Dr. Sam Taylor

Samuel E. Taylor, PhD
Associate Professor
Director, Pharmacology Division

Office Phone: 214-828-8314
Faxline: 214-828-8466
E-mail: staylor@tambcd.edu
Appointments: 214-828-8493
Mailing Address: PO Box 660677 Dallas, TX 75266-0677
Physical Address: 3302 Gaston Avenue, Dallas, TX 75246

Primary Responsibilities

Dr. Taylor serves as Director of the Pharmacology Division, which is comprised of the Predoctoral dental, dental hygiene, and clinical graduate pharmacology and pain/anxiety control curricula. He teaches these subjects in the department and provides pharmacology lectures for other departments as well!

Taylor Dr. Taylor serves as Director of the Pharmacology Division with general supervision of all pharmacology courses taught at BCD and oversight for the pain and anxiety control curriculum. He teaches the pharmacology courses to 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year dental students and 2nd year dental hygiene students, participates in teaching courses to Graduate programs and serves as Pharmacology consultant to the BCD Salivary Dysfunction Clinic. He also serves as the Chairman of the BCD Institutional Review Board, which screens and scrutinizes all research projects in the College.

Dr. Taylor's research interests include salivary gland function and dysfunction, with a specific interest towards radiation-induced dysfunction. His present research is directed towards identifying the mode of cell death, and developing a pharmacotherapeutics strategy to protect against such damage during radiation therapy. He is also a collaborator in a project aimed at identifying the biological effects of citrus flavenoids. Dr. Taylor also mentors several dental students who are engaged in student research projects during their training.

Educational Credentials

University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
(BS in Biology, 1963)
University of Alabama in Birmingham
(PhD, Pharmacology, 1971)
University of Tennessee Medical Units
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in Cardiovascular Pharmacology, 1972
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Sabbatical, Secretory Physiology Section, 1994

Academic Appointments

Texas A&M University System HSC, Baylor College of Dentistry, Dallas, TX

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Pharmacology

Associate Professor, 1996-Present

Baylor College of Dentistry, Dallas, Texas

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Pharmacology

Associate Professor, 1978-1996

Baylor College of Dentistry, Dallas, Texas

Department of Pharmacology

Assistant Professor, 1977-1978

Principal Memberships

American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics
Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
American Association for Dental Research
International Association for Dental Research
American Dental Education Association
Sigma Xi

Current Funded Research Grants

Pilot study to test isoproterenol's radioiprotective action on a salivary gland cell line (Supported by The Baylor Oral Health Foundation)
Biological activities of citrus flavonoids (A 2 year, multicenter grant supported by the State of Texas Advanced Technology Program)(co-investigator)
Exploring biological activities of citrus limonoids: a multidisciplinary approach (a 4 year, multicenter grant, supported by the U. S. Department of Agriculture)(co-investigator)

Recent Professional Publications

Taylor SE and Gage TW. New drugs and product approvals from 2000. Texas Dent J,118:1070-1081, 2001

Taylor SE, Miller EG, Sokolowski TW. Irradiation induces apoptosis in a human salivary duct cell line. J Dent Research 80:166, 2001

Johnson WK, Taylor SE, Miller EG, Mbiene JP. Does nitric oxide mediate cytokine-induced apoptosis in HSG cells? J Dent Research 80:166, 2001

Shulman J, Nunn M, Taylor SE. The relationship of childhood asthma to dental caries. J Dent Research 80:163, 2001

Shulman JD, Taylor SE, Nunn ME. The association between asthma and dental caries in children and adolescents: a population- based, case-controlled study. Caries Res 35:240-246, 2001

Al-Hashimi I and Taylor SE. A new medication for treatment of dry mouth in Sjögren's Syndrome. Texas Dent J 118:262-266, 2001

Koerner KR and Taylor SE. Emergencies associated with local anesthetics. Dentistry Today, 19:72-79, 2000

Gage TW and Taylor SE. New drugs and product approvals from 1999. Texas Dent J 117:31-47, 2000

Taylor SE and Miller EG. Preemptive pharmacologic intervention in radiation induced salivary dysfunction. Proceed Soc Exp Bio Med, 221:14-26, 1999

Taylor SE and Al-Hashimi I. Pilocarpine, an old drug; a new formulation. Texas Dent J, 113:9-13, 1996

Chauthaiwale J, Takayuki S, Taylor SE, Ambudkar IS . Presence of two Ca2 influx components in internal CA2+-pool-depleted in rat parotid acinar cells. Pflügers Arch Eur J Physiol, 432:105-111, 1996

(Citations prior to 1995 can be obtained by contacting Dr. Taylor)