Luca Carta

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Luca Carta is a scholar working on Genetics, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Carta has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Genetics, 9 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 8 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Luca Carta's work include Connective tissue disorders research (15 papers), Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches (6 papers) and TGF-β signaling in diseases (5 papers). Luca Carta is often cited by papers focused on Connective tissue disorders research (15 papers), Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches (6 papers) and TGF-β signaling in diseases (5 papers). Luca Carta collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Spain. Luca Carta's co-authors include Francesco Ramirez, Harry C. Dietz, Bart Loeys, Daniel B. Rifkin, Daniel P. Judge, Ronald D. Cohn, Tammy M. Holm, Megan Podowski, Loretha Myers and David L. Huso and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Luca Carta

21 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Losartan, an AT1 Antagonist, Prevents Aortic Aneurysm in a Mouse Model of Marfan Syndrome

2006 1.3k citations Jennifer Habashi, Daniel P. Judge et al. Science profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luca Carta United States	14	1.6k	1.2k	666	592	319	22	2.5k
Nancy Jensen Biery United States	7	1.3k 0.8×	931 0.8×	458 0.7×	319 0.5×	306 1.0×	7	1.7k
Loretha Myers United States	14	3.0k 1.9×	2.3k 2.0×	1.5k 2.2×	1.0k 1.7×	593 1.9×	16	4.6k
Mohamad Azhar United States	27	363 0.2×	547 0.5×	612 0.9×	1.5k 2.5×	182 0.6×	53	2.6k
Marie K. Schluterman United States	7	526 0.3×	644 0.5×	690 1.0×	1.6k 2.8×	148 0.5×	8	2.3k
Lior Zilberberg United States	20	641 0.4×	402 0.3×	122 0.2×	824 1.4×	275 0.9×	24	1.7k
Dimitra Micha Netherlands	22	633 0.4×	555 0.5×	134 0.2×	521 0.9×	128 0.4×	73	1.5k
Katri Koli Finland	27	348 0.2×	730 0.6×	106 0.2×	1.2k 2.0×	324 1.0×	56	2.4k
Shinji Kunishima Japan	30	432 0.3×	483 0.4×	201 0.3×	483 0.8×	82 0.3×	132	2.7k
Philippe Khau Van Kien France	17	509 0.3×	471 0.4×	236 0.4×	372 0.6×	366 1.1×	40	1.5k
Chantal Desmaze France	23	489 0.3×	2.1k 1.8×	470 0.7×	2.6k 4.4×	597 1.9×	43	4.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Carta

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Luca Carta. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Luca Carta 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 Luca Carta. Luca Carta is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Carta, Luca, Carolina L. Bigarella, Sufang Zhang, et al.. (2025). Identification of Small-Molecule Inhibitors that Block the GTP-Binding Pocket of K-Ras and Other Members of the Ras Superfamily of Small GTPases. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 25(1). 84–93.

Cook, Jason, Luca Carta, Josephine Galatioto, & Francesco Ramirez. (2014). Cardiovascular manifestations in Marfan syndrome and related diseases; multiple genes causing similar phenotypes. Clinical Genetics. 87(1). 11–20. 45 indexed citations

Nistala, Harikiran, Sui Lee‐Arteaga, Luca Carta, et al.. (2014). Differential effects of alendronate and losartan therapy on osteopenia and aortic aneurysm in mice with severe Marfan syndrome. Human Molecular Genetics. 23(22). 6137–6137. 3 indexed citations

Cook, Jason, Luca Carta, Ludovic Bénard, et al.. (2014). Abnormal muscle mechanosignaling triggers cardiomyopathy in mice with Marfan syndrome. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 124(3). 1329–39. 110 indexed citations

Smaldone, Silvia, Luca Carta, & Francesco Ramirez. (2011). Establishment of fibrillin-deficient osteoprogenitor cell lines identifies molecular abnormalities associated with extracellular matrix perturbation of osteogenic differentiation. Cell and Tissue Research. 344(3). 511–517. 10 indexed citations

