Kanwar Virdee

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
22 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Kanwar Virdee is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Kanwar Virdee has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Physiology and 5 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Kanwar Virdee's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (5 papers), Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling (5 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (4 papers). Kanwar Virdee is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (5 papers), Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling (5 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (4 papers). Kanwar Virdee collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Kanwar Virdee's co-authors include Aviva M. Tolkovsky, Julia Ring, Nikolai Kirov, Enrique Martı́n-Blanco, Alfonso Martínez-Arias, Alexandra Gampel, Philippe A. Parone, Hirotaka Yoshida, Michel Goedert and Maria Grazia Spillantini and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Neuroscience and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Kanwar Virdee

22 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

puckered encodes a phosphatase that mediates a feedback loop regulating JNK activity during dorsal closure in Drosophila

1998 557 citations Enrique Martı́n-Blanco, Alexandra Gampel et al. Genes & Development profile →
Abundant Tau Filaments and Nonapoptotic Neurodegeneration in Transgenic Mice Expressing Human P301S Tau Protein

2002 556 citations Bridget Allen, Takao Masaki et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kanwar Virdee United Kingdom	15	1.1k	675	547	374	265	22	1.9k
Douglas W. Ethell United States	25	1.0k 1.0×	536 0.8×	358 0.7×	202 0.5×	142 0.5×	40	2.3k
Andrea Levi Italy	30	1.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.7×	470 0.9×	302 0.8×	179 0.7×	60	2.7k
Roger B. Knowles United States	13	802 0.7×	463 0.7×	590 1.1×	200 0.5×	131 0.5×	16	1.5k
Stefan Schumacher Germany	16	1.3k 1.2×	631 0.9×	517 0.9×	293 0.8×	83 0.3×	34	2.5k
Tatsuo Furuyama Japan	29	2.4k 2.2×	1.0k 1.5×	744 1.4×	487 1.3×	121 0.5×	62	3.5k
Enrique M. Toledo Chile	20	1.6k 1.5×	741 1.1×	579 1.1×	133 0.4×	131 0.5×	32	2.5k
Bernadette Allinquant France	25	1.6k 1.5×	882 1.3×	1.4k 2.6×	484 1.3×	123 0.5×	74	3.3k
Andrea Caricasole Italy	34	2.2k 2.0×	1.1k 1.6×	701 1.3×	192 0.5×	112 0.4×	71	3.2k
Ramón Lim United States	31	1.1k 1.0×	843 1.2×	299 0.5×	154 0.4×	232 0.9×	69	2.3k
Yun‐Li Ma Taiwan	31	1.2k 1.1×	798 1.2×	303 0.6×	97 0.3×	159 0.6×	68	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kanwar Virdee

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Virdee, Kanwar, Bianca Jupp, Simon McArthur, et al.. (2016). Counteractive effects of antenatal glucocorticoid treatment on D1 receptor modulation of spatial working memory. Psychopharmacology. 233(21-22). 3751–3761. 4 indexed citations

Gillies, Glenda E., Kanwar Virdee, Simon McArthur, & Jeffrey W. Dalley. (2014). Sex-dependent diversity in ventral tegmental dopaminergic neurons and developmental programing: A molecular, cellular and behavioral analysis. Neuroscience. 282. 69–85. 95 indexed citations

Virdee, Kanwar, Simon McArthur, Frédéric Brischoux, et al.. (2013). Antenatal Glucocorticoid Treatment Induces Adaptations in Adult Midbrain Dopamine Neurons, which Underpin Sexually Dimorphic Behavioral Resilience. Neuropsychopharmacology. 39(2). 339–350. 27 indexed citations

Jung, Hans H., Juliane Bremer, Johannes Streffer, et al.. (2012). Phenotypic Variation of Autosomal-Dominant Corticobasal Degeneration. European Neurology. 67(3). 142–150. 10 indexed citations

Virdee, Kanwar, Paul Cumming, Daniele Caprioli, et al.. (2012). Applications of positron emission tomography in animal models of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 36(4). 1188–1216. 46 indexed citations

