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Maria F. Lopes-Virella is affiliated with the Medical University of South Carolina in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine, with a particular focus on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist has contributed notably to subfields such as molecular biology, surgery, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, physiology, and periodontics.

Their main topics of research include sphingolipid metabolism and signaling, oral microbiology and periodontitis research, pancreatitis pathology and treatment, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, diet, metabolism and disease, pain mechanisms and treatments, and pancreatic function and diabetes.

Recent significant publications by Maria F. Lopes-Virella include:

  • Risk Factors for Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy and Cardiovascular Autonomic Neuropathy in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial/Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (DCCT/EDIC) Study, 2020, Diabetes
  • Risk Factors for First and Subsequent CVD Events in Type 1 Diabetes: The DCCT/EDIC Study, 2020, Diabetes Care
  • Rationale, Design, and Implementation of Intensive Risk Factor Treatment in the CREST2 Trial, 2020, Stroke
  • Circulating Sphingolipids in Insulin Resistance, Diabetes and Associated Complications, 2023, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • LPS and palmitic acid Co-upregulate microglia activation and neuroinflammatory response, 2021, Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Maria F. Lopes-Virella include:

  • Yan Huang
  • Zhongyang Lu
  • Samar M. Hammad
  • Barbara H. Braffett
  • John M. Lachin

Maria F. Lopes-Virella has published in various scientific journals with multiple contributions in the following venues:

  • Diabetes
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Journal of Periodontal Research
  • Diabetes Care
  • Stroke

The volume of publications represents a cross-disciplinary approach with a strong emphasis on the molecular mechanisms underlying metabolic and inflammatory diseases as well as their systemic complications.

Best Publications

  • The Agenda for Familial Hypercholesterolemia A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

    Samuel S. Gidding;Mary Ann Champagne;Sarah D. de Ferranti;Joep Defesche

  • Prolonged effect of intensive therapy on the risk of retinopathy complications in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus: 10 years after the diabetes control and complications trial

    Neil H. White;Wanjie Sun;Patricia A. Cleary;Ronald P. Danis

  • Prevention Conference VI: Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: Writing Group II: pathogenesis of atherosclerosis in diabetes.

    Robert H. Eckel;Momtaz Wassef;Alan Chait;Burton Sobel

  • Lactate Boosts TLR4 Signaling and NF-κB Pathway-Mediated Gene Transcription in Macrophages via Monocarboxylate Transporters and MD-2 Up-Regulation

    Devadoss J. Samuvel;Kamala P. Sundararaj;Alena Nareika;Maria F. Lopes-Virella

  • The adipocyte lipid binding protein (ALBP/aP2) gene facilitates foam cell formation in human THP-1 macrophages.

    Yuchang Fu;Nanlan Luo;Maria F Lopes-Virella;Maria F Lopes-Virella;W.Timothy Garvey;W.Timothy Garvey

  • Glycosylation of Low-Density Lipoprotein Enhances Cholesteryl Ester Synthesis in Human Monocyte-Derived Macrophages

    Maria F Lopes-Virella;Richard L Klein;Timothy J Lyons;Henry C Stevenson

  • Low density lipoprotein metabolism by human macrophages activated with low density lipoprotein immune complexes. A possible mechanism of foam cell formation.

    R L Griffith;G T Virella;H C Stevenson;M F Lopes-Virella

  • Serum high density lipoprotein in diabetic patients

    M. F. L. Lopes-Virella;P. G. Stone;J. A. Colwell

  • Genome-Wide Association Identifies the ABO Blood Group as a Major Locus Associated With Serum Levels of Soluble E-Selectin

    Andrew D. Paterson;Maria F. Lopes-Virella;Daryl Waggott;Andrew P. Boright

  • Antibodies to oxidized LDL and LDL-containing immune complexes as risk factors for coronary artery disease in diabetes mellitus

    Maria F. Lopes-Virella;G. Virella;Trevor J. Orchard;Sinikka Koskinen

  • Anti-oxidized low-density lipoprotein antibodies in patients with coronary heart disease and normal healthy volunteers.

    Gabriel Virella;Isabel Virella;Isabel Virella;Robert B. Leman;Robert B. Leman;Michael B. Pryor;Michael B. Pryor

  • DPP-4 (CD26) inhibitor alogliptin inhibits atherosclerosis in diabetic apolipoprotein E-deficient mice.

    Nga N Ta;Corinne A Schuyler;Yanchun Li;Maria F Lopes-Virella

  • Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis in Diabetes Mellitus

    John A Colwell;Maria Lopes-Virella;Perry V Halushka

  • New concepts about the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis in diabetes mellitus

    John A. Colwell;Peter D. Winocour;Maria Lopes-Virella;Perry V. Halushka

  • Oxidized LDL induces the expression of ALBP/aP2 mRNA and protein in human THP-1 macrophages

    Yuchang Fu;Nanlan Luo;Maria F. Lopes-Virella

  • Relationship between risk factor control and vascular events in the SAMMPRIS trial

    Tanya N. Turan;Azhar Nizam;Michael J. Lynn;Brent M. Egan

  • Effect of metabolic control on lipid, lipoprotein, and apolipoprotein levels in 55 insulin-dependent diabetic patients. A longitudinal study.

    Maria F Lopes-Virella;Hulda J Wohltmann;Ronald K Mayfield;C B Loadholt

  • Plasma lipids and lipoproteins in young insulin-dependent diabetic patients: relationship with control.

    M.F. Lopes-Virella;H.J. Wohltmann;C.B. Loadholt;M.G. Buse

  • The prospective association between adiponectin and coronary artery disease among individuals with type 1 diabetes. The Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications Study

    T. Costacou;J. C. Zgibor;R. W. Evans;J. Otvos

  • The uptake of LDL-IC by human macrophages : Predominant involvement of the FcγRI receptor

    Maria F Lopes-Virella;Maria F Lopes-Virella;Nafees Binzafar;Nafees Binzafar;Sarah Rackley;Sarah Rackley;Akira Takei;Akira Takei

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriel Virella
Gabriel Virella Medical University of South Carolina
Alicia J. Jenkins
Alicia J. Jenkins University of Sydney
John M. Lachin
John M. Lachin George Washington University
Louis M. Luttrell
Louis M. Luttrell Medical University of South Carolina
Trevor J. Orchard
Trevor J. Orchard University of Pittsburgh
W. Timothy Garvey
W. Timothy Garvey University of Alabama at Birmingham
Rickey E. Carter
Rickey E. Carter Mayo Clinic
Daniel T. Lackland
Daniel T. Lackland Medical University of South Carolina
Suzanne R. Thorpe
Suzanne R. Thorpe University of South Carolina
Rodica Pop-Busui
Rodica Pop-Busui University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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