2026 Kenneth D. Philipson: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	83	3570	3290	1786	1606	268	21016

Overview

Kenneth D. Philipson is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular emphasis on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine as well as Molecular Biology. Subfields include Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, including:

Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
Ion channel regulation and function
Cardiac Ischemia and Reperfusion
Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques
Analytical Chemistry and Sensors

Philipson has published extensively in several scientific journals, with frequent venues including:

Biophysical Journal
Journal of the American Heart Association
Cell Calcium
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Circulation

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Philipson are:

"Acute Genetic Ablation of Cardiac Sodium/Calcium Exchange in Adult Mice: Implications for Cardiomyocyte Calcium Regulation, Cardioprotection, and Arrhythmia" (2021), Journal of the American Heart Association
"Na/Ca exchange in the atrium: Role in sinoatrial node pacemaking and excitation-contraction coupling" (2020), Cell Calcium
"Regulation of Na/Ca exchange by cytoplasmic protons modifies intracellular calcium dynamics and the cardiac response to ischemia" (2025), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Effects of PMCA1 knockout on ventricular cardiomyocyte calcium homeostasis" (2023), Biophysical Journal
"Sodium-Calcium Exchanger (NCX1) is Essential for Atrioventricular Node Automaticity and Conduction, as Revealed through Atrial-Specific Knockout of NCX1" (2020), Biophysical Journal

They have collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

Michela Ottolia
Joshua I. Goldhaber
Devina Gonzalez
Sabine Lotteau
Liang Li

Best Publications

Molecular cloning and functional expression of the cardiac sarcolemmal Na(+)-Ca2+ exchanger

Debora A. Nicoll;Stefano Longoni;Kenneth D. Philipson

1132
Citations
Sodium-calcium exchange: a molecular perspective.

Kenneth D. Philipson;Debora A. Nicoll

760
Citations
Tissue specificity and alternative splicing of the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger isoforms NCX1, NCX2, and NCX3 in rat

B. D. Quednau;D. A. Nicoll;K. D. Philipson

578
Citations
Cloning of a Third Mammalian Na+-Ca2+ Exchanger, NCX3

Debora A. Nicoll;Beate D. Quednau;Zhiyong Qui;Yu-Rong Xia

502
Citations
Cloning of the NCX2 isoform of the plasma membrane Na+-Ca2+ exchanger

Zhaoping Li;S. Matsuoka;L. V. Hryshko;D. A. Nicoll

421
Citations
Initial localization of regulatory regions of the cardiac sarcolemmal Na(+)-Ca2+ exchanger.

Satoshi Matsuoka;Debora A. Nicoll;Robert F. Reilly;Donald W. Hilgemann

402
Citations
Identification of a peptide inhibitor of the cardiac sarcolemmal Na+-Ca2+ exchanger

Zhaoping Li;D. A. Nicoll;A. Collins;D. W. Hilgemann

332
Citations
Effects of pH on Na+-Ca2+ exchange in canine cardiac sarcolemmal vesicles.

K D Philipson;M M Bersohn;A Y Nishimoto

322
Citations
Functional comparison of the three isoforms of the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger (NCX1, NCX2, NCX3).

Bettina Linck;Zhiyong Qiu;Zhaoping He;Qiusheng Tong

302
Citations
Effects of Overexpression of the Na+-Ca2+ Exchanger on [Ca2+]i Transients in Murine Ventricular Myocytes

Atsushi Yao;Zhi Su;Akihiko Nonaka;Iram Zubair

297
Citations
Charge movement during Na+ translocation by native and cloned cardiac Na+/Ca2+ exchanger.

Donald W. Hilgemann;Debora A. Nicoll;Kenneth D. Philipson

296
Citations
Distribution of the Na(+)-Ca2+ exchange protein in mammalian cardiac myocytes: an immunofluorescence and immunocolloidal gold-labeling study.

JS Frank;G Mottino;D Reid;RS Molday

273
Citations
Identification of the high affinity Ca(2+)-binding domain of the cardiac Na(+)-Ca2+ exchanger.

D.O. Levitsky;D.A. Nicoll;K.D. Philipson

273
Citations
Purification of the cardiac Na+Ca2+ exchange protein

Kenneth D. Philipson;Stefano Longoni;Robert Ward

272
Citations
A NEW TOPOLOGICAL MODEL OF THE CARDIAC SARCOLEMMAL NA+-CA2+ EXCHANGER

Debora A. Nicoll;Michela Ottolia;Liyan Lu;Yujuan Lu

271
Citations
Overexpression of the Cardiac Na+/Ca2+ Exchanger Increases Susceptibility to Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Male, but Not Female, Transgenic Mice

Heather R. Cross;Liyan Lu;Charles Jr Steenbergen;Kenneth D. Philipson

271
Citations
Regulation of the cardiac Na(+)-Ca2+ exchanger by Ca2+. Mutational analysis of the Ca(2+)-binding domain.

S Matsuoka;D A Nicoll;L V Hryshko;D O Levitsky

262
Citations
Coupling of the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger, Na+/K+ pump and sarcoplasmic reticulum in smooth muscle.

Edwin D. W. Moore;Elaine F. Etter;Kenneth D. Philipson;Walter A. Carrington

258
Citations
Regulation of the Cardiac Na+-Ca2+ Exchanger by the Endogenous XIP Region

Satoshi Matsuoka;Debora A. Nicoll;Zhaoping He;Kenneth D. Philipson

243
Citations
Mutational Analysis of the Ca2+-binding Domain

Satoshi Matsuoka;Debora A. Nicoll;Larry V. Hryshko;Dmitri O. Levitsky

61
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