Nistala, Harikiran, Sui Lee‐Arteaga, Luca Carta, et al.. (2010). Differential effects of alendronate and losartan therapy on osteopenia and aortic aneurysm in mice with severe Marfan syndrome. Human Molecular Genetics. 19(24). 4790–4798. 52 indexed citations

Nistala, Harikiran, Sui Lee‐Arteaga, Silvia Smaldone, et al.. (2010). Fibrillin-1 and -2 differentially modulate endogenous TGF-β and BMP bioavailability during bone formation. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 207(10). i31–i31. 1 indexed citations

Carta, Luca, Jessica E. Wagenseil, Russell H. Knutsen, et al.. (2009). Discrete Contributions of Elastic Fiber Components to Arterial Development and Mechanical Compliance. Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. 29(12). 2083–2089. 69 indexed citations

Carta, Luca, Silvia Smaldone, Lior Zilberberg, et al.. (2008). p38 MAPK Is an Early Determinant of Promiscuous Smad2/3 Signaling in the Aortas of Fibrillin-1 (Fbn1)-null Mice. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(9). 5630–5636. 81 indexed citations

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Ramirez, Francesco, Luca Carta, Sui Lee‐Arteaga, et al.. (2008). Fibrillin-Rich Microfibrils—Structural and Instructive Determinants of Mammalian Development and Physiology. Connective Tissue Research. 49(1). 1–6. 31 indexed citations

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Habashi, Jennifer, Daniel P. Judge, Tammy M. Holm, et al.. (2006). Losartan in Marfan Syndrome—Beyond Blood Pressure Lowering. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 17(7). 1759–1764. 3 indexed citations

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Habashi, Jennifer, Daniel P. Judge, Tammy M. Holm, et al.. (2006). Losartan, an AT1 Antagonist, Prevents Aortic Aneurysm in a Mouse Model of Marfan Syndrome. Science. 312(5770). 117–121. 1252 indexed citations breakdown →

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Carta, Luca, Lygia V. Pereira, Emilio Arteaga‐Solis, et al.. (2005). Fibrillins 1 and 2 Perform Partially Overlapping Functions during Aortic Development. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(12). 8016–8023. 188 indexed citations

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Mericskay, Mathias, Luca Carta, & David Sassoon. (2005). Diethylstilbestrol exposure in utero: A paradigm for mechanisms leading to adult disease. Birth Defects Research Part A Clinical and Molecular Teratology. 73(3). 133–135. 20 indexed citations

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Dietz, Harry C., Bart Loeys, Luca Carta, & Francesco Ramirez. (2005). Recent progress towards a molecular understanding of Marfan syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical Genetics. 139C(1). 4–9. 156 indexed citations

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Pastorino, Sandra, Luca Carta, Maura Puppo, et al.. (2004). Picolinic acid- or desferrioxamine-inducible autocrine activation of macrophages engineered to produce IFNγ: an approach for gene therapy. Gene Therapy. 11(6). 560–568. 9 indexed citations

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Carta, Luca & David Sassoon. (2004). Wnt7a Is a Suppressor of Cell Death in the Female Reproductive Tract and Is Required for Postnatal and Estrogen-Mediated Growth1. Biology of Reproduction. 71(2). 444–454. 49 indexed citations

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Carta, Luca, et al.. (2001). Engineering of Macrophages to Produce IFN-γ in Response to Hypoxia. The Journal of Immunology. 166(9). 5374–5380. 48 indexed citations

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Casu, Anna, et al.. (1995). Impairment of vitamin A uptake by rat hepatocytes and fat storing cells determined by Monensin — morphological observations. Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology. 47(5). 413–420. 4 indexed citations

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Sternberg, Paul W., et al.. (1992). Intercellular Signaling during Caenorhabditis elegans Vulval Induction. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 57(0). 353–362. 3 indexed citations

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