Elsa Seixas

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Elsa Seixas is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Immunology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Elsa Seixas has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 19 papers in Immunology and 10 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Elsa Seixas's work include Malaria Research and Control (18 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (7 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (6 papers). Elsa Seixas is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (18 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (7 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (6 papers). Elsa Seixas collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United Kingdom and United States. Elsa Seixas's co-authors include Jean Langhorne, Ching Li, António Coutinho, Miguel C. Seabra, Andreia Barateiro, Ana I. Domingos, Roksana M. Pirzgalska, Nadiya Kubasova, Gabriel G. Martins and Thierry von der Weid and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Elsa Seixas

40 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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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.

Sympathetic Neuro-adipose Connections Mediate Leptin-Driven Lipolysis

2015 341 citations Wenwen Zeng, Roksana M. Pirzgalska et al. Cell profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Elsa Seixas	678	565	556	391	274	41	2.0k
Makoto Hirai	314 0.5×	681 1.2×	594 1.1×	164 0.4×	183 0.7×	159	3.2k
Richard E. Hauhart	825 1.2×	676 1.2×	685 1.2×	532 1.4×	305 1.1×	60	3.0k
Souvenir D. Tachado	904 1.3×	705 1.2×	703 1.3×	197 0.5×	660 2.4×	43	2.4k
Pedro M. Persechini	1.1k 1.7×	1.3k 2.3×	558 1.0×	173 0.4×	640 2.3×	79	3.4k
Inés Corraliza	993 1.5×	595 1.1×	721 1.3×	472 1.2×	670 2.4×	16	2.4k
Mathur Kannan	662 1.0×	1.5k 2.6×	247 0.4×	1.1k 2.7×	226 0.8×	105	4.0k
Christian Schwartz	1.4k 2.0×	934 1.7×	191 0.3×	433 1.1×	239 0.9×	72	3.5k
Xinna Li	751 1.1×	702 1.2×	98 0.2×	389 1.0×	167 0.6×	43	2.0k
Alexandre C. Keller	1.4k 2.1×	471 0.8×	97 0.2×	585 1.5×	218 0.8×	49	2.7k
Cheng–Yuan Kao	781 1.2×	835 1.5×	86 0.2×	343 0.9×	322 1.2×	39	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Elsa Seixas

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Frazão, Nelson, et al.. (2025). Clonal interference and genomic repair during strain coexistence in the gut. PLoS Genetics. 21(7). e1011777–e1011777.

Seixas, Elsa, et al.. (2025). Evolution of Escherichia coli strains under competent or compromised adaptive immunity. PLoS Pathogens. 21(4). e1012442–e1012442. 1 indexed citations

Frazão, Nelson, et al.. (2022). Two modes of evolution shape bacterial strain diversity in the mammalian gut for thousands of generations. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5604–5604. 30 indexed citations

Ramos, Susana, Elisa Jentho, Qian Wu, et al.. (2022). A hypometabolic defense strategy against malaria. Cell Metabolism. 34(8). 1183–1200.e12. 15 indexed citations

Travado, Luzia, et al.. (2022). Low social and family well-being is associated with greater RAGE ligand s100A8/A9 and interleukin-1 beta levels in metastatic breast cancer patients. Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health. 21. 100433–100433. 5 indexed citations

Colaço, Henrique G., Ana Neves‐Costa, Elsa Seixas, et al.. (2020). CXCL5-mediated recruitment of neutrophils into the peritoneal cavity of Gdf15 -deficient mice protects against abdominal sepsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(22). 12281–12287. 43 indexed citations

Badenes, Marina, Abdulbasit Amin, Ismael González‐García, et al.. (2019). Deletion of iRhom2 protects against diet-induced obesity by increasing thermogenesis. Molecular Metabolism. 31. 67–84. 25 indexed citations

Seixas, Elsa, Cristina Escrevente, Miguel C. Seabra, & Duarte C. Barral. (2018). Rab GTPase regulation of bacteria and protozoa phagocytosis occurs through the modulation of phagocytic receptor surface expression. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 12998–12998. 14 indexed citations

Mahú, Inês, Elsa Seixas, Noelia Martínez‐Sánchez, et al.. (2017). A brain-sparing diphtheria toxin for chemical genetic ablation of peripheral cell lineages. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14967–14967. 27 indexed citations

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Zeng, Wenwen, Roksana M. Pirzgalska, Nadiya Kubasova, et al.. (2015). Sympathetic Neuro-adipose Connections Mediate Leptin-Driven Lipolysis. Cell. 163(1). 84–94. 341 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gozzelino, Raffaella, Bruno B. Andrade, Rasmus Larsen, et al.. (2012). Cell Host and Microbe. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 92 indexed citations

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Seixas, Elsa, José S. Ramalho, Luı́s Jaime Mota, Duarte C. Barral, & Miguel C. Seabra. (2012). Bacteria and Protozoa Differentially Modulate the Expression of Rab Proteins. PLoS ONE. 7(7). e39858–e39858. 14 indexed citations

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Diekmann, Yoan, et al.. (2011). Thousands of Rab GTPases for the Cell Biologist. PLoS Computational Biology. 7(10). e1002217–e1002217. 151 indexed citations

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Seixas, Elsa, Raffaella Gozzelino, Ângelo Ferreira Chora, et al.. (2009). Heme oxygenase-1 affords protection against noncerebral forms of severe malaria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(37). 15837–15842. 225 indexed citations

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Seixas, Elsa, et al.. (2008). An experimental model for fatal malaria due to TNF-α-dependent hepatic damage. Parasitology. 135(6). 683–690. 19 indexed citations

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Seixas, Elsa, et al.. (2005). Plasmodium chabaudi chabaudi (AS): Differential cellular responses to infection in resistant and susceptible mice. Experimental Parasitology. 110(4). 394–405. 39 indexed citations

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Coutinho, António, Íris Caramalho, Elsa Seixas, & Jocelyne Demengeot. (2005). Thymic Commitment of Regulatory T Cells Is a Pathway of TCR-Dependent Selection That Isolates Repertoires Undergoing Positive or Negative Selection. Current topics in microbiology and immunology. 293. 43–71. 62 indexed citations

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Seixas, Elsa, Jean Langhorne, & Stuart Quin. (2003). Limiting Dilution Analysis of Antigen-Specific CD4<sup>+</sup> T-Cell Responses in Mice. Humana Press eBooks. 72. 385–400. 2 indexed citations

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Seixas, Elsa, Luís P. Fonseca, & Jean Langhorne. (2002). The influence of γδ T cells on the CD4⁺ T cell and antibody response during a primary Plasmodium chabaudi chabaudi infection in mice. Parasite Immunology. 24(3). 131–140. 23 indexed citations

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Li, Ching, Elsa Seixas, & Jean Langhorne. (2001). Rodent malarias: the mouse as a model for understanding immune responses and pathology induced by the erythrocytic stages of the parasite. Medical Microbiology and Immunology. 189(3). 115–126. 87 indexed citations

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