Basant Kumar Thakur

7.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Basant Kumar Thakur is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Geriatrics and Gerontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Basant Kumar Thakur has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Cancer Research and 4 papers in Geriatrics and Gerontology. Recurrent topics in Basant Kumar Thakur's work include Extracellular vesicles in disease (7 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (7 papers) and Sirtuins and Resveratrol in Medicine (4 papers). Basant Kumar Thakur is often cited by papers focused on Extracellular vesicles in disease (7 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (7 papers) and Sirtuins and Resveratrol in Medicine (4 papers). Basant Kumar Thakur collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and India. Basant Kumar Thakur's co-authors include Annette Becker, Joshua M. Weiss, David Lyden, Héctor Peinado, Han Sang Kim, Karl Welte, Julia Skokowa, Reinhard Winzen, Helmut Holtmann and Michael Kracht and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Medicine and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Basant Kumar Thakur

19 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.

Extracellular Vesicles in Cancer: Cell-to-Cell Mediators of Metastasis

2016 1.5k citations Annette Becker, Basant Kumar Thakur et al. Cancer Cell profile →

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Irene M. Aspalter United Kingdom

Stephin J. Vervoort Australia

Pengcheng Bu China

Gustavo Gutierrez-Cruz United States

Jennifer Pasquier Qatar

Zoltán Wiener Hungary

Shane M. Harding Canada

Dorothee Wernicke United States

Elke Firat Germany

Anwarul Ferdous United States

Irene M. Aspalter United Kingdom

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19 of 19 papers shown

Thakur, Basant Kumar, et al.. (2025). Development and In Vitro Characterization of Milk-Derived Extracellular Vesicle-Mithramycin Formulations for Potential Glioma Therapy. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 22(6). 2881–2894. 2 indexed citations

Thakur, Basant Kumar, et al.. (2025). Harnessing tomato-derived small extracellular vesicles as drug delivery system for cancer therapy. Future Science OA. 11(1). 2461956–2461956. 9 indexed citations

Kosnopfel, Corinna, Tobias Sinnberg, Birgit Sauer, et al.. (2020). Tumour Progression Stage-Dependent Secretion of YB-1 Stimulates Melanoma Cell Migration and Invasion. Cancers. 12(8). 2328–2328. 18 indexed citations

Reinhardt, Katarina, Christiane Walter, Bernd Walkenfort, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of dsDNA from extracellular vesicles (EVs) in pediatric AML diagnostics. Annals of Hematology. 99(3). 459–475. 33 indexed citations

Thakur, Basant Kumar, et al.. (2020). Tumor-Derived Extracellular Vesicles and the Immune System—Lessons From Immune-Competent Mouse-Tumor Models. Frontiers in Immunology. 11. 606859–606859. 24 indexed citations

Reinhardt, Katarina, et al.. (2019). Detection of AML-specific mutations in pediatric patient plasma using extracellular vesicle–derived RNA. Annals of Hematology. 98(3). 595–603. 22 indexed citations

Jabłońska, Jadwiga, Monika Pietrowska, Sonja Ludwig, Stephan Lang, & Basant Kumar Thakur. (2019). Challenges in the Isolation and Proteomic Analysis of Cancer Exosomes—Implications for Translational Research. Proteomes. 7(2). 22–22. 25 indexed citations

Pylaeva, Ekaterina, Ilona Spyra, Sharareh Bordbari, et al.. (2018). NAMPT signaling is critical for the proangiogenic activity of tumor‐associated neutrophils. International Journal of Cancer. 144(1). 136–149. 74 indexed citations

Becker, Annette, Basant Kumar Thakur, Joshua M. Weiss, et al.. (2016). Extracellular Vesicles in Cancer: Cell-to-Cell Mediators of Metastasis. Cancer Cell. 30(6). 836–848. 1486 indexed citations breakdown →

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Singh, Anurag Kumar, Yongjian Liu, Brigitte Riederer, et al.. (2013). Molecular transport machinery involved in orchestrating luminal acid‐induced duodenal bicarbonate secretion in vivo. The Journal of Physiology. 591(21). 5377–5391. 34 indexed citations

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Thakur, Basant Kumar, et al.. (2012). NAMPT pathway is involved in the FOXO3a-mediated regulation of GADD45A expression. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 420(4). 714–720. 19 indexed citations

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Thakur, Basant Kumar, Chandra Prakash, Annette Becker, et al.. (2012). Inhibition of NAMPT pathway by FK866 activates the function of p53 in HEK293T cells. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 424(3). 371–377. 27 indexed citations

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Thakur, Basant Kumar, Chandra Prakash, Annette Becker, et al.. (2012). Involvement of p53 in the cytotoxic activity of the NAMPT inhibitor FK866 in myeloid leukemic cells. International Journal of Cancer. 132(4). 766–774. 40 indexed citations

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Thakur, Basant Kumar, et al.. (2012). Inhibition of SIRT1 by HIV-1 viral protein Tat results in activation of p53 pathway. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 424(2). 245–250. 29 indexed citations

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Dhamija, Sonam, Reinhard Winzen, Oliver Dittrich‐Breiholz, et al.. (2011). Interleukin-1 Activates Synthesis of Interleukin-6 by Interfering with a KH-type Splicing Regulatory Protein (KSRP)-dependent Translational Silencing Mechanism. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(38). 33279–33288. 47 indexed citations

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Becker, Annette, Katharina Laurence Jost, Sebastian Haase, et al.. (2011). MeCP2 Rett mutations affect large scale chromatin organization. Human Molecular Genetics. 20(21). 4187–4195. 71 indexed citations

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Skokowa, Julia, et al.. (2009). Neutrophil elastase is severely down-regulated in severe congenital neutropenia independent of ELA2 or HAX1 mutations but dependent on LEF-1. Blood. 114(14). 3044–3051. 25 indexed citations

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Skokowa, Julia, Dan Lan, Basant Kumar Thakur, et al.. (2009). NAMPT is essential for the G-CSF–induced myeloid differentiation via a NAD+–sirtuin-1–dependent pathway. Nature Medicine. 15(2). 151–158. 167 indexed citations

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Winzen, Reinhard, Basant Kumar Thakur, Oliver Dittrich‐Breiholz, et al.. (2007). Functional Analysis of KSRP Interaction with the AU-Rich Element of Interleukin-8 and Identification of Inflammatory mRNA Targets. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 27(23). 8388–8400. 126 indexed citations

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