Fabrizio Thorel

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Fabrizio Thorel is a scholar working on Surgery, Genetics and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. According to data from OpenAlex, Fabrizio Thorel has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Surgery, 24 papers in Genetics and 18 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Recurrent topics in Fabrizio Thorel's work include Pancreatic function and diabetes (30 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (20 papers) and Diabetes Management and Research (16 papers). Fabrizio Thorel is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic function and diabetes (30 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (20 papers) and Diabetes Management and Research (16 papers). Fabrizio Thorel collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Japan. Fabrizio Thorel's co-authors include Pedro L. Herrera, Simona Chera, Isabelle Avril, Virginie Népote, Kenji Kohno, Renaud Desgraz, Nicolas Damond, Kenichiro Furuyama, Luiza Ghila and Valentina Cigliola and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Fabrizio Thorel

32 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Conversion of adult pancreatic α-cells to β-cells after extreme β-cell loss

2010 866 citations Fabrizio Thorel, Virginie Népote et al. Nature profile →
Diabetes recovery by age-dependent conversion of pancreatic δ-cells into insulin producers

2014 308 citations Simona Chera, Luiza Ghila et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fabrizio Thorel Switzerland	23	2.4k	1.6k	1.3k	1.1k	179	32	3.0k
Zhidong Ling Belgium	32	3.2k 1.3×	1.8k 1.1×	2.0k 1.5×	1.3k 1.1×	211 1.2×	78	4.0k
Xiaobo Xu United States	15	1.9k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	876 0.7×	898 0.8×	107 0.6×	23	2.4k
Mathieu Armanet France	20	1.4k 0.6×	823 0.5×	779 0.6×	610 0.5×	156 0.9×	38	1.9k
Tilo Moede Sweden	20	1.2k 0.5×	610 0.4×	585 0.4×	990 0.9×	285 1.6×	33	2.0k
Dan S. Luciani Canada	24	1.3k 0.5×	628 0.4×	541 0.4×	1.2k 1.0×	233 1.3×	38	2.6k
Daisy Flamez Belgium	25	1.7k 0.7×	699 0.4×	947 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	390 2.2×	33	2.9k
Eric L. Ford United States	18	981 0.4×	368 0.2×	551 0.4×	594 0.5×	459 2.6×	20	1.9k
Cristina Alarcón United States	20	986 0.4×	396 0.2×	549 0.4×	763 0.7×	216 1.2×	31	1.5k
Stephan C. Collins United Kingdom	21	915 0.4×	411 0.3×	361 0.3×	1.2k 1.0×	380 2.1×	45	2.1k
Xiao-Qing Dai Canada	21	782 0.3×	491 0.3×	398 0.3×	795 0.7×	139 0.8×	42	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fabrizio Thorel

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Cohrs, Christian M., Léon van Gurp, Kenichiro Furuyama, et al.. (2024). Regulated and adaptive in vivo insulin secretion from islets only containing β-cells. Nature Metabolism. 6(9). 1791–1806. 8 indexed citations

Gurp, Léon van, Leon Fodoulian, Daniel Oropeza, et al.. (2022). Generation of human islet cell type-specific identity genesets. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2020–2020. 39 indexed citations

Scherer, Philipp E., et al.. (2022). Adult pancreatic islet endocrine cells emerge as fetal hormone-expressing cells. Cell Reports. 38(7). 110377–110377. 10 indexed citations

Силачев, Д. Н., Alexey Koval, Mikhail Savitsky, et al.. (2022). Mouse models characterize GNAO1 encephalopathy as a neurodevelopmental disorder leading to motor anomalies: from a severe G203R to a milder C215Y mutation. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 10(1). 9–9. 24 indexed citations

Gurp, Léon van, Valentina Cigliola, Kenichiro Furuyama, et al.. (2021). Pancreatic Ppy-expressing γ-cells display mixed phenotypic traits and the adaptive plasticity to engage insulin production. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4458–4458. 47 indexed citations

