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D-Index
74
Citations
25331
World Ranking
5494
National Ranking
397

Overview

Sandor Batkai is affiliated with Cardior Pharmaceuticals in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their research output includes a focus on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Cancer Research, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Pharmacology.

The scientist's work centers on several main topics, including:

  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • Cardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Signaling Pathways in Disease
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Circular RNAs in diseases
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors

Among the recent papers they have authored or co-authored are:

  • Novel antisense therapy targeting microRNA-132 in patients with heart failure: results of a first-in-human Phase 1b randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study (2020, European Heart Journal)
  • Preclinical development of a miR-132 inhibitor for heart failure treatment (2020, Nature Communications)
  • CDR132L improves systolic and diastolic function in a large animal model of chronic heart failure (2020, European Heart Journal)
  • Targeting muscle-enriched long non-coding RNA H19 reverses pathological cardiac hypertrophy (2020, European Heart Journal)
  • Natural Compound Library Screening Identifies New Molecules for the Treatment of Cardiac Fibrosis and Diastolic Dysfunction (2020, Circulation)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with the scientist include:

  • Thomas Thum
  • Janika Viereck
  • Steffen Rump
  • Celina Genschel
  • Mariann Gyöngyösi

The most common venues for publication are:

  • Circulation (6 publications)
  • European Heart Journal (4 publications)
  • GeroScience (3 publications)
  • Nature Communications (2 publications)
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • The Endocannabinoid System as an Emerging Target of Pharmacotherapy

    Pál Pacher;Sándor Bátkai;George Kunos

  • Leptin-regulated endocannabinoids are involved in maintaining food intake

    Vincenzo Di Marzo;Sravan K. Goparaju;Lei Wang;Lei Wang;Jie Liu;Jie Liu

  • Endocannabinoid activation at hepatic CB1 receptors stimulates fatty acid synthesis and contributes to diet-induced obesity

    Douglas Osei-Hyiaman;Michael DePetrillo;Pál Pacher;Jie Liu

  • Cardiac fibroblast–derived microRNA passenger strand-enriched exosomes mediate cardiomyocyte hypertrophy

    Claudia Bang;Sandor Batkai;Seema Dangwal;Shashi Kumar Gupta

  • Activation of the peripheral endocannabinoid system in human obesity.

    Stefan Engeli;Jana Böhnke;Mareike Feldpausch;Kerstin Gorzelniak

  • Measurement of cardiac function using pressure–volume conductance catheter technique in mice and rats

    Pál Pacher;Takahiro Nagayama;Partha Mukhopadhyay;Sándor Bátkai

  • Cannabinoids mediate analgesia largely via peripheral type 1 cannabinoid receptors in nociceptors

    Nitin Agarwal;Pal Pacher;Irmgard Tegeder;Fumimasa Amaya

  • Dysregulation of the Peripheral and Adipose Tissue Endocannabinoid System in Human Abdominal Obesity

    Matthias Blüher;Stefan Engeli;Nora Klöting;Janin Berndt

  • The miRNA-212/132 family regulates both cardiac hypertrophy and cardiomyocyte autophagy

    Ahmet Ucar;Shashi K. Gupta;Jan Fiedler;Erdem Erikci

  • Cannabidiol Attenuates Cardiac Dysfunction, Oxidative Stress, Fibrosis, and Inflammatory and Cell Death Signaling Pathways in Diabetic Cardiomyopathy

    Mohanraj Rajesh;Partha Mukhopadhyay;Sándor Bátkai;Vivek Patel

  • Peripheral CB1 cannabinoid receptor blockade improves cardiometabolic risk in mouse models of obesity

    Joseph Tam;V. Kiran Vemuri;Jie Liu;Sándor Bátkai

  • Hepatic CB1 receptor is required for development of diet-induced steatosis, dyslipidemia, and insulin and leptin resistance in mice.

    Douglas Osei-Hyiaman;Jie Liu;Liang Zhou;Grzegorz Godlewski

  • Evidence for novel cannabinoid receptors.

    Malcolm Begg;Pál Pacher;Sándor Bátkai;Douglas Osei-Hyiaman

  • Endocannabinoids acting at vascular CB1 receptors mediate the vasodilated state in advanced liver cirrhosis

    Sándor Bátkai;Zoltán Járai;Jens A. Wagner;Sravan K. Goparaju

  • Role of superoxide, nitric oxide, and peroxynitrite in doxorubicin-induced cell death in vivo and in vitro

    Partha Mukhopadhyay;Mohanraj Rajesh;Sándor Bátkai;Yoshihiro Kashiwaya

  • Long noncoding RNA Chast promotes cardiac remodeling.

    Janika Viereck;Regalla Kumarswamy;Ariana Foinquinos;Ke Xiao

  • Endocannabinoids acting at cannabinoid-1 receptors regulate cardiovascular function in hypertension.

    Sándor Bátkai;Pál Pacher;Douglas Osei-Hyiaman;Svetlana Radaeva

  • Paracrine Activation of Hepatic CB1 Receptors by Stellate Cell-Derived Endocannabinoids Mediates Alcoholic Fatty Liver

    Won il Jeong;Douglas Osei-Hyiaman;Ogyi Park;Jie Liu

  • Inhibition of the Cardiac Fibroblast–Enriched lncRNA Meg3 Prevents Cardiac Fibrosis and Diastolic Dysfunction

    Maria-Teresa Piccoli;Shashi Kumar Gupta;Janika Viereck;Ariana Foinquinos

  • Cannabinoid-2 receptor mediates protection against hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury

    Sándor Bátkai;Douglas Osei-Hyiaman;Hao Pan;Osama El-Assal

Frequent Co-Authors

Pal Pacher
Pal Pacher National Institutes of Health
Thomas Thum
Thomas Thum Hannover Medical School
George Kunos
George Kunos National Institutes of Health
György Haskó
György Haskó Columbia University
Lucas Liaudet
Lucas Liaudet University of Lausanne
Jens Jordan
Jens Jordan German Aerospace Center
Jie Liu
Jie Liu National Institutes of Health
Dimitrios Tsikas
Dimitrios Tsikas Hannover Medical School
Bin Gao
Bin Gao National Institutes of Health
Ken Mackie
Ken Mackie Indiana University

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