Mafalda Cacciottolo

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Mafalda Cacciottolo is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Speech and Hearing. According to data from OpenAlex, Mafalda Cacciottolo has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 5 papers in Speech and Hearing. Recurrent topics in Mafalda Cacciottolo's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (9 papers), Muscle Physiology and Disorders (6 papers) and Noise Effects and Management (5 papers). Mafalda Cacciottolo is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (9 papers), Muscle Physiology and Disorders (6 papers) and Noise Effects and Management (5 papers). Mafalda Cacciottolo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Mafalda Cacciottolo's co-authors include Todd E. Morgan, Caleb E. Finch, Constantinos Sioutas, Alejandro Martín‐Montalvo, Min Wei, Valter D. Longo, Changhan Lee, Sebastian Brandhorst, Chia‐Wei Cheng and Rafael de Cabo and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, PLoS ONE and Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Mafalda Cacciottolo

29 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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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.

Particulate air pollutants, APOE alleles and their contributions to cognitive impairment in older women and to amyloidogenesis in experimental models

2017 315 citations Mafalda Cacciottolo, X Wang et al. Translational Psychiatry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mafalda Cacciottolo United States	17	480	447	327	178	137	29	1.4k
Michael Surace United States	11	235 0.5×	486 1.1×	99 0.3×	196 1.1×	26 0.2×	20	990
Yi‐Chao Hsu Taiwan	24	533 1.1×	122 0.3×	95 0.3×	98 0.6×	311 2.3×	60	1.6k
Keiji Tabuchi Japan	23	384 0.8×	95 0.2×	180 0.6×	91 0.5×	93 0.7×	124	1.7k
Yukio Seki Japan	25	274 0.6×	275 0.6×	301 0.9×	13 0.1×	89 0.6×	138	2.0k
Radhika Kajekar United States	21	234 0.5×	142 0.3×	590 1.8×	42 0.2×	77 0.6×	34	1.6k
Pouria Heydarpour Iran	14	119 0.2×	307 0.7×	61 0.2×	89 0.5×	30 0.2×	19	1.0k
Richard D. Dey United States	26	461 1.0×	236 0.5×	647 2.0×	28 0.2×	69 0.5×	67	1.9k
Charles Thompson Canada	13	124 0.3×	217 0.5×	142 0.4×	65 0.4×	13 0.1×	17	562
Anna Morelli Italy	16	599 1.2×	73 0.2×	107 0.3×	196 1.1×	177 1.3×	18	2.0k
Yuichi Hayashi Japan	20	432 0.9×	76 0.2×	214 0.7×	31 0.2×	89 0.6×	118	1.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cacciottolo, Mafalda, et al.. (2025). Multivalent Exosome Based Protein Vaccine: A “Mix and Match” Approach to Epidemic Viruses’ Challenges. Vaccines. 13(3). 258–258. 1 indexed citations

Thorwald, Max A., Mafalda Cacciottolo, Carla D’Agostino, et al.. (2024). Air pollution amyloidogenesis is attenuated by the gamma‐secretase modulator GSM‐15606. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(9). 6107–6114. 3 indexed citations

D’Agostino, Carla, Max A. Thorwald, Lindsay Meyerdirk, et al.. (2023). Air pollution nanoparticle and alpha-synuclein fibrils synergistically decrease glutamate receptor A1, depending upon nPM batch activity. Heliyon. 9(4). e15622–e15622. 9 indexed citations

Cacciottolo, Mafalda, et al.. (2023). Nanograms of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein delivered by exosomes induce potent neutralization of both delta and omicron variants. PLoS ONE. 18(8). e0290046–e0290046. 7 indexed citations

Tsai, Shang Jui, Nadia A. Atai, Mafalda Cacciottolo, et al.. (2021). Exosome-mediated mRNA delivery in vivo is safe and can be used to induce SARS-CoV-2 immunity. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 297(5). 101266–101266. 114 indexed citations

Cacciottolo, Mafalda, Todd E. Morgan, & Caleb E. Finch. (2021). Age, sex, and cerebral microbleeds in EFAD Alzheimer disease mice. Neurobiology of Aging. 103. 42–51. 16 indexed citations

