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Finland
2024

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
88
Citations
21255
World Ranking
792
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Finland Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Finland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Finland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Finland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Carsten Carlberg is a researcher affiliated with the University of Eastern Finland in Finland. Their work primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Immunology and Microbiology. Among these, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology and Medicine each include over 100 publications, while Immunology and Microbiology constitute a significant area with 45 publications.

Their research subfields cover Molecular Biology, Immunology, Genetics, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Physiology. Molecular Biology is the most prominent subfield with 66 publications, followed by Immunology with 45, and Genetics with 33.

The scientist's main research topics include Vitamin D Research Studies, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Vitamin C and Antioxidants Research, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, Digestive System and Related Health, Nutrition, Genetics and Disease, and T-cell and B-cell Immunology. Vitamin D Research Studies is the leading topic with 62 publications.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Nutrients, Scientific Reports, Redox Biology, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and Experimental Dermatology, with Nutrients being the most frequent venue hosting 13 of their papers.

Recent notable papers by Carsten Carlberg include:

  • An update on vitamin D signaling and cancer, 2020, Seminars in Cancer Biology
  • Guidelines for Preventing and Treating Vitamin D Deficiency: A 2023 Update in Poland, 2023, Nutrients
  • Vitamin D receptor(s): In the nucleus but also at membranes?, 2020, Experimental Dermatology
  • Vitamin D and Its Target Genes, 2022, Nutrients
  • Key Vitamin D Target Genes with Functions in the Immune System, 2020, Nutrients

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Carsten Carlberg include Eunike Velleuer, Ferdinand Molnár, Andrea Hänel, Ranjini Ghosh Dastidar, and Antonio Neme. These collaborators have contributed significantly to the body of work, with some joint works reaching close to 60 publications.

Best Publications

  • Two nuclear signalling pathways for vitamin D

    Carsten Carlberg;Igor Bendik;Adrian Wyss;Elke Meier

  • Pineal gland hormone melatonin binds and activates an orphan of the nuclear receptor superfamily.

    Michael Becker-André;Irmgard Wiesenberg;Nicole Schaeren-Wiemers;Elisabeth André

  • Fluorescence resonance energy transfer analysis of the structure of the four-way DNA junction.

    Robert M. Clegg;Alastair I. H. Murchie;Annelies Zechel;Carsten Carlberg

  • The Nuclear Receptor for Melatonin Represses 5-Lipoxygenase Gene Expression in Human B Lymphocytes

    Dieter Steinhilber;Martina Brungs;Oliver Werz;Irmgard Wiesenberg

  • Transcriptional activation of the nuclear receptor RZR alpha by the pineal gland hormone melatonin and identification of CGP 52608 as a synthetic ligand.

    Irmgard Wiesenberg;Martin Missbach;Jean-Pierre Kahlen;Magdalena Schräder

  • Vitamin D receptor signaling mechanisms: Integrated actions of a well-defined transcription factor

    Carsten Carlberg;Moray J. Campbell

  • Regulation of the human p21(waf1/cip1) gene promoter via multiple binding sites for p53 and the vitamin D3 receptor

    Anna Saramäki;Claire M. Banwell;Moray J. Campbell;Carsten Carlberg

  • The Human Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor δ Gene is a Primary Target of 1α,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 and its Nuclear Receptor

    Thomas W. Dunlop;Sami Väisänen;Christian Frank;Ferdinand Molnár

  • RZRs, a new family of retinoid-related orphan receptors that function as both monomers and homodimers.

    C Carlberg;R Hooft van Huijsduijnen;J K Staple;J F DeLamarter

  • Comprehensive analysis of PPARalpha-dependent regulation of hepatic lipid metabolism by expression profiling.

    Maryam Rakhshandehroo;Linda M. Sanderson;Merja Matilainen;Rinke Stienstra

  • Nuclear hormone 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 elicits a genome-wide shift in the locations of VDR chromatin occupancy

    Sami Heikkinen;Sami Väisänen;Petri Pehkonen;Sabine Seuter

  • MECHANISMS OF NUCLEAR SIGNALLING BY VITAMIN D3 : INTERPLAY WITH RETINOID AND THYROID HORMONE SIGNALLING

    Carsten Carlberg

  • The orphan receptor family RZR/ROR, melatonin and 5‐lipoxygenase: An unexpected relationship

    Carsten Carlberg;Irmgard Wiesenberg

  • Vitamin D and cancer: effects of 1,25(OH)2D3 and its analogs on growth control and tumorigenesis.

    Christina Mørk Hansen;Lise Binderup;Karin J. Hamberg;Carsten Carlberg

  • Electrophilic Nitro-fatty Acids Activate NRF2 by a KEAP1 Cysteine 151-independent Mechanism

    Emilia Kansanen;Gustavo Bonacci;Francisco J. Schopfer;Suvi M. Kuosmanen

  • VDR-Alien: a novel, DNA-selective vitamin D(3) receptor-corepressor partnership.

    Patsie Polly;Michaela Herdick;Udo Moehren;Aria Baniahmad

  • Gene regulation by vitamin D3.

    Carsten Carlberg;Patsie Polly

  • Mechanisms of Nuclear Signalling by Vitamin D3

    Carsten Carlberg

  • Interaction between retinoic acid and vitamin D signaling pathways.

    M Schräder;I Bendik;M Becker-André;C Carlberg

  • The Vitamin D Receptor

    Carsten Carlberg;Sabine Seuter

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl-Heinz Herzig
Karl-Heinz Herzig Oulu University Hospital
Hans V. Westerhoff
Hans V. Westerhoff Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Kaisa Poutanen
Kaisa Poutanen VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Matti Uusitupa
Matti Uusitupa University of Eastern Finland
Peter Arner
Peter Arner Karolinska Institute
Sander Kersten
Sander Kersten Wageningen University & Research
Jean-Hilaire Saurat
Jean-Hilaire Saurat University of Geneva
Ingrid Dahlman
Ingrid Dahlman Karolinska Institute
Björn Åkesson
Björn Åkesson Lund University
Markku Tammi
Markku Tammi University of Eastern Finland

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