Chiara Zuccato

9.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
60 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Chiara Zuccato is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Chiara Zuccato has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 46 papers in Molecular Biology and 13 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Chiara Zuccato's work include Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (50 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (24 papers) and Muscle Physiology and Disorders (13 papers). Chiara Zuccato is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (50 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (24 papers) and Muscle Physiology and Disorders (13 papers). Chiara Zuccato collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and United Kingdom. Chiara Zuccato's co-authors include Elena Cattaneo, Marzia Tartari, Marta Valenza, Dorotea Rigamonti, Donato Goffredo, Luciano Conti, Tõnis Timmusk, Michael R. Hayden, Blair R. Leavitt and Marcy E. MacDonald and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Chiara Zuccato

59 papers receiving 7.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Loss of Huntingtin-Mediated BDNF Gene Transcription in Huntington's Disease

2001 1.0k citations Chiara Zuccato, Dorotea Rigamonti et al. profile →
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor in neurodegenerative diseases

2009 757 citations Chiara Zuccato, Elena Cattaneo profile →
Huntingtin interacts with REST/NRSF to modulate the transcription of NRSE-controlled neuronal genes

2003 720 citations Chiara Zuccato, Marzia Tartari et al. profile →
Molecular Mechanisms and Potential Therapeutical Targets in Huntington's Disease

2010 628 citations Chiara Zuccato, Marta Valenza et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chiara Zuccato Italy	32	5.1k	5.0k	1.6k	634	539	60	7.2k
Xiao‐Jiang Li United States	54	7.0k 1.4×	8.0k 1.6×	2.5k 1.6×	886 1.4×	388 0.7×	154	10.7k
Shihua Li China	38	3.7k 0.7×	4.8k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	671 1.1×	185 0.3×	114	6.3k
Zhong Xie United States	31	2.3k 0.5×	3.1k 0.6×	758 0.5×	786 1.2×	574 1.1×	67	5.3k
Scott Zeitlin United States	34	3.6k 0.7×	4.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	364 0.6×	206 0.4×	47	5.5k
Farrukh A. Chaudhry Norway	38	4.9k 1.0×	3.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	1.0k 1.6×	652 1.2×	73	7.4k
Russell T. Matthews United States	46	2.8k 0.6×	3.7k 0.7×	2.1k 1.3×	1.6k 2.5×	406 0.8×	74	7.9k
Willeke van Roon‐Mom Netherlands	39	2.1k 0.4×	2.8k 0.6×	778 0.5×	438 0.7×	797 1.5×	109	4.6k
Birgit Liss Germany	39	3.2k 0.6×	2.8k 0.6×	1.7k 1.1×	925 1.5×	201 0.4×	73	6.2k
Myriam Heiman United States	26	1.7k 0.3×	2.7k 0.5×	713 0.5×	736 1.2×	455 0.8×	36	5.4k
Riccardo Brambilla Italy	37	2.5k 0.5×	2.8k 0.6×	397 0.3×	692 1.1×	628 1.2×	75	5.0k

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Bocchi, Vittoria Dickinson, Paola Conforti, Elena Vezzoli, et al.. (2024). Huntington’s disease cellular phenotypes are rescued non-cell autonomously by healthy cells in mosaic telencephalic organoids. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6534–6534. 7 indexed citations

Scaramuzzino, Chiara, Eric N. Anderson, Ivó H. Hernández, et al.. (2021). Huntingtin-mediated axonal transport requires arginine methylation by PRMT6. Cell Reports. 35(2). 108980–108980. 22 indexed citations

Muroni, Antonella, Maria Rita Murru, Tommaso Ercoli, et al.. (2021). Geographic differences in the incidence of Huntington’s disease in Sardinia, Italy. Neurological Sciences. 42(12). 5177–5181. 2 indexed citations

Scaramuzzino, Chiara, Eric N. Anderson, Ivó H. Hernández, et al.. (2020). Huntingtin-Mediated Axonal Transport Requires Arginine Methylation by PRMT6. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

