Giovanni Marsicano

28.6k citations

195 papers · 18.8k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 74

Pharmacology top 0.01%
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research 151
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 0.05%
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research 113
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior 50
Endocrine and Autonomic Systems top 0.1%
- Regulation of Appetite and Obesity 14
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep 12
Biological Psychiatry top 0.5%
Cognitive Neuroscience top 0.2%
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research 48
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms 14
Surgery
- Pancreatic function and diabetes 14

Co-authors: Beat Lutz Krisztina Monory Daniela Cota Heike Hermann Carsten T. Wotjak Uberto Pagotto Shahnaz Christina Azad Vincenzo Di Marzo
Cited by: Pharmacology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
Partner nations: France Germany Spain

In The Last Decade

Giovanni Marsicano

190 papers receiving 18.5k 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.

2015 The endocannabinoid system in guarding against fear, anxiety and stress
2005 The Emerging Role of the Endocannabinoid System in Endocrine Regulation and Energy Balance
2003 The endogenous cannabinoid system affects energy balance via central orexigenic drive and peripheral lipogenesis
2003 CB1 Cannabinoid Receptors and On-Demand Defense Against Excitotoxicity
2002 The endogenous cannabinoid system controls extinction of aversive memories
1999 Expression of the cannabinoid receptor CB1 in distinct neuronal subpopulations in the adult mouse forebrain

