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Craig E. Wheelock

Craig E. Wheelock

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
67
Citations
13391
World Ranking
8356
National Ranking
111

Overview

Craig E. Wheelock is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has contributed extensively to medical and biochemical research. Their scholarly work spans a range of topics within medicine and molecular biology, with a particular focus on pulmonary and respiratory medicine, physiology, and immunology.

The main fields of study for Wheelock include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these broad fields, the subfields of study encompass:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Physiology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Immunology
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Their research topics cover a range of health-related areas, highlighted by the following main topics:

  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Fatty Acid Research and Health
  • Eicosanoids and Hypertension Pharmacology
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Immune cells in cancer

Wheelock has published in multiple scientific venues, often contributing to journals with strong biomedical and respiratory focuses. The frequent publication venues include:

  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Respiratory Journal
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Allergy

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Targeting a scavenger receptor on tumor-associated macrophages activates tumor cell killing by natural killer cells," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Defining the Scope of Exposome Studies and Research Needs from a Multidisciplinary Perspective," 2021, Environmental Science & Technology Letters
  • "Hyperglycemia Induces Trained Immunity in Macrophages and Their Precursors and Promotes Atherosclerosis," 2021, Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften (ZB MED)
  • "Disturbed glucose and pyruvate metabolism in glaucoma with neuroprotection by pyruvate or rapamycin," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Fat-Secreted Ceramides Regulate Vascular Redox State and Influence Outcomes in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease," 2021, Journal of the American College of Cardiology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Johan Kolmert
  • Jessica Lasky-Su
  • Sven-Erik Dahlén
  • Rachel S. Kelly
  • Antonio Checa

Best Publications

  • Harmonizing lipidomics: NIST interlaboratory comparison exercise for lipidomics using SRM 1950-Metabolites in Frozen Human Plasma.

    John A. Bowden;Alan Heckert;Candice Z. Ulmer;Christina M. Jones

  • Overview of Carboxylesterases and Their Role in the Metabolism of Insecticides

    Craig E. Wheelock;Guomin Shan;James Ottea

  • Application of 'omics technologies to biomarker discovery in inflammatory lung diseases.

    Craig E. Wheelock;Victoria M. Goss;David Balgoma;Ben Nicholas

  • Trials and tribulations of ‘omics data analysis: assessing quality of SIMCA-based multivariate models using examples from pulmonary medicine

    Åsa M. Wheelock;Craig E. Wheelock

  • U-BIOPRED clinical adult asthma clusters linked to a subset of sputum omics

    Diane Lefaudeux;Bertrand De Meulder;Matthew J. Loza;Nancy Peffer

  • Challenges, progress and promises of metabolite annotation for LC-MS-based metabolomics.

    Romanas Chaleckis;Isabel Meister;Pei Zhang;Craig E Wheelock;Craig E Wheelock

  • MS-based lipidomics of human blood plasma: a community-initiated position paper to develop accepted guidelines

    Bo Burla;Makoto Arita;Makoto Arita;Masanori Arita;Anne K. Bendt

  • Exosomes from human macrophages and dendritic cells contain enzymes for leukotriene biosynthesis and promote granulocyte migration

    Julia Esser;Ulf Gehrmann;Fabio Luiz D'Alexandri;Alicia M. Hidalgo-Estévez

  • Applications of Carboxylesterase Activity in Environmental Monitoring and Toxicity Identification Evaluations (TIEs)

    Craig E. Wheelock;Bryn M. Phillips;Brian S. Anderson;Jeff L. Miller

  • Structural refinement of inhibitors of urea-based soluble epoxide hydrolases.

    Christophe Morisseau;Marvin H. Goodrow;John W. Newman;Craig E. Wheelock

  • Challenges in regulating pesticide mixtures

    Michael Lydy;Jason Belden;Craig Wheelock;Bruce Hammock

  • Dendritic cell reprogramming by endogenously produced lactic acid.

    Aikaterini Nasi;Tünde Fekete;Akilan Krishnamurthy;Stuart Snowden

  • Deciphering lipid structures based on platform-independent decision rules

    Jürgen Hartler;Jürgen Hartler;Alexander Triebl;Andreas Ziegl;Martin Trötzmüller

  • Glutamine Links Obesity to Inflammation in Human White Adipose Tissue.

    Paul Petrus;Simon Lecoutre;Lucile Dollet;Clotilde Wiel

  • Metabolomics analysis identifies different metabotypes of asthma severity.

    Stacey N. Reinke;Héctor Gallart-Ayala;Cristina Gómez;Antonio Checa

  • Individual variability in esterase activity and CYP1A levels in Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) exposed to esfenvalerate and chlorpyrifos

    Craig E. Wheelock;Kai J. Eder;Kai J. Eder;Inge Werner;Huazhang Huang

  • Development of a Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Metabolomics Method with High Specificity for Metabolite Identification Using All Ion Fragmentation Acquisition.

    Shama Naz;Hector Gallart-Ayala;Stacey Reinke;Caroline Mathon

  • Advances in eicosanoid research, novel therapeutic implications.

    Jesper Z. Haeggström;Agnes Rinaldo-Matthis;Craig E. Wheelock;Anders Wetterholm

  • Gene expression signatures, pathways and networks in carotid atherosclerosis

    L. Perisic;S. Aldi;Y. Sun;L. Folkersen;L. Folkersen

  • Joint acute toxicity of esfenvalerate and diazinon to larval fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas).

    Debra L. Denton;Craig E. Wheelock;Shauna A. Murray;Linda A. Deanovic

Frequent Co-Authors

Sven-Erik Dahlén
Sven-Erik Dahlén Karolinska Institute
Bruce D. Hammock
Bruce D. Hammock University of California, Davis
Barbro Dahlén
Barbro Dahlén Karolinska Institute
Peter J. Sterk
Peter J. Sterk University of Amsterdam
Jesper Z. Haeggström
Jesper Z. Haeggström Karolinska Institute
Ratko Djukanovic
Ratko Djukanovic University of Southampton
Ian M. Adcock
Ian M. Adcock Imperial College London
Susumu Goto
Susumu Goto Osaka University
Kian Fan Chung
Kian Fan Chung Imperial College London
Charles Auffray
Charles Auffray Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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