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Overview

Bernhard Hennig is affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Molecular Biology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Physiology.

Their scientific inquiry covers a variety of topics, with significant focus on Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research, Vitamin D Research Studies, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Gut microbiota and health, Diet and metabolism studies, Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease, and Nutritional Studies and Diet.

Recent publications by Bernhard Hennig include:

  • Untargeted Stable Isotope Probing of the Gut Microbiota Metabolome Using 13C-Labeled Dietary Fibers (2021) in Journal of Proteome Research
  • Metabolomic, Lipidomic, Transcriptomic, and Metagenomic Analyses in Mice Exposed to PFOS and Fed Soluble and Insoluble Dietary Fibers (2022) in Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Co-exposure to PCB126 and PFOS increases biomarkers associated with cardiovascular disease risk and liver injury in mice (2020) in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology
  • Prebiotic inulin consumption reduces dioxin-like PCB 126-mediated hepatotoxicity and gut dysbiosis in hyperlipidemic Ldlr deficient mice (2020) in Environmental Pollution
  • Inflammation and cardiometabolic diseases induced by persistent organic pollutants and nutritional interventions: Effects of multi-organ interactions (2023) in Environmental Pollution

Bernhard Hennig has published multiple times in notable scientific venues including Environmental Pollution, Food Frontiers, Cancer Research, Environmental Health Perspectives, and Microbiome.

Frequent collaborators in their research are Pan Deng, Jerika Durham, Yekaterina Y. Zaytseva, Josiane Weber Tessmann, and Chi Wang, with the highest number of collaborations being with Pan Deng.

Best Publications

  • Lipid peroxidation and endothelial cell injury: implications in atherosclerosis

    Bernhard Hennig;Ching K. Chow

  • Manufactured Aluminum Oxide Nanoparticles Decrease Expression of Tight Junction Proteins in Brain Vasculature

    Lei Chen;Robert A. Yokel;Bernhard Hennig;Michal Toborek

  • Proinflammatory Properties of Coplanar PCBs: In Vitro and in Vivo Evidence

    Bernhard Hennig;Purushothaman Meerarani;Rabih Slim;Michal Toborek

  • Unsaturated fatty acids selectively induce an inflammatory environment in human endothelial cells

    Michal Toborek;Yong Woo Lee;Rosario Garrido;Simone Kaiser

  • Mechanisms of the blood-brain barrier disruption in HIV-1 infection.

    Michal Toborek;Yong Woo Lee;Govinder Flora;Hong Pu

  • HIV‐1 Tat protein alters tight junction protein expression and distribution in cultured brain endothelial cells

    Ibolya E. András;Hong Pu;Mária A. Deli;Avindra Nath

  • Amyloid β‐Peptide Induces Cell Monolayer Albumin Permeability, Impairs Glucose Transport, and Induces Apoptosis in Vascular Endothelial Cells

    Emmanuelle M. Blanc;Michal Toborek;Robert J. Mark;Bernhard Hennig

  • High-Energy Diets, Fatty Acids and Endothelial Cell Function: Implications for Atherosclerosis

    Bernhard Hennig;Michal Toborek;Craig J. McClain

  • HIV-Tat protein induces oxidative and inflammatory pathways in brain endothelium

    Michal Toborek;Yong Woo Lee;Hong Pu;Andrzej Malecki;Andrzej Malecki

  • HIV-1 Tat protein upregulates inflammatory mediators and induces monocyte invasion into the brain.

    Hong Pu;Jing Tian;Govinder Flora;Yong Woo Lee

  • Antioxidant-Like Properties of Zinc in Activated Endothelial Cells

    Bernhard Hennig;Purushothaman Meerarani;Michal Toborek;Craig J. McClain

  • Alumina nanoparticles induce expression of endothelial cell adhesion molecules.

    Elizabeth Oesterling;Nitin Chopra;Vasileios Gavalas;Xabier Arzuaga

  • IL-4-induced oxidative stress upregulates VCAM-1 gene expression in human endothelial cells.

    Yong Woo Lee;Hartmut Kühn;Bernhard Hennig;Andrew S. Neish

  • Zinc protects against apoptosis of endothelial cells induced by linoleic acid and tumor necrosis factor α

    P. Meerarani;P. Ramadass;Michal Toborek;Hans Christian Bauer

  • Oxidative Stress and Blood–Brain Barrier Dysfunction Under Particular Consideration of Matrix Metalloproteinases

    Christine Lehner;Renate Gehwolf;Herbert Tempfer;Istvan Krizbai

  • Exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls causes endothelial cell dysfunction

    Michal Toborek;Steven W. Barger;Mark P. Mattson;Parvaneh Espandiari

  • Dietary flavonoids modulate PCB-induced oxidative stress, CYP1A1 induction, and AhR-DNA binding activity in vascular endothelial cells.

    Pachaikani Ramadass;Purushothaman Meerarani;Michal Toborek;Larry W. Robertson

  • The NMDA and AMPA/KA receptors are involved in glutamate-induced alterations of occludin expression and phosphorylation in brain endothelial cells.

    Ibolya E András;Mária A Deli;Szilvia Veszelka;Kentaro Hayashi

  • Antiatherogenic properties of zinc: Implications in endothelial cell metabolism

    Bernhard Hennig;Michal Toborek;Craig J. McClain

  • Linoleic acid and TNF-alpha cross-amplify oxidative injury and dysfunction of endothelial cells

    Michal Toborek;Steven W. Barger;Mark P. Mattson;Shirish Barve

Frequent Co-Authors

Michal Toborek
Michal Toborek University of Miami
Andrew J. Morris
Andrew J. Morris University of Kentucky
Craig J. McClain
Craig J. McClain University of Louisville
Larry W. Robertson
Larry W. Robertson University of Iowa
Mark P. Mattson
Mark P. Mattson Johns Hopkins University
Eric J. Smart
Eric J. Smart University of Kentucky
Avindra Nath
Avindra Nath National Institutes of Health
Leonidas G. Bachas
Leonidas G. Bachas University of Miami
Alan Daugherty
Alan Daugherty University of Kentucky
Eric A. Decker
Eric A. Decker University of Massachusetts Amherst

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