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Overview

Karl-Werner Schramm is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Medicine, with significant contributions in subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Chemistry, Surgery, Physiology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics including:

  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Birth, Development, and Health

Frequently published venues for Schramm include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy
  • Molecular Aspects of Medicine

The scientist has collaborated often with several coauthors, who include:

  • Meri De Angelis
  • Bernhard Henkelmann
  • Joachim Nagler
  • Elena V. Kozlova
  • Margarita Currás-Collazo

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Karl-Werner Schramm include:

  • CoMPARA: Collaborative Modeling Project for Androgen Receptor Activity, 2020, Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Environmental levels and human body burdens of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances in Africa: A critical review, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Green Chemistry: Some important forerunners and current issues, 2020, Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy
  • Disentangling multiple chemical and non-chemical stressors in a lotic ecosystem using a longitudinal approach, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Persistence and reversibility of arsenic-induced gut microbiome and metabolome shifts in male rats after 30-days recovery duration, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Rapid total destruction of chlorophenols by activated hydrogen peroxide.

    Sayam Sen Gupta;Matthew Stadler;Christopher A. Noser;Anindya Ghosh

  • Persistent pesticides in human breast milk and cryptorchidism.

    Ida N. Damgaard;Niels E. Skakkebæk;Jorma Toppari;Helena E. Virtanen

  • Terminal elimination half-lives of the brominated flame retardants TBBPA, HBCD, and lower brominated PBDEs in humans

    Harald J. Geyer;Karl-Werner Schramm;Per Ola Darnerud;Marie Aune

  • Alternatively activated macrophages do not synthesize catecholamines or contribute to adipose tissue adaptive thermogenesis

    Katrin Fischer;Henry H. Ruiz;Kevin Jhun;Brian Finan

  • FeIII–TAML-catalyzed green oxidative degradation of the azo dye Orange II by H2O2 and organic peroxides: products, toxicity, kinetics, and mechanisms

    Naima Chahbane;Delia Laura Popescu;Douglas A. Mitchell;Arani Chanda

  • Chemical Hybridization of Glucagon and Thyroid Hormone Optimizes Therapeutic Impact for Metabolic Disease

    Brian Finan;Christoffer Clemmensen;Zhimeng Zhu;Kerstin Stemmer

  • Determination of PAH, PCB, and OCP in water from the Three Gorges Reservoir accumulated by semipermeable membrane devices (SPMD).

    Jingxian Wang;Yonghong Bi;Gerd Pfister;Bernhard Henkelmann

  • CoMPARA: Collaborative Modeling Project for Androgen Receptor Activity.

    Kamel Mansouri;Nicole Kleinstreuer;Ahmed M. Abdelaziz;Domenico Alberga

  • Bioaccumulation and Occurrence of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs), Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), and Other Organic Compounds in Fish and Other Organisms Including Humans

    Harald J. Geyer;Gerhard G. Rimkus;Irene Scheunert;Andreas Kaune

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) distributions in the Bay of Marmara sea: Izmit Bay.

    Fatma Telli-Karakoç;Leyla Tolun;Bernhard Henkelmann;Christian Klimm

  • Study of sorption, biodegradation and isomerization of HCH in stimulated sediment/water system

    W.Z. Wu;Y. Xu;K.-W. Schramm;A. Kettrup

  • Applicability of non-invasively collected matrices for human biomonitoring

    Roel Smolders;Karl-Werner Schramm;Marc Nickmilder;Greet Schoeters

  • Liver tumor-promoting activity of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) in TCDD-sensitive and TCDD-resistant rat strains

    Matti Viluksela;Yvonne Bager;Jouni T. Tuomisto;Gunilla Scheu

  • PCDD/Fs, PCBs, HCHs and HCB in sediments and soils of Ya-Er Lake area in China: Results on residual levels and correlation to the organic carbon and the particle size

    W.Z. Wu;K.-W. Schramm;B. Henkelmann;Y. Xu

  • Emission of nonchlorinated and chlorinated aromatics in the flue gas of incineration plants during and after transient disturbances of combustion conditions: delayed emission effects.

    Zimmermann R;Blumenstock M;Heger Hj;Schramm Kw

  • Analysis of human milk to assess exposure to PAHs, PCBs and organochlorine pesticides in the vicinity Mediterranean city Mersin, Turkey

    Ismet Çok;Birgul Mazmanci;Mehmet A. Mazmanci;Cafer Turgut

  • Half-lives of tetra-, penta-, hexa-, hepta-, and octachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in rats, monkeys, and humans--a critical review.

    Harald J. Geyer;Karl-Werner Schramm;Ernst Anton Feicht;Akbar Behechti

  • Applicability of a yeast oestrogen screen for the detection of oestrogen-like activities in environmental samples

    Klaus Rehmann;Karl-Werner Schramm;Antonius A. Kettrup

  • From mother to child: investigation of prenatal and postnatal exposure to persistent bioaccumulating toxicants using breast milk and placenta biomonitoring.

    Heqing Shen;Katharina M. Main;Helena E. Virtanen;Ida N. Damggard

  • Carbofuran and its toxic metabolites provide forensic evidence for furadan exposure in vultures (Gyps africanus) in Kenya.

    Peter O. Otieno;Joseph O. Lalah;Munir Virani;Isaac O. Jondiko

  • Identification of surrogate compounds for the emission of PCdd/F (I-TEQ value) and evaluation of their on-line real-time detectability in flue gases of waste incineration plants by REMPI-TOFMS mass spectrometry.

    M. Blumenstock;R. Zimmermann;K.-W. Schramm;A. Kettrup

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernhard Henkelmann
Bernhard Henkelmann Helmholtz Munich
Antonius Kettrup
Antonius Kettrup Technical University of Munich
Dieter Lenoir
Dieter Lenoir University of Bayreuth
Jingwen Chen
Jingwen Chen Dalian University of Technology
Xie Quan
Xie Quan Dalian University of Technology
Ralf Zimmermann
Ralf Zimmermann University of Rostock
Xinmiao Liang
Xinmiao Liang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jorma Toppari
Jorma Toppari University of Turku
Fenglin Yang
Fenglin Yang Dalian University of Technology
Petros Samaras
Petros Samaras International Hellenic University

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