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Demetrios Kouretas

Demetrios Kouretas

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
45
Citations
6414
World Ranking
19161
National Ranking
45

Overview

Demetrios Kouretas is affiliated with the University Of Thessaly in Greece and has a substantial body of research primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work extensively covers various subfields including Physiology, Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Plant Science.

Their research topics prominently feature:

  • Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
  • Dietary Effects on Health
  • Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
  • Edible Oils Quality and Analysis
  • Vitamin C and Antioxidants Research
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet

Kouretas has contributed to scientific literature with papers including:

  • Obesity - a risk factor for increased COVID-19 prevalence, severity and lethality (Review), 2020, Molecular Medicine Reports
  • Editorial: Nicotine and SARS-CoV-2: COVID-19 may be a disease of the nicotinic cholinergic system, 2020, Toxicology Reports
  • Potential Applications of NRF2 Modulators in Cancer Therapy, 2020, Antioxidants
  • Chronic Inflammation in the Context of Everyday Life: Dietary Changes as Mitigating Factors, 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Improved strategies to counter the COVID-19 pandemic: Lockdowns vs. primary and community healthcare, 2020, Toxicology Reports

Frequent collaborators in Kouretas's work include:

  • Zoi Skaperda
  • Fotios Tekos
  • Periklis Vardakas
  • Aristidis S. Veskoukis
  • Aristidis Tsatsakis

The scientist's research is often published in specific venues such as:

  • Antioxidants
  • Food and Chemical Toxicology
  • Toxicology Letters
  • Toxicology Reports
  • Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Best Publications

  • Obesity ­ a risk factor for increased COVID­19 prevalence, severity and lethality (Review).

    Demetrios Petrakis;Denisa Margină;Konstantinos Tsarouhas;Fotios Tekos

  • Current evidence on the effect of dietary polyphenols intake on chronic diseases

    Chiara Costa;Aristidis Tsatsakis;Charalampos Mamoulakis;Michele Teodoro

  • A Review of the Alleged Health Hazards of Monosodium Glutamate

    Anca Zanfirescu;Anca Ungurianu;Aristides M. Tsatsakis;George M. Nițulescu

  • Simulating real-life exposures to uncover possible risks to human health: A proposed consensus for a novel methodological approach

    A M Tsatsakis;D Kouretas;M N Tzatzarakis;P Stivaktakis

  • Environmental impacts of genetically modified plants: A review.

    Aristidis M. Tsatsakis;Muhammad Amjad Nawaz;Demetrios Kouretas;Georgios Balias

  • Pesticides and cardiotoxicity. Where do we stand

    Nikolaos Georgiadis;Konstantinos Tsarouhas;Christina Tsitsimpikou;Alexandros Vardavas

  • Antibacterial and antioxidant activity of different types of honey derived from Mount Olympus in Greece

    Dimitrios Stagos;Nikolaos Soulitsiotis;Christina Tsadila;Stamatina Papaeconomou

  • Potential Applications of NRF2 Modulators in Cancer Therapy

    Emiliano Panieri;Aleksandra Buha;Pelin Telkoparan-Akillilar;Dilek Cevik

  • Alzheimer's disease treated patients showed different patterns for oxidative stress and inflammation markers.

    Miriana Gubandru;Denisa Margina;Christina Tsitsimpikou;Nikos Goutzourelas

  • Comparison of antioxidant activity between green and roasted coffee beans using molecular methods

    Alexandros Priftis;Dimitrios Stagos;Konstantinos Konstantinopoulos;Christina Tsitsimpikou

  • Antioxidant effects of whey protein on muscle C2C12 cells.

    Efthalia Kerasioti;Dimitrios Stagos;Alexandros Priftis;Stefanos Aivazidis

  • Reactive oxygen species as an initiator of toxic innate immune responses in retort to SARS-CoV-2 in an ageing population, consider N-acetylcysteine as early therapeutic intervention

    Aikaterini Nasi;Stephanie McArdle;Gustav Gaudernack;Gabriel Westman

  • Chronic Inflammation in the Context of Everyday Life: Dietary Changes as Mitigating Factors.

    Denisa Margină;Anca Ungurianu;Carmen Purdel;Dimitris Tsoukalas

  • Role of vitamin C and E supplementation on IL-6 in response to training.

    Christina Yfanti;Christian P. Fischer;Søren Nielsen;Thorbjörn Åkerström

  • Tannins, xenobiotic metabolism and cancer chemoprevention in experimental animals

    Ch. Nepka;E. Asprodini;D. Kouretas

  • Grape pomace improves performance, antioxidant status, fecal microbiota and meat quality of piglets.

    I. Kafantaris;D. Stagos;B. Kotsampasi;A. Hatzis

  • Connection between Telomerase Activity in PBMC and Markers of Inflammation and Endothelial Dysfunction in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome

    Elias Rentoukas;Konstantinos Tsarouhas;Ioannis Kaplanis;Eleni Korou

  • A mixture of routinely encountered xenobiotics induces both redox adaptations and perturbations in blood and tissues of rats after a long-term low-dose exposure regimen: The time and dose issue.

    Polyxeni Fountoucidou;Aristidis S. Veskoukis;Efthalia Kerasioti;Anca Oana Docea

  • Contribution of Aldehyde Oxidase, Xanthine Oxidase, and Aldehyde Dehydrogenase on the Oxidation of Aromatic Aldehydes

    Georgios I Panoutsopoulos;Demetrios Kouretas;Christine Beedham

  • Natural products-friends or foes?

    Denisa Margină;Mihaela Ilie;Daniela Grădinaru;Vasilis P. Androutsopoulos

Frequent Co-Authors

Aristidis Tsatsakis
Aristidis Tsatsakis University of Crete
Demetrios A. Spandidos
Demetrios A. Spandidos University of Crete
Alexios-Leandros Skaltsounis
Alexios-Leandros Skaltsounis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Yiannis Koutedakis
Yiannis Koutedakis University Of Thessaly
Jens Lykkesfeldt
Jens Lykkesfeldt University of Copenhagen
Søren Nielsen
Søren Nielsen Aalborg University
Nikolaos Scarmeas
Nikolaos Scarmeas National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Prokopios Magiatis
Prokopios Magiatis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Joanna Floros
Joanna Floros Pennsylvania State University
Bente Klarlund Pedersen
Bente Klarlund Pedersen University of Copenhagen

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