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Wulf Palinski is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular emphasis on subfields such as Physiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Adenosine and Purinergic Signaling
  • Extracellular vesicles in disease
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • Cardiovascular Issues in Pregnancy
  • Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
  • Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment

Palinski has published research in various journals, including:

  • Cell Death and Disease
  • European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research
  • Cells

Recent notable publications by Palinski comprise:

  • "Lysosome purinergic receptor P2X4 regulates neoangiogenesis induced by microvesicles from sarcoma patients," 2021, Cell Death and Disease
  • "Maternal hypercholesterolaemia during pregnancy affects severity of myocardial infarction in young adults," 2021, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • "Therapeutic targeting of P2X4 receptor and mitochondrial metabolism in clear cell renal carcinoma models," 2023, Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research
  • "Combination of Genomic Landscape and 3D Culture Functional Assays Bridges Sarcoma Phenotype to Target and Immunotherapy," 2023, Cells

Frequent collaborators of Palinski include:

  • Filomena de Nigris
  • Antonio Bilancio
  • Maria Monti
  • Rosa Camerlingo
  • Ilaria Iacobucci

Best Publications

  • Evidence for the presence of oxidatively modified low density lipoprotein in atherosclerotic lesions of rabbit and man.

    Seppo Yla-Herttuala;Wulf Palinski;Michael E. Rosenfeld;Sampath Parthasarathy

  • Low density lipoprotein undergoes oxidative modification in vivo

    Wulf Palinski;Michael E. Rosenfeld;Seppo Yla-Herttuala;Geoff C. Gurtner

  • Autoantibody against oxidised LDL and progression of carotid atherosclerosis.

    Salonen Jt;Ylä-Herttuala S;Yamamoto R;Butler S

  • Fatty streak formation occurs in human fetal aortas and is greatly enhanced by maternal hypercholesterolemia. Intimal accumulation of low density lipoprotein and its oxidation precede monocyte recruitment into early atherosclerotic lesions.

    Claudio Napoli;Francesco Paolo D'Armiento;Francesco Paolo Mancini;Alfredo Postiglione

  • Structural Identification by Mass Spectrometry of Oxidized Phospholipids in Minimally Oxidized Low Density Lipoprotein That Induce Monocyte/Endothelial Interactions and Evidence for Their Presence in Vivo

    Andrew D. Watson;Norbert Leitinger;Mohamad Navab;Kym F. Faull

  • Peroxisome proliferator–activated receptor γ ligands inhibit development of atherosclerosis in LDL receptor–deficient mice

    Andrew C. Li;Kathleen K. Brown;Mercedes J. Silvestre;Timothy M. Willson

  • Expression of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) in human atherosclerosis and regulation in macrophages by colony stimulating factors and oxidized low density lipoprotein

    Mercedes Ricote;Jannet Huang;Luis Fajas;Andrew Li

  • Angiogenesis Inhibitors Endostatin or TNP-470 Reduce Intimal Neovascularization and Plaque Growth in Apolipoprotein E–Deficient Mice

    Karen S. Moulton;Eric Heller;Moritz A. Konerding;Evelyn Flynn

  • Pneumococcal vaccination decreases atherosclerotic lesion formation: molecular mimicry between Streptococcus pneumoniae and oxidized LDL.

    Christoph J Binder;Sohvi Hörkkö;Sohvi Hörkkö;Asheesh Dewan;Mi-Kyung Chang

  • IMMUNIZATION OF LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN (LDL) RECEPTOR-DEFICIENT RABBITS WITH HOMOLOGOUS MALONDIALDEHYDE-MODIFIED LDL REDUCES ATHEROGENESIS

    Wulf Palinski;Elizabeth Miller;Joseph L. Witztum

  • Cloning of monoclonal autoantibodies to epitopes of oxidized lipoproteins from apolipoprotein E-deficient mice. Demonstration of epitopes of oxidized low density lipoprotein in human plasma.

    W Palinski;S Hörkkö;E Miller;U P Steinbrecher

  • Natural antibodies with the T15 idiotype may act in atherosclerosis, apoptotic clearance, and protective immunity.

    Peter X. Shaw;Sohvi Hörkkö;Mi-Kyung Chang;Linda K. Curtiss

  • Monoclonal autoantibodies specific for oxidized phospholipids or oxidized phospholipid-protein adducts inhibit macrophage uptake of oxidized low-density lipoproteins.

    Sohvi Hörkkö;David A. Bird;Elizabeth Miller;Hiroyuki Itabe

  • Influence of maternal hypercholesterolaemia during pregnancy on progression of early atherosclerotic lesions in childhood: Fate of Early Lesions in Children (FELIC) study

    Claudio Napoli;Christopher K Glass;Joseph L Witztum;Reena Deutsch

  • Rabbit and human atherosclerotic lesions contain IgG that recognizes epitopes of oxidized LDL.

    S Ylä-Herttuala;W Palinski;S W Butler;S Picard

  • Differential inhibition of macrophage foam-cell formation and atherosclerosis in mice by PPARα, β/δ, and γ

    Andrew C. Li;Christoph J. Binder;Alejandra Gutierrez;Kathleen K. Brown

  • Quantitation of atherosclerosis in murine models: correlation between lesions in the aortic origin and in the entire aorta, and differences in the extent of lesions between sexes in LDL receptor-deficient and apolipoprotein E-deficient mice

    R K Tangirala;E M Rubin;W Palinski

  • ApoE-deficient mice are a model of lipoprotein oxidation in atherogenesis. Demonstration of oxidation-specific epitopes in lesions and high titers of autoantibodies to malondialdehyde-lysine in serum.

    W Palinski;V A Ord;A S Plump;J L Breslow

  • Antisera and monoclonal antibodies specific for epitopes generated during oxidative modification of low density lipoprotein.

    Wulf Palinski;Seppo Ylä-Herttuala;Michael E. Rosenfeld;Susan W. Butler

  • Pneumococcal vaccination decreases atherosclerotic lesion formation: molecular mimicry between Streptococcus pneumoniae and oxidized LDL

    C.J. Binder

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph L. Witztum
Joseph L. Witztum University of California, San Diego
Claudio Napoli
Claudio Napoli University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Daniel Steinberg
Daniel Steinberg University of California, San Diego
Sotirios Tsimikas
Sotirios Tsimikas University of California, San Diego
Sampath Parthasarathy
Sampath Parthasarathy University of Central Florida
Christopher K. Glass
Christopher K. Glass University of California, San Diego
Seppo Ylä-Herttuala
Seppo Ylä-Herttuala University of Eastern Finland
Linda K. Curtiss
Linda K. Curtiss Scripps Research Institute
Gregg J. Silverman
Gregg J. Silverman New York University
Oswald Quehenberger
Oswald Quehenberger University of California, San Diego

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