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83
Citations
21288
World Ranking
3567
National Ranking
1785

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Yoel Sadovsky is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on several specialized subfields including Obstetrics and Gynecology, Molecular Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cancer Research, and Immunology.

The main topics covered in Yoel Sadovsky's work involve pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, reproductive system and pregnancy, extracellular vesicles in disease, microRNA in disease regulation, birth, development, and health, the impact of COVID-19 on reproduction, and ferroptosis and cancer prognosis.

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include Yingshi Ouyang, Tianjiao Chu, Elena Sadovsky, Jean-François Mouillet, and Valerian E. Kagan.

Yoel Sadovsky has published extensively in several key scientific venues. Notable journals where many of their works have appeared include Placenta, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Science Advances, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Some recent publications by Yoel Sadovsky are:

  • Phospholipase iPLA2β averts ferroptosis by eliminating a redox lipid death signal, 2021, Nature Chemical Biology
  • Acoustofluidic centrifuge for nanoparticle enrichment and separation, 2021, Science Advances
  • PLA2G6 guards placental trophoblasts against ferroptotic injury, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Unique microRNA Signals in Plasma Exosomes from Pregnancies Complicated by Preeclampsia, 2020, Hypertension
  • Resolving the paradox of ferroptotic cell death: Ferrostatin-1 binds to 15LOX/PEBP1 complex, suppresses generation of peroxidized ETE-PE, and protects against ferroptosis, 2020, Redox Biology

Yoel Sadovsky has been recognized with membership in the National Academy of Medicine since 2013 and is also a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Isolation of exosomes from whole blood by integrating acoustics and microfluidics

    Mengxi Wu;Yingshi Ouyang;Zeyu Wang;Rui Zhang

  • Mice deficient in the orphan receptor steroidogenic factor 1 lack adrenal glands and gonads but express P450 side-chain-cleavage enzyme in the placenta and have normal embryonic serum levels of corticosteroids

    Y Sadovsky;P A Crawford;K G Woodson;J A Polish

  • Type III Interferons Produced by Human Placental Trophoblasts Confer Protection against Zika Virus Infection

    Avraham Bayer;Nicholas J. Lennemann;Yingshi Ouyang;John C. Bramley

  • Luteinizing Hormone Deficiency and Female Infertility in Mice Lacking the Transcription Factor NGFI-A (Egr-1)

    Stephen L. Lee;Yoel Sadovsky;Alexander H. Swirnoff;Jeffrey A. Polish

  • Human placental trophoblasts confer viral resistance to recipient cells

    Elizabeth Delorme-Axford;Rogier B. Donker;Jean-Francois Mouillet;Tianjiao Chu

  • The biology of extracellular vesicles: The known unknowns.

    Leonid Margolis;Yoel Sadovsky

  • Microbial Vertical Transmission During Human Pregnancy

    Nitin Arora;Yoel Sadovsky;Terence S. Dermody;Carolyn B. Coyne;Carolyn B. Coyne

  • Interleukin-1 beta regulates human cytotrophoblast metalloproteinase activity and invasion in vitro.

    C. L. Librach;S. L. Feigenbaum;K. E. Bass;Tian-Yi Cui

  • Nuclear Receptor DAX-1 Recruits Nuclear Receptor Corepressor N-CoR to Steroidogenic Factor 1

    Peter A. Crawford;Christoph Dorn;Yoel Sadovsky;Jeffrey Milbrandt

  • The expression profile of C19MC microRNAs in primary human trophoblast cells and exosomes

    R.B. Donker;J.F. Mouillet;T. Chu;C.A. Hubel

  • Placental origins of adverse pregnancy outcomes: potential molecular targets: an Executive Workshop Summary of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

    John V. Ilekis;Ekaterini Tsilou;Susan Fisher;Vikki M. Abrahams

  • Opposing actions of prostaglandins and oxytocin determine the onset of murine labor

    Gil A. Gross;Takuji Imamura;Christina Luedke;Sherri K. Vogt

  • Apoptosis in human cultured trophoblasts is enhanced by hypoxia and diminished by epidermal growth factor

    Roni Levy;Steven D. Smith;Kala Chandler;Yoel Sadovsky

  • Optimising sample collection for placental research

    G.J. Burton;N.J. Sebire;L. Myatt;D. Tannetta

  • Trophoblast apoptosis from pregnancies complicated by fetal growth restriction is associated with enhanced p53 expression.

    Roni Levy;Steven D. Smith;Kamran Yusuf;Phyllis C. Huettner

  • Prenatal maternal stress and cord blood innate and adaptive cytokine responses in an inner-city cohort.

    Rosalind J. Wright;Cynthia M. Visness;Agustin Calatroni;Mitchell H. Grayson

  • Review: placenta-specific microRNAs in exosomes - good things come in nano-packages.

    Yingshi Ouyang;Jean-Francois Mouillet;Carolyn B. Coyne;Yoel Sadovsky

  • Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ modulates differentiation of human trophoblast in a ligand-specific manner

    W. Timothy Schaiff;Matthew G. Carlson;Steven D. Smith;Roni Levy

  • Phospholipase iPLA2β Averts Ferroptosis By Eliminating A Redox Lipid Death Signal

    Wan-Yang Sun;Vladimir A Tyurin;Karolina Mikulska-Ruminska;Indira H Shrivastava

  • TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATORS DIFFER IN THEIR RESPONSES TO OVEREXPRESSION OF TATA-BOX-BINDING PROTEIN

    Y. Sadovsky;Paul Webb;G. Lopez;J. D. Baxter

Frequent Co-Authors

Carolyn B. Coyne
Carolyn B. Coyne Duke University
Michael W. Varner
Michael W. Varner University of Utah
George R. Saade
George R. Saade The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
William W. Andrews
William W. Andrews University of Alabama at Birmingham
Valerian E. Kagan
Valerian E. Kagan University of Pittsburgh
Graham J. Burton
Graham J. Burton University of Cambridge
Vladimir A. Tyurin
Vladimir A. Tyurin University of Pittsburgh
Louis J. Muglia
Louis J. Muglia Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Alexander Sorkin
Alexander Sorkin University of Pittsburgh
Nathan D. Price
Nathan D. Price University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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