Omar Benzakour

Omar Benzakour is a Full Professor of cell biology, at the University of Poitiers, France. His research is related to the relationship between coagulation factors and tumor growth and metastasis. Since June 2000, he is a Member of the Editorial Board and Section Editor for Thrombosis and Haemostasis. He is also a Member of the Editorial Board of Coeur et Vaisseaux which is an international journal in French on cardiovascular disease. He was nominee in 1996 and 1997 for the Sanofi International Awards on Vascular Biology at the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH). He was also appointed in 1999 as Expert in the cardiovascular panel within the European Commission in Brussels. Professor Omar Benzakour is graduated from the University of Paris XI, France, in 1992. His Ph.D research work was conducted at the Curie Institute, Orsay, Paris, France. He was first appointed as a Research Fellow at the Thrombosis Research Institute, Kings College, London, UK, then honorary lectureship in 1996. In 2000, he was appointed as a Faculty Member at the University of Rochester Medical Center, NY, USA. He was then appointed as a Member of the Dean Research Advisory Board and Consultant in Cell Biology with Socratech TLC.

Biography Updated on 26 March 2007

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Evidence for a major role of endogenous fibroblast growth factor-2 in apoptotic cortex-induced subventricular zone cell proliferation
    European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 26, no. 11, pp. 3036–3042, 2007
  2. Endogenous factors derived from embryonic cortex regulate proliferation and neuronal differentiation of postnatal subventricular zone cell cultures
    European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 1970–1976, 2006
  3. Activated protein C alters cytosolic calcium flux in human brain endothelium via binding to endothelial protein C receptor and activation of protease activated receptor-1
    Blood, vol. 101, no. >12, pp. 4797–4801, 2003
  4. Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor receptors in smooth muscle cells
    Journal of Cellular Physiology, vol. 188, no. 3, pp. 359–368, 2001
  5. Thrombin Activates Transcription Factors Sp1, NF-?B, and CREB: Importance of the Use of Phosphatase Inhibitors during Nuclear Protein Extraction for the Assessment of Transcription Factor DNA-Binding Activities
    Analytical Biochemistry, vol. 275, no. 2, pp. 180–186, 1999
  6. Involvement of Pertussis toxin-sensitive and -insensitive G proteins in a-thrombin signalling on cultured human vascular smooth muscle cells
    Cellular Signalling, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 59–66, 1996
  7. Prothrombin cleavage by human vascular smooth muscle cells: A potential alternative pathway to the coagulation cascade
    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 514–528, 1995
  8. Long-Term Chemotaxis Studies on Adherent Cells: Effect of Platelet-Derived Growth Factor-BB on Human Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Migration
    Analytical Biochemistry, vol. 230, no. 2, pp. 215–223, 1995
  9. Structural domains of thrombin involved in the induction of mitogenesis in cultured human vascular smooth muscle cells
    Blood Coagulation & Fibrinolysis, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 634–642, 1995
  10. Variability in the proliferative responsiveness of cultured human vascular smooth muscle cells to ??-thrombin
    Blood Coagulation & Fibrinolysis, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 753–760, 1995
  11. Transforming Growth Factor Beta Stimulates Mitogenically Mouse NIH3T3 Fibroblasts and Those Cells Transformed by the EJ-H-ras Oncogene
    Growth Factors, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 265–275, 1992
  12. Transforming Growth Factor Beta Stimulates Mitogenically Mouse NIH3T3 Fibroblasts and Those Cells Transformed by the EJ-H-ras Oncogene
    Growth Factors, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 265–275, 1992
  13. Growth in serum-free medium of NIH3T3 cells transformed by the EJ-H-ras oncogene: Evidence for multiple autocrine growth factors
    International Journal of Cancer, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 980–988, 1992
  14. Drosophila cell extracts contain a TGF-?-like activity
    Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol. 169, no. 3, pp. 1178–1184, 1990