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Christian Dani is affiliated with Université Côte d'Azur in France and works extensively in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans a range of subfields, including Physiology, Epidemiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, and Cancer Research. This multidisciplinary approach supports a focus on complex interactions between metabolism, inflammation, and disease.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Adenosine and Purinergic Signaling
  • Sirtuins and Resveratrol in Medicine

Christian Dani has published numerous scientific papers. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Adenosine/A2B Receptor Signaling Ameliorates the Effects of Aging and Counteracts Obesity," 2020, Cell Metabolism
  • "Senescent macrophages in the human adipose tissue as a source of inflammaging," 2022, GeroScience
  • "Breast cancer mammospheres secrete Adrenomedullin to induce lipolysis and browning of adjacent adipocytes," 2020, BMC Cancer
  • "Visceral fat inflammation and fat embolism are associated with lung's lipidic hyaline membranes in subjects with COVID-19," 2022, International Journal of Obesity
  • "Scalable Generation of Pre-Vascularized and Functional Human Beige Adipose Organoids," 2023, Advanced Science

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as Cells, Cell Metabolism, Biomedicines, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and GeroScience.

Regular collaborators in Christian Dani's research include:

  • Xi Yao
  • Annie Ladoux
  • Vincent Dani
  • Jessica Perugini
  • Antonio Giordano

Best Publications

  • Increased expression in adipocytes of ob RNA in mice with lesions of the hypothalamus and with mutations at the db locus.

    Margherita Maffei;Hong Fei;Gwo-Hwa Lee;Christian Dani

  • Extreme instability of myc mRNA in normal and transformed human cells.

    C. H. Dani;J. M. Blanchard;M. Piechaczyk;S. El Sabouty

  • The human adipose tissue is a source of multipotent stem cells

    A.-M. Rodriguez;C. Elabd;Ez-Z. Amri;G. Ailhaud

  • Differentiation of embryonic stem cells into adipocytes in vitro

    C. Dani;A.G. Smith;S. Dessolin;P. Leroy

  • Post-transcriptional regulation of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate-dehydrogenase gene expression in rat tissues

    M. Piechaczyk;J. M. Blanchard;L. Marty;C.-H. Dani

  • Transplantation of a multipotent cell population from human adipose tissue induces dystrophin expression in the immunocompetent mdx mouse

    Anne-Marie Rodriguez;Didier F. Pisani;Claude A. Dechesne;Claude Turc-Carel

  • microRNA miR-27b impairs human adipocyte differentiation and targets PPARγ

    Michael Karbiener;Christoph Fischer;Susanne Nowitsch;Peter Opriessnig

  • A role for preadipocytes as macrophage-like cells

    Béatrice Cousin;O. Munoz;Mireille Andre;A.M. Fontanilles

  • Expression of ob Gene in Adipose Cells REGULATION BY INSULIN

    Pascale Leroy;Sophie Dessolin;Phi Villageois;Byoung Chun Moon

  • Adipocyte differentiation of multipotent cells established from human adipose tissue.

    Anne-Marie Rodriguez;Christian Elabd;Frédéric Delteil;Julien Astier

  • The extracellular signal-regulated kinase isoform ERK1 is specifically required for in vitro and in vivo adipogenesis.

    Frédéric Bost;Myriam Aouadi;Leslie Caron;Patrick Even

  • Dicistronic targeting constructs: reporters and modifiers of mammalian gene expression.

    Peter Mountford;Branko Zevnik;Annette Duwel;Jennifer Nichols

  • The generation of adipocytes by the neural crest

    Nathalie Billon;Palma Iannarelli;Miguel Caetano Monteiro;Corinne Glavieux-Pardanaud

  • c-myc gene is transcribed at high rate in G0-arrested fibroblasts and is post-transcriptionally regulated in response to growth factors.

    Jean-Marie Blanchard;Marc Piechaczyk;Christian Dani;Jean-Claude Chambard

  • Autocrine fibroblast growth factor 2 signaling is critical for self-renewal of human multipotent adipose-derived stem cells.

    Laure‐Emmanuelle Zaragosi;Gérard Ailhaud;Christian Dani

  • Human Multipotent Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Differentiate into Functional Brown Adipocytes

    Christian Elabd;Chiara Chiellini;Mamen Carmona;Jean Galitzky

  • Contribution of adipose triglyceride lipase and hormone-sensitive lipase to lipolysis in hMADS adipocytes.

    Véronic Bezaire;Véronic Bezaire;Aline Mairal;Aline Mairal;Carole Ribet;Carole Ribet;Corinne Lefort;Corinne Lefort

  • Browning of White Adipose Cells by Intermediate Metabolites:An Adaptive Mechanism to Alleviate Redox Pressure

    Audrey Carrière;Yannick Jeanson;Sandra Berger-Müller;Mireille André

  • Small RNA sequencing reveals miR-642a-3p as a novel adipocyte-specific microRNA and miR-30 as a key regulator of human adipogenesis

    Laure-Emmanuelle Zaragosi;Laure-Emmanuelle Zaragosi;Brigitte Wdziekonski;Brigitte Wdziekonski;Kevin Le Brigand;Kevin Le Brigand;Phi Villageois;Phi Villageois

  • microRNA miR-27b impairs human adipocyte differentiation and targets PPARg

    Michael Karbiener;Christoph Fischer;Susanne Nowitsch;Peter Opriessnig

Frequent Co-Authors

Ez-Zoubir Amri
Ez-Zoubir Amri Grenoble Alpes University
Gérard Ailhaud
Gérard Ailhaud Grenoble Alpes University
Paul Grimaldi
Paul Grimaldi Université Côte d'Azur
Marc Piechaczyk
Marc Piechaczyk Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Austin Smith
Austin Smith University of Exeter
Ian Chambers
Ian Chambers University of Edinburgh
Zlatko Trajanoski
Zlatko Trajanoski Innsbruck Medical University
Florence Pedeutour
Florence Pedeutour Grenoble Alpes University
Paul Hofman
Paul Hofman Grenoble Alpes University

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