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Volker Vallon is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with specialized attention to subfields such as endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, molecular biology, nephrology, surgery, and physiology.

The main topics explored in Vallon's work include diabetes treatment and management, pancreatic function and diabetes, chronic kidney disease and diabetes, ion transport and channel regulation, diet and metabolism studies, nephrotoxicity and medicinal plants, and biomedical research and pathophysiology.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Effects of SGLT2 Inhibitors on Kidney and Cardiovascular Function, 2020, Annual Review of Physiology
  • The tubular hypothesis of nephron filtration and diabetic kidney disease, 2020, Nature Reviews Nephrology
  • Glucose transporters in the kidney in health and disease, 2020, Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology

Vallon has frequently published in venues including:

  • American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Physiology
  • The FASEB Journal
  • The Nephron journals

Collaborators in their research include Young Chul Kim, Sadhana Kanoo, Helen Goodluck, Scott C. Thomson, and Yuji Oe.

Vallon's work contributes to the understanding of ion transport mechanisms, nephrology, and the biochemical pathways related to diabetes and kidney disease. Their studies often focus on the physiological and molecular biological aspects of kidney function and diabetes-related complications.

Best Publications

  • Na+-D-glucose Cotransporter SGLT1 is Pivotal for Intestinal Glucose-Absorption and Glucose-Dependent Incretin Secretion

    Valentin Gorboulev;Annette Schürmann;Volker Vallon;Helmut Kipp

  • (Patho)physiological Significance of the Serum- and Glucocorticoid-Inducible Kinase Isoforms

    Florian Lang;Christoph Böhmer;Monica Palmada;Guiscard Seebohm

  • SGLT2 Mediates Glucose Reabsorption in the Early Proximal Tubule

    Volker Vallon;Kenneth A. Platt;Robyn Cunard;Jana Schroth

  • Targeting renal glucose reabsorption to treat hyperglycaemia: the pleiotropic effects of SGLT2 inhibition

    Volker Vallon;Volker Vallon;Scott C. Thomson;Scott C. Thomson

  • Enhanced passive Ca2+ reabsorption and reduced Mg2+ channel abundance explains thiazide-induced hypocalciuria and hypomagnesemia

    Tom Nijenhuis;Volker Vallon;Annemiete W.C.M. van der Kemp;Johannes Loffing

  • SGLT2 inhibitor empagliflozin reduces renal growth and albuminuria in proportion to hyperglycemia and prevents glomerular hyperfiltration in diabetic Akita mice.

    Volker Vallon;Volker Vallon;Maria Gerasimova;Michael A. Rose;Takahiro Masuda;Takahiro Masuda

  • Renal Ca2+ wasting, hyperabsorption, and reduced bone thickness in mice lacking TRPV5.

    Joost G.J. Hoenderop;Johannes P.T.M. van Leeuwen;Bram C.J. van der Eerden;Ferry F.J. Kersten

  • Adenosine and Kidney Function

    Volker Vallon;Bernd Mühlbauer;Hartmut Osswald

  • The proximal tubule in the pathophysiology of the diabetic kidney

    Volker Vallon

  • Impaired renal Na+ retention in the sgk1-knockout mouse

    Peer Wulff;Volker Vallon;Dan Yang Huang;Harald Völkl

  • Glomerular Hyperfiltration in Experimental Diabetes Mellitus Potential Role of Tubular Reabsorption

    Volker Vallon;Kerstin Richter;Roland C. Blantz;Scott Thomson

  • Renal Function in Diabetic Disease Models: The Tubular System in the Pathophysiology of the Diabetic Kidney

    Volker Vallon;Scott C. Thomson

  • Knockout of Na-glucose transporter SGLT2 attenuates hyperglycemia and glomerular hyperfiltration but not kidney growth or injury in diabetes mellitus

    Volker Vallon;Volker Vallon;Michael Rose;Maria Gerasimova;Joseph Satriano;Joseph Satriano

  • Probing SGLT2 as a therapeutic target for diabetes: Basic physiology and consequences

    Linda A Gallo;Ernest M Wright;Volker Vallon;Volker Vallon

  • Acute and chronic effects of SGLT2 blockade on glomerular and tubular function in the early diabetic rat

    Scott C. Thomson;Timo Rieg;Cynthia Miracle;Hadi Mansoury

  • The Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potential of SGLT2 Inhibitors in Diabetes Mellitus

    Volker Vallon

  • The tubular hypothesis of nephron filtration and diabetic kidney disease.

    Volker Vallon;Volker Vallon;Scott C. Thomson;Scott C. Thomson

  • Development of SGLT1 and SGLT2 inhibitors

    Timo Rieg;Volker Vallon;Volker Vallon

  • Increase in SGLT1-mediated transport explains renal glucose reabsorption during genetic and pharmacological SGLT2 inhibition in euglycemia

    Timo Rieg;Timo Rieg;Takahiro Masuda;Takahiro Masuda;Maria Gerasimova;Eric Mayoux

  • Na + -D-glucose Cotransporter SGLT1 is Pivotal for Intestinal Glucose Absorption and Glucose-Dependent

    Valentin Gorboulev;Annette Schürmann;Volker Vallon;Helmut Kipp

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Lang
Florian Lang University of Tübingen
Hermann Koepsell
Hermann Koepsell University of Würzburg
Paul A. Insel
Paul A. Insel University of California, San Diego
Sanjay K. Nigam
Sanjay K. Nigam University of California, San Diego
Kumar Sharma
Kumar Sharma The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
James D. Stockand
James D. Stockand The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Jurgen Schnermann
Jurgen Schnermann National Institutes of Health
Michael Leitges
Michael Leitges University of Oslo
Eberhard Ritz
Eberhard Ritz Heidelberg University
Claudio Ronco
Claudio Ronco University of Padua

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