Claes Wahlestedt

32.3k total citations · 7 hit papers
238 papers, 18.1k citations indexed

About

Claes Wahlestedt is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Claes Wahlestedt has authored 238 papers receiving a total of 18.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 181 papers in Molecular Biology, 60 papers in Cancer Research and 40 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Claes Wahlestedt's work include Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (44 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (36 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (33 papers). Claes Wahlestedt is often cited by papers focused on Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (44 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (36 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (33 papers). Claes Wahlestedt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and China. Claes Wahlestedt's co-authors include Mohammad Ali Faghihi, Georges St. Laurent, Philipp Kapranov, Farzaneh Modarresi, Olga Khorkova, Shaun P. Brothers, Veronica J. Peschansky, Markus Heilig, Kjell Emilsson and Sverker Nystedt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Claes Wahlestedt

235 papers receiving 17.9k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Expression of a noncoding RNA is elevated in Alzheimer's disease and drives rapid feed-forward regulation of β-secretase
    2008 1.1k citations Mohammad Ali Faghihi, Farzaneh Modarresi et al. profile →
  2. The Landscape of long noncoding RNA classification
    2015 916 citations Claes Wahlestedt et al. profile →
  3. Embryonic stem cells develop into functional dopaminergic neurons after transplantation in a Parkinson rat model
    2002 890 citations Claes Wahlestedt et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  4. Molecular cloning of a potential proteinase activated receptor.
    1994 773 citations Claes Wahlestedt et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Regulatory roles of natural antisense transcripts
    2009 576 citations Mohammad Ali Faghihi, Claes Wahlestedt profile →
  6. Myogenic gene expression signature establishes that brown and white adipocytes originate from distinct cell lineages
    2007 563 citations James A. Timmons, Kristian Wennmalm et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  7. Inhibition of natural antisense transcripts in vivo results in gene-specific transcriptional upregulation
    2012 528 citations Farzaneh Modarresi, Mohammad Ali Faghihi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Claes Wahlestedt United States 65 12.6k 6.8k 2.8k 2.0k 1.3k 238 18.1k
Shigeyoshi Itohara Japan 84 10.2k 0.8× 3.3k 0.5× 7.2k 2.6× 2.4k 1.2× 2.2k 1.7× 277 25.4k
Sidney Strickland United States 74 9.3k 0.7× 3.9k 0.6× 3.1k 1.1× 2.2k 1.1× 2.1k 1.7× 194 19.0k
David M. Valenzuela United States 60 11.3k 0.9× 2.2k 0.3× 3.9k 1.4× 3.3k 1.7× 1.8k 1.4× 110 21.8k
Tetsuo Noda Japan 80 15.6k 1.2× 2.6k 0.4× 2.1k 0.8× 1.8k 0.9× 2.3k 1.8× 260 24.3k
Azad Bonni United States 57 13.8k 1.1× 1.8k 0.3× 3.5k 1.3× 1.4k 0.7× 1.9k 1.5× 131 19.1k
Mark F. Mehler United States 59 8.4k 0.7× 3.0k 0.4× 2.5k 0.9× 2.5k 1.3× 1.3k 1.1× 143 16.6k
J. Simon C. Arthur United Kingdom 65 10.0k 0.8× 2.5k 0.4× 1.7k 0.6× 970 0.5× 974 0.8× 174 16.2k
Etty Benveniste United States 80 6.0k 0.5× 2.2k 0.3× 2.0k 0.7× 1.6k 0.8× 626 0.5× 233 18.5k
Lino Tessarollo United States 79 11.0k 0.9× 1.3k 0.2× 5.6k 2.0× 1.7k 0.9× 2.3k 1.9× 247 21.2k
Anthony Wynshaw‐Boris United States 85 18.8k 1.5× 2.5k 0.4× 3.3k 1.2× 2.0k 1.0× 5.9k 4.7× 204 27.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Claes Wahlestedt

