Carsten Tschöpe Profile Page
Organisation: Charité
Department: Medical Clinic for Cardiology and Pulmology
Address: Hindenburgdamm 30
12200 Berlin
Campus: Benjamin Franklin
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Field: Cardiovascular System
Track(s): Med
CV: 2004 Senior Resident, Dept. of Cardiology, Charite Campus Benjamin Franklin,
Berlin; Specialist for Internal Medicine.
2003 University lecturer qualification: Diabetic cardiopathy
2002 Medical Specialist in Internal Medicine
1996-present Group Leader “Experimental Cardiology” and Fellow of the Dept. of Cardiology Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin
1995-1996 Fellowship, Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Kiel
1993-1995 Fellowship, Dept. of Nephrology, University of Heidelberg
1993 Doctoral thesis at the Institute of Pharmacology, Heidelberg University
1992 Study of Medicine, University of Montreal
1986-1993 Study of Medicine, University of Heidelberg
Research Interests: main field: inflammatory cardiomyopathy, diabetic cardiopathy, ischemic cardiopathy

other fields: diastolic dysfunction, endothelial dysfunction, peptide systems

current research interest: experimental and clinical studies in cardiology, stem cells
Publications: Riad A, Unger D, Du J, Westermann D, Mohr Z, Sobirey M, Dorenkamp M, Schultheiss HP,Tschöpe C (2006) Chronic Inhibition of p38MAPK improves cardiac and endothelial function in experimental diabetes mellitus. Eur J Pharm: in press

Tschöpe C, Bock CT, Kasner M, Noutsias M, Westermann D, Schwimmbeck PL, Pauschinger M, Poller WC, Kühl U, Kandolf R, Schultheiss H-P (2005) High prevalence of cardiac parvovirus B19 infection in patients with isolated left ventricular diastolic dysfunction. Circulation 111: 879-886

Witzenbichler B, Westermann D, Knueppel S, Schultheiss HP, Tschöpe C 2005 Protective role of angiopoietin-1 in endotoxic Shock. Circulation 111: 97-105

Tschöpe C, Spillmann F, Rehfeld U, Koch M, Westermann D, Altmann C, Dendorfer A, Walther T, Bader M, Paul M, Schultheiss HP, Vetter R (2004) Improvement of defective sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ transport in diabetic heart of transgenic rats expressing the human kallikrein-1 gene. FASEB J 18: 1967-1969

Tschöpe C, Walther T, Königer J, Spillmann F, Westermann D, Escher F, Pauschinger M, Pesquero JB, Bader M, Schultheiss HP, Noutsias M (2004) Prevention of cardiac fibrosis and left ventricular dysfunction in diabetic cardiomyopathy in rats by transgenic expression of the human tissue kallikrein gene. FASEB J 18: 828-835

Tschöpe C, Spillmann F, Altmann C. , Koch M, Westermann D, Dhayat N, Dhayat S, Bascands JL, Gera L, Hoffmann S, Schultheiss HP, Walther T (2004) Bradykinin B1 receptor is a mediator of the cardio-protective effects of AT1 blockade after myocardial infarction. Cardiovasc Res 61: 559-569

Fechner H, Noutsias M, Tschöpe C, Hinze K, Wang X, Escher F, Dekkers D, Lamers J, Vetter R, Paul M, Pauschinger M, Schultheiss HP, Poller WC (2003) Regulation of Coxsackie-adenovirus-receptor expression during myocardial tissue formation and remodeling - Evidence of cell-cell contact dependent regulation. Circulation 107: 876-882

Walther T, Siems W-E, Hauke D, Spillmann F, Dendorfer A, Krause W, Schultheiss HP, Tschöpe C (2002) AT1 receptor blockade increases cardiac bradykinin via neutral endopeptidase after induction of myocardial infarction in rats. FASEB J 16: 1237-1241

Vetter R, Rehfeld U, Reissfelder C, Weiss W, Wagner KD, Gunther J, Hammes A, Tschöpe C, Dillmann W, Paul M (2002) Transgenic overexpression of the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ATPase improves reticular Ca2+ handling in normal and diabetic rat hearts. FASEB J 16: 1657-1659

Tschöpe C, Gohlke P, Walther T, Unger Th (2000) The angiotensin Type 2 receptor and the kallikrein-kinin system: is there a link? In: Hypertension and hypertension-related organ damage: an update in the year 2000, published by Churchill-Livingstone/Momento Medico: 11-26