Finotti, Alessia, Laura Breda, Nicoletta Bianchi, et al.. (2015). Recent trends in the gene therapy of β-thalassemia. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 17 indexed citations

Crotti, Andrea, Christopher Benner, Bilal E. Kerman, et al.. (2014). Mutant Huntingtin promotes autonomous microglia activation via myeloid lineage-determining factors. Nature Neuroscience. 17(4). 513–521. 250 indexed citations

Zuccato, Chiara & Elena Cattaneo. (2014). Huntington’s Disease. Handbook of experimental pharmacology. 220. 357–409. 74 indexed citations

Conforti, Paola, Stefano Camnasio, Marta Valenza, et al.. (2012). Lack of huntingtin promotes neural stem cells differentiation into glial cells while neurons expressing huntingtin with expanded polyglutamine tracts undergo cell death. Neurobiology of Disease. 50. 160–170. 30 indexed citations

Pouladi, Mahmoud A., Yuanyun Xie, Paola Conforti, et al.. (2012). NP03, a novel low-dose lithium formulation, is neuroprotective in the YAC128 mouse model of Huntington disease. Neurobiology of Disease. 48(3). 282–289. 45 indexed citations

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Sardo, Valentina Lo, Chiara Zuccato, Germano Gaudenzi, et al.. (2012). An evolutionary recent neuroepithelial cell adhesion function of huntingtin implicates ADAM10-Ncadherin. Nature Neuroscience. 15(5). 713–721. 87 indexed citations

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Buckley, Noel J., Rory Johnson, Chiara Zuccato, Angela Bithell, & Elena Cattaneo. (2010). The role of REST in transcriptional and epigenetic dysregulation in Huntington's disease. Neurobiology of Disease. 39(1). 28–39. 111 indexed citations

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Rigamonti, Dorotea, Daniele Bolognini, Chiara Zuccato, et al.. (2007). Loss of Huntingtin Function Complemented by Small Molecules Acting as Repressor Element 1/Neuron Restrictive Silencer Element Silencer Modulators. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(34). 24554–24562. 38 indexed citations

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Zuccato, Chiara, Carmela Giampà, Stefano Patassini, et al.. (2007). Cortical expression of brain derived neurotrophic factor and type-1 cannabinoid receptor after striatal excitotoxic lesions. Neuroscience. 152(3). 734–740. 25 indexed citations

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Lim, Dmitry, Laura Fedrizzi, Marzia Tartari, et al.. (2007). Calcium Homeostasis and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Striatal Neurons of Huntington Disease. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(9). 5780–5789. 165 indexed citations

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Zuccato, Chiara, et al.. (2005). From target identification to drug screening assays for neurodegenerative diseases. Pharmacological Research. 52(3). 245–251. 7 indexed citations

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Zuccato, Chiara, Luciano Conti, Erika Reitano, Marzia Tartari, & Elena Cattaneo. (2005). The Function of the Neuronal Proteins Shc and Huntingtin in Stem Cells and Neurons: Pharmacologic Exploitation for Human Brain Diseases. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1049(1). 39–50. 4 indexed citations

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Cattaneo, Elena, Chiara Zuccato, & Marzia Tartari. (2005). Normal huntingtin function: an alternative approach to Huntington's disease. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 6(12). 919–930. 497 indexed citations

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Goffredo, Donato, Dorotea Rigamonti, Chiara Zuccato, et al.. (2005). Prevention of cytosolic IAPs degradation: a potential pharmacological target in Huntington's Disease. Pharmacological Research. 52(2). 140–150. 35 indexed citations

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Cattaneo, Elena, Dorotea Rigamonti, & Chiara Zuccato. (2003). El enigma de la enfermedad de Huntington. 1(8). 32–37.

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Fusco, Francesca R., Chiara Zuccato, Marzia Tartari, et al.. (2003). Co‐localization of brain‐derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and wild‐type huntingtin in normal and quinolinic acid‐lesioned rat brain. European Journal of Neuroscience. 18(5). 1093–1102. 52 indexed citations

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