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Wim Martinet is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, molecular biology, physiology, epidemiology, and immunology.

The scientist's work spans several main topics, including cardiovascular health and disease prevention, autophagy in disease and therapy, nitric oxide and endothelin effects, cardiovascular function and risk factors, chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity and mitigation, phagocytosis and immune regulation, and atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases.

Among recent publications, key papers include:

  • Programmed death of macrophages in atherosclerosis: mechanisms and therapeutic targets, 2024, Nature Reviews Cardiology
  • Regulated Necrosis in Atherosclerosis, 2022, Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
  • Partial Inhibition of Glycolysis Reduces Atherogenesis Independent of Intraplaque Neovascularization in Mice, 2020, Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
  • Progressive aortic stiffness in aging C57Bl/6 mice displays altered contractile behaviour and extracellular matrix changes, 2022, Communications Biology
  • Small molecule 3PO inhibits glycolysis but does not bind to 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase-3 (PFKFB3), 2020, FEBS Letters

Frequent co-authors in their work include Guido R.Y. De Meyer, Pieter-Jan Guns, Cédric Neutel, Lynn Roth, and Callan D. Wesley.

The scientist has published extensively in journals such as Atherosclerosis, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Frontiers in Physiology, Cardiovascular Research, and Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. The number of publications in these venues indicates a strong research presence particularly in Atherosclerosis and related cardiovascular studies.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy in higher eukaryotes

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Hagai Abeliovich;Patrizia Agostinis;Devendra K. Agrawal

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Phagocytosis of Apoptotic Cells by Macrophages Is Impaired in Atherosclerosis

    Dorien M. Schrijvers;Guido R.Y. De Meyer;Mark M. Kockx;Arnold G. Herman

  • Elevated Levels of Oxidative DNA Damage and DNA Repair Enzymes in Human Atherosclerotic Plaques

    Wim Martinet;Michiel W.M. Knaapen;Guido R.Y. De Meyer;Arnold G. Herman

  • Animal models of atherosclerosis.

    Besa Emini Veseli;Paola Perrotta;Gregory R.A. De Meyer;Lynn Roth

  • Vascular smooth muscle cell death, autophagy and senescence in atherosclerosis

    Mandy O.J. Grootaert;Manon Moulis;Lynn Roth;Wim Martinet

  • Autophagy in Atherosclerosis: A Cell Survival and Death Phenomenon With Therapeutic Potential

    Wim Martinet;Guido R.Y. De Meyer

  • Molecular and cellular mechanisms of skeletal muscle atrophy: an update.

    Alessandro Fanzani;Viviane M. Conraads;Fabio Penna;Wim Martinet

  • Phagocytosis in atherosclerosis: Molecular mechanisms and implications for plaque progression and stability

    Dorien M Schrijvers;Guido R Y De Meyer;Arnold G Herman;Wim Martinet

  • Apoptotic versus autophagic cell death in heart failure.

    Michiel W.M. Knaapen;Michael J. Davies;Martine De Bie;Aldwyn J. Haven

  • Defective autophagy in vascular smooth muscle cells accelerates senescence and promotes neointima formation and atherogenesis

    Mandy O. J. Grootaert;Paula A. da Costa Martins;Nicole Bitsch;Isabel Pintelon

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Autophagy in Vascular Disease

    Guido R.Y. De Meyer;Mandy O.J. Grootaert;Cédéric F. Michiels;Ammar Kurdi

  • Autophagy in Atherosclerosis

    Dorien M. Schrijvers;Guido R.Y. De Meyer;Wim Martinet

  • Selective clearance of macrophages in atherosclerotic plaques by autophagy.

    Stefan Verheye;Wim Martinet;Mark M. Kockx;Michiel W.M. Knaapen

  • Autophagy in the cardiovascular system.

    Guido R.Y. De Meyer;Wim Martinet

  • Insufficient Activation of Autophagy Allows Cellular Damage to Accumulate in Critically Ill Patients

    Ilse Vanhorebeek;Jan Gunst;Sarah Derde;Inge Derese

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergio Lavandero
Sergio Lavandero University of Chile
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Koen Augustyns
Koen Augustyns University of Antwerp
Roland Contreras
Roland Contreras Ghent University
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Andrea Ballabio
Andrea Ballabio Baylor College of Medicine

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