Claudia Dittfeld

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Claudia Dittfeld is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Claudia Dittfeld has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 12 papers in Surgery and 9 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Claudia Dittfeld's work include Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (16 papers), Cancer Cells and Metastasis (8 papers) and Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches (7 papers). Claudia Dittfeld is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (16 papers), Cancer Cells and Metastasis (8 papers) and Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches (7 papers). Claudia Dittfeld collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Ukraine. Claudia Dittfeld's co-authors include Leoni A. Kunz‐Schughart, Wolfgang Mueller‐Klieser, Jonathan West, Yvette Garbe, Malcolm Alison, Philipp Große-Gehling, Christine A. Fargeas, Denis Corbeil, Michaël Baumann and Thomas Ried and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Claudia Dittfeld

32 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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Multicellular tumor spheroids: An underestimated tool is catching up again

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Chiara Arienti Italy

Michele Zanoni Italy

Miriam Zimmermann United Kingdom

Genee Y. Lee United States

Sritama Nath United States

Louis‐Bastien Weiswald France

Susan Breslin Ireland

William Court United Kingdom

Virginie Dangles-Marie France

Elizabeth S. Nakasone United States

Chiara Arienti Italy

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Dittfeld, Claudia, Malgorzata Kopycinska‐Müller, Anett Jannasch, et al.. (2025). Visualization of fiber structure and calcification of porcine and human aortic valve and pericardium tissue via optical coherence tomography. Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 39–39. 1 indexed citations

Dittfeld, Claudia, et al.. (2024). Tissue requirements for the application of aortic valve neocuspidization – appropriate pericardium properties and homogeneity?. Journal of Materials Science Materials in Medicine. 35(1). 26–26.

Jannasch, Anett, Michele Bortolomeazzi, Christian Schmidt, et al.. (2024). Setting up an institutional OMERO environment for bioimage data: Perspectives from both facility staff and users. Journal of Microscopy. 297(1). 105–119.

Jannasch, Anett, Jessica Pablik, Elizabeth von Hauff, et al.. (2024). In vivo application of a glutaraldehyde-free, UVA/riboflavin cross-linked bovine pericardium confirms suitability for cardiovascular substitutes. APL Materials. 12(1). 3 indexed citations

Dittfeld, Claudia, Stephan Behrens, Anett Jannasch, et al.. (2023). Challenges of aortic valve tissue culture – maintenance of viability and extracellular matrix in the pulsatile dynamic microphysiological system. Journal of Biological Engineering. 17(1). 60–60. 2 indexed citations

Dittfeld, Claudia, Ulla König, Anett Jannasch, et al.. (2023). Hemocompatibility tuning of an innovative glutaraldehyde-free preparation strategy using riboflavin/UV crosslinking and electron irradiation of bovine pericardium for cardiac substitutes. Biomaterials Advances. 147. 213328–213328. 6 indexed citations

Klein, Oliver, Andreas Greiner, Manuela Sommerfeld, et al.. (2021). Use of MALDI Mass Spectrometry Imaging to Identify Proteomic Signatures in Aortic Aneurysms after Endovascular Repair. Biomedicines. 9(9). 1088–1088. 4 indexed citations

Jannasch, Anett, Christian Schnabel, Roberta Galli, et al.. (2021). Optical coherence tomography and multiphoton microscopy offer new options for the quantification of fibrotic aortic valve disease in ApoE−/− mice. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 5834–5834. 8 indexed citations

Dinger, Thiemo Florin, Oleg Chen, Claudia Dittfeld, et al.. (2020). Microenvironmentally-driven Plasticity of CD44 isoform expression determines Engraftment and Stem-like Phenotype in CRC cell lines. Theranostics. 10(17). 7599–7621. 11 indexed citations

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Dittfeld, Claudia, Petra Büttner, Anett Jannasch, et al.. (2018). Treatment with XAV-939 prevents in vitro calcification of human valvular interstitial cells. PLoS ONE. 13(12). e0208774–e0208774. 11 indexed citations

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Dittfeld, Claudia, Anett Jannasch, Michael Haase, et al.. (2018). Subclinical Endocarditis Might be a Hidden Trigger of Early Prosthetic Valve Calcification: A Histological Study. The Heart Surgery Forum. 21(4). E300–E304. 1 indexed citations

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Dittfeld, Claudia, Michael Haase, Anett Jannasch, et al.. (2017). Movat Pentachrom stain reveals unexpected high osteogenesis rate in aortic valves. Acta Histochemica. 119(5). 533–537. 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Oleg, et al.. (2016). Arginine starvation in colorectal carcinoma cells: Sensing, impact on translation control and cell cycle distribution. Experimental Cell Research. 341(1). 67–74. 16 indexed citations

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Dittfeld, Claudia, et al.. (2013). Three-dimensional environment renders cancer cells profoundly less susceptible to a single amino acid starvation. Amino Acids. 45(5). 1221–1230. 17 indexed citations

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Dittfeld, Claudia, et al.. (2012). The SARAH Domain of RASSF1A and Its Tumor Suppressor Function. PubMed. 2012. 1–10. 24 indexed citations

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Dittfeld, Claudia, Antje Dietrich, Yvette Garbe, et al.. (2012). Rapid re-expression of CD133 protein in colorectal cancer cell lines in vitro and in vivo. Laboratory Investigation. 92(11). 1607–1622. 15 indexed citations

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Dittfeld, Claudia, Roswitha Runge, Martin Zenker, et al.. (2012). Flow cytometric cell‐based assay to preselect antibody constructs for radionuclide conjugation. Cytometry Part A. 81A(10). 865–873. 7 indexed citations

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Dittfeld, Claudia, et al.. (2010). Multicellular tumor spheroids: An underestimated tool is catching up again. Journal of Biotechnology. 148(1). 3–15. 1297 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dittfeld, Claudia, et al.. (2009). Impact of exogenous lactate on survival and radioresponse of carcinoma cells in vitro. International Journal of Radiation Biology. 85(11). 989–1001. 16 indexed citations

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Dittfeld, Claudia, Antje Dietrich, Sandra Hering, et al.. (2009). CD133 expression is not selective for tumor-initiating or radioresistant cell populations in the CRC cell line HCT-116. Radiotherapy and Oncology. 94(3). 375–383. 26 indexed citations

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