Frank Strutz

10.2k citations

97 papers · 7.8k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 42

Impact in

Nephrology top 0.1%
- Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
- Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies
Transplantation top 2%

Papers in

Nephrology 38
- Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes 22
- Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies 16
- Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments 5
Transplantation 3

Co-authors: Michael Zeisberg Gerhard A. Müller Eric G. Neilson Raghu Kalluri Tadanori Mammoto Jun‐ichi Hanai David M. Charytan Hikaru Sugimoto
Journals: Kidney International (12 papers)Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (12 papers)American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology (4 papers)Clinical Nephrology (3 papers)Journal of Clinical Investigation (3 papers)
Partner nations: Germany United States Japan

In The Last Decade

Frank Strutz

94 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

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The antifibrotic effects of relaxin in human renal fibroblasts are mediated in part by inhibition of the Smad2 pathway 2005 · 136 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2005 Kidney International
2003 Nature Medicine
1995 The Journal of Cell Biology

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Frank Strutz, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Efficacy and Safety of Roxadustat in Patients with CKD: Pooled Analysis by Baseline Inflammation Status Journal of Clinical Medicine ·Хода Людмила Дмитриевна, Frank Strutz, Alexander Harkavyi, Vicki Santos, Shigang Han, Ana Carolina Bertin de Almeida Lopes	2025	1
2	Renal fibrosis is attenuated by targeted disruption of K _Ca 3.1 potassium channels Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ivica Grgic, Éva Kiss, Brajesh P. Kaistha, Christoph Busch, Michael Kloss, Rebecca Jean Lambert, Anja Müller, Anuradha Kaistha, Claudia Schmidt, Girija Raman, Heike Wulff, Frank Strutz, Hermann-Josef Gröne, Ralf Köhler, Joachim Hoyer	2009	134
3	Neuropilin-1 and neuropilin-2 are differentially expressed in human proteinuric nephropathies and cytokine-stimulated proximal tubular cells Laboratory Investigation ·Herbert Schramek, Lisa Michelle White, Victor Awino, Andreas Kronbichler, Markus Pirklbauer, F.A. Bates, Алексей Волчков, Paul Perco, Michael Rudnicki, Frank Strutz, Gert Mayer	2009	28
4	Role of basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2) in diabetic nephropathy and mechanisms of its induction by hyperglycemia in human renal fibroblasts American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology ·Radovan Vasko, Michael Koziolek, Masami Ikehata, Maria Pia Rastaldi, Klaus Jung, Holger Schmid, Matthias Kretzler, Gerhard A. Müller, Frank Strutz	2009	20
5	Retrospective Analysis of Long‐term Lipid Apheresis at a Single Center Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis ·Michael Koziolek, Ali Bonyad, Antonia Zapf, Carsten Bramlage, Clemens Grupp, Victor W. Armstrong, Frank Strutz, Gerhard A. Müller	2009	40
6	Modulatory effects of inflammation and therapy on GDF‐5 expression in rheumatoid arthritis synovium Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology ·Carsten Bramlage, Christian Kaps, Ute Ungethüm, Peter Bramlage, Michael Koziolek, Johannes T. Wessels, Veit Krenn, Axel Prüß, Gerhard A. Müller, Frank Strutz, Eva M. Andrés, Thomas Häupl	2008	16
7	Chronic course of a hemolytic uremic syndrome caused by a deficiency of factor H-related proteins (CFHR1 and CFHR3) Kidney International ·Michael Koziolek, Peter F. Zipfel, Christine Skerka, Radovan Vasko, Elisabeth Gröne, Gerhard A. Müller, Frank Strutz	2008	8
8	Impact of chronic LDL-apheresis treatment on Achilles tendon affection in patients with severe familial hypercholesterolemia: a clinical and ultrasonographic 3-year follow-up study Atherosclerosis ·Alexander Scheel, Volker Schettler, Michael Koziolek, Sebastian Koelling, Carola Werner, Gerhard A. Müller, Frank Strutz	2004	15
9	Glucose-induced fibronectin and collagen type III expression in renal fibroblasts can occur independent of TGF-β1 Kidney International ·Suzanne Lam, Nicole A.M. Verhagen, Frank Strutz, J.W. van der Pijl, Mohamed R. Daha, Cees van Kooten	2003	37
