Shanta Jean Persaud is a diabetes researcher and academic.[1][2] She is professor of diabetes and endocrinology at King's College London, England.[3]

Career edit

Persaud obtained a BSc degree in physiology and pharmacology and a PhD in the area of islets of langerhans. She started working at King's College London in 1989. Her current research focuses in the area of islet β-cells, receptors in islet function, and insulin secretagogues. According to Scopus, she has published over 198 scientific research documents with 5677 citations, and has an h-index of 45.[4]

Selected publications edit

  • Faria, Alyssa; Persaud, Shanta J (2017). "Cardiac oxidative stress in diabetes: Mechanisms and therapeutic potential". Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 172: 50–62.[5]
  • Atanes P., Ruz-Maldonado I., Olaniru O.E., Persaud S.J. (2020). "Assessing Mouse Islet Function". In: King A. (eds) Animal Models of Diabetes. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2128. Humana, New York, NY.[6]
  • Altaf Al-Romaiyan, Bo Liu, Shanta Persaud, Peter Jones (2020). "A novel Gymnema sylvestre extract protects pancreatic beta-cells from cytokine-induced apoptosis". PHYTOTHERAPY RESEARCH. 34, 1, p. 161-172.[7]

References edit

  1. ^ Persaud, Shanta Jean (1989). Intracellular signalling in the regulation of insulin release from rat islets of Langerhans. OCLC 1124155494.
  2. ^ "Over £6.8 million committed to new research projects across UK in the last year". Diabetes UK. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  3. ^ "Professor Shanta Persaud". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
  4. ^ "Scopus preview - Scopus - Author details (Persaud, Shanta Jean)". www.scopus.com. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  5. ^ Faria, Alyssa; Persaud, Shanta J (2017-04-01). "Cardiac oxidative stress in diabetes: Mechanisms and therapeutic potential". Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 172: 50–62. doi:10.1016/j.pharmthera.2016.11.013. ISSN 0163-7258. PMID 27916650. S2CID 207365920.
  6. ^ Atanes, Patricio; Ruz-Maldonado, Inmaculada; Olaniru, Oladapo E.; Persaud, Shanta J. (2020), "Assessing Mouse Islet Function", Animal Models of Diabetes, Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 2128, New York, NY: Springer US, pp. 241–268, doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-0385-7_17, ISBN 978-1-0716-0384-0, PMID 32180198, S2CID 212740107, retrieved 2020-07-11
  7. ^ Al‐Romaiyan, Altaf; Liu, Bo; Persaud, Shanta; Jones, Peter (2020). "A novel Gymnema sylvestre extract protects pancreatic beta-cells from cytokine-induced apoptosis". Phytotherapy Research. 34 (1): 161–172. doi:10.1002/ptr.6512. ISSN 1099-1573. PMID 31515869.