Francis C. Lynn

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Francis C. Lynn is a scholar working on Surgery, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Francis C. Lynn has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Surgery, 34 papers in Molecular Biology and 29 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Francis C. Lynn's work include Pancreatic function and diabetes (54 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (15 papers) and Diabetes Treatment and Management (15 papers). Francis C. Lynn is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic function and diabetes (54 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (15 papers) and Diabetes Treatment and Management (15 papers). Francis C. Lynn collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Spain. Francis C. Lynn's co-authors include Christopher H.S. McIntosh, Michael S. German, Raymond A. Pederson, Yasuhiro Kosaka, Nathalie Pamir, Katherine Yang, J. Andrew Pospisilik, Jan A. Ehses, Michael T. McManus and Peter Skewes-Cox and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Francis C. Lynn

73 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Serotonin regulates pancreatic beta cell mass during pregnancy

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francis C. Lynn Canada	30	1.9k	1.9k	1.3k	833	634	75	3.8k
Kenneth A. Platt United States	26	3.3k 1.7×	842 0.4×	985 0.7×	767 0.9×	338 0.5×	35	4.7k
Jeffrey L. Stock United States	30	2.3k 1.2×	499 0.3×	309 0.2×	656 0.8×	362 0.6×	41	4.1k
Jason Perret Belgium	30	1.6k 0.8×	320 0.2×	981 0.7×	373 0.4×	796 1.3×	86	3.3k
Barbara Leibiger Sweden	29	1.7k 0.9×	1.8k 0.9×	849 0.6×	868 1.0×	153 0.2×	60	3.2k
Lincoln R. Potter United States	33	2.2k 1.2×	296 0.2×	364 0.3×	347 0.4×	315 0.5×	75	4.7k
Guo Huang United Kingdom	31	1.0k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	939 0.7×	962 1.2×	170 0.3×	87	2.9k
Elizabeth J. Galbreath United States	20	2.6k 1.4×	571 0.3×	423 0.3×	506 0.6×	375 0.6×	46	4.1k
Mostafa Bakhti Germany	22	2.4k 1.3×	697 0.4×	353 0.3×	406 0.5×	116 0.2×	39	3.5k
R. Scott Heller United States	29	2.2k 1.2×	3.2k 1.7×	2.3k 1.7×	1.6k 1.9×	357 0.6×	50	5.4k
Jean‐Marie Gasc France	35	2.0k 1.0×	778 0.4×	1.4k 1.0×	997 1.2×	254 0.4×	86	5.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gamu, Daniel, et al.. (2025). NPAS4 Depletion in POMC Neurons Protects From Obesity and Alters the Feeding-regulated Transcriptome in Male Mice. Endocrinology. 166(7). 1 indexed citations

Dai, Xiao-Qing, Cuilan Nian, Paul C. Orban, et al.. (2024). An INSULIN and IAPP dual reporter enables tracking of functional maturation of stem cell-derived insulin producing cells. Molecular Metabolism. 89. 102017–102017. 1 indexed citations

Sasaki, Shugo, Majid Mojibian, Dahai Zhang, et al.. (2024). Tracking Insulin- and Glucagon-Expressing Cells In Vitro and In Vivo Using a Double-Reporter Human Embryonic Stem Cell Line. Diabetes. 74(2). 188–198. 3 indexed citations

Matthews, Kerryn, et al.. (2024). Single cell glucose-stimulated insulin secretion assay using nanowell-in-microwell plates. Lab on a Chip. 24(18). 4232–4241. 1 indexed citations

Ellis, Cara E., Majid Mojibian, Shogo Ida, et al.. (2023). Human A2-CAR T Cells Reject HLA-A2+ Human Islets Transplanted Into Mice Without Inducing Graft-versus-host Disease. Transplantation. 107(9). e222–e233. 6 indexed citations

Sasaki, Shugo, et al.. (2023). Type 2 diabetes susceptibility gene GRK5 regulates physiological pancreatic β-cell proliferation via phosphorylation of HDAC5. iScience. 26(8). 107311–107311. 6 indexed citations

