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Overview

Peter O'Connell is affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of medicine, with a focus on specialized subfields such as complementary and alternative medicine, epidemiology, analytical chemistry, pharmaceutical science, and infectious diseases.

Their recent scholarly output includes several papers published between 2020 and 2024. Notable publications include:

  • Drug Stability: ICH versus Accelerated Predictive Stability Studies, 2022, Pharmaceutics
  • Targeting lung macrophages for fungal and parasitic pulmonary infections with innovative amphotericin B dry powder inhalers, 2023, International Journal of Pharmaceutics
  • The Use of a Three-Fluid Atomising Nozzle in the Production of Spray-Dried Theophylline/Salbutamol Sulphate Powders Intended for Pulmonary Delivery, 2020, Pharmaceutics
  • Exploring the Mechanisms of Traditional Chinese Herbal Therapy in Gastric Cancer: A Comprehensive Network Pharmacology Study of the Tiao-Yuan-Tong-Wei decoction, 2024, Pharmaceuticals
  • Can amphotericin B and itraconazole be co-delivered orally? Tailoring oral fixed-dose combination coated granules for systemic mycoses, 2023, European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics

Their work integrates a variety of main research topics, including:

  • Herbal Medicine Research Studies
  • Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
  • Analytical Methods in Pharmaceuticals
  • Drug Solubility and Delivery Systems
  • Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery
  • Nail Diseases and Treatments

Peter O'Connell has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors. The most frequent include:

  • Anne Marie Healy
  • Dolores R. Serrano
  • M. Paloma Ballesteros
  • Raquel Fernández-García
  • Helen Sheridan

Their publications appear regularly in several scientific journals. Among the frequent venues for their work are:

  • Planta Medica
  • Pharmaceutics
  • International Journal of Pharmaceutics
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics

Best Publications

  • Variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) markers for human gene mapping

    Yusuke Nakamura;Mark Leppert;Peter O'Connell;Roger Wolff

  • A major segment of the neurofibromatosis type 1 gene: cDNA sequence, genomic structure, and point mutations.

    Richard M. Cawthon;Robert Weiss;Gangfeng Xu;David Viskochil

  • The neurofibromatosis type 1 gene encodes a protein related to GAP

    Gangfeng Xu;Peter O'Connell;David Viskochil;Richard Cawthon

  • Deletions and a translocation interrupt a cloned gene at the neurofibromatosis type 1 locus.

    David Viskochil;Arthur M. Buchberg;Gangfeng Xu;Richard M. Cawthon

  • The GAP-related domain of the neurofibromatosis type 1 gene product interacts with ras p21

    George A. Martin;David Viskoohil;Gideon Bollag;Peter C. McCabe

  • Gene expression profiling for the prediction of therapeutic response to docetaxel in patients with breast cancer

    Jenny C. Chang;Eric C. Wooten;Anna Tsimelzon;Susan G. Hilsenbeck

  • Gene for von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis is in the pericentromeric region of chromosome 17

    D. Barker;E. Wright;K. Nguyen;L. Cannon

  • Localization of an ataxia-telangiectasia gene to chromosome 11q22–23

    Richard A. Gatti;Izzet Berkel;Elena Boder;Gary Braedt

  • The gene for familial polyposis coli maps to the long arm of chromosome 5.

    M. Leppert;M. Dobbs;P. Scambler;P. O'Connell

  • Sequence, structure, and codon preference of the Drosophila ribosomal protein 49 gene

    Peter O'Connell;Michael Rosbash

  • Mutations in the alpha 1 subunit of the inhibitory glycine receptor cause the dominant neurologic disorder, hyperekplexia.

    Rita Shiang;Stephen G. Ryan;Ya-Zhen Zhu;Angelika F. Hahn

  • A closely linked genetic marker for cystic fibrosis

    Ray White;Scott Woodward;Mark Leppert;Peter O'Connell

  • Benign familial neonatal convulsions linked to genetic markers on chromosome 20

    Mark Leppert;V. Elving Anderson;T. Quattlebaum;Dora Stauffer

  • Loss of the normal NF1 allele from the bone marrow of children with type 1 neurofibromatosis and malignant myeloid disorders

    Kevin M. Shannon;Peter O'Connell;George A. Martin;Dorothy Paderanga

  • Linkage of type 2 diabetes mellitus and of age at onset to a genetic location on chromosome 10q in Mexican Americans.

    Ravindranath Duggirala;John Blangero;Laura Almasy;Thomas D. Dyer

  • Genealogy of the CCR5 locus and chemokine system gene variants associated with altered rates of HIV-1 disease progression

    Srinivas Mummidi;Seema S. Ahuja;Enrique Gonzalez;Enrique Gonzalez;Stephanie A. Anderson

  • Analysis of Loss of Heterozygosity in 399 Premalignant Breast Lesions at 15 Genetic Loci

    Peter O'Connell;Vladimir Pekkel;D. Craig Allred;Suzanne A. W. Fuqua

  • Ductal Carcinoma In situ and the Emergence of Diversity during Breast Cancer Evolution

    D. Craig Allred;Yun Wu;Sufeng Mao;Iris D. Nagtegaal

  • R-banding and nonisotopic in situ hybridization: precise localization of the human type II collagen gene (COL2A1)

    Ei-ichi Takahashi;Tada-aki Hori;Peter O'Connell;Mark Leppert

  • A hypersensitive estrogen receptor-alpha mutation in premalignant breast lesions.

    S. A. W. Fuqua;C. Wiltschke;Q. X. Zhang;A. Borg

Frequent Co-Authors

Ray White
Ray White University of Utah
Mark Leppert
Mark Leppert University of Utah
Yusuke Nakamura
Yusuke Nakamura National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition
Robin J. Leach
Robin J. Leach The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
David H. Viskochil
David H. Viskochil University of Utah
Richard M. Cawthon
Richard M. Cawthon University of Utah
John Blangero
John Blangero The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Michael P. Stern
Michael P. Stern The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Ravindranath Duggirala
Ravindranath Duggirala Texas A&M University – San Antonio
D. Craig Allred
D. Craig Allred The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

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