10	BMP-7 counteracts TGF-β1–induced epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and reverses chronic renal injury Nature Medicine ·Michael Zeisberg, Jun‐ichi Hanai, Hikaru Sugimoto, Tadanori Mammoto, David M. Charytan, Frank Strutz, Raghu Kalluri Hit paper breakdown →	2003	1126
11	A chemokine receptor CCR-1 antagonist reduces renal fibrosis after unilateral ureter ligation Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Hans‐Joachim Anders, Volker Vielhauer, Michael Frink, Yvonne Linde, Clemens D. Cohen, Simone M. Blattner, Matthias Kretzler, Frank Strutz, Matthias Mack, Hermann‐Josef Gröne, James Onuffer, Richard Horuk, Peter J. Nelson, Detlef Schlöndorff	2002	6
12	Role of basic fibroblast growth factor-2 in epithelial-mesenchymal transformation Kidney International ·Frank Strutz, Michael Zeisberg, Fuad N. Ziyadeh, W. H. Beck, Raghu Kalluri, Gerhard A. Müller, Eric G. Neilson, Anja Renziehausen, Giulia Colombo	2002	391
13	A chemokine receptor CCR-1 antagonist reduces renal fibrosis after unilateral ureter ligation Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Hans‐Joachim Anders, Volker Vielhauer, Michael Frink, Yvonne Linde, Clemens D. Cohen, Simone M. Blattner, Matthias Kretzler, Frank Strutz, Matthias Mack, Hermann-Josef Gröne, James Onuffer, Richard Horuk, Peter J. Nelson, Detlef Schlöndorff	2002	180
14	Renal fibrosis: an update Current Opinion in Nephrology & Hypertension ·Michael Zeisberg, Frank Strutz, Gerhard A. Müller	2001	143
15	Obstructive Nephropathy in the Mouse Journal of the American Society of Nephrology ·Volker Vielhauer, Hans‐Joachim Anders, Matthias Mack, Josef Cihak, Frank Strutz, M. Stangassinger, Bruno Luckow, Hermann-Josef GroCombining Diaeresisne, Detlef SchloCombining Diaeresisndorff	2001	155
16	Role of Mast Cell Tryptase in Renal Interstitial Fibrosis Journal of the American Society of Nephrology ·Shuji Kondo, Shoji Kagami, Hiroshi Kido, Frank Strutz, Heather Brink-Roby, Yasuhiro Kuroda	2001	114
17	Potential methods to prevent interstitial fibrosis in renal disease Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs ·Frank Strutz	2001	14
18	Relationship of antibodies to endotoxin core to mortality in medical patients with sepsis syndrome Intensive Care Medicine ·Frank Strutz, Glenn Heller, Ana-Maria Vranceanu, Bernd Krone, Gerhard A. Müller	1999	51
19	Paraneoplastic hypokalemia in acute myeloid leukemia: a case of renin activity in AML blast cells Annals of Hematology ·Gerald Wulf, A. Maury-Toledo, Frank Strutz, J. Vorenger, M. Hüfner, Christian Buske, Bernhard Wörmann, Wolfgang Hiddemann	1996	27
20	Characterization of a cis-acting regulatory element which silences expression of the class II-A beta gene in epithelium. The Journal of Experimental Medicine ·Shelley E. Albert, Frank Strutz, Kenneth Shelton, Thomas P. Haverty, Mengyao Sun, Rochelle Urban, Peyman Sheikholeslami Kandelousi, Richard A. Maki, Eric G. Neilson	1994	17

About Frank Strutz

Frank Strutz is a scholar working on Nephrology, Transplantation, Immunology and Allergy, Genetics and Hematology, having authored 97 papers that have together received 7.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (22 papers), Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies (16 papers), Renal and related cancers (10 papers), Chemokine receptors and signaling (8 papers), Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (6 papers), Fibroblast Growth Factor Research (5 papers), Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments (5 papers) and Reproductive System and Pregnancy (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nephrology (2.4k citations), Transplantation (165 citations), Genetics (567 citations), Immunology (1.1k citations) and Molecular Biology (3.2k citations). Frank Strutz has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Michael Zeisberg, Gerhard A. Müller, Eric G. Neilson, Raghu Kalluri, Tadanori Mammoto, Jun‐ichi Hanai, David M. Charytan, Hikaru Sugimoto, Hirokazu Okada and Theodore M. Danoff. Their work appears in journals such as Kidney International, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology, Clinical Nephrology and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

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