Ogihara, Takeshi, Yuya Nishida, Shugo Sasaki, et al.. (2023). Novel time-resolved reporter mouse reveals spatial and transcriptional heterogeneity during alpha cell differentiation. Diabetologia. 67(1). 156–169. 2 indexed citations

Panzhinskiy, Evgeniy, Paul C. Orban, Francis C. Lynn, et al.. (2023). Islet amyloid polypeptide does not suppress pancreatic cancer. Molecular Metabolism. 68. 101667–101667. 4 indexed citations

Modi, Hiren R., Cara E. Ellis, Nicole A. J. Krentz, et al.. (2022). Dynamic Ins2 Gene Activity Defines β-Cell Maturity States. Diabetes. 71(12). 2612–2631. 11 indexed citations

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Cheng, Xuanjin, Michelle Y. Y. Lee, Dong-Yeop Lee, et al.. (2019). Mediator subunit MDT-15/MED15 and Nuclear Receptor HIZR-1/HNF4 cooperate to regulate toxic metal stress responses in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS Genetics. 15(12). e1008508–e1008508. 21 indexed citations

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McDonald, Cassandra, et al.. (2019). TrxG Complex Catalytic and Non-catalytic Activity Play Distinct Roles in Pancreas Progenitor Specification and Differentiation. Cell Reports. 28(7). 1830–1844.e6. 9 indexed citations

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Sabatini, Paul V., Cuilan Nian, Maria M. Glavas, et al.. (2018). Neuronal PAS Domain Protein 4 Suppression of Oxygen Sensing Optimizes Metabolism during Excitation of Neuroendocrine Cells. Cell Reports. 22(1). 163–174. 17 indexed citations

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Xu, Eric E., Nicole A. J. Krentz, Sara Tan, et al.. (2015). SOX4 cooperates with neurogenin 3 to regulate endocrine pancreas formation in mouse models. Diabetologia. 58(5). 1013–1023. 26 indexed citations

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Sabatini, Paul V. & Francis C. Lynn. (2014). All-encomPASsing regulation of β-cells: PAS domain proteins in β-cell dysfunction and diabetes. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism. 26(1). 49–57. 18 indexed citations

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Rawnsley, David R., Jiping Xiao, John S. Lee, et al.. (2013). The Transcription Factor Atonal homolog 8 Regulates Gata4 and Friend of Gata-2 during Vertebrate Development. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(34). 24429–24440. 26 indexed citations

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Robertson, A. Gordon, Leping Li, Xuekui Zhang, et al.. (2012). Identification and analysis of murine pancreatic islet enhancers. Diabetologia. 56(3). 542–552. 45 indexed citations

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Shimajiri, Yoshinori, Yasuhiro Kosaka, David Scheel, et al.. (2010). A mouse model for monitoring islet cell genesis and developing therapies for diabetes. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 4(2). 268–276. 10 indexed citations

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Reid, Jeffrey G., Ankur K. Nagaraja, Francis C. Lynn, et al.. (2008). Mouse let-7 miRNA populations exhibit RNA editing that is constrained in the 5′-seed/ cleavage/anchor regions and stabilize predicted mmu-let-7a:mRNA duplexes. Genome Research. 18(10). 1571–1581. 73 indexed citations

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McIntosh, Christopher H.S., Francis C. Lynn, Simon A. Hinke, et al.. (1999). Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide Stimulation of Lipolysis in Differentiated 3T3-L1 Cells: Wortmannin-Sensitive Inhibition by Insulin**This work was supported by grants from Zymogenetics Inc. (Seattle, WA), the Medical Research Council of Canada (5–90007-RAP/CHSM) and the Canadian Diabetes Association (CHSM/RAP).. Endocrinology. 140(1). 398–404. 56 indexed citations

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Meade, Bruce D., Adamadia Deforest, Kathryn M. Edwards, et al.. (1995). Description and Evaluation of Serologic Assays Used in a Multicenter Trial of Acellular Pertussis Vaccines. PEDIATRICS. 96(3). 570–575. 87 indexed citations

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