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Lijun Ren

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24 h-index 86 pubs 1,846 cited

  • Animals
  • Humans
  • Plant Proteins
  • Male
  • Oryza
  • Meiosis
  • Hepatocytes
  • Female
  • Rats
  • Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury
  • Chromosome Pairing
  • China
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Plant

Biography and Research Information

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Lijun Ren's research has investigated the effects of various small-molecule kinase inhibitors on isolated rat liver mitochondria. This work contributes to understanding potential toxicological impacts of FDA-approved drugs.

Further research has explored plant science topics, including the role of the SlFSR gene in controlling fruit shelf-life in tomatoes and the Ornithine δ‐aminotransferase gene's criticality for nitrogen reutilization and development in rice. Additionally, Ren has studied the Os SPL gene's regulation of meiotic fate acquisition in rice, contributing to the genetic understanding of plant reproduction.

Ren's research also extends to environmental science, with publications analyzing the environmental impact of corn straw utilization and the concentration of pollutants in the Yangtze River Delta. The researcher has also examined energy consumption and carbon emissions during urbanization in Shandong Province, China. Ren holds a designation as a highly cited researcher and has published 86 total publications with 1,846 citations, maintaining an h-index of 24. Key collaborators at the National Center for Toxicological Research include Laura K. Schnackenberg and Katy S Papineau, with whom Ren has 5 shared publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 24
  • Publications: 86
  • Citations: 1,846

Selected Publications

  • Challenges and solutions in measuring commonly used biomarkers for drug-induced liver injury in a liver-on-a-chip platform (2025)
    Toxicology Letters 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Toxicity of ubiquitous tire rubber antiozonant N-(1,3-dimethylbutyl)-N′-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine (6PPD) and its transformation product 6PPD-quinone (6PPD-Q) in primary human hepatocytes and liver spheroids (2025)
    Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Pexidartinib impairs liver mitochondrial functions causing cell death in primary human hepatocytes at clinically relevant concentrations (2025)
    Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Predicting oncology drug-induced cardiotoxicity with donor-specific iPSC-CMs—a proof-of-concept study with doxorubicin (2024)
    Toxicological Sciences 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Co‐Culture of Human Primary Hepatocytes and Nonparenchymal Liver Cells in the Emulate® Liver‐Chip for the Study of Drug‐Induced Liver Injury (2022)
    Current Protocols 34 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Performance of high-throughput CometChip assay using primary human hepatocytes: a comparison of DNA damage responses with in vitro human hepatoma cell lines (2020)
    Archives of Toxicology 24 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Hepatic Transcript Profiles of Cytochrome P450 Genes Predict Sex Differences in Drug Metabolism (2020)
    Drug Metabolism and Disposition 22 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Recent advances in understanding the hepatotoxicity associated with protein kinase inhibitors (2020)
    Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology 18 citations DOI OpenAlex

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