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Jean Sévigny

Jean Sévigny

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
19081
World Ranking
6287
National Ranking
225

Overview

Jean Sévigny is affiliated with Université Laval in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine.

Their research spans multiple subfields including physiology, organic chemistry, molecular biology, oncology, and epidemiology. The main topics covered in their work involve adenosine and purinergic signaling, biochemical and molecular research, peptidase inhibition and analysis, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, synthesis and biological evaluation, and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment.

Jean Sévigny has published frequently in the following venues:

  • Bioorganic Chemistry
  • Purinergic Signalling
  • Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Frontiers in Immunology

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Julie Pelletier
  • Jamshed Iqbal
  • Laura Schäkel
  • Christa E. Müller
  • Salahuddin Mirza

Recent papers contributed by Jean Sévigny include:

  • "Blockade of CD73 delays glioblastoma growth by modulating the immune environment" (2020), Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy
  • "Stomach-derived human insulin-secreting organoids restore glucose homeostasis" (2023), Nature Cell Biology
  • "NTPDase8 protects mice from intestinal inflammation by limiting P2Y 6 receptor activation: identification of a new pathway of inflammation for the potential treatment of IBD" (2021), Gut
  • "Nucleotide Analog ARL67156 as a Lead Structure for the Development of CD39 and Dual CD39/CD73 Ectonucleotidase Inhibitors" (2020), Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • "Characterization and Antiproliferative Activity of Glioma-Derived Extracellular Vesicles" (2020), Nanomedicine

Best Publications

  • The E-NTPDase family of ectonucleotidases: Structure function relationships and pathophysiological significance

    Simon Christopher Robson;Jean Sévigny;Herbert Zimmermann

  • Identification and Characterization of CD39/Vascular ATP Diphosphohydrolase

    Elzbieta Kaczmarek;Katarzyna Koziak;Jean Sévigny;Jonathan B. Siegel

  • Targeted disruption of cd39/ATP diphosphohydrolase results in disordered hemostasis and thromboregulation

    Keiichi Enjyoji;Jean Sévigny;Yuan Lin;Paul S. Frenette

  • Carbon Monoxide Generated by Heme Oxygenase-1 Suppresses the Rejection of Mouse-to-Rat Cardiac Transplants

    K. Sato;J. Balla;L. Otterbein;R. N. Smith

  • CD39 is the dominant Langerhans cell–associated ecto-NTPDase: Modulatory roles in inflammation and immune responsiveness

    Norikatsu Mizumoto;Tadashi Kumamoto;Simon C. Robson;Jean Sévigny

  • Transforming growth factor-β and substrate stiffness regulate portal fibroblast activation in culture

    Zhaodong Li;Jonathan A. Dranoff;Erick P. Chan;Masayuki Uemura

  • Comparative hydrolysis of P2 receptor agonists by NTPDases 1, 2, 3 and 8.

    F. Kukulski;S. A. Lévesque;É. G. Lavoie;J. Lecka

  • Nucleoside Triphosphate diphosphohydrolase-2 Is the ecto-ATPase of Type I Cells in Taste Buds

    Dianna L. Bartel;Susan L. Sullivan;Élise G. Lavoie;Jean Sévigny

  • Targeted Disruption of cd73/Ecto-5′-Nucleotidase Alters Thromboregulation and Augments Vascular Inflammatory Response

    Patrycja Koszalka;Burcin Özüyaman;Yuqing Huo;Alma Zernecke

  • CD39 deletion exacerbates experimental murine colitis and human polymorphisms increase susceptibility to inflammatory bowel disease

    David J. Friedman;Beat M. Künzli;Yousif I. A-Rahim;Jean Sevigny

  • Differential catalytic properties and vascular topography of murine nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase 1 (NTPDase1) and NTPDase2 have implications for thromboregulation

    Jean Sévigny;Christian Sundberg;Norbert Braun;Olaf Guckelberger

  • Extracellular nucleotide signaling in adult neural stem cells: synergism with growth factor-mediated cellular proliferation

    Santosh K Mishra;Norbert Braun;Varsha Shukla;Marc Füllgrabe

  • Specificity of the ecto‐ATPase inhibitor ARL 67156 on human and mouse ectonucleotidases

    S A Lévesque;É G Lavoie;J Lecka;F Bigonnesse

  • Ca2+ Responses in Enteric Glia Are Mediated by Connexin-43 Hemichannels and Modulate Colonic Transit in Mice

    Jonathon L. McClain;Vladimir Grubišić;David Fried;Roberto A. Gomez-Suarez;Roberto A. Gomez-Suarez

  • The candidate sour taste receptor, PKD2L1, is expressed by type III taste cells in the mouse.

    Shinji Kataoka;Ruibiao Yang;Yoshiro Ishimaru;Yoshiro Ishimaru;Hiroaki Matsunami

  • Ecto-5′-Nucleotidase (CD73)-Mediated Formation of Adenosine Is Critical for the Striatal Adenosine A2A Receptor Functions

    Elisabete Augusto;Marco Matos;Marco Matos;Jean Sévigny;Ali El-Tayeb

  • Expression of the ecto-ATPase NTPDase2 in the germinal zones of the developing and adult rat brain.

    Norbert Braun;Jean Sévigny;Santosh K. Mishra;Simon C. Robson

  • Cloning and characterization of mouse nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase-8.

    Francois Bigonnesse;Sébastien A. Levesque;Filip Kukulski;Joanna Lecka

  • Assignment of ecto-nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase-1/cd39 expression to microglia and vasculature of the brain

    Norbert Braun;Jean Sévigny;Simon C. Robson;Keiichi Enjyoji

  • P2Y6 Nucleotide Receptor Mediates Monocyte Interleukin-8 Production in Response to UDP or Lipopolysaccharide

    Michel Warny;Samer Aboudola;Simon C. Robson;Jean Sévigny

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon C. Robson
Simon C. Robson Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Herbert Zimmermann
Herbert Zimmermann Goethe University Frankfurt
Aamer Saeed
Aamer Saeed Quaid-i-Azam University
Christa E. Müller
Christa E. Müller University of Bonn
Bernard Robaye
Bernard Robaye Université Libre de Bruxelles
Claire H. Mitchell
Claire H. Mitchell University of Pennsylvania
Alexander Villinger
Alexander Villinger University of Rostock
August Vidal
August Vidal University of Barcelona
Fritz H. Bach
Fritz H. Bach Harvard Medical School
Maria Rosa Chitolina Schetinger
Maria Rosa Chitolina Schetinger Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

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