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Sheila Riazi
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Latest papers
A proposed North American approach for genetic testing of individuals at risk for malignant hyperthermia.
Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2026 · first author
A Proposed North American Approach for Genetic Testing of Individuals at Risk for Malignant Hyperthermia.
Anesthesiology · 2026 · first author
Humidity impacts volatile anesthetic and heat responses of malignant hyperthermia susceptible mice.
Skeletal muscle · 2026
Latest funding
- $955,625
Unraveling the genetics of malignant hyperthermia
CIHR · 2016 · Co-investigator
80 publications.
A proposed North American approach for genetic testing of individuals at risk for malignant hyperthermia.
Riazi S, Watt S, Plester J, Biesecker LG
A Proposed North American Approach for Genetic Testing of Individuals at Risk for Malignant Hyperthermia.
Riazi S, Watt S, Plester J, Biesecker LG
Humidity impacts volatile anesthetic and heat responses of malignant hyperthermia susceptible mice.
He M, Riazi S, van den Bersselaar LR, Islander G, Gillies R, Hellblom A, Voermans NC, Temurziev S, Jungbluth H, Dirksen RT
Genotype-phenotype relationships in butyrylcholinesterase deficiency: a systematic review.
Snak de Souza CD, Ibarra Moreno CA, Riazi S, Hopkins PM
Direct-to-Phase II recovery after hip and knee arthroplasty at Toronto Western Hospital.
Arena CA, Zywiel MG, Riazi S, Boasie A, Blanchard S, Veillette C, Esmail T
Aberrant Intracellular Calcium Homeostasis Disrupts Insulin-stimulated Glucose Uptake in Muscle Cells from Patients with Malignant Hyperthermia Susceptibility.
Uryash A, Razzaq I, Moreno CAI, Adams JA, Allen PD, Riazi S, Lopez JR
Age-Dependent Effects of Muscle Resting Calcium on Fasting Blood Glucose: Implications for Prediabetes Risk.
Tammineni ER, Figueroa L, Fill M, Riazi S, Manno C
Malignant Hyperthermia.
Pinyavat T, Riazi S, Deng J, Slessarev M, Cuthbertson BH, Ibarra Moreno CA, Jerath A
Artificial intelligence approaches to the volumetric quantification of glycogen granules in EM images of human tissue.
Ríos E, Samsó M, Figueroa LC, Manno C, Tammineni ER, Rios Giordano L, Riazi S
Acute effects of dantrolene on the mechanical performance of myopathic human hearts.
Chakraborty P, Bokhari MM, Massé S, Azam MA, Lai PFH, Liang T, Si D, Bhaskaran A, Riazi S, Billia F, Nanthakumar K
Unraveling the genetics of malignant hyperthermia
Principal investigators: Dowling, James
Keywords: Excitation Contraction Coupling; Gene Discovery; Malignant Hyperthermia; Whole Exome Sequencing
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
- Medicine/Cardiology
- Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine
- Cell Biology
- Physiology
- Anesthesia
- Anesthesiology and Pain Management
- Other
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Frances Chung
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
7 shared papers, latest 2024
Kumaraswamy Nanthakumar
Medicine/Cardiology
6 shared papers, latest 2024
Mahesh Nagappa
Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2022
Keyvan Karkouti
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2020
Justyna Bartoszko
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2022
Amira Klip
Cell Biology
2 shared papers, latest 2023
Filio Billia
Physiology
2 shared papers, latest 2024
Matteo Parotto
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2024
Naveed Siddiqui
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Luc Dubois
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Duminda Wijeysundera
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2014
James Dowling
Genetics and Genome Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2014
Anne-Marie Guerguerian
Pediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Peter Selby
Department of Family and Community Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Isaac Bogoch
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Janusz Pawliszyn
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Marcin Wasowicz
Obstetrics and Gynecology
1 shared papers, latest 2006
Phedias Diamandis
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Angela Jerath
Anesthesiology and Pain Management
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Marat Slessarev
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Lorenzo Del Sorbo
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Sangeeta Mehta
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Jennie Johnstone
Clinical Public Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2020
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