Rachel Van Drunen

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston — United States

Neuroscience · Life Sciences

9h-index312citations12works14.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Circadian rhythm and melatonin(5), Dietary Effects on Health(4), Sleep and Wakefulness Research(3), 3D Printing in Biomedical Research(3), Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism(2)

Publications12 total

Targeting the hepatic circadian clock concomitant with tyrosine kinase inhibition reverses late-stage hepatocellular carcinoma
Cell Reports·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Hepatic BMAL1 and HIF1α regulate a time-dependent hypoxic response and prevent hepatopulmonary-like syndrome
Cell Metabolism·2024· 21 cited
Cell-specific regulation of the circadian clock by BMAL1 in the paraventricular nucleus: Implications for regulation of systemic biological rhythms
Cell Reports·2024· 9 citedOpen Access
Endothelial‐specific telomerase inactivation causes telomere‐independent cell senescence and multi‐organ dysfunction characteristic of aging
Aging Cell·2024· 25 citedOpen Access
Circadian rhythms as modulators of brain health during development and throughout aging
Frontiers in Neural Circuits·2023· 23 citedOpen Access
Innately expressed estrogen‐related receptors in the skeletal muscle are indispensable for exercise fitness
The FASEB Journal·2022· 24 citedOpen Access
Hepatic circadian and differentiation factors control liver susceptibility for fatty liver disease and tumorigenesis
The FASEB Journal·2022· 10 citedOpen Access
Circadian Rhythms of the Hypothalamus: From Function to Physiology
Clocks & Sleep·2021· 112 citedOpen Access
Modeling the effects of hyaluronic acid degradation on the regulation of human astrocyte phenotype using multicomponent interpenetrating polymer networks (mIPNs)
Scientific Reports·2020· 13 citedOpen Access
Paraventricular hypothalamus mediates diurnal rhythm of metabolism
Nature Communications·2020· 57 citedOpen Access
P2‐102: MODELING AND EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF HYALURONIC ACID DEGRADATION ON HUMAN ASTROCYTE REACTIVITY USING MULTI‐INTERPENETRATING POLYMER NETWORKS (MIPNS)
Alzheimer s & Dementia·2019Open Access
Collagen Based Multicomponent Interpenetrating Networks as Promising Scaffolds for 3D Culture of Human Neural Stem Cells, Human Astrocytes, and Human Microglia
ACS Applied Bio Materials·2019· 17 cited

Frequent Co-authors

Kristin Eckel‐Mahan(7), Rafael Bravo(3), Andrea C. Jimenez‐Vergara(3), Tyler Cagle(3), Dany J. Munoz‐Pinto(3), Aleix Ribas‐Latre(2), Zhongming Zhao(2), Baharan Fekry(2), Samay Shivshankar(2), Yulin Dai(2), Zheng Chen(2), Kai Sun(2), Mamoun Younes(2), Eun Ran Kim(1), Yuanzhong Xu(1), Ryan M. Cassidy(1), Yungang Lu(1), Yongjie Yang(1), Jinbin Tian(1), De‐Pei Li(1)