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mcleod, Jonathan C., Changhyun Lim, Tanner Stokes, et al.. (2024). Network-based modelling reveals cell-type enriched patterns of non-coding RNA regulation during human skeletal muscle remodelling. PubMed. 1(4). ugae016–ugae016. 2 indexed citations
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Volmar, Claude‐Henry, et al.. (2023). Contextualizing the Role of Osteopontin in the Inflammatory Responses of Alzheimer’s Disease. Biomedicines. 11(12). 3232–3232. 6 indexed citations
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Ricciardi, Natalie, Farzaneh Modarresi, Ines Lohse, et al.. (2023). Investigating the Synergistic Potential of Low-Dose HDAC3 Inhibition and Radiotherapy in Alzheimer’s Disease Models. Molecular Neurobiology. 60(8). 4811–4827. 4 indexed citations
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Dennison, Jessica, Armando J. Mendez, Angela Szeto, et al.. (2023). Low-Dose Chidamide Treatment Displays Sex-Specific Differences in the 3xTg-AD Mouse. Biomolecules. 13(9). 1324–1324. 4 indexed citations
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Khorkova, Olga, et al.. (2023). Amplifying gene expression with RNA-targeted therapeutics. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 22(7). 539–561. 76 indexed citations
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Harikumar, Kuzhuvelil B., Matthew Dunworth, Andrew J. Ewald, et al.. (2022). DOT1L Is a Novel Cancer Stem Cell Target for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 28(9). 1948–1965. 48 indexed citations
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Modarresi, Farzaneh, Natalie Ricciardi, Madina Makhmutova, et al.. (2021). A novel knockout mouse model of the noncoding antisense Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (Bdnf) gene displays increased endogenous Bdnf protein and improved memory function following exercise. Heliyon. 7(7). e07570–e07570. 6 indexed citations
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Rodriguez, Daniel A., Stefan Kurtenbach, Daniel Bilbao, et al.. (2020). Dual Screen for Efficacy and Toxicity Identifies HDAC Inhibitor with Distinctive Activity Spectrum for BAP1-Mutant Uveal Melanoma. Molecular Cancer Research. 19(2). 215–222. 25 indexed citations
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Habibzadeh, Parham, Claude‐Henry Volmar, Shaun P. Brothers, et al.. (2019). HDAC Inhibitors Induce BDNF Expression and Promote Neurite Outgrowth in Human Neural Progenitor Cells-Derived Neurons. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 20(5). 1109–1109. 18 indexed citations
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Lohse, Ines, Hassan Al‐Ali, Claude‐Henry Volmar, et al.. (2018). Ex vivo drug sensitivity testing as a means for drug repurposing in esophageal adenocarcinoma. PLoS ONE. 13(9). e0203173–e0203173. 7 indexed citations
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Sartor, Gregory C., Ashok Kumar, Nadja S. Andrade, et al.. (2018). Enhancement of BDNF Expression and Memory by HDAC Inhibition Requires BET Bromodomain Reader Proteins. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(4). 612–626. 55 indexed citations
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Stathias, Vasileios, Michele Forlin, Winston Walters, et al.. (2018). Drug and disease signature integration identifies synergistic combinations in glioblastoma. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5315–5315. 67 indexed citations
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Camarena, Vladimir, Claude‐Henry Volmar, David Sant, et al.. (2017). Vitamin C Sensitizes Melanoma to BET Inhibitors. Cancer Research. 78(2). 572–583. 37 indexed citations
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Andrade, Nadja S., et al.. (2016). The FMR1 promoter is selectively hydroxymethylated in primary neurons of fragile X syndrome patients. Human Molecular Genetics. 25(22). ddw311–ddw311. 19 indexed citations
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Volmar, Claude‐Henry, Claes Wahlestedt, & Shaun P. Brothers. (2016). Orphan diseases: state of the drug discovery art. Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift. 167(9-10). 197–204. 10 indexed citations
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Timmons, James A., Kristian Wennmalm, Ola Larsson, et al.. (2007). Myogenic gene expression signature establishes that brown and white adipocytes originate from distinct cell lineages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(11). 4401–4406. 563 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chen, Meihong, Hongyan Zhang, Bo Wang, et al.. (2005). A universal plasmid library encoding all permutations of small interfering RNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(7). 2356–2361. 30 indexed citations
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Larsson, Ola, et al.. (2004). Kinetics of Senescence-associated Changes of Gene Expression in an Epithelial, Temperature-sensitive SV40 Large T Antigen Model. Cancer Research. 64(2). 482–489. 22 indexed citations
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Gomes, Ana Vaz & Claes Wahlestedt. (2000). Altered behaviour following RNA interference knockdown of a C. elegans G-protein coupled receptor by ingested double stranded RNA. European Journal of Pharmacology. 397(2-3). R3–R5. 6 indexed citations
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Wahlestedt, Claes, et al.. (1990). Electroconvulsive shocks increase the concentration of neocortical and hippocampal neuropeptide Y (NPY)-like immunoreactivity in the rat. Brain Research. 507(1). 65–68. 95 indexed citations

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