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Overview

Deepak Bhatnagar is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on subfields such as Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Surgery, Physiology, Infectious Diseases, and Neurology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes
  • Diet and Metabolism Studies
  • Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Diabetes Treatment and Management
  • Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity
  • Thyroid Disorders and Treatments

Deepak Bhatnagar has published extensively in a variety of academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Endocrine Abstracts
  • Obesity Surgery
  • Value in Health
  • Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • Diabetes Therapy

Their notable recent papers are:

  • Obesity: A critical risk factor in the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, Clinical Obesity
  • Guillain-Barré Syndrome following ChAdOx1-S/nCoV-19 Vaccine, 2021, Annals of Neurology
  • Obesity and chronic kidney disease: A current review, 2022, Obesity Science & Practice
  • Improvements in Diabetic Neuropathy and Nephropathy After Bariatric Surgery: a Prospective Cohort Study, 2020, Obesity Surgery
  • Managing hyperlipidaemia in patients with COVID-19 and during its pandemic: An expert panel position statement from HEART UK, 2020, Atherosclerosis

Frequent co-authors include Handrean Soran, Zohaib Iqbal, Safwaan Adam, Adrian Heald, and Basil J. Ammori. These collaborations have contributed to a substantial body of work, with co-authorship counts ranging from 23 to 33 joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Genome sequencing and analysis of Aspergillus oryzae

    Masayuki Machida;Kiyoshi Asai;Motoaki Sano;Toshihiro Tanaka

  • Clustered pathway genes in aflatoxin biosynthesis.

    Jiujiang Yu;Perng Kuang Chang;Kenneth C. Ehrlich;Jeffrey W. Cary

  • Comparative mapping of aflatoxin pathway gene clusters in Aspergillus parasiticus and Aspergillus flavus.

    Jiujiang Yu;Perng-Kuang Chang;J. W. Cary;M. Wright

  • Whole genome comparison of Aspergillus flavus and A. oryzae

    G. A. Payne;W. C. Nierman;J. R. Wortman;B. L. Pritchard

  • United States Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Research Service research on pre‐harvest prevention of mycotoxins and mycotoxigenic fungi in US crops

    Thomas E Cleveland;Patrick F Dowd;Anne E Desjardins;Deepak Bhatnagar

  • Promising nucleic acid analogs and mimics: characteristic features and applications of PNA, LNA, and morpholino.

    Shantanu Karkare;Deepak Bhatnagar

  • Molecular genetic analysis and regulation of aflatoxin biosynthesis.

    D. Bhatnagar;K. C. Ehrlich;T. E. Cleveland

  • Cloning of the afl-2 gene involved in aflatoxin biosynthesis from Aspergillus flavus.

    G A Payne;G J Nystrom;D Bhatnagar;T E Cleveland

  • Toxins of filamentous fungi.

    Deepak Bhatnagar;Jiujiang Yu;Kenneth C Ehrlich

  • Increased expression of Aspergillus parasiticus aflR, encoding a sequence-specific DNA-binding protein, relieves nitrate inhibition of aflatoxin biosynthesis.

    Perng-Kuang Chang;K. C. Ehrlich;Jiujiang Yu;Deepak Bhatnagar

  • Cloning of the Aspergillus parasiticus apa-2 gene associated with the regulation of aflatoxin biosynthesis.

    Perng-Kuang Chang;J. W. Cary;Deepak Bhatnagar;T. E. Cleveland

  • Completed sequence of aflatoxin pathway gene cluster in Aspergillus parasiticus1

    Jiujiang Yu;Deepak Bhatnagar;Thomas E Cleveland

  • Understanding the genetics of regulation of aflatoxin production and Aspergillus flavus development.

    Deepak Bhatnagar;Jeffrey W. Cary;Kenneth Ehrlich;Jiujiang Yu

  • Climate change impacts on mycotoxin risks in US maize

    F. Wu;D. Bhatnagar;T. Bui-Klimke;I. Carbone

  • The aflatoxin pathway regulator AflR induces gene transcription inside and outside of the aflatoxin biosynthetic cluster

    Michael S. Price;Jiujiang Yu;William C. Nierman;H. Stanley Kim

  • The effect of elevated temperature on gene transcription and aflatoxin biosynthesis.

    G.R. OBrian;D.R. Georgianna;J.R. Wilkinson;J. Yu

  • Variability among atoxigenic Aspergillus flavus strains in ability to prevent aflatoxin contamination and production of aflatoxin biosynthetic pathway enzymes

    Peter J. Cotty;Deepak Bhatnagar

  • Characterization of aflJ, a Gene Required for Conversion of Pathway Intermediates to Aflatoxin

    D. M. Meyers;G. Obrian;W. L. Du;D. Bhatnagar

  • The Aspergillus parasiticus polyketide synthase gene pksA, a homolog of Aspergillus nidulans wA, is required for aflatoxin B1 biosynthesis.

    Perng-Kuang Chang;Jeffrey W. Cary;Jiujiang Yu;Deepak Bhatnagar

  • Expression and functional characterization of two pathogenesis-related protein 10 genes from Zea mays.

    Yu-Rong Xie;Zhi-Yuan Chen;Robert L. Brown;Deepak Bhatnagar

  • Aspergillus flavus expressed sequence tags for identification of genes with putative roles in aflatoxin contamination of crops

    Jiujiang Yu;Catherine A. Whitelaw;William C. Nierman;Deepak Bhatnagar

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas E. Cleveland
Thomas E. Cleveland Agricultural Research Service
Jiujiang Yu
Jiujiang Yu United States Department of Agriculture
Gary A. Payne
Gary A. Payne North Carolina State University
Jeffrey W. Cary
Jeffrey W. Cary United States Department of Agriculture
William C. Nierman
William C. Nierman J. Craig Venter Institute
Kenneth C. Ehrlich
Kenneth C. Ehrlich US Department of Agriculture
Perng-Kuang Chang
Perng-Kuang Chang United States Department of Agriculture
Joan W. Bennett
Joan W. Bennett Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ralph A. Dean
Ralph A. Dean North Carolina State University
Nelson J. Leonard
Nelson J. Leonard University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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