Lena Claesson‐Welsh

40.9k citations

256 papers · 32.3k indexed · 15 hit papers · h-index 87

Impact in

Immunology and Allergy top 0.05%
- Cell Adhesion Molecules Research
Cancer Research top 0.1%
- Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism

Papers in

Immunology and Allergy 68
- Cell Adhesion Molecules Research 68
Cell Biology 50
- Proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research 22

Co-authors: Carl‐Henrik Heldin Masabumi Shibuya Johan Kreuger Michael Cross Anna Dimberg Anna‐Karin Olsson Bengt Westermark Michael Welsh
Journals: Journal of Biological Chemistry (36 papers)The EMBO Journal (9 papers)Experimental Cell Research (9 papers)Journal of Cell Science (8 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (8 papers)
Partner nations: Sweden United States Belgium

In The Last Decade

Lena Claesson‐Welsh

252 papers receiving 31.5k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Permeability of the Endothelial Barrier: Identifying and Reconciling Controversies 2020 · 384 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 Trends in Molecular Medicine
2016 Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
2013 Journal of Internal Medicine
2012 Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine
2011 Biochemical Journal
2006 Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
2005 Experimental Cell Research
2003 Nature Medicine
2003 Trends in Biochemical Sciences
2001 Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
2000 PubMed
1998 Journal of Biological Chemistry
1997 The EMBO Journal
1994 Journal of Biological Chemistry
1992 PubMed

