Standout Papers

Astrocytes: biology and pathology 2001 2026 2009 2017 3.8k
  1. Astrocytes: biology and pathology (2009)
    Michael V. Sofroniew, Harry V. Vinters Acta Neuropathologica
  2. Molecular dissection of reactive astrogliosis and glial scar formation (2009)
    Michael V. Sofroniew Trends in Neurosciences
  3. Astrocyte scar formation aids central nervous system axon regeneration (2016)
    Mark A. Anderson, Joshua E. Burda et al. Nature
  4. Reactive Astrocytes Protect Tissue and Preserve Function after Spinal Cord Injury (2004)
    Julia Herrmann, Keith E. Tansey et al. Journal of Neuroscience
  5. Nerve Growth Factor Signaling, Neuroprotection, and Neural Repair (2001)
    Michael V. Sofroniew, Charles L. Howe et al. Annual Review of Neuroscience
  6. Reactive Gliosis and the Multicellular Response to CNS Damage and Disease (2014)
    Joshua E. Burda, Michael V. Sofroniew Neuron
  7. Astrocyte barriers to neurotoxic inflammation (2015)
    Michael V. Sofroniew Nature reviews. Neuroscience
  8. Leukocyte Infiltration, Neuronal Degeneration, and Neurite Outgrowth after Ablation of Scar-Forming, Reactive Astrocytes in Adult Transgenic Mice (1999)
    Toby G. Bush, Narman Puvanachandra et al. Neuron
  9. Diversity of astrocyte functions and phenotypes in neural circuits (2015)
    Baljit S. Khakh, Michael V. Sofroniew Nature Neuroscience
  10. Ablation of hippocampal neurogenesis impairs contextual fear conditioning and synaptic plasticity in the dentate gyrus (2006)
    Michael Saxe, Fortunato Battaglia et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  11. GFAP-expressing progenitors are the principal source of constitutive neurogenesis in adult mouse forebrain (2004)
    A. Denise R. Garcia, Ngan Doan et al. Nature Neuroscience
  12. STAT3 is a Critical Regulator of Astrogliosis and Scar Formation after Spinal Cord Injury (2008)
    Julia Herrmann, Tetsuya Imura et al. Journal of Neuroscience
  13. Posterior transformation, neurological abnormalities, and severe hematopoietic defects in mice with a targeted deletion of the bmi-1 proto-oncogene. (1994)
    Jos Domen, Els C. Robanus-Maandag et al. Genes & Development
  14. Reactive Astrocytes in Neural Repair and Protection (2005)
    Michael V. Sofroniew The Neuroscientist
  15. Glial Scar Borders Are Formed by Newly Proliferated, Elongated Astrocytes That Interact to Corral Inflammatory and Fibrotic Cells via STAT3-Dependent Mechanisms after Spinal Cord Injury (2013)
    I. Wanner, Mark A. Anderson et al. Journal of Neuroscience
  16. Astrocytes: a central element in neurological diseases (2015)
    Milos Pekny, Marcela Pekna et al. Acta Neuropathologica
  17. Astrocyte roles in traumatic brain injury (2015)
    Joshua E. Burda, Alexander M. Bernstein et al. Experimental Neurology
  18. Recovery of supraspinal control of stepping via indirect propriospinal relay connections after spinal cord injury (2007)
    Grégoire Courtine, Bingbing Song et al. Nature Medicine
  19. Astrocyte-derived VEGF-A drives blood-brain barrier disruption in CNS inflammatory disease (2012)
    Azeb Tadesse Argaw, Linnéa Asp et al. Journal of Clinical Investigation
  20. Transformation of nonfunctional spinal circuits into functional states after the loss of brain input (2009)
    Grégoire Courtine, Yury Gerasimenko et al. Nature Neuroscience
  21. Astrocyte Reactivity: Subtypes, States, and Functions in CNS Innate Immunity (2020)
    Michael V. Sofroniew Trends in Immunology
  22. Astrogliosis (2014)
    Michael V. Sofroniew Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology
  23. Astrocyte Kir4.1 ion channel deficits contribute to neuronal dysfunction in Huntington's disease model mice (2014)
    Xiaoping Tong, Yan Ao et al. Nature Neuroscience
  24. Cell biology of spinal cord injury and repair (2017)
    Timothy M. O’Shea, Joshua E. Burda et al. Journal of Clinical Investigation
  25. Required growth facilitators propel axon regeneration across complete spinal cord injury (2018)
    Mark A. Anderson, Timothy M. O’Shea et al. Nature
  26. Spinal cord repair: advances in biology and technology (2019)
    Grégoire Courtine, Michael V. Sofroniew Nature Medicine
  27. Astrocytes in human central nervous system diseases: a frontier for new therapies (2023)
    Alexei Verkhratsky, Arthur M. Butt et al. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Immediate Impact

4 by Nobel laureates 50 from Science/Nature 97 standout
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Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Michael V. Sofroniew 13834 8866 11603 11709 190 36.6k
Klaus‐Armin Nave 11188 9660 14728 6230 296 31.4k
V. Hugh Perry 10769 4871 13073 18707 337 41.7k
Martin E. Schwab 21693 12960 8658 5612 393 34.8k
Steven A. Goldman 11017 9218 11110 6076 204 27.2k
Michal Schwartz 7599 5564 7712 16379 300 31.7k
Helmut Kettenmann 16150 7256 13850 18118 364 38.8k
Luis B. Tovar‐y‐Romo 23028 9069 11418 3109 457 34.7k
Bruce D. Trapp 8356 8607 11110 8200 273 33.8k
Frank R. Sharp 7258 2787 12123 5314 374 27.3k
José Manuel García‐Verdugo 12666 21296 17841 6522 314 40.3k

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