Paul J. Thornalley is an international diabetes researcher. His studies focus on metabolic dysfunction driving the development of insulin resistance, obesity, type 2 diabetes and diabetic vascular complications. He has 560 publications (316 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in books; 244 conference abstracts and papers – first or last author in ca. 95%) and 15 patents, receiving over 38,000 citations, h-index 105.
Diabetes Research Center, QBRI and Professor, CHLS.
2018 - PresentWarwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
2007 - 2018University of Essex, Colchester, UK.
1988 - 2006Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
1984 - 1988New York University Medical School, Department of Pharmacology, New York, USA.
1982 - 1983University of Manchester, UK
1979University of Oxford, UK
1982Guidelines for measuring reactive oxygen species and oxidative damage in cells and in vivo. Nature Metabolism 4, 651 – 662.
2022Emerging glycation-based therapeutics – glyoxalase 1 inducers and glyoxalase 1 inhibitors. Internat J. Molec. Sci. 23, 2453
2022Hexokinase-2-linked glycolytic overload and unscheduled glycolysis – driver of insulin resistance and development of vascular complications of diabetes. Internat J. Molec. Sci. 23, 2165.
2022Studies of glyoxalase 1-linked multidrug resistance reveal glycolysis-derived reactive metabolite, methylglyoxal, is a common contributor in cancer chemotherapy targeting the spliceosome. Frontiers in Oncol 11, 748698
2021Reversal of insulin resistance in overweight and obese subjects by trans-resveratrol and hesperetin combination – link to dysglycemia, blood pressure, dyslipidemia and low-grade inflammation. Nutrients 13, 237.
2021Dicarbonyl stress, protein glycation and the unfolded protein response. Glycoconjugate J. 38, 331 – 334.
2021Protein glycation – biomarkers of metabolic dysfunction and early-stage decline in health in the era of precision medicine. Redox Biology 42, 101920.
2021Glycolytic overload-driven dysfunction of periodontal ligament fibroblasts in high glucose concentration, corrected by glyoxalase 1 inducer. BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care. 8, e001458.
2020Vulnerabilities of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to proteotoxicity – opportunity for repurposed chemotherapy of COVID-19 infection. Frontiers in Pharmacology 11, Article 585408
2020Activation of the unfolded protein response of endothelial cells in high glucose by methylglyoxal. Scientific Reports 9, 7889
2019Hexokinase-2 glycolytic overload in diabetes and ischemia-reperfusion injury. Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism 30, 419 – 431.
2019Multiple roles of glyoxalase 1-mediated suppression of methylglyoxal glycation in cancer biology – involvement in tumour suppression, tumour growth, multidrug resistance and target for chemotherapy. Seminars in Cancer Biology 49, 83 – 93.
2018Methylglyoxal-induced dicarbonyl stress in ageing and disease – first steps towards glyoxalase 1-based treatments. Clin. Sci. 130, 1677–1696.
2016Improved glycemic control and vascular function in overweight and obese subjects by glyoxalase 1 inducer formulation. Diabetes 65, 2282 – 2294.
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