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Overview

Hubert Kolb is affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany and focuses on research within the field of Medicine, with particular subfields including Physiology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Pharmacology, Genetics, and Pharmacy.

Their research encompasses diverse topics related to diet, metabolism, and disease, with significant work in areas such as:

  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Diabetes Management and Research
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
  • Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer
  • Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
  • Coffee research and impacts

Hubert Kolb has published frequently in several scientific journals, with notable publication venues including:

  • Diabetologie und Stoffwechsel (4 publications)
  • BMC Medicine (3 publications)
  • Nutrients (3 publications)
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology (1 publication)
  • Diabetologia (1 publication)

The scientist's recent papers illustrate a focus on metabolic health, inflammation, and dietary impacts, with examples such as:

  • "Ketone bodies: from enemy to friend and guardian angel," 2021, BMC Medicine
  • "Obese visceral fat tissue inflammation: from protective to detrimental?," 2022, BMC Medicine
  • "Insulin: too much of a good thing is bad," 2020, BMC Medicine
  • "Health Effects of Coffee: Mechanism Unraveled?," 2020, Nutrients
  • "Coffee and Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Arguments for a Causal Relationship," 2021, Nutrients

Collaborations feature several frequent co-authors, with multiple joint publications including:

  • Kerstin Kempf (13 co-authored papers)
  • Stéphan Martin (10 co-authored papers)
  • Martin Röhling (6 co-authored papers)
  • Nanette C. Schloot (3 co-authored papers)
  • Richard David Leslie (3 co-authored papers)

The body of work reflects a specialized interest in understanding metabolic processes, their disruptions in disease states such as diabetes and obesity, and the influence of dietary components, such as coffee, on health outcomes. The scientist's approach integrates physiological, pharmacological, genetic, and metabolic perspectives to explore mechanisms underlying disease and health maintenance.

Best Publications

  • Cutting Edge: Heat Shock Protein 60 Is a Putative Endogenous Ligand of the Toll-Like Receptor-4 Complex

    Koji Ohashi;Volker Burkart;Stefanie Flohé;Hubert Kolb

  • Dietary factors and low-grade inflammation in relation to overweight and obesity

    Philip C. Calder;Namanjeet Ahluwalia;Fred Brouns;Timo Buetler

  • Genome-wide, large-scale production of mutant mice by ENU mutagenesis

    M. H. Hrabe de Angelis;H. Flaswinkel;H. Fuchs;B. Rathkolb

  • Human 60-kDa Heat-Shock Protein: A Danger Signal to the Innate Immune System

    Wei Chen;Ulrike Syldath;Kerstin Bellmann;Volker Burkart

  • C-Peptide Is the Appropriate Outcome Measure for Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Trials to Preserve β-Cell Function: Report of an ADA Workshop, 21–22 October 2001

    Jerry P. Palmer;G. Alexander Fleming;Carla J. Greenbaum;Kevan C. Herold

  • Environmental/lifestyle factors in the pathogenesis and prevention of type 2 diabetes

    Hubert Kolb;Stephan Martin

  • An immune origin of type 2 diabetes

    H. Kolb;T. Mandrup-Poulsen;T. Mandrup-Poulsen

  • C-Reactive Protein as a Predictor for Incident Diabetes Mellitus Among Middle-aged Men: Results From the MONICA Augsburg Cohort Study, 1984-1998

    Barbara Thorand;Hannelore Löwel;Andrea Schneider;Hubert Kolb

  • Mice lacking the poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase gene are resistant to pancreatic beta-cell destruction and diabetes development induced by streptozocin.

    Volker Burkart;Zhao-Qi Wang;Jürgen Radons;Birgit Heller

  • Nitric oxide: a pathogenetic factor in autoimmunity

    Hubert Kolb;Victoria Kolb-Bachofen

  • Impaired glucose tolerance is associated with increased serum concentrations of interleukin 6 and co-regulated acute-phase proteins but not TNF-α or its receptors

    S. Müller;S. Martin;W. Koenig;P. Hanifi-Moghaddam

  • Effects of coffee consumption on subclinical inflammation and other risk factors for type 2 diabetes: a clinical trial

    Kerstin Kempf;Christian Herder;Iris Erlund;Hubert Kolb

  • Self-monitoring of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes and long-term outcome: an epidemiological cohort study.

    S. Martin;B. Schneider;L. Heinemann;V. Lodwig

  • The global diabetes epidemic as a consequence of lifestyle-induced low-grade inflammation.

    H. Kolb;T. Mandrup-Poulsen

  • Nitric oxide in autoimmune disease: cytotoxic or regulatory mediator?

    Hubert Kolb;Victoria Kolb-Bachofen

  • Activated macrophages kill pancreatic syngeneic islet cells via arginine-dependent nitric oxide generation

    Klaus-Dietrich Kröncke;Victoria Kolb-Bachofen;Britta Berschick;Volker Burkart

  • Adult-Onset Autoimmune Diabetes in Europe Is Prevalent With a Broad Clinical Phenotype: Action LADA 7

    Mohammed I. Hawa;Hubert Kolb;Nanette Schloot;Huriya Beyan

  • Development of type 1 diabetes despite severe hereditary B-cell deficiency.

    Stephan Martin;Dorothea Wolf-Eichbaum;Gaby Duinkerken;Werner A. Scherbaum

  • Inactivation of the poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase gene affects oxygen radical and nitric oxide toxicity in islet cells

    Birgit Heller;Zhao-Qi Wang;Erwin F. Wagner;Jürgen Radons

  • Mouse models of insulin dependent diabetes: low-dose streptozocin-induced diabetes and nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice.

    Hubert Kolb

Frequent Co-Authors

Victoria Kolb-Bachofen
Victoria Kolb-Bachofen Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Christian Herder
Christian Herder Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Wolfgang Koenig
Wolfgang Koenig German Heart Centre
Paolo Pozzilli
Paolo Pozzilli Università Campus Bio-Medico
Lutz Heinemann
Lutz Heinemann Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Barbara Thorand
Barbara Thorand Helmholtz Zentrum München
Michael Roden
Michael Roden Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Thomas Mandrup-Poulsen
Thomas Mandrup-Poulsen University of Copenhagen
Bart O. Roep
Bart O. Roep Leiden University Medical Center
Wolfgang Rathmann
Wolfgang Rathmann Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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