Maria Angela Sortino

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
146 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Maria Angela Sortino is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Maria Angela Sortino has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Molecular Biology, 47 papers in Physiology and 44 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Maria Angela Sortino's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (36 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (30 papers) and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (27 papers). Maria Angela Sortino is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (36 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (30 papers) and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (27 papers). Maria Angela Sortino collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Japan. Maria Angela Sortino's co-authors include Sara Merlo, Ferdinando Nicoletti, Simona Federica Spampinato, Pier Luigi Canonico, Agata Copani, Filippo Caraci, Agata Copani, Carlo Vancheri, Grazia Ilaria Caruso and Valeria Bruno and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Neuroscience and Trends in Neurosciences.

In The Last Decade

Maria Angela Sortino

144 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

The Treatment of Impaired Wound Healing in Diabetes: Looking among Old Drugs

2020 302 citations Simona Federica Spampinato, Grazia Ilaria Caruso et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Maria Angela Sortino Italy	41	2.1k	1.4k	1.4k	836	525	146	5.3k
Peng Liang China	32	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	576 0.7×	273 0.5×	93	5.2k
Lei Cao United States	32	2.1k 1.0×	840 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	475 0.6×	485 0.9×	119	5.2k
Shao‐Hua Yang United States	41	1.6k 0.8×	752 0.5×	881 0.6×	1.1k 1.3×	542 1.0×	89	4.5k
Hideyuki Sawada Japan	47	2.2k 1.1×	1.8k 1.3×	853 0.6×	709 0.8×	426 0.8×	132	6.1k
Robert N. Willette United States	49	2.9k 1.4×	1.6k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	827 1.0×	549 1.0×	132	7.5k
Wan Sung Choi South Korea	37	2.2k 1.0×	886 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	646 0.8×	324 0.6×	163	4.9k
Krishnan M. Dhandapani United States	44	2.4k 1.1×	793 0.6×	579 0.4×	1.2k 1.5×	567 1.1×	111	6.1k
Aiwu Cheng United States	40	3.5k 1.6×	1.3k 0.9×	2.6k 1.9×	1.3k 1.6×	232 0.4×	54	7.8k
Riitta Keinänen Finland	18	1.6k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	714 0.5×	1.7k 2.1×	346 0.7×	25	4.7k
Yoichi Kondo Japan	40	2.2k 1.1×	905 0.6×	711 0.5×	541 0.6×	605 1.2×	172	4.7k

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Kudová, Eva, et al.. (2025). Cholesterol metabolites modulate ionotropic P2X4 and P2X7 receptor current in microglia cells. Neuropharmacology. 266. 110294–110294.

Messina, Angela, et al.. (2025). Hypoxia reverses the early anti-inflammatory microglial response to the β-amyloid peptide: mitochondrial involvement and beneficial roles of melatonin and naringenin. Journal of Translational Medicine. 23(1). 1012–1012. 2 indexed citations

Merlo, Sara, Lara Costa, Santina Chiechio, et al.. (2023). Increased Heat Pain Tolerance but Hyperalgesia to Tonic Inflammatory Pain in the CRND8 Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 96(1). 77–91. 2 indexed citations

Merlo, Sara, et al.. (2023). Melatonin Activates Anti-Inflammatory Features in Microglia in a Multicellular Context: Evidence from Organotypic Brain Slices and HMC3 Cells. Biomolecules. 13(2). 373–373. 4 indexed citations

Merlo, Sara, Simona Federica Spampinato, Grazia Ilaria Caruso, & Maria Angela Sortino. (2020). The Ambiguous Role of Microglia in Aβ Toxicity: Chances for Therapeutic Intervention. Current Neuropharmacology. 18(5). 446–455. 27 indexed citations

Caruso, Giuseppe, et al.. (2019). β-amyloid and Oxidative Stress: Perspectives in Drug Development. Current Pharmaceutical Design. 25(45). 4771–4781. 33 indexed citations

Rocchio, Francesca, Laura Tapella, Marcello Manfredi, et al.. (2019). Gene expression, proteome and calcium signaling alterations in immortalized hippocampal astrocytes from an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model. Cell Death and Disease. 10(1). 24–24. 29 indexed citations

Spampinato, Simona Federica, Sara Merlo, Ferdinando Nicoletti, & Maria Angela Sortino. (2012). A main role for metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 in the neuroprotective effect of estrogen. 4(2). 61–67.

