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Peter B. Moens

Peter B. Moens

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Genetics

D-Index
59
Citations
10207
World Ranking
3265
National Ranking
124

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1978 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Peter B. Moens is a researcher affiliated with York University in Canada. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with a focus on Surgery. Their work extends into several subfields including Cell Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Rheumatology, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. The main topics of their research revolve around scoliosis diagnosis and treatment, spinal fractures and fixation techniques, spine and intervertebral disc pathology, pelvic and acetabular injuries, hip disorders and treatments, pediatric pain management techniques, and musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation.

Moens has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Profilin: many facets of a small protein," 2020, Biophysical Reviews
  • "Risk and Resilience Predictors of Recovery After Spinal Fusion Surgery in Adolescents," 2021, Clinical Journal of Pain
  • "Spinal Muscular Atrophy Scoliosis in the Era of Background Therapies-A Review of the Literature," 2024, Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • "Evaluation of autofluorescence quenching techniques on formalin-fixed chicken tissues," 2021, Journal of Immunological Methods
  • "Complication rate after scoliosis surgery in children with cerebral palsy," 2021, Acta Orthopaedica Belgica

The venues where Moens regularly publishes include:

  • Acta Orthopaedica Belgica
  • Spine Deformity
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Amino Acids
  • Brain and Spine

Frequent collaborators in their research work include Sebastiaan Schelfaut, Thijs Ackermans, Lieven Moke, Nicola King, and Anja Van Campenhout.

Peter B. Moens was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1978 by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • The time course and chromosomal localization of recombination-related proteins at meiosis in the mouse are compatible with models that can resolve the early DNA-DNA interactions without reciprocal recombination.

    Peter B. Moens;Nadine K. Kolas;Madalena Tarsounas;Edyta Marcon

  • Synaptonemal complex proteins: occurrence, epitope mapping and chromosome disjunction.

    Melanie J. Dobson;Ronald E. Pearlman;Angelo Karaiskakis;Barbara Spyropoulos

  • Meiotic arrest and aneuploidy in MLH3-deficient mice.

    Steven M Lipkin;Steven M Lipkin;Peter B Moens;Victoria Wang;Michelle Lenzi

  • SPINDLES, SPINDLE PLAQUES, AND MEIOSIS IN THE YEAST SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE (HANSEN)

    Peter B. Moens;Ellen Rapport

  • Atm deficiency results in severe meiotic disruption as early as leptonema of prophase I

    Carrolee Barlow;Marek Liyanage;Peter B. Moens;Madalina Tarsounas

  • The fine structure of meiotic chromosome polarization and pairing in Locusta migratoria spermatocytes

    Peter B. Moens

  • A Meiotic Chromosomal Core Consisting of Cohesin Complex Proteins Recruits DNA Recombination Proteins and Promotes Synapsis in the Absence of an Axial Element in Mammalian Meiotic Cells

    Jeanette Pelttari;Mary-Rose Hoja;Li Yuan;Jian-Guo Liu

  • Windows for sex-specific methylation marked by DNA methyltransferase expression profiles in mouse germ cells

    Carmen Mertineit;Teruko Taketo;Peter B Moens

  • Essential role of Fkbp6 in male fertility and homologous chromosome pairing in meiosis.

    Michael A. Crackower;Nadine K. Kolas;Junko Noguchi;Renu Sarao

  • Rad51 immunocytology in rat and mouse spermatocytes and oocytes.

    Peter B. Moens;David J. Chen;Zhiyuan Shen;Nadine Kolas

  • Irregular telomeres impair meiotic synapsis and recombination in mice

    Lin Liu;Sonia Franco;Barbara Spyropoulos;Peter B. Moens

  • The structure and function of the synaptinemal complex inLilium longiflorum sporocytes

    Peter B. Moens

  • Impaired meiotic DNA-damage repair and lack of crossing-over during spermatogenesis in BRCA1 full-length isoform deficient mice.

    Xiaoling Xu;Olga Aprelikova;Peter Moens;Chu-Xia Deng

  • MLH1p and MLH3p localize to precociously induced chiasmata of okadaic-acid-treated mouse spermatocytes.

    Edyta Marcon;Peter Moens

  • Anti-topoisomerase II recognizes meiotic chromosome cores.

    Peter B. Moens;William C. Earnshaw

  • Chromatin organization at meiosis

    Peter B. Møens;Ronald E. Pearlman

  • Partial rescue of the prophase I defects of Atm-deficient mice by p53 and p21 null alleles.

    Carrolee Barlow;Marek Liyanage;Peter B. Moens;Chu Xia Deng

  • miRNA and piRNA localization in the male mammalian meiotic nucleus.

    E. Marcon;T. Babak;G. Chua;T. Hughes

  • Synaptonemal complex antigen location and conservation.

    P B Moens;C Heyting;A J Dietrich;W van Raamsdonk

  • Regulation of meiotic chromatin loop size by chromosomal position.

    Henry H. Q. Heng;John W. Chamberlain;Xiao-Mei Shi;Barbara Spyropoulos

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry H.Q. Heng
Henry H.Q. Heng Wayne State University
Stephen P. Jackson
Stephen P. Jackson University of Cambridge
Christa Heyting
Christa Heyting Wageningen University & Research
Paula E. Cohen
Paula E. Cohen Cornell University
Christer Höög
Christer Höög Karolinska Institute
Anthony Wynshaw-Boris
Anthony Wynshaw-Boris Case Western Reserve University
Lap-Chee Tsui
Lap-Chee Tsui University of Toronto
Thomas Ried
Thomas Ried National Institutes of Health
Steven M. Lipkin
Steven M. Lipkin Weill Cornell Medicine
Subhas C. Kundu
Subhas C. Kundu University of Minho

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