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Gerald Salen was affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in the United States. Their research spanned multiple fields related to medicine and biological sciences.

The main fields of study covered by Salen included Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, each represented by three publications. Their work also extended into specific subfields such as Molecular Biology, Surgery, and Nephrology.

Their research topics reflected a focus on biochemical and medical processes with four publications related to Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism, as well as Steroid Chemistry and Biochemistry. Additional topics addressed by Salen involved Inflammasome and immune disorders, and Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies.

Frequent co-authors in Salen's research included Shailendra B. Patel, with whom they collaborated on two occasions, and Austin Larson, with one joint publication.

  • Frequent co-authors: Shailendra B. Patel, Austin Larson

While specific recent papers and publication venues were not documented in the available data, the thematic focus on molecular biology and medical biochemistry was evident.

Best Publications

  • Identification of a gene, ABCG5, important in the regulation of dietary cholesterol absorption

    Mi-Hye Lee;Kangmo Lu;Star Hazard;Hongwei Yu

  • Metabolism of beta-sitosterol in man.

    Gerald Salen;E. H. Ahrens;Scott M. Grundy

  • Human cholesterol 7α-hydroxylase (CYP7A1) deficiency has a hypercholesterolemic phenotype

    Clive R. Pullinger;Celeste Eng;Gerald Salen;Sarah Shefer

  • Interruption of the enterohepatic circulation of bile acids in man: comparative effects of cholestyramine and ileal exclusion on cholesterol metabolism.

    Scott M Grundy;E. H. Ahrens;Gerald Salen

  • Long-Term Treatment of Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis with Chenodeoxycholic Acid

    Vladimir M. Berginer;Gerald Salen;Sarah Shefer

  • Mechanisms of action of clofibrate on cholesterol metabolism in patients with hyperlipidemia

    Scott M. Grundy;E.H. Ahrens;Gerald Salen;Paul H. Schreibman

  • Two genes that map to the STSL locus cause sitosterolemia: genomic structure and spectrum of mutations involving sterolin-1 and sterolin-2, encoded by ABCG5 and ABCG8, respectively.

    Kangmo Lu;Mi Hye Lee;Starr Hazard;Angela Brooks-Wilson

  • Complex inheritance of familial hypercholanemia with associated mutations in TJP2 and BAAT.

    Victoria E. H. Carlton;Baruch Z. Harris;Erik G. Puffenberger;A. K. Batta

  • Ezetimibe Effectively Reduces Plasma Plant Sterols in Patients With Sitosterolemia

    G. Salen;K. von Bergmann;D. Lütjohann;P. Kwiterovich

  • Dietary beta-sitosterol as an internal standard to correct for cholesterol losses in sterol balance studies.

    Scott M. Grundy;E.H. Ahrens;G. Salen

  • A Biochemical Abnormality in Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis IMPAIRMENT OF BILE ACID BIOSYNTHESIS ASSOCIATED WITH INCOMPLETE DEGRADATION OF THE CHOLESTEROL SIDE CHAIN

    T. Setoguchi;Gerald Salen;G. S. Tint;E. H. Mosbach

  • Lethal atherosclerosis associated with abnormal plasma and tissue sterol composition in sitosterolemia with xanthomatosis.

    Gerald Salen;Ivan Horak;Michael Rothkopf;Jerald L. Cohen

  • Phase III Trial of Ursodeoxycholic Acid To Prevent Colorectal Adenoma Recurrence

    David S. Alberts;María Elena Martínez;Lisa M. Hess;Janine G. Einspahr

  • Mapping a gene involved in regulating dietary cholesterol absorption. The sitosterolemia locus is found at chromosome 2p21.

    S. B. Patel;G. Salen;H. Hidaka;P. O. Kwiterovich

  • BILIARY CHOLESTEROL EXCRETION: A NOVEL MECHANISM THAT REGULATES DIETARY CHOLESTEROL ABSORPTION

    Ephraim Sehayek;Jennie G. Ono;Sarah Shefer;Lien B. Nguyen

  • The Metabolism of Cholestanol, Cholesterol, and Bile Acids in Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis

    Gerald Salen;Scott M. Grundy

  • Clinical effects of cholesterol supplementation in six patients with the Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS)

    E R Elias;M B Irons;A D Hurley;G S Tint

  • 7-Dehydrocholesterol–dependent proteolysis of HMG-CoA reductase suppresses sterol biosynthesis in a mouse model of Smith-Lemli-Opitz/RSH syndrome

    Barbara U. Fitzky;Fabian F. Moebius;Hitoshi Asaoka;Heather Waage-Baudet

  • Hepatic cholesterol metabolism in patients with gallstones.

    Gerald Salen;Gerald Salen;Gerald Salen;G. Nicolau;G. Nicolau;G. Nicolau;S. Shefer;S. Shefer;S. Shefer;E.H. Mosbach;E.H. Mosbach;E.H. Mosbach

  • Transformation of chenodeoxycholic acid and ursodeoxycholic acid by human intestinal bacteria.

    Toni Fedorowski;Gerald Salen;G. Stephen Tint;Erwin Mosbach

Frequent Co-Authors

David S. Alberts
David S. Alberts University of Arizona
Scott M. Grundy
Scott M. Grundy The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Nobuyo Maeda
Nobuyo Maeda University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John Y. L. Chiang
John Y. L. Chiang Northeast Ohio Medical University
David J. Greenblatt
David J. Greenblatt Tufts University
Jens J. Holst
Jens J. Holst University of Copenhagen
Jan L. Breslow
Jan L. Breslow Rockefeller University
Tai C. Chen
Tai C. Chen Boston University
Stephen L. Hauser
Stephen L. Hauser University of California, San Francisco
Anton F. H. Stalenhoef
Anton F. H. Stalenhoef Radboud University Medical Center

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