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1	Astrocytic EphB3 receptors regulate d-serine-gated synaptic plasticity and memory Valentin Langlais,Sarah Mountadem,Ines Benazzouz,Aurélie Amadio,Marco Matos,Aurélie Jourdes,Astrid Cannich,Francisca Julio‐Kalajzić,Ilaria Belluomo,Isabel Matias,Marlène Maître,Thierry Lesté-Lasserre,Sébastien Marais,Elena Avignone,Giovanni Marsicano,Luigi Bellocchio,Stéphane H. R. Oliet,Aude Panatier	2025	1
2	Endogenous cannabinoids in the piriform cortex tune olfactory perception Geoffrey Terral,Evan R. Harrell,Gabriel Lepousez,Yohan Wards,Dinghuang Huang,Tiphaine Dolique,Giulio Casali,Antoine Nissant,Pierre‐Marie Lledo,Guillaume Ferreira,Giovanni Marsicano,L. Roux	2024	1
3	GAP43 Located on Corticostriatal Terminals Restrains Novelty-Induced Hyperactivity in Mice Irene B. Maroto,Carlos Costas‐Insua,Carlos Montero-Fernández,Alba Hermoso-López,Margaux Lebouc,Raquel Bajo‐Grañeras,Alicia Álvaro-Blázquez,Cristina Blázquez,Astrid Cannich,Giovanni Marsicano,Ricardo Martín,Jérôme Baufreton,Ignacio Rodríguez‐Crespo,Luigi Bellocchio,Manuel Guzmán	2024	1
4	Olfactory bulb astrocytes link social transmission of stress to cognitive adaptation in male mice Paula Gómez-Sotres,Urszula Skupio,Tommaso Dalla Tor,Francisca Julio‐Kalajzić,Astrid Cannich,Doriane Gisquet,Itziar Bonilla‐Del Río,Filippo Drago,Nagore Puente,Pedro Grandes,Luigi Bellocchio,Arnau Busquets-García,Jaideep S. Bains,Giovanni Marsicano	2024	6
5	Neuronal Cannabinoid CB1 Receptors Suppress the Growth of Melanoma Brain Metastases by Inhibiting Glutamatergic Signalling Carlos Costas‐Insua,Marta Seijo-Vila,Cristina Blázquez,Sandra Blasco-Benito,Francisco Javier Rodríguez‐Baena,Giovanni Marsicano,Eduardo Pérez-Gómez,Cristina Sánchez,Berta Sanchez‐Laorden,Manuel Guzmán	2023	4
6	Control of a hippocampal recurrent excitatory circuit by cannabinoid receptor-interacting protein Gap43 Irene B. Maroto,Carlos Costas‐Insua,Coralie Berthoux,Estefanía Moreno,Andrea Ruiz-Calvo,Carlos Montero-Fernández,Andrea Macías‐Camero,Ricardo Martín,Nuria García-Font,José Sánchez‐Prieto,Giovanni Marsicano,Luigi Bellocchio,Enric I. Canela,Vicent Casadó,Ismael Galve‐Roperh,Ángel Núñez,David Fernández de Sevilla,Ignacio Rodríguez‐Crespo,Pablo E. Castillo,Manuel Guzmán	2023	12
7	Spatial organization of neuron–astrocyte interactions in the somatosensory cortex Andrés M. Baraibar,Lindsey Belisle,Giovanni Marsicano,Carlos Matute,Susana Mato,Alfonso Araque,Paulo Kofuji	2022	11
8	Spinal astroglial cannabinoid receptors control pathological tremor Eva Maria Meier Carlsen,Sarah Falk,Urszula Skupio,Laurie M. Robin,Antonio C. Pagano Zottola,Giovanni Marsicano,Jean‐Françóis Perrier	2021	18
9	The temporal origin of dentate granule neurons dictates their role in spatial memory Núria Masachs,Vanessa Charrier,Fanny Farrugia,Valérie Lemaire,Nicolas Blin,Wilfrid Mazier,Sophie Tronel,Marie‐Françoise Montaron,Shaoyu Ge,Giovanni Marsicano,Daniela Cota,Véronique Deroche‐Gamonet,Cyril Herry,Djoher Nora Abrous	2021	15
10	Structural basis of astrocytic Ca2+ signals at tripartite synapses Misa Arizono,V. V. G. Krishna Inavalli,Aude Panatier,Thomas Pfeiffer,Julie Angibaud,Florian Levet,Mirelle Jamilla Tamara ter Veer,Jillian L. Stobart,Luigi Bellocchio,Katsuhiko Mikoshiba,Giovanni Marsicano,Bruno Weber,Stéphane H. R. Oliet,U. Valentin Nägerl	2020	125
11	Inhibition of striatonigral autophagy as a link between cannabinoid intoxication and impairment of motor coordination Cristina Blázquez,Andrea Ruiz-Calvo,Raquel Bajo‐Grañeras,Jérôme Baufreton,Eva Resel,Marjorie Varilh,Antonio C. Pagano Zottola,Yamuna Mariani,Astrid Cannich,José Antonio Rodríguez‐Navarro,Giovanni Marsicano,Ismael Galve‐Roperh,Luigi Bellocchio,Manuel Guzmán	2020	7
12	Functional and molecular heterogeneity of D2R neurons along dorsal ventral axis in the striatum Emma Puighermanal,Laia Castell,Anna Esteve‐Codina,Su Melser,Konstantin Kaganovsky,Charleine Zussy,Jihane Boubaker-Vitre,Marta Gut,Stéphanie Rialle,Christoph Kellendonk,Elisenda Sanz,Albert Quintana,Giovanni Marsicano,Miquel Martín,Marcelo Rubinstein,Jean‐Antoine Girault,Jun Ding,Emmanuel Valjent	2020	39
13	Dissecting the cannabinergic control of behavior: The where matters Arnau Busquets-García,Tifany Desprez,Mathilde Metna‐Laurent,Luigi Bellocchio,Giovanni Marsicano,Edgar Soria‐Gómez	2015	74
14	Anti-inflammatory lipoxin A ₄ is an endogenous allosteric enhancer of CB ₁ cannabinoid receptor Fabrício A. Pamplona,Juliano Ferreira,Octávio Menezes de Lima,Filipe Silveira Duarte,Allisson Freire Bento,Stefânia Forner,Jardel Gomes Villarinho,Luigi Bellocchio,Carsten T. Wotjak,Raissa Lerner,Krisztina Monory,Beat Lutz,Cláudio Canetti,Isabel Matias,João Β. Calixto,Giovanni Marsicano,Marília Zaluar P. Guimarães,Reinaldo Ν. Takahashi	2012	142
15	Synergistic post-prandial deregulation of orexigenic and anorexigenic systems in obesity Blandine Gatta‐Cherifi,I Mattias,Monique Vallée,Antoine Tabarin,Giovanni Marsicano,Pier Vincenzo Piazza,Daniela Cota	2011	1
16	State-Dependent, Bidirectional Modulation of Neural Network Activity by Endocannabinoids Richard Piet,André Garenne,Fanny Farrugia,Gwendal Le Masson,Giovanni Marsicano,Pascale Chavis,Olivier J. Manzoni	2011	20
17	Spinal Endocannabinoids and CB ₁ Receptors Mediate C-Fiber–Induced Heterosynaptic Pain Sensitization Alejandro J. Pernía‐Andrade,Ako Kato,Robert Witschi,Rita Nyilas,István Katona,Tamás F. Freund,Masahiko Watanabe,Jörg Filitz,Wolfgang Koppert,J. Schüttler,Guangchen Ji,Volker Neugebauer,Giovanni Marsicano,Beat Lutz,Horacio Vanegas,Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer	2009	149
18	Role of Cannabinoid Type 1 Receptors in Locomotor Activity and Striatal Signaling in Response to Psychostimulants Anne Gaille Corbille,Emmanuel Valjent,Giovanni Marsicano,Catherine Ledent,Beat Lutz,Denis Hervé,Jean‐Antoine Girault	2007	105
19	The endogenous cannabinoid system protects against colonic inflammation Federico Massa,Giovanni Marsicano,Heike Hermann,Astrid Cannich,Krisztina Monory,Benjamin F. Cravatt,Gian‐Luca Ferri,Andrei Sibaev,Martin Storr,Beat Lutz	2004	341
20	The endogenous cannabinoid system protects against colonic inflammation Federico Massa,Giovanni Marsicano,Heike Hermann,Astrid Cannich,Krisztina Monory,Benjamin F. Cravatt,Gian‐Luca Ferri,Andrei Sibaev,Martin Storr,Beat Lutz	2004	369

About Giovanni Marsicano

Giovanni Marsicano is a scholar working on Pharmacology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, having authored 195 papers that have together received 18.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (151 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (113 papers), Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (50 papers), Sleep and Wakefulness Research (48 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (14 papers), Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (14 papers), Pancreatic function and diabetes (14 papers) and Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pharmacology (14.0k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (10.4k citations) and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems (2.3k citations). Giovanni Marsicano has collaborated with scholars based in France, Germany and Spain. Frequent co-authors include Beat Lutz, Krisztina Monory, Daniela Cota, Heike Hermann, Carsten T. Wotjak, Uberto Pagotto, Shahnaz Christina Azad, Vincenzo Di Marzo, Astrid Cannich and Renato Pasquali.

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