carter EB, England SK, Stout MJ. 2024 Association between Maternal Serum Lipids and Intrapartum Oxytocin Requirements during Labor Induction and Augmentation. Am J Perinatol, 41(S 01)::e1015-e1022. PMCID:

Saurabh K, Mbadhi MN, Prifti KK, Martin KT, Frolova AI. 2023 Sphingosine 1-Phosphate Activates S1PR3 to Induce a Proinflammatory Phenotype in Human Myometrial Cells. Endocrinology, 164(4):bqad066. PMCID: PMC10201982