Alessandra Pasut

3.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
20 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Alessandra Pasut is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Surgery and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandra Pasut has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Surgery and 4 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Alessandra Pasut's work include Muscle Physiology and Disorders (12 papers), Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (7 papers) and Mesenchymal stem cell research (3 papers). Alessandra Pasut is often cited by papers focused on Muscle Physiology and Disorders (12 papers), Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (7 papers) and Mesenchymal stem cell research (3 papers). Alessandra Pasut collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Belgium. Alessandra Pasut's co-authors include Peter Carmeliet, Laure-Anne Teuwen, Vincent Geldhof, Michael A. Rudnicki, C. Florian Bentzinger, Yu Xin Wang, Julia von Maltzahn, Nicolas A. Dumont, Caroline Brun and Akinobu Matsumoto and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Medicine and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Alessandra Pasut

20 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

COVID-19: the vasculature unleashed

2020 740 citations Laure-Anne Teuwen, Vincent Geldhof et al. Nature reviews. Immunology profile →
mTORC1 and muscle regeneration are regulated by the LINC00961-encoded SPAR polypeptide

2016 489 citations Akinobu Matsumoto, Alessandra Pasut et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alessandra Pasut United States	15	1.7k	534	516	376	351	20	2.6k
Takayuki Shiomi Japan	31	1.5k 0.9×	186 0.3×	661 1.3×	356 0.9×	51 0.1×	64	3.3k
Junfen Fan China	21	841 0.5×	352 0.7×	610 1.2×	105 0.3×	112 0.3×	65	1.7k
Sylvia Cohen‐Kaminsky France	26	648 0.4×	176 0.3×	224 0.4×	175 0.5×	537 1.5×	74	2.7k
Mohammad Naimul Islam United States	17	1.4k 0.8×	178 0.3×	226 0.4×	230 0.6×	100 0.3×	30	3.3k
Robert K. Nuttall United Kingdom	24	761 0.5×	212 0.4×	746 1.4×	118 0.3×	75 0.2×	32	2.4k
Christian Bär Germany	28	1.7k 1.0×	214 0.4×	1.1k 2.2×	263 0.7×	101 0.3×	87	2.5k
Lan Zhou United States	23	709 0.4×	158 0.3×	97 0.2×	266 0.7×	300 0.9×	66	2.0k
Koji Okudela Japan	30	1.3k 0.8×	75 0.1×	487 0.9×	262 0.7×	130 0.4×	171	3.2k
Raffaele Strippoli Italy	31	935 0.6×	167 0.3×	315 0.6×	136 0.4×	97 0.3×	70	2.5k
Anders Etzerodt Denmark	24	785 0.5×	102 0.2×	315 0.6×	307 0.8×	163 0.5×	46	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alessandra Pasut

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20 of 20 papers shown

Grootaert, Mandy O. J., Alessandra Pasut, Steven J. Simmonds, et al.. (2025). Mural cell dysfunction contributes to diastolic heart failure by promoting endothelial dysfunction and vessel remodelling. Cardiovascular Diabetology. 24(1). 62–62. 4 indexed citations

Pasut, Alessandra, et al.. (2025). Endothelial cell metabolism in cardiovascular physiology and disease. Nature Reviews Cardiology. 22(12). 923–943. 9 indexed citations

Pasut, Alessandra, et al.. (2021). Endothelial cell plasticity at the single-cell level. Angiogenesis. 24(2). 311–326. 64 indexed citations

Penjweini, Rozhin, et al.. (2020). Single cell-based fluorescence lifetime imaging of intracellular oxygenation and metabolism. Redox Biology. 34. 101549–101549. 32 indexed citations

Widrick, Jeffrey J., Alessandra Pasut, Francesco Villa, et al.. (2020). Tetraspanin CD82 is necessary for muscle stem cell activation and supports dystrophic muscle function. Skeletal Muscle. 10(1). 34–34. 11 indexed citations

Teuwen, Laure-Anne, Vincent Geldhof, Alessandra Pasut, & Peter Carmeliet. (2020). COVID-19: the vasculature unleashed. Nature reviews. Immunology. 20(7). 389–391. 740 indexed citations breakdown →

Teuwen, Laure-Anne, Vincent Geldhof, Alessandra Pasut, & Peter Carmeliet. (2020). Author Correction: COVID-19: the vasculature unleashed. Nature reviews. Immunology. 20(7). 448–448. 27 indexed citations

Pasut, Alessandra, Akinobu Matsumoto, John G. Clohessy, & Pier Paolo Pandolfi. (2016). The pleiotropic role of non-coding genes in development and cancer. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 43. 104–113. 21 indexed citations

Pasut, Alessandra, Natasha C. Chang, Uxía Gurriarán‐Rodríguez, et al.. (2016). Notch Signaling Rescues Loss of Satellite Cells Lacking Pax7 and Promotes Brown Adipogenic Differentiation. Cell Reports. 16(2). 333–343. 40 indexed citations

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Matsumoto, Akinobu, Alessandra Pasut, Masaki Matsumoto, et al.. (2016). mTORC1 and muscle regeneration are regulated by the LINC00961-encoded SPAR polypeptide. Nature. 541(7636). 228–232. 489 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dumont, Nicolas A., Yu Xin Wang, Julia von Maltzahn, et al.. (2015). Dystrophin expression in muscle stem cells regulates their polarity and asymmetric division. Nature Medicine. 21(12). 1455–1463. 411 indexed citations

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Pasut, Alessandra, Andrew Jones, & Michael A. Rudnicki. (2013). Isolation and Culture of Individual Myofibers and their Satellite Cells from Adult Skeletal Muscle. Journal of Visualized Experiments. e50074–e50074. 132 indexed citations

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Yin, Hang, Alessandra Pasut, Vahab D. Soleimani, et al.. (2013). MicroRNA-133 Controls Brown Adipose Determination in Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cells by Targeting Prdm16. Cell Metabolism. 17(2). 210–224. 234 indexed citations

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Pasut, Alessandra, et al.. (2013). Isolation and Culture of Individual Myofibers and their Satellite Cells from Adult Skeletal Muscle. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 49 indexed citations

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Juan, Aster H., Assia Derfoul, Xuesong Feng, et al.. (2011). Polycomb EZH2 controls self-renewal and safeguards the transcriptional identity of skeletal muscle stem cells. Genes & Development. 25(8). 789–794. 174 indexed citations

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Pasut, Alessandra, et al.. (2011). Isolation of Muscle Stem Cells by Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting Cytometry. Methods in molecular biology. 798. 53–64. 80 indexed citations

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Serena, Elena, et al.. (2010). Soft substrates drive optimal differentiation of human healthy and dystrophic myotubes. Integrative Biology. 2(4). 193–193. 47 indexed citations

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Malerba, Alberto, Libero Vitiello, Daniela Segat, et al.. (2009). Selection of multipotent cells and enhanced muscle reconstruction by myogenic macrophage-secreted factors. Experimental Cell Research. 315(6). 915–927. 20 indexed citations

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Malerba, Alberto, et al.. (2008). Macrophage-secreted factors enhance thein vitroexpansion of DMD muscle precursor cells while preserving their myogenic potential. Neurological Research. 32(1). 55–62. 9 indexed citations

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Leon, Francesco Fascetti, Alberto Malerba, Luisa Boldrin, et al.. (2007). Murine Muscle Precursor Cells Survived and Integrated in a Cryoinjured Gastroesophageal Junction. Journal of Surgical Research. 143(2). 253–259. 4 indexed citations

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