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Lars A. Carlson

Lars A. Carlson

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Medicine

D-Index
76
Citations
20054
World Ranking
18826
National Ranking
362

Overview

Lars A. Carlson is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden. Their research spans fields such as Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these overarching disciplines, they have contributed to subfields including Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of topics with a focus on infectious agents and cellular mechanisms. Key topics in their research include:

  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Kasturika Shankar, Selma Dahmane, Karim Rafie, Timothée Laurent, and Erin Schexnaydre.

The scientist has contributed multiple papers across several prominent journals, with significant publications including:

  • Human species D adenovirus hexon capsid protein mediates cell entry through a direct interaction with CD46, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Architecture of the chikungunya virus replication organelle, 2022, eLife
  • The structure of enteric human adenovirus 41-A leading cause of diarrhea in children, 2021, Science Advances
  • Membrane-assisted assembly and selective secretory autophagy of enteroviruses, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Structural basis for lipid transfer by the ATG2A-ATG9A complex, 2024, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Lars A. Carlson frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications, eLife, and Science Advances.

Best Publications

  • Reduction of mortality in the Stockholm Ischaemic Heart Disease Secondary Prevention Study by combined treatment with clofibrate and nicotinic acid.

    Lars A. Carlson;Gunnar Rosenhamer

  • THE PROSTAGLANDINS: A FAMILY OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE LIPIDS

    Sune Bergström;Lars A. Carlson;James R. Weeks

  • Nicotinic acid: the broad-spectrum lipid drug. A 50th anniversary review

    L. A. Carlson

  • The Effect of Nicotinic Acid on the Plasma Free Fatty Acids Demonstration of a Metabolic Type of Sympathicolysis

    Lars A. Carlson;Lars Orö

  • Risk factors for myocardial infarction in the Stockholm prospective study. A 14-year follow-up focussing on the role of plasma triglycerides and cholesterol.

    Lars A. Carlson;Lars Erik Böttiger;Per‐Erik åhfeldt

  • Studies on the effect of nicotinic acid on catecholamine stimulated lipolysis in adipose tissue in vitro.

    Lars A. Carlson

  • Determination of glycerides in blood serum.

    Lars A. Carlson;Lars B. Wadström

  • Serum lipids in men with myocardial infarction.

    Lars A. Carlson

  • High density lipoproteins and coronary atherosclerosis. A strong inverse relation with the largest particles is confined to normotriglyceridemic patients.

    J Johansson;L A Carlson;C Landou;A Hamsten

  • Stimulation of fecal steroid excretion after infusion of recombinant proapolipoprotein A-I. Potential reverse cholesterol transport in humans.

    Mats Eriksson;Lars A. Carlson;Tatu A. Miettinen;Bo Angelin

  • TURNOVER RATE AND OXIDATION OF DIFFERENT FREE FATTY ACIDS IN MAN DURING EXERCISE.

    Richard J. Havel;Lars A. Carlson;Lars-Göran Ekelund;Alf Holmgren

  • Metabolism of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins during alimentary lipemia.

    F Karpe;G Steiner;T Olivecrona;L A Carlson

  • Risk Factors for Ischaemic Heart Disease in Men and Women: Results of the 19-Year Follow-up of the Stockholm Prospective Study

    Lars A. Carlson;Lars Erik Böttiger

  • Effect of Prostaglandins on Gatecholamine Induced Changes in the Free Fatty Acids of Plasma and in Blood Pressure in the Dog Prostaglandin and related factors 22

    Sune Bergström;Lars A. Carlson;Lars Orö

  • Quantitative and qualitative serum lipoprotein analysis. Part 2. Studies in male survivors of myocardial infarction.

    Lars A. Carlson;Lars A. Carlson;Martin Ericsson;Martin Ericsson

  • RISK FACTORS FOR ISCHÆMIC HEART-DISEASE IN NORMAL MEN AGED 40: Edinburgh—Stockholm Study

    R.L Logan;M Thomson;R.A Riemersma;M.F Oliver

  • STUDIES ON THE ELIMINATION OF EXOGENOUS LIPIDS FROM THE BLOOD STREAM. THE KINETICS OF THE ELIMINATION OF A FAT EMULSION AND OF CHYLOMICRONES IN THE DOG AFTER SINGLE INJECTION.

    Lars A. Carlson;Dag Hallberg

  • ACUTE EFFECTS OF PROLONGED, HEAVY EXERCISE ON THE CONCENTRATION OF PLASMA LIPIDS AND LIPOPROTEINS IN MAN.

    Lars A. Carlson;Folke Mossfeldt

  • Unresponsiveness to the lipid mobilizing action of catecholamines in vivo and in vitro in the domestic fowl

    Lars A. Carlson;Sten-Otto Liljedahl;Maurice Verdy;Claes Wirsén

  • Changing relative proportions of apolipoproteins CII and CIII of very low density lipoproteins in hypertriglyceridaemia.

    Lars A. Carlson;David Ballantyne

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders G. Olsson
Anders G. Olsson Karolinska Institute
Jan Johansson
Jan Johansson Karolinska Institute
Anders Hamsten
Anders Hamsten Karolinska Institute
Fredrik Karpe
Fredrik Karpe University of Oxford
Richard J. Havel
Richard J. Havel University of California, San Francisco
Jan-Inge Henter
Jan-Inge Henter Karolinska University Hospital
Basil S. Lewis
Basil S. Lewis Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Bo Angelin
Bo Angelin Karolinska University Hospital
Jan Nilsson
Jan Nilsson Lund University
Ola Myklebost
Ola Myklebost University of Bergen

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