Adriano Aguzzi

61.0k citations

546 papers · 41.5k indexed · 11 hit papers · h-index 105

Impact in

Neurology top 0.01%
- Neurological diseases and metabolism
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
Nutrition and Dietetics top 0.01%
- Trace Elements in Health

Papers in

Neurology 173
- Neurological diseases and metabolism 141
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms 30
Nutrition and Dietetics 117
- Trace Elements in Health 115

Co-authors: Charles Weissmann Mathias Heikenwälder Magdalini Polymenidou Andreas W. Sailer Markus Glatzel Alex J. Raeber Thomas Rülicke Sebastian Brandner
Journals: PLoS ONE (24 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (18 papers)Brain Pathology (17 papers)PLoS Pathogens (16 papers)Nature (15 papers)
Partner nations: Switzerland Germany United States

In The Last Decade

Adriano Aguzzi

540 papers receiving 40.7k citations

Hit Papers

11 papers align trajectories log scale

Microglia: Scapegoat, Saboteur, or Something Else? 2013 · 665 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2013 Science
2010 Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
2009 Science
2005 Nature Medicine
2002 American Journal Of Pathology
1996 The EMBO Journal
1996 Nature
1995 Genes & Development
1995 The EMBO Journal
1995 Nature
1993 Cell

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1	NG2 glia protect against prion neurotoxicity by inhibiting microglia-to-neuron prostaglandin E2 signaling Nature Neuroscience ·Yingjun Liu, Jingjing Guo, Cléber Jovino da Silva, Marina Korotkova, Per‐Johan Jakobsson, Adriano Aguzzi	2024	11
2	Reflective multi-immersion microscope objectives inspired by the Schmidt telescope Nature Biotechnology ·Fabian F. Voigt, Kim Hubregtse, Thomas Naert, Sven Hildebrand, Martina Schaettin, Mariko Bito, Lachlan Whitehead, Armin Bahl, Stephan C. F. Neuhauss, Alard Roebroeck, Esther T. Stoeckli, Soeren S. Lienkamp, Adriano Aguzzi, Fritjof Helmchen	2023	10
3	Rapid ex vivo reverse genetics identifies the essential determinants of prion protein toxicity Brain Pathology ·Regina Reimann, Manh Linh Tran, Cong You, Marc Emmenegger, Bernard L. Schneider, Alfina Dwi Putri, Danzhi Huang, Amedeo Caflisch, Adriano Aguzzi	2022	1
4	Calreticulin mutations affect its chaperone function and perturb the glycoproteome Cell Reports ·正泰板橋, Liliana Malinovska, В. А. Солодков, Marco Losa, 響輔竹腰, Mattheus H. E. Wildschut, Veronika Lysenko, Asvin KK Lakkaraju, Christina A. Maat, Dietmar Benke, Adriano Aguzzi, Bernd Wollscheid, Paola Picotti, Alexandre Theocharides	2022	11
5	An arrayed genome‐wide perturbation screen identifies the ribonucleoprotein Hnrnpk as rate‐limiting for prion propagation The EMBO Journal ·S. Y. Tan, W.D. Cai, Alana M. Thackray, Yingjun Liu, Marián Hruška-Plocháň, Mallory M. Caron, Roberta Castelli, Waguri Shinji, Jiang‐An Yin, Asvin KK Lakkaraju, Marc Emmenegger, Marco Losa, N. NANEV, Simone Hornemann, Magdalini Polymenidou, Raymond Bujdoso, Adriano Aguzzi	2022	5
6	Glial activation in prion diseases is selectively triggered by neuronal PrP^Sc Brain Pathology ·Asvin KK Lakkaraju, Silvia Sorce, Assunta Senatore, Mario Nuvolone, Jingjing Guo, Petra Schwarz, Rita Moos, Paweł Pelczar, Adriano Aguzzi	2022	20
7	Loss of PIKfyve drives the spongiform degeneration in prion diseases EMBO Molecular Medicine ·Asvin KK Lakkaraju, Karl Frontzek, Elizaveta Sergeevna Shevchenko, U. Herrmann, Marco Losa, Charles S. Maher, Adriano Aguzzi	2021	25
8	High content genome-wide siRNA screen to investigate the coordination of cell size and RNA production Scientific Data ·А.В. Кудрявцев, S. Y. Tan, W.D. Cai, Marc Emmenegger, Adriano Aguzzi, Lucas Pelkmans, Scott M. Berry	2021	8
9	Autoantibodies against the prion protein in individuals with PRNP mutations Neurology ·Karl Frontzek, Hannah Linderskamp, Marco Losa, Nevin Mathew Benjie, Georg Meisl, Raffo R. Andres, Jean‐Philippe Brandel, Ulrike Camenisch, Joaquı́n Castilla, Stéphane Haı̈k, Tuomas P. J. Knowles, Ewald Lindner, Andreas Lutterotti, Eric Vallabh Minikel, Ignazio Roiter, Jiri Safar, Raquel Sánchez‐Valle, Dana Žáková, Simone Hornemann, Adriano Aguzzi, (unknown)	2020	10
10	The uptake of tau amyloid fibrils is facilitated by the cellular prion protein and hampers prion propagation in cultured cells Journal of Neurochemistry ·Elena De Cecco, N.M. Tyurina, Silvia Vanni, Micaela Grandolfo, Edoardo Bistaffa, Fabio Moda, Adriano Aguzzi, Giuseppe Legname	2020	34
11	Scaling behaviour and rate-determining steps in filamentous self-assembly Chemical Science ·Georg Meisl, Luke Rajah, S. Cohen, E. Polini, Anđela Šarić, Erik Hellstrand, Alexander K. Buell, Adriano Aguzzi, Sara Linse, Michele Vendruscolo, Christopher M. Dobson, Tuomas P. J. Knowles	2017	71
