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Overview

Manuel C. Peitsch is affiliated with Philip Morris International in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on toxicology and respiratory health.

The scientist has contributed extensively to research on smoking behavior, cessation, and related health impacts. Primary topics of their work include:

  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
  • Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery
  • Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment
  • Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies

The fields of study most associated with their work are Medicine, with 87 publications, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, featuring 77 publications. Notable subfields include Molecular Biology, Physiology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering.

Manuel C. Peitsch has published research in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Archives of Toxicology
  • Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • Toxicology Research and Application
  • Toxicology Reports

Co-authorship collaboration is an important facet of their research. Recurrent collaborators include:

  • Julia Hoeng
  • Nikolai V. Ivanov
  • Emmanuel Guedj
  • Bjoern Titz
  • Patrick Vanscheeuwijck

The scientist has contributed to the publication of books, including a title published by Springer International Publishing:

  • The Tobacco Plant Genome (2020)

Selected recent papers by Manuel C. Peitsch illustrate the range and focus of their work. These include:

  • An Intestine-on-a-Chip Model of Plug-and-Play Modularity to Study Inflammatory Processes (2020, SLAS TECHNOLOGY)
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease-Associated Changes in the Gut: Focus on Kazan Patients (2020, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases)
  • A 6-month systems toxicology inhalation study in ApoE−/− mice demonstrates reduced cardiovascular effects of E-vapor aerosols compared with cigarette smoke (2020, American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology)
  • Multi-omics systems toxicology study of mouse lung assessing the effects of aerosols from two heat-not-burn tobacco products and cigarette smoke (2020, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal)
  • The reduction of DSS-induced colitis severity in mice exposed to cigarette smoke is linked to immune modulation and microbial shifts (2020, Scientific Reports)

Best Publications

  • SWISS-MODEL and the Swiss-PdbViewer: an environment for comparative protein modeling.

    Nicolas Guex;Manuel C. Peitsch

  • SWISS-MODEL: an automated protein homology-modeling server

    Torsten Schwede;Jürgen Kopp;Nicolas Guex;Manuel C. Peitsch

  • Automated comparative protein structure modeling with SWISS-MODEL and Swiss-PdbViewer: a historical perspective.

    Nicolas Guex;Manuel C. Peitsch;Torsten Schwede;Torsten Schwede

  • ProMod and Swiss-Model: Internet-based tools for automated comparative protein modelling

    Manuel C. Peitsch

  • Protein Modeling by E-mail

    Manuel C. Peitsch

  • Clinical spectrum of X-linked hyper-IgM syndrome

    Jacov Levy;Teresa Espanol-Boren;Carolin Thomas;Alain Fischer

  • Characterization of the endogenous deoxyribonuclease involved in nuclear DNA degradation during apoptosis (programmed cell death).

    M.C. Peitsch;B. Polzar;H. Stephan;T. Crompton

  • Protein modelling for all.

    Nicolas Guex;Alexander Diemand;Manuel C Peitsch

  • The tobacco genome sequence and its comparison with those of tomato and potato

    Nicolas Sierro;James N D Battey;Sonia Ouadi;Nicolas Bakaher

  • Systems toxicology: from basic research to risk assessment.

    Shana J. Sturla;Alan R. Boobis;Rex E. FitzGerald;Julia Hoeng

  • Clusterin (complement lysis inhibitor) forms a high density lipoprotein complex with apolipoprotein A-I in human plasma.

    D E Jenne;B Lowin;M C Peitsch;A Böttcher

  • A genome-based approach for the identification of essential bacterial genes

    Fabrizio Arigoni;Francois Talabot;Manuel Peitsch;Michael D. Edgerton

  • Cloning of the TMPRSS2 gene, which encodes a novel serine protease with transmembrane, LDLRA, and SRCR domains and maps to 21q22.3

    Ariane Paoloni-Giacobino;Haiming Chen;Manuel C. Peitsch;Colette Rossier

  • Probing the structure and function of the tachykinin neurokinin-2 receptor through biosynthetic incorporation of fluorescent amino acids at specific sites

    Gerardo Turcatti;Karin Nemeth;Michael D. Edgerton;Ulrich Meseth

  • Evaluation of the Tobacco Heating System 2.2. Part 1: Description of the system and the scientific assessment program

    Maurice R. Smith;Bruce Clark;Frank Lüdicke;Jean-Pierre Schaller

  • Characterization of Fas (Apo-1, CD95)-Fas ligand interaction.

    Pascal Schneider;Jean-Luc Bodmer;Nils Holler;Chantal Mattmann

  • Reference genomes and transcriptomes of Nicotiana sylvestris and Nicotiana tomentosiformis

    Nicolas Sierro;James N.D. Battey;Sonia Ouadi;Lucien Bovet

  • SELECTIVITY AND ANTAGONISM OF CHEMOKINE RECEPTORS

    Timothy N.C. Wells;Christine A. Power;Manjula Lusti-Narasimhan;Arlene J. Hoogewerf

  • A 3-D model for the CD40 ligand predicts that it is a compact trimer similar to the tumor necrosis factors

    M C Peitsch;C V Jongeneel

  • The apoptosis endonucleases: cleaning up after cell death?

    Manuel C. Peitsch;Hans Georg Mannherz;Jürg Tschopp

Frequent Co-Authors

Torsten Schwede
Torsten Schwede University of Basel
Jürg Tschopp
Jürg Tschopp University of Lausanne
Timothy N. C. Wells
Timothy N. C. Wells Cardiff University
Amanda E. I. Proudfoot
Amanda E. I. Proudfoot Merck (Germany)
Christine A. Power
Christine A. Power Merck Serono (Italy)
Gerd Geisslinger
Gerd Geisslinger Goethe University Frankfurt
Philippe A. Guy
Philippe A. Guy Nestlé (Switzerland)
Mariusz R. Wieckowski
Mariusz R. Wieckowski Instytut Biologii Doświadczalnej im. Marcelego Nenckiego
Michael B. Stadler
Michael B. Stadler Friedrich Miescher Institute
Stylianos E. Antonarakis
Stylianos E. Antonarakis University of Geneva

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