Alison L. McCormack

6.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
41 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

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Alison L. McCormack is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alison L. McCormack has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 24 papers in Neurology and 14 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Alison L. McCormack's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (23 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (14 papers) and Ion channel regulation and function (9 papers). Alison L. McCormack is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (23 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (14 papers) and Ion channel regulation and function (9 papers). Alison L. McCormack collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Alison L. McCormack's co-authors include Donato A. Di Monte, Amy Manning-Bog, J. William Langston, Vladimir N. Uversky, Anthony L. Fink, Deborah A. Cory‐Slechta, Mona Thiruchelvam, Sally K. Mak, Christine Thiffault and Jie Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Alison L. McCormack

41 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

Environmental Risk Factors and Parkinson's Disease: Selective Degeneration of Nigral Dopaminergic Neurons Caused by the Herbicide Paraquat

2002 602 citations Alison L. McCormack, Mona Thiruchelvam et al. Neurobiology of Disease profile →
The Herbicide Paraquat Causes Up-regulation and Aggregation of α-Synuclein in Mice

2002 507 citations Amy Manning-Bog, Alison L. McCormack et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alison L. McCormack United States	32	2.9k	2.1k	1.5k	881	732	41	5.3k
Hermann Lübbert Germany	48	932 0.3×	2.7k 1.3×	4.0k 2.6×	753 0.9×	359 0.5×	104	7.1k
Paul Fernyhough Canada	50	1.0k 0.3×	2.3k 1.1×	2.2k 1.5×	2.9k 3.3×	467 0.6×	136	6.3k
Lih‐Shen Chin United States	40	1.7k 0.6×	2.1k 1.0×	4.0k 2.7×	1.2k 1.4×	628 0.9×	70	6.7k
Ben A. Bahr United States	47	508 0.2×	2.8k 1.4×	3.1k 2.0×	1.5k 1.7×	787 1.1×	140	6.5k
Christiane Richter‐Landsberg Germany	44	1.1k 0.4×	1.6k 0.8×	3.0k 1.9×	1.4k 1.6×	966 1.3×	117	5.9k
Dagmar Galter Sweden	39	1.4k 0.5×	1.7k 0.8×	2.8k 1.8×	1.1k 1.2×	556 0.8×	76	5.6k
Hiroshi Kase Japan	38	952 0.3×	1.8k 0.9×	3.1k 2.1×	465 0.5×	192 0.3×	123	5.8k
Frank Gillardon Germany	37	1.5k 0.5×	1.5k 0.7×	2.2k 1.4×	1.0k 1.2×	752 1.0×	98	4.6k
Huaibin Cai United States	47	3.2k 1.1×	2.6k 1.2×	3.7k 2.4×	3.4k 3.8×	1.5k 2.0×	117	8.8k
Bingwei Lu United States	48	2.5k 0.9×	2.1k 1.0×	4.9k 3.2×	1.7k 1.9×	694 0.9×	101	8.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

McCormack, Alison L., Sally K. Mak, Jaimie M. Henderson, et al.. (2010). α-Synuclein Suppression by Targeted Small Interfering RNA in the Primate Substantia Nigra. PLoS ONE. 5(8). e12122–e12122. 125 indexed citations

McCormack, Alison L., et al.. (2008). Pathologic Modifications of α-Synuclein in 1-Methyl-4-Phenyl-1,2,3,6-Tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-Treated Squirrel Monkeys. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology. 67(8). 793–802. 64 indexed citations

Caudle, W. Michael, Jason R. Richardson, Tonya Taylor, et al.. (2007). Reduced Vesicular Storage of Dopamine Causes Progressive Nigrostriatal Neurodegeneration. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(30). 8138–8148. 304 indexed citations

Hatcher, Jaime M., Jason R. Richardson, Thomas S. Guillot, et al.. (2007). Dieldrin exposure induces oxidative damage in the mouse nigrostriatal dopamine system. Experimental Neurology. 204(2). 619–630. 110 indexed citations

