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Christoph Röcken

Christoph Röcken

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Medicine

D-Index
101
Citations
31924
World Ranking
8059
National Ranking
466

Overview

Christoph Röcken is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany and has a research portfolio concentrated in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their primary scientific focus encompasses multiple subfields including molecular biology, oncology, epidemiology, surgery, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's work covers significant topics such as pancreatic and hepatic oncology research, amyloidosis diagnosis and treatment, gastric cancer management and outcomes, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, microscopic colitis, and inflammatory bowel disease.

Recent publications reflect a diverse output across high-impact venues. These include the following papers:

  • Longitudinal Multi-omics Analyses Identify Responses of Megakaryocytes, Erythroid Cells, and Plasmablasts as Hallmarks of Severe COVID-19, 2020, Immunity
  • Therapeutic Interleukin-6 Trans-signaling Inhibition by Olamkicept (sgp130Fc) in Patients With Active Inflammatory Bowel Disease, 2021, Gastroenterology
  • Predictive biomarkers in gastric cancer, 2022, Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology
  • Loss of hepatic Mboat7 leads to liver fibrosis, 2020, Gut
  • Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease stratification by liver lipidomics, 2021, Journal of Lipid Research

Frequent co-authors contributing notably to their joint work include Sandra Krüger, Hans-Michael Behrens, Philip Rosenstiel, Susanne Sebens, and Stefan Schreiber.

Their research is regularly published in specialized journals such as Amyloid, Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie, Gastroenterology, Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology, and Journal of Crohn's and Colitis. These venues indicate a consistent engagement with fields relevant to gastrointestinal diseases, oncology, and amyloidosis.

Best Publications

  • Increased expression of extracellular signal-regulated kinase and angiotensin-converting enzyme in human atria during atrial fibrillation

    Andreas Goette;Thorsten Staack;Christoph Röcken;Marco Arndt

  • Obesity accelerates epigenetic aging of human liver

    Steve Horvath;Wiebke Erhart;Mario Brosch;Ole Ammerpohl

  • DNA Methylation Analysis in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Suggests Distinct Disease-Specific and Remodeling Signatures after Bariatric Surgery

    Markus Ahrens;Ole Ammerpohl;Witigo von Schönfels;Julia Kolarova

  • Regulation of Angiotensin II Receptor Subtypes During Atrial Fibrillation in Humans

    Andreas Goette;Marco Arndt;Christoph Röcken;Antje Spiess

  • Prognostic Relevance of a Novel TNM Classification System for Upper Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors

    Ulrich‐Frank Pape;Henning Jann;Jacqueline Müller‐Nordhorn;Angelina Bockelbrink

  • Association of patterns of class I histone deacetylase expression with patient prognosis in gastric cancer: a retrospective analysis

    Wilko Weichert;Annika Röske;Volker Gekeler;Thomas Beckers

  • Atrial Amyloidosis An Arrhythmogenic Substrate for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

    Christoph Röcken;Brigitte Peters;Gina Juenemann;Wolfgang Saeger

  • Longitudinal Multi-omics Analyses Identify Responses of Megakaryocytes, Erythroid Cells, and Plasmablasts as Hallmarks of Severe COVID-19.

    Joana P. Bernardes;Neha Mishra;Florian Tran;Thomas Bahmer

  • MALDI Imaging Combined with Hierarchical Clustering as a New Tool for the Interpretation of Complex Human Cancers

    Sören-Oliver Deininger;Matthias P. Ebert;Arne Fütterer;Marc Gerhard

  • MicroRNA-143 targets DNA methyltransferases 3A in colorectal cancer

    Eko K. O. Ng;Wp P. Tsang;Ssm S. M. Ng;Hc C. Jin

  • Neuroendocrine tumors of midgut and hindgut origin: tumor-node-metastasis classification determines clinical outcome

    Henning Jann;Stephanie Roll;Anne Couvelard;Olivia Hentic

  • Confocal Endomicroscopy Shows Food-Associated Changes in the Intestinal Mucosa of Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

    Annette Fritscher-Ravens;Detlef Schuppan;Detlef Schuppan;Mark Ellrichmann;Stefan Schoch

  • PD-L1 is an independent prognostic predictor in gastric cancer of Western patients

    Christine Böger;Hans-Michael Behrens;Micaela Mathiak;Sandra Krüger

  • [German S3-Guideline "Diagnosis and Treatment of Esophagogastric Cancer"]

    M. Moehler;Se-E. Al-Batran;T. Andus;M. Anthuber

  • Tumor-associated macrophages exhibit pro- and anti-inflammatory properties by which they impact on pancreatic tumorigenesis.

    Ole Helm;Janka Held-Feindt;Evelin Grage-Griebenow;Norbert Reiling

  • Pathology, diagnosis and pathogenesis of AA amyloidosis.

    Christoph Röcken;Ann Shakespeare

  • Immunohistochemistry in the classification of systemic forms of amyloidosis: a systematic investigation of 117 patients

    Stefan O. Schönland;Ute Hegenbart;Tilmann Bochtler;Anja Mangatter

  • Raft lipids as common components of human extracellular amyloid fibrils.

    Gerald P. Gellermann;Thomas R. Appel;Astrid Tannert;Anja Radestock

  • Directed selection of a conformational antibody domain that prevents mature amyloid fibril formation by stabilizing Aβ protofibrils

    Gernot Habicht;Christian Haupt;Ralf P. Friedrich;Peter Hortschansky

  • [S3-guideline exocrine pancreatic cancer].

    T. Seufferlein;M. Porzner;T. Becker;V. Budach

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Malfertheiner
Peter Malfertheiner Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Uwe Lendeckel
Uwe Lendeckel Greifswald University Hospital
Jochen Hampe
Jochen Hampe TU Dresden
Stefan Schreiber
Stefan Schreiber Kiel University
Wilko Weichert
Wilko Weichert Technical University of Munich
Roland M. Schmid
Roland M. Schmid Technical University of Munich
Hugo A. Katus
Hugo A. Katus Heidelberg University
Bence Sipos
Bence Sipos University of Tübingen
Jun Yu
Jun Yu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Helmut U. Klein
Helmut U. Klein University of Rochester Medical Center

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