Hung‐Teh Kao

6.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

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Hung‐Teh Kao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hung‐Teh Kao has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 31 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 17 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Hung‐Teh Kao's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (23 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (17 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (10 papers). Hung‐Teh Kao is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (23 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (17 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (10 papers). Hung‐Teh Kao collaborates with scholars based in United States, Norway and China. Hung‐Teh Kao's co-authors include Joseph R. Nevins, Paul Greengard, Barbara Porton, Andrew J. Czernik, Audrey R. Tyrka, Lawrence H. Price, Vincent A. Pieribone, Linda L. Carpenter, Sabine Hilfiker and George J Augustine and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Hung‐Teh Kao

74 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

Synapsins: Mosaics of Shared and Individual Domains in a Family of Synaptic Vesicle Phosphoproteins

1989 467 citations Andrew J. Czernik, Hung‐Teh Kao et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hung‐Teh Kao United States	38	3.2k	2.1k	1.3k	927	778	74	5.7k
Nicholas S. Foulkes Germany	48	3.5k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	757 0.6×	1.5k 1.6×	1.1k 1.4×	121	8.9k
Susan A. Slaugenhaupt United States	47	3.3k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	968 0.8×	1.3k 1.5×	775 1.0×	92	8.1k
J. Peter H. Burbach Netherlands	48	3.8k 1.2×	3.6k 1.7×	756 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	603 0.8×	146	7.6k
Marten P. Smidt Netherlands	42	4.4k 1.4×	3.5k 1.7×	393 0.3×	762 0.8×	579 0.7×	118	7.3k
Patrick M. Nolan United Kingdom	36	2.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	526 0.4×	767 0.8×	699 0.9×	108	5.2k
Vincent Procaccio France	52	6.7k 2.1×	1.3k 0.6×	476 0.4×	1.2k 1.3×	1.3k 1.6×	177	10.3k
Helgi B. Schiöth Sweden	55	5.9k 1.8×	3.4k 1.6×	1.0k 0.8×	1.0k 1.1×	874 1.1×	139	10.3k
Erno Vreugdenhil Netherlands	46	2.3k 0.7×	2.2k 1.0×	336 0.3×	833 0.9×	612 0.8×	112	8.1k
Gerard J.M. Martens Netherlands	43	3.6k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	719 0.8×	1.0k 1.3×	214	7.1k
David Murphy United Kingdom	50	2.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	354 0.3×	971 1.0×	1.0k 1.3×	311	8.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hung‐Teh Kao

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Schindeler, Aaron, et al.. (2025). In vivo precision base editing to rescue mouse models of disease. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 36(3). 102622–102622. 1 indexed citations

Daniels, Teresa E., Zachary J. Kunicki, Phyllis A. Dennery, et al.. (2023). Circulating Cell-Free Mitochondrial DNA and Depressive Symptoms Among Low-Active Adults Who Smoke. Psychosomatic Medicine. 86(1). 37–43. 2 indexed citations

Ridout, Kathryn K., Shariful A. Syed, Hung‐Teh Kao, et al.. (2021). Relationships Between Telomere Length, Plasma Glucagon-like Peptide 1, and Insulin in Early-Life Stress–Exposed Nonhuman Primates. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 54–60. 9 indexed citations

Ridout, Kathryn K., Jesse L. Coe, Stephanie H. Parade, et al.. (2020). Molecular markers of neuroendocrine function and mitochondrial biogenesis associated with early life stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 116. 104632–104632. 21 indexed citations

Ridout, Samuel J., Kathryn K. Ridout, Hung‐Teh Kao, et al.. (2015). Telomeres, Early-Life Stress and Mental Illness. Advances in psychosomatic medicine. 92–108. 36 indexed citations

Walaas, S. Ivar, et al.. (2012). Neuroethologically delineated differences in the seizure behavior of Synapsin 1 and Synapsin 2 knock-out mice. Epilepsy Research. 99(3). 252–259. 25 indexed citations

Price, Lawrence H., Hung‐Teh Kao, Darcy E. Burgers, Linda L. Carpenter, & Audrey R. Tyrka. (2012). Telomeres and Early-Life Stress: An Overview. Biological Psychiatry. 73(1). 15–23. 254 indexed citations

Kao, Hung‐Teh, Stephen L. Buka, Karl T. Kelsey, David F. Gruber, & Barbara Porton. (2010). The Correlation between Rates of Cancer and Autism: An Exploratory Ecological Investigation. PLoS ONE. 5(2). e9372–e9372. 24 indexed citations

Gruber, David F., Rob DeSalle, E. Kurt Lienau, et al.. (2009). Novel Internal Regions of Fluorescent Proteins Undergo Divergent Evolutionary Patterns. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 26(12). 2841–2848. 7 indexed citations

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Porton, Barbara, L. E. DeLisi, Hilary Bertisch, et al.. (2008). Telomerase levels in schizophrenia: A preliminary study. Schizophrenia Research. 106(2-3). 242–247. 47 indexed citations

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Kao, Hung‐Teh, et al.. (2007). Dynamic Regulation of Fluorescent Proteins from a Single Species of Coral. Marine Biotechnology. 9(6). 733–746. 18 indexed citations

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Chao, Helen M., Hung‐Teh Kao, & Barbara Porton. (2007). BDNF Val66Met variant and age of onset in schizophrenia. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 147B(4). 505–506. 46 indexed citations

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Mei, Jianfeng, et al.. (2006). Protein expression profiling of postmortem brain in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 84(2-3). 204–213. 19 indexed citations

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Hvalby, Øivind, Vidar R. Jensen, Hung‐Teh Kao, & S. Ivar Walaas. (2005). Synapsin‐regulated synaptic transmission from readily releasable synaptic vesicles in excitatory hippocampal synapses in mice. The Journal of Physiology. 571(1). 75–82. 30 indexed citations

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Porton, Barbara, Adriana Ferreira, Lynn E. DeLisi, & Hung‐Teh Kao. (2004). A rare polymorphism affects a Mitogen-Activated Protein kinase site in synapsin III: possible relationship to schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry. 55(2). 118–125. 37 indexed citations

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Kao, Hung‐Teh, Hong-jun Song, Barbara Porton, et al.. (2002). A protein kinase A–dependent molecular switch in synapsins regulates neurite outgrowth. Nature Neuroscience. 5(5). 431–437. 125 indexed citations

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Hilfiker, Sabine, Felix E. Schweizer, Hung‐Teh Kao, et al.. (1998). Two sites of action for synapsin domain E in regulating neurotransmitter release. Nature Neuroscience. 1(1). 29–35. 132 indexed citations

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Kao, Hung‐Teh, et al.. (1996). Brain specific proteins binding to the 3′ UTR of the 5-HT2C receptor mRNA. Molecular Brain Research. 43(1-2). 174–184. 3 indexed citations

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Sung, S S, et al.. (1988). Production of tumor necrosis factor/cachectin by human T cell lines and peripheral blood T lymphocytes stimulated by phorbol myristate acetate and anti-CD3 antibody.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 167(3). 937–953. 165 indexed citations

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Kao, Hung‐Teh & Joseph R. Nevins. (1983). Transcriptional Activation and Subsequent Control of the Human Heat Shock Gene During Adenovirus Infection. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 3(11). 2058–2065. 127 indexed citations

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