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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1969 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Michael W. Schwartz is a researcher affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their work spans multiple disciplines within biomedical science, focusing primarily on medicine, neuroscience, and molecular biology. The main fields of study include Medicine with 64 publications, Neuroscience with 36, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology with 34 publications.

The scientist's research covers key subfields such as Endocrine and Autonomic Systems (26 publications), Physiology (20), Molecular Biology (16), Surgery (14), and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (12). Main topical focuses are Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (36 publications), Pancreatic function and diabetes (26), Diet and metabolism studies (18), Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (16), Fibroblast Growth Factor Research (16), Proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research (14), and Diabetes and associated disorders (12).

Frequent publication venues for Michael W. Schwartz include Diabetes with 7 publications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 4, Nature Metabolism with 3, Journal of Clinical Investigation with 3, and Molecular Metabolism with 3.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Central nervous system regulation of organismal energy and glucose homeostasis, 2021, Nature Metabolism
  • Nutritional regulation of oligodendrocyte differentiation regulates perineuronal net remodeling in the median eminence, 2021, Cell Reports
  • Hypothalamic perineuronal net assembly is required for sustained diabetes remission induced by fibroblast growth factor 1 in rats, 2020, Nature Metabolism
  • Central Nervous System Control of Glucose Homeostasis: A Therapeutic Target for Type 2 Diabetes?, 2022, The Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology
  • Cold-induced hyperphagia requires AgRP neuron activation in mice, 2020, eLife

The scientist collaborates frequently with several researchers including Gregory J. Morton (28 joint works), Jarrad M. Scarlett (26), Bao Anh Phan (20), Kimberly M. Alonge (16), and Jenny M. Brown (12).

Michael W. Schwartz has been recognized with notable awards including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1969 and membership in the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Central nervous system control of food intake

    Michael W. Schwartz;Stephen C. Woods;Daniel Porte;Randy J. Seeley

  • Central nervous system control of food intake and body weight

    G. J. Morton;D. E. Cummings;D. G. Baskin;G. S. Barsh

  • Obesity is associated with hypothalamic injury in rodents and humans

    Joshua P. Thaler;Chun Xia Yi;Ellen A. Schur;Stephan J. Guyenet

  • Identification of targets of leptin action in rat hypothalamus

    M W Schwartz;R J Seeley;L A Campfield;P Burn

  • Quantification of the relationship between insulin sensitivity and beta-cell function in human subjects. Evidence for a hyperbolic function.

    S E Kahn;R L Prigeon;D K McCulloch;E J Boyko

  • Signals That Regulate Food Intake and Energy Homeostasis

    Stephen C. Woods;Randy J. Seeley;Daniel Porte;Michael W. Schwartz

  • Coexpression of Agrp and NPY in fasting-activated hypothalamic neurons

    Tina M. Hahn;John F. Breininger;Denis G. Baskin;Michael W. Schwartz

  • Cerebrospinal fluid leptin levels: relationship to plasma levels and to adiposity in humans.

    Michael W. Schwartz;Elaine R. Peskind;Elaine R. Peskind;Murray Raskind;Murray Raskind;Edward J Boyko;Edward J Boyko

  • STAT3 signalling is required for leptin regulation of energy balance but not reproduction.

    Sarah H. Bates;Walter H. Stearns;Trevor A. Dundon;Markus Schubert

  • Specificity of Leptin Action on Elevated Blood Glucose Levels and Hypothalamic Neuropeptide Y Gene Expression in ob/ob Mice

    Michael W. Schwartz;Denis G. Baskin;Thomas R. Bukowski;Joseph L. Kuijper

  • Diabetes, Obesity, and the Brain

    Michael W. Schwartz;Daniel Porte;Daniel Porte

  • Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: What Can Be Unified and What Needs to Be Individualized?

    Robert H. Eckel;Steven E. Kahn;Ele Ferrannini;Allison B. Goldfine

  • Leptin Increases Hypothalamic Pro-opiomelanocortin mRNA Expression in the Rostral Arcuate Nucleus

    Michael W Schwartz;Randy J Seeley;Stephen C Woods;David S Weigle

  • Insulin in the brain: a hormonal regulator of energy balance.

    Michael W. Schwartz;Dianne P. Figlewicz;Denis G. Baskin;Stephen C. Woods

  • Obesity and leptin resistance: distinguishing cause from effect.

    Martin G. Myers;Rudolph L. Leibel;Randy J. Seeley;Michael W. Schwartz

  • Elevated plasma ghrelin levels in Prader Willi syndrome.

    David E. Cummings;Karine Clement;Jonathan Q. Purnell;Christian Vaisse

  • Cerebrospinal fluid and plasma insulin levels in Alzheimer's disease: relationship to severity of dementia and apolipoprotein E genotype.

    Suzanne Craft;Elaine Peskind;Michael W. Schwartz;Gerard D. Schellenberg

  • Toll-Like Receptor-4 Mediates Vascular Inflammation and Insulin Resistance in Diet-Induced Obesity

    Francis Kim;Matilda Pham;Ian Luttrell;Douglas D. Bannerman

  • Inhibition of hypothalamic neuropeptide Y gene expression by insulin

    Michael W. Schwartz;Alfred J. Sipols;Jonathan L. Marks;Gerard Sanacora

  • Neurobiology of food intake in health and disease.

    Gregory J. Morton;Thomas H. Meek;Michael W. Schwartz

Frequent Co-Authors

Denis G. Baskin
Denis G. Baskin University of Washington
Stephen C. Woods
Stephen C. Woods University of Cincinnati
Randy J. Seeley
Randy J. Seeley University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Daniel Porte
Daniel Porte University of California, San Diego
Diana L. Williams
Diana L. Williams University of Liverpool
Steven E. Kahn
Steven E. Kahn University of Washington
Peter J. Havel
Peter J. Havel University of California, Davis
David E. Cummings
David E. Cummings University of Washington
Richard N. Bergman
Richard N. Bergman Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Charles W. Wilkinson
Charles W. Wilkinson University of Washington

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