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Verena M. Dirsch

Verena M. Dirsch

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
18411
World Ranking
12943
National Ranking
119

Overview

Verena M. Dirsch is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria, with a research focus spanning biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work concentrates on areas such as molecular biology, organic chemistry, pharmacology, surgery, and materials chemistry.

The primary topics explored include natural product bioactivities and synthesis, cholesterol and lipid metabolism, drug transport and resistance mechanisms, phytochemical compounds' biological activities, bioactive compounds with antitumor properties, plant-derived lignans synthesis and bioactivity, and the intersection of genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Natural products in drug discovery: advances and opportunities, 2021, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • Caco-2 Cells for Measuring Intestinal Cholesterol Transport - Possibilities and Limitations, 2020, Biological Procedures Online
  • Natural products as modulators of retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptors (RORs), 2020, Natural Product Reports
  • A Biochemometric Approach for the Identification of In Vitro Anti-Inflammatory Constituents in Masterwort, 2020, Biomolecules
  • Polyacetylenes from Oplopanax horridus and Panax ginseng: Relationship between Structure and PPARγ Activation, 2020, Journal of Natural Products

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Alexander F. Perhal
  • Patrik F. Schwarz
  • Elke H. Heiß
  • Atanas G. Atanasov
  • Michael Schnürch

Their work is often published in scientific venues such as:

  • Journal of Natural Products
  • Planta Medica
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Phytochemistry Letters
  • European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Dirsch has also contributed to several books published by Springer Science+Business Media, including titles like:

  • Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products 118 (2022)
  • Antimalarial Natural Products (2022)
  • Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products 116 (2021)
  • Naturally Occurring Organohalogen Compounds (2023)
  • Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products 115 (2021)
  • Ancistrocladus Naphthylisoquinoline Alkaloids (2023)
  • Modern Photocatalytic Strategies in Natural Product Synthesis (2023)
  • Neurotrophic Natural Products (2024)

Best Publications

  • Natural products in drug discovery: advances and opportunities.

    Atanas G Atanasov;Sergey B Zotchev;Verena M Dirsch

  • Discovery and resupply of pharmacologically active plant-derived natural products: A review.

    Atanas G. Atanasov;Birgit Waltenberger;Eva-Maria Pferschy-Wenzig;Thomas Linder

  • Natural product agonists of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ): a review.

    Limei Wang;Birgit Waltenberger;Eva-Maria Pferschy-Wenzig;Martina Blunder

  • Red Wine Polyphenols Enhance Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Expression and Subsequent Nitric Oxide Release From Endothelial Cells

    Jürgen F. Leikert;Thomas R. Räthel;Paulus Wohlfart;Véronique Cheynier

  • Anti-inflammatory effects of a bioavailable compound, Artepillin C, in Brazilian propolis

    Niraldo Paulino;Sheila Rago Lemos Abreu;Yoshihiro Uto;Daisuke Koyama

  • Ethnopharmacological in vitro studies on Austria's folk medicine--an unexplored lore in vitro anti-inflammatory activities of 71 Austrian traditional herbal drugs.

    Sylvia Vogl;Paolo Picker;Judit Mihaly-Bison;Nanang Fakhrudin

  • Ajoene, a Compound of Garlic, Induces Apoptosis in Human Promyeloleukemic Cells, Accompanied by Generation of Reactive Oxygen Species and Activation of Nuclear Factor kappaB

    Verena M. Dirsch;Alexander L. Gerbes;Angelika M. Vollmar

  • The Griess assay: suitable for a bio-guided fractionation of anti-inflammatory plant extracts?

    Verena M. Dirsch;Hermann Stuppner;Angelika M. Vollmar

  • Activated AMPK boosts the Nrf2/HO-1 signaling axis—A role for the unfolded protein response

    Kristin Zimmermann;Johannes Baldinger;Barbara Mayerhofer;Atanas G. Atanasov

  • Modulation of endothelial nitric oxide by plant-derived products

    Christoph A. Schmitt;Verena M. Dirsch

  • Effect of allicin and ajoene, two compounds of garlic, on inducible nitric oxide synthase.

    Verena M Dirsch;Alexandra K Kiemer;Hildebert Wagner;Angelika M Vollmar

  • Regulation of eNOS enzyme activity by posttranslational modification.

    Elke H Heiss;Verena M Dirsch

  • Chronic treatment with resveratrol induces redox stress- and ataxia telangiectasia-mutated (ATM)-dependent senescence in p53-positive cancer cells.

    Elke H. Heiss;Yvonne D.C. Schilder;Verena M. Dirsch

  • Garlic (Allium sativum L.) Modulates Cytokine Expression in Lipopolysaccharide-Activated Human Blood Thereby Inhibiting NF-κB Activity

    Hans Peter Keiss;Verena M. Dirsch;Thomas Hartung;Thomas Haffner

  • Honokiol: A non-adipogenic PPARγ agonist from nature

    Atanas G. Atanasov;Jian N. Wang;Shi P. Gu;Jing Bu

  • Resveratrol suppresses angiotensin II-induced Akt/protein kinase B and p70 S6 kinase phosphorylation and subsequent hypertrophy in rat aortic smooth muscle cells.

    Ursula G. B. Haider;Dan Sorescu;Kathy K. Griendling;Angelika M. Vollmar

  • Glucose availability is a decisive factor for Nrf2-mediated gene expression

    Elke H. Heiss;Daniel Schachner;Kristin Zimmermann;Verena M. Dirsch

  • Reliable in vitro measurement of nitric oxide released from endothelial cells using low concentrations of the fluorescent probe 4,5-diaminofluorescein.

    Jürgen F Leikert;Thomas R Räthel;Christian Müller;Angelika M Vollmar

  • Evaluation of the analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of a Brazilian green propolis.

    Niraldo Paulino;Cristiane Teixeira;Regiane Martins;Amarilis Scremin

  • Helenalin triggers a CD95 death receptor-independent apoptosis that is not affected by overexpression of Bcl-x(L) or Bcl-2.

    Verena M. Dirsch;Hermann Stuppner;Angelika M. Vollmar

Frequent Co-Authors

Atanas G. Atanasov
Atanas G. Atanasov Medical University of Vienna
Angelika M. Vollmar
Angelika M. Vollmar Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Hermann Stuppner
Hermann Stuppner University of Innsbruck
Daniela Schuster
Daniela Schuster Paracelsus Medical University
Valery N. Bochkov
Valery N. Bochkov University of Graz
George R. Pettit
George R. Pettit Arizona State University
Hildebert Wagner
Hildebert Wagner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Klaus Schulze-Osthoff
Klaus Schulze-Osthoff University of Tübingen
Gerhard Wolber
Gerhard Wolber Freie Universität Berlin

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