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Overview

Kirk L. Peterson is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a specialization in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Additional subfields include Molecular Biology, Surgery, Emergency Medicine, and Genetics.

Their scholarly work covers a range of topics centered on cardiovascular health and muscle function. These main topics are:

  • Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise
  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • Muscle Physiology and Disorders
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair
  • Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research

Peterson has published in a variety of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The FASEB Journal
  • Circulation Research
  • Circulation
  • Science Translational Medicine
  • Nature Cardiovascular Research

Notable recent papers authored by Peterson cover diverse topics in cardiovascular disease and treatment mechanisms:

  • "Systemic AAV9.LAMP2B injection reverses metabolic and physiologic multiorgan dysfunction in a murine model of Danon disease," 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • "Plakophilin-2 gene therapy prevents and rescues arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy in a mouse model harboring patient genetics," 2023, Nature Cardiovascular Research
  • "Suppression of Endothelial AGO1 Promotes Adipose Tissue Browning and Improves Metabolic Dysfunction," 2020, Circulation
  • "Desmosomal COP9 regulates proteome degradation in arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy," 2021, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • "Cardiomyocyte Expression of ZO-1 Is Essential for Normal Atrioventricular Conduction but Does Not Alter Ventricular Function," 2020, Circulation Research

Frequent collaborators in Peterson's research include:

  • Yusu Gu
  • Farah Sheikh
  • Nancy D. Dalton
  • Robert C. Lyon
  • Yan Liang

Best Publications

  • MicroRNA-133 controls cardiac hypertrophy

    Alessandra Carè;Daniele Catalucci;Federica Felicetti;Désirée Bonci

  • GUIDELINES FOR PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY

    T J Ryan;D P Faxon;R M Gunnar

  • ErbB2 is essential in the prevention of dilated cardiomyopathy

    Steven A. Crone;You Yang Zhao;Lian Fan;Yusu Gu

  • The knockout of miR-143 and -145 alters smooth muscle cell maintenance and vascular homeostasis in mice: correlates with human disease

    Leonardo Elia;Manuela Quintavalle;Jianlin Zhang;Riccardo Contu

  • Resident fibroblast lineages mediate pressure overload–induced cardiac fibrosis

    Thomas Moore-Morris;Nuno Guimarães-Camboa;Indroneal Banerjee;Alexander C. Zambon

  • Defects in caveolin-1 cause dilated cardiomyopathy and pulmonary hypertension in knockout mice.

    You Yang Zhao;Yang Liu;Radu Virgil Stan;Lian Fan

  • Pericytes of Multiple Organs Do Not Behave as Mesenchymal Stem Cells In Vivo

    Nuno Guimarães-Camboa;Nuno Guimarães-Camboa;Paola Cattaneo;Yunfu Sun;Thomas Moore-Morris

  • Oxidized phospholipids are proinflammatory and proatherogenic in hypercholesterolaemic mice

    Xuchu Que;Ming Yow Hung;Ming Yow Hung;Calvin Yeang;Ayelet Gonen

  • Transthoracic echocardiography in models of cardiac disease in the mouse

    Nobuaki Tanaka;Nancy Dalton;Lan Mao;Howard A. Rockman

  • Requirement for Ca2+/calmodulin–dependent kinase II in the transition from pressure overload–induced cardiac hypertrophy to heart failure in mice

    Haiyun Ling;Tong Zhang;Laetitia Pereira;Christopher Kable Means

  • A cardiac myocyte vascular endothelial growth factor paracrine pathway is required to maintain cardiac function

    Frank J. Giordano;Hans-Peter Gerber;Simon-Peter Williams;Nicholas VanBruggen

  • Chronic major-vessel thromboembolic pulmonary artery obstruction: appearance at angiography.

    W R Auger;P F Fedullo;K M Moser;M Buchbinder

  • Temporal response of left ventricular performance to mitral valve surgery.

    G Schuler;K L Peterson;A Johnson;G Francis

  • MTORC1 regulates cardiac function and myocyte survival through 4E-BP1 inhibition in mice

    Denghong Zhang;Riccardo Contu;Michael V G Latronico;Jian Ling Zhang

  • Rebuilding a damaged heart: long-term survival of transplanted neonatal rat cardiomyocytes after myocardial infarction and effect on cardiac function.

    Jochen Müller-Ehmsen;Kirk L. Peterson;Larry Kedes;Peter Whittaker

  • Acute Pulmonary Thromboembolism Has Its Evolution Been Redefined

    Kirk L. Peterson

  • Comparison of Ultrasound and Cineangiographic Measurements of the Mean Rate of Circumferential Fiber Shortening in Man

    Ronald H. Cooper;Robert A. O'rourke;Joel S. Karliner;Kirk L. Peterson

  • An FHL1-containing complex within the cardiomyocyte sarcomere mediates hypertrophic biomechanical stress responses in mice

    Farah Sheikh;Anna Raskin;Pao Hsien Chu;Stephan Lange

  • Left ventricular volumes by gated equilibrium radionuclide angiography: a new method.

    R Slutsky;J Karliner;D Ricci;R Kaiser

  • Analysis of multigenerational families with thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections due to TGFBR1 or TGFBR2 mutations

    V. Tran-Fadulu;H. Pannu;Dong H Kim;G. W. Vick

Frequent Co-Authors

Ju Chen
Ju Chen University of California, San Diego
John Ross
John Ross University of California, San Diego
Sylvia M. Evans
Sylvia M. Evans University of Montana
Joan Heller Brown
Joan Heller Brown University of California, San Diego
Andrew D. McCulloch
Andrew D. McCulloch University of California, San Diego
Kenneth R. Chien
Kenneth R. Chien Karolinska Institute
Kenneth M. Moser
Kenneth M. Moser University of California, San Diego
Gianluigi Condorelli
Gianluigi Condorelli Humanitas University
Charles B. Higgins
Charles B. Higgins University of California, San Francisco
Sotirios Tsimikas
Sotirios Tsimikas University of California, San Diego

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