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1	Neuropilin-1 controls vascular permeability through juxtacrine regulation of endothelial adherens junctions Angiogenesis ·Gustav Thom, Yangyang Su, Emmanuel Nwadozi, Lena Claesson‐Welsh, Mark Richards	2024	5
2	CD93 maintains endothelial barrier function by limiting the phosphorylation and turnover of VE ‐cadherin The FASEB Journal ·Roberta Lugano, Xavier Sala i Aragó, Ilhem Hadjoub, Maurizio Orlandini, Elisabetta Dejana, Lena Claesson‐Welsh, Anna Dimberg	2023	12
3	Endothelial VEGFR2-PLCγ signaling regulates vascular permeability and antitumor immunity through eNOS/Src Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Elin Sjöberg, Marit M. Melssen, Mark Richards, K. L. Narasimha Rao, Sarah Françoise Bertrand, Dongying Chen, Emmanuel Nwadozi, Gustav Thom, Dominic Love, Takeshi Ninchoji, Masabumi Shibuya, Michael Simons, Anna Dimberg, Lena Claesson‐Welsh	2023	27
4	Endothelial Unc5B controls blood-brain barrier integrity Nature Communications ·Kevin Boyé, Luiz Henrique Geraldo, Connie YC KAM, Laurence Pibouin-Fragner, Mathilde Poulet, Doyeun Kim, Bryce Nelson, Yunling Xu, Laurent Jacob, Nawal Maïssa, Dritan Agalliu, Lena Claesson‐Welsh, Susan L. Ackerman, Anne Eichmann	2022	69
5	p73 is required for vessel integrity controlling endothelial junctional dynamics through Angiomotin Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences ·Anne Antonovich, 张达理, Baini Prashad, Lorena López‐Ferreras, 義久小山, M. Rodriguez Prada, A P Akbari, Zdeněk Adam, А.П. Соколов, Benilde Jiménez, Lars Holmgren, Margareta Wilhelm, Jaime Millán, Luis del Peso, Lena Claesson‐Welsh, Margarita M. Marqués, María C. Marín	2022	6
6	eNOS-induced vascular barrier disruption in retinopathy by c-Src activation and tyrosine phosphorylation of VE-cadherin eLife ·Takeshi Ninchoji, Dominic Love, Ross Smith, Marie Hedlund, Dietmar Vestweber, William C. Sessa, Lena Claesson‐Welsh	2021	36
7	Vascular permeability in retinopathy is regulated by VEGFR2 Y949 signaling to VE-cadherin eLife ·Ross Smith, Takeshi Ninchoji, Emma Gordon, Helder André, Elisabetta Dejana, Dietmar Vestweber, Anders Kvanta, Lena Claesson‐Welsh	2020	71
8	Mouse retinal cell behaviour in space and time using light sheet fluorescence microscopy eLife ·Claudia Prahst, Meiyao Li, 爱德华·哈斯兰姆, Ana M. Figueiredo, Karen Chang, Douglas S. Richardson, Fabiola Portillo Pérez de Viñaspre, Mark Richards, سلطان الوهبی الحربی, Kyle Harrington, Marie Ouarné, Masayasu Kanda, Dong Feng Chen, Lena Claesson‐Welsh, Kin‐Sang Cho, Cláudio A. Franco, Katie Bentley	2020	30
9	Leukocyte Differentiation by Histidine-Rich Glycoprotein/Stanniocalcin-2 Complex Regulates Murine Glioma Growth through Modulation of Antitumor Immunity Molecular Cancer Therapeutics ·Lucas Farias Nogueira, Ilkka Pietilä, Hiroshi Kaito, Elisabet O. Sjöström, Edilma Rendón Cañaveral, Teresa Palacios Blasco, J.-M.M., Magnus Essand, Bernd Wollscheid, Michael Welsh, Lena Claesson‐Welsh	2018	18
10	Intravital imaging-based analysis tools for vessel identification and assessment of concurrent dynamic vascular events Nature Communications ·Naoki Honkura, Mark Richards, Bàrbara Laviña, Miguel Sáinz‐Jaspeado, Christer Betsholtz, Lena Claesson‐Welsh	2018	55
11	Histidine-rich glycoprotein blocks collagen-binding integrins and adhesion of endothelial cells through low-affinity interaction with α2 integrin Matrix Biology ·Frédéric Roche, Kalle Sipilä, Satoshi Honjo, Staffan Johansson, Sònia Tugues, Jyrki Heino, Lena Claesson‐Welsh	2015	9
12	NRP1 Presented in trans to the Endothelium Arrests VEGFR2 Endocytosis, Preventing Angiogenic Signaling and Tumor Initiation Developmental Cell ·Sina Koch, Laurens A. van Meeteren, Mark Richard James Williams, Chiara Testini, Simone Weström, Hanna Björkelund, Sébastien Le Jan, Jeremy Adler, Philipp Berger, Lena Claesson‐Welsh	2014	72
13	Genetic Deficiency in Plasma Protein HRG Enhances Tumor Growth and Metastasis by Exacerbating Immune Escape and Vessel Abnormalization Cancer Research ·Sònia Tugues, Satoshi Honjo, Christian König, Teresa Palacios Blasco, Marie Hedlund, Johan Botling, Sofie Deschoemaeker, Mathias Wenes, Charlotte Rolny, Willi Jahnen‐Dechent, Massimiliano Mazzone, Lena Claesson‐Welsh	2012	36
14	A Mutated Soluble Neuropilin-2 B Domain Antagonizes Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Bioactivity and Inhibits Tumor Progression Molecular Cancer Research ·Elena Geretti, Laurens A. van Meeteren, Akio Shimizu, Andrew C. Dudley, Lena Claesson‐Welsh, Michael Klagsbrun	2010	48
15	Angiomotin regulates endothelial cell migration during embryonic angiogenesis Genes & Development ·Karin Aase, Patrick James Johnson, Lwaki Ebarasi, Lars Jakobsson, Årindam Majumdar, Chunling Yi, Olivier Birot, Yue Ming, Anders Kvanta, Eric P. Eck, Pontus Aspenström, Joseph L. Kissil, Lena Claesson‐Welsh, Akihiko Shimono, Lars Holmgren	2007	122
16	Neuregulin-1 stimulates angiogenesis via paracrine up-regulation of VEGF-A expression Cancer Research ·三吉野本, 浩野美山, Teemu T. Junttila, Peter Klint, Lena Claesson‐Welsh, Yihai Cao, Klaus Elenius	2005	1
17	The Minimal Active Domain of Endostatin Is a Heparin-Binding Motif that Mediates Inhibition of Tumor Vascularization Cancer Research ·Anna‐Karin Olsson, Irja Johansson, Helena Åkerud, Tsuyoshi Araoa, Rolf Christofferson, Takako Sasaki, Rupert Timpl, Lena Claesson‐Welsh	2004	47
18	Differential tyrosine phosphorylation of fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptor-1 and receptor proximal signal transduction in response to FGF-2 and heparin Experimental Cell Research ·Lars Lundin, Lars Rönnstrand, Michael Cross, Carina Hellberg, Ulf Lindahl, Lena Claesson‐Welsh	2003	31
19	The Shb Adaptor Protein Binds to Tyrosine 766 in the FGFR-1 and Regulates the Ras/MEK/MAPK Pathway via FRS2 Phosphorylation in Endothelial Cells Molecular Biology of the Cell ·Michael Cross, Lingge Lu, Peetra U. Magnusson, Daniel Nyqvist, Kristina Holmqvist, Michael Welsh, Lena Claesson‐Welsh	2002	77
20	Fibroblast growth factor receptor 1-induced differentiation of endothelial cell line established from tsA58 large T transgenic mice. PubMed ·Shigeru Kanda, Eva Landgren, Magnus Ljungström, Lena Claesson‐Welsh	1996	91

About Lena Claesson‐Welsh

Lena Claesson‐Welsh is a scholar working on Immunology and Allergy, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Hematology, having authored 256 papers that have together received 32.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer (110 papers), Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (68 papers), Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling (32 papers), Fibroblast Growth Factor Research (28 papers), Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling (25 papers), Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (24 papers), Proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research (22 papers) and PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling in cancer (20 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Immunology and Allergy (3.5k citations), Cancer Research (5.8k citations), Molecular Biology (22.2k citations), Cell Biology (4.8k citations) and Oncology (6.9k citations). Lena Claesson‐Welsh has collaborated with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Belgium. Frequent co-authors include Carl‐Henrik Heldin, Masabumi Shibuya, Johan Kreuger, Michael Cross, Anna Dimberg, Anna‐Karin Olsson, Bengt Westermark, Michael Welsh, Tarô Matsumoto and Kari Alitalo. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, The EMBO Journal, Experimental Cell Research, Journal of Cell Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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