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5066
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118

Overview

Michael J. Waters is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions in neurology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, epidemiology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and surgery.

Their work spans several key topics in medical research, including:

  • Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors
  • Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
  • Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Regulation of Appetite and Obesity

Michael J. Waters has frequently published in the following scientific venues:

  • Stroke Vascular and Interventional Neurology
  • Interventional Neuroradiology
  • Hepatology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Endocrine Abstracts

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Timothy Kleinig
  • Rebecca Scroop
  • Mark Parsons
  • Andrew J. Brooks
  • Bruce Campbell

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael J. Waters include:

  • Effect of Intravenous Tenecteplase Dose on Cerebral Reperfusion Before Thrombectomy in Patients With Large Vessel Occlusion Ischemic Stroke, 2020, JAMA
  • Endovascular thrombectomy versus standard bridging thrombolytic with endovascular thrombectomy within 4·5 h of stroke onset: an open-label, blinded-endpoint, randomised non-inferiority trial, 2022, The Lancet
  • Insulin and Growth Hormone Balance: Implications for Obesity, 2020, Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • Growth Hormone Stops Excessive Inflammation After Partial Hepatectomy, Allowing Liver Regeneration and Survival Through Induction of H2-Bl/HLA-G, 2020, Hepatology
  • Dabigatran Reversal Before Intravenous Tenecteplase in Acute Ischemic Stroke, 2020, Stroke

Best Publications

  • Growth hormone receptor and serum binding protein: purification, cloning and expression

    David W. Leung;Steven A. Spencer;George Cachianes;R. Glenn Hammonds

  • Dual defects in pulsatile growth hormone secretion and clearance subserve the hyposomatotropism of obesity in man.

    Johannes D. Veldhuis;Ali Iranmanesh;Ken K. Y. Ho;Michael J. Waters

  • Extending thrombolysis to 4·5–9 h and wake-up stroke using perfusion imaging: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data

    Bruce C V Campbell;Bruce C V Campbell;Henry Ma;Henry Ma;Peter A Ringleb;Mark W Parsons

  • 1 Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate Dehydrogenase

    J. Ieuan Harris;Michael Waters

  • Mechanism of Activation of Protein Kinase JAK2 by the Growth Hormone Receptor

    Andrew J. Brooks;Wei Dai;Megan L. O’Mara;Daniel Abankwa

  • Model for growth hormone receptor activation based on subunit rotation within a receptor dimer

    Richard J Brown;Julian J Adams;Rebecca A Pelekanos;Yu Wan

  • The growth hormone receptor: mechanism of activation and clinical implications

    Andrew J Brooks;Michael J Waters

  • Growth hormone research society workshop summary: Consensus guidelines for recombinant human growth hormone therapy in Prader-Willi syndrome

    Cheri L. Deal;Michèle Tony;Charlotte Hoÿbye;David B. Allen

  • Insulin regulation of human hepatic growth hormone receptors: divergent effects on biosynthesis and surface translocation.

    Kin Chuen Leung;Nathan Doyle;Mercedes Ballesteros;Michael J. Waters

  • New insights into growth hormone action

    M J Waters;H N Hoang;D P Fairlie;R A Pelekanos

  • Localization and ontogeny of growth hormone receptor gene expression in the central nervous system.

    Peter E. Lobie;Juanita García-Aragón;David T. Lincoln;Ross Barnard

  • Rabbit liver growth hormone receptor and serum binding protein. Purification, characterization, and sequence.

    S A Spencer;R G Hammonds;W J Henzel;H Rodriguez

  • GH-Dependent STAT5 Signaling Plays an Important Role in Hepatic Lipid Metabolism

    Johanna L. Barclay;Caroline N. Nelson;Mayumi Ishikawa;Lauren A. Murray

  • Cellular expression of growth hormone and prolactin receptors in human breast disorders

    Hichem C. Mertani;Tomas Garcia-Caballero;Anne Lambert;Francoise Gérard

  • Binding and functional studies with the growth hormone receptor antagonist, B2036-PEG (pegvisomant), reveal effects of pegylation and evidence that it binds to a receptor dimer.

    R. J. M. Ross;K. C. Leung;M. Maamra;W. Bennett

  • Growth-Hormone (Gh) Receptors in Clonal Osteoblast-Like Cells Mediate a Mitogenic Response to Gh

    R. Barnard;K. W. Ng;T. J. Martin;M. J. Waters

  • Regulation of growth hormone (GH) bioactivity by a recombinant human GH-binding protein.

    Lanny Lim;Steven A. Spencer;Patrick McKAY;Michael J. Waters

  • Growth hormone receptor expression in the rat gastrointestinal tract.

    Peter E. Lobie;Winrich Breipohl;Michael J. Waters

  • How growth hormone controls growth, obesity and sexual dimorphism

    Agnieszka M. Lichanska;Michael J. Waters

  • Purification and partial characterization of a nonprimate growth hormone receptor.

    Michael J. Waters;Henry G. Friesen

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Brooks
Andrew J. Brooks University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter E. Lobie
Peter E. Lobie Tsinghua University
Ken K. Y. Ho
Ken K. Y. Ho University of Pittsburgh
Fred Sinowatz
Fred Sinowatz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Hak-Kim Chan
Hak-Kim Chan University of Sydney
John J. Kopchick
John J. Kopchick Ohio University
Henry G. Friesen
Henry G. Friesen University of Manitoba
Peter G. Noakes
Peter G. Noakes University of Queensland
George E. O. Muscat
George E. O. Muscat University of Queensland
Stuart J. Frank
Stuart J. Frank University of Alabama at Birmingham

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