12	Binding of Polythiophenes to Amyloids: Structural Mapping of the Pharmacophore ACS Chemical Neuroscience ·Anne K. Schütz, Simone Hornemann, Marielle Aulikki Wälti, Ladina Greuter, Cinzia Tiberi, Riccardo Cadalbert, Retracted, Roland Riek, Per Hammarström, K. Peter R. Nilsson, Anja Böckmann, Adriano Aguzzi, Beat H. Meier	2017	32
13	In Vivo Longitudinal (1)H MRS Study of Transgenic Mouse Models of Prion Disease in the Hippocampus and Cerebellum at 14.1Â T Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) ·Cristina Cudalbu, Hhm Erik Korsten, Vladı́mir Mlynárik, Juliane Bremer, Adriano Aguzzi, Rolf Gruetter	2015	5
14	Microglial repopulation model reveals a robust homeostatic process for replacing CNS myeloid cells Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Nicholas H. Varvel, Stefan Grathwohl, Frank Baumann, Christian Liebig, Nelson Rodrigo Zapata Villacís, Bianca Brawek, Dietmar Rudolf Thal, Israel Charo, Frank L. Heppner, Adriano Aguzzi, Olga Garaschuk, Richard M. Ransohoff, Mathias Jucker	2012	203
15	An Analytical Solution to the Kinetics of Breakable Filament Assembly Science ·Tuomas P. J. Knowles, Christopher A. Waudby, Glyn L. Devlin, Samuel I. A. Cohen, Adriano Aguzzi, Michele Vendruscolo, Eugene M. Terentjev, Mark E. Welland, Christopher M. Dobson Hit paper breakdown →	2009	899
16	De novo generation of a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy by mouse transgenesis Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Christina J. Sigurdson, K. Peter R. Nilsson, Simone Hornemann, Mathias Heikenwälder, Giuseppe Manco, Petra Schwarz, David E. Ott, Thomas Rülicke, Paweł P. Liberski, Christian Julius, Jeppe Falsig, Lothar Stitz, Kurt Wüthrich, Adriano Aguzzi	2008	158
17	Disseminated and sustained HIV infection in CD34 ⁺ cord blood cell-transplanted Rag2 ^−/− γ _c ^−/− mice Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Stefan Baenziger, Roxane Tussiwand, Erika Schlaepfer, Luca Mazzucchelli, Mathias Heikenwälder, Michael Kurrer, Silvia Behnke, Joachim Frey, Annette Oxenius, Helen Joller, Adriano Aguzzi, Markus G. Manz, Roberto F. Speck	2006	191
18	Chronic Lymphocytic Inflammation Specifies the Organ Tropism of Prions Science ·Mathias Heikenwälder, Nicolas Zeller, Harald Seeger, Marco Prinz, Peter‐Christian Klöhn, Petra Schwarz, Nancy H. Ruddle, Charles Weissmann, Adriano Aguzzi	2005	141
19	Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis repressed by microglial paralysis (vol 11, pg 146, 2005) UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Frank L. Heppner, Melanie Greter, Denis Marino, Jeppe Falsig, Gennadij Raivich, Nadine Hövelmeyer, Ari Waisman, Thomas Rülicke, Marco Prinz, Josef Priller, Burkhard Becher, Adriano Aguzzi	2005	0
20	Tissue handling in suspected Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and other human spongiform encephalopathies (prion diseases) UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Herbert Budka, Adriano Aguzzi, Paul Brown, F. I. Mel'nikov, Orso Bugiani, John Collinge, H. Diringer, MARGARET STETSON, Vichok Hothongkham, Sucharita Hota, James W. Ironside, M. F. Chemagin, PL Lantos, Carlo Masullo, Maurizio Pocchiari, W. Schlote, J Tateishi, R. G. Will	1996	1

About Adriano Aguzzi

Adriano Aguzzi is a scholar working on Neurology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Molecular Biology, Virology and Developmental Neuroscience, having authored 546 papers that have together received 41.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (317 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (141 papers), Trace Elements in Health (115 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (47 papers), RNA regulation and disease (33 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (30 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (23 papers) and Virus-based gene therapy research (19 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Neurology (12.6k citations), Nutrition and Dietetics (7.3k citations), Molecular Biology (28.1k citations), Developmental Neuroscience (1.3k citations) and Physiology (6.8k citations). Adriano Aguzzi has collaborated with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Frequent co-authors include Charles Weissmann, Mathias Heikenwälder, Magdalini Polymenidou, Andreas W. Sailer, Markus Glatzel, Alex J. Raeber, Thomas Rülicke, Sebastian Brandner, Frank L. Heppner and Michael A. Klein. Their work appears in journals such as PLoS ONE, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Brain Pathology, PLoS Pathogens and Nature.

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