Gerhard Meissner

23.3k citations

229 papers · 19.5k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 71

Impact in

Physiology top 0.05%
- Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism
- Nitric Oxide and Endothelin Effects
Sensory Systems top 0.1%
- Ion Channels and Receptors

Papers in

Sensory Systems 25
- Ion Channels and Receptors 25
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 97
- Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias 86

Co-authors: Le Xu Jonathan S. Stamler F. Anthony Lai Jeffrey S. Smith Étienne Rousseau Jerry P. Eu Sidney Fleischer Éric Rousseau
Journals: Journal of Biological Chemistry (38 papers)Biophysical Journal (27 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (9 papers)Biochemistry (8 papers)The Journal of General Physiology (8 papers)
Partner nations: United States Russia Canada

In The Last Decade

Gerhard Meissner

206 papers receiving 18.9k citations

Hit Papers

9 papers align trajectories log scale

Physiology of Nitric Oxide in Skeletal Muscle 2001 · 844 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2001 Physiological Reviews
1998 Science
1994 Annual Review of Physiology
1990 Journal of Biological Chemistry
1988 Nature
1987 American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology
1986 Journal of Biological Chemistry
1986 Biochemistry
1973 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Gerhard Meissner, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Structural and functional interactions between the EF hand domain and S2–S3 loop in the type-1 ryanodine receptor ion channel Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Venkat R. Chirasani, Ulfaniati Ulfaniati, 乙彦高山, Shaoxiong Yao, م. علي عباس عبيد, Gerhard Meissner, Naohiro Yamaguchi	2023	3
2	Selecting Ions by Size in a Calcium Channel: The Ryanodine Receptor Case Study Biophysical Journal ·Dirk Gillespie, Le Xu, Gerhard Meissner	2014	19
3	Inhibition of CaMKII Does Not Attenuate Cardiac Hypertrophy in Mice with Dysfunctional Ryanodine Receptor PLoS ONE ·Asima Chakraborty, Daniel A. Pasek, Cong Xiao-ming, Angela C. Gomez, Naohiro Yamaguchi, Mark E. Anderson, Gerhard Meissner	2014	6
4	Altered Ca²⁺ concentration, permeability and buffering in the myofibre Ca²⁺ store of a mouse model of malignant hyperthermia The Journal of Physiology ·Carlo Manno, Lourdes Figueroa, Leandro Royer, Sandrine Pouvreau, Chang Seok Lee, Pompeo Volpe, Alessandra Nori, Jingsong Zhou, Gerhard Meissner, Susan L. Hamilton, Eduardo Rı́os	2013	21
5	Regulation of Ryanodine Receptor Ion Channels Through Posttranslational Modifications Current topics in membranes ·Gerhard Meissner	2010	37
6	A Structural Model of the Pore-Forming Region of the Skeletal Muscle Ryanodine Receptor (RyR1) PLoS Computational Biology ·Srinivas Ramachandran, Adrian W.R. Serohijos, Le Xu, Gerhard Meissner, Nikolay V. Dokholyan	2009	23
7	Altered stored calcium release in skeletal myotubes deficient of triadin and junctin Cell Calcium ·Ying Wang, Xinghai Li, A. Córdoba, Eva Reichel, Jerry P. Eu, Gerhard Meissner	2008	32
8	A recessive ryanodine receptor 1 mutation in a CCD patient increases channel activity Cell Calcium ·Farshid Ghassemi, Mirko Vukcevic, Le Xu, Haiyan Zhou, Gerhard Meissner, Francesco Muntoni, Heinz Jungbluth, Francesco Zorzato, Susan Treves	2008	12
9	Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Airway Smooth Muscle Journal of Biological Chemistry ·张小辰, T. McMahon, 新平常盤, Jonathan A. Stiber, Gerhard Meissner, Jerry P. Eu	2006	38
10	Calmodulin Binding to the 3614–3643 Region of RyR1 Is Not Essential for Excitation–Contraction Coupling in Skeletal Myotubes The Journal of General Physiology ·Kristen M.S. O’Connell, Naohiro Yamaguchi, Gerhard Meissner, Robert T. Dirksen	2002	18
11	RYR1 and RYR3 Have Different Roles in the Assembly of Calcium Release Units of Skeletal Muscle Biophysical Journal ·Feliciano Protasi, Hiroaki Takekura, Syed Mukhtar‐Un‐Nisar Andrabi, N. V. Shplis, Gerhard Meissner, Paul Allen, Clara Franzini‐Armstrong	2000	87
12	Evidence for a Role of the Lumenal M3-M4 Loop in Skeletal Muscle Ca2+ Release Channel (Ryanodine Receptor) Activity and Conductance Biophysical Journal ·Ling Gao, David M. Balshaw, Le Xu, Ashutosh Tripathy, Canzi, Gerhard Meissner	2000	116
13	Evidence for a role of C‐terminus in Ca²⁺ inactivation of skeletal muscle Ca²⁺ release channel (ryanodine receptor) FEBS Letters ·Junichi Nakai, Ling Gao, Le Xu, Canzi, Daniel A. Pasek, Gerhard Meissner	1999	28
14	Sarcoplasmic reticulum lumenal Ca2+ has access to cytosolic activation and inactivation sites of skeletal muscle Ca2+ release channel Biophysical Journal ·Ashutosh Tripathy, Gerhard Meissner	1996	167
15	T-tubule depolarization-induced SR Ca2+ release is controlled by dihydropyridine receptor- and Ca(2+)-dependent mechanisms in cell homogenates from rabbit skeletal muscle. The Journal of General Physiology ·P Tagwireyi, Gerhard Meissner	1995	46
16	Effects of perchlorate on the molecules of excitation-contraction coupling of skeletal and cardiac muscle. The Journal of General Physiology ·Jianjie Ma, Kristin A. Anderson, Roman Shirokov, Richard A. Levis, Andrew A. Gonzalez, Miloslav Karhánek, M. Marlene Hosey, Gerhard Meissner, Eduardo Rı́os	1993	45
17	Comparison of CHAPS-Induced Current Fluctuations with Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca ²⁺ Release Channel Activity PubMed ·Rodney V. Jones, Éric Rousseau, Gerhard Meissner	1990	1
18	[35] Techniques for observing calcium channels from skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum in planar lipid bilayers Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Jeffrey S. Smith, Roberto Coronado, Gerhard Meissner	1988	13
19	Purification and reconstitution of the calcium release channel from skeletal muscle Nature ·F. Anthony Lai, Harold Erickson, Éric Rousseau, Надеря Мухтеровна Мухетдинова, Gerhard Meissner Hit paper breakdown →	1988	819
20	Single channel measurements of the calcium release channel from skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum. Activation by Ca2+ and ATP and modulation by Mg2+. The Journal of General Physiology ·Jeffrey S. Smith, Roberto Coronado, Gerhard Meissner	1986	352

About Gerhard Meissner

Gerhard Meissner is a scholar working on Sensory Systems, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Physiology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology, having authored 229 papers that have together received 19.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Ion channel regulation and function (180 papers), Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (86 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (29 papers), Ion Channels and Receptors (25 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (20 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (19 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (18 papers) and Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Physiology (1.9k citations), Sensory Systems (1.7k citations), Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (7.8k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (5.8k citations) and Molecular Biology (16.2k citations). Gerhard Meissner has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Russia and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Le Xu, Jonathan S. Stamler, F. Anthony Lai, Jeffrey S. Smith, Étienne Rousseau, Jerry P. Eu, Sidney Fleischer, Éric Rousseau, Daniel A. Pasek and James S. Henderson. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Biophysical Journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Biochemistry and The Journal of General Physiology.

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