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Overview

Larry W. Fisher is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily focused on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with additional contributions to medicine. Over their career, they have contributed to topics such as nuclear structure and function, digestive system and related health, genomics and rare diseases, bone and dental protein studies, cell adhesion molecules research, and protease and inhibitor mechanisms.

Their recent publications include the following works:

  • A comprehensive analysis of normal variation and disease-causing mutations in the human DSPP gene, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Small Integrin binding Ligand N-linked Glycoproteins, prostate-specific antigen and time to prostate cancer diagnosis, 2025, Matrix Biology Plus

Frequent co-authors with whom Fisher has collaborated include:

  • Dianalee McKnight
  • P. Suzanne Hart
  • Thomas C. Hart
  • James K. Hartsfield
  • Anne Wilson

The venues where Fisher has published their research primarily include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Matrix Biology Plus

The main fields of study in Fisher's work are:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, their subfields of study include:

  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Rheumatology
  • Immunology and Allergy
  • Cancer Research

Best Publications

  • SHED: Stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth

    Masako Miura;Stan Gronthos;Mingrui Zhao;Bai Lu

  • Stem Cell Properties of Human Dental Pulp Stem Cells

    S. Gronthos;J. Brahim;W. Li;L.W. Fisher

  • Deduced protein sequence of bone small proteoglycan I (biglycan) shows homology with proteoglycan II (decorin) and several nonconnective tissue proteins in a variety of species.

    Larry W. Fisher;John D. Termine;Marian F. Young

  • Expression and localization of the two small proteoglycans biglycan and decorin in developing human skeletal and non-skeletal tissues.

    Paolo Bianco;Larry W. Fisher;Marian F. Young;John D. Termine

  • Flexible structures of SIBLING proteins, bone sialoprotein, and osteopontin.

    L.W. Fisher;D.A. Torchia;B. Fohr;M.F. Young

  • Targeted disruption of the biglycan gene leads to an osteoporosis-like phenotype in mice

    Tianshun Xu;Paolo Bianco;Paolo Bianco;Larry W. Fisher;Glenn Longenecker

  • Antisera and cDNA probes to human and certain animal model bone matrix noncollagenous proteins.

    Larry W Fisher;John T Stubbs;Marian F Young

  • Purification and partial characterization of small proteoglycans I and II, bone sialoproteins I and II, and osteonectin from the mineral compartment of developing human bone.

    L W Fisher;G R Hawkins;N Tuross;J D Termine

  • Comparison of Stem-cell-mediated Osteogenesis and Dentinogenesis

    S. Batouli;M. Miura;J. Brahim;T.W. Tsutsui

  • Six genes expressed in bones and teeth encode the current members of the SIBLING family of proteins.

    Larry W. Fisher;Neal S. Fedarko

  • Small integrin-binding ligand N-linked glycoproteins (SIBLINGs): multifunctional proteins in cancer

    Akeila Bellahcène;Vincent Castronovo;Kalu U. E. Ogbureke;Larry W. Fisher

  • cDNA cloning, mRNA distribution and heterogeneity, chromosomal location, and RFLP analysis of human osteopontin (OPN).

    Marian F. Young;Janet M. Kerr;John D. Termine;Ulla M. Wewer

  • Elevated Serum Bone Sialoprotein and Osteopontin in Colon, Breast, Prostate, and Lung Cancer

    Neal S. Fedarko;Alka Jain;Abdullah Karadag;Matthew R. Van Eman

  • Expression of bone sialoprotein (BSP) in developing human tissues.

    Paolo Bianco;Larry W. Fisher;Marian F. Young;John D. Termine

  • Matrix sialoprotein of developing bone.

    L W Fisher;S W Whitson;L V Avioli;J D Termine

  • Proteoglycans of developing bone.

    L W Fisher;J D Termine;S W Dejter;S W Whitson

  • The small leucine-rich proteoglycan biglycan modulates BMP-4-induced osteoblast differentiation

    Xiao Dong Chen;Larry W. Fisher;Pamela Gehron Robey;Marian F. Young

  • Human bone sialoprotein. Deduced protein sequence and chromosomal localization.

    L W Fisher;O W McBride;J D Termine;M F Young

  • Factor H Binding to Bone Sialoprotein and Osteopontin Enables Tumor Cell Evasion of Complement-mediated Attack

    Neal S. Fedarko;Bert Fohr;Pamela G. Robey;Marian F. Young

  • Fibrous dysplasia of bone in the McCune-Albright syndrome: abnormalities in bone formation.

    Mara Riminucci;Larry W. Fisher;Andrew Shenker;Allen M. Spiegel

Frequent Co-Authors

John D. Termine
John D. Termine National Institutes of Health
Marian F. Young
Marian F. Young National Institutes of Health
Pamela Gehron Robey
Pamela Gehron Robey National Institutes of Health
Paolo Bianco
Paolo Bianco Sapienza University of Rome
Vincent Castronovo
Vincent Castronovo University of Liège
Sergei A. Kuznetsov
Sergei A. Kuznetsov National Institutes of Health
Hans Kresse
Hans Kresse University of Münster
Adele L. Boskey
Adele L. Boskey Hospital for Special Surgery
Stan Gronthos
Stan Gronthos University of Adelaide
Songtao Shi
Songtao Shi University of Pennsylvania

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