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Christian Aalkjaer

Christian Aalkjaer

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
62
Citations
12734
World Ranking
10873
National Ranking
117

Overview

Christian Aalkjaer is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and has made contributions across multiple disciplines within medical and biological sciences. Their research interests primarily span medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Their work covers several subfields including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, molecular biology, physiology, surgery, and cellular and molecular neuroscience. Specific topics addressed in their research include heart rate variability and autonomic control, ion channel regulation and function, receptor mechanisms and signaling, cardiovascular function and risk factors, diet and metabolism studies, nitric oxide and endothelin effects, as well as neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

Aalkjaer has published in various scientific journals with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology
  • Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
  • Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology
  • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology
  • Physiological Reviews

Among their recent papers are:

  • Brain capillary pericytes and neurovascular coupling, 2021, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology
  • Sympathetic and sensory-motor nerves in peripheral small arteries, 2020, Physiological Reviews
  • Genetic analysis identifies the SLC4A3 anion exchanger as a major gene for short QT syndrome, 2023, Heart Rhythm
  • The Remarkable Cardiovascular System of Giraffes, 2020, Annual Review of Physiology
  • Dynein regulates Kv7.4 channel trafficking from the cell membrane, 2021, The Journal of General Physiology

Aalkjaer has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Thomas A. Jepps, Tobias Wang, Jennifer van der Horst, Salomé Rognant, and Mads F. Bertelsen.

Best Publications

  • Structure and function of small arteries

    M. J. Mulvany;C. Aalkjaer

  • Small artery structure in hypertension. Dual processes of remodeling and growth

    A M Heagerty;C Aalkjaer;S J Bund;N Korsgaard

  • Direct evidence that the greater contractility of resistance vessels in spontaneously hypertensive rats is associated with a narrowed lumen, a thickened media, and an increased number of smooth muscle cell layers.

    M J Mulvany;O K Hansen;C Aalkjaer

  • Vasomotion: mechanisms and physiological importance.

    Holger Nilsson;Christian Aalkjær

  • Hypothesis for the Initiation of Vasomotion

    Hongli Peng;Vladimir Matchkov;Anders Ivarsen;Christian Aalkjær

  • An electroneutral sodium/bicarbonate cotransporter NBCn1 and associated sodium channel

    Inyeong Choi;Christian Aalkjaer;Emile L. Boulpaep;Walter F. Boron

  • Small artery structure is an independent predictor of cardiovascular events in essential hypertension.

    Ole N Mathiassen;Niels H Buus;Inger Sihm;Niels K Thybo

  • Vasomotion: cellular background for the oscillator and for the synchronization of smooth muscle cells

    Christian Aalkjær;Holger Nilsson

  • Tyrosine kinase inhibitors block calcium channel currents in vascular smooth muscle cells.

    S Wijetunge;Christian Aalkjær;M Schachter;A D Hughes

  • Intracellular pH regulation in resting and contracting segments of rat mesenteric resistance vessels.

    C Aalkjaer;E J Cragoe

  • Disruption of Na+,HCO3− Cotransporter NBCn1 (slc4a7) Inhibits NO-Mediated Vasorelaxation, Smooth Muscle Ca2+ Sensitivity, and Hypertension Development in Mice

    Ebbe Boedtkjer;Jeppe Praetorius;Vladimir V. Matchkov;Edgaras Stankevicius

  • NBCn1 and NHE1 expression and activity in ΔNErbB2 receptor-expressing MCF-7 breast cancer cells: Contributions to pHi regulation and chemotherapy resistance

    G. Lauritzen;M.B.F. Jensen;E. Boedtkjer;R. Dybboe

  • Contribution of Na+,HCO3−-cotransport to cellular pH control in human breast cancer: A role for the breast cancer susceptibility locus NBCn1 (SLC4A7)

    Ebbe Boedtkjer;José M.A. Moreira;José M.A. Moreira;Marco Mele;Pernille Vahl

  • Effects of pH on vascular tension: which are the important mechanisms?

    Christian Aalkjær;Lucilla Poston

  • Atrial natriuretic factor causes specific relaxation of rat renal arcuate arteries.

    C. Aalkjaer;M.J. Mulvany;N.C.B. Nyborg

  • pH and smooth muscle

    C. Aalkjær;H.‐L. Peng

  • The relation between peripheral vascular structure, left ventricular hypertrophy, and ambulatory blood pressure in essential hypertension

    Inger Sihm;Anne Pauline Schroeder;Christian Aalkjær;Mette Holm

  • Vascular smooth muscle cell phenotype is defined by Ca2+-dependent transcription factors.

    Olga Kudryavtseva;Christian Aalkjær;Vladimir V. Matchkov

  • Immunoelectron Microscopic Localization of the Electrogenic Na/HCO3 Cotransporter in Rat and Ambystoma Kidney

    Arvid B. Maunsbach;Henrik Vorum;Tae-Hwan Kwon;Søren Nielsen

  • Abstract 2595: Small Artery Structure is an Independent Predictor of Cardiovascular Events in Essential Hypertension

    Ole N Mathiassen;Niels Henrik Buus;Inger Sihm;Niels Kristian Thybo

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Mulvany
Michael J. Mulvany Aarhus University
Tobias Wang
Tobias Wang Aarhus University
Søren Nielsen
Søren Nielsen Aalborg University
Niels H. Secher
Niels H. Secher University of Copenhagen
Walter F. Boron
Walter F. Boron Case Western Reserve University
Stine F. Pedersen
Stine F. Pedersen University of Copenhagen
Alun D. Hughes
Alun D. Hughes University College London
Tae-Hwan Kwon
Tae-Hwan Kwon Kyungpook National University
Allan Flyvbjerg
Allan Flyvbjerg Steno Diabetes Center
Zijian Xie
Zijian Xie Marshall University

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