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Rainer Schreiber is affiliated with the University of Regensburg in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Physiology, Genetics, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The scientist's research topics focus on areas such as ion channel regulation and function, cystic fibrosis research advances, ion transport and channel regulation, asthma and respiratory diseases, genetic and kidney cyst diseases, neonatal respiratory health research, and cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Schreiber include Karl Kunzelmann, Jiraporn Ousingsawat, Raquel Centeio, Khaoula Talbi, and Inês Cabrita.

Schreiber's publications often appear in several key venues, notably the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology, The FASEB Journal, Cell Calcium, and Membranes.

Recent papers by Rainer Schreiber include:

  • "Cyst growth in ADPKD is prevented by pharmacological and genetic inhibition of TMEM16A in vivo," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Pharmacological Inhibition and Activation of the Ca2+ Activated Cl− Channel TMEM16A," 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • "Impaired Renal HCO3 - Excretion in Cystic Fibrosis," 2020, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • "P. aeruginosa Induced Lipid Peroxidation Causes Ferroptotic Cell Death in Airways," 2021, Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry
  • "TMEM16A Mediates Mucus Production in Human Airway Epithelial Cells," 2020, American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology

Best Publications

  • TMEM16A Induces MAPK and Contributes Directly to Tumorigenesis and Cancer Progression

    Umamaheswar Duvvuri;Daniel J. Shiwarski;Dong Xiao;Carol Bertrand

  • Loss of TMEM16A Causes a Defect in Epithelial Ca2+-dependent Chloride Transport

    Jiraporn Ousingsawat;Joana R. Martins;Rainer Schreiber;Jason R. Rock

  • Expression and Function of Epithelial Anoctamins

    Rainer Schreiber;Inna Uliyakina;Patthara Kongsuphol;Richard Warth

  • The amiloride-inhibitable Na+ conductance is reduced by the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator in normal but not in cystic fibrosis airways.

    M Mall;M Bleich;R Greger;R Schreiber

  • Anoctamins are a family of Ca2+-activated Cl- channels.

    Yuemin Tian;Rainer Schreiber;Karl Kunzelmann

  • TMEM16 proteins produce volume-regulated chloride currents that are reduced in mice lacking TMEM16A.

    Joana Almaça;Yuemin Tian;Fadi Aldehni;Jiraporn Ousingsawat

  • Inhibition of epithelial Na+ currents by intracellular domains of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator.

    K Kunzelmann;G.L Kiser;R Schreiber;J.R Riordan

  • Enhanced expression of ANO1 in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma causes cell migration and correlates with poor prognosis.

    Christian Ruiz;Joana Raquel Martins;Florian Rudin;Sandra Schneider

  • Expression of Voltage-Gated Potassium Channels in Human and Mouse Colonic Carcinoma

    Jiraporn Ousingsawat;Melanie Spitzner;Supaporn Puntheeranurak;Luigi Terracciano

  • Ca2+ signaling, intracellular pH and cell volume in cell proliferation

    R. Schreiber

  • Anoctamin 6 mediates effects essential for innate immunity downstream of P2X7 receptors in macrophages.

    Jiraporn Ousingsawat;Podchanart Wanitchakool;Arthur Kmit;Ana M. Romao

  • Anoctamin 6 is an essential component of the outwardly rectifying chloride channel

    Joana Raquel Martins;Diana Faria;Patthara Kongsuphol;Barbara Reisch

  • Activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinases Erk-1 and Erk-2 by cell swelling in H4IIE hepatoma cells.

    F Schliess;R Schreiber;D Häussinger

  • Calmodulin-dependent activation of the epithelial calcium-dependent chloride channel TMEM16A

    Yuemin Tian;Patthara Kongsuphol;Martin Hug;Jiraporn Ousingsawat

  • Molecular and functional characterization of the small Ca(2+)-regulated K+ channel (rSK4) of colonic crypts.

    R. Warth;K. Hamm;M. Bleich;K. Kunzelmann

  • The Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Activates Aquaporin 3 in Airway Epithelial Cells

    Rainer Schreiber;Roland Nitschke;Rainer Greger;Karl Kunzelmann

  • CFTR, a regulator of channels.

    K. Kunzelmann;R. Schreiber

  • Modulation of Ca2+-activated Cl- secretion by basolateral K+ channels in human normal and cystic fibrosis airway epithelia.

    Marcus Mall;Tanja Gonska;Jörg Thomas;Rainer Schreiber

  • Anoctamins

    Karl Kunzelmann;Yuemin Tian;Joana Raquel Martins;Diana Faria

  • Expression and function of epithelial anoctamins

    Karl Kunzelmann;Rainer Schreiber;Arthur Kmit;Walailak Jantarajit

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl Kunzelmann
Karl Kunzelmann University of Regensburg
Margarida D. Amaral
Margarida D. Amaral University of Lisbon
Hermann Pavenstädt
Hermann Pavenstädt University of Freiburg
Dieter Häussinger
Dieter Häussinger Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Kai-Uwe Eckardt
Kai-Uwe Eckardt Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Florian Lang
Florian Lang University of Tübingen
Benoit Viollet
Benoit Viollet Institut Cochin
Marcus A. Mall
Marcus A. Mall Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Daniel Markovich
Daniel Markovich University of Queensland
Brian D. Harfe
Brian D. Harfe University of Florida

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