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68
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759

Overview

Dimitrios Iliopoulos is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their primary area of research focuses on medicine, with a strong emphasis on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their work spans several subfields including surgery, molecular biology, immunology, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Their research topics cover a range of cardiac and cardiovascular issues, including:

  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches
  • Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics
  • Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments
  • Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias

Dimitrios Iliopoulos has contributed to various scientific journals, frequently publishing in:

  • Life
  • Current Medicinal Chemistry
  • Current Pharmaceutical Design
  • Journal of Medicine and Life
  • Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Tumor Markers and Their Diagnostic Significance in Ovarian Cancer," 2023, Life
  • "MiR130b from Schlafen4 + MDSCs stimulates epithelial proliferation and correlates with preneoplastic changes prior to gastric cancer," 2020, Gut
  • "Results of the Seventh Scientific Workshop of ECCO: Precision Medicine in IBD-What, Why, and How," 2021, Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
  • "Clinical Application of the Novel Cell-Based Biosensor for the Ultra-Rapid Detection of the SARS-CoV-2 S1 Spike Protein Antigen: A Practical Approach," 2021, Biosensors
  • "What's new in IBD therapy: An "omics network" approach," 2020, Pharmacological Research

Throughout their career, Dimitrios Iliopoulos has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including:

  • Gerasimos Siasos
  • Μichael Spartalis
  • Eleftherios Spartalis
  • Nikolaos Nikiteas
  • Dimitriοs Schizas

Best Publications

  • An Epigenetic Switch Involving NF-κB, Lin28, Let-7 MicroRNA, and IL6 Links Inflammation to Cell Transformation

    Dimitrios Iliopoulos;Heather A. Hirsch;Kevin Struhl

  • Metformin selectively targets cancer stem cells, and acts together with chemotherapy to block tumor growth and prolong remission

    Heather A. Hirsch;Dimitrios Iliopoulos;Philip N. Tsichlis;Kevin Struhl

  • E2F1-Regulated MicroRNAs Impair TGFβ-Dependent Cell-Cycle Arrest and Apoptosis in Gastric Cancer

    Fabio Petrocca;Fabio Petrocca;Rosa Visone;Mariadele Rapazzotti Onelli;Manisha H. Shah

  • STAT3 Activation of miR-21 and miR-181b-1 via PTEN and CYLD Are Part of the Epigenetic Switch Linking Inflammation to Cancer

    Dimitrios Iliopoulos;Savina A. Jaeger;Heather A. Hirsch;Martha L. Bulyk;Martha L. Bulyk

  • Environmental triggers in IBD: a review of progress and evidence.

    Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan;Charles N. Bernstein;Dimitrios Iliopoulos;Andrew Macpherson

  • XBP1 promotes triple-negative breast cancer by controlling the HIF1α pathway

    Xi Chen;Dimitrios Iliopoulos;Dimitrios Iliopoulos;Qing Zhang;Qianzi Tang;Qianzi Tang

  • Inducible formation of breast cancer stem cells and their dynamic equilibrium with non-stem cancer cells via IL6 secretion

    Dimitrios Iliopoulos;Heather A. Hirsch;Guannan Wang;Kevin Struhl

  • Lin28A and Lin28B Inhibit let-7 MicroRNA Biogenesis by Distinct Mechanisms

    Elena Piskounova;Christos Polytarchou;James E. Thornton;James E. Thornton;Robert J. LaPierre;Robert J. LaPierre

  • The Kinase Akt1 Controls Macrophage Response to Lipopolysaccharide by Regulating MicroRNAs

    Ariadne Androulidaki;Dimitrios Iliopoulos;Alicia Arranz;Christina Doxaki

  • Integrative MicroRNA and Proteomic Approaches Identify Novel Osteoarthritis Genes and Their Collaborative Metabolic and Inflammatory Networks

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  • An HNF4α-miRNA Inflammatory Feedback Circuit Regulates Hepatocellular Oncogenesis

    Maria Hatziapostolou;Christos Polytarchou;Eleni Aggelidou;Alexandra Drakaki

  • Metformin Decreases the Dose of Chemotherapy for Prolonging Tumor Remission in Mouse Xenografts Involving Multiple Cancer Cell Types

    Dimitrios Iliopoulos;Heather A. Hirsch;Kevin Struhl

  • Metformin inhibits the inflammatory response associated with cellular transformation and cancer stem cell growth

    Heather A. Hirsch;Dimitrios Iliopoulos;Kevin Struhl

  • Identification of Liver Cancer Progenitors Whose Malignant Progression Depends on Autocrine IL-6 Signaling

    Guobin He;Debanjan Dhar;Hayato Nakagawa;Hayato Nakagawa;Joan Font-Burgada

  • NLR family member NLRC5 is a transcriptional regulator of MHC class I genes

    Torsten B. Meissner;Amy Li;Amlan Biswas;Kyoung-Hee Lee

  • Loss of miR-200 Inhibition of Suz12 Leads to Polycomb-Mediated Repression Required for the Formation and Maintenance of Cancer Stem Cells

    Dimitrios Iliopoulos;Marianne Lindahl-Allen;Christos Polytarchou;Heather A. Hirsch

  • A Transcriptional Signature and Common Gene Networks Link Cancer with Lipid Metabolism and Diverse Human Diseases

    Heather A. Hirsch;Dimitrios Iliopoulos;Amita Joshi;Yong Zhang

  • MicroRNA-370 controls the expression of MicroRNA-122 and Cpt1α and affects lipid metabolism

    Dimitrios Iliopoulos;Konstantinos Drosatos;Konstantinos Drosatos;Konstantinos Drosatos;Yaeko Hiyama;Ira J. Goldberg

  • The IBD interactome: an integrated view of aetiology, pathogenesis and therapy

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  • Differential expression of leptin and leptin's receptor isoform (Ob-Rb) mRNA between advanced and minimally affected osteoarthritic cartilage; effect on cartilage metabolism.

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Charalabos Pothoulakis
Charalabos Pothoulakis University of California, Los Angeles
Kevin Struhl
Kevin Struhl Harvard University
Emeran A. Mayer
Emeran A. Mayer University of California, Los Angeles
Lin Chang
Lin Chang University of California, Los Angeles
Kay Huebner
Kay Huebner The Ohio State University
Teresa Druck
Teresa Druck The Ohio State University
Philip N. Tsichlis
Philip N. Tsichlis The Ohio State University
Carlo M. Croce
Carlo M. Croce The Ohio State University
Dorothee Herlyn
Dorothee Herlyn The Wistar Institute
Stefano Volinia
Stefano Volinia University of Ferrara

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