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Adrian S. Woolf is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and has a substantial body of research spanning medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work includes a strong focus on renal and related cancers, urological disorders and treatments, pediatric urology and nephrology, genetic and kidney cyst diseases, renal cell carcinoma treatment, pancreatic function and diabetes, as well as pluripotent stem cells research.

The scientist has published across several venues, with frequent contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, Kidney International, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, and Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by them include:

  • "Uncovering genetic mechanisms of hypertension through multi-omic analysis of the kidney" (2021), published in Nature Genetics
  • "Hypertension and renin-angiotensin system blockers are not associated with expression of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) in the kidney" (2020), published in European Heart Journal
  • "SLC20A1 Is Involved in Urinary Tract and Urorectal Development" (2020), published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • "The term CAKUT has outlived its usefulness: the case for the prosecution" (2022), published in Pediatric Nephrology
  • "Experimental long-term diabetes mellitus alters the transcriptome and biomechanical properties of the rat urinary bladder" (2021), published in Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with this researcher include Filipa M. Lopes, William G. Newman, Neil Roberts, Glenda M. Beaman, and David A. Long.

Adrian S. Woolf's primary fields of study comprise medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their detailed subfields of examination encompass molecular biology, urology, surgery, genetics, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The research topics addressed in their work emphasize:

  • Renal and related cancers
  • Urological disorders and treatments
  • Pediatric urology and nephrology studies
  • Genetic and kidney cyst diseases
  • Renal cell carcinoma treatment
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Pluripotent stem cells research

Best Publications

  • New criteria for improved diagnosis of Bardet-Biedl syndrome: results of a population survey

    P L Beales;N Elcioglu;A S Woolf;D Parker

  • Identification of the gene for oral-facial-digital type I syndrome.

    Maria I. Ferrante;Sally A. Feather;Alessandro Bulfone;Victoria Wright

  • Roles of hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor and the met receptor in the early development of the metanephros.

    A S Woolf;M Kolatsi-Joannou;P Hardman;E Andermarcher

  • Medical versus surgical treatment in children with severe bilateral vesicoureteric reflux and bilateral nephropathy: a randomised trial.

    Jean M Smellie;Jean M Smellie;T Martin Barratt;Cyril Chantler;Isky Gordon

  • Mutations in the Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor-1β Gene Are Associated with Familial Hypoplastic Glomerulocystic Kidney Disease

    Coralie Bingham;Michael P. Bulman;Sian Ellard;Lisa I.S. Allen

  • Primary Vesicoureteric Reflux as a Predictor of Renal Damage in Children Hospitalized with Urinary Tract Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Isky Gordon;Maria Barkovics;Sima Pindoria;Tim J. Cole

  • Fraser syndrome and mouse blebbed phenotype caused by mutations in FRAS1/Fras1 encoding a putative extracellular matrix protein

    Lesley McGregor;Vile Makela;Susan M. Darling;Susan M. Darling;Sofia Vrontou

  • Disruption of ROBO2 Is Associated with Urinary Tract Anomalies and Confers Risk of Vesicoureteral Reflux

    Weining Lu;Weining Lu;Albertien M. Van Eerde;Xueping Fan;Fabiola Quintero-Rivera

  • HNF1B Mutations Associate with Hypomagnesemia and Renal Magnesium Wasting

    Shazia Adalat;Adrian S. Woolf;Karen A. Johnstone;Andrea Wirsing

  • The kidney : from normal development to congenital disease

    Peter D Vize;Adrian S Woolf;Jonathan B. L. Bard

  • Protein restriction in pregnancy is associated with increased apoptosis of mesenchymal cells at the start of rat metanephrogenesis.

    Simon J.M. Welham;Angela Wade;Adrian S. Woolf

  • The PAX2 tanscription factor is expressed in cystic and hyperproliferative dysplastic epithelia in human kidney malformations.

    P. J. D. Winyard;R. A. Risdon;V. R. Sams;G. R. Dressler

  • Deregulation of cell survival in cystic and dysplastic renal development.

    Paul J.D. Winyard;Jeroen Nauta;David S. Lirenman;Patricia Hardman

  • Evolving Concepts in Human Renal Dysplasia

    Adrian S Woolf;Karen L Price;Peter J Scambler;Paul J D Winyard

  • OFD1 Is a Centrosomal/Basal Body Protein Expressed during Mesenchymal-Epithelial Transition in Human Nephrogenesis

    Leila Romio;Andrew M. Fry;Paul J.D. Winyard;Sue Malcolm

  • Solitary functioning kidney and diverse genital tract malformations associated with hepatocyte nuclear factor-1β mutations

    Coralie Bingham;Sian Ellard;Trevor R.P. Cole;Katrin E. Jones

  • Taxol inhibits progression of congenital polycystic kidney disease

    David D. L. Woo;Steven Y. P. Miao;Juan C. Pelayo;Adrian S. Woolf

  • Podocyte-Specific Expression of Angiopoietin-2 Causes Proteinuria and Apoptosis of Glomerular Endothelia

    Belinda Davis;Alessandra Dei Cas;David A. Long;Kathryn E. White

  • Identification of a new gene mutated in Fraser syndrome and mouse myelencephalic blebs.

    Shalini Jadeja;Ian Macleod Smyth;Ian Macleod Smyth;Jolanta E Pitera;Martin S Taylor

  • Centriolar satellites are assembly points for proteins implicated in human ciliopathies, including oral-facial-digital syndrome 1

    Carla A. M. Lopes;Suzanna L. Prosser;Leila Romio;Robert A. Hirst

Frequent Co-Authors

William G. Newman
William G. Newman University of Manchester
Sian Ellard
Sian Ellard University of Exeter
Sue Malcolm
Sue Malcolm University College London
Peter J. Scambler
Peter J. Scambler University College London
Judith A. Goodship
Judith A. Goodship Newcastle University
Timothy H.J. Goodship
Timothy H.J. Goodship Newcastle University
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
Susan J. Kimber
Susan J. Kimber University of Manchester
Heather J. Cordell
Heather J. Cordell Newcastle University
Paul R. Riley
Paul R. Riley University of Oxford

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