Alison H. Franks

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Alison H. Franks is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Food Science and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alison H. Franks has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Food Science and 3 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alison H. Franks's work include Probiotics and Fermented Foods (4 papers), Gut microbiota and health (4 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (3 papers). Alison H. Franks is often cited by papers focused on Probiotics and Fermented Foods (4 papers), Gut microbiota and health (4 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (3 papers). Alison H. Franks collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Alison H. Franks's co-authors include Gijsbert J. Jansen, Hermie J. M. Harmsen, Gjalt W. Welling, Gerwin C. Raangs, Frits Schut, A. C. M. Wildeboer-Veloo, Arthur D. Conigrave, Hee‐Chang Mun, G.W. Welling and R.G. Wake and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

In The Last Decade

Alison H. Franks

15 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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Variations of Bacterial Populations in Human Feces Measured by Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization with Group-Specific 16S rRNA-Targeted Oligonucleotide Probes

1998 879 citations Alison H. Franks, Hermie J. M. Harmsen et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alison H. Franks Australia	12	896	508	481	239	206	15	1.4k
Annelies Geirnaert Switzerland	21	1.2k 1.4×	517 1.0×	366 0.8×	169 0.7×	325 1.6×	42	1.8k
Y. Watanabe Japan	21	939 1.0×	233 0.5×	174 0.4×	176 0.7×	154 0.7×	42	1.8k
Paul O. Sheridan United Kingdom	12	1.1k 1.2×	391 0.8×	427 0.9×	115 0.5×	174 0.8×	20	1.6k
Tomás de Wouters Switzerland	24	1.2k 1.4×	343 0.7×	235 0.5×	130 0.5×	256 1.2×	31	1.8k
Dylan Dahan United States	10	905 1.0×	243 0.5×	197 0.4×	152 0.6×	172 0.8×	11	1.4k
Chad H. Stahl United States	24	555 0.6×	232 0.5×	297 0.6×	171 0.7×	151 0.7×	55	1.6k
Páraic Ó Cuív Australia	21	780 0.9×	158 0.3×	182 0.4×	268 1.1×	157 0.8×	42	1.4k
Shengjie Li China	24	770 0.9×	358 0.7×	225 0.5×	111 0.5×	86 0.4×	87	1.7k
J. Schrezenmeir Germany	16	396 0.4×	379 0.7×	296 0.6×	145 0.6×	82 0.4×	42	1.2k
E. A. Smith United Kingdom	11	799 0.9×	303 0.6×	189 0.4×	91 0.4×	175 0.8×	15	1.3k

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Mun, Hee‐Chang, et al.. (2005). A Double Mutation in the Extracellular Ca2+-sensing Receptor's Venus Flytrap Domain That Selectively Disables l-Amino Acid Sensing. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(32). 29067–29072. 53 indexed citations

Mun, Hee‐Chang, et al.. (2004). The Venus Fly Trap Domain of the Extracellular Ca²⁺-sensing Receptor Is Required for l-Amino Acid Sensing. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(50). 51739–51744. 35 indexed citations

Mun, Hee‐Chang, et al.. (2004). The Venus Fly Trap Domain of the Extracellular Ca2+-sensing Receptor Is Required for l-Amino Acid Sensing. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(50). 51739–51744. 82 indexed citations

Cardinal, John, et al.. (2003). Autosomal Dominant Hypocalcemia: A Novel Activating Mutation (E604K) in the Cysteine-Rich Domain of the Calcium-Sensing Receptor. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 88(2). 605–610. 34 indexed citations

Conigrave, Arthur D. & Alison H. Franks. (2003). Allosteric activation of plasma membrane receptors—physiological implications and structural origins. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 81(3). 219–240. 11 indexed citations

Franks, Alison H., et al.. (2003). Prostatic carcinoma metastasis to the penis—an uncommon site. The Lancet Oncology. 4(11). 705–706. 21 indexed citations

Harmsen, Hermie J. M., Gerwin C. Raangs, Alison H. Franks, A. C. M. Wildeboer-Veloo, & Gjalt W. Welling. (2002). The Effect of the Prebiotic Inulin and the Probiotic Bifidobacterium longum on the Fecal Microflora of Healthy Volunteers Measured by FISH and DGGE. Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease. 14(4). 212–220. 43 indexed citations

Harmsen, Hermie J. M., Gerwin C. Raangs, Alison H. Franks, A. C. M. Wildeboer-Veloo, & Gjalt W. Welling. (2002). The Effect of the Prebiotic Inulin and the ProbioticBifidobacterium longumon the Fecal Microflora of Healthy Volunteers Measured by FISH and DGGE. Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease. 14(4). 47 indexed citations

Halliday, Jennifer A., et al.. (2001). A rapid, semi-automated method for detection of Gal 1-4GlcNAc 2,6-sialyltransferase (EC 2.4.99.1) activity using the lectin Sambucus nigra agglutinin. Glycobiology. 11(7). 557–564. 9 indexed citations

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Welling, Gjalt W., Gerwin C. Raangs, Alison H. Franks, et al.. (2000). Variations of Bacterial Populations in Human Faeces Measured by FISH with Group-Specific 16S rRNA-Targeted Oligonucleotide Probes. 19(2). 79–84. 12 indexed citations

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Jansen, Gijsbert J., et al.. (1999). Development and validation of an automated, microscopy-based method for enumeration of groups of intestinal bacteria. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 37(3). 215–221. 144 indexed citations

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Franks, Alison H., Hermie J. M. Harmsen, Gerwin C. Raangs, et al.. (1998). Variations of Bacterial Populations in Human Feces Measured by Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization with Group-Specific 16S rRNA-Targeted Oligonucleotide Probes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 64(9). 3336–3345. 879 indexed citations breakdown →

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Franks, Alison H. & R.G. Wake. (1996). Replication fork arrest at relocated replication terminators on the Bacillus subtilis chromosome. Journal of Bacteriology. 178(14). 4258–4265. 8 indexed citations

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Franks, Alison H., Allen Griffiths, & R.G. Wake. (1995). Identification and characterization of new DNA replication terminators in Bacillus subtilis. Molecular Microbiology. 17(1). 13–23. 27 indexed citations

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Wu, Ling Juan, Alison H. Franks, & R.G. Wake. (1995). Replication through the terminus region of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome is not essential for the formation of a division septum that partitions the DNA. Journal of Bacteriology. 177(19). 5711–5715. 36 indexed citations

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