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Wolfgang Rascher is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Their primary field of research is medicine, with a concentration on pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. Their work also spans general health professions, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, immunology, and genetics.

The scope of Rascher's research includes several main topics, specifically pharmaceutical studies and practices, child and adolescent health, pediatric pain management techniques, pharmaceutical practices and patient outcomes, renal diseases and glomerulopathies, metabolism and genetic disorders, and electrolyte and hormonal disorders.

Recent publications by Rascher cover a range of pediatric and pharmaceutical issues. These include:

  • Manipulation of Medicinal Products for Oral Administration to Paediatric Patients at a German University Hospital: An Observational Study, 2020, Pharmaceutics
  • Development and Evaluation of a Web-Based Paediatric Drug Information System for Germany, 2021, Pharmacy
  • Benefit-Risk Assessment of Off-Label Drug Use in Children: The Bravo Framework, 2021, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  • Twelve-month outcome in juvenile proliferative lupus nephritis: results of the German registry study, 2020, Pediatric Nephrology
  • A role for the alpha-8 integrin chain (itga8) in glomerular homeostasis of the kidney, 2020, Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics

Among Rascher's frequent co-authors are Antje Neubert, Irmgard Toni, Julia Zahn, Joachim Woelfle, and Ulrike Schara. Collaboration with these colleagues is reflected across various studies and publications.

Rascher has published notably in several scientific venues, with the highest number of publications in Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde. Other frequent publication venues include Pharmaceutics, Pharmacy, Notarzt, and Klinische Pädiatrie.

Best Publications

  • The Virtual Family—development of surface-based anatomical models of two adults and two children for dosimetric simulations

    Andreas Christ;Wolfgang Kainz;Eckhart G. Hahn;Katharina Honegger

  • 2016 European Society of Hypertension guidelines for the management of high blood pressure in children and adolescents

    Empar Lurbe;Enrico Agabiti-Rosei;J. Kennedy Cruickshank;Anna Dominiczak

  • Management of high blood pressure in children and adolescents: recommendations of the European Society of Hypertension

    Empar Lurbe;Renata Cifkova;J Kennedy Cruickshank;Michael J Dillon

  • Plasma Leptin Levels in Healthy Children and Adolescents: Dependence on Body Mass Index, Body Fat Mass, Gender, Pubertal Stage, and Testosterone

    Werner F. Blum;Piera Englaro;Sigrid Hanitsch;Anders Juul

  • Insulin and Cortisol Promote Leptin Production in Cultured Human Fat Cells

    Martin Wabitsch;Per Bo Jensen;Werner F Blum;Claus T Christoffersen

  • Human laminin β2 deficiency causes congenital nephrosis with mesangial sclerosis and distinct eye abnormalities

    Martin Zenker;Thomas Aigner;Olaf Wendler;Tim Tralau

  • Contribution of androgens to the gender difference in leptin production in obese children and adolescents.

    Martin Wabitsch;WF Blum;Rainer Muche;M Braun

  • Levels of Leptin in Maternal Serum, Amniotic Fluid, and Arterial and Venous Cord Blood: Relation to Neonatal and Placental Weight

    C. Schubring;W. Kiess;P. Englaro;W. Rascher

  • Blood levels and renal effects of atrial natriuretic peptide in normal man.

    Peter Weidmann;Loretta Hasler;Markus P. Gnadinger;Rudolf E. Lang

  • Oxytocin Unlike Vasopressin Is a Stress Hormone in the Rat

    Rudolf E. Lang;Jürgen W.E. Heil;Detlev Ganten;Klaus Hermann

  • Early angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition in Alport syndrome delays renal failure and improves life expectancy

    Oliver Gross;Christoph Licht;Hans J. Anders;Bernd Hoppe

  • Atrial natriuretic peptide in plasma of volume-overloaded children with chronic renal failure.

    W. Rascher;T. Tulassay;R.E. Lang

  • Testosterone Substitution Normalizes Elevated Serum Leptin Levels in Hypogonadal Men

    Friedrich Jockenhövel;Werner F. Blum;Elisabeth Vogel;Piera Englaro

  • Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography for Assessment of Crohn's Disease Activity.

    Ferdinand Knieling;Clemens Neufert;Arndt Hartmann;Jing Claussen

  • Leptin levels in patients with anorexia nervosa are reduced in the acute stage and elevated upon short-term weight restoration

    J Hebebrand;W F Blum;W F Blum;N Barth;H Coners

  • Women encounter ADRs more often than do men

    Y Zopf;C Rabe;A Neubert;K G Gassmann

  • Change of the course of steroid-dependent nephrotic syndrome after rituximab therapy

    Kerstin Benz;Jörg Dötsch;Wolfgang Rascher;Daniel Stachel

  • Adrenomedullin Reduces Endothelial Hyperpermeability

    Stefan Hippenstiel;Martin Witzenrath;Bernd Schmeck;Andreas Hocke

  • The Impact of Unlicensed and Off-Label Drug Use on Adverse Drug Reactions in Paediatric Patients

    Antje Neubert;Harald Dormann;Jutta Weiss;Tobias Egger

  • The 'accelerator hypothesis': relationship between weight, height, body mass index and age at diagnosis in a large cohort of 9,248 German and Austrian children with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

    I. Knerr;J. Wolf;T. Reinehr;R. Stachow

Frequent Co-Authors

Detlev Ganten
Detlev Ganten Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Werner F. Blum
Werner F. Blum University of Giessen
Albert Schömig
Albert Schömig Technical University of Munich
Rainer Dietz
Rainer Dietz Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Matthias W. Beckmann
Matthias W. Beckmann University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Thomas Unger
Thomas Unger Maastricht University
Eberhard Ritz
Eberhard Ritz Heidelberg University
Kerstin Amann
Kerstin Amann University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Wieland Kiess
Wieland Kiess Leipzig University
Markus F. Neurath
Markus F. Neurath University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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