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Overview

Ronald M. Lechan is affiliated with Tufts Medical Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine and neuroscience, with a significant focus on endocrinology, diabetes, metabolism, and related subfields.

Lechan's main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

Their work also covers several subfields, such as:

  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Surgery
  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

In terms of research topics, they have contributed to studies on:

  • Adrenal and Paraganglionic Tumors
  • Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments
  • Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
  • Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior

Lechan has published extensively in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of the Endocrine Society
  • The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  • Brain Structure and Function
  • The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • iScience

Selected recent papers authored by Lechan or involving related research topics are:

  • "Maternal and fetal outcomes in phaeochromocytoma and pregnancy: a multicentre retrospective cohort study and systematic review of literature," 2020, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • "Distributions of hypothalamic neuron populations coexpressing tyrosine hydroxylase and the vesicular GABA transporter in the mouse," 2020, The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  • "A Glial-Neuronal Circuit in the Median Eminence Regulates Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone-Release via the Endocannabinoid System," 2020, iScience
  • "Choice Is Good at Times: The Emergence of [64Cu]Cu-DOTATATE-Based Somatostatin Receptor Imaging in the Era of [68Ga]Ga-DOTATATE," 2022, Journal of Nuclear Medicine
  • "Adult-born proopiomelanocortin neurons derived from Rax-expressing precursors mitigate the metabolic effects of congenital hypothalamic proopiomelanocortin deficiency," 2021, Molecular Metabolism

The list of frequent co-authors includes:

  • Gábor Wittmann
  • Arthur S. Tischler
  • Feyza Erenler
  • Tobias Else
  • Jean-Louis Charli

Best Publications

  • Conditional Deletion Of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in the Postnatal Brain Leads to Obesity and Hyperactivity

    Maribel Rios;Guoping Fan;Csaba Fekete;Joseph Kelly

  • Leptin prevents fasting-induced suppression of prothyrotropin-releasing hormone messenger ribonucleic acid in neurons of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus.

    Gábor Légràdi;Charles H. Emerson;Rexford S. Ahima;Jeffrey S. Flier

  • Immunoreactive interleukin-1β localization in the rat forebrain

    Ronald M. Lechan;R. Toni;B.D. Clark;J.G. Cannon

  • Thyrotropin-releasing hormone precursor: characterization in rat brain

    Ronald M. Lechan;Ping Wu;Ivor M. D. Jackson;Hugh Wolf

  • Thyroid Hormone Regulates TRH Biosynthesis in the Paraventricular Nucleus of the Rat Hypothalamus

    Thomas P. Segerson;John Kauer;Hubert C. Wolfe;Hamid Mobtaker

  • α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone is contained in nerve terminals innervating thyrotropin-releasing hormone-synthesizing neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus and prevents fasting-induced suppression of prothyrotropin-releasing hormone gene expression

    Csaba Fekete;Gábor Légrádi;Emese Mihály;Qin Heng Huang

  • Immunohistochemical Localization of Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone in the Rat Hypothalamus and Pituitary

    Ronald M. Lechan;Ivor M. D. Jackson

  • Regional distribution of type 2 thyroxine deiodinase messenger ribonucleic acid in rat hypothalamus and pituitary and its regulation by thyroid hormone

    Helen M. Tu;Sung Woo Kim;Domenico Salvatore;Tibor Bartha

  • The TRH neuron: a hypothalamic integrator of energy metabolism.

    Ronald M Lechan;Csaba Fekete

  • Central regulation of hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis under physiological and pathophysiological conditions.

    Csaba Fekete;Csaba Fekete;Ronald M. Lechan;Ronald M. Lechan;Ronald M. Lechan

  • In situ hybridization methods for the detection of somatostatin mRNA in tissue sections using antisense RNA probes.

    Heinz Hoefler;Henry Childers;Marc R. Montminy;Ronald M. Lechan

  • Regional expression of the type 3 iodothyronine deiodinase messenger ribonucleic acid in the rat central nervous system and its regulation by thyroid hormone

    Helen M. Tu;Gabor Legradi;Tibor Bartha;Domenico Salvatore

  • Neuropeptide Y has a central inhibitory action on the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis.

    Csaba Fekete;Joseph Kelly;Emese Mihály;Sumit Sarkar

  • Endotoxin-induced corticotropin-releasing hormone gene expression in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus is mediated centrally by interleukin-1

    I. Kakucska;Yanping Qi;B. D. Clark;R. M. Lechan

  • Localization of Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone Prohormone Messenger Ribonucleic Acid in Rat Brain by in Situ Hybridization

    Thomas P. Segerson;Heinz Hoefler;Henry Childers;Hubert J. Wolfe

  • Association of cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript-immunoreactive elements with thyrotropin-releasing hormone-synthesizing neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus and its role in the regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis during fasting

    Csaba Fekete;Emese Mihaly;Lu-Guang Luo;Joseph Kelly

  • Lipopolysaccharide Induces Type 2 Iodothyronine Deiodinase in the Mediobasal Hypothalamus: Implications for the Nonthyroidal Illness Syndrome

    Csaba Fekete;Balázs Gereben;Márton Doleschall;John W. Harney

  • Intrinsic Pituitary Interleukin-1β Is Induced by Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide*

    James I. Koenig;Kenneth Snow;Burton D. Clark;Roberto Toni

  • Acrolein: a fixative for immunocytochemical localization of peptides in the central nervous system.

    J C King;R M Lechan;G Kugel;E L Anthony

  • The Arcuate Nucleus Is the Major Source for Neuropeptide Y-Innervation of Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone Neurons in the Hypothalamic Paraventricular Nucleus

    Gábor Légrádi;Ronald M. Lechan;Ronald M. Lechan

Frequent Co-Authors

Csaba Fekete
Csaba Fekete Institute of Experimental Medicine
Zsolt Liposits
Zsolt Liposits Institute of Experimental Medicine
Antonio C. Bianco
Antonio C. Bianco University of Chicago
Seymour Reichlin
Seymour Reichlin Tufts University
William M. Rand
William M. Rand Tufts University
P. Reed Larsen
P. Reed Larsen Brigham and Women's Hospital
Richard H. Goodman
Richard H. Goodman Oregon Health & Science University
Marc Montminy
Marc Montminy Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Karel Pacak
Karel Pacak National Institutes of Health
Masahiko Watanabe
Masahiko Watanabe Hokkaido University

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