Jonathan Nizar, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-Nephrology
Primary Office
3269b Carver Biomedical Research Building
Current Positions
- Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-Nephrology
- Associate Director, Nephrology Fellowship Program
Education
- MD, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California
- Resident, Internal Medicine, Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego, California
- Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego, California
- Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Center, Program and Institute Affiliations
Selected Publications
- Nizar, J. M. (2020). Invited Editorial for Physiological Reports (PHY2-2020-04-0157.R2) “Physiological variations of blood pressure according to gender and age among healthy young black Africans aged between 18 to 30 years in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa”. (Vols. 8). (19) Physiological Reports. DOI: 10.14814/phy2.14616.
- Nizar, J. M., Shepard, B. D., Vo, V. T. & Bhalla, V. (2018). Renal tubule insulin receptor modestly promotes elevated blood pressure and markedly stimulates glucose reabsorption. JCI insight 3 (16). DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.95107.
- Nizar, J. M., Bouby, N., Bankir, L. & Bhalla, V. (2018). Improved protocols for the study of urinary electrolyte excretion and blood pressure in rodents: Use of gel food and stepwise changes in diet composition. American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology 314 (6) F1129-F1137. DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00474.2017.
- Nizar, J. M. & Bhalla, V. (2018). Insights from direct renal insulin infusion: A new hammer for an age-old nail. (Vols. 314). (5), pp. F926-F927. American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology. DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00532.2017.
- Nizar, J. M. & Bhalla, V. (2017). Molecular Mechanisms of Sodium-Sensitive Hypertension in the Metabolic Syndrome. (Vols. 19). (8) Current Hypertension Reports. DOI: 10.1007/s11906-017-0759-5.
- Nizar, J. M., Dong, W., McClellan, R. B., Labarca, M., Zhou, Y., Wong, J., Goens, D. G., Zhao, M., Velarde, N., Bernstein, D., Pellizzon, M., Satlin, L. M. & Bhalla, V. (2016). Na+-sensitive elevation in blood pressure is ENaC independent in diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance. American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology 310 (9) F812-F820. DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00265.2015.
- Labarca, M., Nizar, J. M., Walczak, E. M., Dong, W., Pao, A. C. & Bhalla, V. (2015). Harvest and primary culture of the murine aldosterone-sensitive distal nephron. American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology 308 (11) F1306-F1315. DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00668.2014.
- Tan, E. W., Nizar, J. M., Carrera-G, E. & Fortune, E. S. (2005). Electrosensory interference in naturally occurring aggregates of a species of weakly electric fish, Eigenmannia virescens. Behavioural Brain Research 164 (1) 83-92. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2005.06.014.