Furuyama, Kenichiro, Simona Chera, Léon van Gurp, et al.. (2019). Diabetes relief in mice by glucose-sensing insulin-secreting human α-cells. Nature. 567(7746). 43–48. 180 indexed citations

Damond, Nicolas, Stefanie Engler, Vito Riccardo Tomaso Zanotelli, et al.. (2019). A Map of Human Type 1 Diabetes Progression by Imaging Mass Cytometry. Cell Metabolism. 29(3). 755–768.e5. 191 indexed citations

Cigliola, Valentina, Luiza Ghila, Fabrizio Thorel, et al.. (2018). Pancreatic islet-autonomous insulin and smoothened-mediated signalling modulate identity changes of glucagon+ α-cells. Nature Cell Biology. 20(11). 1267–1277. 45 indexed citations

Chakravarthy, Harini, Xueying Gu, Martin Enge, et al.. (2017). Converting Adult Pancreatic Islet α Cells into β Cells by Targeting Both Dnmt1 and Arx. Cell Metabolism. 25(3). 622–634. 161 indexed citations

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Traub, Shuyang, Daniel T. Meier, Friederike Schulze, et al.. (2017). Pancreatic α Cell-Derived Glucagon-Related Peptides Are Required for β Cell Adaptation and Glucose Homeostasis. Cell Reports. 18(13). 3192–3203. 95 indexed citations

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Damond, Nicolas, Fabrizio Thorel, Seung K. Kim, & Pedro L. Herrera. (2017). Dnmt1 activity is dispensable in δ-cells but is essential for α-cell homeostasis. The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology. 88. 226–235. 4 indexed citations

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Cigliola, Valentina, Céline Populaire, Ciro Leonardo Pierri, et al.. (2016). A Variant of GJD2, Encoding for Connexin 36, Alters the Function of Insulin Producing β-Cells. PLoS ONE. 11(3). e0150880–e0150880. 16 indexed citations

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Damond, Nicolas, Fabrizio Thorel, Julie S. Moyers, et al.. (2016). Blockade of glucagon signaling prevents or reverses diabetes onset only if residual β-cells persist. eLife. 5. 62 indexed citations

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Vinet, Laurent, Smaragda Lamprianou, Norbert Lange, et al.. (2014). Targeting GLP-1 receptors for repeated magnetic resonance imaging differentiates graded losses of pancreatic beta cells in mice. Diabetologia. 58(2). 304–312. 22 indexed citations

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Schaffer, Ashleigh E., Brandon L. Taylor, Jacqueline R. Benthuysen, et al.. (2013). Nkx6.1 Controls a Gene Regulatory Network Required for Establishing and Maintaining Pancreatic Beta Cell Identity. PLoS Genetics. 9(1). e1003274–e1003274. 171 indexed citations

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Fujikawa, Teppei, Eric D. Berglund, Vishal R. Patel, et al.. (2013). Leptin Engages a Hypothalamic Neurocircuitry to Permit Survival in the Absence of Insulin. Cell Metabolism. 18(3). 431–444. 106 indexed citations

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Thorel, Fabrizio, et al.. (2011). Context-specific α-to-β-cell reprogramming by forced Pdx1 expression. Genes & Development. 25(16). 1680–1685. 157 indexed citations

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He, Kai, Petra I. Lorenzo, Thierry Brun, et al.. (2011). In Vivo Conditional Pax4 Overexpression in Mature Islet β-Cells Prevents Stress-Induced Hyperglycemia in Mice. Diabetes. 60(6). 1705–1715. 37 indexed citations

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Schaffer, Ashleigh E., et al.. (2011). Transgenic Overexpression of the Transcription Factor Nkx6.1 in β-Cells of Mice Does Not Increase β-Cell Proliferation, β-Cell Mass, or Improve Glucose Clearance. Molecular Endocrinology. 25(11). 1904–1914. 22 indexed citations

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Thorel, Fabrizio, Virginie Népote, Isabelle Avril, et al.. (2010). Conversion of adult pancreatic α-cells to β-cells after extreme β-cell loss. Nature. 464(7292). 1149–1154. 866 indexed citations breakdown →

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