Fernando Torrealba

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

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Fernando Torrealba is a scholar working on Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Fernando Torrealba has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, 28 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 27 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Fernando Torrealba's work include Circadian rhythm and melatonin (19 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (15 papers) and Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (15 papers). Fernando Torrealba is often cited by papers focused on Circadian rhythm and melatonin (19 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (15 papers) and Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (15 papers). Fernando Torrealba collaborates with scholars based in Chile, United States and Italy. Fernando Torrealba's co-authors include Clifford B. Saper, Joel K. Elmquist, Jonathan E. Sherin, Marco Contreras, Francisco Cerić, Marı́a Serón-Ferré, José L. Valdés, Vicente M. Montero, Claudia Torres‐Farfan and Guillermo J. Valenzuela and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The Journal of Experimental Medicine and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Fernando Torrealba

64 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Innervation of Histaminergic Tuberomammillary Neurons by GABAergic and Galaninergic Neurons in the Ventrolateral Preoptic Nucleus of the Rat

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fernando Torrealba Chile	30	1.6k	1.5k	1.0k	570	427	64	3.2k
Kunio Kitahama France	38	1.1k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	1.9k 1.9×	760 1.3×	312 0.7×	122	3.7k
Pierre‐Yves Risold France	30	1.7k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	600 1.1×	239 0.6×	80	4.2k
Clifford B. Saper United States	17	2.3k 1.5×	2.8k 1.9×	1.3k 1.3×	465 0.8×	974 2.3×	19	5.2k
Denise Salvert France	30	2.0k 1.3×	1.7k 1.1×	1.8k 1.8×	612 1.1×	548 1.3×	51	3.9k
Mary E. Harrington United States	33	1.5k 0.9×	3.0k 2.0×	1.9k 1.8×	411 0.7×	206 0.5×	101	3.9k
Matthew E. Carter United States	20	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	866 0.8×	637 1.1×	483 1.1×	23	3.0k
Muriel Koehl France	33	1.2k 0.8×	510 0.3×	2.0k 2.0×	982 1.7×	237 0.6×	60	5.8k
Alexander C. Jackson United States	19	676 0.4×	820 0.5×	1.0k 1.0×	964 1.7×	154 0.4×	23	3.0k
Lee‐Ming Kow United States	40	501 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	743 1.3×	198 0.5×	106	4.5k
Elda Arrigoni United States	33	2.6k 1.7×	2.1k 1.4×	1.2k 1.1×	359 0.6×	1.1k 2.5×	55	3.6k

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Forray, Marı́a Inés, et al.. (2019). Effort Displayed During Appetitive Phase of Feeding Behavior Requires Infralimbic Cortex Activity and Histamine H1 Receptor Signaling. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 13. 577–577. 5 indexed citations

Galindo, J., et al.. (2018). Long-lasting, reversible and non-neurotoxic inactivation of hippocampus activity induced by neosaxitoxin. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 308. 197–204. 3 indexed citations

Contreras, Marco, et al.. (2015). A role for the interoceptive insular cortex in the consolidation of learned fear. Behavioural Brain Research. 296. 70–77. 33 indexed citations

Torrealba, Fernando, et al.. (2014). Infralimbic cortex controls core body temperature in a histamine dependent manner. Physiology & Behavior. 128. 1–8. 7 indexed citations

Ocampo-Garcés, Adrián, et al.. (2010). Orexin‐B‐saporin lesions in the lateral hypothalamus enhance photic masking of rapid eye movement sleep in the albino rat. Journal of Sleep Research. 20(1pt1). 3–11. 9 indexed citations

Passani, Maria Beatrice, Patrizio Blandina, & Fernando Torrealba. (2010). The Histamine H3 Receptor and Eating Behavior. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 336(1). 24–29. 64 indexed citations

Valenzuela, Francisco, Claudia Torres‐Farfan, Hans Richter, et al.. (2008). Clock Gene Expression in Adult Primate Suprachiasmatic Nuclei and Adrenal: Is the Adrenal a Peripheral Clock Responsive to Melatonin?. Endocrinology. 149(4). 1454–1461. 59 indexed citations

Matus, Soledad, Patricia V. Burgos, Marcela Bravo‐Zehnder, et al.. (2007). Antiribosomal-P autoantibodies from psychiatric lupus target a novel neuronal surface protein causing calcium influx and apoptosis. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 204(13). 3221–3234. 137 indexed citations

Serón-Ferré, Marı́a, Fernando Torrealba, Carmen Campino, et al.. (2005). Clock gene expression in adult and fetal suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) and adrenal gland in the capuchin monkey. Proceedings of The Physiological Society. 2 indexed citations

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Valdés, José L., et al.. (2005). Arousal and differential Fos expression in histaminergic neurons of the ascending arousal system during a feeding‐related motivated behaviour. European Journal of Neuroscience. 21(7). 1931–1942. 54 indexed citations

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Recabarren, Mónica P, José L. Valdés, Paula Farías, Marı́a Serón-Ferré, & Fernando Torrealba. (2005). Differential effects of infralimbic cortical lesions on temperature and locomotor activity responses to feeding in rats. Neuroscience. 134(4). 1413–1422. 24 indexed citations

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Richter, Hans, Claudia Torres‐Farfan, Pedro P. Rojas-García, et al.. (2004). The Circadian Timing System: Making Sense of day/night gene expression. Biological Research. 37(1). 11–28. 64 indexed citations

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Torrealba, Fernando & María Angélica Carrasco. (2004). A review on electron microscopy and neurotransmitter systems. Brain Research Reviews. 47(1-3). 5–17. 45 indexed citations

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Valdés, José L., et al.. (2004). Specific activation of histaminergic neurons during daily feeding anticipatory behavior in rats. Behavioural Brain Research. 158(2). 311–319. 36 indexed citations

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Torres‐Farfan, Claudia, Hans Richter, A Germaín, et al.. (2003). Maternal melatonin selectively inhibits cortisol production in the primate fetal adrenal gland. The Journal of Physiology. 554(3). 841–856. 71 indexed citations

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Torrealba, Fernando, Masashi Yanagisawa, & Clifford B. Saper. (2003). Colocalization of orexin a and glutamate immunoreactivity in axon terminals in the tuberomammillary nucleus in rats. Neuroscience. 119(4). 1033–1044. 152 indexed citations

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Stehberg, Jimmy, Claudio Acuña-Goycolea, Francisco Cerić, & Fernando Torrealba. (2001). The visceral sector of the thalamic reticular nucleus in the rat. Neuroscience. 106(4). 745–755. 29 indexed citations

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Constandil, Luís, Vı́ctor H. Parraguez, Fernando Torrealba, Guillermo J. Valenzuela, & Marı́a Serón-Ferré. (1995). Day-night changes in c-fos expression in the fetal sheep suprachiasmatic nucleus at late gestation. Reproduction Fertility and Development. 7(3). 411–413. 21 indexed citations

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Torrealba, Fernando, et al.. (1993). Prenatal development of the retinohypothalamic pathway and the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the sheep. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 338(2). 304–316. 23 indexed citations

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Torrealba, Fernando, et al.. (1992). Cytochrome oxidase activity in the nucleus of the tractus solitarius of the cat. Brain Research Bulletin. 28(2). 195–199. 2 indexed citations

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