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Overview

William R. Woodward is affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant emphasis on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, cell biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, physiology, and pathology and forensic medicine.

Their main research topics include:

  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Nerve injury and regeneration
  • Cardiac Ischemia and Reperfusion
  • Proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research
  • Calpain Protease Function and Regulation
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging

William R. Woodward has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology
  • European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Sociology of Education

Some of the recent papers authored by them are:

  • "Cardiac sympathetic nerve transdifferentiation reduces action potential heterogeneity after myocardial infarction," 2020, American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology
  • "Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 4,6 sulfation regulates sympathetic nerve regeneration after myocardial infarction," 2022, eLife
  • "Candidate biomarkers of physical frailty in heart failure: an exploratory cross-sectional study," 2022, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
  • "Learning from Error in Violence Prevention: A School Shooting as an Organizational Accident," 2022, Sociology of Education
  • "Loss of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan sulfation allows delayed sympathetic reinnervation after cardiac ischemia-reperfusion," 2023, Physiological Reports

William R. Woodward frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most common co-authors include:

  • Beth A. Habecker
  • Matthew R. Blake
  • Lianguo Wang
  • Crystal M. Ripplinger
  • Quin E. Denfeld

Best Publications

  • The "on-off" phenomenon in Parkinson's disease. Relation to levodopa absorption and transport

    John G. Nutt;William R. Woodward;John P. Hammerstad;Julie H. Carter

  • Effect of peripheral catechol-O-methyltransferase inhibition on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of levodopa in parkinsonian patients

    J. G. Nutt;W. R. Woodward;R. M. Beckner;C. K. Stone

  • A randomized placebo-controlled pilot trial of omega-3 fatty acids and alpha lipoic acid in Alzheimer's disease

    Lynne Shinto;Joseph Quinn;Joseph Quinn;Thomas Montine;Hiroko H. Dodge

  • Nuclear and cytoplasmic localization of basic fibroblast growth factor in astrocytes and CA2 hippocampal neurons.

    WR Woodward;R Nishi;CK Meshul;TE Williams

  • Erratic gastric emptying of levodopa may cause “random” fluctuations of parkinsonian mobility

    R. Kurlan;K. P. Rothfield;W. R. Woodward;J. G. Nutt

  • The effect of carbidopa on the pharmacokinetics of intravenously administered levodopa: the mechanism of action in the treatment of parkinsonism.

    John G. Nutt;William R. Woodward;John L. Anderson

  • Lipoic acid in multiple sclerosis: a pilot study

    V. Yadav;G. Marracci;J. Lovera;W. Woodward

  • Peripheral pharmacokinetics of apomorphine in humans.

    Stephen T. Gancher;William R. Woodward;Brian Boucher;John G. Nutt

  • Levodopa pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in fluctuating parkinsonian patients

    John G. Nutt;William R. Woodward

  • Effect of Long-term Therapy on the Pharmacodynamics of Levodopa: Relation to On-Off Phenomenon

    John G. Nutt;William R. Woodward;Julie H. Carter;Stephen T. Gancher

  • Peripheral pharmacokinetics of levodopa in untreated, stable, and fluctuating parkinsonian patients.

    Stephen T. Gancher;John G. Nutt;William R. Woodward

  • Duodenal and gastric delivery of levodopa in parkinsonism.

    Roger Kurlan;John G. Nutt;William R. Woodward;Kenneth Rothfield

  • Short- and long-duration responses to levodopa during the first year of levodopa therapy.

    John G. Nutt;Julie H. Carter;Laura Van Houten;William R. Woodward

  • Long-duration response to levodopa

    J. G. Nutt;J.H. Carter;W. R. Woodward

  • Inflammation and cerebral amyloidosis are disconnected in an animal model of Alzheimer's disease.

    Joseph Quinn;Thomas Montine;Jason Morrow;William R. Woodward

  • Motor fluctuations during continuous levodopa infusions in patients with Parkinson's disease

    John G. Nutt;Julie H. Carter;Eric S. Lea;William R. Woodward

  • 3‐O‐Methyldopa and the response to levodopa in Parkinson's disease

    John G. Nutt;William R. Woodward;Stephen T. Gancher;Dawn Merrick

  • Targeting protein tyrosine phosphatase σ after myocardial infarction restores cardiac sympathetic innervation and prevents arrhythmias

    R. T. Gardner;L. Wang;B. T. Lang;J. M. Cregg

  • Apomorphine infusional therapy in Parkinson's disease: clinical utility and lack of tolerance.

    Stephen T. Gancher;John G. Nutt;William R. Woodward

  • Amount and distribution of dietary protein affects clinical response to levodopa in Parkinson's disease

    J. H. Carter;J. G. Nutt;W. R. Woodward;L. F. Hatcher

  • Immunohistochemical localization of the neuron-specific glucose transporter (GLUT3) to neuropil in adult rat brain.

    Anthony L. McCall;Antonia M. Van Bueren;Melissa Moholt-Siebert;Nicola J. Cherry

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles K. Meshul
Charles K. Meshul Oregon Health & Science University
Hermann Rohrer
Hermann Rohrer Goethe University Frankfurt
Wayne M. Clark
Wayne M. Clark Oregon Health & Science University
Jeffrey Kaye
Jeffrey Kaye Oregon Health & Science University
Margaret A. Tucker
Margaret A. Tucker National Institutes of Health
Muhammad Ashraf
Muhammad Ashraf University of Agriculture Faisalabad
Albert Gjedde
Albert Gjedde University of Copenhagen
Verne M. Chapman
Verne M. Chapman Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Jerry Silver
Jerry Silver Case Western Reserve University
Peter N. Ray
Peter N. Ray University of Toronto

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