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Lothar A. Blatter is affiliated with Rush University Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with specific attention to the subfields of cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, epidemiology, and surgery.

The scientist's work encompasses diverse themes centered around cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, ion channel regulation and function, cardiac arrhythmias and treatments, neuroscience and neural engineering, mitochondrial function and pathology, cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies, and neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

Among recent publications authored or coauthored by Lothar A. Blatter are:

  • Excitation-contraction coupling and calcium release in atrial muscle, 2021, Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology
  • Fatty acid oxidation and autophagy promote endoxifen resistance and counter the effect of AKT inhibition in ER-positive breast cancer cells, 2021, Journal of Molecular Cell Biology
  • Mitochondrial calcium uniporter complex activation protects against calcium alternans in atrial myocytes, 2020, American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology
  • Effect of carvedilol on atrial excitation-contraction coupling, Ca2+ release, and arrhythmogenicity, 2020, American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology
  • Triggered Ca2+ Waves Induce Depolarization of Maximum Diastolic Potential and Action Potential Prolongation in Dog Atrial Myocytes, 2020, Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Lothar A. Blatter include:

  • Giedrius Kanaporis
  • Elizabeth Martínez-Hernández
  • Kathrin Banach
  • Yuriana Oropeza-Almazán
  • Jônathas F Almeida

Common publication venues where Lothar A. Blatter has contributed multiple articles are:

  • Biomolecules
  • Journal of Molecular Cell Biology
  • American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology
  • Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology
  • Physiological Reports

Best Publications

  • Redox regulation of cardiac calcium channels and transporters

    Aleksey V. Zima;Lothar A. Blatter

  • Surface:volume relationship in cardiac myocytes studied with confocal microscopy and membrane capacitance measurements: species-dependence and developmental effects

    Hiroshi Satoh;Leanne M D Delbridge;Lothar A. Blatter;Donald M Bers

  • Intracellular Ca2+ release contributes to automaticity in cat atrial pacemaker cells

    Jörg Hüser;Lothar A. Blatter;Stephen L. Lipsius

  • Imaging the Permeability Pore Transition in Single Mitochondria

    Jörg Hüser;Christine E. Rechenmacher;Lothar A. Blatter

  • Endothelin-1–Induced Arrhythmogenic Ca2+ Signaling Is Abolished in Atrial Myocytes of Inositol-1,4,5-Trisphosphate(IP3)–Receptor Type 2–Deficient Mice

    Xiaodong Li;Aleksey V. Zima;Farah Sheikh;Lothar A. Blatter

  • Fluctuations in mitochondrial membrane potential caused by repetitive gating of the permeability transition pore.

    Jörg HüSER;Lothar A. Blatter

  • SparkMaster: automated calcium spark analysis with ImageJ

    Eckard Picht;Aleksey V. Zima;Lothar A. Blatter;Donald M. Bers

  • Imaging Elementary Events of Calcium Release in Skeletal Muscle Cells

    Alexander Tsugorka;Eduardo Ríos;Lothar A. Blatter

  • Calcium gradients during excitation-contraction coupling in cat atrial myocytes.

    J Hüser;S L Lipsius;L A Blatter

  • Effects of [Ca2+]i, SR Ca2+ load, and rest on Ca2+ spark frequency in ventricular myocytes

    Hiroshi Satoh;Lothar A. Blatter;Donald M Bers

  • Functional coupling between glycolysis and excitation—contraction coupling underlies alternans in cat heart cells

    Jörg Hüser;Yong Gao Wang;Katherine A. Sheehan;Fredy Cifuentes

  • Spontaneous synchronous synaptic calcium transients in cultured cortical neurons

    TH Murphy;LA Blatter;WG Wier;JM Baraban

  • Role of β-hydroxybutyrate, its polymer poly-β-hydroxybutyrate and inorganic polyphosphate in mammalian health and disease

    Elena N. Dedkova;Lothar A. Blatter

  • Inositol‐1,4,5‐trisphosphate‐dependent Ca2+ signalling in cat atrial excitation–contraction coupling and arrhythmias

    Aleksey V. Zima;Lothar A. Blatter

  • Cardiac Alternans Do Not Rely on Diastolic Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Content Fluctuations

    Eckard Picht;Jaime DeSantiago;Lothar A. Blatter;Donald M. Bers

  • Emerging roles of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate signaling in cardiac myocytes

    Jens Kockskämper;Aleksey V. Zima;H. Llewelyn Roderick;H. Llewelyn Roderick;Burkert Pieske

  • Nitric oxide decreases [Ca2+]i in vascular smooth muscle by inhibition of the calcium current

    L.A. Blatter;W.G. Wier

  • Intracellular diffusion, binding, and compartmentalization of the fluorescent calcium indicators indo-1 and fura-2

    L.A. Blatter;W.G. Wier

  • Mitochondrial calcium uptake stimulates nitric oxide production in mitochondria of bovine vascular endothelial cells

    Elena N. Dedkova;Xiang Ji;Stephen L. Lipsius;Lothar A. Blatter

  • The IP3 receptor regulates cardiac hypertrophy in response to select stimuli.

    Hiroyuki Nakayama;Ilona Bodi;Marjorie Maillet;Jaime DeSantiago

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald M. Bers
Donald M. Bers University of California, Davis
Eduardo Ríos
Eduardo Ríos Rush University
Burkert Pieske
Burkert Pieske Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies
Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Timothy H. Murphy
Timothy H. Murphy University of British Columbia
Jay M. Baraban
Jay M. Baraban Johns Hopkins University
Kurt Schmidt
Kurt Schmidt University of Graz
Jeffery D. Molkentin
Jeffery D. Molkentin Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Brian O'Rourke
Brian O'Rourke Johns Hopkins University

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