Cindy Zehr

4.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
9 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Cindy Zehr is a scholar working on Physiology, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cindy Zehr has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Physiology, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Cindy Zehr's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (8 papers), Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases (4 papers) and Nuclear Receptors and Signaling (3 papers). Cindy Zehr is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (8 papers), Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases (4 papers) and Nuclear Receptors and Signaling (3 papers). Cindy Zehr collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Sweden. Cindy Zehr's co-authors include Karen Duff, Xin Yu, John Hardy, Leigh A. Holcomb, Marcia N. Gordon, Chris Eckman, Mike Hutton, Eileen McGowan, Jordi Pérez‐Tur and Lawrence M. Refolo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Cindy Zehr

9 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Increased amyloid-β42(43) in brains of mice expressing mu... 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 1998 2005 250 500 750 1000
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.

  1. Increased amyloid-β42(43) in brains of mice expressing mutant presenilin 1
    1996 1.2k citations Karen Duff, Chris Eckman et al. Nature profile →
  2. Accelerated Alzheimer-type phenotype in transgenic mice carrying both mutant amyloid precursor protein and presenilin 1 transgenes
    1998 1.1k citations Leigh A. Holcomb, Marcia N. Gordon et al. Nature Medicine profile →
  3. Inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3 by lithium correlates with reduced tauopathy and degenerationin vivo
    2005 569 citations Wendy Noble, Emmanuel Planel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers

Cindy Zehr
Leigh A. Holcomb United States
Kang Hu United States
Russell E. Rydel United States
Christine Stürchler-Pierrat Switzerland
Gui-Qiu Yu United States
Ina Tesseur Belgium
Matthew Townsend United States
Steffen Roßner Germany
Dieder Moechars Belgium
Kelly Johnson‐Wood United States
Leigh A. Holcomb United States
Cindy Zehr
Citations per year, relative to Cindy Zehr Cindy Zehr (= 1×) peers Leigh A. Holcomb

Countries citing papers authored by Cindy Zehr

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cindy Zehr

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cindy Zehr

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cindy Zehr. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cindy Zehr 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 Cindy Zehr. Cindy Zehr is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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Spires‐Jones, Tara L., Alix de Calignon, Toshifumi Matsui, et al.. (2008). In Vivo Imaging Reveals Dissociation between Caspase Activation and Acute Neuronal Death in Tangle-Bearing Neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(4). 862–867. 112 indexed citations
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Lin, Wen-Lang, Cindy Zehr, Jada Lewis, et al.. (2005). Progressive white matter pathology in the spinal cord of transgenic mice expressing mutant (P301L) human tau. Journal of Neurocytology. 34(6). 397–410. 40 indexed citations
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Noble, Wendy, Emmanuel Planel, Cindy Zehr, et al.. (2005). Inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3 by lithium correlates with reduced tauopathy and degenerationin vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(19). 6990–6995. 569 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zehr, Cindy, Jada Lewis, Eileen McGowan, et al.. (2004). Apoptosis in oligodendrocytes is associated with axonal degeneration in P301L tau mice. Neurobiology of Disease. 15(3). 553–562. 39 indexed citations
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Matsuoka, Yasuji, Brian Malester, John J. LaFrancois, et al.. (2001). Inflammatory Responses to Amyloidosis in a Transgenic Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease. American Journal Of Pathology. 158(4). 1345–1354. 251 indexed citations
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McGowan, Eileen, Takeshi Iwatsubo, Ayano Takeuchi, et al.. (1999). Amyloid Phenotype Characterization of Transgenic Mice Overexpressing both Mutant Amyloid Precursor Protein and Mutant Presenilin 1 Transgenes. Neurobiology of Disease. 6(4). 231–244. 152 indexed citations
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Holcomb, Leigh A., Marcia N. Gordon, Eileen McGowan, et al.. (1998). Accelerated Alzheimer-type phenotype in transgenic mice carrying both mutant amyloid precursor protein and presenilin 1 transgenes. Nature Medicine. 4(1). 97–100. 1088 indexed citations breakdown →
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Duff, Karen, Chris Eckman, Cindy Zehr, et al.. (1996). Increased amyloid-β42(43) in brains of mice expressing mutant presenilin 1. Nature. 383(6602). 710–713. 1176 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pérez‐Tur, Jordi, Rhonda Croxton, Kristal Wright, et al.. (1996). A Further Presenilin 1 Mutation in the Exon 8 Cluster in Familial Alzheimer's Disease. PubMed. 5(3). 207–212. 24 indexed citations

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