Brigitte Pesold

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Brigitte Pesold is a scholar working on Physiology, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brigitte Pesold has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Physiology, 10 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Brigitte Pesold's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (13 papers), Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases (4 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (3 papers). Brigitte Pesold is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (13 papers), Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases (4 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (3 papers). Brigitte Pesold collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Japan. Brigitte Pesold's co-authors include Christian Haass, Harald Steiner, Dieter Edbauer, Edith Winkler, Jörg T. Regula, Anja Capell, Martin Citron, Helmut Romig, Dennis J. Selkoe and Jürgen Grünberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Brigitte Pesold

17 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Reconstitution of γ-secretase activity 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Reconstitution of γ-secretase activity
    2003 726 citations Dieter Edbauer, Edith Winkler et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Brigitte Pesold Germany 16 1.9k 1.3k 583 540 489 17 2.4k
Gopal Thinakaran United States 14 2.1k 1.1× 1.5k 1.1× 474 0.8× 598 1.1× 644 1.3× 21 2.8k
Katrien Horré Belgium 20 1.5k 0.8× 2.0k 1.5× 292 0.5× 416 0.8× 573 1.2× 25 3.2k
Helmut Romig Germany 17 1.1k 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 381 0.7× 337 0.6× 259 0.5× 23 1.8k
R E Rydel United States 11 1.6k 0.9× 1.9k 1.4× 349 0.6× 541 1.0× 1.5k 3.1× 11 3.6k
Paul Fraser Canada 15 1.4k 0.7× 879 0.7× 481 0.8× 348 0.6× 420 0.9× 18 1.8k
Pamela S. Keim United States 12 1.6k 0.9× 1.2k 0.9× 291 0.5× 329 0.6× 743 1.5× 13 2.7k
Pascal Kienlen‐Campard Belgium 27 1.4k 0.8× 1.3k 1.0× 231 0.4× 320 0.6× 503 1.0× 68 2.3k
Kaori Yasutake Japan 20 1.3k 0.7× 1.3k 1.0× 250 0.4× 366 0.7× 566 1.2× 28 2.3k
Tamara Ratovitski United States 23 1.9k 1.0× 2.0k 1.5× 381 0.7× 448 0.8× 1.4k 2.8× 32 3.5k
Simone Eggert Germany 19 1.3k 0.7× 845 0.6× 328 0.6× 315 0.6× 466 1.0× 30 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Brigitte Pesold

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brigitte Pesold

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brigitte Pesold

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brigitte Pesold. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brigitte Pesold based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Brigitte Pesold. Brigitte Pesold is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Schönig, Kai, Tillmann Weber, Brigitte Pesold, et al.. (2012). Conditional gene expression systems in the transgenic rat brain. BMC Biology. 10(1). 77–77. 31 indexed citations
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Berger, Stefan, Brigitte Pesold, Simone Reber, et al.. (2010). Quantitative analysis of conditional gene inactivation using rationally designed, tetracycline-controlled miRNAs. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(17). e168–e168. 22 indexed citations
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Edbauer, Dieter, Edith Winkler, Jörg T. Regula, et al.. (2003). Reconstitution of γ-secretase activity. Nature Cell Biology. 5(5). 486–488. 726 indexed citations breakdown →
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Thome, Johannes, Brigitte Pesold, Miriam Baader, et al.. (2001). Stress differentially regulates synaptophysin and synaptotagmin expression in hippocampus. Biological Psychiatry. 50(10). 809–812. 112 indexed citations
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Steiner, Harald, Tamás Révész, Manuela Neumann, et al.. (2001). A Pathogenic Presenilin-1 Deletion Causes Abberrant Aβ42 Production in the Absence of Congophilic Amyloid Plaques. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(10). 7233–7239. 71 indexed citations
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Thome, Johannes, Wolfgang Retz, Miriam Baader, et al.. (2001). Association analysis of HTR6 and HTR2A polymorphisms in sporadic Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Neural Transmission. 108(10). 1175–1180. 20 indexed citations
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Steiner, Harald, Marcus Kostka, Helmut Romig, et al.. (2000). Glycine 384 is required for presenilin-1 function and is conserved in bacterial polytopic aspartyl proteases. Nature Cell Biology. 2(11). 848–851. 228 indexed citations
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Hu, Mei, Wolfgang Retz, Miriam Baader, et al.. (2000). Promoter polymorphism of the 5-HT transporter and Alzheimer's disease. Neuroscience Letters. 294(1). 63–65. 40 indexed citations
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Steiner, Harald, Helmut Romig, Brigitte Pesold, et al.. (1999). Amyloidogenic Function of the Alzheimer's Disease-Associated Presenilin 1 in the Absence of Endoproteolysis. Biochemistry. 38(44). 14600–14605. 76 indexed citations
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Steiner, Harald, Brigitte Pesold, & Christian Haass. (1999). An in vivo assay for the identification of target proteases which cleave membrane‐associated substrates. FEBS Letters. 463(3). 245–249. 17 indexed citations
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Steiner, Harald, Karen Duff, Anja Capell, et al.. (1999). A Loss of Function Mutation of Presenilin-2 Interferes with Amyloid β-Peptide Production and Notch Signaling. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(40). 28669–28673. 258 indexed citations
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Steiner, Harald, Helmut Romig, Melissa G. Grim, et al.. (1999). The Biological and Pathological Function of the Presenilin-1 ΔExon 9 Mutation Is Independent of Its Defect to Undergo Proteolytic Processing. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(12). 7615–7618. 111 indexed citations
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Steiner, Harald, Anja Capell, Brigitte Pesold, et al.. (1998). Expression of Alzheimer’s Disease-associated Presenilin-1 Is Controlled by Proteolytic Degradation and Complex Formation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273(48). 32322–32331. 165 indexed citations
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Capell, Anja, Jürgen Grünberg, Brigitte Pesold, et al.. (1998). The Proteolytic Fragments of the Alzheimer's Disease-associated Presenilin-1 Form Heterodimers and Occur as a 100–150-kDa Molecular Mass Complex. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273(6). 3205–3211. 271 indexed citations
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Walter, Jochen, Jürgen Grünberg, Anja Capell, et al.. (1997). Proteolytic processing of the Alzheimer disease-associated presenilin-1 generates an in vivo substrate for protein kinase C. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 94(10). 5349–5354. 94 indexed citations
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Walter, Jochen, Anja Capell, Jürgen Grünberg, et al.. (1996). The Alzheimer’s Disease-Associated Presenilins Are Differentially Phosphorylated Proteins Located Predominantly within the Endoplasmic Reticulum. Molecular Medicine. 2(6). 673–691. 178 indexed citations
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Haass, Christian, Jürgen Grünberg, Peter St George‐Hyslop, et al.. (1996). 150 Expression of the Presenilin proteins PS-1 and PS-2 in tissue culture cells. Neurobiology of Aging. 17(4). S38–S38. 2 indexed citations

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