Bernard Thorens

36.1k total citations · 10 hit papers
261 papers, 28.2k citations indexed

About

Bernard Thorens is a scholar working on Surgery, Molecular Biology and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernard Thorens has authored 261 papers receiving a total of 28.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 169 papers in Surgery, 116 papers in Molecular Biology and 98 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Recurrent topics in Bernard Thorens's work include Pancreatic function and diabetes (163 papers), Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (77 papers) and Diabetes Treatment and Management (55 papers). Bernard Thorens is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic function and diabetes (163 papers), Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (77 papers) and Diabetes Treatment and Management (55 papers). Bernard Thorens collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and France. Bernard Thorens's co-authors include Mike Mueckler, Inpyo Choi, Rongbin Zhou, Aubry Tardivel, Jürg Tschopp, Marc Uldry, Rémy Burcelin, Wanda Dolci, Alexander So and Harvey F. Lodish and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Bernard Thorens

258 papers receiving 27.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Thioredoxin-interacting protein links oxidative stress to inflammasome activation

2009 2.2k citations Bernard Thorens et al. Nature Immunology profile →
Amiloride-sensitive epithelial Na+ channel is made of three homologous subunits

1994 1.6k citations Bernard Thorens et al. profile →
The SLC2 (GLUT) family of membrane transporters

2013 981 citations Bernard Thorens et al. profile →
Expression cloning of the pancreatic beta cell receptor for the gluco-incretin hormone glucagon-like peptide 1.

1992 737 citations Bernard Thorens profile →
Glucose transporters in the 21st Century

2009 732 citations Bernard Thorens et al. profile →
Cloning and functional expression in bacteria of a novel glucose transporter present in liver, intestine, kidney, and β-pancreatic islet cells

1988 671 citations Bernard Thorens et al. profile →
Uric acid transport and disease

2010 647 citations Bernard Thorens et al. Journal of Clinical Investigation profile →
The extended GLUT-family of sugar/polyol transport facilitators: nomenclature, sequence characteristics, and potential function of its novel members

2001 553 citations Bernard Thorens et al. profile →
GLUT2, glucose sensing and glucose homeostasis

2014 538 citations Bernard Thorens Diabetologia profile →
Postprandial macrophage-derived IL-1β stimulates insulin, and both synergistically promote glucose disposal and inflammation

