Khalid Touzani

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Khalid Touzani is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Khalid Touzani has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 27 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 26 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Khalid Touzani's work include Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques (33 papers), Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (25 papers) and Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (17 papers). Khalid Touzani is often cited by papers focused on Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques (33 papers), Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (25 papers) and Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (17 papers). Khalid Touzani collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Morocco. Khalid Touzani's co-authors include Anthony Sclafani, Richard J. Bodnar, Eric R. Kandel, Juan Marcos Alarcón, Gaël Malleret, Shunsuke Ishii, Svetlana Vronskaya, Ángel Barco, L. Velley and Karen Ackroff and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron and Brain Research.

In The Last Decade

Khalid Touzani

53 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Chromatin Acetylation, Memory, and LTP Are Impaired in CB... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Chromatin Acetylation, Memory, and LTP Are Impaired in CBP+/− Mice
    2004 710 citations Juan Marcos Alarcón, Gaël Malleret et al. Neuron profile →

Peers

Khalid Touzani
Yeka Aponte United States
Yasunobu Yasoshima Japan
Jun Chul Kim Canada
Marta E. Soden United States
Michael W. Swank United States
Harriet Baker United States
Carlos Arias United States
Yoshinori Sahara Japan
Zongfang Yang United States
Patrice Congar France
Yeka Aponte United States
Khalid Touzani
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Fields of papers citing papers by Khalid Touzani

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Khalid Touzani

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Khalid Touzani. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Khalid Touzani based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Khalid Touzani. Khalid Touzani is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sclafani, Anthony, Khalid Touzani, & Karen Ackroff. (2015). Intragastric fat self-administration is impaired in GPR40/120 double knockout mice. Physiology & Behavior. 147. 141–148. 13 indexed citations
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Sclafani, Anthony, Khalid Touzani, & Karen Ackroff. (2015). Ghrelin signaling is not essential for sugar or fat conditioned flavor preferences in mice. Physiology & Behavior. 149. 14–22. 14 indexed citations
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Touzani, Khalid, et al.. (2012). Double-dissociation of D1 and opioid receptor antagonism effects on the acquisition of sucrose-conditioned flavor preferences in BALB/c and SWR mice. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. 103(1). 26–32. 13 indexed citations
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Sclafani, Anthony, Khalid Touzani, & Richard J. Bodnar. (2011). Dopamine and learned food preferences. Physiology & Behavior. 104(1). 64–68. 67 indexed citations
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Ackroff, Karen, et al.. (2010). Opioid mediation of starch and sugar preference in the rat. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. 96(4). 507–514. 15 indexed citations
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Touzani, Khalid, Richard J. Bodnar, & Anthony Sclafani. (2009). Lateral hypothalamus dopamine D1-like receptors and glucose-conditioned flavor preferences in rats. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 92(3). 464–467. 23 indexed citations
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Touzani, Khalid, et al.. (2009). Opioid receptor antagonism in the nucleus accumbens fails to block the expression of sugar-conditioned flavor preferences in rats. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. 95(1). 56–62. 23 indexed citations
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Gerges, Meri, et al.. (2008). Role of systemic endocannabinoid CB-1 receptor antagonism in the acquisition and expression of fructose-conditioned flavor–flavor preferences in rats. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. 90(3). 318–324. 7 indexed citations
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Etkin, Amit, Juan Marcos Alarcón, Stuart P. Weisberg, et al.. (2006). A Role in Learning for SRF: Deletion in the Adult Forebrain Disrupts LTD and the Formation of an Immediate Memory of a Novel Context. Neuron. 50(1). 127–143. 170 indexed citations
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Touzani, Khalid, et al.. (2005). Caractérisation de texture : application sur les images échographiques du rein. 3. 1–24. 1 indexed citations
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Touzani, Khalid & Anthony Sclafani. (2005). Critical role of amygdala in flavor but not taste preference learning in rats. European Journal of Neuroscience. 22(7). 1767–1774. 59 indexed citations
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Alarcón, Juan Marcos, Gaël Malleret, Khalid Touzani, et al.. (2004). Chromatin Acetylation, Memory, and LTP Are Impaired in CBP+/− Mice. Neuron. 42(6). 947–959. 710 indexed citations breakdown →
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Touzani, Khalid, Aline Marighetto, & Robert Jaffard. (2003). Fos imaging reveals ageing‐related changes in hippocampal response to radial maze discrimination testing in mice. European Journal of Neuroscience. 17(3). 628–640. 25 indexed citations
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Touzani, Khalid & Anthony Sclafani. (2002). Lateral hypothalamic lesions impair flavour‐nutrient and flavour‐toxin trace learning in rats. European Journal of Neuroscience. 16(12). 2425–2433. 44 indexed citations
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Sclafani, Anthony, Anthony V. Azzara, Khalid Touzani, Patricia S. Grigson, & R. Norgren. (2001). Parabrachial nucleus lesions block taste and attenuate flavor preference and aversion conditioning in rats.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 115(4). 920–933. 46 indexed citations
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Marighetto, Aline, et al.. (1999). Knowing which and knowing what: a potential mouse model for age‐related human declarative memory decline. European Journal of Neuroscience. 11(9). 3312–3322. 48 indexed citations
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Touzani, Khalid, Khalid Taghzouti, & L. Velley. (1997). Increase of the aversive value of taste stimuli following ibotenic acid lesion of the central amygdaloid nucleus in the rat. Behavioural Brain Research. 88(2). 133–142. 49 indexed citations
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Touzani, Khalid, Khalid Taghzouti, & L. Velley. (1996). Cellular organization of lateral hypothalamic efferents to the central amygdaloid nucleus of the rat. Neuroreport. 7(2). 517–520. 15 indexed citations
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Touzani, Khalid, G. Tramu, Jean‐Louis Nahon, & L. Velley. (1993). Hypothalamic melanin-concentrating hormone and α-neoendorphin-immunoreactive neurons project to the medial part of the rat parabrachial area. Neuroscience. 53(3). 865–876. 19 indexed citations
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Touzani, Khalid, et al.. (1990). Localization of lateral hypothalamic neurons projecting to the medial part of the parabrachial area of the rat. Neuroscience Letters. 114(1). 17–21. 15 indexed citations

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