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Overview

Sawa Kostin is a researcher affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany, specializing in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work predominantly focuses on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Immunology, and Molecular Biology, with additional contributions to Pharmacology and Cancer Research.

Kostin's research covers a range of topics including Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase, and Oxidative Mechanisms, Acute Myocardial Infarction Research, Medical and Biological Ozone Research, Protease and Inhibitor Mechanisms, Blood Coagulation and Thrombosis Mechanisms, Inflammasome and Immune Disorders, and Nitric Oxide and Endothelin Effects.

Recent publications by Sawa Kostin include:

  • The role of NETosis in heart failure (2024), published in Heart Failure Reviews
  • NETosis Is an Important Component of Chronic Myocardial Inflammation in Patients With Heart Failure (2024), published in Circulation Heart Failure
  • Atrial fibrillation in human patients is associated with increased collagen type V and TGFbeta1 (2023), published in IJC Heart & Vasculature
  • Coronary microthrombi in the failing human heart: the role of von Willebrand factor and PECAM-1 (2024), published in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

In collaboration, Kostin frequently works with several colleagues, including:

  • Nikolaos Pagonas
  • Benjamin Sasko
  • Florian Krizanic
  • Manfred Richter
  • Theodoros Kelesidis

Their work has been featured across multiple publication venues such as Antioxidants, Heart Failure Reviews, Circulation Heart Failure, Clinical Research in Cardiology, and IJC Heart & Vasculature.

Best Publications

  • Tissue Engineering of a Differentiated Cardiac Muscle Construct

    W.-H. Zimmermann;K. Schneiderbanger;P. Schubert;M. Didié

  • Bone Marrow-Derived Cells Do Not Incorporate Into the Adult Growing Vasculature

    Tibor Ziegelhoeffer;Borja Fernandez;Sawa Kostin;Matthias Heil

  • Myocytes Die by Multiple Mechanisms in Failing Human Hearts

    Sawa Kostin;Lieven Pool;Albrecht Elsässer;Stefan Hein

  • Acquisition of the contractile phenotype by murine arterial smooth muscle cells depends on the Mir143/145 gene cluster

    Thomas Boettger;Nadine Beetz;Sawa Kostin;Johanna Schneider

  • Sirt7 Increases Stress Resistance of Cardiomyocytes and Prevents Apoptosis and Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy in Mice

    Olesya Vakhrusheva;Christian Smolka;Praveen Gajawada;Sawa Kostin

  • Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy: intraindividual structural analysis in the acute phase and after functional recovery

    Holger M Nef;Helge Möllmann;Sawa Kostin;Christian Troidl

  • Increased Expression of Cytoskeletal, Linkage, and Extracellular Proteins in Failing Human Myocardium

    Annette Heling;René Zimmermann;Sawa Kostin;Yoshi Maeno

  • The role of the cytoskeleton in heart failure.

    Stefan Hein;Sawa Kostin;Annette Heling;Yoshi Maeno

  • Intracellular route and transcriptional competence of polyethylenimine-DNA complexes.

    Thorsten Bieber;Wolfgang Meissner;Sawa Kostin;Axel Niemann

  • Oncostatin M Is a Major Mediator of Cardiomyocyte Dedifferentiation and Remodeling

    Thomas Kubin;Jochen Pöling;Sawa Kostin;Praveen Gajawada

  • Blood monocyte concentration is critical for enhancement of collateral artery growth.

    Matthias Heil;Tibor Ziegelhoeffer;Frederic Pipp;Sawa Kostin

  • Inducible NOS Inhibition Reverses Tobacco-Smoke-Induced Emphysema and Pulmonary Hypertension in Mice

    Michael Seimetz;Nirmal Parajuli;Alexandra Pichl;Florian Veit

  • Efficient Homing of Multipotent Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells Depends on FROUNT-Mediated Clustering of CCR2

    Fikru Belema-Bedada;Shizuka Uchida;Alessandra Martire;Sawa Kostin

  • Myf5-positive satellite cells contribute to Pax7-dependent long-term maintenance of adult muscle stem cells.

    Stefan Günther;Johnny Kim;Sawa Kostin;Christoph Lepper

  • Gap junction remodeling and altered connexin43 expression in the failing human heart

    Sawa Kostin;Markus Rieger;Sebastian Dammer;Stefan Hein

  • Classically and alternatively activated macrophages contribute to tissue remodelling after myocardial infarction.

    C Troidl;H Möllmann;H Nef;F Masseli

  • Connexin 43 expression and distribution in compensated and decompensated cardiac hypertrophy in patients with aortic stenosis

    Sawa Kostin;Sebastian Dammer;Stefan Hein;Wolf P Klovekorn

  • Matrix metalloproteinases and their tissue inhibitors in pressure-overloaded human myocardium during heart failure progression.

    Victoria Polyakova;Stefan Hein;Sawa Kostin;Tibor Ziegelhoeffer

  • Bone marrow-derived cells contribute to infarct remodelling

    Helge Möllmann;Holger M. Nef;Sawa Kostin;Christof von Kalle

  • Construction of Autologous Human Heart Valves Based on an Acellular Allograft Matrix

    Serghei Cebotari;Heike Mertsching;Klaus Kallenbach;Sawa Kostin

Frequent Co-Authors

Jutta Schaper
Jutta Schaper Max Planck Society
Thomas Braun
Thomas Braun Max Planck Society
Wolfgang Schaper
Wolfgang Schaper Max Planck Society
Christian W. Hamm
Christian W. Hamm University of Giessen
Klaus T. Preissner
Klaus T. Preissner University of Giessen
Didier Y. R. Stainier
Didier Y. R. Stainier Max Planck Society
Marcus Krüger
Marcus Krüger University of Cologne
Hossein Baharvand
Hossein Baharvand Royan Institute
Mohammad R. Toliat
Mohammad R. Toliat University of Cologne
Mihaela Gherghiceanu
Mihaela Gherghiceanu Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy

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