Cacciottolo, Mafalda, Todd E. Morgan, Arian Saffari, et al.. (2019). Traffic-related air pollutants (TRAP-PM) promote neuronal amyloidogenesis through oxidative damage to lipid rafts. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 147. 242–251. 68 indexed citations

Stephen, Terri‐Leigh, Mafalda Cacciottolo, Deebika Balu, et al.. (2019). APOE genotype and sex affect microglial interactions with plaques in Alzheimer’s disease mice. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 7(1). 82–82. 69 indexed citations

Zhang, Hongqiao, Amin Haghani, Amirhosein Mousavi, et al.. (2019). Cell-based assays that predict in vivo neurotoxicity of urban ambient nano-sized particulate matter. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 145. 33–41. 26 indexed citations

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Haghani, Amin, Mafalda Cacciottolo, Kevin R. Doty, et al.. (2019). P4‐092: ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON GENE NETWORKS OF COGNITIVE AGING: HOW SEX AND APOE INTERACT WITH AMBIENT AIR POLLUTION (AAP) AND CIGARETTE SMOKE (CS). Alzheimer s & Dementia. 15(7S_Part_25). 1 indexed citations

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Cacciottolo, Mafalda, X Wang, Ira Driscoll, et al.. (2017). Particulate air pollutants, APOE alleles and their contributions to cognitive impairment in older women and to amyloidogenesis in experimental models. Translational Psychiatry. 7(1). e1022–e1022. 315 indexed citations breakdown →

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Woodward, Nicholas C., Payam Pakbin, Arian Saffari, et al.. (2017). Traffic-related air pollution impact on mouse brain accelerates myelin and neuritic aging changes with specificity for CA1 neurons. Neurobiology of Aging. 53. 48–58. 86 indexed citations

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Cacciottolo, Mafalda, Todd E. Morgan, & Caleb E. Finch. (2016). Rust on the Brain from Microbleeds and Its Relevance to Alzheimer Studies: Invited Commentary on Cacciottolo Neurobiology of Aging, 2016. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease & Parkinsonism. 6(6). 7 indexed citations

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Biase, Stefano Di, Changhan Lee, Sebastian Brandhorst, et al.. (2016). Fasting-Mimicking Diet Reduces HO-1 to Promote T Cell-Mediated Tumor Cytotoxicity. Cancer Cell. 30(1). 136–146. 284 indexed citations

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Cacciottolo, Mafalda, Amy Christensen, Jiahui Liu, et al.. (2015). The APOE4 allele shows opposite sex bias in microbleeds and Alzheimer's disease of humans and mice. Neurobiology of Aging. 37. 47–57. 72 indexed citations

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Nogalska, Anna, Carla D’Agostino, W. King Engel, et al.. (2015). Activation of the Unfolded Protein Response in Sporadic Inclusion-Body Myositis but Not in HereditaryGNEInclusion-Body Myopathy. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology. 74(6). 538–546. 17 indexed citations

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Nogalska, Anna, et al.. (2014). Abnormalities of Mitophagy in Sporadic Inclusion-Body Myositis (s-IBM) Muscle Fibers (P3.288). Neurology. 82(10_supplement). 3 indexed citations

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Cacciottolo, Mafalda, Stefania Aurino, Francesco Mari, et al.. (2011). Muscular dystrophy with marked Dysferlin deficiency is consistently caused by primary dysferlin gene mutations. European Journal of Human Genetics. 19(9). 974–980. 65 indexed citations

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Kobayashi, Yvonne M., Luca D’Orsi, Stefania Aurino, et al.. (2011). Combined deficiency of alpha and epsilon sarcoglycan disrupts the cardiac dystrophin complex. Human Molecular Genetics. 20(23). 4644–4654. 29 indexed citations

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Cacciottolo, Mafalda, Vincenzo Belcastro, Steve Laval, et al.. (2010). Reverse Engineering Gene Network Identifies New Dysferlin-interacting Proteins. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(7). 5404–5413. 26 indexed citations

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