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Overview

Paul Cohen is affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant emphasis on physiology, molecular biology, endocrine and autonomic systems, epidemiology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist's work covers various main topics, including adipose tissue and metabolism, adipokines, inflammation, and metabolic diseases, cardiovascular disease and adiposity, regulation of appetite and obesity, muscle metabolism and nutrition, biochemical analysis and sensing techniques, as well as cancer, hypoxia, and metabolism.

Paul Cohen has contributed to numerous research articles, some of the recent notable papers include:

  • "Brown adipose tissue is associated with cardiometabolic health" (2021, Nature Medicine)
  • "The cellular and functional complexity of thermogenic fat" (2021, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology)
  • "A leptin-BDNF pathway regulating sympathetic innervation of adipose tissue" (2020, Nature)
  • "Creatine metabolism: energy homeostasis, immunity and cancer biology" (2020, Nature Reviews Endocrinology)
  • "Creatine-mediated crosstalk between adipocytes and cancer cells regulates obesity-driven breast cancer" (2021, Cell Metabolism)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Paul Cohen include:

  • Jingyi Chi
  • François Marchildon
  • Caroline S. Jiang
  • Tobias Becher
  • Jeffrey M. Friedman

The venues where they have published most frequently are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Nature Metabolism
  • Molecular Metabolism
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Prdm16 determines the thermogenic program of subcutaneous white adipose tissue in mice

    Patrick Seale;Heather M. Conroe;Jennifer Estall;Shingo Kajimura

  • Loss of stearoyl–CoA desaturase-1 function protects mice against adiposity

    James M. Ntambi;Makoto Miyazaki;Jonathan P. Stoehr;Hong Lan

  • Ablation of PRDM16 and Beige Adipose Causes Metabolic Dysfunction and a Subcutaneous to Visceral Fat Switch

    Paul Cohen;Julia D. Levy;Yingying Zhang;Andrea Frontini

  • Adaptive thermogenesis in adipocytes: Is beige the new brown?

    Jun Wu;Paul Cohen;Paul Cohen;Bruce M. Spiegelman

  • Role for Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase-1 in Leptin-Mediated Weight Loss

    Paul Cohen;Makoto Miyazaki;Nicholas D. Socci;Aaron Hagge-Greenberg

  • Molecular mechanisms of cancer development in obesity

    Melin J. Khandekar;Paul Cohen;Paul Cohen;Bruce M. Spiegelman

  • Selective deletion of leptin receptor in neurons leads to obesity

    Paul Cohen;Connie Zhao;Xiaoli Cai;Jason M. Montez

  • A Creatine-Driven Substrate Cycle Enhances Energy Expenditure and Thermogenesis in Beige Fat

    Lawrence Kazak;Edward T. Chouchani;Mark P. Jedrychowski;Brian K. Erickson

  • Leptin-specific patterns of gene expression in white adipose tissue

    Alexander Soukas;Paul Cohen;Nicholas D. Socci;Jeffrey M. Friedman

  • Brown adipose tissue is associated with cardiometabolic health

    Tobias Becher;Tobias Becher;Srikanth Palanisamy;Srikanth Palanisamy;Daniel J. Kramer;Daniel J. Kramer;Daniel J. Kramer;Mahmoud Eljalby;Mahmoud Eljalby

  • Tumour-derived PTH-related protein triggers adipose tissue browning and cancer cachexia

    Serkan Kir;James P. White;Sandra Kleiner;Lawrence Kazak

  • Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein-Deficient Mice Reveal a Role for WASP in T but Not B Cell Activation

    Scott B. Snapper;Fred S. Rosen;Emiko Mizoguchi;Paul Cohen

  • Stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 deficiency increases fatty acid oxidation by activating AMP-activated protein kinase in liver

    Pawel Dobrzyn;Agnieszka Dobrzyn;Makoto Miyazaki;Paul Cohen

  • Zfp423 Expression Identifies Committed Preadipocytes and Localizes to Adipose Endothelial and Perivascular Cells

    Rana K. Gupta;Rina J. Mepani;Sandra Kleiner;James C. Lo

  • Adipsin is an Adipokine that Improves β Cell Function in Diabetes

    James C. Lo;James C. Lo;Sanda Ljubicic;Barbara Leibiger;Matthias Kern

  • TRPV4 is a regulator of adipose oxidative metabolism, inflammation and energy homeostasis

    Li Ye;Sandra Kleiner;Jun Wu;Rajan Sah

  • The cellular and functional complexity of thermogenic fat

    Paul Cohen;Shingo Kajimura

  • Brown and Beige Fat: Molecular Parts of a Thermogenic Machine

    Paul Cohen;Bruce M. Spiegelman

  • IRF4 Is a Key Thermogenic Transcriptional Partner of PGC-1α

    Xingxing Kong;Alexander Banks;Tiemin Liu;Lawrence Kazak

  • The hypogonadal-obesity cycle : role of aromatase in modulating the testosterone-estradiol shunt : a major factor in the genesis of morbid obesity

    P.G. Cohen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey M. Friedman
Jeffrey M. Friedman Rockefeller University
Bruce M. Spiegelman
Bruce M. Spiegelman Harvard University
James M. Ntambi
James M. Ntambi University of Wisconsin–Madison
Shingo Kajimura
Shingo Kajimura Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Roger D. Vaughan
Roger D. Vaughan Rockefeller University
Evan D. Rosen
Evan D. Rosen Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Pierre Nicolas
Pierre Nicolas Université Paris Cité
John H. Griffin
John H. Griffin Scripps Research Institute
Mark P. Jedrychowski
Mark P. Jedrychowski Harvard University
Thomas L. Carroll
Thomas L. Carroll Rockefeller University

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