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D-Index
79
Citations
20693
World Ranking
4359
National Ranking
2126

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1967 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1958 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Howard Holtzer was affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States during their academic career.

Holtzer was recognized with notable honors, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1967. Earlier, in 1958, they received the distinction of Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Formation of arrowhead complexes with heavy meromyosin in a variety of cell types.

    Harunori Ishikawa;Richard Bischoff;Howard Holtzer

  • DNA synthesis and myogenesis

    F.E. Stockdale;H. Holtzer

  • MITOSIS AND INTERMEDIATE-SIZED FILAMENTS IN DEVELOPING SKELETAL MUSCLE

    H. Ishikawa;R. Bischoff;H. Holtzer

  • MyoD converts primary dermal fibroblasts, chondroblasts, smooth muscle, and retinal pigmented epithelial cells into striated mononucleated myoblasts and multinucleated myotubes.

    J Choi;M L Costa;C S Mermelstein;C Chagas

  • INHIBITION OF MYOBLAST FUSION AFTER ONE ROUND OF DNA SYNTHESIS IN 5-BROMODEOXYURIDINE

    Richard Bischoff;Howard Holtzer

  • THE LOSS OF PHENOTYPIC TRAITS BY DIFFERENTIATED CELLS IN VITRO, I. DEDIFFERENTIATION OF CARTILAGE CELLS

    H. Holtzer;J. Abbott;J. Lash;S. Holtzer

  • Intermediate filament proteins in the developing chick spinal cord.

    S.J. Tapscott;G.S. Bennett;Y. Toyama;F. Kleinbart

  • MITOSIS AND THE PROCESSES OF DIFFERENTIATION OF MYOGENIC CELLS IN VITRO

    Richard Bischoff;Howard Holtzer

  • An analysis of myogenesis by the use of fluorescent antimyosin.

    Howard Holtzer;John M. Marshall;Henry Finck

  • Effect of a tumour promoter on myogenesis

    Robert Cohen;Maurizio Pacifici;Neil Rubinstein;Judy Biehl

  • The cell cycle, cell lineages, and cell differentiation.

    H Holtzer;H Weintraub;R Mayne;B Mochan

  • Redistribution of intermediate filament subunits during skeletal myogenesis and maturation in vitro.

    G S Bennett;S A Fellini;Y Toyama;H Holtzer

  • 5-BROMODEOXYURIDINE: EFFECT ON MYOGENESIS IN VITRO.

    F. Stockdale;K. Okazaki;M. Nameroff;H. Holtzer

  • The loss of phenotypic traits by differentiated cells, V. The effect of 5-bromodeoxyuridine on cloned chondrocytes.

    Joan Abbott;Howard Holtzer

  • The relationship between stress fiber-like structures and nascent myofibrils in cultured cardiac myocytes.

    A A Dlugosz;P B Antin;V T Nachmias;H Holtzer

  • The relationship of cell division to the acquisition of adrenergic characteristics by developing sympathetic ganglion cell precursors

    Taube P. Rothman;Taube P. Rothman;Michael D. Gershon;Michael D. Gershon;Howard Holtzer;Howard Holtzer

  • Differential distribution of subsets of myofibrillar proteins in cardiac nonstriated and striated myofibrils.

    T. Schultheiss;Zhongxiang Lin;Mei-Hua Lu;J. Murray

  • The loss of phenotypic traits by differentiated cells. VI. Behavior of the progeny of a single chondrocyte.

    S. Chacko;J. Abbott;S. Holtzer;H. Holtzer

  • THE LOSS OF PHENOTYPIC TRAITS BY DIFFERENTIATED CELLS : III. The Reversible Behavior of Chondrocytes in Primary Cultures

    Joan Abbott;Howard Holtzer

  • Differences among 100-A filamentilament subunits from different cell types.

    G S Bennett;S A Fellini;J M Croop;J J Otto

Frequent Co-Authors

Maurizio Pacifici
Maurizio Pacifici Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
David Boettiger
David Boettiger University of Pennsylvania
Harold Weintraub
Harold Weintraub Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
George C.T. Yeoh
George C.T. Yeoh Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
James J. Choi
James J. Choi Yale University
Giulio Cossu
Giulio Cossu University of Manchester
George R. Dubyak
George R. Dubyak Case Western Reserve University
Frank E. Stockdale
Frank E. Stockdale Stanford University
Klaus Weber
Klaus Weber Max Planck Society
H. Lee Sweeney
H. Lee Sweeney University of Florida

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