Lee Shaashua

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 958 citations indexed

About

Lee Shaashua is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Oncology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lee Shaashua has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 958 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 9 papers in Oncology and 9 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Lee Shaashua's work include Cancer, Stress, Anesthesia, and Immune Response (23 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (7 papers) and Inflammatory mediators and NSAID effects (6 papers). Lee Shaashua is often cited by papers focused on Cancer, Stress, Anesthesia, and Immune Response (23 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (7 papers) and Inflammatory mediators and NSAID effects (6 papers). Lee Shaashua collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Australia. Lee Shaashua's co-authors include Shamgar Ben‐Eliyahu, Pini Matzner, Liat Sorski, Ella Rosenne, Irina Matei, David Lyden, Laura Pătraș, Hagar Lavon, Liat Tikotzky and Oded Zmora and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Cancer Cell and Clinical Cancer Research.

In The Last Decade

Lee Shaashua

38 papers receiving 955 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.

Immune determinants of the pre-metastatic niche

2023 115 citations Laura Pătraș, Lee Shaashua et al. Cancer Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lee Shaashua Israel	17	464	255	177	131	123	38	958
Jason W.‐L. Eng United States	15	457 1.0×	229 0.9×	158 0.9×	331 2.5×	136 1.1×	28	1.2k
Matthew A. Pimentel United States	10	925 2.0×	348 1.4×	122 0.7×	320 2.4×	175 1.4×	15	1.6k
Elisabeth G. Vichaya United States	20	274 0.6×	333 1.3×	83 0.5×	267 2.0×	177 1.4×	55	1.3k
Florian Then Bergh Germany	21	152 0.3×	143 0.6×	306 1.7×	242 1.8×	133 1.1×	60	1.6k
Annemarie Wijkhuijs Netherlands	19	274 0.6×	159 0.6×	158 0.9×	153 1.2×	334 2.7×	30	1.2k
Daniel Galera Bernabé Brazil	16	229 0.5×	149 0.6×	30 0.2×	98 0.7×	59 0.5×	63	784
Wouter Beumer Netherlands	8	216 0.5×	64 0.3×	270 1.5×	170 1.3×	231 1.9×	9	1.1k
Juliana Croitoru‐Lamoury Australia	9	75 0.2×	108 0.4×	162 0.9×	194 1.5×	137 1.1×	9	814
James P. Halper United States	19	188 0.4×	145 0.6×	317 1.8×	240 1.8×	92 0.7×	26	1.4k
Linnéa Asp Sweden	11	99 0.2×	63 0.2×	99 0.6×	311 2.4×	151 1.2×	13	1000

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Pătraș, Laura, Lee Shaashua, Irina Matei, & David Lyden. (2023). Immune determinants of the pre-metastatic niche. Cancer Cell. 41(3). 546–572. 115 indexed citations breakdown →

Shaashua, Lee, et al.. (2020). Stromal Expression of the Core Clock Gene Period 2 Is Essential for Tumor Initiation and Metastatic Colonization. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 8. 587697–587697. 19 indexed citations

Sorski, Liat, Rivka Melamed, Ben Levi, et al.. (2020). Prevention of liver metastases through perioperative acute CpG-C immune stimulation. Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy. 69(10). 2021–2031. 9 indexed citations

Benbenishty, Amit, David Kain, Lee Shaashua, et al.. (2019). Prophylactic TLR9 stimulation reduces brain metastasis through microglia activation. PLoS Biology. 17(3). e2006859–e2006859. 39 indexed citations

Matzner, Pini, Liat Sorski, Rita Haldar, et al.. (2019). Deleterious synergistic effects of distress and surgery on cancer metastasis: Abolishment through an integrated perioperative immune-stimulating stress-inflammatory-reducing intervention. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 80. 170–178. 24 indexed citations

