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Fields of interest:

• Embryonic stem cell research

Recent publications:

O. Zimmermann, M. Kochs, T.P. Zwaka, M. Bienek-Ziolkowski, M. Hoher, V. Hombach,
J. Torzewski:
Prognostic role of myocardial tumor necrosis factor-alpha and terminal
complement complex expression in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy,
Eur. J. Heart Fail., (2006) [Epub ahead of print]

O. Zimmermann, T.P. Zwaka, N. Marx, M. Torzewski, A. Bucher, P. Guilliard, A. Hannekum, V. Hombach, J. Torzewski:
Serum starvation and growth factor receptor expression in vascular smooth
muscle cells,
J. Vasc. Res., Vol. 43, (2006), pp. 157-65.

T.P. Zwaka:
Breathing chromatin in pluripotent stem cells,
Dev. Cell., Vol. 10, (2006), pp. 1-2.

O. Zimmermann, M. Kochs, T.P. Zwaka, Z. Kaya, P.M. Lepper, M. Bienek-Ziolkowski,
M. Hoher, V. Hombach, J. Torzewski:
Myocardial biopsy based classification and treatment in patients with dilated
cardiomyopathy,
Int. J. Cardiol., Vol. 15, (2005), pp. 92-100.

T.P. Zwaka, J.A. Thomson:
Differentiation of human embryonic stem cells occurs through symmetric cell
division,
Stem Cells., Vol. 23, (2005), pp. 146-9.

T.P. Zwaka, J.A. Thomson:
A germ cell origin of embryonic stem cells?
Development, Vol. 132, (2005), pp. 227-33.

J.S. Draper, K. Smith, P. Gokhale, H.D. Moore, E. Maltby, J. Johnson, L. Meisner,
T.P. Zwaka, J.A. Thomson, P.W.Andrews:
Recurrent gain of chromosomes 17q and 12 in cultured human embryonic stem
cells,
Nat. Biotechnol., Vol. 22, (2004), pp. 53-4.

T.P. Zwaka, J. Torzewski, A. Hoeflich, M. Dejosez, S. Kaiser, V. Hombach, P.M. Jehle:
The terminal complement complex inhibits apoptosis in vascular smooth muscle
cells by activating an autocrine IGF-1 loop,
FASEB J., Vol. 17, (2003), pp. 1346-8.

T.P. Zwaka, J.A. Thomson:
Homologous recombination in human embryonic stem cells,
Nat. Biotechnol., Vol. 21, (2003), pp. 319-21.

R.H. Xu, X. Chen, D.S. Li, R. Li, G.C. Addicks, C. Glennon, T.P. Zwaka, J.A. Thomson:
BMP4 initiates human embryonic stem cell differentiation to trophoblast,
Nat. Biotechnol., Vol. 20, (2002), pp. 1261-4.