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Francisco J. Blanco

Francisco J. Blanco

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Medicine

D-Index
93
Citations
40241
World Ranking
10734
National Ranking
152

Overview

Francisco J. Blanco is affiliated with the University of A Coruña in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with extensive work in Rheumatology, Surgery, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, and Cancer Research.

The scientist has contributed significantly to topics including:

  • Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies
  • Inflammatory mediators and NSAID effects
  • Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Bone and Joint Diseases
  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research

Francisco J. Blanco has published extensively in several key venues, most notably:

  • Osteoarthritis and Cartilage (64 publications)
  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (39 publications)
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature (23 publications)
  • Osteoarthritis Imaging (10 publications)
  • Scientific Reports (6 publications)

Some of the recent publications associated with or relevant to their research include:

  • Subcutaneous tanezumab for osteoarthritis of the hip or knee: efficacy and safety results from a 24-week randomised phase III study with a 24-week follow-up period, 2020, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Prevalence of hospital PCR-confirmed COVID-19 cases in patients with chronic inflammatory and autoimmune rheumatic diseases, 2020, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Osteoarthritis endotype discovery via clustering of biochemical marker data, 2022, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Oxidative Stress in Rheumatoid Arthritis, 2022, Antioxidants
  • Cohort profile: The Applied Public-Private Research enabling OsteoArthritis Clinical Headway (IMI-APPROACH) study: a 2-year, European, cohort study to describe, validate and predict phenotypes of osteoarthritis using clinical, imaging and biochemical markers, 2020, BMJ Open

Frequent collaborators of Francisco J. Blanco include:

  • Ignacio Rego-Pérez
  • I.K. Haugen
  • M. Kloppenburg
  • Francis Bérenbaum
  • N. Oreiro

Best Publications

  • Circulating microRNAs in sera correlate with soluble biomarkers of immune activation but do not predict mortality in ART treated individuals with HIV-1 infection : a case control study

    Daniel D. Murray;Kazuo Suzuki;Matthew Law;Jonel Trebicka

  • OARSI guidelines for the non-surgical management of knee, hip, and polyarticular osteoarthritis

    Raveendhara Bannuru;M. C. Osani;E. E. Vaysbrot;Nigel Arden;Nigel Arden

  • Chondrocyte apoptosis induced by nitric oxide.

    F J Blanco;R L Ochs;H Schwarz;M Lotz

  • Osteoarthritis chondrocytes die by apoptosis. A possible pathway for osteoarthritis pathology.

    Blanco Fj;Guitian R;Vázquez-Martul E;de Toro Fj

  • Autophagy is a protective mechanism in normal cartilage, and its aging-related loss is linked with cell death and osteoarthritis.

    Beatriz Caramés;Noboru Taniguchi;Shuhei Otsuki;Francisco J. Blanco

  • Call for standardized definitions of osteoarthritis and risk stratification for clinical trials and clinical use.

    V B Kraus;F J Blanco;M Englund;M A Karsdal

  • 2018 update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of hand osteoarthritis

    Margreet Kloppenburg;Féline P.B. Kroon;Francisco J. Blanco;Michael Doherty

  • The role of mitochondria in osteoarthritis.

    Francisco J. Blanco;Ignacio Rego;Cristina Ruiz-Romero

  • Autophagy activation by rapamycin reduces severity of experimental osteoarthritis

    Beatriz Caramés;Akihiko Hasegawa;Noboru Taniguchi;Shigeru Miyaki

  • Glucosamine sulfate in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis symptoms: A randomized, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled study using acetaminophen as a side comparator

    Gabriel Herrero-Beaumont;José Andrés Román Ivorra;María del Carmen Trabado;Francisco Javier Blanco

  • Kidney tubular abnormalities in the absence of impaired glomerular function in HIV patients treated with tenofovir.

    Pablo Labarga;Pablo Barreiro;Luz Martin-Carbonero;Sonia Rodriguez-Novoa

  • Major histocompatibility complex associations of ankylosing spondylitis are complex and involve further epistasis with ERAP1.

    Adrian Cortes;Sara L. Pulit;Paul J. Leo;Jenny J. Pointon

  • Combined chondroitin sulfate and glucosamine for painful knee osteoarthritis: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, non-inferiority trial versus celecoxib

    Marc C. Hochberg;Johanne Martel-Pelletier;Jordi Monfort;Ingrid Möller

  • Cell death and apoptosis in osteoarthritic cartilage.

    H A Kim;F J Blanco

  • Apremilast, an oral phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor, in patients with psoriatic arthritis and current skin involvement: a phase III, randomised, controlled trial (PALACE 3)

    Christopher J Edwards;Francisco J Blanco;Jeffrey Crowley;Charles A Birbara

  • Long-term safety and efficacy of abatacept in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

    Nicolino Ruperto;Daniel J. Lovell;Pierre Quartier;Eliana Paz

  • Growth factor responsiveness of human articular chondrocytes in aging and development

    Pierre-andré Guerne;Francisco Blanco;André Kaelin;Alain Desgeorges

  • Mitochondrial respiratory activity is altered in osteoarthritic human articular chondrocytes

    Emilia Maneiro;Miguel A. Martín;María C. de Andres;Maria J. López-Armada

  • Intravenous administration of expanded allogeneic adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells in refractory rheumatoid arthritis (Cx611): results of a multicentre, dose escalation, randomised, single-blind, placebo-controlled phase Ib/IIa clinical trial.

    Jose M Álvaro-Gracia;Juan A Jover;Rosario García-Vicuña;Luis Carreño

  • Cytokines, tumor necrosis factor-α and interleukin-1β, differentially regulate apoptosis in osteoarthritis cultured human chondrocytes

    M.J. López-Armada;B. Caramés;M. Lires-Deán;B. Cillero-Pastor

Frequent Co-Authors

Heino Falcke
Heino Falcke Radboud University
J. J. Beatty
J. J. Beatty The Ohio State University
Danilo Zavrtanik
Danilo Zavrtanik Jožef Stefan Institute
H. M. Spinka
H. M. Spinka Argonne National Laboratory
Luis A. Anchordoqui
Luis A. Anchordoqui City University of New York
P. Gouffon
P. Gouffon Universidade de São Paulo
Angela V. Olinto
Angela V. Olinto University of Chicago

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