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Klas Blomgren is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and conducts research primarily within the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including Neurology, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their research topics focus mainly on:

  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Immune Response and Inflammation
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms

Klas Blomgren has published extensively, with frequent appearances in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neuro-Oncology, Cancers, Journal of Neuroinflammation, and Cell Death and Disease.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Apoptotic cell death in disease-Current understanding of the NCCD 2023 (2023, Cell Death and Differentiation)
  • Uncovering sex differences of rodent microglia (2021, Journal of Neuroinflammation)
  • Autophagy in neurodegeneration: New insights underpinning therapy for neurological diseases (2020, Journal of Neurochemistry)
  • Pericyte-specific vascular expression of SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 - implications for microvascular inflammation and hypercoagulopathy in COVID-19 (2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
  • The SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 is expressed in mouse pericytes but not endothelial cells: Implications for COVID-19 vascular research (2022, Stem Cell Reports)

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Ahmed M. Osman
  • Carlos Rodrigues
  • Alejandro Lastra Romero
  • Efthalia Preka
  • Adamantia Fragkopoulou

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Ilio Vitale;Stuart A. Aaronson;John M. Abrams

  • Brain development in rodents and humans: Identifying benchmarks of maturation and vulnerability to injury across species

    Bridgette D. Semple;Klas Blomgren;Klas Blomgren;Kayleen Gimlin;Donna M. Ferriero

  • Regulation of autophagy by cytoplasmic p53

    Ezgi Tasdemir;M. Chiara Maiuri;M. Chiara Maiuri;M. Chiara Maiuri;Lorenzo Galluzzi;Lorenzo Galluzzi;Lorenzo Galluzzi;Ilio Vitale;Ilio Vitale;Ilio Vitale

  • Essential versus accessory aspects of cell death: recommendations of the NCCD 2015

    L. Galluzzi;J. M. Bravo-San Pedro;I. Vitale;S. A. Aaronson

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring cell death in higher eukaryotes

    L. Galluzzi;L. Galluzzi;L. Galluzzi;S. A. Aaronson;J. Abrams;E. S. Alnemri

  • Synergistic Activation of Caspase-3 by m-Calpain after Neonatal Hypoxia-Ischemia A MECHANISM OF “PATHOLOGICAL APOPTOSIS”?

    Klas Blomgren;Klas Blomgren;Changlian Zhu;Xiaoyang Wang;Jan-Olof Karlsson

  • Mitochondrial membrane permeabilization in neuronal injury

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Klas Blomgren;Klas Blomgren;Guido Kroemer;Guido Kroemer

  • Bacterial endotoxin sensitizes the immature brain to hypoxic--ischaemic injury.

    Saskia Eklind;Carina Mallard;Anna-Lena Leverin;Erik Gilland

  • The influence of age on apoptotic and other mechanisms of cell death after cerebral hypoxia-ischemia.

    Changlian Zhu;Xiaoyang Wang;Xiaoyang Wang;F. Xu;F. Xu;B. A. Bahr

  • Chemokine and inflammatory cell response to hypoxia-ischemia in immature rats.

    Elsa Bona;Anna-Lena Andersson;Klas Blomgren;Eric Gilland

  • Apoptosis-Inducing Factor Triggered by Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase and Bid Mediates Neuronal Cell Death after Oxygen-Glucose Deprivation and Focal Cerebral Ischemia

    Carsten Culmsee;Changlian Zhu;Stefan Landshamer;Barbara Becattini

  • Erythropoietin Improved Neurologic Outcomes in Newborns With Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy

    Changlian Zhu;Wenqing Kang;Falin Xu;Xiuyong Cheng

  • Free radicals, mitochondria, and hypoxia-ischemia in the developing brain.

    Klas Blomgren;Henrik Hagberg;Henrik Hagberg

  • Involvement of caspase-3 in cell death after hypoxia-ischemia declines during brain maturation.

    Bing R. Hu;Bing R. Hu;Chun Li Liu;Chun Li Liu;Yibing Ouyang;Klas Blomgren

  • Interleukin-18 Involvement in Hypoxic–Ischemic Brain Injury

    Maj Hedtjärn;Anna-Lena Leverin;Kristina Eriksson;Klas Blomgren

  • Microglia-Secreted Galectin-3 Acts as a Toll-like Receptor 4 Ligand and Contributes to Microglial Activation

    Miguel Angel Burguillos;Miguel Angel Burguillos;Martina Svensson;Tim Schulte;Antonio Boza-Serrano

  • Isoflurane anesthesia induced persistent, progressive memory impairment, caused a loss of neural stem cells, and reduced neurogenesis in young, but not adult, rodents.

    Changlian Zhu;Changlian Zhu;Jianfeng Gao;Jianfeng Gao;Niklas Karlsson;Qian Li;Qian Li

  • Involvement of apoptosis-inducing factor in neuronal death after hypoxia-ischemia in the neonatal rat brain.

    Changlian Zhu;Lin Qiu;Lin Qiu;Xiaoyang Wang;Xiaoyang Wang;Ulrika Hallin

  • Anaesthetic neurotoxicity and neuroplasticity: an expert group report and statement based on the BJA Salzburg Seminar

    V. Jevtovic-Todorovic;A. R. Absalom;K. Blomgren;A. Brambrink

Frequent Co-Authors

Changlian Zhu
Changlian Zhu University of Gothenburg
Xiaoyang Wang
Xiaoyang Wang University of Gothenburg
Henrik Hagberg
Henrik Hagberg University of Gothenburg
Guido Kroemer
Guido Kroemer Université Paris Cité
Lorenzo Galluzzi
Lorenzo Galluzzi Cornell University
H. Georg Kuhn
H. Georg Kuhn University of Gothenburg
Ben A. Bahr
Ben A. Bahr University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Ilio Vitale
Ilio Vitale University of Rome Tor Vergata
Carina Mallard
Carina Mallard University of Gothenburg
Oliver Kepp
Oliver Kepp Institut Gustave Roussy

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