Alain Bloc

924 total citations
29 papers, 793 citations indexed

About

Alain Bloc is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Alain Bloc has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 793 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 4 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Alain Bloc's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (15 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (10 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (7 papers). Alain Bloc is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (15 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (10 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (7 papers). Alain Bloc collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and Belgium. Alain Bloc's co-authors include Yves Dunant, Victor Bancila, Irina Nikonenko, Thierry Cens, Lydia Kerkerian‐Le Goff, Nicole Dusticier, F. Loctin, Hans G. Cruz, Claude Forni and E. Roulet and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

In The Last Decade

Alain Bloc

29 papers receiving 773 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alain Bloc Switzerland 17 413 403 124 112 78 29 793
James S.C. Gilchrist Canada 16 288 0.7× 587 1.5× 166 1.3× 114 1.0× 22 0.3× 32 1.0k
Keiki Yamada Japan 14 275 0.7× 261 0.6× 85 0.7× 53 0.5× 52 0.7× 46 761
J J Singer United States 14 437 1.1× 700 1.7× 58 0.5× 166 1.5× 40 0.5× 17 1.1k
Wen‐Li Wei Canada 6 358 0.9× 766 1.9× 104 0.8× 92 0.8× 77 1.0× 8 1.0k
E. Giladi Israel 14 517 1.3× 537 1.3× 35 0.3× 172 1.5× 59 0.8× 17 1.0k
Hiromi Hiruma Japan 17 310 0.8× 263 0.7× 52 0.4× 264 2.4× 43 0.6× 48 944
Stephanie E. Edelmann United States 13 323 0.8× 620 1.5× 32 0.3× 206 1.8× 70 0.9× 18 943
Francis J. Antonawich United States 15 217 0.5× 194 0.5× 76 0.6× 82 0.7× 70 0.9× 17 555
Georgiann Collinsworth United States 9 284 0.7× 440 1.1× 44 0.4× 105 0.9× 23 0.3× 9 718
Jacques Teulon France 27 331 0.8× 1.6k 4.1× 211 1.7× 228 2.0× 44 0.6× 70 2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Alain Bloc

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alain Bloc

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alain Bloc. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alain Bloc based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alain Bloc. Alain Bloc is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bancila, Victor, Miguel Cordeiro, Alain Bloc, & Yves Dunant. (2009). Nicotine‐induced and depolarisation‐induced glutamate release from hippocampus mossy fibre synaptosomes: two distinct mechanisms. Journal of Neurochemistry. 110(2). 570–580. 23 indexed citations
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Nikonenko, Irina, Mircea Bancila, Alain Bloc, Dominique Müller, & Philippe Bijlenga. (2005). Inhibition of T-Type Calcium Channels Protects Neurons from Delayed Ischemia-Induced Damage. Molecular Pharmacology. 68(1). 84–89. 55 indexed citations
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Bloc, Alain, et al.. (2004). Voltage‐gated K+ current: a marker for apoptosis in differentiating neuronal progenitor cells?. European Journal of Neuroscience. 20(3). 635–648. 17 indexed citations
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Bancila, Victor, Irina Nikonenko, Yves Dunant, & Alain Bloc. (2004). Zinc inhibits glutamate release via activation of pre‐synaptic KATP channels and reduces ischaemic damage in rat hippocampus. Journal of Neurochemistry. 90(5). 1243–1250. 100 indexed citations
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Bloc, Alain, et al.. (2004). Zinc is both an intracellular and extracellular regulator of KATP channel function. The Journal of Physiology. 559(1). 157–167. 54 indexed citations
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Dunant, Yves & Alain Bloc. (2003). Low- and High-Affinity Reactions in Rapid Neurotransmission. Neurochemical Research. 28(3-4). 659–665. 3 indexed citations
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Bugnard, Elisabeth, et al.. (2002). Quantal transmitter release by glioma cells: quantification of intramembrane particle changes. Neuroscience. 113(1). 125–135. 6 indexed citations
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Bloc, Alain, Rudolf Lucas, Martin Bilej, et al.. (2002). An invertebrate defense molecule activates membrane conductance in mammalian cells by means of its lectin-like domain. Developmental & Comparative Immunology. 26(1). 35–43. 10 indexed citations
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Fellay, Benoı̂t, et al.. (2001). Calretinin and calbindin D-28k delay the onset of cell death after excitotoxic stimulation in transfected P19 cells. Brain Research. 909(1-2). 145–158. 78 indexed citations
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Bloc, Alain, Victor Bancila, Maurice Israël, & Yves Dunant. (2000). Reconstitution of mediatophore-supported quantal acetylcholine release. Metabolic Brain Disease. 15(1). 1–16. 4 indexed citations
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Bloc, Alain, Thierry Cens, Hans G. Cruz, & Yves Dunant. (2000). Zinc‐induced changes in ionic currents of clonal rat pancreatic β‐cells: activation of ATP‐sensitive K+ channels. The Journal of Physiology. 529(3). 723–734. 52 indexed citations
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Bloc, Alain, Gijs R. van den Brink, Lucie Fransen, et al.. (1999). The lectin-like domain of tumor necrosis factor-α increases membrane conductance in microvascular endothelial cells and peritoneal macrophages. European Journal of Immunology. 29(10). 3105–3111. 41 indexed citations
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Brink, Gijs R. van den, Jérôme Pugin, Lucie Fransen, et al.. (1999). Membrane interaction of TNF is not sufficient to trigger increase in membrane conductance in mammalian cells. FEBS Letters. 460(1). 107–111. 23 indexed citations
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Bugnard, Elisabeth, et al.. (1999). Morphological changes related to reconstituted acetylcholine release in a release-deficient cell line. Neuroscience. 94(1). 329–338. 8 indexed citations
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Bloc, Alain, E. Roulet, Elisabeth Bugnard, et al.. (1999). Acetylcholine synthesis and quantal release reconstituted by transfection of choline acetyltransferase and mediatophore cDNAs. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis. 59(3). 10 indexed citations
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Bloc, Alain, Elisabeth Bugnard, Yves Dunant, et al.. (1999). Acetylcholine synthesis and quantal release reconstituted by transfection of mediatophore and choline acetyltranferase cDNAs. European Journal of Neuroscience. 11(5). 1523–1534. 30 indexed citations
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Bugnard, Elisabeth, et al.. (1998). An improved approach to freeze-fracture morphology of monolayer cell cultures. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 82(1). 97–103. 8 indexed citations
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Bugnard, Elisabeth, et al.. (1998). A simple, low-cost and fast Peltier thermoregulation set-up for electrophysiology. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 83(2). 177–184. 8 indexed citations
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Goff, Lydia Kerkerian‐Le, et al.. (1992). Intracerebroventricular administration of neuropeptide Y affects parameters of dopamine, glutamate and GABA activities in the rat striatum. Brain Research Bulletin. 28(2). 187–193. 50 indexed citations

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