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Overview

Katherine E. Yutzey is affiliated with Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in the United States. Their research spans primarily Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to subfields including Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery, and Genetics.

Their work covers a range of topics, notably Congenital Heart Defects Research, Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, Cardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling, Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments, Congenital Heart Disease Studies, Connective Tissue Disorders Research, and Signaling Pathways in Disease.

Recent publications include the following:

  • Mechanisms of heart valve development and disease, 2020, Development
  • A specialized population of Periostin-expressing cardiac fibroblasts contributes to postnatal cardiomyocyte maturation and innervation, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cardiomyocyte cell cycling, maturation, and growth by multinucleation in postnatal swine, 2020, Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology
  • Deficiency of Circulating Monocytes Ameliorates the Progression of Myxomatous Valve Degeneration in Marfan Syndrome, 2020, Circulation
  • Macrophage lineages in heart valve development and disease, 2020, Cardiovascular Research

Their coauthors include Christina M. Alfieri, Na Xu, Anna O'Donnell, Nivedhitha Velayutham, and Brittany A. Gonzalez, with frequent collaborations evidenced by multiple joint publications.

The scientist commonly publishes in prominent journals such as Circulation Research, Circulation, The FASEB Journal, Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Katherine E. Yutzey is also an author of the book "Developmental and Acquired Mechanisms of Calcific Aortic Valve Disease," published in 2023 by Frontiers Media.

Best Publications

  • Cardiac Fibrosis: The Fibroblast Awakens.

    Joshua G. Travers;Fadia A. Kamal;Jeffrey Robbins;Katherine E. Yutzey

  • Heart Valve Development: Regulatory networks in development and disease

    Michelle D. Combs;Katherine E. Yutzey

  • Heart Valve Structure and Function in Development and Disease

    Robert B. Hinton;Katherine E. Yutzey

  • Extracellular Matrix Remodeling and Organization in Developing and Diseased Aortic Valves

    Robert B. Hinton;Joy Lincoln;Gail H. Deutsch;Hanna Osinska

  • FoxO transcription factors promote autophagy in cardiomyocytes.

    Arunima Sengupta;Jeffery D. Molkentin;Katherine E. Yutzey

  • Calcineurin signaling and NFAT activation in cardiovascular and skeletal muscle development

    Robert A Schulz;Katherine E Yutzey

  • FOXO transcription factors promote cardiomyocyte survival upon induction of oxidative stress

    Arunima Sengupta;Jeffery D Molkentin;Ji-Hye Paik;Ronald A DePinho

  • Calcific Aortic Valve Disease: A Consensus Summary From the Alliance of Investigators on Calcific Aortic Valve Disease

    Katherine E. Yutzey;Linda L. Demer;Simon C. Body;Gordon S. Huggins

  • Expression of the atrial-specific myosin heavy chain AMHC1 and the establishment of anteroposterior polarity in the developing chicken heart.

    Katherine E. Yutzey;Jeanne T. Rhee;David Bader

  • Development of heart valve leaflets and supporting apparatus in chicken and mouse embryos.

    Joy Lincoln;Christina M. Alfieri;Katherine E. Yutzey

  • Ventricular Expression of tbx5 Inhibits Normal Heart Chamber Development

    Christine M. Liberatore;Robin D. Searcy-Schrick;Katherine E. Yutzey

  • Notch1 regulates the fate of cardiac progenitor cells

    Alessandro Boni;Konrad Urbanek;Angelo Nascimbene;Toru Hosoda

  • Genetic loss of calcineurin blocks mechanical overload-induced skeletal muscle fiber type switching but not hypertrophy.

    Stephanie A. Parsons;Stephanie A. Parsons;Douglas P. Millay;Douglas P. Millay;Benjamin J. Wilkins;Orlando F. Bueno

  • TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS AND CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS

    Krista L Clark;Katherine E Yutzey;D Woodrow Benson

  • Regulation of Cardiomyocyte Proliferation and Myocardial Growth During Development by FOXO Transcription Factors

    Heather J. Evans-Anderson;Christina M. Alfieri;Katherine E. Yutzey

  • Muscle-specific expression of the troponin I gene requires interactions between helix-loop-helix muscle regulatory factors and ubiquitous transcription factors.

    H Lin;K E Yutzey;S F Konieczny

  • Sox9 is required for precursor cell expansion and extracellular matrix organization during mouse heart valve development.

    Joy Lincoln;Ralf Kist;Gerd Scherer;Katherine E. Yutzey

  • T-box genes and heart development: Putting the “T” in heart

    Timothy F. Plageman;Katherine E. Yutzey

  • A GATA-dependent nkx-2.5 regulatory element activates early cardiac gene expression in transgenic mice

    Robin D. Searcy;Eric B. Vincent;Christine M. Liberatore;Katherine E. Yutzey

  • Hearts and bones: shared regulatory mechanisms in heart valve, cartilage, tendon, and bone development.

    Joy Lincoln;Alexander W. Lange;Katherine E. Yutzey

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffery D. Molkentin
Jeffery D. Molkentin Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Simon J. Conway
Simon J. Conway Indiana University
David M. Bader
David M. Bader Vanderbilt University
D. Woodrow Benson
D. Woodrow Benson Medical College of Wisconsin
Jeffrey Robbins
Jeffrey Robbins Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Bin Zhou
Bin Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Stephen F. Konieczny
Stephen F. Konieczny Purdue University West Lafayette
S. Steven Potter
S. Steven Potter Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Jihye Paik
Jihye Paik Cornell University
Bruce J. Aronow
Bruce J. Aronow Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

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