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  • 1980 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Nestor F. Gonzalez-Cadavid is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States and specializes in research within the field of Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, including Surgery, Genetics, Physiology, Urology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's main research topics encompass:

  • Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
  • Mesenchymal stem cell research
  • Dietary Effects on Health
  • Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research
  • Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Sexual function and dysfunction studies

Recent publications by Gonzalez-Cadavid include:

  • Evaluation of the In Vitro Damage Caused by Lipid Factors on Stem Cells from a Female Rat Model of Type 2 Diabetes/Obesity and Stress Urinary Incontinence, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • The Damage to the Stem Cells by Diabetic and Dyslipidemic Milieu. Clinical Implications for Erectile Dysfunction and LUTS, 2022, The Journal of Sexual Medicine

Their frequent coauthors have included Istvan Kovanecz, R. Gelfand, Sheila Sharifzad, Alec Ohanian, and William DeCastro.

Gonzalez-Cadavid has contributed research to the following publication venues:

  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • The Journal of Sexual Medicine

In 1980, Nestor F. Gonzalez-Cadavid was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Organization of the human myostatin gene and expression in healthy men and HIV-infected men with muscle wasting

    Nestor F. Gonzalez-Cadavid;Wayne E. Taylor;Kevin Yarasheski;Indrani Sinha-Hikim

  • Androgens stimulate myogenic differentiation and inhibit adipogenesis in C3H 10T1/2 pluripotent cells through an androgen receptor-mediated pathway.

    Rajan Singh;Jorge N. Artaza;Wayne E. Taylor;Nestor F. Gonzalez-Cadavid

  • Testosterone-induced increase in muscle size in healthy young men is associated with muscle fiber hypertrophy.

    Indrani Sinha-Hikim;Jorge Artaza;Linda Woodhouse;Nestor Gonzalez-Cadavid

  • Glucocorticoid-induced skeletal muscle atrophy is associated with upregulation of myostatin gene expression

    Kun Ma;Con Mallidis;Shalender Bhasin;Vahid Mahabadi

  • Myostatin inhibits cell proliferation and protein synthesis in C2C12 muscle cells.

    Wayne E. Taylor;Shalender Bhasin;Jorge Artaza;Frances Byhower

  • Testosterone Inhibits Adipogenic Differentiation in 3T3-L1 Cells: Nuclear Translocation of Androgen Receptor Complex with β-Catenin and T-Cell Factor 4 May Bypass Canonical Wnt Signaling to Down-Regulate Adipogenic Transcription Factors

    Rajan Singh;Jorge N. Artaza;Wayne E. Taylor;Melissa Braga

  • The Management of Peyronie's Disease: Evidence‐based 2010 Guidelines

    David Ralph;Nestor Gonzalez-Cadavid;Vincenzo Mirone;Sava Perovic

  • Lower skeletal muscle mass in male transgenic mice with muscle-specific overexpression of myostatin

    Suzanne Reisz-Porszasz;Shalender Bhasin;Jorge N. Artaza;Ruoqing Shen

  • Serum myostatin-immunoreactive protein is increased in 60-92 year old women and men with muscle wasting.

    K E Yarasheski;S Bhasin;I Sinha-Hikim;J Pak-Loduca

  • Androgen receptor in human skeletal muscle and cultured muscle satellite cells: up-regulation by androgen treatment.

    Indrani Sinha-Hikim;Wayne E. Taylor;Nestor F. Gonzalez-Cadavid;Wei Zheng

  • Dihydrotestosterone is the active androgen in the maintenance of nitric oxide-mediated penile erection in the rat

    J A Lugg;J Rajfer;N F González-Cadavid

  • L-arginine and phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors counteract fibrosis in the Peyronie's fibrotic plaque and related fibroblast cultures.

    Eliane G.A Valente;Dolores Vernet;Monica G Ferrini;Ansha Qian

  • Characterization of 5'-regulatory region of human myostatin gene: regulation by dexamethasone in vitro.

    Kun Ma;Con Mallidis;Jorge Artaza;Wayne Taylor

  • Peyronie's Disease: A Review.

    Shahram S. Gholami;Nestor F. Gonzalez-Cadavid;Ching-Shwun Lin;Jacob Rajfer

  • Myostatin inhibits myogenesis and promotes adipogenesis in C3H 10T(1/2) mesenchymal multipotent cells.

    Jorge N. Artaza;Shalender Bhasin;Thomas R. Magee;Suzanne Reisz-Porszasz

  • VARDENAFIL PREVENTS FIBROSIS AND LOSS OF CORPORAL SMOOTH MUSCLE THAT OCCURS AFTER BILATERAL CAVERNOSAL NERVE RESECTION IN THE RAT

    Monica G. Ferrini;Monica G. Ferrini;Hugo H. Davila;Istvan Kovanecz;Sandra P. Sanchez

  • The Mechanisms of Androgen Effects on Body Composition: Mesenchymal Pluripotent Cell as the Target of Androgen Action

    Shalender Bhasin;Wayne E. Taylor;Rajan Singh;Jorge Artaza

  • Reduction of penile nitric oxide synthase in diabetic BB/WORdp (type I) and BBZ/WORdp (type II) rats with erectile dysfunction.

    Dolores Vernet;Liping Cai;Hermes Garban;Martha L. Babbitt

  • Myostatin and insulin-like growth factor-I and -II expression in the muscle of rats exposed to the microgravity environment of the NeuroLab space shuttle flight

    R Lalani;S Bhasin;F Byhower;R Tarnuzzer

  • Pathophysiology of Erectile Dysfunction

    Iñigo Sáenz De Tejada;Javier Angulo;Selim Cellek;Nestor González‐Cadavid

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacob Rajfer
Jacob Rajfer University of California, Los Angeles
Shalender Bhasin
Shalender Bhasin Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ronald S. Swerdloff
Ronald S. Swerdloff Lundquist Institute
Arthur L. Burnett
Arthur L. Burnett Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
José A. Rodríguez
José A. Rodríguez Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo
Christina Wang
Christina Wang Lundquist Institute
Tom F. Lue
Tom F. Lue University of California, San Francisco
David F. Penson
David F. Penson Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Kurunthachalam Kannan
Kurunthachalam Kannan University at Albany, State University of New York
Sylvia L. Asa
Sylvia L. Asa Case Western Reserve University

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