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Jörg Striessnig

Jörg Striessnig

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
83
Citations
21710
World Ranking
3557
National Ranking
23

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Jörg Striessnig is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. Their work spans molecular biology and cellular and molecular neuroscience, with additional focus on cardiology, cardiovascular medicine, sensory systems, and neurology.

The main research topics covered by Jörg Striessnig include:

  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

Jörg Striessnig has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Nadine J. Ortner
  • William A. Catterall
  • Edward Perez-Reyes
  • Terrance P. Snutch
  • Petronel Tuluc

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Striessnig are:

  • THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2021/22: Introduction and Other Protein Targets, 2021, British Journal of Pharmacology
  • THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2021/22: Ion channels, 2021, British Journal of Pharmacology
  • The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2023/24: Introduction and Other Protein Targets, 2023, British Journal of Pharmacology
  • The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2023/24: Ion channels, 2023, British Journal of Pharmacology
  • De novo CACAN1D Ca2+ channelopathies: clinical phenotypes and molecular mechanism, 2020, Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology

Striessnig's publications appear predominantly in the following venues:

  • British Journal of Pharmacology
  • IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Channels
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

An authored book titled Voltage-gated Ca2+ Channels: Pharmacology, Modulation and their Role in Human Disease was published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2023.

Jörg Striessnig was recognized in 2018 as a Member of Academia Europaea.

Best Publications

  • Purification, molecular cloning, and expression of the mammalian sigma1-binding site

    Markus Hanner;Fabian F. Moebius;Astrid Flandorfer;Hans-Gunther Knaus

  • Congenital Deafness and Sinoatrial Node Dysfunction in Mice Lacking Class D L-Type Ca2+ Channels

    Josef Platzer;Jutta Engel;Anneliese Schrott-Fischer;Kurt Stephan

  • Neurobiology of migraine.

    Daniela Pietrobon;Jörg Striessnig

  • α1D (Cav1.3) Subunits Can Form L-type Ca2+ Channels Activating at Negative Voltages

    Alexandra Koschak;Daniel Reimer;Irene G. Huber;Manfred Grabner

  • The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Overview

    Stephen P. H. Alexander;Eamonn Kelly;Neil V. Marrion;John A. Peters

  • Pharmacological disruption of calcium channel trafficking by the α2δ ligand gabapentin

    Jan Hendrich;Alexandra Tran Van Minh;Fay Heblich;Manuela Nieto-Rostro

  • Receptor sites for Ca2+ channel antagonists

    William A. Catterall;Jörg Striessnig

  • THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2019/20: Introduction and Other Protein Targets.

    Stephen P.H. Alexander;Eamonn Kelly;Alistair Mathie;John A. Peters

  • Functional embryonic cardiomyocytes after disruption of the L-type alpha1C (Cav1.2) calcium channel gene in the mouse.

    Claudia Seisenberger;Verena Specht;Andrea Welling;Josef Platzer

  • Loss of Ca v 1.3 ( CACNA1D ) function in a human channelopathy with bradycardia and congenital deafness

    Shahid M Baig;Alexandra Koschak;Andreas Lieb;Mathias Gebhart

  • Quantitative proteomics of the Cav2 channel nano-environments in the mammalian brain.

    Catrin Swantje Müller;Alexander Haupt;Wolfgang Bildl;Jens Schindler

  • THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2019/20: Ion channels.

    Stephen P H Alexander;Alistair Mathie;John A Peters;Emma L Veale

  • Structural basis of drug binding to L Ca2+ channels

    Jörg Striessnig;Manfred Grabner;Jörg Mitterdorfer;Steffen Hering

  • Fast exocytosis with few Ca(2+) channels in insulin-secreting mouse pancreatic B cells.

    Sebastian Barg;Xiaosong Ma;Lena Eliasson;Juris Galvanovskis

  • Pharmacology, Structure and Function of Cardiac L-Type Ca 2+ Channels

    Jörg Striessnig

  • Familial Hemiplegic Migraine Mutations Change α1ACa2+ Channel Kinetics

    Richard L. Kraus;Martina J. Sinnegger;Hartmut Glossmann;Steffen Hering

  • Molecular properties of calcium channels.

    Hartmut Glossmann;Jörg Striessnig

  • Isoform-specific regulation of mood behavior and pancreatic beta cell and cardiovascular function by L-type Ca 2+ channels.

    Martina J. Sinnegger-Brauns;Alfred Hetzenauer;Irene G. Huber;Erik Renström

  • Identification of a phenylalkylamine binding region within the alpha 1 subunit of skeletal muscle Ca2+ channels.

    Jorg Striessnig;Hartmut Glossmann;William A. Catterall

  • THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2019/20: Introduction and Other Protein Targets.

    Stephen P H Alexander;Eamonn Kelly;Alistair Mathie;John A Peters

Frequent Co-Authors

Hartmut Glossmann
Hartmut Glossmann Innsbruck Medical University
Steffen Hering
Steffen Hering University of Vienna
Nicolas Singewald
Nicolas Singewald University of Innsbruck
William A. Catterall
William A. Catterall University of Washington
Erik Renström
Erik Renström Lund University
Amy S. Lee
Amy S. Lee University of Southern California
Stephen P.H. Alexander
Stephen P.H. Alexander University of Nottingham
Jamie A. Davies
Jamie A. Davies University of Edinburgh
Hee-Sup Shin
Hee-Sup Shin Institute for Basic Science
Christoph Romanin
Christoph Romanin Johannes Kepler University of Linz

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