Anfossi, Maria, Romina Vuono, Raffaele Maletta, et al.. (2011). Compound heterozygosity of 2 novel MAPT mutations in frontotemporal dementia. Neurobiology of Aging. 32(4). 757.e1–757.e11. 16 indexed citations

Virdee, Kanwar, Hirotaka Yoshida, Sew‐Yeu Peak‐Chew, & Michel Goedert. (2007). Phosphorylation of human microtubule‐associated protein tau by protein kinases of the AGC subfamily. FEBS Letters. 581(14). 2657–2662. 21 indexed citations

Allen, Bridget, Takao Masaki, Michael J. Smith, et al.. (2002). Abundant tau filaments and nonapoptotic neurodegeneration in transgenic mice expressing human P301S tau protein. PMC. 1 indexed citations

Virdee, Kanwar, Philippe A. Parone, & Aviva M. Tolkovsky. (2000). Phosphorylation of the pro-apoptotic protein BAD on serine 155, a novel site, contributes to cell survival. Current Biology. 10(18). 1151–1154. 139 indexed citations

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Roberts, Michael L., et al.. (2000). The Combination of Bcl-2 Expression and NGF-Deprivation Facilitates the Selective Destruction of BAD Protein in Living Sympathetic Neurons. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 16(2). 97–110. 21 indexed citations

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Virdee, Kanwar, Luzheng Xue, Brian A. Hemmings, et al.. (1999). Nerve growth factor-induced PKB/Akt activity is sustained by phosphoinositide 3-kinase dependent and independent signals in sympathetic neurons. Brain Research. 837(1-2). 127–142. 44 indexed citations

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Martı́n-Blanco, Enrique, Alexandra Gampel, Julia Ring, et al.. (1998). puckered encodes a phosphatase that mediates a feedback loop regulating JNK activity during dorsal closure in Drosophila. Genes & Development. 12(4). 557–570. 557 indexed citations breakdown →

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Virdee, Kanwar, et al.. (1997). Comparison Between the Timing of JNK activation, c‐Jun Phosphorylation, and Onset of Death Commitment in Sympathetic Neurones. Journal of Neurochemistry. 69(2). 550–561. 100 indexed citations

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Virdee, Kanwar & Aviva M. Tolkovsky. (1996). Inhibition of p42 and p44 Mitogen‐Activated Protein Kinase Activity by PD98059 Does Not Suppress Nerve Growth Factor‐Induced Survival of Sympathetic Neurones. Journal of Neurochemistry. 67(5). 1801–1805. 93 indexed citations

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Virdee, Kanwar & Aviva M. Tolkovsky. (1995). Activation of p44 and p42 MAP Kinases is not Essential for the Survival of Rat Sympathetic Neurons. European Journal of Neuroscience. 7(10). 2159–2169. 62 indexed citations

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Tachado, Souvenir D., Kanwar Virdee, Rashid A. Akhtar, & Ata A. Abdel‐Latif. (1994). M ₃ Muscarinic Receptors Mediate an Increase in Both Inositol Trisphosphate Production and Cyclic AMP Formation in Dog Iris Sphincter Smooth Muscle. Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 10(1). 137–147. 11 indexed citations

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Virdee, Kanwar, B. L. Brown, & Pauline R.M. Dobson. (1994). The mitogenic action of recombinant basic FGF in Swiss 3T3 cells is independent of early diradylglycerol production and downregulatable protein kinase C activity. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1224(3). 489–494. 1 indexed citations

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Virdee, Kanwar, B. L. Brown, & Pauline R.M. Dobson. (1994). Stimulation of arachidonic-acid release from Swiss 3T3 cells by recombinant basic fibroblast growth factor: Independence from phosphoinositide turnover. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1220(2). 171–180. 15 indexed citations

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Godard, Anne, Dominique Heymann, Sylvie Raher, et al.. (1992). High and low affinity receptors for human interleukin for DA cells/leukemia inhibitory factor on human cells. Molecular characterization and cellular distribution.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 267(5). 3214–3222. 71 indexed citations

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Skjødt, Henrik, et al.. (1990). Interleukin-1 stimulates diglyceride accumulation in the absence of protein kinase C activation. Regulatory Peptides. 29(2-3). 109–116. 12 indexed citations

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