Luca Parrillo

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Luca Parrillo is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Parrillo has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Physiology and 6 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Luca Parrillo's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (11 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (6 papers) and Pancreatic function and diabetes (6 papers). Luca Parrillo is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (11 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (6 papers) and Pancreatic function and diabetes (6 papers). Luca Parrillo collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Sweden and Germany. Luca Parrillo's co-authors include Francesco Bèguinot, Gregory Alexander Raciti, Claudia Miele, Michele Longo, Pietro Formisano, Federica Zatterale, Jamal Naderi, Rosa Spinelli, Cecilia Nigro and Antonella Desiderio and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Development and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Luca Parrillo

27 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Adipose Tissue Dysfunction as Determinant of Obesity-Associated Metabolic Complications

2019 1.1k citations Michele Longo, Federica Zatterale et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luca Parrillo Italy	17	746	695	556	247	197	28	1.8k
Federica Zatterale Italy	13	978 1.3×	669 1.0×	832 1.5×	272 1.1×	271 1.4×	17	2.2k
Manuel Macías‐González Spain	26	684 0.9×	765 1.1×	386 0.7×	300 1.2×	197 1.0×	78	1.9k
Tania Romacho Spain	24	798 1.1×	575 0.8×	686 1.2×	276 1.1×	328 1.7×	30	2.1k
Joanne McNelis United States	9	688 0.9×	652 0.9×	832 1.5×	318 1.3×	185 0.9×	10	2.1k
Laura J. den Hartigh United States	20	836 1.1×	635 0.9×	663 1.2×	271 1.1×	341 1.7×	38	2.1k
Jan B. van Klinken Netherlands	24	646 0.9×	501 0.7×	338 0.6×	236 1.0×	165 0.8×	50	1.5k
Kari E. Wong United States	20	552 0.7×	461 0.7×	416 0.7×	298 1.2×	157 0.8×	38	1.9k
Stephan Wueest Switzerland	24	934 1.3×	493 0.7×	927 1.7×	313 1.3×	242 1.2×	42	2.0k
Claudio J. Villanueva United States	22	1.1k 1.5×	1.0k 1.5×	750 1.3×	196 0.8×	208 1.1×	31	2.3k
Silvia Lorente‐Cebrián Spain	25	914 1.2×	843 1.2×	642 1.2×	176 0.7×	213 1.1×	50	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Parrillo

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Angelis, Maria Teresa De, Antonia Rizzuto, Moataz Reda, et al.. (2025). Distinctive chromosomal, mutational and transcriptional profiling in colon versus rectal cancers. Journal of Translational Medicine. 23(1). 869–869.

Desiderio, Antonella, Immacolata Prevenzano, Fatima Domenica Elisa De Palma, et al.. (2024). Hypomethylation at PANDAR promoter progressively induces senescence in adipocyte precursor cells in subjects with obesity and type 2 diabetes. The FASEB Journal. 38(19). e70093–e70093. 1 indexed citations

Parrillo, Luca, Rosa Spinelli, Michele Longo, et al.. (2023). The Transcription Factor HOXA5: Novel Insights into Metabolic Diseases and Adipose Tissue Dysfunction. Cells. 12(16). 2090–2090. 7 indexed citations

Longo, Michele, Federica Zatterale, Rosa Spinelli, et al.. (2023). Altered H3K4me3 profile at the TFAM promoter causes mitochondrial alterations in preadipocytes from first-degree relatives of type 2 diabetics. Clinical Epigenetics. 15(1). 144–144. 7 indexed citations

Spinelli, Rosa, Luca Parrillo, Federica Zatterale, et al.. (2022). ZMAT3 hypomethylation contributes to early senescence of preadipocytes from healthy first‐degree relatives of type 2 diabetics. Aging Cell. 21(3). e13557–e13557. 24 indexed citations

