Alejandro A. Pezzulo

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

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Alejandro A. Pezzulo is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Alejandro A. Pezzulo has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 13 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Alejandro A. Pezzulo's work include Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances (26 papers), Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (19 papers) and Tracheal and airway disorders (8 papers). Alejandro A. Pezzulo is often cited by papers focused on Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances (26 papers), Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (19 papers) and Tracheal and airway disorders (8 papers). Alejandro A. Pezzulo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Venezuela and Russia. Alejandro A. Pezzulo's co-authors include Joseph Zabner, David A. Stoltz, Michael J. Welsh, Paul B. McCray, David K. Meyerholz, Christine Wohlford-Lenane, Thomas O. Moninger, Shyam Ramachandran, Mahmoud H. Abou Alaiwa and Botond Bánfi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alejandro A. Pezzulo

65 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Reduced airway surface pH impairs bacterial killing in the porcine cystic fibrosis lung

2012 619 citations Alejandro A. Pezzulo, Xiao Xiao Tang et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alejandro A. Pezzulo United States	25	1.5k	677	280	277	275	66	2.7k
Arlene A. Stecenko United States	29	2.0k 1.3×	564 0.8×	140 0.5×	371 1.3×	384 1.4×	87	3.1k
Harriet Corvol France	34	2.0k 1.4×	721 1.1×	286 1.0×	380 1.4×	419 1.5×	148	3.1k
David P. Nichols United States	33	1.6k 1.1×	797 1.2×	211 0.8×	275 1.0×	422 1.5×	100	2.9k
Margaret E. Hodson United Kingdom	27	1.8k 1.2×	623 0.9×	153 0.5×	330 1.2×	340 1.2×	78	2.8k
Renat Shaykhiev United States	25	1.1k 0.8×	767 1.1×	113 0.4×	329 1.2×	192 0.7×	33	2.5k
Maria Branca United States	24	1.2k 0.8×	896 1.3×	270 1.0×	175 0.6×	415 1.5×	36	3.3k
Shuichi Abe Japan	25	1.3k 0.9×	409 0.6×	142 0.5×	464 1.7×	367 1.3×	99	2.4k
Scott H. Donaldson United States	33	3.1k 2.1×	761 1.1×	113 0.4×	534 1.9×	352 1.3×	99	4.0k
Janice L. Launspach United States	20	844 0.6×	418 0.6×	144 0.5×	218 0.8×	183 0.7×	31	1.8k
Jochen G. Mainz Germany	23	2.4k 1.6×	626 0.9×	74 0.3×	299 1.1×	278 1.0×	107	3.1k

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Thurman, Andrew L., Athmane Teghanemt, Neelam Gautam, et al.. (2025). Developmental epigenetic programming by Tet1/3 determines peripheral CD8 T cell fate. EMBO Reports. 26(10). 2494–2518. 2 indexed citations

Wohlford-Lenane, Christine, Andrew L. Thurman, Jennifer Bermick, et al.. (2025). Complement is primarily activated in the lung in a mouse model of severe COVID-19. iScience. 28(3). 111930–111930. 1 indexed citations

Rogers, Kai J., Andrew L. Thurman, Alejandro A. Pezzulo, et al.. (2025). Acute malaria dysregulates specialized lymph node macrophages to suppress vaccine-elicited protection against the Ebola virus. mBio. 17(2). e0279625–e0279625.

