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Canada
2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
111
Citations
41894
World Ranking
780
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Jean Cadet is affiliated with the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine. Their research spans a total of 44 publications across these primary domains.

Their work focuses notably on Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cancer Research, Dermatology, and Organic Chemistry. The main topics covered include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment, DNA Repair Mechanisms, Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies, Skin Protection and Aging, bioluminescence and chemiluminescence research, and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation.

Jean Cadet has published several papers, including:

  • Harmless Effects of Sterilizing 222-nm far-UV Radiation on Mouse Skin and Eye Tissues (2020) in Photochemistry and Photobiology
  • Photosensitization Reactions of Biomolecules: Definition, Targets and Mechanisms (2021) in Photochemistry and Photobiology
  • Practical Aspects in the Study of Biological Photosensitization Including Reaction Mechanisms and Product Analyses: A Do's and Don'ts Guide (2022) in Photochemistry and Photobiology
  • Ozone-Induced DNA Damage: A Pandora's Box of Oxidatively Modified DNA Bases (2021) in Chemical Research in Toxicology
  • Oxidatively generated tandem DNA modifications by pyrimidinyl and 2-deoxyribosyl peroxyl radicals (2023) in Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Their publications have appeared predominantly in the journal Photochemistry and Photobiology, accounting for twelve papers. Other journals frequently featuring their work include Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Chemical Research in Toxicology, Free Radical Biology and Medicine, and International Journal of Radiation Biology.

Jean Cadet has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, the most frequent being J. Richard Wagner, Dimitar Angelov, Alexander Greer, Thierry Douki, and Maurício S. Baptista. These collaborations have contributed to advancing understanding within the field, particularly in the molecular mechanisms underlying DNA damage and repair pathways.

Best Publications

  • Direct and indirect effects of UV radiation on DNA and its components.

    Jean-Luc Ravanat;Thierry Douki;Jean Cadet

  • Ultraviolet radiation-mediated damage to cellular DNA

    Jean Cadet;Evelyne Sage;Thierry Douki

  • DNA Base Damage by Reactive Oxygen Species, Oxidizing Agents, and UV Radiation

    Jean Cadet;J. Richard Wagner

  • Oxidative damage to DNA: formation, measurement and biochemical features.

    Jean Cadet;Thierry Douki;Didier Gasparutto;Jean-Luc Ravanat

  • Hydroxyl radicals and DNA base damage

    Jean Cadet;Thierry Delatour;Thierry Douki;Didier Gasparutto

  • Type I and Type II Photosensitized Oxidation Reactions: Guidelines and Mechanistic Pathways

    Maurício da Silva Baptista;Jean Cadet;Paolo Di Mascio;Ashwini A. Ghogare;Ashwini A. Ghogare

  • Cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers are predominant DNA lesions in whole human skin exposed to UVA radiation

    Stéphane Mouret;Caroline Baudouin;Marie Charveron;Alain Favier

  • Oxidative damage to DNA: formation, measurement, and biological significance.

    J. Cadet;M. Berger;T. Douki;J. L. Ravanat

  • Oxidatively generated base damage to cellular DNA.

    Jean Cadet;Thierry Douki;Jean-Luc Ravanat

  • Singlet Molecular Oxygen Reactions with Nucleic Acids, Lipids, and Proteins.

    Paolo Di Mascio;Glaucia R. Martinez;Sayuri Miyamoto;Graziella E. Ronsein

  • Oxidatively generated damage to the guanine moiety of DNA: mechanistic aspects and formation in cells.

    Jean Cadet;Thierry Douki;Jean-Luc Ravanat

  • Bipyrimidine Photoproducts Rather than Oxidative Lesions Are the Main Type of DNA Damage Involved in the Genotoxic Effect of Solar UVA Radiation

    Thierry Douki;Anne Reynaud-Angelin;Jean Cadet;Evelyne Sage

  • 2,2-Diamino-4-[(3,5-di-O-acetyl-2-deoxy-.beta.-D-erythro- pentofuranosyl)amino]-5-(2H)-oxazolone: a Novel and Predominant Radical Oxidation Product of 3',5'-Di-O-acetyl-2'-deoxyguanosine

    Jean Cadet;Maurice Berger;Garry W. Buchko;Prakash C. Joshi

  • Formation of UV-induced DNA damage contributing to skin cancer development

    Jean Cadet;Thierry Douki

  • Individual determination of the yield of the main UV-induced dimeric pyrimidine photoproducts in DNA suggests a high mutagenicity of CC photolesions.

    Thierry Douki;Jean Cadet

  • Photosensitized formation of 7,8-dihydro-8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine) in DNA by riboflavin: a nonsinglet oxygen-mediated reaction

    Hiroshi Kasai;Ziro Yamaizumi;Maurice Berger;Jean Cadet

  • Removal of oxygen free-radical-induced 5',8-purine cyclodeoxynucleosides from DNA by the nucleotide excision-repair pathway in human cells

    Isao Kuraoka;Christina Bender;Anthony Romieu;Jean Cadet

  • Singlet oxygen induces oxidation of cellular DNA.

    Jean-Luc Ravanat;Paolo Di Mascio;Glaucia R. Martinez;Marisa H.G. Medeiros

  • Are we sure we know how to measure 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine in DNA from human cells?

    Andrew R Collins;Jean Cadet;Lennart Möller;Henrik E Poulsen

  • Oxidatively generated damage to cellular DNA by UVB and UVA radiation.

    Jean Cadet;Thierry Douki;Jean-Luc Ravanat

  • Melanoma induction by ultraviolet A but not ultraviolet B radiation requires melanin pigment

    Frances P. Noonan;M. Raza Zaidi;Agnieszka Wolnicka-Glubisz;Agnieszka Wolnicka-Glubisz;Miriam R. Anver

Frequent Co-Authors

Thierry Douki
Thierry Douki Grenoble Alpes University
Jean-Luc Ravanat
Jean-Luc Ravanat Grenoble Alpes University
Paolo Di Mascio
Paolo Di Mascio Universidade de São Paulo
Marisa H. G. Medeiros
Marisa H. G. Medeiros Universidade de São Paulo
Steffen Loft
Steffen Loft University of Copenhagen
Nicholas E. Geacintov
Nicholas E. Geacintov New York University
Leif A. Eriksson
Leif A. Eriksson University of Gothenburg
Vincenzo Barone
Vincenzo Barone Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Ryszard Olinski
Ryszard Olinski Nicolaus Copernicus University
Serge Boiteux
Serge Boiteux Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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