Gerardo Biella

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Gerardo Biella is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerardo Biella has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 29 papers in Molecular Biology and 27 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Gerardo Biella's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (35 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (16 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (15 papers). Gerardo Biella is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (35 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (16 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (15 papers). Gerardo Biella collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and United Kingdom. Gerardo Biella's co-authors include Marco de Curtis, Mauro Toselli, Elena Cattaneo, Luciano Conti, Austin Smith, Steven M. Pollard, Yirui Sun, Qi‐Long Ying, Thorsten Gorba and Erika Reitano and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Gerardo Biella

67 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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Niche-Independent Symmetrical Self-Renewal of a Mammalian Tissue Stem Cell

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gerardo Biella Italy	28	1.6k	1.4k	632	609	197	68	2.8k
Benjamin R. Arenkiel United States	35	1.5k 1.0×	1.7k 1.2×	942 1.5×	366 0.6×	416 2.1×	97	4.4k
Cédric Bardy Australia	23	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	335 0.5×	688 1.1×	309 1.6×	40	3.0k
Cynthia R. Keller-Peck United States	13	1.9k 1.2×	2.2k 1.5×	372 0.6×	839 1.4×	102 0.5×	18	4.2k
Soham Chanda United States	20	2.6k 1.6×	1.1k 0.8×	327 0.5×	574 0.9×	138 0.7×	34	3.3k
Takuji Iwasato Japan	34	1.8k 1.1×	2.4k 1.7×	820 1.3×	832 1.4×	75 0.4×	65	4.1k
Robert E.W. Fyffe United States	36	1.4k 0.9×	2.2k 1.5×	801 1.3×	273 0.4×	304 1.5×	76	3.7k
H. Troy Ghashghaei United States	22	815 0.5×	907 0.6×	1.3k 2.0×	700 1.1×	107 0.5×	46	3.1k
Thomas Portmann United States	10	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	666 1.1×	402 0.7×	53 0.3×	11	2.7k
Peter Coffey United Kingdom	47	4.6k 2.9×	2.1k 1.5×	673 1.1×	266 0.4×	160 0.8×	146	6.5k
Denis Jabaudon Switzerland	32	2.0k 1.3×	1.9k 1.3×	811 1.3×	1.0k 1.7×	73 0.4×	66	4.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerardo Biella

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Soda, Teresa, Giovambattista De Sarro, Gerardo Biella, et al.. (2025). Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) Mediates Hydrogen Sulfide-induced Ca²⁺ Entry and Nitric Oxide Production in Human Cerebrovascular Endothelium. Current Neuropharmacology. 23(9). 1119–1133. 4 indexed citations

Maramai, Samuele, Marco Paolino, Germano Giuliani, et al.. (2024). Novel multitarget directed ligands inspired by riluzole: A serendipitous synthesis of substituted benzo[b][1,4]thiazepines potentially useful as neuroprotective agents. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 112. 117872–117872. 1 indexed citations

Spaiardi, Paolo, et al.. (2024). Oxytocin Modifies the Excitability and the Action Potential Shape of the Hippocampal CA1 GABAergic Interneurons. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(5). 2613–2613. 1 indexed citations

Talpo, Francesca, et al.. (2023). Neuromodulatory functions exerted by oxytocin on different populations of hippocampal neurons in rodents. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 17. 1082010–1082010. 8 indexed citations

Conforti, Paola, Vittoria Dickinson Bocchi, Tiziana Lischetti, et al.. (2022). In vitro-derived medium spiny neurons recapitulate human striatal development and complexity at single-cell resolution. Cell Reports Methods. 2(12). 100367–100367. 11 indexed citations

Negri, Sharon, Dmitry Lim, Gerardo Biella, et al.. (2021). Multifunctional Liposomes Modulate Purinergic Receptor-Induced Calcium Wave in Cerebral Microvascular Endothelial Cells and Astrocytes: New Insights for Alzheimer’s disease. Molecular Neurobiology. 58(6). 2824–2835. 10 indexed citations

Spaiardi, Paolo, Giancarlo Russo, Ivo Prigioni, et al.. (2019). K+ Accumulation and Clearance in the Calyx Synaptic Cleft of Type I Mouse Vestibular Hair Cells. Neuroscience. 426. 69–86. 8 indexed citations

Talpo, Francesca, et al.. (2019). Oxytocin Increases Phasic and Tonic GABAergic Transmission in CA1 Region of Mouse Hippocampus. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 13. 178–178. 22 indexed citations

Curtis, Marco de, Laura Uva, Maxime Lévesque, Gerardo Biella, & Massimo Avoli. (2019). Piriform cortex ictogenicity in vitro. Experimental Neurology. 321. 113014–113014. 11 indexed citations

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Conforti, Paola, Dario Besusso, Vittoria Dickinson Bocchi, et al.. (2018). Faulty neuronal determination and cell polarization are reverted by modulating HD early phenotypes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(4). E762–E771. 122 indexed citations

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Onorati, Marco, Valentina Castiglioni, Andrea Faedo, et al.. (2013). Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Differentiation into Authentic Striatal Projection Neurons. Stem Cell Reviews and Reports. 9(4). 461–474. 56 indexed citations

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Goffredo, Donato, Luciano Conti, Gerardo Biella, et al.. (2008). Setting the conditions for efficient, robust and reproducible generation of functionally active neurons from adult subventricular zone-derived neural stem cells. Cell Death and Differentiation. 15(12). 1847–1856. 26 indexed citations

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Sun, Yirui, Steven M. Pollard, Luciano Conti, et al.. (2008). Long-term tripotent differentiation capacity of human neural stem (NS) cells in adherent culture. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 38(2). 245–258. 180 indexed citations

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Castelli, Loretta, Gerardo Biella, Mauro Toselli, & Jacopo Magistretti. (2007). Resurgent Na⁺ current in pyramidal neurones of rat perirhinal cortex: axonal location of channels and contribution to depolarizing drive during repetitive firing. The Journal of Physiology. 582(3). 1179–1193. 26 indexed citations

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Hofmann, Ulrich, Gerardo Biella, Patriq Fagerstedt, et al.. (2006). A Novel High Channel-Count System for Acute Multisite Neuronal Recordings. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 53(8). 1672–1677. 13 indexed citations

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Biella, Gerardo, Vadym Gnatkovsky, Ichiro Takashima, et al.. (2003). Olfactory input to the parahippocampal region of the isolated guinea pig brain reveals weak entorhinal‐to‐perirhinal interactions. European Journal of Neuroscience. 18(1). 95–101. 36 indexed citations

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Librizzi, Laura, et al.. (1999). Arterial supply of limbic structures in the guinea pig. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 411(4). 674–682. 24 indexed citations

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Curtis, Marco de, Gerardo Biella, Carola Buccellati, & Giancarlo Folco. (1998). Simultaneous investigation of the neuronal and vascular compartments in the guinea pig brain isolated in vitro. Brain Research Protocols. 3(2). 221–228. 75 indexed citations

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Curtis, Marco de, et al.. (1996). Epileptiform activity in the piriform cortex of the in vitro isolated guinea pig brain preparation. Epilepsy Research. 26(1). 75–80. 7 indexed citations

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Wanke, Enzo, Andrea Becchetti, Gerardo Biella, Roberto Del Bo, & A Ferroni. (1992). A Quantitative Description of Low‐ and High‐threshold Ca²⁺ Spikes in Rat Sensory Neurons: A Perforated‐patch Study. European Journal of Neuroscience. 4(8). 723–732. 7 indexed citations

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