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Overview

Joan Heller Brown is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields within medicine and molecular biology, with a particular focus on cardiovascular and cellular mechanisms.

The scientist's work has contributed to multiple areas of study, including:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these areas, the main subfields explored are:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Cell Biology
  • Immunology
  • Surgery

Research topics that have been prominently addressed include:

  • Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ
  • Cardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Cardiac Ischemia and Reperfusion

Their scholarly output has been published across various venues, frequently appearing in:

  • The FASEB Journal
  • Circulation Research
  • Scientific Reports
  • The American Surgeon
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some recent notable papers include:

  • Hyperglycemia Acutely Increases Cytosolic Reactive Oxygen Species via O-linked GlcNAcylation and CaMKII Activation in Mouse Ventricular Myocytes, 2020, Circulation Research
  • SiglecF(HI) Marks Late-Stage Neutrophils of the Infarcted Heart: A Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analysis of Neutrophil Diversification, 2021, Journal of the American Heart Association
  • CaMKIIδC Drives Early Adaptive Ca 2+ Change and Late Eccentric Cardiac Hypertrophy, 2020, Circulation Research
  • RhoA signaling increases mitophagy and protects cardiomyocytes against ischemia by stabilizing PINK1 protein and recruiting Parkin to mitochondria, 2022, Cell Death and Differentiation
  • Spatiotemporal restriction of endothelial cell calcium signaling is required during leukocyte transmigration, 2020, The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Joan Heller Brown has collaborated frequently with various coauthors, including:

  • Shigeki Miyamoto
  • Van K. Ninh
  • Olga Meiri Chaim
  • Donald M. Bers
  • B. Daan Westenbrink

Best Publications

  • Cardiac Muscle Cell Hypertrophy and Apoptosis Induced by Distinct Members of the p38 Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Family

    Yibin Wang;Shuang Huang;Valerie P. Sah;John Ross

  • Endothelin induction of inositol phospholipid hydrolysis, sarcomere assembly, and cardiac gene expression in ventricular myocytes. A paracrine mechanism for myocardial cell hypertrophy.

    H E Shubeita;P M McDonough;A N Harris;K U Knowlton

  • The δC Isoform of CaMKII Is Activated in Cardiac Hypertrophy and Induces Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure

    Tong Zhang;Lars S. Maier;Lars S. Maier;Nancy D. Dalton;Shigeki Miyamoto

  • Enhanced Gαq signaling: A common pathway mediates cardiac hypertrophy and apoptotic heart failure

    John W. Adams;Yoshihito Sakata;Michael G. Davis;Valerie P. Sah

  • Cardiotrophin 1 (CT-1) Inhibition of Cardiac Myocyte Apoptosis via a Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase-dependent Pathway DIVERGENCE FROM DOWNSTREAM CT-1 SIGNALS FOR MYOCARDIAL CELL HYPERTROPHY

    Zelin Sheng;Kirk Knowlton;Ju Chen;Masahiko Hoshijima

  • Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II regulates cardiac Na+ channels

    Stefan Wagner;Nataliya Dybkova;Eva C.L. Rasenack;Claudius Jacobshagen

  • Local InsP3-dependent perinuclear Ca2+ signaling in cardiac myocyte excitation-transcription coupling.

    Xu Wu;Tong Zhang;Julie B C Bossuyt;Xiaodong Li

  • Transgenic CaMKIIδC Overexpression Uniquely Alters Cardiac Myocyte Ca2+ Handling. Reduced SR Ca2+ Load and Activated SR Ca2+ Release

    Lars S. Maier;Tong Zhang;Lu Chen;Jaime DeSantiago

  • Linkage of β1-adrenergic stimulation to apoptotic heart cell death through protein kinase A–independent activation of Ca2+/calmodulin kinase II

    Wei-Zhong Zhu;Shi-Qiang Wang;Khalid Chakir;Dongmei Yang

  • CaMKII in myocardial hypertrophy and heart failure.

    Mark E. Anderson;Joan Heller Brown;Donald M. Bers

  • The role of Rho in G protein-coupled receptor signal transduction.

    Valerie P. Sah;Tammy M. Seasholtz;Sarah A. Sagi;Joan Heller Brown

  • Requirement for Ca2+/calmodulin–dependent kinase II in the transition from pressure overload–induced cardiac hypertrophy to heart failure in mice

    Haiyun Ling;Tong Zhang;Laetitia Pereira;Christopher Kable Means

  • The Rac and Rho Hall of Fame: A Decade of Hypertrophic Signaling Hits

    Joan Heller Brown;Dominic P. Del Re;Mark A. Sussman

  • Cardiac hypertrophy induced by mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 7, a specific activator for c-jun NH2-terminal kinase in ventricular muscle cells

    Yibin Wang;Bing Su;Valerie P. Sah;Joan Heller Brown

  • Cyclophilin D controls mitochondrial pore–dependent Ca2+ exchange, metabolic flexibility, and propensity for heart failure in mice

    John W. Elrod;Renee Wong;Shikha Mishra;Ronald J. Vagnozzi

  • Rho and Rho Kinase Mediate Thrombin-Stimulated Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell DNA Synthesis and Migration

    Tammy M. Seasholtz;Mousumi Majumdar;Daniel D. Kaplan;Joan Heller Brown

  • Stimulation by Dopamine of Adenylate Cyclase in Retinal Homogenates and of Adenosine-3′:5′-Cyclic Monophosphate Formation in Intact Retina

    Joan Heller Brown;Maynard H. Makman

  • Akt mediates mitochondrial protection in cardiomyocytes through phosphorylation of mitochondrial hexokinase-II

    S Miyamoto;A N Murphy;J H Brown

  • Differential regulation of protein kinase C isoforms in isolated neonatal and adult rat cardiomyocytes.

    M Pucéat;R Hilal-Dandan;B Strulovici;L L Brunton

  • Cardiac Muscle Cell Hypertrophy and Apoptosis Induced by Distinct Members of the p38 Mitogen-activated Protein

    Yibin Wang;Shuang Huang;Valerie P. Sah;Joan Heller Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald M. Bers
Donald M. Bers University of California, Davis
Ju Chen
Ju Chen University of California, San Diego
Kenneth R. Chien
Kenneth R. Chien Karolinska Institute
Kirk L. Peterson
Kirk L. Peterson University of California, San Diego
Gerald W. Dorn
Gerald W. Dorn Washington University in St. Louis
Jerold Chun
Jerold Chun Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Alan V. Smrcka
Alan V. Smrcka University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jeffery D. Molkentin
Jeffery D. Molkentin Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Mark A. Sussman
Mark A. Sussman San Diego State University
Dwayne G. Stupack
Dwayne G. Stupack University of California, San Diego

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