Peter E. Light

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
116 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Peter E. Light is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter E. Light has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Molecular Biology, 43 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 41 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Peter E. Light's work include Cardiac Ischemia and Reperfusion (40 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (38 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (27 papers). Peter E. Light is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac Ischemia and Reperfusion (40 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (38 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (27 papers). Peter E. Light collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Peter E. Light's co-authors include Jason R.B. Dyck, Michael Riedel, Michael B. Wheeler, Patrick E. MacDonald, Robert J. French, Jocelyn E. Manning Fox, István Baczkó, Michael P. Walsh, Anne Marie Salapatek and Vernon W. Dolinsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Peter E. Light

115 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

Cardiac Late Sodium Channel Current Is a Molecular Target for the Sodium/Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitor Empagliflozin

2021 144 citations Koenraad Philippaert, Mohammad Fatehi et al. Circulation profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter E. Light Canada	43	2.5k	1.5k	1.4k	1.4k	978	116	5.7k
Takashi Miki Japan	50	4.2k 1.7×	1.5k 1.0×	2.9k 2.1×	1.7k 1.2×	2.7k 2.8×	146	8.6k
Fabio A. Recchia United States	46	3.5k 1.4×	3.6k 2.4×	1.2k 0.9×	599 0.4×	839 0.9×	141	8.4k
Christoph Maack Germany	44	4.2k 1.7×	3.8k 2.6×	824 0.6×	564 0.4×	892 0.9×	165	7.9k
Masafumi Kakei Japan	39	2.0k 0.8×	933 0.6×	1.8k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	616 0.6×	151	5.5k
Rebecca H. Ritchie Australia	46	2.9k 1.2×	2.9k 2.0×	916 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	572 0.6×	162	7.1k
Tomomi Ide Japan	47	4.0k 1.6×	3.3k 2.2×	855 0.6×	399 0.3×	999 1.0×	179	8.6k
Peter Proks United Kingdom	39	2.5k 1.0×	542 0.4×	2.5k 1.8×	1.6k 1.2×	1.3k 1.4×	96	5.0k
Pieter D. Verdouw Netherlands	38	1.3k 0.5×	2.9k 2.0×	1.2k 0.9×	542 0.4×	1.6k 1.7×	213	5.9k
Morris Karmazyn Canada	51	4.2k 1.7×	2.9k 1.9×	636 0.5×	496 0.4×	1.9k 2.0×	188	7.9k
John C. Chatham United States	60	5.5k 2.2×	1.6k 1.1×	808 0.6×	834 0.6×	623 0.6×	166	9.3k

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Baghelani, Masoud & Peter E. Light. (2024). Sensitivity Enhancement of an Inter-Digital Sensor for High Precision Glucose Monitoring. 164–166.

Liu, Xiong, Rui Zhang, Mohammad Fatehi, et al.. (2022). Regulation of PKD2 channel function by TACAN. The Journal of Physiology. 601(1). 83–98. 3 indexed citations

Campbell, S., Dominic P. Golec, Amy Barr, et al.. (2020). Human islets contain a subpopulation of glucagon-like peptide-1 secreting α cells that is increased in type 2 diabetes. Molecular Metabolism. 39. 101014–101014. 63 indexed citations

Fatehi, Mohammad, et al.. (2017). The mechano-sensitivity of cardiac ATP-sensitive potassium channels is mediated by intrinsic MgATPase activity. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 108. 34–41. 9 indexed citations

Aichler, Michaela, Jan Krumsiek, Achim Buck, et al.. (2017). N-acyl Taurines and Acylcarnitines Cause an Imbalance in Insulin Synthesis and Secretion Provoking β Cell Dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetes. Cell Metabolism. 25(6). 1334–1347.e4. 83 indexed citations

Huang, Yuhao, Ahmed S. Abdel‐Moneim, Peter E. Light, Weiyu Qiu, & Scot H. Simpson. (2014). Comparative cardiovascular safety of insulin secretagogues following hospitalization for ischemic heart disease among type 2 diabetes patients: a cohort study. Journal of Diabetes and its Complications. 29(2). 196–202. 16 indexed citations

Yu, Yi, et al.. (2014). Intracellular Long-Chain Acyl CoAs Activate TRPV1 Channels. PLoS ONE. 9(5). e96597–e96597. 15 indexed citations

Abraham, Mona A., Jessica T.Y. Yue, Mary P. LaPierre, et al.. (2013). Hypothalamic glucagon signals through the KATP channels to regulate glucose production. Molecular Metabolism. 3(2). 202–208. 29 indexed citations

Batchu, Sri Nagarjun, Ketul R. Chaudhary, Haitham El‐Sikhry, et al.. (2012). Role of PI3Kα and sarcolemmal ATP-sensitive potassium channels in epoxyeicosatrienoic acid mediated cardioprotection. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 53(1). 43–52. 37 indexed citations

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Abdel‐Moneim, Ahmed S., et al.. (2011). Variations in tissue selectivity amongst insulin secretagogues: a systematic review. Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism. 14(2). 130–138. 77 indexed citations

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Wang, Penny Y.T., Carol Lam, Madhu Chari, et al.. (2008). Upper intestinal lipids trigger a gut–brain–liver axis to regulate glucose production. Nature. 452(7190). 1012–1016. 238 indexed citations

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Nagendran, Jayan, Stephen L. Archer, Daniel Soliman, et al.. (2007). Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Is Highly Expressed in the Hypertrophied Human Right Ventricle, and Acute Inhibition of Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Improves Contractility. Circulation. 116(3). 238–248. 394 indexed citations

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Álvarez, Bernardo V., Danielle Johnson, Daniel Sowah, et al.. (2006). Carbonic anhydrase inhibition prevents and reverts cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. The Journal of Physiology. 579(1). 127–145. 65 indexed citations

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Baczkó, István, et al.. (2006). Inhibition of cardiac voltage‐gated sodium channels by grape polyphenols. British Journal of Pharmacology. 149(6). 657–665. 63 indexed citations

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Fox, Jocelyn E. Manning, et al.. (2004). Identification and Pharmacological Characterization of Sarcolemmal ATP-Sensitive Potassium Channels in the Murine Atrial HL-1 Cell Line. Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology. 45(1). 30–35. 7 indexed citations

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Kanji, Hussein D., et al.. (2002). スルホニル尿素剤HMR 1098の心臓選択性心臓とすい臓の天然型および組換型K ATP チャンネルに関する研究. British Journal of Pharmacology. 135(2). 480–488. 2 indexed citations

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Renaud, Jean‐Marc, Anthony O. Gramolini, Peter E. Light, & Alain Steve Comtois. (1996). Modulation of muscle contractility during fatigue and recovery by ATP‐sensitive potassium channel. Acta Physiologica Scandinavica. 156(3). 203–212. 13 indexed citations

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Light, Peter E.. (1996). Regulation of ATP-sensitive potassium channels by phosphorylation. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Biomembranes. 1286(1). 65–73. 32 indexed citations

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Light, Peter E. & Robert J. French. (1994). Glibenclamide selectively blocks ATP-sensitive K+ channels reconstituted from skeletal muscle. European Journal of Pharmacology. 259(3). 219–222. 22 indexed citations

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Comtois, Alain Steve, et al.. (1993). Tolbutamide, but not glyburide, affects the excitability and contractility of unfatigued frog sartorius muscle. European Journal of Pharmacology. 242(1). 65–73. 7 indexed citations

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