Kapil Mehta

11.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
178 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Kapil Mehta is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Kapil Mehta has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Molecular Biology, 58 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 28 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Kapil Mehta's work include Blood properties and coagulation (54 papers), Retinoids in leukemia and cellular processes (34 papers) and Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism (19 papers). Kapil Mehta is often cited by papers focused on Blood properties and coagulation (54 papers), Retinoids in leukemia and cellular processes (34 papers) and Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism (19 papers). Kapil Mehta collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Italy. Kapil Mehta's co-authors include Gabriel Lopez‐Berestein, Fabio Malavasi, Jansina Y. Fok, Bharat B. Aggarwal, R. L. Juliano, Amit Kumar Verma, Santosh Kumar, Shahid Umar, Ayşegül A. Şahin and Lingegowda S. Mangala and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Kapil Mehta

173 papers receiving 9.2k 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.

Transglutaminase Regulation of Cell Function

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kapil Mehta United States	53	3.3k	2.7k	1.3k	1.1k	1.1k	178	9.5k
Jeffrey W. Smith United States	63	6.4k 1.9×	855 0.3×	2.2k 1.8×	1.4k 1.3×	734 0.7×	195	14.2k
Na Xie China	47	4.3k 1.3×	1.4k 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	1.8k 1.6×	1.1k 1.0×	213	9.5k
Bernard Payrastre France	64	7.1k 2.2×	533 0.2×	994 0.8×	1.6k 1.4×	853 0.8×	270	12.9k
Léonardo Scapozza Switzerland	43	3.6k 1.1×	381 0.1×	874 0.7×	811 0.7×	1.5k 1.3×	187	7.4k
Ichiro Kawase Japan	52	3.3k 1.0×	1.2k 0.5×	2.0k 1.6×	1.9k 1.7×	846 0.8×	250	7.9k
Mary C. Dinauer United States	52	3.4k 1.0×	493 0.2×	737 0.6×	4.7k 4.1×	1.3k 1.1×	113	9.5k
Eithan Galun Israel	57	5.0k 1.5×	636 0.2×	2.9k 2.3×	3.0k 2.6×	2.5k 2.2×	206	12.6k
Paul R. Thompson United States	68	8.3k 2.5×	1.1k 0.4×	2.4k 1.9×	6.0k 5.2×	695 0.6×	217	15.2k
Hua Zhu United States	55	6.5k 2.0×	536 0.2×	1.8k 1.5×	1.8k 1.6×	4.7k 4.2×	298	13.1k
Wenqing Gao China	26	8.2k 2.5×	1.1k 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	3.5k 3.1×	2.4k 2.2×	57	11.8k

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Mehta, Kapil, et al.. (2023). Intelligent Technique for Smart Locust Swarm Detection and Prevention Shield for Agricultural Fields. 15. 1–6.

Agnihotri, Navneet & Kapil Mehta. (2016). Transglutaminase-2: evolution from pedestrian protein to a promising therapeutic target. Amino Acids. 49(3). 425–439. 38 indexed citations

Verma, Indu, Anil Bhansali, K. L. Gupta, et al.. (2015). Abstracts of 42nd National Conference of Association of Clinical Biochemists of India (ACBICON 2015). Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry. 30(S1). 1–131.

Mangala, Lingegowda S., Jansina Y. Fok, Yvonne G. Lin, et al.. (2008). Clinical and Biological Significance of Tissue Transglutaminase in Ovarian Carcinoma. Cancer Research. 68(14). 5849–5858. 88 indexed citations

Mehta, Kapil. (2008). Biological and therapeutic significance of tissue transglutaminase in pancreatic cancer. Amino Acids. 36(4). 709–716. 25 indexed citations

Verma, Amit Kumar & Kapil Mehta. (2007). Transglutaminase-Mediated Activation of Nuclear Transcription Factor-κB in Cancer Cells: A New Therapeutic Opportunity. Current Cancer Drug Targets. 7(6). 559–565. 33 indexed citations

Özpolat, Bülent, Uǧur Akar, Kapil Mehta, & Gabriel Lopez‐Berestein. (2007). PKCδ and Tissue Transglutaminase are Novel Inhibitors of Autophagy in Pancreatic Cancer Cells. Autophagy. 3(5). 480–483. 68 indexed citations

Davids, Barbara J., et al.. (2004). Dependence of Giardia lamblia encystation on novel transglutaminase activity. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 136(2). 173–180. 31 indexed citations

Mehta, Kapil, Ramakrishna U. Rao, & Ramaswamy Chandrashekar. (2002). Transglutaminases of the lower organisms. Across the link between life and death. 14(2). 129–134. 3 indexed citations

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Chandrashekar, Ramaswamy & Kapil Mehta. (2000). Transglutaminase-catalyzed Reactions in the Growth, Maturation and Development of Parasitic Nematodes. Parasitology Today. 16(1). 11–17. 21 indexed citations

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Salinas, Gustavo, et al.. (2000). Identification and localization of glutathione S-transferase as a potential target enzyme in Brugia species. Parasitology Research. 86(11). 908–915. 50 indexed citations

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Mehta, Kapil, et al.. (1999). Tissue transglutaminase: an enzyme with a split personality. The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology. 31(8). 817–836. 160 indexed citations

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Aggarwal, Bharat B. & Kapil Mehta. (1996). [15] Determination and regulation of nitric oxide production from macrophages by lipopolysaccharides, cytokines, and retinoids. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 269. 166–171. 32 indexed citations

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Singh, Ravindra, Ramaswamy Chandrashekar, & Kapil Mehta. (1995). Purification and partial characterization of a transglutaminase from dog filarial parasite, dirofilaria immitis. The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology. 27(12). 1285–1291. 16 indexed citations

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Graeff, Richard, et al.. (1994). GDP-Ribosyl Cyclase Activity as a Measure of CD38 Induction by Retinoic Acid in HL-60 Cells. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 205(1). 722–727. 43 indexed citations

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Mehta, Kapil. (1994). High levels of transglutaminase expression in doxorubicin‐resistant human breast carcinoma cells. International Journal of Cancer. 58(3). 400–406. 95 indexed citations

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Mehta, Kapil, et al.. (1990). Significance of transglutaminase-catalyzed reactions in growth and development of filarial parasite, Brugia malayi. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 173(3). 1051–1057. 25 indexed citations

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Lopez‐Berestein, G., Kapil Mehta, R. L. Juliano, & E. M. Hersh. (1982). Tumor cytotoxicity of human peripheral blood monocytes activated by muramyl dipeptide analogues. Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research. 23. 1 indexed citations

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Mehta, Kapil, et al.. (1980). Effect of irradiation on the infectivity and immunogenicity of larvae of Litomosoides carinii.. The Indian Journal of Medical Research. 72(1). 42–46. 6 indexed citations

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Mehta, Kapil, Ram K. Sindhu, D. Subrahmanyam, & C. K. Rao. (1980). Suppression of mitogenic response to PHA and Con A in bancroftian filariasis.. The Indian Journal of Medical Research. 72(1). 38–41. 3 indexed citations

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