Genovese, Tiziana, Salvatore Cuzzocrea, Rosanna Di Paola, et al.. (2005). Effect of rosiglitazone and 15-deoxy-Δ^12,14-prostaglandin J₂on bleomycin-induced lung injury. European Respiratory Journal. 25(2). 225–234. 137 indexed citations

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Platania, Paola, et al.. (2005). 17β-estradiol rescues spinal motoneurons from AMPA-induced toxicity: A role for glial cells. Neurobiology of Disease. 20(2). 461–470. 39 indexed citations

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Caricasole, Andrea, Agata Copani, Alessandra Caruso, et al.. (2003). The Wnt pathway, cell-cycle activation and β-amyloid: novel therapeutic strategies in Alzheimer's disease?. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences. 24(5). 233–238. 112 indexed citations

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Vancheri, Carlo, Maria Angela Sortino, Claudio Mastruzzo, et al.. (2000). Different Expression of TNF-α Receptors and Prostaglandin E2Production in Normal and Fibrotic Lung Fibroblasts: Potential Implications for the Evolution of the Inflammatory Process. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 22(5). 628–634. 85 indexed citations

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Sortino, Maria Angela & Pier Luigi Canonico. (1996). Neuroprotective effect of insulin-like growth factor I in immortalized hypothalamic cells.. Endocrinology. 137(4). 1418–1422. 42 indexed citations

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Sortino, Maria Angela. (1994). Involvement of nitric oxide in the regulation of gonadotropin-releasing hormone release from the GT1-1 neuronal cell line. Endocrinology. 134(4). 1782–1787. 18 indexed citations

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Bruno, Valeria, Giuseppe Battaglia, Agata Copani, et al.. (1994). Protective action of idebenone against excitotoxic degeneration in cultured cortical neurons. Neuroscience Letters. 178(2). 193–196. 17 indexed citations

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Canonico, Pier Luigi, G. Casabona, Armando A. Genazzani, Maria Angela Sortino, & Ferdinando Nicoletti. (1992). Role of Mg2+-sensitive glutamate receptors in neurodegenerative diseases and epilepsy. 7. 11–16. 2 indexed citations

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Sortino, Maria Angela, Grazia Aleppo, U. Scapagnini, & Pier Luigi Canonico. (1992). Ipriflavone inhibits phosphoinositide hydrolysis and Ca2+ uptake in the osteoblast-like UMR-106 cells. European Journal of Pharmacology Molecular Pharmacology. 226(3). 273–277. 5 indexed citations

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Sortino, Maria Angela, Nancy G. Weiland, & Phyllis M. Wise. (1989). Involvement of norepinephrine activity in the regulation of α1 adrenergic receptors in the medial preoptic nucleus of estradiol-treated rats. Life Sciences. 44(17). 1223–1229. 2 indexed citations

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Sortino, Maria Angela, William S. Evans, Carmela Speciale, et al.. (1988). Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone-Stimulated Phosphoinositide Hydrolysis in the Anterior Pituitary. Neuroendocrinology. 48(5). 544–550. 13 indexed citations

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Nicoletti, Ferdinando, Vincenzo Perciavalle, Sabina Berretta, et al.. (1984). Altered time course of changes in the hippocampal concentration of excitatory and inhibitory amino acids during kainate-induced epilepsy. European Journal of Pharmacology. 103(1-2). 133–137. 6 indexed citations

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