McCormack, Alison L., et al.. (2007). Paraquat Neurotoxicity Is Mediated by a Bak-dependent Mechanism. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(6). 3357–3364. 86 indexed citations

Manning-Bog, Amy, W. Michael Caudle, Xiomara A. Perez, et al.. (2007). Increased vulnerability of nigrostriatal terminals in DJ-1-deficient mice is mediated by the dopamine transporter. Neurobiology of Disease. 27(2). 141–150. 74 indexed citations

Quik, Maryka, Neeraja Parameswaran, Sarah E. McCallum, et al.. (2006). Chronic oral nicotine treatment protects against striatal degeneration in MPTP‐treated primates. Journal of Neurochemistry. 98(6). 1866–1875. 100 indexed citations

McCormack, Alison L., et al.. (2006). Microglial activation as a priming event leading to paraquat-induced dopaminergic cell degeneration. Neurobiology of Disease. 25(2). 392–400. 191 indexed citations

McCormack, Alison L., et al.. (2006). Nicotine partially protects against paraquat‐induced nigrostriatal damage in mice; link to α6β2* nAChRs. Journal of Neurochemistry. 100(1). 180–190. 41 indexed citations

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McCormack, Alison L., et al.. (2005). Role of oxidative stress in paraquat‐induced dopaminergic cell degeneration. Journal of Neurochemistry. 93(4). 1030–1037. 215 indexed citations

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McCormack, Alison L., Donato A. Di Monte, Ian Irwin, et al.. (2004). Aging of the nigrostriatal system in the squirrel monkey. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 471(4). 387–395. 97 indexed citations

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Shimaoka, Motomu, Tsan Sam Xiao, Yuting Yang, et al.. (2003). Structures of the αL I Domain and Its Complex with ICAM-1 Reveal a Shape-Shifting Pathway for Integrin Regulation. Cell. 112(1). 99–111. 429 indexed citations

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Thiruchelvam, Mona, Alison L. McCormack, Eric K. Richfield, et al.. (2003). Age‐related irreversible progressive nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurotoxicity in the paraquat and maneb model of the Parkinson's disease phenotype. European Journal of Neuroscience. 18(3). 589–600. 220 indexed citations

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McCormack, Alison L. & Donato A. Di Monte. (2003). Effects of l‐dopa and other amino acids against paraquat‐induced nigrostriatal degeneration. Journal of Neurochemistry. 85(1). 82–86. 102 indexed citations

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Goers, John, Amy Manning-Bog, Alison L. McCormack, et al.. (2003). Nuclear Localization of α-Synuclein and Its Interaction with Histones. Biochemistry. 42(28). 8465–8471. 264 indexed citations

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McCormack, Alison L., Mona Thiruchelvam, Amy Manning-Bog, et al.. (2002). Environmental Risk Factors and Parkinson's Disease: Selective Degeneration of Nigral Dopaminergic Neurons Caused by the Herbicide Paraquat. Neurobiology of Disease. 10(2). 119–127. 602 indexed citations breakdown →

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Monte, Donato A. Di, Alison L. McCormack, Giselle M. Petzinger, et al.. (2000). Relationship among nigrostriatal denervation, parkinsonism, and dyskinesias in the MPTP primate model. Movement Disorders. 15(3). 459–466. 132 indexed citations

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McCormack, Alison L., Peter J. Craig, William K. Smith, et al.. (1998). The expression of voltage-dependent calcium channel beta subunits in human hippocampus. Molecular Brain Research. 60(2). 259–269. 17 indexed citations

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Craig, P. J., Andrew D. McAinsh, Alison L. McCormack, et al.. (1998). Distribution of the voltage‐dependent calcium channel α1A subunit throughout the mature rat brain and its relationship to neurotransmitter pathways. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 397(2). 251–267. 1 indexed citations

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Craig, Peter J., Andrew D. McAinsh, Alison L. McCormack, et al.. (1998). Distribution of the voltage-dependent calcium channel alpha(1A) subunit throughout the mature rat brain and its relationship to neurotransmitter pathways.. PubMed. 397(2). 251–67. 39 indexed citations

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