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9323
World Ranking
6649
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Polish Academy of Science
  • 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Jan Albrecht is affiliated with the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poland. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience, with significant contributions across related subfields such as molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, biochemistry, and hepatology.

The scientist's main areas of study include:

  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Amino acid enzymes and metabolism
  • Liver disease and transplantation
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Metabolism and genetic disorders
  • Nitric oxide and endothelin effects

Frequent publication venues for Jan Albrecht include:

  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • The FASEB Journal
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Advances in Medical Sciences
  • Cell Calcium

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Jan Albrecht are:

  • "Perturbation of astroglial Slc38 glutamine transporters by NH 4 + contributes to neurophysiologic manifestations in acute liver failure," 2021, The FASEB Journal
  • "Selected Molecular Targets for Antiepileptogenesis," 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • "Decreased Expression and Uncoupling of Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase in the Cerebral Cortex of Rats with Thioacetamide-Induced Acute Liver Failure," 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • "Dysregulation of Astrocytic Glutamine Transport in Acute Hyperammonemic Brain Edema," 2022, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • "Roles of nitric oxide and polyamines in brain tumor growth," 2021, Advances in Medical Sciences

Jan Albrecht has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, namely:

  • Mariusz Popek
  • Magdalena Zielińska
  • Anna Czarnecka
  • Marek J. Pawlik
  • Marta Obara-Michlewska

Regarding honors, Jan Albrecht received the Polish Academy of Science award in 2020 and was inducted as a member of Academia Europaea in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Glutamine: A Trojan horse in ammonia neurotoxicity

    Jan Albrecht;Michael D. Norenberg

  • Hepatic encephalopathy: molecular mechanisms underlying the clinical syndrome

    Jan Albrecht;E.Anthony Jones

  • Role of retinal glial cells in neurotransmitter uptake and metabolism

    Andreas Bringmann;Thomas Pannicke;Bernd Biedermann;Mike Francke

  • Roles of glutamine in neurotransmission.

    Jan Albrecht;Marta Sidoryk-Węgrzynowicz;Magdalena Zielińska;Michael Aschner

  • Taurine Interaction with Neurotransmitter Receptors in the CNS: An Update

    Jan Albrecht;Arne Schousboe

  • Manganese induces oxidative impairment in cultured rat astrocytes.

    Dejan Milatovic;Zhaobao Yin;Ramesh C. Gupta;Marta Sidoryk

  • Methylmercury induces oxidative injury, alterations in permeability and glutamine transport in cultured astrocytes.

    Zhaobao Yin;Dejan Milatovic;Judy L. Aschner;Tore Syversen

  • Regulation of pH in the mammalian central nervous system under normal and pathological conditions: Facts and hypotheses

    Marta Obara;Monika Szeliga;Jan Albrecht

  • Glutamine in the central nervous system: function and dysfunction.

    Jan Albrecht;Ursula Sonnewald;Helle S Waagepetersen;Arne Schousboe

  • Astrocyte glutamate receptor activation promotes inositol phospholipid turnover and calcium flux

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  • Glutamine as a mediator of ammonia neurotoxicity: A critical appraisal.

    Jan Albrecht;Magdalena Zielińska;Michael D. Norenberg

  • Alterations of Blood Brain Barrier Function in Hyperammonemia: An Overview

    Marta Skowrońska;Jan Albrecht

  • Changes in the mitochondrial antioxidant systems in neurodegenerative diseases and acute brain disorders.

    Joanna Ruszkiewicz;Jan Albrecht

  • Both GLS silencing and GLS2 overexpression synergize with oxidative stress against proliferation of glioma cells

    Mercedes Martín-Rufián;Renata Nascimento-Gomes;Ana Higuero;Amanda R. Crisma

  • Oxidative and nitrosative stress in ammonia neurotoxicity.

    Marta Skowrońska;Jan Albrecht

  • NMDA Receptors in Astrocytes: In Search for Roles in Neurotransmission and Astrocytic Homeostasis

    Katarzyna Skowrońska;Marta Obara-Michlewska;Magdalena Zielińska;Jan Albrecht

  • Glutamine as a pathogenic factor in hepatic encephalopathy

    Jan Albrecht;Monika Dolińska

  • Manganese disrupts astrocyte glutamine transporter expression and function.

    Marta Sidoryk-Węgrzynowicz;Eunsook Lee;Jan Albrecht;Michael Aschner

  • Excitotoxic mechanism of cell swelling in rat cerebral cortical slices treated acutely with ammonia.

    Magdalena Zielińska;Robert O. Law;Jan Albrecht

  • Roles of neuroactive amino acids in ammonia neurotoxicity

    Jan Albrecht

  • Upregulation of the heteromeric y+LAT2 transporter contributes to ammonia-induced increase of arginine uptake in rat cerebral cortical astrocytes

    Magdalena Zielińska;Marta Skowrońska;Inez Fręśko;Jan Albrecht

  • The dimethylarginine (ADMA)/nitric oxide pathway in the brain and periphery of rats with thioacetamide-induced acute liver failure: Modulation by histidine

    Krzysztof Milewski;Wojciech Hilgier;Jan Albrecht;Magdalena Zielińska

Frequent Co-Authors

Simo S. Oja
Simo S. Oja Tampere University
Dejan Milatovic
Dejan Milatovic Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Michal Hetman
Michal Hetman University of Louisville
Thomas Pannicke
Thomas Pannicke Leipzig University
Vicente Felipo
Vicente Felipo Centro de Investigacion Principe Felipe
Alexei Verkhratsky
Alexei Verkhratsky University of Manchester
Harold K. Kimelberg
Harold K. Kimelberg Albany Medical Center Hospital
Nils Henrik Diemer
Nils Henrik Diemer University of Southern Denmark
Jens Grosche
Jens Grosche Leipzig University

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