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Overview

Mark Mercola is affiliated with the Cardiovascular Institute of the South in the United States. Their research spans several areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine as well as molecular biology.

The scientist has contributed notably to multiple topics including:

  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias
  • Congenital Heart Defects Research
  • MicroRNA in Disease Regulation

Among recent papers associated with Mark Mercola, the following stand out:

  • "Metabolic Maturation Media Improve Physiological Function of Human iPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes," 2020, published in Cell Reports
  • "Phenotypic Drug Discovery: Recent Successes, Lessons Learned and New Directions," 2022, published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • "Hyperglycemia Acutely Increases Cytosolic Reactive Oxygen Species via O-linked GlcNAcylation and CaMKII Activation in Mouse Ventricular Myocytes," 2020, published in Circulation Research
  • "Mitochondria-Rich Extracellular Vesicles Rescue Patient-Specific Cardiomyocytes From Doxorubicin Injury," 2021, published in JACC CardioOncology
  • "Repurposing Drugs to Treat Cardiovascular Disease in the Era of Precision Medicine," 2022, published in Nature Reviews Cardiology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Dries Feyen
  • Ricardo Serrano
  • Anna P. Hnatiuk
  • Ioannis Karakikes
  • David Staudt

Mark Mercola has frequently published in leading venues relevant to cardiovascular and biomedical research, including:

  • Circulation
  • Circulation Research
  • WIREs Mechanisms of Disease
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research

Best Publications

  • Wnt antagonism initiates cardiogenesis in Xenopus laevis

    Valerie A. Schneider;Mark Mercola

  • Epicardial FSTL1 reconstitution regenerates the adult mammalian heart

    Ke Wei;Ke Wei;Vahid Serpooshan;Cecilia Hurtado;Cecilia Hurtado;Marta Diez-Cuñado;Marta Diez-Cuñado;Marta Diez-Cuñado

  • Asymmetries in H+/K+-ATPase and cell membrane potentials comprise a very early step in left-right patterning

    Michael Levin;Thorleif Thorlin;Kenneth R. Robinson;Taisaku Nogi

  • Inhibition of miR-25 improves cardiac contractility in the failing heart

    Christine Wahlquist;Dongtak Jeong;Agustin Rojas-Muñoz;Changwon Kho

  • High-throughput screening of tyrosine kinase inhibitor cardiotoxicity with human induced pluripotent stem cells

    Arun Sharma;Paul W. Burridge;Paul W. Burridge;Wesley L. McKeithan;Wesley L. McKeithan;Ricardo Serrano

  • Beta-cell differentiation from nonendocrine epithelial cells of the adult human pancreas

    Ergeng Hao;Björn Tyrberg;Björn Tyrberg;Pamela Itkin-Ansari;Pamela Itkin-Ansari;Jonathan R T Lakey

  • Lentiviral vectors and protocols for creation of stable hESC lines for fluorescent tracking and drug resistance selection of cardiomyocytes.

    Hiroko Kita-Matsuo;Maria Barcova;Natalie Prigozhina;Nathan Salomonis

  • APJ acts as a dual receptor in cardiac hypertrophy

    Maria Cecilia Scimia;Cecilia Hurtado;Saugata Ray;Scott Metzler

  • An inductive role for the endoderm in Xenopus cardiogenesis

    N. Nascone;M. Mercola

  • Small-Molecule Inhibitors of the Wnt Pathway Potently Promote Cardiomyocytes From Human Embryonic Stem Cell–Derived Mesoderm

    Erik Willems;Sean Spiering;Herman Davidovics;Marion Lanier

  • Metabolic Maturation Media Improve Physiological Function of Human iPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes

    Dries A.M. Feyen;Dries A.M. Feyen;Wesley L. McKeithan;Wesley L. McKeithan;Wesley L. McKeithan;Arne A.N. Bruyneel;Sean Spiering;Sean Spiering

  • Selective expression of PDGF A and its receptor during early mouse embryogenesis.

    Mark Mercola;Chiayeng Wang;James Kelly;Clare Brownlee

  • Fine-Tuning of Drp1/Fis1 Availability by AKAP121/Siah2 Regulates Mitochondrial Adaptation to Hypoxia

    Hyungsoo Kim;Maria C. Scimia;Deepti Wilkinson;Ramon D. Trelles

  • Alternative splicing regulates mouse embryonic stem cell pluripotency and differentiation

    Nathan Salomonis;Christopher R. Schlieve;Laura Pereira;Christine Wahlquist

  • Immunoglobulin heavy-chain enhancer requires one or more tissue-specific factors

    Mark Mercola;Joan Goverman;Carol Mirell;Kathryn Calame

  • Non-Cardiomyocytes Influence the Electrophysiological Maturation of Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes During Differentiation

    Changsung Kim;Maryam Majdi;Peng Xia;Karen A. Wei

  • Gap Junctions Are Involved in the Early Generation of Left–Right Asymmetry

    Michael Levin;Mark Mercola

  • Platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha-subunit gene (Pdgfra) is deleted in the mouse patch (Ph) mutation

    Dennis A. Stephenson;Mark Mercola;Elizabeth Anderson;Chiayeng Wang

  • Growth factor superfamilies and mammalian embryogenesis.

    Mark Mercola;Charles D. Stiles

  • Left-right asymmetry determination in vertebrates.

    Mark Mercola;Michael Levin

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Levin
Michael Levin Tufts University
Charles D. Stiles
Charles D. Stiles Harvard University
Joseph C. Wu
Joseph C. Wu Stanford University
Shankar Subramaniam
Shankar Subramaniam University of California, San Diego
Marcia I. Dawson
Marcia I. Dawson Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Ju Chen
Ju Chen University of California, San Diego
Pier Lorenzo Puri
Pier Lorenzo Puri Discovery Institute
Joost P.G. Sluijter
Joost P.G. Sluijter Utrecht University
Roger J. Hajjar
Roger J. Hajjar Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Pieter A. Doevendans
Pieter A. Doevendans Utrecht University

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