2017 315 citations Erez Dror, Élise Dalmas et al. Nature Immunology profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Glucagon receptor family in GtoPdb v.2025.3 2025 ·IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE ·D. Bataille, Roberto Salvatori, Laurence J. Miller, Kelly E. Mayo, Rebecca Hills, Burkhard Göke, Daniel J. Drucker, Philippe Delagrange, Susan L.F. Chan, Bernard Thorens	0
2	Fasting induces metabolic switches and spatial redistributions of lipid processing and neuronal interactions in tanycytes 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), David López Rodríguez, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Andrea Messina, Bernard Thorens, Federico Santoni, Fanny Langlet	6
3	Tmem117 in AVP neurons regulates the counterregulatory response to hypoglycemia 2023 ·EMBO Reports ·Sevasti Gaspari, Gwenaël Labouèbe, Alexandre Picard, Xavier Berney, (unknown), Bernard Thorens	6
4	Hyperglycemia increases SCO-spondin and Wnt5a secretion into the cerebrospinal fluid to regulate ependymal cell beating and glucose sensing 2023 ·PLoS Biology ·Francisco Nualart, Manuel Cifuentes, (unknown), Fernando Martínez de Juan, María José Barahona, Luciano Ferrada, (unknown), Ernesto R. Bongarzone, Bernard Thorens, Katterine Salazar	3
5	Disrupted hypothalamic transcriptomics and proteomics in a mouse model of type 2 diabetes exposed to recurrent hypoglycaemia 2023 ·Diabetologia ·Judit Castillo‐Armengol, Flavia Marzetta, (unknown), Christian Fledelius, Mark L. Evans, Alison D. McNeilly, Rory J. McCrimmon, Mark Ibberson, Bernard Thorens	5
6	The Constitutive Lack of α7 Nicotinic Receptor Leads to Metabolic Disorders in Mouse 2020 ·Biomolecules ·Blandine Gausserès, Junjun Liu, Ewout Foppen, Cécile Tourrel‐Cuzin, (unknown), (unknown), Céline Cruciani‐Guglielmacci, Stéphanie Pons, Uwe Maskos, Bernard Thorens, Chr̀istophe Magnan, Jamileh Movassat, (unknown)	9
7	GLP-1 receptor agonists synergize with DYRK1A inhibitors to potentiate functional human β cell regeneration 2020 ·Science Translational Medicine ·Courtney Ackeifi, Peng Wang, Esra Karaköse, Jocelyn E. Manning Fox, Bryan J. González, Hongtao Liu, Jessica Wilson, Ethan Swartz, (unknown), Yansui Li, Kunal Kumar, Patrick E. MacDonald, Roberto Sánchez, Bernard Thorens, Robert J. DeVita, Dirk Homann, Dieter Egli, Donald K. Scott, Adolfo Garcı́a-Ocaña, Andrew F. Stewart	89
8	Postprandial macrophage-derived IL-1β stimulates insulin, and both synergistically promote glucose disposal and inflammation breakdown → 2017 ·Nature Immunology ·Erez Dror, Élise Dalmas, Daniel T. Meier, Stephan Wueest, Julien Thévenet, Constanze Thienel, Katharina Timper, Thierry M. Nordmann, Shuyang Traub, Friederike Schulze, Flurin Item, David Vallois, François Pattou, Julie Kerr‐Conte, Vanessa Lavallard, Thierry Berney, Bernard Thorens, Daniel Konrad, Marianne Böni‐Schnetzler, Marc Y. Donath	315
9	Defective glucose homeostasis in mice inactivated selectively for Tcf7l2 in the adult beta cell with an Ins1-controlled Cre 2016 ·Spiral (Imperial College London) ·(unknown), (unknown), Ryan K. Mitchell, David J. Hodson, Jorge Ferrer, Bernard Thorens, (unknown), James McGinty, Pim J. French, Guy A. Rutter	0
10	The Peroxisomal Enzyme L-PBE Is Required to Prevent the Dietary Toxicity of Medium-Chain Fatty Acids 2013 ·Cell Reports ·Jun Ding, Ursula Loizides‐Mangold, Gianpaolo Rando, Vincent Zoete, Olivier Michielin, Janardan K. Reddy, Walter Wahli, Howard Riezman, Bernard Thorens	46
11	Physiological concentrations of GLP-1 increase insulin secretion by activating protein kinase C pathway in pancreatic beta cells 2012 ·Diabetologia ·Makoto Shigeto, Reshma Ramracheya, Nils J. G. Rorsman, (unknown), Bernard Thorens, Kohei Kaku, Patrik Rorsman	1
12	Central control of glucose homeostasis: the brain – endocrine pancreas axis 2010 ·Diabetes & Metabolism ·Bernard Thorens	32
13	A missing sugar prevents glucose entry: A new twist on insulin secretion 2006 ·Cell Metabolism ·Bernard Thorens	2
14	Gluco-incretins control insulin secretion at multiple levels as revealed in mice lacking GLP-1 and GIP receptors 2004 ·Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Frédéric Preitner, Mark Ibberson, Isobel Franklin, Christophe Binnert, Mario Pende, Asllan Gjinovci, Tanya Hansotia, Daniel J. Drucker, Claes B. Wollheim, Rémy Burcelin, Bernard Thorens	192
15	Alvéolite aux isocyanates chez une couturière 2001 ·Revue des Maladies Respiratoires ·(unknown), Christophe Uldry, Bernard Thorens	1
16	Internalization and Homologous Desensitization of the GLP-1 Receptor Depend on Phosphorylation of the Receptor Carboxyl Tail at the Same Three Sites 1997 ·Molecular Endocrinology ·Christian Widmann, Wanda Dolci, Bernard Thorens	59
17	[Histiocytosis X falsely diagnosed as silicosis]. 1997 ·PubMed ·(unknown), Bernard Thorens	1
18	Reduction in the expression of glucose transporter protein GLUT 2 in preneoplastic and neoplastic hepatic lesions and reexpression of GLUT 1 in late stages of hepatocarcinogenesis. 1993 ·SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) ·Rainer Grobholz, (unknown), Bernard Thorens, Peter Bannasch	41
19	Facilitated Glucose Transporters in Epithelial Cells 1993 ·Annual Review of Physiology ·Bernard Thorens	107
20	Reduced beta-cell glucose transporter in new onset diabetic BB rats. 1990 ·Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Lelio Orci, Roger H. Unger, Mariella Ravazzola, Atsushi Ogawa, Ichiro Komiya, D. Baetens, Harvey F. Lodish, Bernard Thorens	83

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