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20291
World Ranking
1925
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922

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Robert B. Petersen is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to Molecular Biology, Neurology, Physiology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Nephrology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Parkinson's Disease mechanisms and treatments, acute kidney injury research, adipose tissue and metabolism, renal and related cancers, nuclear receptors and signaling, and genetic neurodegenerative diseases.

Frequent co-authors in their work include Kun Huang, Bhairavi Srinageshwar, Ling Zheng, Hong Chen, and Dong Yang.

Robert B. Petersen has published in a variety of scientific venues, with multiple papers in Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature. Other venues where they have published include the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Nature Communications, Theranostics, and the Journal of Hepatology.

Selected recent papers by Robert B. Petersen include:

  • Multigenerational maternal obesity increases the incidence of HCC in offspring via miR-27a-3p, 2020, Journal of Hepatology
  • Copper and iron ions accelerate the prion-like propagation of α-synuclein: A vicious cycle in Parkinson's disease, 2020, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
  • Vitamin C Inhibits the Metabolic Changes Induced by Tet1 Insufficiency Under High Fat Diet Stress, 2021, Molecular Nutrition & Food Research
  • A renal YY1-KIM1-DR5 axis regulates the progression of acute kidney injury, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Muscular G9a Regulates Muscle-Liver-Fat Axis by Musclin Under Overnutrition in Female Mice, 2020, Diabetes

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2017.

Best Publications

  • Oxidative damage is the earliest event in Alzheimer disease.

    Akihiko Nunomura;George Perry;Gjumrakch Aliev;Keisuke Hirai;Keisuke Hirai

  • Mitochondrial abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease.

    Keisuke Hirai;Gjumrakch Aliev;Akihiko Nunomura;Akihiko Nunomura;Hisashi Fujioka

  • Molecular basis of phenotypic variability in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

    Piero Parchi;Rudolph Castellani;Sabina Capellari;Bernardino Ghetti

  • Heme oxygenase-1 is associated with the neurofibrillary pathology of Alzheimer's disease

    M A Smith;R K Kutty;P L Richey;S D Yan

  • Fatal familial insomnia and familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: different prion proteins determined by a DNA polymorphism.

    L Monari;S G Chen;P Brown;P Parchi

  • Mitochondria: a therapeutic target in neurodegeneration.

    Paula I. Moreira;Xiongwei Zhu;Xinglong Wang;Hyoung gon Lee

  • Chronic Wasting Disease of Elk: Transmissibility to Humans Examined by Transgenic Mouse Models

    Qingzhong Kong;Shenghai Huang;Wenquan Zou;Difernando Vanegas

  • Induction of heme oxygenase-1 mRNA and protein in neocortex and cerebral vessels in Alzheimer's disease

    Daniel R. D. Premkumar;Mark A. Smith;Peggy L. Richey;Robert B. Petersen

  • Fatal Familial Insomnia and Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Clinical, Pathological and Molecular Features

    Pierluigi Gambetti;Piero Parchi;Robert B. Petersen;Shu G. Chen

  • Oxidative Stress and Redox-Active Iron in Alzheimer's Disease

    Kazuhiro Honda;Gemma Casadesus;Robert B. Petersen;George Perry

  • Familial Mutations and the Thermodynamic Stability of the Recombinant Human Prion Protein

    Wieslaw Swietnicki;Robert B. Petersen;Pierluigi Gambetti;Witold K. Surewicz

  • TAU GENE MUTATION IN FAMILIAL PROGRESSIVE SUBCORTICAL GLIOSIS

    M. Goedert;M. G. Spillantini;R. A. Crowther;S. G. Chen

  • Overexpression of heme oxygenase in neuronal cells, the possible interaction with Tau

    Atsushi Takeda;George Perry;Nader G. Abraham;Barney E. Dwyer

  • Prion protein expression in different species: Analysis with a panel of new mAbs

    Gianluigi Zanusso;Dacai Liu;Sergio Ferrari;Ivan Hegyi

  • Increased levels of oxidative stress markers detected in the brains of mice devoid of prion protein

    Boon Seng Wong;Tong Liu;Ruliang Li;Tao Pan

  • Proteasomal Degradation and N-terminal Protease Resistance of the Codon 145 Mutant Prion Protein*

    Gianluigi Zanusso;Robert B. Petersen;Taocong Jin;Yi Jing

  • Signal Transduction Cascades Associated with Oxidative Stress in Alzheimer's Disease

    Robert B. Petersen;Akihiko Nunomura;Hyoung Gon Lee;Gemma Casadesus

  • Cell-surface prion protein interacts with glycosaminoglycans.

    Tao Pan;Boon Seng Wong;Tong Liu;Ruliang Li

  • Transthyretin amyloidosis: A new mutation associated with dementia

    R. B. Petersen;H. Goren;M. Cohen;S. L. Richardson

  • Evidence of DNA damage in Alzheimer disease: phosphorylation of histone H2AX in astrocytes

    Na Hye Myung;Na Hye Myung;Xiongwei Zhu;Inna I. Kruman;Rudy J. Castellani

  • Regional distribution of protease-resistant prion protein in fatal familial insomnia

    Piero Parchi;Rudy Castellani;Pietro Cortelli;Pasquale Montagna

  • Neuronal cell cycle re-entry mediates Alzheimer disease-type changes.

    Andrew McShea;Hyoung gon Lee;Robert B. Petersen;Gemma Casadesus

Frequent Co-Authors

Piero Parchi
Piero Parchi University of Bologna
Pietro Cortelli
Pietro Cortelli University of Bologna
Pasquale Montagna
Pasquale Montagna University of Bologna
Jan P. M. Langeveld
Jan P. M. Langeveld Wageningen University & Research
Hubert Laude
Hubert Laude University of Paris-Saclay
Martin R. Farlow
Martin R. Farlow Indiana University

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