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Overview

Karoly Mirnics is affiliated with the University of Nebraska Medical Center in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with particular focus on several subfields including Molecular Biology, Surgery, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Oncology.

The scientist's work primarily concentrates on cholesterol and lipid metabolism, which is reflected in the main topics they have addressed. These include:

  • Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension
  • Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors
  • Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms
  • Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology

Karoly Mirnics has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • 7-Dehydrocholesterol is an endogenous suppressor of ferroptosis, 2024, Nature
  • Medication effects on developmental sterol biosynthesis, 2021, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Prescription Medications Alter Neuronal and Glial Cholesterol Synthesis, 2021, ACS Chemical Neuroscience
  • Amiodarone Alters Cholesterol Biosynthesis through Tissue-Dependent Inhibition of Emopamil Binding Protein and Dehydrocholesterol Reductase 24, 2020, ACS Chemical Neuroscience
  • Maternal cariprazine exposure inhibits embryonic and postnatal brain cholesterol biosynthesis, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry

The scientist has frequently published in several venues, including:

  • Biomolecules
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • ACS Chemical Neuroscience
  • ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science
  • Brain Medicine

Karoly Mirnics collaborates regularly with colleagues in the field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Željka Korade
  • Allison Anderson
  • Thiago C. Genaro-Mattos
  • Ned A. Porter
  • Keri A. Tallman

Best Publications

  • Maternal Immune Activation Alters Fetal Brain Development through Interleukin-6

    Stephen E. P. Smith;Jennifer Li;Jennifer Li;Krassimira A. Garbett;Károly Mirnics

  • Environmental Enrichment Reduces Aβ Levels and Amyloid Deposition in Transgenic Mice

    Orly Lazarov;John Robinson;Ya Ping Tang;Ilana S. Hairston

  • Gene Expression Deficits in a Subclass of GABA Neurons in the Prefrontal Cortex of Subjects with Schizophrenia

    Takanori Hashimoto;David W. Volk;Stephen M. Eggan;Karoly Mirnics

  • Molecular characterization of schizophrenia viewed by microarray analysis of gene expression in prefrontal cortex.

    Károly Mirnics;Frank A. Middleton;Adriana Marquez;David A. Lewis

  • Mitochondrial dysfunction as a cause of axonal degeneration in multiple sclerosis patients

    Ranjan Dutta;Jennifer McDonough;Xinghua Yin;John Peterson

  • Alterations in GABA-related transcriptome in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of subjects with schizophrenia.

    T. Hashimoto;D. Arion;T. Unger;J. G. Maldonado-Avilés

  • Disease-specific changes in regulator of G-protein signaling 4 (RGS4) expression in schizophrenia.

    K. Mirnics;F. A. Middleton;G. D. Stanwood;D. A. Lewis

  • Altered expression of genes involved in inflammation and apoptosis in frontal cortex in major depression

    R C Shelton;J Claiborne;M Sidoryk-Wegrzynowicz;R Reddy

  • Analysis of complex brain disorders with gene expression microarrays: schizophrenia as a disease of the synapse

    Károly Mirnics;Frank A. Middleton;David A. Lewis;Pat Levitt

  • Gene Expression Profiling Reveals Alterations of Specific Metabolic Pathways in Schizophrenia

    Frank A. Middleton;Karoly Mirnics;Joseph N. Pierri;David A. Lewis

  • Association and linkage analyses of RGS4 polymorphisms in schizophrenia

    Kodavali V. Chowdari;Karoly Mirnics;Prachi Semwal;Joel Wood

  • Conserved regional patterns of GABA-related transcript expression in the neocortex of subjects with schizophrenia.

    Takanori Hashimoto;H. Holly Bazmi;Karoly Mirnics;Qiang Wu

  • Immune transcriptome alterations in the temporal cortex of subjects with autism

    Krassimira Garbett;Philip J. Ebert;Amanda Mitchell;Carla Lintas

  • Molecular evidence for increased expression of genes related to immune and chaperone function in the prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia

    Dominique Arion;Travis Unger;David A. Lewis;Pat Levitt

  • Neurodevelopment, GABA system dysfunction, and schizophrenia.

    Martin J Schmidt;Karoly Mirnics

  • Disruption of cerebral cortex MET signaling in autism spectrum disorder

    Daniel B. Campbell;Rosanna D'Oronzio;Krassi Garbett;Philip J. Ebert

  • Immune system disturbances in schizophrenia.

    Szatmár Horváth;Szatmár Horváth;Károly Mirnics;Károly Mirnics

  • Progress in the use of microarray technology to study the neurobiology of disease

    Károly Mirnics;Jonathan Pevsner

  • Effects of maternal immune activation on gene expression patterns in the fetal brain

    K A Garbett;E Y Hsiao;S Kálmán;S Kálmán;P H Patterson

  • Genes for endosomal NHE6 and NHE9 are misregulated in autism brains

    M Schwede;K Garbett;Károly Mirnics;Daniel H Geschwind

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Lewis
David A. Lewis University of Pittsburgh
Pat Levitt
Pat Levitt University of Southern California
Ned A. Porter
Ned A. Porter Vanderbilt University
Sangram S. Sisodia
Sangram S. Sisodia University of Chicago
Schahram Akbarian
Schahram Akbarian Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Vishwajit L. Nimgaonkar
Vishwajit L. Nimgaonkar University of Pittsburgh
Richard C. Shelton
Richard C. Shelton University of Alabama at Birmingham
Frank A. Middleton
Frank A. Middleton SUNY Upstate Medical University
John H. Krystal
John H. Krystal Yale University
Daniel H. Geschwind
Daniel H. Geschwind University of California, Los Angeles

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