Parrillo, Luca, Rosa Spinelli, Serena Cabaro, et al.. (2022). Epigenetic Dysregulation of the Homeobox A5 (HOXA5) Gene Associates with Subcutaneous Adipocyte Hypertrophy in Human Obesity. Cells. 11(4). 728–728. 9 indexed citations

Spinelli, Rosa, Luca Parrillo, Michele Longo, et al.. (2020). Molecular basis of ageing in chronic metabolic diseases. Journal of Endocrinological Investigation. 43(10). 1373–1389. 60 indexed citations

Desiderio, Antonella, Michele Longo, Luca Parrillo, et al.. (2019). Epigenetic silencing of the ANKRD26 gene correlates to the pro-inflammatory profile and increased cardio-metabolic risk factors in human obesity. Clinical Epigenetics. 11(1). 181–181. 16 indexed citations

Nigro, Cecilia, Alessia Leone, Michele Longo, et al.. (2018). Methylglyoxal accumulation de-regulates HoxA5 expression, thereby impairing angiogenesis in glyoxalase 1 knock-down mouse aortic endothelial cells. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease. 1865(1). 73–85. 28 indexed citations

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Raciti, Gregory Alexander, Rosa Spinelli, Antonella Desiderio, et al.. (2017). Specific CpG hyper-methylation leads to Ankrd26 gene down-regulation in white adipose tissue of a mouse model of diet-induced obesity. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 43526–43526. 35 indexed citations

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Longo, Michele, Gregory Alexander Raciti, Federica Zatterale, et al.. (2017). Epigenetic modifications of the Zfp/ZNF423 gene control murine adipogenic commitment and are dysregulated in human hypertrophic obesity. Diabetologia. 61(2). 369–380. 48 indexed citations

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Fiory, Francesca, Rosa Spinelli, Gregory Alexander Raciti, et al.. (2017). Targetting PED/PEA-15 for diabetes treatment. Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets. 21(6). 571–581. 6 indexed citations

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Parrillo, Luca, Valerio Costa, Gregory Alexander Raciti, et al.. (2016). Hoxa5 undergoes dynamic DNA methylation and transcriptional repression in the adipose tissue of mice exposed to high-fat diet. International Journal of Obesity. 40(6). 929–937. 41 indexed citations

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Andersson, Louise, Therese Carlsson, Svante Jansson, et al.. (2015). Revising the embryonic origin of thyroid C cells. Development. 142(20). 3519–28. 70 indexed citations

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Raciti, Gregory Alexander, Michele Longo, Luca Parrillo, et al.. (2015). Understanding type 2 diabetes: from genetics to epigenetics. Acta Diabetologica. 52(5). 821–827. 37 indexed citations

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Fiory, Francesca, Luca Parrillo, Gregory Alexander Raciti, et al.. (2014). PED/PEA-15 Inhibits Hydrogen Peroxide-Induced Apoptosis in Ins-1E Pancreatic Beta-Cells via PLD-1. PLoS ONE. 9(12). e113655–e113655. 14 indexed citations

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Oriente, Francesco, Serena Cabaro, Antonietta Liotti, et al.. (2013). PREP1 deficiency downregulates hepatic lipogenesis and attenuates steatohepatitis in mice. Diabetologia. 56(12). 2713–2722. 25 indexed citations

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Lombardi, Angela, Luca Ulianich, Antonella Sonia Treglia, et al.. (2011). Increased hexosamine biosynthetic pathway flux dedifferentiates INS-1E cells and murine islets by an extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK)1/2-mediated signal transmission pathway. Diabetologia. 55(1). 141–153. 35 indexed citations

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Fagman, Henrik, Elena Amendola, Luca Parrillo, et al.. (2011). Gene expression profiling at early organogenesis reveals both common and diverse mechanisms in foregut patterning. Developmental Biology. 359(2). 163–175. 49 indexed citations

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Venza, Isabella, et al.. (2010). MSX1 and TGF- 3 are novel target genes functionally regulated by FOXE1. Human Molecular Genetics. 20(5). 1016–1025. 39 indexed citations

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