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  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Guillermo Oliver is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions in subfields such as Molecular Biology, Oncology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Physiology, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Lymphatic System and Diseases
  • Congenital heart defects research
  • Sympathectomy and Hyperhidrosis Treatments
  • Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer
  • Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation
  • Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases
  • Lipid metabolism and disorders

The scientist has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • The Lymphatic Vasculature in the 21st Century: Novel Functional Roles in Homeostasis and Disease (2020, Cell)
  • Lymphoangiocrine signals promote cardiac growth and repair (2020, Nature)
  • A Second Heart Field-Derived Vasculogenic Niche Contributes to Cardiac Lymphatics (2020, Developmental Cell)
  • Antiangiogenic immunotherapy suppresses desmoplastic and chemoresistant intestinal tumors in mice (2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation)
  • Platelet factor 4 is a biomarker for lymphatic-promoted disorders (2020, JCI Insight)

Frequent co-authors in Guillermo Oliver's work include:

  • Xiaolei Liu
  • Wanshu Ma
  • Miguel Torres
  • Ester de la Cruz
  • Susana Temiño

Their research has been published in several recurring venues, with multiple publications appearing in Developmental Biology and Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature. Other key publication venues include Cell, Nature, and Developmental Cell.

Guillermo Oliver was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Prox1 Function Is Required for the Development of the Murine Lymphatic System

    Jeffrey T Wigle;Guillermo Oliver

  • An essential role for Prox1 in the induction of the lymphatic endothelial cell phenotype

    Jeffrey T. Wigle;Jeffrey T. Wigle;Natasha Harvey;Michael Detmar;Irina Lagutina

  • The Pax4 gene is essential for differentiation of insulin-producing beta cells In the mammalian pancreas

    Beatriz Sosa-Pineda;Kamal Chowdhury;Miguel Torres;Guillermo Oliver

  • Six2 Defines and Regulates a Multipotent Self-Renewing Nephron Progenitor Population throughout Mammalian Kidney Development

    Akio Kobayashi;M. Todd Valerius;Joshua W. Mugford;Thomas J. Carroll

  • CNS lymphatic drainage and neuroinflammation are regulated by meningeal lymphatic vasculature.

    Antoine Louveau;Jasmin Herz;Maria Nordheim Alme;Andrea Francesca Salvador

  • T1α/podoplanin deficiency disrupts normal lymphatic vasculature formation and causes lymphedema

    Vivien Schacht;Maria I. Ramirez;Young Kwon Hong;Satoshi Hirakawa

  • Six3, a murine homologue of the sine oculis gene, demarcates the most anterior border of the developing neural plate and is expressed during eye development

    Guillermo Oliver;Alvaro Mailhos;Roland Wehr;Neal G. Copeland

  • Prox1 is a master control gene in the program specifying lymphatic endothelial cell fate.

    Young Kwon Hong;Natasha Harvey;Yun Hee Noh;Vivien Schacht

  • The Lymphatic Vasculature in the 21st Century: Novel Functional Roles in Homeostasis and Disease

    Guillermo Oliver;Jonathan Kipnis;Gwendalyn J. Randolph;Natasha L. Harvey

  • Lymphatic vascular defects promoted by Prox1 haploinsufficiency cause adult-onset obesity

    Natasha L Harvey;R Sathish Srinivasan;Miriam E Dillard;Nicole C Johnson

  • Lineage tracing demonstrates the venous origin of the mammalian lymphatic vasculature

    R. Sathish Srinivasan;Miriam E. Dillard;Oleg V. Lagutin;Fu Jung Lin

  • Lymphatic vasculature development.

    Guillermo Oliver

  • Six3 repression of Wnt signaling in the anterior neuroectoderm is essential for vertebrate forebrain development

    Oleg V. Lagutin;Changqi C. Zhu;Daisuke Kobayashi;Jacek Topczewski

  • Six2 is required for suppression of nephrogenesis and progenitor renewal in the developing kidney.

    Michelle Self;Oleg V Lagutin;Beth Bowling;Jaime Hendrix

  • Prox1 function is crucial for mouse lens-fibre elongation.

    Jeffrey T. Wigle;Kamal Chowdhury;Peter Gruss;Guillermo Oliver

  • Prox1 function controls progenitor cell proliferation and horizontal cell genesis in the mammalian retina

    Michael A. Dyer;Frederick J. Livesey;Frederick J. Livesey;Constance L. Cepko;Guillermo Oliver

  • The rediscovery of the lymphatic system: old and new insights into the development and biological function of the lymphatic vasculature

    Guillermo Oliver;Michael Detmar

  • Prox 1, a prospero-related homeobox gene expressed during mouse development

    Guillermo Oliver;Beatriz Sosa-Pineda;Sabine Geisendorf;Eric P. Spana

  • Hepatocyte migration during liver development requires Prox1

    Beatriz Sosa-Pineda;Jeffrey T. Wigle;Guillermo Oliver

  • Synergistic regulation of vertebrate muscle development by Dach2, Eya2, and Six1, homologs of genes required for Drosophila eye formation

    Tiffany A. Heanue;Ram Reshef;Ram Reshef;Richard J. Davis;Graeme Mardon

Frequent Co-Authors

Natasha L. Harvey
Natasha L. Harvey University of South Australia
Peter Gruss
Peter Gruss Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Kari Alitalo
Kari Alitalo University of Helsinki
E. M. De Robertis
E. M. De Robertis University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher V.E. Wright
Christopher V.E. Wright Vanderbilt University
Mark L. Kahn
Mark L. Kahn University of Pennsylvania
Michael Detmar
Michael Detmar ETH Zurich
Miguel Torres
Miguel Torres Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research
Francisco Bolívar
Francisco Bolívar National Autonomous University of Mexico
Caj Haglund
Caj Haglund University of Helsinki

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