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Ortrud K. Steinlein is affiliated with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine and biology, with a notable emphasis on pulmonary and respiratory medicine, physiology, molecular biology, cancer research, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's main fields of study include Medicine, with 33 publications, and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, comprising 15 publications. Their subfields reveal a focus on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (14 publications), Physiology (7), Molecular Biology (7), Cancer Research (6), and Psychiatry and Mental Health (3).

Steinlein's research covers a variety of important topics. These include:

  • Renal cell carcinoma treatment
  • Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research
  • Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies
  • Renal and related cancers
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics

Frequent co-authors in their work are:

  • Elke Sattler
  • Marlene Reithmair
  • Zulfiya Syunyaeva
  • Benedikt Kirchner
  • Michael W. Pfaffl

Their publications have appeared in several noteworthy venues, primarily contributing to these journals:

  • CHEST Journal
  • Pneumologie
  • Journal of Medical Genetics
  • European Journal of Cancer
  • Epilepsy & Behavior

Among their recent papers are:

  • Genetic Risk Factors for Spontaneous Pneumothorax in Birt-Hogg-Dubé Syndrome (2020) - CHEST Journal
  • Colorectal cancer risk in families with Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome increased (2021) - European Journal of Cancer
  • Remarkable effect of transdermal nicotine in children with CHRNA4-related autosomal dominant sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy (2020) - Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Update of penetrance estimates in Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome (2023) - Journal of Medical Genetics
  • Progranulin signaling in sepsis, community-acquired bacterial pneumonia and COVID-19: a comparative, observational study (2021) - Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Best Publications

  • A missense mutation in the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha 4 subunit is associated with autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy.

    Ortrud K. Steinlein;John C. Mulley;Peter Propping;Robyn H. Wallace;Robyn H. Wallace

  • A Potassium Channel Mutation in Neonatal Human Epilepsy

    Christian Biervert;Björn C. Schroeder;Björn C. Schroeder;Björn C. Schroeder;Christian Kubisch;Christian Kubisch;Christian Kubisch;Samuel F. Berkovic;Samuel F. Berkovic;Samuel F. Berkovic

  • An Insertion Mutation of the CHRNA4 Gene in a Family With Autosomal Dominant Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy

    Ortrud K. Steinlein;Andres Magnusson;Jens Stoodt;Sonia Bertrand

  • A splice-site mutation in GABRG2 associated with childhood absence epilepsy and febrile convulsions

    Colette Kananura;Karsten Haug;Thomas Sander;Uwe Runge

  • Benign familial neonatal-infantile seizures: characterization of a new sodium channelopathy.

    Samuel F. Berkovic;Sarah E. Heron;Lucio Giordano;Carla Marini

  • Genetic mechanisms that underlie epilepsy

    Ortrud K Steinlein

  • Myokymia and neonatal epilepsy caused by a mutation in the voltage sensor of the KCNQ2 K+ channel

    Karin Dedek;Bernhard Kunath;Colette Kananura;Ulrike Reuner

  • Hippocampal malformation as a cause of familial febrile convulsions and subsequent hippocampal sclerosis

    G. Fernández;O. Effenberger;B. Vinz;O. Steinlein

  • LGI1 is mutated in familial temporal lobe epilepsy characterized by aphasic seizures.

    Wenli Gu;Eylert Brodtkorb;Ortrud K. Steinlein

  • An amino acid exchange in the second transmembrane segment of a neuronal nicotinic receptor causes partial epilepsy by altering its desensitization kinetics

    Sigrid Weiland;Veit Witzemann;Alfredo Villarroel;Peter Propping

  • Hexosamine biosynthetic pathway mutations cause neuromuscular transmission defect.

    Jan Senderek;Jan Senderek;Juliane S. Müller;Marina Dusl;Tim M. Strom

  • Mutated nicotinic receptors responsible for autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy are more sensitive to carbamazepine.

    Fabienne Picard;S Bertrand;O K Steinlein;Daniel Bertrand

  • A reduced K+ current due to a novel mutation in KCNQ2 causes neonatal convulsions.

    H. Lerche;C. Biervert;A. K. Alekov;L. Schleithoff

  • Properties of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor mutants from humans suffering from autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

    S Bertrand;S Weiland;S F Berkovic;O K Steinlein

  • DEPDC5 mutations in families presenting as autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

    Fabienne Picard;Periklis Makrythanasis;Vincent Navarro;Saeko Ishida

  • Neonatal convulsions and epileptic encephalopathy in an Italian family with a missense mutation in the fifth transmembrane region of KCNQ2.

    Karin Dedek;Lucia Fusco;Nicole Teloy;Ortrud K Steinlein

  • Ion channels and epilepsy in man and mouse

    Ortrud K Steinlein;Jeffrey L Noebels

  • Expression pattern and functional characteristics of two novel splice variants of the two-pore-domain potassium channel TREK-2

    Wenli Gu;Günter Schlichthörl;Jochen R. Hirsch;Hartmut Engels

  • Characterization of Human α4β2-Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Stably and Heterologously Expressed in Native Nicotinic Receptor-Null SH-EP1 Human Epithelial Cells

    J. Brek Eaton;Jian Hong Peng;Katherine M. Schroeder;Andrew A. George

  • Cellular and extracellular miRNAs are blood-compartment-specific diagnostic targets in sepsis.

    Marlene Reithmair;Dominik Buschmann;Dominik Buschmann;Melanie Märte;Benedikt Kirchner

  • Benign familial neonatal convulsions: always benign?

    O.K. Steinlein;C. Conrad;B. Weidner

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Sander
Thomas Sander University of Cologne
Samuel F. Berkovic
Samuel F. Berkovic University of Melbourne
Peter Propping
Peter Propping University of Bonn
Ingrid E. Scheffer
Ingrid E. Scheffer University of Melbourne
Birgit Ertl-Wagner
Birgit Ertl-Wagner University of Toronto
John C. Mulley
John C. Mulley Bangor University
Hannsjörg Schröder
Hannsjörg Schröder University of Cologne
Christian Kubisch
Christian Kubisch Universität Hamburg
Eric LeGuern
Eric LeGuern Institut du Cerveau
Stylianos E. Antonarakis
Stylianos E. Antonarakis University of Geneva

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