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Tamas L. Horvath

Tamas L. Horvath

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Medicine

D-Index
129
Citations
68450
World Ranking
2571
National Ranking
1444

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award

Overview

Tamas L. Horvath is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research covers several subfields, including endocrine and autonomic systems, physiology, molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, and neurology.

The main topics of Horvath's scholarly work feature regulation of appetite and obesity, adipose tissue and metabolism, diet and metabolism studies, circadian rhythm and melatonin, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, biochemical analysis and sensing techniques, and pancreatic function and diabetes.

Horvath has published in numerous venues, with frequent publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Cell Metabolism
  • Nature Communications

Some of the recent papers associated with or relating to their research include:

  • "Neuroinvasion of SARS-CoV-2 in human and mouse brain" (2020) published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • "SARS-CoV-2 infection of the placenta" (2020) published in Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • "Single-cell longitudinal analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infection in human airway epithelium identifies target cells, alterations in gene expression, and cell state changes" (2021) published in PLoS Biology
  • "Discovery and functional interrogation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA-host protein interactions" (2021) published in Cell
  • "Neuroinvasion of SARS-CoV-2 in human and mouse brain" (2020) published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequently collaborating coauthors include:

  • Maria Consolata Miletta
  • Marya Shanabrough
  • Yuki Yasumoto
  • Luis Varela
  • Matija Šestan-Peša

Horvath's work has been recognized by receiving the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Leptin activates anorexigenic POMC neurons through a neural network in the arcuate nucleus

    Michael A. Cowley;James L. Smart;Marcelo Rubinstein;Marcelo G. Cerdán

  • The ketone metabolite β-hydroxybutyrate blocks NLRP3 inflammasome–mediated inflammatory disease

    Yun-Hee Youm;Kim Y. Nguyen;Ryan W Grant;Emily L Goldberg

  • The Distribution and Mechanism of Action of Ghrelin in the CNS Demonstrates a Novel Hypothalamic Circuit Regulating Energy Homeostasis

    Michael A Cowley;Roy G Smith;Sabrina Diano;Matthias Tschöp

  • Interacting appetite-regulating pathways in the hypothalamic regulation of body weight.

    Satya P. Kalra;Michael G. Dube;Shuye Pu;Bin Xu

  • Obesity is associated with hypothalamic injury in rodents and humans

    Joshua P. Thaler;Chun Xia Yi;Ellen A. Schur;Stephan J. Guyenet

  • Mitochondrial ROS Signaling in Organismal Homeostasis

    Gerald S. Shadel;Tamas L. Horvath

  • Ghrelin modulates the activity and synaptic input organization of midbrain dopamine neurons while promoting appetite

    Alfonso Abizaid;Zhong-Wu Liu;Zane Bruce Andrews;Marya Shanabrough

  • Minireview: Ghrelin and the regulation of energy balance - A hypothalamic perspective

    Tamas L. Horvath;Sabrina Diano;Peter Sotonyi;Mark Heiman

  • Rapid Rewiring of Arcuate Nucleus Feeding Circuits by Leptin

    Shirly Pinto;Aaron G. Roseberry;Hongyan Liu;Sabrina Diano

  • Neuroinvasion of SARS-CoV-2 in human and mouse brain.

    Eric Song;Ce Zhang;Benjamin Israelow;Alice Lu-Culligan

  • Ghrelin controls hippocampal spine synapse density and memory performance

    Sabrina Diano;Susan A Farr;Susan A Farr;Stephen C Benoit;Ewan C McNay

  • Agouti-related peptide-expressing neurons are mandatory for feeding.

    Eva Gropp;Marya Shanabrough;Erzsebet Borok;Allison W Xu

  • A guide to analysis of mouse energy metabolism

    Matthias H Tschöp;John R Speakman;John R Speakman;Jonathan R S Arch;Johan Auwerx

  • UCP2 mediates ghrelin’s action on NPY/AgRP neurons by lowering free radicals

    Zane B. Andrews;Zhong-Wu Liu;Nicholas Walllingford;Derek M. Erion

  • Sirtuin 1 and Sirtuin 3: Physiological Modulators of Metabolism

    Ruben Nogueiras;Kirk M. Habegger;Nilika Chaudhary;Brian Finan

  • A serotonin-dependent mechanism explains the leptin regulation of bone mass, appetite, and energy expenditure.

    Vijay K. Yadav;Franck Oury;Nina Suda;Zhong Wu Liu

  • Hypocretin (orexin) activation and synaptic innervation of the locus coeruleus noradrenergic system.

    Tamas L. Horvath;Christelle Peyron;Sabrina Diano;Alexander Ivanov

  • ER-X: a novel, plasma membrane-associated, putative estrogen receptor that is regulated during development and after ischemic brain injury.

    C. Dominique Toran-Allerand;Xiaoping Guan;Neil J. MacLusky;Tamas L. Horvath

  • Synaptic interaction between hypocretin (orexin) and neuropeptide Y cells in the rodent and primate hypothalamus: a novel circuit implicated in metabolic and endocrine regulations.

    Tamas L. Horvath;Sabrina Diano;Anthony N. van den Pol

  • Modeling human cortical development in vitro using induced pluripotent stem cells

    Jessica Mariani;Maria Vittoria Simonini;Dean Palejev;Livia Tomasini

Frequent Co-Authors

Sabrina Diano
Sabrina Diano Columbia University
Marcelo O. Dietrich
Marcelo O. Dietrich Yale University
Frederick Naftolin
Frederick Naftolin New York University
Marya Shanabrough
Marya Shanabrough Yale University
Xiao-Bing Gao
Xiao-Bing Gao Yale University
Matthias H. Tschöp
Matthias H. Tschöp Technical University of Munich
Csaba Leranth
Csaba Leranth Yale University
Akiko Iwasaki
Akiko Iwasaki Yale University
Zane B. Andrews
Zane B. Andrews Monash University
Satya P. Kalra
Satya P. Kalra University of Florida

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