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13861
National Ranking
531

Overview

Alain Lacampagne is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to the subfields of cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, biomedical engineering, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's research topics encompass cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, ion channel regulation and function, mitochondrial function and pathology, pluripotent stem cells research, neuroscience and neural engineering, muscle physiology and disorders, and cardiomyopathy and myosin studies.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Heart failure-induced cognitive dysfunction is mediated by intracellular Ca2+ leak through ryanodine receptor type 2, 2023, published in Nature Neuroscience
  • 1D Nanomaterial-Based Highly Stretchable Strain Sensors for Human Movement Monitoring and Human-Robotic Interactive Systems, 2020, published in Advanced Electronic Materials
  • Role of defective calcium regulation in cardiorespiratory dysfunction in Huntington's disease, 2020, published in JCI Insight
  • Metformin Reverses the Enhanced Myocardial SR/ER-Mitochondria Interaction and Impaired Complex I-Driven Respiration in Dystrophin-Deficient Mice, 2021, published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Modeling polymorphic ventricular tachycardia at rest using patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes, 2020, published in EBioMedicine

Lacampagne has collaborated frequently with a range of co-authors, including Albano C. Méli, Jérémy Fauconnier, Olivier Cazorla, Pascal Amédro, and Marie Vincenti.

The scientist has published numerous articles in venues such as Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases Supplements, Archives of cardiovascular diseases, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology.

Best Publications

  • Rapidly progressive diaphragmatic weakness and injury during mechanical ventilation in humans.

    Samir Jaber;Basil J. Petrof;Boris Jung;Gérald Chanques

  • Hypernitrosylated ryanodine receptor calcium release channels are leaky in dystrophic muscle.

    Andrew M. Bellinger;Steven R. Reiken;Christian Carlson;Marco Mongillo

  • Ryanodine Receptor Oxidation Causes Intracellular Calcium Leak and Muscle Weakness in Aging

    Daniel C. Andersson;Matthew J. Betzenhauser;Steven Reiken;Albano C. Meli

  • Osteocalcin Signaling in Myofibers Is Necessary and Sufficient for Optimum Adaptation to Exercise.

    Paula Mera;Kathrin Laue;Mathieu Ferron;Cyril Confavreux

  • Remodeling of ryanodine receptor complex causes “leaky” channels: A molecular mechanism for decreased exercise capacity

    Andrew M. Bellinger;Steven Reiken;Miroslav Dura;Peter W. Murphy

  • PKA phosphorylation activates the calcium release channel (ryanodine receptor) in skeletal muscle: defective regulation in heart failure

    Steven Reiken;Alain Lacampagne;Hua Zhou;Aftab Kherani

  • Absence of Triadin, a Protein of the Calcium Release Complex, is Responsible for Cardiac Arrhythmia with Sudden Death in Human

    Nathalie Roux-Buisson;Marine Cacheux;Marine Cacheux;Anne Fourest-Lieuvin;Anne Fourest-Lieuvin;Jeremy Fauconnier

  • Depressing mitochondria-reticulum interactions protects cardiomyocytes from lethal hypoxia-reoxygenation injury.

    Melanie Paillard;Emily Tubbs;Pierre-Alain Thiebaut;Ludovic Gomez

  • Calcium release channel RyR2 regulates insulin release and glucose homeostasis

    Gaetano Santulli;Gennaro Pagano;Gennaro Pagano;Gennaro Pagano;Celestino Sardu;Celestino Sardu;Celestino Sardu;Wenjun Xie

  • AMPK Activation Stimulates Autophagy and Ameliorates Muscular Dystrophy in the mdx Mouse Diaphragm

    Marion Pauly;Frederic Daussin;Yan Burelle;Tong Li

  • Leaky RyR2 trigger ventricular arrhythmias in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

    Jérémy Fauconnier;Jérôme Thireau;Steven Reiken;Cécile Cassan;Cécile Cassan

  • New insights into mechanisms of statin-associated myotoxicity

    Pascal Sirvent;Jacques Mercier;Jacques Mercier;Alain Lacampagne;Alain Lacampagne

  • Effects of Diabetes on Ryanodine Receptor Ca Release Channel (RyR2) and Ca2+ Homeostasis in Rat Heart

    Nazmi Yaras;Mehmet Ugur;Semir Ozdemir;Hakan Gurdal

  • Simvastatin triggers mitochondria-induced Ca2+ signaling alteration in skeletal muscle.

    Pascal Sirvent;Jacques Mercier;Guy Vassort;Alain Lacampagne

  • Critical Role for Stromal Interaction Molecule 1 in Cardiac Hypertrophy

    Jean-Sébastien Hulot;Jérémy Fauconnier;Deepak Ramanujam;Antoine Chaanine

  • The stretch-activated ion channel blocker gadolinium also blocks L-type calcium channels in isolated ventricular myocytes of the guinea-pig.

    Alain Lacampagne;François Gannier;Jorge Argibay;Didier Garnier

  • Revealing the large-scale network organization of growth hormone-secreting cells

    Xavier Bonnefont;Alain Lacampagne;Angela Sanchez-Hormigo;Elodie Fino

  • Disruption of calcium transfer from ER to mitochondria links alterations of mitochondria-associated ER membrane integrity to hepatic insulin resistance.

    Jennifer Rieusset;Jeremy Fauconnier;Melanie Paillard;Elise Belaidi

  • Mitochondrial production of reactive oxygen species contributes to the β‐adrenergic stimulation of mouse cardiomycytes

    Daniel C. Andersson;Jérémy Fauconnier;Takashi Yamada;Takashi Yamada;Alain Lacampagne

  • Length and protein kinase A modulations of myocytes in cardiac myosin binding protein C-deficient mice

    Olivier Cazorla;Olivier Cazorla;Szabolcs Szilagyi;Szabolcs Szilagyi;Nicolas Vignier;Nicolas Vignier;Guillermo Salazar;Guillermo Salazar

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew R. Marks
Andrew R. Marks Columbia University
Samir Jaber
Samir Jaber University of Montpellier
Jennifer Rieusset
Jennifer Rieusset Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Michel Ovize
Michel Ovize Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
Petr Skládal
Petr Skládal Masaryk University
Martin F. Schneider
Martin F. Schneider University of Maryland, Baltimore
Thierry Durand
Thierry Durand University of Montpellier
Joël Lunardi
Joël Lunardi Grenoble Alpes University

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