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Heinrich Taegtmeyer is affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to molecular biology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, physiology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and epidemiology.

Their scholarly work extensively covers topics related to cardiovascular function and risk factors, metabolism, diabetes, cancer, mitochondrial function and pathology, diabetes treatment and management, diet and metabolism studies, adipose tissue and metabolism, and the regulation of appetite and obesity.

Recent publications by Heinrich Taegtmeyer include:

  • Intracellular sodium elevation reprograms cardiac metabolism, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Anti-diabetic effects of GLP1 analogs are mediated by thermogenic interleukin-6 signaling in adipocytes, 2022, Cell Reports Medicine
  • Metabolic remodeling precedes mTORC1-mediated cardiac hypertrophy, 2021, Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology
  • Metformin Improves Cardiac Metabolism and Function, and Prevents Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats, 2020, Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Obesity and Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction, 2021, Heart Failure Clinics

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology
  • Cardiology
  • Circulation
  • Circulation Research
  • The American Journal of Medicine

The scientist has collaborated regularly with a number of co-authors, such as:

  • Anja Karlstaedt
  • Rebecca Salazar
  • Heidi Vitrac
  • Efstratios Koutroumpakis
  • Anita Deswal

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Intramyocardial lipid accumulation in the failing human heart resembles the lipotoxic rat heart

    Saumya Sharma;Julia V. Adrogue;Leonard Golfman;Ivan Uray

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • The Randle cycle revisited: a new head for an old hat

    Louis Hue;Heinrich Taegtmeyer

  • Pharmacologic inhibition of fatty acid oxidation sensitizes human leukemia cells to apoptosis induction

    Ismael Samudio;Romain Harmancey;Michael Fiegl;Hagop Kantarjian

  • Adaptation and Maladaptation of the Heart in Diabetes: Part I: General Concepts

    Heinrich Taegtmeyer;Patrick McNulty;Martin E. Young

  • Metabolic Gene Expression in Fetal and Failing Human Heart

    Peter Razeghi;Martin E. Young;Joseph L. Alcorn;Christine S. Moravec

  • Epidemic Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome

    Steven Haffner;Heinrich Taegtmeyer

  • Adaptation and maladaptation of the heart in diabetes: Part II: Potential mechanisms

    Martin E. Young;Patrick McNulty;Heinrich Taegtmeyer

  • Utilization of energy-providing substrates in the isolated working rat heart.

    H Taegtmeyer;R Hems;H A Krebs

  • Energy metabolism of the heart: from basic concepts to clinical applications.

    Heinrich Taegtmeyer

  • Glucose for the Heart

    Christophe Depre;Jean Louis J Vanoverschelde;Heinrich Taegtmeyer

  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Practice Guideline Series: Blood Glucose Management During Adult Cardiac Surgery

    Harold L. Lazar;Marie McDonnell;Stuart R. Chipkin;Anthony P. Furnary

  • Return to the fetal gene program

    Heinrich Taegtmeyer;Shiraj Sen;Deborah Vela

  • Return to the fetal gene program protects the stressed heart: a strong hypothesis

    Mitra Rajabi;Christos Kassiotis;Peter Razeghi;Heinrich Taegtmeyer

  • Unloaded heart in vivo replicates fetal gene expression of cardiac hypertrophy

    Christophe Depre;Gregory L. Shipley;Wenhao Chen;Qiuying Han

  • Insulin signaling coordinately regulates cardiac size, metabolism, and contractile protein isoform expression

    Darrell D. Belke;Sandrine Betuing;Martin J. Tuttle;Christophe Graveleau

  • The FOXO3a transcription factor regulates cardiac myocyte size downstream of AKT signaling.

    Carsten Skurk;Yasuhiro Izumiya;Henrike Maatz;Peter Razeghi

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin E. Young
Martin E. Young University of Alabama at Birmingham
Peter J. A. Davies
Peter J. A. Davies Texas A&M University
Sergio Lavandero
Sergio Lavandero University of Chile
Mark L. Entman
Mark L. Entman Baylor College of Medicine
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Roberta A. Gottlieb
Roberta A. Gottlieb Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Steven Finkbeiner
Steven Finkbeiner University of California, San Francisco
Jianhua Zhang
Jianhua Zhang The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Isabelle Coppens
Isabelle Coppens Johns Hopkins University
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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