Roberta A. Mittelstaedt Data-verified

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Last publication 2025 Last refreshed 2026-05-02

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25 h-index 64 pubs 1,745 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Roberta A. Mittelstaedt's research focuses on the mutagenicity and genotoxicity of chemical substances, employing a range of in vitro and in vivo models. Her work investigates the mechanisms by which compounds can induce genetic damage, utilizing assays such as the CometChip, Duplex Sequencing, and the Ames test to assess DNA damage and mutagenesis.

Mittelstaedt has published studies examining the genotoxicity of specific compounds, including N-nitrosamines and N-nitroso propranolol, and has explored methods for optimizing their detection. Her research also extends to evaluating dose-response relationships for genotoxicity in different life stages and target tissues, as demonstrated by her work with ethyl methane sulfonate. She has investigated toxicokinetic and genotoxicity profiles following various exposure routes, such as inhalation, injection, and oral gavage, in rodent models like Sprague Dawley rats.

Her collaborators at the National Center for Toxicological Research include Robert H. Heflich, Nan Mei, Xuefei Cao, and Joseph G. Shaddock. Mittelstaedt's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 25, with 64 total publications and 1,732 total citations. She is recognized as a highly cited researcher.

Metrics

  • h-index: 25
  • Publications: 64
  • Citations: 1,745

Selected Publications

  • Detection of In Vivo Mutation in the Hprt and Pig-a Genes of Rat Lymphocytes (2025)
  • Optimizing the detection of N-nitrosamine mutagenicity in the Ames test (2024)
    23 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Repeat treatment of organotypic airway cultures with ethyl methanesulfonate causes accumulation of somatic cell mutations without expansion of bronchial-carcinoma-specific cancer driver mutations (2024)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Revisiting the mutagenicity and genotoxicity of N-nitroso propranolol in bacterial and human in vitro assays (2023)
    30 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Effect of life stage and target tissue on dose–response assessment of ethyl methane sulfonate‐induced genotoxicity (2021)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Genetic toxicity testing using human in vitro organotypic airway cultures: Assessing <scp>DNA</scp> damage with the <scp>CometChip</scp> and mutagenesis by Duplex Sequencing (2021)
    35 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Toxicokinetic and Genotoxicity Study of NNK in Male Sprague Dawley Rats Following Nose-Only Inhalation Exposure, Intraperitoneal Injection, and Oral Gavage (2021)
    13 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Differentiating between micronucleus dose-responses induced by whole cigarette smoke solutions with Benchmark Dose potency ranking (2021)
    5 citations DOI OpenAlex

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