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James C. Cross

James C. Cross

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Biology and Biochemistry
Canada
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
75
Citations
22791
World Ranking
5262
National Ranking
190

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

James C. Cross is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada and has focused research efforts primarily within the field of medicine. Their work spans several specialized subfields, including molecular biology, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, epidemiology, and physiology.

Their research topics have concentrated on pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, birth, development, and health, congenital heart defects, epigenetics and DNA methylation, dietary effects on health, and child nutrition and water access.

Frequent publication venues for James C. Cross include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Nature Communications
  • Prion
  • Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
  • Scientific Reports

Recent papers published by James C. Cross include:

  • Defects in placental syncytiotrophoblast cells are a common cause of developmental heart disease, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Complex patterns of cell growth in the placenta in normal pregnancy and as adaptations to maternal diet restriction, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Lack of head sparing following third-trimester caloric restriction among Tanzanian Maasai, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Exploration of genetic factors resulting in abnormal disease in cattle experimentally challenged with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, 2021, Prion
  • Characteristics of reported industry payments to neurosurgeons from 2019 to 2022: The impact of COVID-19, 2025, Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Benedikt Hallgrímsson
  • Malcolm Eaton
  • Jay Devine
  • Aladine A. Elsamadicy
  • Bethany N. Radford

James C. Cross has been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2015 under the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Implantation and the placenta: key pieces of the development puzzle

    James C. Cross;Zena Werb;Susan J. Fisher

  • Placental development: Lessons from mouse mutants

    Janet Rossant;James C. Cross

  • Pregnancy-stimulated neurogenesis in the adult female forebrain mediated by prolactin.

    Tetsuro Shingo;Christopher Gregg;Emeka Enwere;Hirokazu Fujikawa

  • Interactions between trophoblast cells and the maternal and fetal circulation in the mouse placenta.

    S.Lee Adamson;Yong Lu;Kathie J. Whiteley;Doug Holmyard

  • Development of structures and transport functions in the mouse placenta.

    Erica D. Watson;James C. Cross

  • The Hand1 bHLH transcription factor is essential for placentation and cardiac morphogenesis.

    P Riley;L Anson-Cartwright;J C Cross;J C Cross

  • Interferons as hormones of pregnancy.

    R. Michael Roberts;James C. Cross;Douglas W. Leaman

  • The glial cells missing-1 protein is essential for branching morphogenesis in the chorioallantoic placenta

    Lynn Anson-Cartwright;Kerri Dawson;Doug Holmyard;Susan J. Fisher

  • MAMMALIAN GRB2 REGULATES MULTIPLE STEPS IN EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT AND MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION

    Alec M Cheng;Tracy M Saxton;Tracy M Saxton;Ryuichi Sakai;Sarang Kulkarni

  • Extra-embryonic function of Rb is essential for embryonic development and viability.

    Lizhao Wu;Alain de Bruin;Harold I. Saavedra;Maja Starovic

  • Diverse subtypes and developmental origins of trophoblast giant cells in the mouse placenta.

    David G. Simmons;Amanda L. Fortier;James C. Cross

  • Imprinted X inactivation maintained by a mouse Polycomb group gene.

    Jianbo Wang;Jesse Mager;Yijing Chen;Elizabeth Schneider

  • Determinants of trophoblast lineage and cell subtype specification in the mouse placenta

    David G. Simmons;James C. Cross

  • Hxt encodes a basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor that regulates trophoblast cell development.

    James C. Cross;Margaret L. Flannery;Michael A. Blanar;Eirikur Steingrimsson

  • Lack of human leukocyte antigen-G expression in extravillous trophoblasts is associated with pre-eclampsia

    D.S. Goldman-Wohl;I. Ariel;C. Greenfield;D. Hochner-Celnikier

  • Genes, Development and Evolution of the Placenta

    J.C Cross;D Baczyk;N Dobric;M Hemberger

  • Development and function of trophoblast giant cells in the rodent placenta.

    Dong Hu;James C. Cross

  • Genetic insights into trophoblast differentiation and placental morphogenesis

    James C. Cross

  • Single-cell RNA-seq reveals the diversity of trophoblast subtypes and patterns of differentiation in the human placenta

    Yawei Liu;Xiaoying Fan;Rui Wang;Xiaoyin Lu;Xiaoyin Lu

  • Trophoblast functions, angiogenesis and remodeling of the maternal vasculature in the placenta.

    J.C Cross;M Hemberger;Y Lu;T Nozaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Myriam Hemberger
Myriam Hemberger University of Calgary
Susan J. Fisher
Susan J. Fisher University of California, San Francisco
John Kingdom
John Kingdom University of Toronto
Zena Werb
Zena Werb University of California, San Francisco
Paul R. Riley
Paul R. Riley University of Oxford
Tony Pawson
Tony Pawson University of Toronto
Gustavo Leone
Gustavo Leone Medical University of South Carolina
Benedikt Hallgrímsson
Benedikt Hallgrímsson Alberta Children's Hospital
Janet Rossant
Janet Rossant University of Toronto
Anne C. Ferguson-Smith
Anne C. Ferguson-Smith University of Cambridge

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