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Overview

Charles Steenbergen is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their work spans multiple disciplines within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on molecular biology and cardiology.

Steenbergen's research covers various specialized topics including:

  • Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes
  • Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention

Key recent publications by Steenbergen and collaborators include:

  • "Endomyocardial Biopsy Characterization of Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction and Prevalence of Cardiac Amyloidosis" (2020), published in JACC Heart Failure
  • "Regulation of Mitochondrial Ca2+ Uptake" (2020), published in Annual Review of Physiology
  • "Increased Interleukin 18-Dependent Immune Responses Are Associated With Myopericarditis After COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination" (2022), published in Frontiers in Immunology
  • "Nuclear-mitochondrial communication involving miR-181c plays an important role in cardiac dysfunction during obesity" (2020), published in Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology
  • "Pathology Residency Program Special Expertise Tracks Meet the Needs of an Evolving Field" (2021), published in Academic Pathology

Steenbergen frequently co-authors with several researchers, including:

  • Samarjit Das
  • Marc K. Halushka
  • Kavita Sharma
  • Kei Akiyoshi
  • Atsushi Yamaguchi

Their research has been published predominantly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • JACC Heart Failure
  • Annual Review of Physiology
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

Steenbergen's contributions intersect several subfields, notably molecular biology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, nephrology, physiology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms Underlying Acute Protection From Cardiac Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury

    Elizabeth Murphy;Charles Steenbergen

  • Elevation in cytosolic free calcium concentration early in myocardial ischemia in perfused rat heart.

    C Steenbergen;E Murphy;L Levy;R E London

  • Dextran hydrogel scaffolds enhance angiogenic responses and promote complete skin regeneration during burn wound healing

    Guoming Sun;Xianjie Zhang;Yu I. Shen;Raul Sebastian

  • 2011 Consensus statement on endomyocardial biopsy from the Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology and the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology

    Ornella Leone;John P. Veinot;Annalisa Angelini;Ulrik T. Baandrup

  • Effect of reperfusion late in the phase of reversible ischemic injury. Changes in cell volume, electrolytes, metabolites, and ultrastructure

    R B Jennings;J Schaper;M L Hill;C Steenbergen

  • Diazoxide-Induced Cardioprotection Requires Signaling Through a Redox-Sensitive Mechanism

    Robert A. Forbes;Charles Steenbergen;Elizabeth Murphy

  • Engraftment, Differentiation, and Functional Benefits of Autologous Cardiosphere-Derived Cells in Porcine Ischemic Cardiomyopathy

    Peter V. Johnston;Tetsuo Sasano;Kevin Mills;Robert Evers

  • Correlation between cytosolic free calcium, contracture, ATP, and irreversible ischemic injury in perfused rat heart.

    C Steenbergen;E Murphy;J A Watts;R E London

  • Phosphorylation of Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3β During Preconditioning Through a Phosphatidylinositol-3-Kinase–Dependent Pathway Is Cardioprotective

    Haiyan Tong;Kenichi Imahashi;Charles Steenbergen;Elizabeth Murphy

  • Mechanism of preconditioning. Ionic alterations.

    C Steenbergen;M E Perlman;R E London;E Murphy

  • Ischemic Preconditioning Activates Phosphatidylinositol-3-Kinase Upstream of Protein Kinase C

    Haiyan Tong;Weina Chen;Charles Steenbergen;Elizabeth Murphy

  • Amiloride delays the ischemia-induced rise in cytosolic free calcium.

    E Murphy;M Perlman;R E London;C Steenbergen

  • Development of cell injury in sustained acute ischemia.

    Jennings Rb;Murry Ce;Steenbergen C;Reimer Ka

  • Myocardial ischemia revisited. The osmolar load, membrane damage, and reperfusion

    Robert B. Jennings;Keith A. Reimer;Charles Steenbergen

  • Preconditioning Results in S-Nitrosylation of Proteins Involved in Regulation of Mitochondrial Energetics and Calcium Transport

    Junhui Sun;Meghan Morgan;Rong Fong Shen;Charles Steenbergen

  • Hypercontractile Female Hearts Exhibit Increased S-Nitrosylation of the L-Type Ca2+ Channel α1 Subunit and Reduced Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury

    Junhui Sun;Eckard Picht;Kenneth S. Ginsburg;Donald M. Bers

  • Sex Differences in the Phosphorylation of Mitochondrial Proteins Result in Reduced Production of Reactive Oxygen Species and Cardioprotection in Females

    Claudia J. Lagranha;Anne Deschamps;Angel Aponte;Charles Steenbergen

  • Effects of acidosis and ischemia on contractility and intracellular pH of rat heart.

    C Steenbergen;G Deleeuw;T Rich;J R Williamson

  • Intramyocardial injection of autologous cardiospheres or cardiosphere-derived cells preserves function and minimizes adverse ventricular remodeling in pigs with heart failure post-myocardial infarction.

    Shuo Tsan Lee;Anthony J. White;Satoshi Matsushita;Konstantinos Malliaras

  • Gender-based differences in mechanisms of protection in myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury.

    Elizabeth Murphy;Charles Steenbergen

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth Murphy
Elizabeth Murphy National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
Robert B. Jennings
Robert B. Jennings Duke University
Robert E. London
Robert E. London National Institutes of Health
Stuart D. Russell
Stuart D. Russell Duke University
Brian O'Rourke
Brian O'Rourke Johns Hopkins University
Daniel P. Judge
Daniel P. Judge Medical University of South Carolina
John R. Williamson
John R. Williamson University of Pennsylvania
Yibin Wang
Yibin Wang University of California, Los Angeles
David A. Bluemke
David A. Bluemke University of Wisconsin–Madison
Darryl C. Zeldin
Darryl C. Zeldin National Institutes of Health

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