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Lorenz C. Hofbauer

Lorenz C. Hofbauer

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Medicine

D-Index
89
Citations
37146
World Ranking
12508
National Ranking
675

Overview

Lorenz C. Hofbauer is affiliated with TU Dresden in Germany and has a substantial research footprint in the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research is concentrated particularly on topics related to bone health, metabolism, and related disorders.

Their main fields of study encompass:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these broader areas, their subfields of study include:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Oncology
  • Genetics
  • Hematology
  • Cancer Research

Hofbauer's primary research topics are focused on:

  • Bone health and treatments
  • Bone Metabolism and Diseases
  • Bone health and osteoporosis research
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments
  • Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
  • Iron Metabolism and Disorders

Among their most recent papers are:

  • "Bone fragility in diabetes: novel concepts and clinical implications" (2022), published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • "Novel approaches to target the microenvironment of bone metastasis" (2021), published in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Though these papers are coauthored by other researchers, Hofbauer has also contributed to widely cited works led by collaborators, including papers published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism and JAMA.

The frequent publication venues for Hofbauer's work include:

  • The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Bone Reports
  • Journal of Bone and Mineral Research
  • Journal of the Endocrine Society
  • JBMR Plus

Hofbauer's frequent coauthors are:

  • Martina Rauner
  • Elena Tsourdi
  • Tilman D. Rachner
  • Ulrike Baschant
  • Uwe Platzbecker

Best Publications

  • Osteoporosis: now and the future

    Tilman D Rachner;Sundeep Khosla;Lorenz C Hofbauer

  • Romosozumab Treatment in Postmenopausal Women with Osteoporosis.

    F. Cosman;D. B. Crittenden;J. D. Adachi;N. Binkley

  • Clinical Implications of the Osteoprotegerin/RANKL/RANK System for Bone and Vascular Diseases

    Lorenz C. Hofbauer;Michael Schoppet

  • Stimulation of osteoprotegerin ligand and inhibition of osteoprotegerin production by glucocorticoids in human osteoblastic lineage cells: potential paracrine mechanisms of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis.

    L C Hofbauer;F Gori;B L Riggs;D L Lacey

  • Estrogen stimulates gene expression and protein production of osteoprotegerin in human osteoblastic cells.

    Lorenz C. Hofbauer;Sundeep Khosla;Colin R. Dunstan;David L. Lacey

  • Osteoporosis treatment: recent developments and ongoing challenges

    Sundeep Khosla;Lorenz C Hofbauer

  • Interleukin-1β and tumor necrosis factor-α, but not interleukin-6, stimulate osteoprotegerin ligand gene expression in human osteoblastic cells

    L.C Hofbauer;D.L Lacey;C.R Dunstan;T.C Spelsberg

  • Role of receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB ligand and osteoprotegerin in bone cell biology

    Lorenz C. Hofbauer;Armin E. Heufelder

  • Comparison of the effect of denosumab and alendronate on BMD and biochemical markers of bone turnover in postmenopausal women with low bone mass: a randomized, blinded, phase 3 trial.

    Jacques P. Brown;Richard L. Prince;Chad L Deal;Robert R. Recker

  • A framework for the development of guidelines for the management of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis

    S Lekamwasam;J D Adachi;D Agnusdei;J Bilezikian

  • Osteoporosis in patients with diabetes mellitus.

    Lorenz C Hofbauer;Lorenz C Hofbauer;Carolin C Brueck;Carolin C Brueck;Shiv K Singh;Harald Dobnig

  • The leukocyte integrin antagonist Del-1 inhibits IL-17-mediated inflammatory bone loss

    Mehmet A Eskan;Ravi Jotwani;Toshiharu Abe;Toshiharu Abe;Jindrich Chmelar

  • Increased Osteoprotegerin Serum Levels in Men with Coronary Artery Disease

    Michael Schoppet;Alexander M. Sattler;Juergen R. Schaefer;Matthias Herzum

  • Leptin reduces ovariectomy-induced bone loss in rats.

    Bartolome Burguera;Lorenz C. Hofbauer;Thierry Thomas;Francesca Gori

  • Bone, sweet bone--osteoporotic fractures in diabetes mellitus.

    Christine Hamann;Stephan Kirschner;Klaus-Peter Günther;Lorenz C. Hofbauer

  • Osteoprotegerin production by human osteoblast lineage cells is stimulated by vitamin D, bone morphogenetic protein-2, and cytokines.

    Lorenz C. Hofbauer;Colin R. Dunstan;Thomas C. Spelsberg;B.Lawrence Riggs

  • Bisphosphonates pamidronate and zoledronic acid stimulate osteoprotegerin production by primary human osteoblasts.

    Volker Viereck;Günter Emons;Vanessa Lauck;Karl-Heinz Frosch

  • RANK ligand and osteoprotegerin in myeloma bone disease

    Orhan Sezer;Ulrike Heider;Ulrike Heider;Ivana Zavrski;Ivana Zavrski;Christian Alexander Kühne;Christian Alexander Kühne

  • Osteoprotegerin serum levels in men: correlation with age, estrogen, and testosterone status.

    P. Szulc;L. C. Hofbauer;A. E. Heufelder;S. Roth

  • Vascular calcification and osteoporosis--from clinical observation towards molecular understanding.

    LC Hofbauer;CC Brueck;Cathy Shanahan;M Schoppet

Frequent Co-Authors

Roland Chapurlat
Roland Chapurlat Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Georg Schett
Georg Schett University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Jacques W.M. Lenders
Jacques W.M. Lenders Radboud University
Martin von Bergen
Martin von Bergen Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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