Ana Fontalba

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Ana Fontalba is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Ana Fontalba has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Ana Fontalba's work include Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (4 papers), Tracheal and airway disorders (4 papers) and Vascular Anomalies and Treatments (4 papers). Ana Fontalba is often cited by papers focused on Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (4 papers), Tracheal and airway disorders (4 papers) and Vascular Anomalies and Treatments (4 papers). Ana Fontalba collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and United Kingdom. Ana Fontalba's co-authors include José L. Fernández-Luna, Olga Gutiérrez, Gabriel Núñez, Yasunori Ogura, Naohiro Inohara, Fernando Pons, Seiichi Inamura, Javier Crespo, Masahito Hashimoto and Simon J. Foster and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, The Journal of Immunology and Journal of Molecular Biology.

In The Last Decade

Ana Fontalba

25 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Host Recognition of Bacterial Muramyl Dipeptide Mediated through NOD2

2003 1.3k citations Naohiro Inohara, Yasunori Ogura et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ana Fontalba Spain	17	1.2k	760	506	399	327	25	2.3k
Laurien H. Ulfman Netherlands	28	1.2k 1.0×	878 1.2×	183 0.4×	406 1.0×	209 0.6×	58	3.0k
Thomas Kolbe Austria	26	1.4k 1.2×	897 1.2×	221 0.4×	262 0.7×	225 0.7×	53	2.9k
Sara Gasperini Italy	28	2.4k 2.0×	617 0.8×	178 0.4×	443 1.1×	197 0.6×	48	3.5k
Patrick Caplazi United States	23	872 0.7×	638 0.8×	144 0.3×	332 0.8×	177 0.5×	47	2.2k
Şefik Ş. Alkan United States	23	1.7k 1.4×	518 0.7×	199 0.4×	555 1.4×	301 0.9×	44	2.8k
S Hudak United States	23	1.9k 1.6×	593 0.8×	270 0.5×	273 0.7×	206 0.6×	33	3.2k
Mahesh Yadav United States	22	2.1k 1.7×	951 1.3×	349 0.7×	263 0.7×	183 0.6×	87	3.3k
LuAnn Thompson-Snipes United States	23	2.5k 2.1×	801 1.1×	557 1.1×	455 1.1×	508 1.6×	28	3.7k
Valérie S. Zimmermann France	20	2.3k 1.9×	863 1.1×	233 0.5×	295 0.7×	327 1.0×	52	3.6k
Wumesh KC United States	13	2.2k 1.8×	1.0k 1.4×	376 0.7×	719 1.8×	223 0.7×	16	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ana Fontalba

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gallo‐Terán, Jaime, et al.. (2024). Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Patients With the m.1555A>G Mutation in the MTRNR1 Gene. The Laryngoscope. 135(2). 901–907. 2 indexed citations

Vona, Barbara, María Costales, Rocío González‐Aguado, et al.. (2020). Radixin modulates the function of outer hair cell stereocilia. Communications Biology. 3(1). 792–792. 10 indexed citations

Fernández‐Marmiesse, Ana, et al.. (2019). Septo-optic dysplasia caused by a novel FLNA splice site mutation: a case report. BMC Medical Genetics. 20(1). 112–112. 8 indexed citations

Zarrabeitia, Roberto, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Miguel Santibáñez, et al.. (2017). Quality of life in patients with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT). Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 15(1). 19–19. 40 indexed citations

Diago, Carlos Antonio Amado, et al.. (2013). Prevalence of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) and genotype–phenotype correlation in Spain. European Journal of Internal Medicine. 24. e183–e184. 1 indexed citations

Fontalba, Ana, José L. Fernández-Luna, Roberto Zarrabeitia, et al.. (2013). Copy number variations in endoglin locus: mapping of large deletions in Spanish families with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia type 1. BMC Medical Genetics. 14(1). 121–121. 6 indexed citations

López‐Hoyos, Marcos, C. Mata, Ana Fontalba, et al.. (2011). Expression and function of toll-like receptors in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 70(9). 1677–1683. 29 indexed citations

Fontalba, Ana, Olga Gutiérrez, Javier Llorca, et al.. (2008). Deficiency of CARD8 Is Associated with Increased Alzheimer’s Disease Risk in Women. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders. 26(3). 247–250. 23 indexed citations

Fontalba, Ana, Africa Fernández-L, Virginia Albiñana, et al.. (2008). Mutation study of Spanish patients with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia. BMC Medical Genetics. 9(1). 75–75. 30 indexed citations

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Fontalba, Ana, Olga Gutiérrez, & José L. Fernández-Luna. (2007). NLRP2, an Inhibitor of the NF-κB Pathway, Is Transcriptionally Activated by NF-κB and Exhibits a Nonfunctional Allelic Variant. The Journal of Immunology. 179(12). 8519–8524. 63 indexed citations

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Fontalba, Ana, Víctor M. Martínez‐Taboada, Olga Gutiérrez, et al.. (2007). Deficiency of the NF-κB Inhibitor Caspase Activating and Recruitment Domain 8 in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Associated with Disease Severity. The Journal of Immunology. 179(7). 4867–4873. 62 indexed citations

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Infante, Jon, Pascual Sánchez‐Juan, Ignacio Mateo, et al.. (2007). Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1) genetic variants are protective against Parkinson's disease. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 256(1-2). 68–70. 26 indexed citations

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Infante, Jon, Eloy Rodríguez‐Rodríguez, Onofre Combarros, et al.. (2005). LRRK2 G2019S is a common mutation in Spanish patients with late-onset Parkinson's disease. Neuroscience Letters. 395(3). 224–226. 62 indexed citations

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Inohara, Naohiro, Yasunori Ogura, Ana Fontalba, et al.. (2003). Host Recognition of Bacterial Muramyl Dipeptide Mediated through NOD2. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(8). 5509–5512. 1339 indexed citations breakdown →

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Combarros, Onofre, Ana Fontalba, José L. Fernández-Luna, et al.. (2003). Interaction of the H63D Mutation in the Hemochromatosis Gene with the Apolipoprotein E Epsilon 4 Allele Modulates Age at Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders. 15(3). 151–154. 42 indexed citations

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Gutiérrez, Olga, Carlos Pipaón, Naohiro Inohara, et al.. (2002). Induction of Nod2 in Myelomonocytic and Intestinal Epithelial Cells via Nuclear Factor-κB Activation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(44). 41701–41705. 355 indexed citations

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Sánchez–Guerra, M., Onofre Combarros, Jon Infante, et al.. (2001). Case-control study and meta-analysis of low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein gene exon 3 polymorphism in Alzheimer's disease. Neuroscience Letters. 316(1). 17–20. 41 indexed citations

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Zabala, Juan Carlos, Ana Fontalba, & Jesús Ávila. (1996). Tubulin folding is altered by mutations in a putative GTP binding motif. Journal of Cell Science. 109(6). 1471–1478. 15 indexed citations

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Fontalba, Ana, Jesús Ávila, & Juan Carlos Zabala. (1995). β-Tubulin folding is modulated by the isotype-specific carboxy-terminal domain. Journal of Molecular Biology. 246(5). 628–636. 16 indexed citations

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Fontalba, Ana, et al.. (1994). A 14 kDa release factor is involved in GTP‐dependent β‐tubulin folding. FEBS Letters. 353(2). 162–166. 26 indexed citations

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