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Overview

Oren Froy is a researcher affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their work spans multiple fields including Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. The research focus includes subfields such as Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist has contributed significantly to topics related to circadian rhythm and melatonin, dietary effects on health, inflammatory bowel disease, diet and metabolism studies, gut microbiota and health, genetics, aging and longevity in model organisms, and gestational diabetes research and management.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Development of Criteria for a Positive Front-of-Package Food Labeling: The Israeli Case, 2020, Nutrients
  • REV-ERBα alters circadian rhythms by modulating mTOR signaling, 2020, Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
  • Relationship among chrononutrition, sleep, and glycemic control in women with gestational diabetes mellitus: a randomized controlled trial, 2022, American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM
  • Inverse Relationship Between Clock Gene Expression and Inflammatory Markers in Ulcerative Colitis Patients Undergoing Remission, 2023, Digestive Diseases and Sciences
  • Time-Restricted Feeding in Commercial Layer Chickens Improves Egg Quality in Old Age and Points to Lack of Adipostat Activity in Chickens, 2021, Frontiers in Physiology

Oren Froy frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Nava Chapnik
  • Yael Weintraub
  • Riva Tauman
  • Shani Tsameret
  • Raanan Shamir

Their research has been published in various scientific venues with recurrent contributions to Nutrients, Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, and American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM. Other publication venues include Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology and Digestive Diseases and Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Biochemical and metabolic mechanisms by which dietary whey protein may combat obesity and Type 2 diabetes

    Daniela Jakubowicz;Oren Froy

  • Regulation of mammalian defensin expression by Toll-like receptor-dependent and independent signalling pathways

    Oren Froy

  • Dynamic Diversification from a Putative Common Ancestor of Scorpion Toxins Affecting Sodium, Potassium, and Chloride Channels

    Oren Froy;Tal Sagiv;Michal Poreh;Daniel Urbach

  • High-Fat Diet Delays and Fasting Advances the Circadian Expression of Adiponectin Signaling Components in Mouse Liver

    Maayan Barnea;Zecharia Madar;Oren Froy

  • Identification of Structural Elements of a Scorpion α-Neurotoxin Important for Receptor Site Recognition

    Noam Zilberberg;Oren Froy;Erwann Loret;Sandrine Cestele

  • Circadian oscillation of innate immunity components in mouse small intestine

    Oren Froy;Nava Chapnik

  • The Circadian Clock in White and Brown Adipose Tissue: Mechanistic, Endocrine, and Clinical Aspects.

    Oren Froy;Marta Garaulet

  • Redox Potential: Differential Roles in dCRY and mCRY1 Functions

    Oren Froy;Dennis C. Chang;Steven M. Reppert

  • Molecular Basis of the High Insecticidal Potency of Scorpion α-Toxins

    Izhar Karbat;Felix Frolow;Oren Froy;Nicolas Gilles

  • Arthropod and mollusk defensins – evolution by exon-shuffling

    Oren Froy;Michael Gurevitz

  • Long-term restricted feeding alters circadian expression and reduces the level of inflammatory and disease markers.

    Hadas Sherman;Idan Frumin;Roee Gutman;Nava Chapnik

  • Baculovirus‐mediated expression of a scorpion depressant toxin improves the insecticidal efficacy achieved with excitatory toxins

    Eduard Gershburg;Daniel Stockholm;Oren Froy;Sharon Rashi

  • The Putative Bioactive Surface of Insect-selective Scorpion Excitatory Neurotoxins

    Oren Froy;Noam Zilberberg;Dalia Gordon;Michael Turkov

  • Albumin and amino acids upregulate the expression of human beta-defensin 1.

    Hadas Sherman;Nava Chapnik;Oren Froy

  • The circadian clock and metabolism.

    Oren Froy

  • An excitatory scorpion toxin with a distinctive feature: an additional α helix at the C terminus and its implications for interaction with insect sodium channels

    Deena A Oren;Oren Froy;Efrat Amit;Nurit Kleinberger-Doron

  • The circadian clock is functional in eosinophils and mast cells

    Anja Baumann;Simone Gönnenwein;Stephan C. Bischoff;Hadas Sherman

  • Diversification of neurotoxins by C-tail ‘wiggling’: a scorpion recipe for survival

    Michael Gurevitz;Dalia Gordon;Sharon Ben-Natan;Michael Turkov

  • Membrane potential modulators: a thread of scarlet from plants to humans

    Oren Froy;Michael Gurevitz

  • Cytochrome P450 and the biological clock in mammals.

    Oren Froy

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Gurevitz
Michael Gurevitz Tel Aviv University
Dalia Gordon
Dalia Gordon Weizmann Institute of Science
Bo Ahrén
Bo Ahrén Lund University
Steven M. Reppert
Steven M. Reppert University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Itamar Raz
Itamar Raz Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Stephan C. Bischoff
Stephan C. Bischoff University of Hohenheim
Adriana D. Briscoe
Adriana D. Briscoe University of California, Irvine
Arieh Gertler
Arieh Gertler Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Bruce D. Hammock
Bruce D. Hammock University of California, Davis
Eliahu Zlotkin
Eliahu Zlotkin Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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