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David J. Calkins is affiliated with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily concentrates on topics related to glaucoma and retinal disorders, retinal development and disorders, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, retinal diseases and treatments, connexins and lens biology, ocular surface and contact lens, and neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms.

Their work spans several main fields of study, including medicine, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and neuroscience. Within these, they specifically contribute to subfields such as molecular biology, ophthalmology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, neurology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with this researcher include Lauren K. Wareham, Michael L. Risner, Nolan R. McGrady, Joseph M. Holden, and Brian J. Del Buono.

David J. Calkins has published extensively in specific venues, with notable numbers of publications in the following journals:

  • Molecular Neurodegeneration
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Glia
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Selected recent publications authored or co-authored by David J. Calkins include:

  • Adaptive responses to neurodegenerative stress in glaucoma, 2021, Progress in Retinal and Eye Research
  • Solving neurodegeneration: common mechanisms and strategies for new treatments, 2022, Molecular Neurodegeneration
  • Bilateral visual improvement with unilateral gene therapy injection for Leber hereditary optic neuropathy, 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • Redistribution of metabolic resources through astrocyte networks mitigates neurodegenerative stress, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The Neurovascular Unit in Glaucomatous Neurodegeneration, 2020, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Best Publications

  • Progressive Ganglion Cell Degeneration Precedes Neuronal Loss in a Mouse Model of Glaucoma

    Brian P. Buckingham;Denise M. Inman;Wendi Lambert;Ericka Oglesby

  • The microbead occlusion model: a paradigm for induced ocular hypertension in rats and mice

    Rebecca M. Sappington;Brian J. Carlson;Samuel D. Crish;David J. Calkins

  • Distal axonopathy with structural persistence in glaucomatous neurodegeneration

    Samuel D. Crish;Rebecca M. Sappington;Denise M. Inman;Philip J. Horner

  • Reduced retina microglial activation and improved optic nerve integrity with minocycline treatment in the DBA/2J mouse model of glaucoma.

    Alejandra Bosco;Denise M. Inman;Michael R. Steele;Guangming Wu

  • Solving neurodegeneration: common mechanisms and strategies for new treatments

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  • Critical pathogenic events underlying progression of neurodegeneration in glaucoma.

    David J. Calkins

  • Microcircuitry and Mosaic of a Blue–Yellow Ganglion Cell in the Primate Retina

    David J. Calkins;Yoshihiko Tsukamoto;Peter Sterling

  • Induced Autoimmunity to Heat Shock Proteins Elicits Glaucomatous Loss of Retinal Ganglion Cell Neurons via Activated T-Cell-Derived Fas-Ligand

    Martin B. Wax;Gülgün Tezel;Junjie Yang;Guanghua Peng

  • Seeing with S cones.

    David J. Calkins

  • Microarray analysis of retinal gene expression in the DBA/2J model of glaucoma.

    Michael R. Steele;Denise M. Inman;David J. Calkins;Philip J. Horner

  • M and L cones in macaque fovea connect to midget ganglion cells by different numbers of excitatory synapses.

    David J. Calkins;Stanley J. Schein;Yoshihiko Tsukamoto;Peter Sterling

  • TRPV1: contribution to retinal ganglion cell apoptosis and increased intracellular Ca2+ with exposure to hydrostatic pressure.

    Rebecca M. Sappington;Tatiana Sidorova;Daniel J. Long;David J. Calkins

  • Optic Neuropathy Due to Microbead-Induced Elevated Intraocular Pressure in the Mouse

    Huihui Chen;Xin Wei;Xin Wei;Kin-Sang Cho;Guochun Chen;Guochun Chen

  • Bilateral visual improvement with unilateral gene therapy injection for Leber hereditary optic neuropathy

    Patrick Yu-Wai-Man;Nancy J. Newman;Valerio Carelli;Mark L. Moster

  • Light Scattering from Intact Cells Reports Oxidative-Stress-Induced Mitochondrial Swelling

    Jeremy D. Wilson;Chad E. Bigelow;David J. Calkins;Thomas H. Foster

  • Interleukin-6 protects retinal ganglion cells from pressure-induced death.

    Rebecca M Sappington;Matilda Chan;David J Calkins

  • Neurodegeneration in Glaucoma: Progression and Calcium-Dependent Intracellular Mechanisms

    Samuel D. Crish;David J. Calkins

  • Contribution of TRPV1 to Microglia-Derived IL-6 and NFκB Translocation with Elevated Hydrostatic Pressure

    Rebecca M. Sappington;David J. Calkins

  • Metabolic vulnerability disposes retinal ganglion cell axons to dysfunction in a model of glaucomatous degeneration

    Selva Baltan;Denise M. Inman;Camelia A. Danilov;Richard S. Morrison

  • TRPV1: a stress response protein in the central nervous system.

    Karen W Ho;Nicholas J Ward;David J Calkins

  • Evidence that Circuits for Spatial and Color Vision Segregate at the First Retinal Synapse

    David J Calkins;Peter Sterling

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip J. Horner
Philip J. Horner Houston Methodist
Monica L. Vetter
Monica L. Vetter University of Utah
Peter Sterling
Peter Sterling University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey L. Goldberg
Jeffrey L. Goldberg Stanford University
Valerio Carelli
Valerio Carelli University of Bologna
Nicholas C. Brecha
Nicholas C. Brecha University of California, Los Angeles
James W. Bisley
James W. Bisley University of California, Los Angeles
Milos Pekny
Milos Pekny University of Gothenburg
Andrew D. Huberman
Andrew D. Huberman Stanford University
Larry I. Benowitz
Larry I. Benowitz Harvard Medical School

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