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Overview

Ingo Morano is affiliated with the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine, with a concentration on subfields such as Physiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Cell Biology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's main topics of study include Nutrition and Health in Aging, Muscle Metabolism and Nutrition, Biochemical Effects in Animals, Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies, Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases, and Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias.

Recent publications by Ingo Morano include the following works:

  • Age-related decline in murine heart and skeletal muscle performance is attenuated by reduced Ahnak1 expression (2021), published in Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle
  • The Contractile Machines of the Heart (2024), published in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Morano are:

  • Shokoufeh Mahmoodzadeh
  • Katharina Koch
  • Cindy Schriever
  • Jingman Xu
  • Maria Steinecker

They publish regularly in the journals:

  • Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle
  • Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Best Publications

  • The failing human heart is unable to use the Frank-Starling mechanism.

    R. H. G. Schwinger;M. Böhm;A. Koch;U. Schmidt

  • From totipotent embryonic stem cells to spontaneously contracting smooth muscle cells: a retinoic acid and db-cAMP in vitro differentiation model.

    Marek Drab;Hermann Haller;Rostislav Bychkov;Bettina Erdmann

  • Backbone rigidity and static presentation of guanidinium groups increases cellular uptake of arginine-rich cell-penetrating peptides.

    Gisela Lättig-Tünnemann;Manuel Prinz;Daniel Hoffmann;Joachim Behlke

  • Counting target molecules by exponential polymerase chain reaction: Copy number of mitochondrial DNA in rat tissues

    Rudolf J. Wiesner;J.Caspar Rüegg;Ingo Morano

  • Tuning the human heart molecular motors by myosin light chains

    Ingo Morano

  • Increased Expression of Endothelial Constitutive Nitric Oxide Synthase in Rat Aorta during Pregnancy

    R.M. Goetz;I. Morano;T. Calovini;R. Studer

  • Smooth-muscle contraction without smooth-muscle myosin.

    Ingo Morano;Gui-Xuan Chai;Leonidas G. Baltas;Valeria Lamounier-Zepter

  • Adipocyte Fatty Acid–Binding Protein Suppresses Cardiomyocyte Contraction: A New Link Between Obesity and Heart Disease

    Valéria Lamounier-Zepter;Christiane Look;Julio Alvarez;Torsten Christ

  • Modulation of contractility in human cardiac hypertrophy by myosin essential light chain isoforms

    Marcus C. Schaub;Martin A. Hefti;Richard A. Zuellig;Ingo Morano

  • Regulation of human heart contractility by essential myosin light chain isoforms.

    Marija Morano;Udo Zacharzowski;Michaela Maier;Peter E. Lange

  • L-type calcium channel expression depends on the differentiated state of vascular smooth muscle cells.

    Maik Gollasch;Hannelore Haase;Christian Ried;Carsten Lindschau

  • The carboxyl-terminal region of ahnak provides a link between cardiac L-type Ca2+ channels and the actin-based cytoskeleton

    Annette Hohaus;Veronika Person;Joachim Behlke;Jutta Schaper

  • CHANGES IN ESSENTIAL MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN ISOFORM EXPRESSION PROVIDE A MOLECULAR BASIS FOR ISOMETRIC FORCE REGULATION IN THE FAILING HUMAN HEART

    Ingo Morano;Kerstin Hädicke;Hannelore Haase;Michael Böhm

  • Hypoxia induces dilated cardiomyopathy in the chick embryo: mechanism, intervention, and long-term consequences

    Andrei Tintu;Ellen V. Rouwet;Stefan Verlohren;Joep Brinkmann

  • L-Type Calcium Channels in Insulin-Secreting Cells: Biochemical Characterization and Phosphorylation in RINm5F Cells

    Hasan Safayhi;Hannelore Haase;Ursel Kramer;Andrea Bihlmayer

  • Myosin Light Chain–Actin Interaction Regulates Cardiac Contractility

    Ingo Morano;Oliver Ritter;Andreas Bonz;Tomasz Timek

  • The influence of P-light chain phosphorylation by myosin light chain kinase on the calcium sensitivity of chemically skinned heart fibres.

    I. Morano;F. Hofmann;M. Zimmer;J.C. Rüegg

  • Titin, Myosin Light Chains and C-Protein in the Developing and Failing Human Heart

    Ingo Morano;Kerstin Hädicke;Stefan Grom;Andrea Koch

  • Small Molecule AKAP-Protein Kinase A (PKA) Interaction Disruptors That Activate PKA Interfere with Compartmentalized cAMP Signaling in Cardiac Myocytes

    Frank Christian;Márta Szaszák;Sabine Friedl;Stephan Drewianka

  • Potential Relevance of α1-Adrenergic Receptor Autoantibodies in Refractory Hypertension

    Katrin Wenzel;Hannelore Haase;Gerd Wallukat;Wolfgang Derer

Frequent Co-Authors

Erland Erdmann
Erland Erdmann University of Cologne
Vera Regitz-Zagrosek
Vera Regitz-Zagrosek Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Detlev Ganten
Detlev Ganten Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Friedrich C. Luft
Friedrich C. Luft Charité - University Medicine Berlin
M. Cristina Cardoso
M. Cristina Cardoso Technical University of Darmstadt
Sandro Keller
Sandro Keller University of Graz
Manfred Zimmermann
Manfred Zimmermann Heidelberg University
Peter Schmieder
Peter Schmieder Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Michael Bader
Michael Bader Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine

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