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Wolfgang Stremmel

Wolfgang Stremmel

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Medicine

D-Index
114
Citations
46618
World Ranking
4752
National Ranking
258

Overview

Wolfgang Stremmel is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research has a notable focus on nutrition, molecular biology, genetics, epidemiology, and hepatology. The scientist's work spans several topics within health sciences, particularly relating to trace elements, heavy metal toxicity, inflammatory bowel disease, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology, iron metabolism, and infant nutrition and health.

Among recent papers authored by Wolfgang Stremmel are:

  • Milk Exosomes Prevent Intestinal Inflammation in a Genetic Mouse Model of Ulcerative Colitis: A Pilot Experiment (2020, Inflammatory Intestinal Diseases)
  • Therapeutic strategies in Wilson disease: pathophysiology and mode of action (2021, Annals of Translational Medicine)
  • Delayed-Release Phosphatidylcholine Is Effective for Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: A Meta-Analysis (2021, Digestive Diseases)

Other noteworthy papers in the broader network of research associated include:

  • Exosome-Derived MicroRNAs of Human Milk and Their Effects on Infant Health and Development (2021, Biomolecules)
  • Role of fatty acid transport protein 4 in metabolic tissues: insights into obesity and fatty liver disease (2022, Bioscience Reports)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Ralf Weiskirchen
  • Bodo C. Melnik
  • Gerd Schmitz
  • Swen Malte John
  • Uta Merle

Wolfgang Stremmel publishes often in a range of venues such as:

  • Metabolism and Target Organ Damage
  • Annals of Translational Medicine
  • Biomedicines
  • AME Medical Journal
  • Digestive Diseases

Their main areas of study concentrate on medicine, with over fifty publications, and expanding into biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology with twenty-five contributions.

Subfields highlighted in their work include nutrition and dietetics, molecular biology, genetics, epidemiology, and hepatology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to problems in health and disease related to metabolic and inflammatory conditions.

The research topics they focus on range broadly but show particular emphasis on:

  • Trace Elements in Health
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies
  • Iron Metabolism and Disorders
  • Infant Nutrition and Health

Best Publications

  • Survival and causes of death in cirrhotic and in noncirrhotic patients with primary hemochromatosis.

    Claus Niederau;Rudolf Fischer;Amnon Sonnenberg;Wolfgang Stremmel

  • Lymphocyte apoptosis induced by CD95 (APO-1/Fas) ligand-expressing tumor cells--a mechanism of immune evasion?

    Susanne Strand;Walter J. Hofmann;Hubert Hug;Martina Müller

  • Long-term survival in patients with hereditary hemochromatosis.

    C Niederau;R Fischer;A Purschel;W Stremmel

  • p53 Activates the CD95 (APO-1/Fas) Gene in Response to DNA Damage by Anticancer Drugs

    Martina Müller;Sylvia Wilder;Detlev Bannasch;David Israeli

  • Involvement of the CD95 (APO-1/Fas) receptor and ligand in liver damage.

    Peter R. Galle;Walter J. Hofmann;Henning Walczak;Heinz Schaller

  • Drug-induced apoptosis in hepatoma cells is mediated by the CD95 (APO-1/Fas) receptor/ligand system and involves activation of wild-type p53.

    Martina Müller;Susanne Strand;Hubert Hug;Eva Maria Heinemann

  • Clinical presentation, diagnosis and long-term outcome of Wilson’s disease: a cohort study

    Uta Merle;Mark Schaefer;Peter Ferenci;Wolfgang Stremmel

  • Copper in disorders with neurological symptoms: Alzheimer's, Menkes, and Wilson diseases.

    Daniel Strausak;Julian F.B Mercer;Hermann H Dieter;Wolfgang Stremmel

  • EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: Wilson's disease

    P Ferenci;A Czlonkowska;W Stremmel;R Houwen

  • Acute cholecystitis: early versus delayed cholecystectomy, a multicenter randomized trial (ACDC study, NCT00447304).

    Carsten N. Gutt;Jens Encke;Jörg Köninger;Julian-Camill Harnoss

  • Isolation and partial characterization of a fatty acid binding protein in rat liver plasma membranes

    Wolfgang Stremmel;Georg Strohmeyer;Franz Borchard;Shaul Kochwa

  • Loss of detoxification in inflammatory bowel disease: dysregulation of pregnane X receptor target genes.

    Thomas Langmann;Christoph Moehle;Richard Mauerer;Michael Scharl

  • Tumor necrosis factor increases serum leptin levels in humans

    Martina Susanne Zumbach;Michael Wolfgang Josef Boehme;Peter Wahl;Wolfgang Stremmel

  • Real-Time Reverse Transcription-PCR Expression Profiling of the Complete Human ATP-Binding Cassette Transporter Superfamily in Various Tissues

    Thomas Langmann;Richard Mauerer;Alexandra Zahn;Christoph Moehle

  • Hepatic failure and liver cell damage in acute Wilson's disease involve CD95 (APO-1/Fas) mediated apoptosis.

    Susanne Strand;Walter J. Hofmann;Annette Grambihler;Hubert Hug

  • Pro-hepcidin: expression and cell specific localisation in the liver and its regulation in hereditary haemochromatosis, chronic renal insufficiency, and renal anaemia

    H Kulaksiz;S G Gehrke;A Janetzko;D Rost

  • Involvement of the CD95 (APO-1/Fas) receptor and ligand system in Helicobacter pylori-induced gastric epithelial apoptosis.

    J Rudi;D Kuck;S Strand;S Strand;A von Herbay

  • Expression of hepcidin in hereditary hemochromatosis: evidence for a regulation in response to the serum transferrin saturation and to non-transferrin-bound iron.

    Sven G. Gehrke;Hasan Kulaksiz;Thomas Herrmann;Hans-Dieter Riedel

  • Wilson disease: clinical presentation, treatment, and survival.

    Wolfgang Stremmel;Karl-Wilhelm Meyerrose;Claus Niederau;Harald Hefter

  • TAp63α induces apoptosis by activating signaling via death receptors and mitochondria

    Olav Gressner;Tobias Schilling;Katja Lorenz;Elisa Schulze Schleithoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter H. Krammer
Peter H. Krammer German Cancer Research Center
Henning Walczak
Henning Walczak University College London
Peter Schirmacher
Peter Schirmacher University Hospital Heidelberg
Gerd Schmitz
Gerd Schmitz University of Regensburg
Peter R. Galle
Peter R. Galle Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Gerhard Liebisch
Gerhard Liebisch University of Regensburg
Gerry Melino
Gerry Melino University of Rome Tor Vergata
Thomas Giese
Thomas Giese Heidelberg University
Ralf Weiskirchen
Ralf Weiskirchen RWTH Aachen University
Matthias W. Hentze
Matthias W. Hentze European Molecular Biology Laboratory

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