Günther Sperk

16.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
198 papers, 13.8k citations indexed

About

Günther Sperk is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Günther Sperk has authored 198 papers receiving a total of 13.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 165 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 102 papers in Molecular Biology and 30 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Günther Sperk's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (95 papers), Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (82 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (55 papers). Günther Sperk is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (95 papers), Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (82 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (55 papers). Günther Sperk collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Australia and United States. Günther Sperk's co-authors include Werner Sieghart, Christoph Schwarzer, Annamaria Vezzani, Susanne Pirker, Josef Marksteiner, Oleh Hornykiewicz, Herbert Herzog, William F. Colmers, Ramon Tasan and Hans Lassmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Günther Sperk

195 papers receiving 13.6k citations

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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.

GABAA receptors: immunocytochemical distribution of 13 subunits in the adult rat brain

2000 1.1k citations Susanne Pirker, Christoph Schwarzer et al. Neuroscience profile →
Subunit Composition, Distribution and Function of GABA-A Receptor Subtypes

2002 760 citations Werner Sieghart, Günther Sperk profile →
Kainic acid seizures in the rat

1994 614 citations Günther Sperk profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A companion to the preclinical common data elements and case report forms for neuropathology studies in epilepsy research. A report of the TASK3WG2 Neuropathology Working Group of the ILAE/AES Joint Translational Task Force 2022 ·Epilepsia Open ·Eleonora Aronica, Devin K. Binder, Meinrad Drexel, Chrysanthy Ikonomidou, Shilpa D. Kadam, Günther Sperk, Christian Steinhäuser	0
2	Regulation of Parvalbumin Interactome in the Perilesional Cortex after Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury 2021 ·Neuroscience ·(unknown), Xavier Ekolle Ndode‐Ekane, Anssi Lipponen, Meinrad Drexel, Günther Sperk, Noora Puhakka, Asla Pitkänen	4
3	Structural and Functional Remodeling of Amygdala GABAergic Synapses in Associative Fear Learning 2019 ·Neuron ·Yu Kasugai, (unknown), Heide Hörtnagl, (unknown), Enrica Paradiso, Markus Hauschild, Georg Göbel, Ivan Milenković, Yvan Peterschmitt, Ramon Tasan, Günther Sperk, Ryuichi Shigemoto, Werner Sieghart, Nicolas Singewald, Andreas Lüthi, Francesco Ferraguti	25
4	Selective Silencing of Hippocampal Parvalbumin Interneurons Induces Development of Recurrent Spontaneous Limbic Seizures in Mice 2017 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Meinrad Drexel, Roman A. Romanov, James Wood, Stefan Weger, Regine Heilbronn, Peer Wulff, Ramon Tasan, Tibor Harkany, Günther Sperk	64
5	Expression of class II histone deacetylases in two mouse models of temporal lobe epilepsy 2015 ·Journal of Neurochemistry ·(unknown), Meinrad Drexel, (unknown), Ramon Tasan, Günther Sperk	31
6	The role of Neuropeptide Y in fear conditioning and extinction 2015 ·Neuropeptides ·Ramon Tasan, Dilip Verma, James Wood, Gilliard Lach, (unknown), Thereza Christina Monteiro de Lima, Herbert Herzog, Günther Sperk	94
7	NPY controls fear conditioning and fear extinction by combined action on Y₁ and Y₂ receptors 2012 ·British Journal of Pharmacology ·Dilip Verma, Ramon Tasan, Herbert Herzog, Günther Sperk	57
8	Distribution of Alarin Immunoreactivity in the Mouse Brain 2011 ·Journal of Molecular Neuroscience ·(unknown), Christian Mayer, Radmila Santic, (unknown), Andrea Wagner, H. Bauer, Günther Sperk, Ulrich Boehm, Barbara Kofler	29
9	Neuropeptide Y in the dentate gyrus 2007 ·Progress in brain research ·Günther Sperk, Trevor J. Hamilton, William F. Colmers	102
10	Gene therapy in epilepsy: The focus on NPY 2006 ·Peptides ·Francesco M. Noè, Jari Nissinen, Asla Pitkänen, Marco Gobbi, Günther Sperk, Matthew J. During, Annamaria Vezzani	41
11	The anti‐epileptic actions of neuropeptide Y in the hippocampus are mediated by Y₂ and not Y₅ receptors 2005 ·European Journal of Neuroscience ·Bouchaı̈b El Bahh, Silvia Balosso, Trevor J. Hamilton, Herbert Herzog, Annette G. Beck‐Sickinger, Günther Sperk, Donald R. Gehlert, Annamaria Vezzani, William F. Colmers	104
12	Selective increase of dark phase water intake in neuropeptide-Y Y2 and Y4 receptor knockout mice 2005 ·Behavioural Brain Research ·Thomas Wultsch, Evelin Painsipp, Sabine Donner, Günther Sperk, Herbert Herzog, Bernhard A. Peskar, Peter Holzer	10
13	Altered Expression of Neuropeptide Y, ‐Y₁, and ‐Y₂ Receptors in the Hippocampus of Patients with Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy 2002 ·Epilepsia ·Sabine Fürtinger, Susanne Pirker, Thomas Czech, Christoph Baumgartner, Günther Sperk	10
14	Trimethyltin intoxication induces marked changes in neuropeptide expression in the rat hippocampus 1998 ·Synapse ·Koichi Tsunashima, Miyuki Sadamatsu, (unknown), Nobumasa Kato, Günther Sperk	26
15	Glutamate-stimulated neuropeptide Y mRNA expression in the rat dentate gyrus: A prominent role of metabotropic glutamate receptors 1998 ·Hippocampus ·Christoph Schwarzer, Günther Sperk	25
16	GABAA receptor subunits in the rat hippocampus III: altered messenger RNA expression in kainic acid-induced epilepsy 1997 ·Neuroscience ·Koichi Tsunashima, Christoph Schwarzer, Elke Kirchmair, Werner Sieghart, Günther Sperk	113
17	Limbic seizures induce neuropeptide and chromogranin mRNA expression in rat adrenal medulla 1997 ·Molecular Brain Research ·Koichi Tsunashima, Martin Wolkersdorfer, Christoph Schwarzer, Günther Sperk, Reiner Fischer‐Colbrie	7
18	Neuropeptide Y and somatostatin immunoreactivity in the rat hippocampus after moderate hypoxia 1996 ·Naunyn-Schmiedeberg s Archives of Pharmacology ·Christoph Schwarzer, Günther Sperk, (unknown), W. D. Pohle	13
19	Neuropeptide Levels after Pentylenetetrazol Kindling in the Rat 1990 ·European Journal of Neuroscience ·Josef Marksteiner, Hans Lassmann, Alois Saria, Christian Humpel, Dieter Meyer, Günther Sperk	48
20	Pronounced increases in brain levels of calcitonin gene-related peptide after kainic acid induced seizures 1989 ·Regulatory Peptides ·Alois Saria, Josef Marksteiner, Christian Humpel, Günther Sperk	28

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