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Overview

Tomas Ganz is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the field of Medicine, with a focus on several subfields including Hematology, Genetics, Physiology, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Their work addresses various topics related to Iron Metabolism and Disorders, Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders, Erythropoietin and Anemia Treatment, Trace Elements in Health, Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology, Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, and Birth, Development, and Health.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Tomas Ganz include:

  • Hepcidin-Ferroportin Interaction Controls Systemic Iron Homeostasis, 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Hepcidin and Iron in Health and Disease, 2022, Annual Review of Medicine
  • Controversies in optimal anemia management: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Conference, 2021, Kidney International
  • Erythroferrone structure, function, and physiology: Iron homeostasis and beyond, 2020, Journal of Cellular Physiology
  • ACVR1/JAK1/JAK2 inhibitor momelotinib reverses transfusion dependency and suppresses hepcidin in myelofibrosis phase 2 trial, 2020, Blood Advances

The frequent co-authors associated with Tomas Ganz are:

  • Elizabeta Nemeth
  • Grace Jung
  • Mark R. Hanudel
  • Veena Sangkhae
  • Shilpa Sharma

The main venues where Tomas Ganz frequently publishes are Blood, American Journal of Hematology, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Kidney International, and Blood Advances.

Tomas Ganz has been recognized as a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Hepcidin Regulates Cellular Iron Efflux by Binding to Ferroportin and Inducing Its Internalization

    Elizabeta Nemeth;Marie S. Tuttle;Julie Powelson;Michael B. Vaughn

  • Defensins: antimicrobial peptides of innate immunity.

    Tomas Ganz

  • IL-6 mediates hypoferremia of inflammation by inducing the synthesis of the iron regulatory hormone hepcidin

    Elizabeta Nemeth;Seth Rivera;Victoria Gabayan;Charlotte Keller

  • Hepcidin, a Urinary Antimicrobial Peptide Synthesized in the Liver *

    Christina H. Park;Erika V. Valore;Alan J. Waring;Tomas Ganz

  • Endogenous Antimicrobial Peptides and Skin Infections in Atopic Dermatitis

    Peck Y. Ong;Takaaki Ohtake;Corinne Brandt;Ian Strickland

  • Hepcidin, a key regulator of iron metabolism and mediator of anemia of inflammation.

    Tomas Ganz

  • Defensins. Natural peptide antibiotics of human neutrophils.

    T Ganz;M E Selsted;D Szklarek;S S Harwig

  • Hepcidin, a putative mediator of anemia of inflammation, is a type II acute-phase protein.

    Elizabeta Nemeth;Erika V. Valore;Mary Territo;Gary Schiller

  • An Antimicrobial Activity of Cytolytic T Cells Mediated by Granulysin

    Steffen Stenger;Dennis A. Hanson;Rachel Teitelbaum;Puneet Dewan

  • Defensins: Antimicrobial and Cytotoxic Peptides of Mammalian Cells

    R I Lehrer;and A K Lichtenstein;T Ganz

  • Hepcidin and iron homeostasis.

    Tomas Ganz;Elizabeta Nemeth

  • Reduced Paneth cell α-defensins in ileal Crohn's disease

    Jan Wehkamp;Nita H. Salzman;Edith Porter;Edith Porter;Sabine Nuding

  • Mutations in HFE2 cause iron overload in chromosome 1q-linked juvenile hemochromatosis.

    George Papanikolaou;Mark E Samuels;Erwin H Ludwig;Marcia L E MacDonald

  • Systemic iron homeostasis

    Tomas Ganz

  • Hepcidin and iron regulation, 10 years later

    Tomas Ganz

  • Identification of erythroferrone as an erythroid regulator of iron metabolism

    Léon Kautz;Grace Jung;Erika V Valore;Stefano Rivella

  • Antimicrobial peptides in mammalian and insect host defence

    Robert I Lehrer;Tomas Ganz

  • High levels of GDF15 in thalassemia suppress expression of the iron regulatory protein hepcidin.

    Toshihiko Tanno;Natarajan V Bhanu;Patricia A Oneal;Sung-Ho Goh

  • Regulation of iron metabolism by hepcidin.

    Elizabeta Nemeth;Tomas Ganz

  • DEFENSINS: NATURAL PEPTIDE ANTIBIOTICS IN HUMAN NEUTROPHILS

    T. Ganz

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeta Nemeth
Elizabeta Nemeth University of California, Los Angeles
Robert I. Lehrer
Robert I. Lehrer University of California, Los Angeles
Michael E. Selsted
Michael E. Selsted University of Southern California
Alexander M. Cole
Alexander M. Cole University of Central Florida
Charles L. Bevins
Charles L. Bevins University of California, Davis
Domenico Girelli
Domenico Girelli University of Verona
Stefano Rivella
Stefano Rivella Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Clara Camaschella
Clara Camaschella Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Jerry Kaplan
Jerry Kaplan University of Utah
Ole E. Sørensen
Ole E. Sørensen Lund University

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