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60
Citations
14075
World Ranking
11879
National Ranking
107

Overview

Kurt Schmidt is affiliated with the University of Graz in Austria and has contributed to research spanning medicine and engineering. Their work prominently addresses topics in neurology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, ophthalmology, and molecular biology.

Their research covers a range of subjects including lipid metabolism and disorders, diabetes and cardiovascular risks linked to lipoproteins, retinal diseases and treatments, barrier structure and function studies, traumatic brain injury and neurovascular disturbances, heme oxygenase-1 and carbon monoxide, as well as extraction and separation processes.

Schmidt's recent publications include:

  • Endothelial lipase increases eNOS activating capacity of high-density lipoprotein, 2020, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids
  • The tight junction protein cingulin regulates the vascular response to burn injury in a mouse model, 2020, Microvascular Research
  • Development of a Rate-Based ENRTL-RK Process Model for a Water-Lean Solvent, 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal

These publications reflect collaboration with various coauthors such as Snježana Radulović, Benjamin Gottschalk, Gerd Hörl, Pablo Zardoya-Laguardia, and Irene Schilcher. The diversity of collaborators highlights interdisciplinary engagement.

Frequent publication venues include

  • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids
  • Microvascular Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Kurt Schmidt's work engages with several subfields, focusing on the interface of molecular biology and clinical medicine, which is evident through the multiple fields and subfields represented in their research portfolio.

Best Publications

  • Potent and selective inhibition of nitric oxide-sensitive guanylyl cyclase by 1H-[1,2,4]oxadiazolo[4,3-a]quinoxalin-1-one.

    J Garthwaite;E Southam;C L Boulton;E B Nielsen

  • Inhibition of nitric oxide synthesis by methylene blue

    Bernd Mayer;Friedrich Brunner;Kurt Schmidt

  • Characterization of 1H-[1,2,4]oxadiazolo[4,3-a]quinoxalin-1-one as a heme-site inhibitor of nitric oxide-sensitive guanylyl cyclase.

    Astrid Schrammel;Soenke Behrends;Kurt Schmidt;Doris Koesling

  • Metabolic Fate of Peroxynitrite in Aqueous Solution REACTION WITH NITRIC OXIDE AND pH-DEPENDENT DECOMPOSITION TO NITRITE AND OXYGEN IN A 2:1 STOICHIOMETRY

    Silvia Pfeiffer;Antonius C.F. Gorren;Kurt Schmidt;Ernst R. Werner

  • Structural analysis of porcine brain nitric oxide synthase reveals a role for tetrahydrobiopterin and L-arginine in the formation of an SDS-resistant dimer.

    P Klatt;K Schmidt;D Lehner;O Glatter

  • Biosynthesis of endothelium-derived relaxing factor: a cytosolic enzyme in porcine aortic endothelial cells Ca2+-dependently converts L-arginine into an activator of soluble guanylyl cyclase.

    Bernd Mayer;Kurt Schmidt;Peter Humbert;Eycke Böhme

  • Multiple catalytic functions of brain nitric oxide synthase. Biochemical characterization, cofactor-requirement, and the role of N omega-hydroxy-L-arginine as an intermediate.

    P Klatt;K Schmidt;G Uray;B Mayer

  • Inhibition of nitric oxide synthesis by NG‐nitro‐L‐arginine methyl ester (L‐NAME): requirement for bioactivation to the free acid, NG‐nitro‐L‐arginine

    Silvia Pfeiffer;Eva Leopold;Kurt Schmidt;Friedrich Brunner

  • The pteridine binding site of brain nitric oxide synthase. Tetrahydrobiopterin binding kinetics, specificity, and allosteric interaction with the substrate domain.

    P Klatt;M Schmid;E Leopold;K Schmidt

  • A new pathway of nitric oxide/cyclic GMP signaling involving S-nitrosoglutathione.

    Bernd Mayer;Silvia Pfeiffer;Astrid Schrammel;Doris Koesling

  • Peroxynitrite-induced Accumulation of Cyclic GMP in Endothelial Cells and Stimulation of Purified Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase DEPENDENCE ON GLUTATHIONE AND POSSIBLE ROLE OF S-NITROSATION

    Bernd Mayer;Astrid Schrammel;Peter Klatt;Doris Koesling

  • Characterization of Heme-deficient Neuronal Nitric-oxide Synthase Reveals a Role for Heme in Subunit Dimerization and Binding of the Amino Acid Substrate and Tetrahydrobiopterin

    Peter Klatt;Silvia Pfeiffer;Barbara M. List;Dieter Lehner

  • DECOMPOSITION OF S-NITROSOGLUTATHIONE IN THE PRESENCE OF COPPER IONS AND GLUTATHIONE

    Antonius C.F. Gorren;Astrid Schrammel;Kurt Schmidt;Bernd Mayer

  • Protein tyrosine nitration in mouse peritoneal macrophages activated in vitro and in vivo: evidence against an essential role of peroxynitrite.

    Silvia Pfeiffer;Achim Lass;Kurt Schmidt;Bernd Mayer

  • Tetrahydrobiopterin-dependent formation of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (nitric oxide) in aortic endothelial cells.

    K Schmidt;E R Werner;B Mayer;H Wachter

  • Regulation of Neuronal Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP Formation by Ca2

    Bernd Mayer;Peter Klatt;Eycke Böhme;Kurt Schmidt

  • Inhibitors of brain nitric oxide synthase. Binding kinetics, metabolism, and enzyme inactivation.

    P Klatt;K Schmidt;F Brunner;B Mayer

  • Dityrosine formation outcompetes tyrosine nitration at low steady-state concentrations of peroxynitrite. Implications for tyrosine modification by nitric oxide/superoxide in vivo.

    Silvia Pfeiffer;Kurt Schmidt;Bernd Mayer

  • Protein tyrosine nitration in cytokine-activated murine macrophages. Involvement of a peroxidase/nitrite pathway rather than peroxynitrite.

    Silvia Pfeiffer;Achim Lass;Kurt Schmidt;Bernd Mayer

  • Brain nitric oxide synthase is a haemoprotein.

    P Klatt;K Schmidt;B Mayer

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernd Mayer
Bernd Mayer University of Graz
Ernst R. Werner
Ernst R. Werner Innsbruck Medical University
Peter Klatt
Peter Klatt Spanish National Research Council
Wolfgang F. Graier
Wolfgang F. Graier Medical University of Graz
Klaus Groschner
Klaus Groschner Medical University of Graz
Roland Malli
Roland Malli Medical University of Graz
Richard C. Venema
Richard C. Venema Augusta University
Gabriele Werner-Felmayer
Gabriele Werner-Felmayer Innsbruck Medical University
Karl Gruber
Karl Gruber University of Graz
Burkert Pieske
Burkert Pieske Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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