Georg Dechant

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Georg Dechant is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Georg Dechant has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 21 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Georg Dechant's work include Nerve injury and regeneration (28 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (11 papers) and Signaling Pathways in Disease (10 papers). Georg Dechant is often cited by papers focused on Nerve injury and regeneration (28 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (11 papers) and Signaling Pathways in Disease (10 papers). Georg Dechant collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and Spain. Georg Dechant's co-authors include Yves‐Alain Barde, Alfredo Rodríguez‐Tébar, R. Götz, Dan Lindholm, H. Thoenen, Carl‐Philipp Heisenberg, Elisabeth Casademunt, Martin Raff, Ilse Bartke and Ben A. Barres and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Georg Dechant

33 papers receiving 3.9k citations

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Binding of brain-derived neurotrophic factor to the nerve growth factor receptor

1990 602 citations Alfredo Rodríguez‐Tébar, Georg Dechant et al. Neuron profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Georg Dechant Germany	25	3.1k	1.8k	1.5k	342	285	33	3.9k
Fabienne Lamballe France	22	3.0k 1.0×	2.1k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	273 0.8×	228 0.8×	36	4.4k
Joanne C. Conover United States	27	1.9k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	271 0.8×	433 1.5×	43	3.8k
Pantelis Tsoulfas United States	38	2.6k 0.8×	2.1k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	204 0.6×	412 1.4×	62	4.7k
Philip Barker Canada	40	3.0k 0.9×	2.3k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	450 1.3×	372 1.3×	69	4.5k
Soledad Alcántara Spain	32	2.4k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	1.9k 1.3×	267 0.8×	434 1.5×	51	4.2k
Cynthia Wetmore United States	37	2.6k 0.8×	2.5k 1.4×	1.6k 1.1×	353 1.0×	259 0.9×	86	5.6k
Keling Zang United States	23	1.7k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	856 0.6×	436 1.3×	266 0.9×	27	3.8k
M. Kirsch Germany	36	1.8k 0.6×	1.8k 1.0×	919 0.6×	159 0.5×	355 1.2×	91	3.4k
Carlos Vicario‐Abejón Spain	30	1.4k 0.4×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	339 1.0×	326 1.1×	64	3.1k

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Quarta, Serena, Nadja Scherbakov, Manfred Andratsch, et al.. (2014). Peripheral Nerve Regeneration and NGF-Dependent Neurite Outgrowth of Adult Sensory Neurons Converge on STAT3 Phosphorylation Downstream of Neuropoietic Cytokine Receptor gp130. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(39). 13222–13233. 52 indexed citations

Eigentler, Andreas, Sylvia Boesch, Rainer Schneider, Georg Dechant, & Roxana Nat. (2013). Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Friedreich Ataxia Patients Fail to Upregulate Frataxin During In Vitro Differentiation to Peripheral Sensory Neurons. Stem Cells and Development. 22(24). 3271–3282. 39 indexed citations

Kummer, Kai K., et al.. (2012). Acetylcholine, Drug Reward and Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Intra- and Interindividual Striatal and Accumbal Neuron Ensemble Heterogeneity May Explain Apparent Discrepant Findings. Pharmacology. 90(5-6). 264–273. 7 indexed citations

Köllensperger, Martin, Nadia Stefanova, A. Pallua, et al.. (2008). Striatal transplantation in a rodent model of multiple system atrophy: Effects on L‐Dopa response. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 87(7). 1679–1685. 17 indexed citations

Felder, Edward & Georg Dechant. (2006). Neurotrophic factors acutely alter the sorting of the vesicular acetyl choline transporter and the vesicular monoamine transporter 2 in bimodal sympathetic neurons. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 34(1). 1–9. 9 indexed citations

Zagrebelsky, Marta, Andreas Holz, Georg Dechant, et al.. (2005). The p75 Neurotrophin Receptor Negatively Modulates Dendrite Complexity and Spine Density in Hippocampal Neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(43). 9989–9999. 242 indexed citations

Schweigreiter, Rüdiger, Adrian R. Walmsley, Barbara Niederöst, et al.. (2004). Versican V2 and the central inhibitory domain of Nogo-A inhibit neurite growth via p75NTR/NgR-independent pathways that converge at RhoA. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 27(2). 163–174. 78 indexed citations

Brodski, Claude, Daniela M. Vogt Weisenhorn, & Georg Dechant. (2002). Therapy of neurodegenerative diseases using neurotrophic factors: cell biological perspective. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics. 2(3). 417–426. 16 indexed citations

Dechant, Georg & Yves‐Alain Barde. (2002). The neurotrophin receptor p75NTR: novel functions and implications for diseases of the nervous system. Nature Neuroscience. 5(11). 1131–1136. 469 indexed citations

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Schack, David von, Elisabeth Casademunt, Rüdiger Schweigreiter, et al.. (2001). Complete ablation of the neurotrophin receptor p75NTR causes defects both in the nervous and the vascular system. Nature Neuroscience. 4(10). 977–978. 218 indexed citations

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Dechant, Georg. (2001). Molecular interactions between neurotrophin receptors. Cell and Tissue Research. 305(2). 229–238. 85 indexed citations

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Brodski, Claude, Harald Schnürch, & Georg Dechant. (2000). Neurotrophin-3 promotes the cholinergic differentiation of sympathetic neurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97(17). 9683–9688. 56 indexed citations

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Schack, David von, et al.. (1996). Roles of neurotrophin-3 during early development of the peripheral nervous system. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 351(1338). 383–387. 15 indexed citations

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Schack, David von, et al.. (1995). Early Expression of the Nerve Growth Factor Receptor ctrkA in Chick Sympathetic and Sensory Ganglia. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 6(6). 544–556. 39 indexed citations

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Barres, Ben A., et al.. (1994). A crucial role for neurotrophin-3 in oligodendrocyte development. Nature. 367(6461). 371–375. 301 indexed citations

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Biffo, Stefano, Georg Dechant, Hitoshi Okazawa, & Yves‐Alain Barde. (1994). Molecular control of neuronal survival in the chick embryo. Birkhäuser Basel eBooks. 71. 39–48. 4 indexed citations

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Lindholm, Dan, Georg Dechant, Carl‐Philipp Heisenberg, & H. Thoenen. (1993). Brain‐derived Neurotrophic Factor is a Survival Factor for Cultured Rat Cerebellar Granule Neurons and Protects them Against Glutamate‐induced Neurotoxicity. European Journal of Neuroscience. 5(11). 1455–1464. 263 indexed citations

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Dechant, Georg, et al.. (1993). Expression and binding characteristics of the BDNF receptor chick trkB. Development. 119(2). 545–558. 86 indexed citations

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Rodríguez‐Tébar, Alfredo, Georg Dechant, & Yves‐Alain Barde. (1991). Neurotrophins: structural relatedness and receptor interactions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 331(1261). 255–258. 37 indexed citations

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Rodríguez‐Tébar, Alfredo, Georg Dechant, & Yves‐Alain Barde. (1990). Binding of brain-derived neurotrophic factor to the nerve growth factor receptor. Neuron. 4(4). 487–492. 602 indexed citations breakdown →

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