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59
Citations
11400
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12647
National Ranking
982

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Ketan Patel is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their research spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Virology, Surgery, and Paleontology.

The scientist's work is concentrated on several main topics, which include:

  • Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies
  • Rabies epidemiology and control
  • Muscle Physiology and Disorders
  • Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
  • Muscle metabolism and nutrition
  • Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries
  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research

Frequent publication venues where Ketan Patel's research appears include:

  • Toxins
  • Toxicon
  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cells

Co-authorship collaborations are also a significant aspect of their work, with frequently collaborating authors being:

  • Sakthivel Vaiyapuri
  • Harry F. Williams
  • Subramanian Senthilkumaran
  • José R. Almeida
  • Ponniah Thirumalaikolundusubramanian

Among recent notable publications, the following papers stand out:

  • "Embracing cancer complexity: Hallmarks of systemic disease" (2024), published in Cell
  • "Fetal lung underdevelopment is rescued by administration of amniotic fluid stem cell extracellular vesicles in rodents" (2021), published in Science Translational Medicine
  • "Pro-cachectic factors link experimental and human chronic kidney disease to skeletal muscle wasting programs" (2021), published in Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • "Multifaceted community health education programs as powerful tools to mitigate snakebite-induced deaths, disabilities, and socioeconomic burden" (2022), published in Toxicon X
  • "Venomous snakebites: Rapid action saves lives-A multifaceted community education programme increases awareness about snakes and snakebites among the rural population of Tamil Nadu, India" (2020), published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases

Ketan Patel has been recognized with the award of Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, received in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Lack of myostatin results in excessive muscle growth but impaired force generation

    Helge Amthor;Raymond Macharia;Roberto Navarrete;Markus Schuelke

  • Follistatin complexes Myostatin and antagonises Myostatin-mediated inhibition of myogenesis.

    Helge Amthor;Gina Nicholas;Iain McKinnell;C.Fred Kemp

  • The EphA4 and EphB1 receptor tyrosine kinases and ephrin-B2 ligand regulate targeted migration of branchial neural crest cells

    Alexa Smith;Vicky Robinson;Ketan Patel;David G. Wilkinson

  • Canonical Wnt signalling induces satellite-cell proliferation during adult skeletal muscle regeneration.

    Anthony Otto;Corina Schmidt;Graham Luke;Steve Allen

  • Hox9 genes and vertebrate limb specification

    M J Cohn;Kalpana Patel;R Krumlauf;D G Wilkinson

  • Muscle hypertrophy driven by myostatin blockade does not require stem/precursor-cell activity

    Helge Amthor;Anthony Otto;Adeline Vulin;Anne Rochat

  • A molecular mechanism enabling continuous embryonic muscle growth - a balance between proliferation and differentiation

    Helge Amthor;Bodo Christ;Ketan Patel

  • The function of Myostatin and strategies of Myostatin blockade-new hope for therapies aimed at promoting growth of skeletal muscle.

    Ketan Patel;Helge Amthor

  • The importance of timing differentiation during limb muscle development

    Helge Amthor;Bodo Christ;Miguel Weil;Ketan Patel

  • RNA-Seq analysis and annotation of a draft blueberry genome assembly identifies candidate genes involved in fruit ripening, biosynthesis of bioactive compounds, and stage-specific alternative splicing

    Vikas Gupta;Vikas Gupta;April D Estrada;Ivory Blakley;Rob Reid

  • Tbx genes and limb identity in chick embryo development

    Alison Isaac;Concepción Rodriguez-Esteban;Aimee Ryan;Muriel Altabef

  • The regulation and action of myostatin as a negative regulator of muscle development during avian embryogenesis.

    Helge Amthor;Ruijin Huang;Iain McKinnell;Bodo Christ

  • Skeletal muscle fibre plasticity in response to selected environmental and physiological stimuli.

    Antonios Matsakas;Ketan Patel

  • Follistatin Regulates Bone Morphogenetic Protein-7 (BMP-7) Activity to Stimulate Embryonic Muscle Growth

    Helge Amthor;Bodo Christ;Fiza Rashid-Doubell;C.Fred Kemp

  • Neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) is the antigen recognized by monoclonal antibodies of similar specificity in small-cell lung carcinoma and neuroblastoma

    K. Patel;S. E. Moore;G. Dickson;R. J. Rossell

  • Secretome of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells promotes skeletal muscle regeneration through synergistic action of extracellular vesicle cargo and soluble proteins

    Robert Mitchell;Ben Mellows;Jonathan Sheard;Manuela Antonioli

  • Titin-cap associates with, and regulates secretion of, Myostatin.

    Gina Nicholas;Mark Thomas;Brett Langley;Wayne Somers

  • The expression and regulation of follistatin and a follistatin-like gene during avian somite compartmentalization and myogenesis.

    Helge Amthor;Helge Amthor;David Connolly;Ketan Patel;Beate Brand-Saberi

  • The myostatin gene: an overview of mechanisms of action and its relevance to livestock animals

    D. Aiello;K. Patel;E. Lasagna

  • Lack of myostatin results in excessive muscle growth but impaired force generation (vol 104, pg 1835, 2007)

    H Amthor;R Macharia;R Navarrete;M Schuelke

Frequent Co-Authors

Bodo Christ
Bodo Christ University of Freiburg
Oliver Kretz
Oliver Kretz Universität Hamburg
Tobias B. Huber
Tobias B. Huber Universität Hamburg
Francesco Muntoni
Francesco Muntoni University College London
Marco Sandri
Marco Sandri University of Padua
Beate Brand-Saberi
Beate Brand-Saberi Ruhr University Bochum
Jörg Wilting
Jörg Wilting University of Göttingen
Markus Schuelke
Markus Schuelke Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Peter S. Zammit
Peter S. Zammit King's College London
Frank S. Walsh
Frank S. Walsh Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases

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