Alessandro Michelucci

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Alessandro Michelucci is a scholar working on Neurology, Immunology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandro Michelucci has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Neurology, 16 papers in Immunology and 14 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Alessandro Michelucci's work include Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (21 papers), Immune cells in cancer (14 papers) and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (5 papers). Alessandro Michelucci is often cited by papers focused on Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (21 papers), Immune cells in cancer (14 papers) and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (5 papers). Alessandro Michelucci collaborates with scholars based in Luxembourg, United States and Germany. Alessandro Michelucci's co-authors include Thekla Cordes, Karsten Hiller, Luc Grandbarbe, Paul Heuschling, Tony Heurtaux, Carole Sousa, Eleonora Morga, Rudi Balling, Aravind Tallam and Manuel Buttini and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Alessandro Michelucci

32 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.

Immune-responsive gene 1 protein links metabolism to immunity by catalyzing itaconic acid production

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Carmen Infante‐Duarte Germany

Bert van het Hof Netherlands

Gijs Kooij Netherlands

Malika Bsibsi Netherlands

Pablo Iribarren Argentina

Michael Fricker Australia

Marco Antonio Meraz‐Ríos Mexico

Anuja Ghorpade United States

Stephen T. Yeung United States

Sarah Gerlo Belgium

Carmen Infante‐Duarte Germany

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205 ×0.8

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Countries citing papers authored by Alessandro Michelucci

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alessandro Michelucci

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20 of 20 papers shown

Žagare, Alise, Pierre Garcia, Jochen Ohnmacht, et al.. (2025). Parkinson’s disease mutant Miro1 causes mitochondrial dysfunction and dopaminergic neuron loss. Brain. 148(10). 3607–3622. 5 indexed citations

Seibler, Philip, et al.. (2025). Microglial dynamics and neuroinflammation in prodromal and early Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 22(1). 136–136. 9 indexed citations

Michelucci, Alessandro, et al.. (2025). Protocol for the generation and assessment of functional macrophages from mouse bone marrow cells. STAR Protocols. 6(2). 103706–103706. 1 indexed citations

Neumann, Katrin, Nathalie Legrave, François Bernardin, et al.. (2024). Metformin impacts the differentiation of mouse bone marrow cells into macrophages affecting tumour immunity. Heliyon. 10(18). e37792–e37792. 5 indexed citations

Pavlou, Maria Angeliki S., Srikanth Ravichandran, Rashi Halder, et al.. (2023). Transcriptional and Chromatin Accessibility Profiling of Neural Stem Cells Differentiating into Astrocytes Reveal Dynamic Signatures Affected under Inflammatory Conditions. Cells. 12(6). 948–948. 2 indexed citations

Poli, Aurélie, et al.. (2023). PARK7/DJ-1 in microglia: implications in Parkinson’s disease and relevance as a therapeutic target. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 20(1). 95–95. 38 indexed citations

Poli, Aurélie, Anaïs Oudin, Arnaud Muller, et al.. (2022). Allergic airway inflammation delays glioblastoma progression and reinvigorates systemic and local immunity in mice. Allergy. 78(3). 682–696. 5 indexed citations

Pires‐Afonso, Yolanda, Arnaud Muller, Kamil Grzyb, et al.. (2022). Elucidating tumour‐associated microglia/macrophage diversity along glioblastoma progression and under ACOD1 deficiency. Molecular Oncology. 16(17). 3167–3191. 13 indexed citations

Birck, Cindy, Aurélien Ginolhac, Maria Angeliki S. Pavlou, et al.. (2021). NF-κB and TNF Affect the Astrocytic Differentiation from Neural Stem Cells. Cells. 10(4). 840–840. 16 indexed citations

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Mittelbronn, Michel, et al.. (2021). Microglia in Health and Disease: The Strength to Be Diverse and Reactive. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 15. 660523–660523. 36 indexed citations

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Niclou, Simone P., et al.. (2020). Revealing and Harnessing Tumour-Associated Microglia/Macrophage Heterogeneity in Glioblastoma. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(3). 689–689. 52 indexed citations

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Garcia, Pierre, Rashi Halder, Alessandro Michelucci, et al.. (2020). Pituitary Tumor Transforming Gene 1 Orchestrates Gene Regulatory Variation in Mouse Ventral Midbrain During Aging. Frontiers in Genetics. 11. 566734–566734. 3 indexed citations

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Pavlou, Maria Angeliki S., Luc Grandbarbe, Noel J. Buckley, Simone P. Niclou, & Alessandro Michelucci. (2018). Transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms underlying astrocyte identity. Progress in Neurobiology. 174. 36–52. 27 indexed citations

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Sousa, Carole, Anna Golebiewska, Suresh Poovathingal, et al.. (2018). Single‐cell transcriptomics reveals distinct inflammation‐induced microglia signatures. EMBO Reports. 19(11). 202 indexed citations

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Sousa, Carole, Knut Biber, & Alessandro Michelucci. (2017). Cellular and Molecular Characterization of Microglia: A Unique Immune Cell Population. Frontiers in Immunology. 8. 198–198. 119 indexed citations

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Koncina, Eric, Tony Heurtaux, Cindy Birck, et al.. (2015). Inflammation Promotes a Conversion of Astrocytes into Neural Progenitor Cells via NF-κB Activation. Molecular Neurobiology. 53(8). 5041–5055. 50 indexed citations

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Heurtaux, Tony, Alessandro Michelucci, Paul Felten, et al.. (2010). Microglial activation depends on beta‐amyloid conformation: role of the formylpeptide receptor 2. Journal of Neurochemistry. 114(2). 576–586. 52 indexed citations

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Michelucci, Alessandro, Tony Heurtaux, Luc Grandbarbe, Eleonora Morga, & Paul Heuschling. (2009). Characterization of the microglial phenotype under specific pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory conditions: Effects of oligomeric and fibrillar amyloid-β. Journal of Neuroimmunology. 210(1-2). 3–12. 330 indexed citations

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Liu, Jiawei, Alessandro Michelucci, Djalil Coowar, et al.. (2007). Dual bioactivity of resveratrol fatty alcohols: Differentiation of neural stem cells and modulation of neuroinflammation. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 17(15). 4218–4222. 10 indexed citations

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Grandbarbe, Luc, et al.. (2007). Notch signaling modulates the activation of microglial cells. Glia. 55(15). 1519–1530. 90 indexed citations

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