Haldar, Rita, Lee Shaashua, Hagar Lavon, et al.. (2018). Perioperative inhibition of β-adrenergic and COX2 signaling in a clinical trial in breast cancer patients improves tumor Ki-67 expression, serum cytokine levels, and PBMCs transcriptome. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 73. 294–309. 62 indexed citations

Shaashua, Lee, Maytal Shabat-Simon, Rita Haldar, et al.. (2017). Perioperative COX-2 and β-Adrenergic Blockade Improves Metastatic Biomarkers in Breast Cancer Patients in a Phase-II Randomized Trial. Clinical Cancer Research. 23(16). 4651–4661. 195 indexed citations

Sorski, Liat, Rivka Melamed, Pini Matzner, et al.. (2016). Reducing liver metastases of colon cancer in the context of extensive and minor surgeries through β-adrenoceptors blockade and COX2 inhibition. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 58. 91–98. 62 indexed citations

Sorski, Liat, Lee Shaashua, Rivka Melamed, Pini Matzner, & Shamgar Ben‐Eliyahu. (2016). Selective Harvesting of Marginating-hepatic Leukocytes. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 1 indexed citations

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Shaashua, Lee, Liat Sorski, Rivka Melamed, & Shamgar Ben‐Eliyahu. (2016). Selective Harvesting of Marginating-pulmonary Leukocytes. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 1 indexed citations

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Levi, B., Pini Matzner, Yael Goldfarb, et al.. (2016). Stress impairs the efficacy of immune stimulation by CpG-C: Potential neuroendocrine mediating mechanisms and significance to tumor metastasis and the perioperative period. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 56. 209–220. 22 indexed citations

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Gotlieb, Neta, Ella Rosenne, Pini Matzner, et al.. (2014). The misleading nature of in vitro and ex vivo findings in studying the impact of stress hormones on NK cell cytotoxicity. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 45. 277–286. 25 indexed citations

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Shaashua, Lee, Ella Rosenne, Elad Neeman, et al.. (2014). Plasma IL-12 levels are suppressed in vivo by stress and surgery through endogenous release of glucocorticoids and prostaglandins but not catecholamines or opioids. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 42. 11–23. 21 indexed citations

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Benish, Marganit, Rivka Melamed, Ella Rosenne, et al.. (2013). The marginating-pulmonary immune compartment in mice exhibits increased NK cytotoxicity and unique cellular characteristics. Immunologic Research. 58(1). 28–39. 7 indexed citations

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Sorski, Liat, Ben Levi, Lee Shaashua, et al.. (2013). The impact of surgical extent and sex on the hepatic metastasis of colon cancer. Surgery Today. 44(10). 1925–1934. 16 indexed citations

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Matzner, Pini, Reut Naim, Lee Shaashua, et al.. (2013). Resilience of the Immune System in Healthy Young Students to 30-Hour Sleep Deprivation with Psychological Stress. NeuroImmunoModulation. 20(4). 194–204. 27 indexed citations

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Sorski, Liat, B. Levi, Lee Shaashua, et al.. (2011). Do minimally-invasive surgical procedures reduce colorectal cancer progression? A severity-independent need for arresting surgically-induced stress responses using beta-adrenergic blockers and COX2 inhibitors. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 25. S200–S200. 1 indexed citations

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Neeman, Elad, Lee Shaashua, Marganit Benish, et al.. (2011). Stress and skin leukocyte trafficking as a dual-stage process. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 26(2). 267–276. 13 indexed citations

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Tikotzky, Liat & Lee Shaashua. (2011). Infant sleep and early parental sleep-related cognitions predict sleep in pre-school children. Sleep Medicine. 13(2). 185–192. 47 indexed citations

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Shaashua, Lee, Marganit Benish, Niv Zmora, et al.. (2010). Effect of beta blocker combined with COX-2 inhibitor on colonic anastomosis in rats. International Journal of Colorectal Disease. 25(12). 1459–1464. 13 indexed citations

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