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Michaela Schweizer

Michaela Schweizer

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
65
Citations
15049
World Ranking
9156
National Ranking
664

Overview

Michaela Schweizer is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany and has a research profile concentrated in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their work spans various subfields including Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cell Biology, Physiology, and Neurology.

The scientist's research topics cover diverse areas including cellular transport and secretion, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, lysosomal storage disorders research, extracellular vesicles in disease, microRNA in disease regulation, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, as well as neuroscience and neural engineering.

Recent publications by Michaela Schweizer include:

  • Metabolic Maturation Media Improve Physiological Function of Human iPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes, 2020, Cell Reports
  • The blood-brain barrier is dysregulated in COVID-19 and serves as a CNS entry route for SARS-CoV-2, 2022, Stem Cell Reports
  • Piezo1 Inactivation in Chondrocytes Impairs Trabecular Bone Formation, 2020, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research
  • Cardiac SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with pro-inflammatory transcriptomic alterations within the heart, 2021, Cardiovascular Research
  • An Important Role for DNMT3A-Mediated DNA Methylation in Cardiomyocyte Metabolism and Contractility, 2020, Circulation

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Michaela Schweizer are:

  • Markus Glatzel
  • Matthias Kneussel
  • Christine E. Gee
  • Thorsten Schinke
  • Kira V. Gromova

Publication venues where the scientist has appeared most frequently include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell Reports
  • Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
  • Stem Cell Reports
  • Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Best Publications

  • Loss of the ClC-7 Chloride Channel Leads to Osteopetrosis in Mice and Man

    Uwe Kornak;Dagmar Kasper;Michael R Bösl;Edelgard Kaiser

  • Disruption of ClC-3, a Chloride Channel Expressed on Synaptic Vesicles, Leads to a Loss of the Hippocampus

    Sandra M. Stobrawa;Tilman Breiderhoff;Shigeo Takamori;Dominique Engel

  • Efficient transformation of Neurospora crassa by utilizing hybrid plasmid DNA

    Mary E. Case;Michael Schweizer;Sidney R. Kushner;Norman H. Giles

  • KCNQ4, a K+ channel mutated in a form of dominant deafness, is expressed in the inner ear and the central auditory pathway

    Tatjana Kharkovets;Jean-Pierre Hardelin;Saaid Safieddine;Michaela Schweizer

  • Loss of the chloride channel ClC-7 leads to lysosomal storage disease and neurodegeneration

    Dagmar Kasper;Rosa Planells-Cases;Jens C Fuhrmann;Olaf Scheel

  • Synapsin I Is an Oligomannose-Carrying Glycoprotein, Acts As an Oligomannose-Binding Lectin, and Promotes Neurite Outgrowth and Neuronal Survival When Released via Glia-Derived Exosomes

    Shiwei Wang;Fabrizia Cesca;Gabriele Loers;Michaela Schweizer

  • Age-Dependent Neurodegeneration and Alzheimer-Amyloid Plaque Formation in Transgenic Drosophila

    Isabell Greeve;Doris Kretzschmar;Jakob Andreas Tschäpe;Anika Beyn

  • Choroid plexus transcytosis and exosome shuttling deliver folate into brain parenchyma

    Marcel Grapp;Arne Wrede;Michaela Schweizer;Sabine Hüwel

  • Major proteins of the Escherichia coli outer cell envelope membrane. Interaction of protein II with lipopolysaccharide.

    Margarete Schweizer;Ingrid Hindennach;Wolfgang Garten;Ulf Henning

  • Oligomerization of KCC2 correlates with development of inhibitory neurotransmission.

    Peter Blaesse;Isabelle Guillemin;Jens Schindler;Michaela Schweizer

  • Mice with altered KCNQ4 K+ channels implicate sensory outer hair cells in human progressive deafness

    Tatjana Kharkovets;Karin Dedek;Hannes Maier;Michaela Schweizer

  • 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

  • Loss of K‐Cl co‐transporter KCC3 causes deafness, neurodegeneration and reduced seizure threshold

    Thomas Boettger;Thomas Boettger;Marco B. Rust;Hannes Maier;Thomas Seidenbecher

  • Lysosomal pathology and osteopetrosis upon loss of H+-driven lysosomal Cl- accumulation.

    Stefanie Weinert;Sabrina Jabs;Sabrina Jabs;Chayarop Supanchart;Michaela Schweizer

  • Lysosomal storage disease upon disruption of the neuronal chloride transport protein ClC-6

    Mallorie Poët;Uwe Kornak;Michaela Schweizer;Anselm A. Zdebik

  • Leukoencephalopathy upon disruption of the chloride channel ClC-2.

    Judith Blanz;Michaela Schweizer;Muriel Auberson;Muriel Auberson;Hannes Maier

  • Conditional Ablation of the Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule Reduces Precision of Spatial Learning, Long-Term Potentiation, and Depression in the CA1 Subfield of Mouse Hippocampus

    Olena Bukalo;Nikolas Fentrop;Alan Y. W. Lee;Alan Y. W. Lee;Benedikt Salmen

  • A Key Enzyme in the Biogenesis of Lysosomes Is a Protease That Regulates Cholesterol Metabolism

    Katrin Marschner;Katrin Kollmann;Michaela Schweizer;Thomas Braulke

  • Mice with targeted Slc4a10 gene disruption have small brain ventricles and show reduced neuronal excitability

    Stefan Jacobs;Eva Ruusuvuori;Sampsa T. Sipilä;Aleksi Haapanen

  • deafness, is expressed in the inner ear and the central auditory pathway

    Tatjana Kharkovets;Jean-Pierre Hardelin;Saaid Safieddine;Michaela Schweizer

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Braulke
Thomas Braulke University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Michael Amling
Michael Amling Universität Hamburg
Paul Saftig
Paul Saftig Kiel University
Thomas J. Jentsch
Thomas J. Jentsch Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Markus Glatzel
Markus Glatzel Universität Hamburg
Irm Hermans-Borgmeyer
Irm Hermans-Borgmeyer Universität Hamburg
Christian A. Hübner
Christian A. Hübner Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Uwe Kornak
Uwe Kornak University of Göttingen
Hans-Jürgen Kreienkamp
Hans-Jürgen Kreienkamp Universität Hamburg
Eckart D. Gundelfinger
Eckart D. Gundelfinger Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology

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