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Overview

David Sassoon is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France and specializes in medicine with substantial contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans a broad array of subfields, including molecular biology, surgery, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, genetics, and cancer research.

The scientist's work covers several primary research topics, such as cardiac fibrosis and remodeling, congenital heart defects research, cell adhesion molecules research, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, signaling pathways in disease, cardiac structural anomalies and repair, and cancer-related molecular mechanisms research.

Recent papers by David Sassoon include:

  • "Anti-integrin αv therapy improves cardiac fibrosis after myocardial infarction by blunting cardiac PW1+ stromal cells" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "Novel Cardiokine GDF3 Predicts Adverse Fibrotic Remodeling After Myocardial Infarction" (2022, Circulation)
  • "Paternally expressed gene 3 (Pw1/Peg3) promotes sexual dimorphism in metabolism and behavior" (2022, PLoS Genetics)
  • "Hypoxia promotes a perinatal-like progenitor state in the adult murine epicardium" (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • "Elucidating a role for Pw1/Peg3 in placenta vascular formation" (2020, Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases Supplements)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David Sassoon include:

  • Jean-Sébastien Hulot
  • Giovanna Marazzi
  • Mariana Valente
  • Clément Delacroix
  • Angeliqua Sayed

Publication venues where this scientist often publishes encompass a mixture of peer-reviewed journals and preprint platforms:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Circulation
  • Scientific Reports
  • Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases Supplements
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their interdisciplinary approach merges the study of molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying cardiac and vascular diseases with broader investigations into genetics and tissue regeneration, contributing to the understanding of disease pathways and potential therapies.

Best Publications

  • Myogenin, a Factor Regulating Myogenesis, Has a Domain Homologous to MyoD

    Woodring E. Wright;David A. Sassoon;Victor K. Lin

  • Expression of two myogenic regulatory factors myogenin and MyoDl during mouse embryogenesis

    David Sassoon;Gary Lyons;Woodring E. Wright;Victor Lin

  • Notch4/int-3, a mammary proto-oncogene, is an endothelial cell-specific mammalian Notch gene

    Hendrik Uyttendaele;Giovanna Marazzi;Guangyu Wu;Qingyou Yan

  • Developmental regulation of myosin gene expression in mouse cardiac muscle.

    G E Lyons;S Schiaffino;D Sassoon;P Barton

  • Identification and characterization of a non-satellite cell muscle resident progenitor during postnatal development

    Kathryn J Mitchell;Alice Pannérec;Bruno Cadot;Ara Parlakian

  • Loss of N-myc function results in embryonic lethality and failure of the epithelial component of the embryo to develop.

    Brian R. Stanton;Archibald S. Perkins;Lino Tessarollo;David A. Sassoon

  • Hox-7, a mouse homeobox gene with a novel pattern of expression during embryogenesis.

    B Robert;D Sassoon;B Jacq;W Gehring

  • Wnt-7a maintains appropriate uterine patterning during the development of the mouse female reproductive tract

    Cary Miller;David A. Sassoon

  • Transcripts of alpha-cardiac and alpha-skeletal actins are early markers for myogenesis in the mouse embryo

    D.A. Sassoon;I. Garner;M. Buckingham

  • Expression of the muscle regulatory factor MRF4 during somite and skeletal myofiber development

    Timothy J. Hinterberger;David A. Sassoon;David A. Sassoon;Simon J. Rhodes;Stephen F. Konieczny

  • The expression of myosin genes in developing skeletal muscle in the mouse embryo.

    G E Lyons;M Ontell;R Cox;D Sassoon

  • MHox: a mesodermally restricted homeodomain protein that binds an essential site in the muscle creatine kinase enhancer.

    Peter Cserjesi;Brenda Lilly;Laura Bryson;Yaoqi Wang

  • Visualization and functional characterization of the developing murine cardiac conduction system.

    Stacey Rentschler;Dhananjay M. Vaidya;Houman Tamaddon;Karl Degenhardt

  • Digit tip regeneration correlates with regions of Msx1 (Hox 7) expression in fetal and newborn mice

    A. D. Reginelli;Yao-Qi Wang;D. Sassoon;K. Muneoka

  • Wnt5a is required for proper epithelial-mesenchymal interactions in the uterus

    Mathias Mericskay;Jan Kitajewski;David Sassoon

  • Wnt signaling mediates reorientation of outer hair cell stereociliary bundles in the mammalian cochlea.

    Alain Dabdoub;Maura J. Donohue;Angela Brennan;Vladimir Wolf

  • Expression of Hox-7.1 in myoblasts inhibits terminal differentiation and induces cell transformation

    Kening Song;Yaoqi Wang;David Sassoon

  • Detection of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha-subunit mRNA by in situ hybridization at neuromuscular junctions of 15-day-old chick striated muscles.

    B. Fontaine;D. Sassoon;M. Buckingham;J. P. Changeux

  • Myogenic regulatory factors: dissecting their role and regulation during vertebrate embryogenesis.

    David A. Sassoon

  • DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION PATTERNS OF WNT GENES IN THE MURINE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE TRACT DURING DEVELOPMENT AND THE ESTROUS CYCLE

    Cary Miller;Anna Pavlova;David A Sassoon

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret Buckingham
Margaret Buckingham Institut Pasteur
Frédéric Relaix
Frédéric Relaix Paris-Est Créteil University
David D.L. Bowtell
David D.L. Bowtell Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Jan Kitajewski
Jan Kitajewski Columbia University
Woodring E. Wright
Woodring E. Wright The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Nadia Rosenthal
Nadia Rosenthal National Institutes of Health
Stuart A. Aaronson
Stuart A. Aaronson Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ze'ev Ronai
Ze'ev Ronai Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Paul J.R. Barton
Paul J.R. Barton Imperial College London

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