Michael J. Morales

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

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Michael J. Morales is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael J. Morales has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Molecular Biology, 32 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 19 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Michael J. Morales's work include Ion channel regulation and function (34 papers), Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (32 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (14 papers). Michael J. Morales is often cited by papers focused on Ion channel regulation and function (34 papers), Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (32 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (14 papers). Michael J. Morales collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Michael J. Morales's co-authors include Harold C. Strauss, Randall L. Rasmusson, Shimin Wang, Christine F. Delgado, Peter Mundy, Marygrace E. Yale, Xiang Xue, Peter Mundy, Mulugu V. Brahmajothi and Donald L. Campbell and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Michael J. Morales

65 papers receiving 3.2k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Targeting iron metabolism in cancer therapy

2021 161 citations Michael J. Morales, Xiang Xue Theranostics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael J. Morales United States	31	2.0k	1.4k	815	641	467	65	3.3k
Stefan Herrmann Germany	20	889 0.5×	836 0.6×	443 0.5×	178 0.3×	616 1.3×	44	2.3k
Stephen M. Johnson United States	33	760 0.4×	173 0.1×	1.3k 1.6×	173 0.3×	462 1.0×	136	3.8k
Linda M. Brzustowicz United States	36	2.3k 1.2×	130 0.1×	508 0.6×	348 0.5×	894 1.9×	91	4.5k
Keith Baker United States	20	1.0k 0.5×	513 0.4×	689 0.8×	114 0.2×	58 0.1×	82	2.3k
John S. Penn United States	41	2.4k 1.2×	147 0.1×	681 0.8×	58 0.1×	498 1.1×	144	6.1k
Jane A. Cox United States	25	710 0.4×	112 0.1×	557 0.7×	75 0.1×	109 0.2×	52	2.2k
Mark Rijpkema Netherlands	43	567 0.3×	117 0.1×	590 0.7×	247 0.4×	2.3k 5.0×	120	5.6k
Hubert Kerschbaum Austria	27	823 0.4×	95 0.1×	450 0.6×	54 0.1×	419 0.9×	97	2.9k
Gerald D. Fischbach United States	40	3.9k 2.0×	232 0.2×	3.4k 4.2×	40 0.1×	971 2.1×	65	6.6k

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Hammond, Danielle, Kelly S. Chien, Abhishek Maiti, et al.. (2024). Interim Results of the Phase II Study Investigating CPX-351 in Combination with Ivosidenib for Patients with IDH1-Mutated Acute Myeloid Leukemia and High-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndrome. Blood. 144(Supplement 1). 4271–4271. 1 indexed citations

Morales, Michael J., et al.. (2024). Intercellular contact and cargo transfer between Müller glia and to microglia precede apoptotic cell clearance in the developing retina. Development. 151(1). 7 indexed citations

Morales, Michael J. & Xiang Xue. (2023). Hypoxia in the Pathophysiology of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Comprehensive physiology. 13(3). 4767–4783. 1 indexed citations

Maly, Ivan V., Michael J. Morales, & Mikhail V. Pletnikov. (2021). Astrocyte Bioenergetics and Major Psychiatric Disorders. Advances in neurobiology. 26. 173–227. 6 indexed citations

Morales, Michael J. & Xiang Xue. (2021). Targeting iron metabolism in cancer therapy. Theranostics. 11(17). 8412–8429. 161 indexed citations breakdown →

Fard, Ali, Michael J. Morales, & Sangita P. Patel. (2017). Estrogen receptor beta in human corneal endothelium. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 58(8). 1448–1448. 1 indexed citations

Cotella, Diego, Michael J. Morales, Michael Schaefer, et al.. (2015). Interaction of DPP10a with Kv4.3 channel complex results in a sustained current component of human transient outward current I to. Basic Research in Cardiology. 110(2). 5–5. 11 indexed citations

Liu, Jie, Kyoung-Han Kim, Michael J. Morales, et al.. (2015). Kv4.3-Encoded Fast Transient Outward Current Is Presented in Kv4.2 Knockout Mouse Cardiomyocytes. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0133274–e0133274. 11 indexed citations

Kaplan, Aaron D., Agnieszka Lis, Thomas R. Cimato, et al.. (2014). Enhanced Differentiation of Stem Cell Derived Cardiac Myocytes by Electronic Expression of IK1 Reveals an Atrial-Specific Kv1.5-Like Current. Biophysical Journal. 106(2). 631a–631a. 1 indexed citations

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Posokhov, Yevgen O., Philip A. Gottlieb, Michael J. Morales, Frederick Sachs, & Alexey S. Ladokhin. (2007). Is Lipid Bilayer Binding a Common Property of Inhibitor Cysteine Knot Ion-Channel Blockers?. Biophysical Journal. 93(4). L20–L22. 44 indexed citations

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Bett, Glenna C.L., Michael J. Morales, Harold C. Strauss, & Randall L. Rasmusson. (2006). KChIP2b modulates the affinity and use-dependent block of Kv4.3 by nifedipine. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 340(4). 1167–1177. 21 indexed citations

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Zarayskiy, Vladislav, Ganesh Balasubramanian, Vladimir E. Bondarenko, & Michael J. Morales. (2005). Heteropoda toxin 2 is a gating modifier toxin specific for voltage-gated K+ channels of the Kv4 family. Toxicon. 45(4). 431–442. 38 indexed citations

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Wang, Shimin, Vladimir E. Bondarenko, Yujie Qu, et al.. (2005). Time- and Voltage-Dependent Components of Kv4.3 Inactivation. Biophysical Journal. 89(5). 3026–3041. 43 indexed citations

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Wang, Shimin, Vladimir E. Bondarenko, Yujie Qu, et al.. (2004). Activation properties of Kv4.3 channels: time, voltage and [K⁺]_o dependence. The Journal of Physiology. 557(3). 705–717. 30 indexed citations

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Wang, Shimin, Shuguang Liu, Michael J. Morales, Harold C. Strauss, & Randall L. Rasmusson. (1997). A quantitative analysis of the activation and inactivation kinetics of HERG expressed in Xenopus oocytes. The Journal of Physiology. 502(1). 45–60. 216 indexed citations

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Wang, Shimin, Michael J. Morales, Shuguang Liu, Harold C. Strauss, & Randall L. Rasmusson. (1997). Modulation of HERG affinity for E‐4031 by [K⁺]_o and C‐type inactivation. FEBS Letters. 417(1). 43–47. 105 indexed citations

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Brahmajothi, Mulugu V., Michael J. Morales, Randall L. Rasmusson, Donald L. Campbell, & Harold C. Strauss. (1997). Heterogeneity in K⁺ Channel Transcript Expression Detected in Isolated Ferret Cardiac Myocytes. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology. 20(2). 388–396. 21 indexed citations

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Dang, Yan L., Guo‐Jian Gao, Yan Lou, et al.. (1996). [9] Genetic and biochemical approaches for analysis of mitochondrial RNase P from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 264. 86–99. 2 indexed citations

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Morales, Michael J., Robert C. Castellino, Anne L. Crews, Randall L. Rasmusson, & Harold C. Strauss. (1995). A Novel β Subunit Increases Rate of Inactivation of Specific Voltage-gated Potassium Channel α Subunits. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 270(11). 6272–6277. 141 indexed citations

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Morales, Michael J., Carol A. Wise, Margaret J. Hollingsworth, & Nancy Martín. (1989). Characterization of yeast mitochondrial RNase P: an intact RNA subunit is not essential for activityin vitro. Nucleic Acids Research. 17(17). 6865–6881. 60 indexed citations

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