Aref Najafi

908 total citations
14 papers, 580 citations indexed

About

Aref Najafi is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Aref Najafi has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 580 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 3 papers in Molecular Biology and 1 paper in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Aref Najafi's work include Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (11 papers), Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise (7 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (5 papers). Aref Najafi is often cited by papers focused on Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (11 papers), Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise (7 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (5 papers). Aref Najafi collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Australia. Aref Najafi's co-authors include Jolanda van der Velden, Diederik W.D. Kuster, Vasco Sequeira, Cristobal G. dos Remedios, Lucie Carrier, Michelle Michels, Michiel Helmes, Ger J.M. Stienen, Sakthivel Sadayappan and Nicky M. Boontje and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Circulation Research and The Journal of Physiology.

In The Last Decade

Aref Najafi

14 papers receiving 577 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aref Najafi Netherlands	11	479	246	90	51	33	14	580
Karen M. D’Souza United States	10	234 0.5×	190 0.8×	78 0.9×	62 1.2×	11 0.3×	16	375
Felix Hohendanner Germany	14	517 1.1×	226 0.9×	26 0.3×	65 1.3×	36 1.1×	42	696
Ines Pagel Germany	11	264 0.6×	207 0.8×	43 0.5×	31 0.6×	56 1.7×	14	452
Iuliia Polina United States	13	351 0.7×	282 1.1×	42 0.5×	27 0.5×	41 1.2×	21	522
Max Goebel Netherlands	8	255 0.5×	142 0.6×	53 0.6×	69 1.4×	20 0.6×	11	367
Nils Teucher Germany	13	364 0.8×	381 1.5×	45 0.5×	76 1.5×	16 0.5×	22	618
Glória Conceição Portugal	11	235 0.5×	105 0.4×	42 0.5×	71 1.4×	46 1.4×	25	369
Katsuji Hashimoto Japan	11	418 0.9×	288 1.2×	47 0.5×	33 0.6×	42 1.3×	20	580
Mitra Rajabi United States	2	197 0.4×	202 0.8×	25 0.3×	56 1.1×	46 1.4×	3	371

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Groot, Nina E. de, Maarten M.G. van den Hoogenhof, Aref Najafi, et al.. (2020). Heterozygous loss of Rbm24 in the adult mouse heart increases sarcomere slack length but does not affect function. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 7687–7687. 4 indexed citations

Najafi, Aref, Maike Schuldt, Ilse A. E. Bollen, et al.. (2019). End‐diastolic force pre‐activates cardiomyocytes and determines contractile force: role of titin and calcium. The Journal of Physiology. 597(17). 4521–4531. 6 indexed citations

Najafi, Aref, Maike Schuldt, Thang V. Pham, et al.. (2018). PKA’s favorite son: prioritizing phosphorylation of phospholamban over cardiac troponin I contributes to diastolic dysfunction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 120. 39–40. 1 indexed citations

Deel, Elza D. van, Aref Najafi, Dulce Fontoura, et al.. (2017). In vitro model to study the effects of matrix stiffening on Ca²⁺ handling and myofilament function in isolated adult rat cardiomyocytes. The Journal of Physiology. 595(14). 4597–4610. 23 indexed citations

Najafi, Aref, Vasco Sequeira, Michiel Helmes, et al.. (2016). Selective phosphorylation of PKA targets after β-adrenergic receptor stimulation impairs myofilament function inMybpc3-targeted HCM mouse model. Cardiovascular Research. 110(2). 200–214. 28 indexed citations

Najafi, Aref, Vasco Sequeira, Diederik W.D. Kuster, & Jolanda van der Velden. (2016). β‐adrenergic receptor signalling and its functional consequences in the diseased heart. European Journal of Clinical Investigation. 46(4). 362–374. 90 indexed citations

Helmes, Michiel, Aref Najafi, Bradley M. Palmer, et al.. (2016). Mimicking the cardiac cycle in intact cardiomyocytes using diastolic and systolic force clamps; measuring power output. Cardiovascular Research. 111(1). 66–73. 32 indexed citations

Rain, Silvia, Stine Andersen, Aref Najafi, et al.. (2016). Right Ventricular Myocardial Stiffness in Experimental Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Circulation Heart Failure. 9(7). 106 indexed citations

Sequeira, Vasco, Aref Najafi, Paul J.M. Wijnker, et al.. (2015). ADP-stimulated contraction: A predictor of thin-filament activation in cardiac disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(50). E7003–12. 39 indexed citations

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Sequeira, Vasco, Aref Najafi, Mark McConnell, et al.. (2015). Synergistic role of ADP and Ca²⁺ in diastolic myocardial stiffness. The Journal of Physiology. 593(17). 3899–3916. 57 indexed citations

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Najafi, Aref, Saskia Schlossarek, Elza D. van Deel, et al.. (2014). Sexual dimorphic response to exercise in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy-associated MYBPC3-targeted knock-in mice. Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology. 467(6). 1303–1317. 27 indexed citations

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Kuster, Diederik W.D., Vasco Sequeira, Aref Najafi, et al.. (2013). GSK3β Phosphorylates Newly Identified Site in the Proline-Alanine–Rich Region of Cardiac Myosin–Binding Protein C and Alters Cross-Bridge Cycling Kinetics in Human. Circulation Research. 112(4). 633–639. 46 indexed citations

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Dijk, Sabine J. van, Aref Najafi, Michelle Michels, et al.. (2011). Contractile Dysfunction Irrespective of the Mutant Protein in Human Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy With Normal Systolic Function. Circulation Heart Failure. 5(1). 36–46. 107 indexed citations

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Beer, Vincent J. de, Yannick J.H.J. Taverne, Diederik W.D. Kuster, et al.. (2011). Prostanoids suppress the coronary vasoconstrictor influence of endothelin after myocardial infarction. American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 301(3). H1080–H1089. 14 indexed citations

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