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Kenneth Olden is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with notable work in social sciences and business, management, and accounting. Olden's work intersects several subfields, including health, toxicology and mutagenesis, general health professions, organizational behavior and human resource management, and cancer research.

The scientist's research topics encompass a range of public health and environmental concerns. Key areas of study include:

  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Health Disparities and Outcomes
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment

Olden has contributed to several publications, with recent papers covering diverse topics such as cardiovascular sensitivity to air pollution, economic inequality, health disparities, and epigenetics. Some notable recent papers include:

  • "Accelerated epigenetic age as a biomarker of cardiovascular sensitivity to traffic-related air pollution," 2020, Aging
  • "The Inaugural Olden Distinguished Lecture: Economic Inequality and Health Disparities," 2021, Environmental Health Perspectives
  • "Role of research in public health," 2020, NeuroToxicology
  • "A novel approach for measuring residential socioeconomic factors associated with cardiovascular and metabolic health," 2020, UNC Libraries
  • "Epigenetics and Environmental Justice: Reflections on Current Advancement, Research Priorities and Translational Potential," 2023, ISEE Conference Abstracts

Frequent publication venues for Olden's work include Aging, Environmental Health Perspectives, NeuroToxicology, UNC Libraries, and ISEE Conference Abstracts.

Olden collaborates regularly with a group of co-authors, including Lucas Neas, David Díaz-Sánchez, Robert B. Devlin, Wayne E. Cascio, and Elizabeth R. Hauser. Each has co-authored multiple papers with Olden, reflecting a team-based approach to research in their overlapping fields.

Best Publications

  • Fibronectins—adhesive glycoproteins of cell surface and blood

    Kenneth M. Yamada;Kenneth Olden

  • A synthetic peptide from fibronectin inhibits experimental metastasis of murine melanoma cells.

    Martin J. Humphries;Kenneth Olden;Kenneth Olden;Kenneth M. Yamada

  • Carbohydrate moieties of glycoproteins a re-evaluation of their function

    Kenneth Olden;Kenneth Olden;J.Brian Parent;Sandra L. White

  • Identification of an alternatively spliced site in human plasma fibronectin that mediates cell type-specific adhesion.

    M J Humphries;S K Akiyama;A Komoriya;K Olden

  • Identification of two distinct regions of the type III connecting segment of human plasma fibronectin that promote cell type-specific adhesion.

    M J Humphries;A Komoriya;S K Akiyama;K Olden

  • Inhibition of Experimental Metastasis by Castanospermine in Mice: Blockage of Two Distinct Stages of Tumor Colonization by Oligosaccharide Processing Inhibitors

    Martin J. Humphries;Kazue Matsumoto;Sandra L. White;Kenneth Olden

  • Role of carbohydrates in protein secretion and turnover: Effects of tunicamycin on the major cell surface glycoprotein of chick embryo fibroblasts

    Kenneth Olden;Robert M. Pratt;Kenneth M. Yamada

  • Fibronectin and integrins in invasion and metastasis

    Steven K. Akiyama;Kenneth Olden;Kenneth M. Yamada

  • Function of glycoprotein glycans.

    Kenneth Olden;Kenneth Olden;Bruno A. Bernard;Martin J. Humphries;Martin J. Humphries;Tet-Kin Yeo

  • Mechanism of the decrease in the major cell surface protein of chick embryo fibroblasts after transformation

    Kenneth Olden;Kenneth M. Yamada

  • Expression of transformation-associated protease(s) that degrade fibronectin at cell contact sites.

    Wen-Tien Chen;K. Olden;B. A. Bernard;Fong-Fong Chu

  • Oligosaccharide modification by Swainsonine treatment inhibits pulmonary colonization by B16-F10 murine melanoma cells

    Martin J. Humphries;Kazue Matsumoto;Sandra L. White;Kenneth Olden

  • Evidence for role of glycoprotein carbohydrates in membrane transport: specific inhibition by tunicamycin

    Kenneth Olden;Robert M. Pratt;Cynthia Jaworski;Kenneth M. Yamada

  • Investigation of the biological effects of anti-cell adhesive synthetic peptides that inhibit experimental metastasis of B16-F10 murine melanoma cells.

    M J Humphries;K M Yamada;K Olden

  • Monoclonal antibody characterization of two distant sites required for function of the central cell-binding domain of fibronectin in cell adhesion, cell migration, and matrix assembly.

    T. Nagai;N. Yamakawa;Shin-Ichin Aota;S. S. Yamada

  • Recent advances in research on fibronectin and other cell attachment proteins

    Kenneth M. Yamada;Steven K. Akiyama;Takayuki Hasegawa;Etsuko Hasegawa;Etsuko Hasegawa

  • Systems toxicology and the Chemical Effects in Biological Systems (CEBS) knowledge base.

    Michael Waters;Gary Boorman;Pierre Bushel;Michael Cunningham

  • Neurite extension of chicken peripheral nervous system neurons on fibronectin: relative importance of specific adhesion sites in the central cell-binding domain and the alternatively spliced type III connecting segment.

    Martin J. Humphries;Steven K. Akiyama;Akira Komoriya;Kenneth Olden

  • Augmentation of murine natural killer cell activity by swainsonine, a new antimetastatic immunomodulator.

    Martin J. Humphries;Kazue Matsumoto;Sandra L. White;Russell J. Molyneux

  • Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities

    Kenneth Olden

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth M. Yamada
Kenneth M. Yamada National Institutes of Health
Martin J. Humphries
Martin J. Humphries University of Manchester
Steven K. Akiyama
Steven K. Akiyama National Institutes of Health
Robert M. Pratt
Robert M. Pratt National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
John Roberts
John Roberts Rice University
Ira Pastan
Ira Pastan Center for Cancer Research
Nicholas Freudenberg
Nicholas Freudenberg City University of New York
Raymond W. Tennant
Raymond W. Tennant National Institutes of Health
Masakazu Yashiro
Masakazu Yashiro Osaka Metropolitan University
Thomas E. Eling
Thomas E. Eling National Institutes of Health

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