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Biology and Biochemistry

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72
Citations
14369
World Ranking
6457
National Ranking
493

Medicine

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72
Citations
14407
World Ranking
19906
National Ranking
1791

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Chris Peers was affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their research focused primarily on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions in Medicine. Subfields of study included Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Surgery, and Biochemistry.

Their work covered a variety of topics, notably:

  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer
  • Sulfur Compounds in Biology
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes

Peers authored several research papers published in peer-reviewed journals, including:

  • "Kv1.3 voltage-gated potassium channels link cellular respiration to proliferation through a non-conducting mechanism" (2021), published in Cell Death and Disease
  • "Hydrogen sulfide regulates hippocampal neuron excitability via S-sulfhydration of Kv2.1" (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Vascular Kv7 channels control intracellular Ca2+ dynamics in smooth muscle" (2020), published in Cell Calcium
  • "LKB1 is the gatekeeper of carotid body chemosensing and the hypoxic ventilatory response" (2022), published in Communications Biology
  • "Inhibition of the voltage-gated potassium channel Kv1.5 by hydrogen sulfide attenuates remodeling through S-nitrosylation-mediated signaling" (2023), published in Communications Biology

They frequently collaborated with several co-authors, among them:

  • Mark Dallas
  • D. Grahame Hardie
  • A. Mark Evans
  • Moza M. Al-Owais
  • Jason L. Scragg

The main publication venues for their work included:

  • Communications Biology (3 publications)
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry (2 publications)
  • Cell Death and Disease
  • Scientific Reports
  • Cell Calcium

Chris Peers was recognized with the membership of Academia Europaea in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Hemoxygenase-2 Is an Oxygen Sensor for a Calcium-Sensitive Potassium Channel

    Sandile Elroy Johnathan Williams;Phillippa Wootton;Helen Sarah Mason;Helen Sarah Mason;Jonathan Bould

  • The Production of Amyloid β Peptide Is a Critical Requirement for the Viability of Central Neurons

    Leigh D. Plant;John P. Boyle;Ian F. Smith;Chris Peers

  • Physiological roles for amyloid β peptides

    Hugh A. Pearson;Chris Peers

  • Testosterone is a potent inhibitor of L-type Ca2+ channels

    Jason L Scragg;Richard D Jones;Kevin S Channer;T.Hugh Jones

  • Does AMP-activated protein kinase couple inhibition of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation by hypoxia to calcium signaling in O2-sensing cells?

    A. Mark Evans;Kirsteen J.W. Mustard;Christopher N. Wyatt;Chris Peers

  • Ca(2+)-activated K+ channels in isolated type I cells of the neonatal rat carotid body.

    Christopher N. Wyatt;Chris Peers

  • O2-sensitive K+ currents in carotid body chemoreceptor cells from normoxic and chronically hypoxic rats and their roles in hypoxic chemotransduction

    Christopher N. Wyatt;C. Wright;D. Bee;Chris Peers

  • Hypoxia and Neurodegeneration

    Chris Peers;Mark L. Dallas;Hannah E. Boycott;Jason L. Scragg

  • Transduction of chemostimuli by the type I carotid body cell.

    C Peers;K J Buckler

  • Modulation of recombinant human cardiac L‐type Ca2+ channel α1C subunits by redox agents and hypoxia

    I. M. Fearon;A. C. V. Palmer;A. J. Balmforth;S. G. Ball

  • Enhanced hepatitis C virus genome replication and lipid accumulation mediated by inhibition of AMP-activated protein kinase

    Jamel Mankouri;Philip R. Tedbury;Sarah Gretton;Mair E. Hughes

  • AMP-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE MEDIATES CAROTID BODY EXCITATION BY HYPOXIA

    Christopher N. Wyatt;Kirsty J.W. Mustard;Selina A. Pearson;Mark L Dallas

  • Effects of extracellular pH, PCO2 and HCO3- on intracellular pH in isolated type-I cells of the neonatal rat carotid body.

    K J Buckler;R D Vaughan-Jones;C Peers;D Lagadic-Gossmann

  • Combined Antisense and Pharmacological Approaches Implicate hTASK as an Airway O2 Sensing K+Channel

    Matthew E. Hartness;Anthony Lewis;Gavin J. Searle;Ita O'Kelly

  • Intracellular pH and its regulation in isolated type I carotid body cells of the neonatal rat.

    K J Buckler;R D Vaughan-Jones;C Peers;P C Nye

  • Carbon monoxide inhibits L-type Ca2+ channels via redox modulation of key cysteine residues by mitochondrial reactive oxygen species.

    Jason L. Scragg;Mark L. Dallas;Jenny A. Wilkinson;Gyula Varadi

  • Hypoxia suppresses glutamate transport in astrocytes.

    Mark Dallas;Hannah E Boycott;Lucy Atkinson;Alison Miller

  • Phosphorylation of the voltage-gated potassium channel Kv2.1 by AMP-activated protein kinase regulates membrane excitability

    Naoko Ikematsu;Mark L. Dallas;Fiona A. Ross;Ryan W. Lewis

  • Effects of hypoxia and oxidative stress on expression of neprilysin in human neuroblastoma cells and rat cortical neurones and astrocytes.

    Lilia Fisk;Natalia N. Nalivaeva;John P. Boyle;Christopher S. Peers

  • The regulation of neurotransmitter secretion by protein kinase C.

    Peter F. T. Vaughan;John H. Walker;Chris Peers

Frequent Co-Authors

Nikita Gamper
Nikita Gamper University of Leeds
D. Grahame Hardie
D. Grahame Hardie University of Dundee
Kim N. Green
Kim N. Green University of California, Irvine
Mark Harris
Mark Harris University of Leeds
Nanduri R. Prabhakar
Nanduri R. Prabhakar University of Chicago
Annette G. Beck-Sickinger
Annette G. Beck-Sickinger Leipzig University
Benoit Viollet
Benoit Viollet Institut Cochin
Daniela Riccardi
Daniela Riccardi Cardiff University
Joanna Poulton
Joanna Poulton University of Oxford
Hugh Watkins
Hugh Watkins University of Oxford

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