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Chemistry

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68
Citations
18217
World Ranking
6458
National Ranking
1960

Biology and Biochemistry

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76
Citations
21969
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5019
National Ranking
2410

Overview

Richard L. Veech was affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research contributions were primarily situated in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on subfields including Physiology, Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Clinical Biochemistry, and Biochemistry.

The core topics explored in their research included diet and metabolism studies, adipose tissue and metabolism, mitochondrial function and pathology, cardiovascular function and risk factors, biochemical effects in animals, metabolism related to diabetes and cancer, as well as metabolism and genetic disorders.

Frequent coauthors who contributed alongside Veech included Michael King, Robert J. Pawlosky, Kyle S. McCommis, Carla J. Weinheimer, and Trevor M. Shew.

Veech's published work appeared in several well-known scientific venues. These included:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Metabolism
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Notable recent publications by Richard L. Veech included:

  • "Diet modulates brain network stability, a biomarker for brain aging, in young adults" (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Nutritional modulation of heart failure in mitochondrial pyruvate carrier-deficient mice" (2020), Nature Metabolism
  • "Ketone Ester D-β-Hydroxybutyrate-(R)-1,3 Butanediol Prevents Decline in Cardiac Function in Type 2 Diabetic Mice" (2021), Journal of the American Heart Association
  • "A Dietary Ketone Ester Normalizes Abnormal Behavior in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease" (2020), International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • "Effect of Dietary Ketosis and Nicotinamide Riboside on Hippocampal Krebs Cycle Intermediates and Mitochondrial Energetics in a DNA Repair-Deficient 3xTg / POLβ +/− Alzheimer Disease Mouse Model" (2025), Journal of Neurochemistry

Best Publications

  • Cytosolic phosphorylation potential.

    R L Veech;J W Lawson;N W Cornell;H A Krebs

  • The redox state of free nicotinamide–adenine dinucleotide phosphate in the cytoplasm of rat liver

    R. L. Veech;L. V. Eggleston;H. A. Krebs

  • Sir2 Regulates Skeletal Muscle Differentiation as a Potential Sensor of the Redox State

    Marcella Fulco;R.Louis Schiltz;Simona Iezzi;M.Todd King

  • D-beta-hydroxybutyrate protects neurons in models of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

    Yoshihiro Kashiwaya;Takao Takeshima;Nozomi Mori;Kenji Nakashima

  • The therapeutic implications of ketone bodies: the effects of ketone bodies in pathological conditions: ketosis, ketogenic diet, redox states, insulin resistance, and mitochondrial metabolism

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  • Ketone bodies, potential therapeutic uses.

    Richard L. Veech;Britton Chance;Yoshihiro Kashiwaya;Henry A. Lardy

  • Nutritional Ketosis Alters Fuel Preference and Thereby Endurance Performance in Athletes

    Pete J. Cox;Tom Kirk;Tom Ashmore;Kristof Willerton

  • Insulin, ketone bodies, and mitochondrial energy transduction.

    K Sato;Y Kashiwaya;C A Keon;N Tsuchiya

  • The Concentrations of Free and Bound Magnesium in Rat Tissues RELATIVE CONSTANCY OF FREE Mg2+ CONCENTRATIONS

    Dulce Veloso;Robert W. Guynn;Marianne Oskarsson;Richard L. Veech

  • Freeze-blowing: a new technique for the study of brain in vivo.

    R. L. Veech;R. L. Harris;D. Veloso;E. H. Veech

  • Control of glucose utilization in working perfused rat heart.

    Y Kashiwaya;K Sato;N Tsuchiya;S Thomas

  • Induction of rat hepatic N-nitrosodimethylamine demethylase by acetone is due to protein stabilization.

    Byoung-Joon Song;R. L. Veech;S. S. Park;H. V. Gelboin

  • Kinetics, safety and tolerability of (R)-3-hydroxybutyl (R)-3-hydroxybutyrate in healthy adult subjects.

    Kieran Clarke;Kirill Tchabanenko;Robert Pawlosky;Emma Carter

  • Plasma Tumor Necrosis Factor α Predicts Decreased Long‐Term Survival in Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis

    M. E. Felver;E. Mezey;M. McGuire;M. C. Mitchell

  • A ketone ester diet exhibits anxiolytic and cognition-sparing properties, and lessens amyloid and tau pathologies in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    Yoshihiro Kashiwaya;Christian Bergman;Jong Hwan Lee;Ruiqian Wan

  • The metabolism of acetone in rat.

    J P Casazza;M E Felver;R L Veech

  • The time-course of the effects of ethanol on the redox and phosphorylation states of rat liver.

    R. L. Veech;R. Guynn;D. Veloso

  • Equilibrium relations between the cytoplasmic adenine nucleotide system and nicotinamide–adenine nucleotide system in rat liver

    R. L. Veech;L. Raijman;H. A. Krebs

  • Equilibrium relations between the oxidation–reduction reactions and the adenosine triphosphate synthesis in suspensions of isolated liver cells

    David F. Wilson;Marion Stubbs;Richard L. Veech;Maria Erecińska

  • The acute action of ammonia on rat brain metabolism in vivo

    Richard A. Hawkins;Alexander L. Miller;Richard C. Nielsen;Richard L. Veech

  • Stabilization of cytochrome p450j messenger ribonucleic acid in the diabetic rat

    Byung J. Song;Tamihide Matsunaga;James P. Hardwick;Sang S. Park

Frequent Co-Authors

Kieran Clarke
Kieran Clarke University of Oxford
George K. Radda
George K. Radda Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Kosaku Uyeda
Kosaku Uyeda The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
H. A. Krebs
H. A. Krebs University of Oxford
Richard W. Gross
Richard W. Gross Washington University in St. Louis
Britton Chance
Britton Chance University of Pennsylvania
Mark P. Mattson
Mark P. Mattson Johns Hopkins University
Frank J. Gonzalez
Frank J. Gonzalez National Institutes of Health
Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi
Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi Stony Brook University
Nora D. Volkow
Nora D. Volkow National Institutes of Health

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