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Michael J. Brownstein is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the field of Medicine, with a focus on subfields including Ecology, Social Psychology, Surgery, Epidemiology, and Molecular Medicine.

The main topics of Brownstein's work revolve around bacteriophages and microbial interactions, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, orthopedic infections and treatments, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, antimicrobial peptides and activities, and Vibrio bacteria research studies.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Clinical Infectious Diseases, Frontiers in Immunology, Antibiotics, Pediatric Pulmonology, and Viruses. Among the most noted papers authored are:

  • Phage Therapy for Limb-threatening Prosthetic Knee Klebsiella pneumoniae Infection: Case Report and In Vitro Characterization of Anti-biofilm Activity, 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Glucagon-like peptide-1: a multi-faceted anti-inflammatory agent, 2023, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Salvage Bacteriophage Therapy for a Chronic MRSA Prosthetic Joint Infection, 2020, Antibiotics
  • Combining bacteriophages with cefiderocol and meropenem/vaborbactam to treat a pan-drug resistant Achromobacter species infection in a pediatric cystic fibrosis patient, 2020, Pediatric Pulmonology
  • Successful Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus Prosthetic Joint Infection with Bacteriophage Therapy, 2021, Viruses

Michael J. Brownstein has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Joseph Fackler and Bri'Anna Horne with eight joint publications each, Biswajit Biswas and Neal G. Simon with five each, and Eve Damiano with four.

Best Publications

  • Structure of a cannabinoid receptor and functional expression of the cloned cDNA

    Lisa A. Matsuda;Stephen J. Lolait;Michael J. Brownstein;Alice C. Young

  • A mammalian microRNA expression atlas based on small RNA library sequencing.

    Pablo Landgraf;Mirabela Rusu;Robert Sheridan;Alain Sewer;Alain Sewer

  • Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.

    Robert L Strausberg;Elise A Feingold;Lynette H Grouse;Jeffery G Derge

  • The ubiquitin pathway in Parkinson's disease

    Elisabeth Leroy;Rebecca Boyer;Georg Auburger;Barbara Leube

  • A novel class of small RNAs bind to MILI protein in mouse testes

    Alexei Aravin;Dimos Gaidatzis;Sébastien Pfeffer;Sébastien Pfeffer;Sébastien Pfeffer;Mariana Lagos-Quintana

  • Modulation of non-templated nucleotide addition by Taq DNA polymerase: primer modifications that facilitate genotyping.

    Michael J. Brownstein;John D. Carpten;Jeffrey R. Smith

  • The Genome Sequence of Taurine Cattle: A Window to Ruminant Biology and Evolution

    Christine G. Elsik;Christine G. Elsik;Christine G. Elsik;Ross L. Tellam;Kim C. Worley;Kim C. Worley;Richard A. Gibbs

  • Insulin receptors are widely distributed in the central nervous system of the rat.

    Jana Havrankova;Jesse Roth;Michael Brownstein

  • Synthesis, transport, and release of posterior pituitary hormones.

    Michael J. Brownstein;James T. Russell;Harold Gainer

  • Major Susceptibility Locus for Prostate Cancer on Chromosome 1 Suggested by a Genome-Wide Search

    Jeffrey R. Smith;Diha Freije;John D. Carpten;Henrik Grönberg;Henrik Grönberg

  • Clustering and conservation patterns of human microRNAs

    Yael Altuvia;Pablo Landgraf;Gila Lithwick;Naama Elefant

  • Functional annotation of a full-length mouse cDNA collection

    J. Kawai;A. Shinagawa;K. Shibata;M. Yoshino

  • A brief history of opiates, opioid peptides, and opioid receptors.

    Michael J. Brownstein

  • Structure and expression of a human oxytocin receptor

    Tadashi K. Kimura;Osamu Tanizawa;Kensaku Mori;Michael J. Brownstein

  • Maps and guide to microdissection of the rat brain

    M. Palkovits;Michael J. Brownstein

  • Identification of insulin in rat brain.

    J Havrankova;D Schmechel;J Roth;M Brownstein

  • The Regional Distribution of Somatostatin in the Rat Brain

    M. Brownstein;A. Arimura;H. Sato;A. V. Schally

  • Cloning of a serotonin transporter affected by antidepressants.

    Beth J. Hoffman;Eva Mezey;Michael J. Brownstein

  • Cellular cofactors affecting hepatitis C virus infection and replication

    Glenn Randall;Maryline Panis;Jacob D. Cooper;Timothy L. Tellinghuisen

  • The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)

    Daniela S. Gerhard;Lukas Wagner;Elise A. Feingold;Carolyn M. Shenmen

Frequent Co-Authors

Eva Mezey
Eva Mezey National Institutes of Health
Juan M. Saavedra
Juan M. Saavedra Georgetown University Medical Center
Julius Axelrod
Julius Axelrod National Institutes of Health
Miklós Palkovits
Miklós Palkovits Semmelweis University
James T. Russell
James T. Russell National Institutes of Health
Francis S. Collins
Francis S. Collins National Institutes of Health
Lee E. Eiden
Lee E. Eiden National Institutes of Health
John D. Carpten
John D. Carpten University of Southern California
Robert Eskay
Robert Eskay National Institutes of Health
Joan E. Bailey-Wilson
Joan E. Bailey-Wilson National Institutes of Health

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