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Torsten Christ

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf · DE
Area of research
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine · Molecular Biology
Research interest
Research interests include Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, Ion channel regulation and function, Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes, and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering.
h-index
40
citations
6,462
works
177
NIH funding
primary concept
Medicine
email

Recent publications

Modulation of cardiomyocyte contractility and action potentials with chemogenetic chloride currents.
2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived atrial cardiomyocytes recapitulate contribution of the slowly activating delayed rectifier currents IKs to repolarization in the human atrium.
2024cited by 2position: contributordoi
Dapagliflozin and atrial fibrillation: elevated dosing to achieve class I antiarrhythmic effects?
2024cited by 1position: contributordoi
<i>PITX2</i> Knockout Induces Key Findings of Electrical Remodeling as Seen in Persistent Atrial Fibrillation.
2023cited by 25position: contributordoi
Modulating cardiac physiology in engineered heart tissue with the bidirectional optogenetic tool BiPOLES.
2023cited by 11position: contributordoi
Repolarization indicates electrical instability in ventricular arrhythmia originating from papillary muscle.
2023cited by 4position: contributordoi
Mind the gap: leak currents and induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes in translational cardiac electrophysiology.
2023cited by 1position: contributordoi
Comprehensive analyses of the inotropic compound omecamtiv mecarbil in rat and human cardiac preparations.
2022cited by 18position: contributordoi
Human model of primary carnitine deficiency cardiomyopathy reveals ferroptosis as a novel disease mechanism
2022cited by 0position: contributordoi
Human Engineered Heart Tissue Patches Remuscularize the Injured Heart in a Dose-Dependent Manner
Circulation 2021cited by 127position: contributordoi
Impact of phosphodiesterases PDE3 and PDE4 on 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor4-mediated increase of cAMP in human atrial fibrillation.
2021cited by 13position: contributordoi
Are atrial human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes ready to identify drugs that beat atrial fibrillation?
2021cited by 13position: contributordoi
Regulation of basal and norepinephrine-induced cAMP and I<sub>Ca</sub> in hiPSC-cardiomyocytes: Effects of culture conditions and comparison to adult human atrial cardiomyocytes.
2021cited by 7position: contributordoi
No impact of sex and age on beta-adrenoceptor-mediated inotropy in human right atrial trabeculae.
2021cited by 5position: contributordoi
Blunted beta-adrenoceptor-mediated inotropy in valvular cardiomyopathy: another piece of the puzzle in human aortic valve disease.
2021cited by 2position: contributordoi
Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes: The New Working Horse in Cardiovascular Pharmacology?
2021cited by 1position: contributordoi
Ca<sup>2+</sup> currents in cardiomyocytes: How to improve interpretation of patch clamp data?
2020cited by 15position: contributordoi
Intermittent Optogenetic Tachypacing of Atrial Engineered Heart Tissue Induces Only Limited Electrical Remodelling.
2020cited by 15position: contributordoi
Regulation of I<sub>Ca,L</sub> and force by PDEs in human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes.
2020cited by 13position: contributordoi
Case Report on: Very Early Afterdepolarizations in HiPSC-Cardiomyocytes-An Artifact by Big Conductance Calcium Activated Potassium Current (I<sub>bk,Ca</sub>).
2020cited by 12position: contributordoi
Inhibition of Adenosine Pathway Alters Atrial Electrophysiology and Prevents Atrial Fibrillation.
2020cited by 11position: contributordoi
Disease modeling of a mutation in α-actinin 2 guides clinical therapy in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
2019cited by 102position: contributordoi
Cardiac glial cells release neurotrophic S100B upon catheter-based treatment of atrial fibrillation.
2019cited by 65position: contributordoi
Chronic intermittent tachypacing by an optogenetic approach induces arrhythmia vulnerability in human engineered heart tissue
Cardiovascular Research 2019cited by 48position: middledoi
Chronic intermittent tachypacing by an optogenetic approach induces arrhythmia vulnerability in human engineered heart tissue
Cardiovascular Research 2019cited by 46position: contributordoi
German Cardiac Society Working Group on Cellular Electrophysiology state-of-the-art paper: impact of molecular mechanisms on clinical arrhythmia management.
2019cited by 28position: contributordoi
Mechanistic role of the CREB-regulated transcription coactivator 1 in cardiac hypertrophy.
2019cited by 8position: contributordoi
DPP10 is a new regulator of Nav1.5 channels in human heart.
2019cited by 6position: contributordoi
Divergent off-target effects of RSK N-terminal and C-terminal kinase inhibitors in cardiac myocytes.
2019cited by 5position: contributordoi

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Frequent collaborators

· 14 papers (2019–2025)Thomas Eschenhagen · Eppendorf (Belgium)9 papers (2019–2024)Christian Meyer · Johns Hopkins Medicine5 papers (2019–2020) · 4 papers (2019–2023) · 3 papers (2021–2025)Muhammed Sönmez · University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf3 papers (2023–2025)Barbora Schwarzová · IMC Fachhochschule Krems2 papers (2023–2025)Judith Rössinger · Universität Hamburg2 papers (2023–2025)Katharina Scherschel · University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf2 papers (2019–2023)Jussi T. Koivumäki · Tampere University2 papers (2023–2024)Carl Schulz · Universität Hamburg2 papers (2023–2024) · 2 papers (2021–2023)Edzard Schwedhelm · Institute of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences2 papers (2023–2025)Christiane Jungen · West German Heart and Vascular Center Essen2 papers (2019–2023)Jordi Heijman · West German Heart and Vascular Center Essen2 papers (2019–2023)Bärbel Ulmer · University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf1 papers (2019–2019)Marc D. Lemoine · Universität Hamburg1 papers (2019–2019)Arne Hansen · University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf1 papers (2019–2019)Diana Lindner · University Medical Center Freiburg1 papers (2019–2019)Susanne Brodesser · Joint Center for Structural Genomics1 papers (2022–2022)