Rehman, Tayyab, Alejandro A. Pezzulo, Andrew L. Thurman, Rachel L. Zemans, & Michael J. Welsh. (2024). Epithelial responses to CFTR modulators are improved by inflammatory cytokines and impaired by antiinflammatory drugs. JCI Insight. 9(14). 3 indexed citations

Ibarra, Guillermo S. Romano, Lei Lei, Wenjie Yu, et al.. (2024). IL-13 induces loss of CFTR in ionocytes and reduces airway epithelial fluid absorption. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 134(21). 7 indexed citations

Li, Kun, Jennifer A. Bartlett, Christine Wohlford-Lenane, et al.. (2023). Interleukin 13–Induced Inflammation Increases DPP4 Abundance but Does Not Enhance Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Replication in Airway Epithelia. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 229(5). 1419–1429. 2 indexed citations

Thurman, Andrew L., et al.. (2023). Increased ENaC-mediated liquid absorption across vitamin-D deficient human airway epithelia. American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology. 326(2). C540–C550. 1 indexed citations

Teghanemt, Athmane, Andrew L. Thurman, David K. Meyerholz, et al.. (2023). DNA demethylation fine‐tunes IL ‐2 production during thymic regulatory T cell differentiation. EMBO Reports. 24(5). e55543–e55543. 7 indexed citations

Rehman, Tayyab, Philip H. Karp, Andrew L. Thurman, et al.. (2022). WNK Inhibition Increases Surface Liquid pH and Host Defense in Cystic Fibrosis Airway Epithelia. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 67(4). 491–502. 3 indexed citations

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Keck, Kathy, Mallory R. Stroik, Andrew L. Thurman, et al.. (2022). Vitamin D-mediated effects on airway innate immunity in vitro. PLoS ONE. 17(6). e0269647–e0269647. 6 indexed citations

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Nagpal, Prashant, Junfeng Guo, Alejandro A. Pezzulo, et al.. (2022). Quantitative Chest CT Assessment of Small Airways Disease in Post-Acute SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Radiology. 304(1). 185–192. 62 indexed citations

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Singh, Brajesh K., Andrew L. Thurman, Ashley L. Cooney, et al.. (2021). Measles virus exits human airway epithelia within dislodged metabolically active infectious centers. PLoS Pathogens. 17(8). e1009458–e1009458. 20 indexed citations

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Rehman, Tayyab, Philip H. Karp, Ping Tan, et al.. (2021). Inflammatory cytokines TNF-α and IL-17 enhance the efficacy of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator modulators. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 131(16). 29 indexed citations

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Bouzek, Drake C., Mahmoud H. Abou Alaiwa, Ryan J. Adam, et al.. (2021). Early Lung Disease Exhibits Bacteria-Dependent and -Independent Abnormalities in Cystic Fibrosis Pigs. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 204(6). 692–702. 8 indexed citations

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Bartlett, Jennifer A., Shyam Ramachandran, Christine Wohlford-Lenane, et al.. (2016). Newborn Cystic Fibrosis Pigs Have a Blunted Early Response to an Inflammatory Stimulus. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 194(7). 845–854. 26 indexed citations

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Pezzulo, Alejandro A., Xiao Xiao Tang, Mark J. Hoegger, et al.. (2012). Reduced airway surface pH impairs bacterial killing in the porcine cystic fibrosis lung. Nature. 487(7405). 109–113. 619 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chang, Eugene H., Alejandro A. Pezzulo, & Joseph Zabner. (2011). Do Cell Junction Protein Mutations Cause an Airway Phenotype in Mice or Humans?. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 45(2). 202–220. 7 indexed citations

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Pezzulo, Alejandro A., Peter J. Taft, Sarah E. Ernst, et al.. (2011). Glucose Depletion in the Airway Surface Liquid Is Essential for Sterility of the Airways. PLoS ONE. 6(1). e16166–e16166. 98 indexed citations

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Meyerholz, David K., David A. Stoltz, Alejandro A. Pezzulo, & Michael J. Welsh. (2010). Pathology of Gastrointestinal Organs in a Porcine Model of Cystic Fibrosis. American Journal Of Pathology. 176(3). 1377–1389. 120 indexed citations

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Meyerholz, David K., David A. Stoltz, Eman Namati, et al.. (2010). Loss of Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Function Produces Abnormalities in Tracheal Development in Neonatal Pigs and Young Children. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 182(10). 1251–1261. 143 indexed citations

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