Maria Cristina Zingaretti

7.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
22 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Maria Cristina Zingaretti is a scholar working on Physiology, Epidemiology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Maria Cristina Zingaretti has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Physiology, 10 papers in Epidemiology and 7 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Maria Cristina Zingaretti's work include Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (19 papers), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (10 papers) and Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity (7 papers). Maria Cristina Zingaretti is often cited by papers focused on Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (19 papers), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (10 papers) and Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity (7 papers). Maria Cristina Zingaretti collaborates with scholars based in Italy, France and United States. Maria Cristina Zingaretti's co-authors include Saverio Cinti, Bruce M. Spiegelman, Elisabeth A. Boström, Anisha Korde, Pontus Boström, Mark P. Jedrychowski, James C. Lo, Jang Hyun Choi, Shingo Kajimura and Kurt Højlund and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Cell Metabolism.

In The Last Decade

Maria Cristina Zingaretti

22 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

A PGC1-α-dependent myokine that drives brown-fat-like development of white fat and thermogenesis

2012 3.7k citations Pontus Boström, Jun Wu et al. Nature profile →
The presence of UCP1 demonstrates that metabolically active adipose tissue in the neck of adult humans truly represents brown adipose tissue

2009 589 citations Maria Cristina Zingaretti, Francesca Crosta et al. The FASEB Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Maria Cristina Zingaretti Italy	17	5.3k	2.5k	1.6k	1.2k	1.0k	22	6.2k
Andrea Frontini Italy	35	4.6k 0.9×	2.7k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	853 0.7×	1.4k 1.4×	59	6.1k
Lauren M. Sparks United States	27	4.9k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	1.9k 1.2×	815 0.7×	984 0.9×	41	6.4k
Birgitte F. Vind Denmark	17	4.2k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	2.0k 1.3×	918 0.7×	502 0.5×	21	5.3k
Kyle A. Rasbach United States	10	4.0k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	2.0k 1.3×	982 0.8×	465 0.4×	14	5.2k
Cédric Moro France	46	3.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	1.8k 1.2×	524 0.4×	1.5k 1.5×	119	6.2k
Sherry Chin United States	11	4.2k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	2.9k 1.9×	685 0.6×	916 0.9×	12	5.8k
Nathalie Viguerie France	43	3.8k 0.7×	2.9k 1.2×	1.9k 1.2×	327 0.3×	1.1k 1.1×	112	6.7k
Anisha Korde United States	6	3.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	814 0.7×	413 0.4×	9	3.9k
Yuko Kawai Japan	20	3.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	546 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	1.0k 1.0×	68	4.4k
Mikael Heglind Sweden	12	2.9k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	774 0.5×	675 0.6×	771 0.7×	15	3.5k

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Perugini, Jessica, Arianna Smorlesi, Eleonora Mondini, et al.. (2024). Adipo-Epithelial Transdifferentiation in In Vitro Models of the Mammary Gland. Cells. 13(11). 943–943. 4 indexed citations

Giordano, Antonio, Francesca Cinti, Rossella Canese, et al.. (2022). The Adipose Organ Is a Unitary Structure in Mice and Humans. Biomedicines. 10(9). 2275–2275. 26 indexed citations

Senzacqua, Martina, Evgeny Isakov, Angelica Di Vincenzo, et al.. (2019). A large proportion of mediastinal and perirenal visceral fat of Siberian adult people is formed by UCP1 immunoreactive multilocular and paucilocular adipocytes. Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry. 76(2). 185–192. 41 indexed citations

Maurizi, Giulia, Antonella Poloni, Domenico Mattiucci, et al.. (2016). Human White Adipocytes Convert Into “Rainbow” Adipocytes In Vitro. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 232(10). 2887–2899. 33 indexed citations

Guglielmi, Valeria, Marina Cardellini, Francesca Cinti, et al.. (2015). Omental adipose tissue fibrosis and insulin resistance in severe obesity. Nutrition and Diabetes. 5(8). e175–e175. 92 indexed citations

Poloni, Antonella, Giulia Maurizi, Federica Serrani, et al.. (2013). Molecular and functional characterization of human bone marrow adipocytes. Experimental Hematology. 41(6). 558–566.e2. 71 indexed citations

Tran, Khanh‐Van, Olga Gealekman, Andrea Frontini, et al.. (2012). The Vascular Endothelium of the Adipose Tissue Gives Rise to Both White and Brown Fat Cells. Cell Metabolism. 15(2). 222–229. 292 indexed citations

Vitali, Alessandra, I. Murano, Maria Cristina Zingaretti, et al.. (2012). The adipose organ of obesity-prone C57BL/6J mice is composed of mixed white and brown adipocytes. Journal of Lipid Research. 53(4). 619–629. 377 indexed citations

Boström, Pontus, Jun Wu, Mark P. Jedrychowski, et al.. (2012). Boström et al. reply. Nature. 488(7413). E10–E11. 4 indexed citations

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Boström, Pontus, Jun Wu, Mark P. Jedrychowski, et al.. (2012). A PGC1-α-dependent myokine that drives brown-fat-like development of white fat and thermogenesis. Nature. 481(7382). 463–468. 3741 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chilliard, Yves, Bruno Meunier, Christophe Chambon, et al.. (2011). Cellular and molecular large‐scale features of fetal adipose tissue: Is bovine perirenal adipose tissue Brown1685. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 227(4). 1688–1700. 23 indexed citations

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Chilliard, Yves, et al.. (2011). Foetal bovine intermuscular adipose tissue exhibits histological and metabolic features of brown and white adipocytes during the last third of pregnancy. animal. 6(4). 641–649. 8 indexed citations

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Bonnet, Muriel, Brigitte B. Picard, Maria Cristina Zingaretti, et al.. (2010). Adipocyte metabolism and cellularity are related to differences in adipose tissue maturity between Holstein and Charolais or Blond d'Aquitaine fetuses1. Journal of Animal Science. 89(3). 711–721. 29 indexed citations

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Zingaretti, Maria Cristina, Francesca Crosta, Alessandra Vitali, et al.. (2009). The presence of UCP1 demonstrates that metabolically active adipose tissue in the neck of adult humans truly represents brown adipose tissue. The FASEB Journal. 23(9). 3113–3120. 589 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fuster, Antònia, Catalina Picó, Juana Sánchez, et al.. (2007). Effects of 6-month daily supplementation with oral beta-carotene in combination or not with benzo[a]pyrene on cell-cycle markers in the lung of ferrets. The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry. 19(5). 295–304. 13 indexed citations

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Morroni, Manrico, Antonio Giordano, Maria Cristina Zingaretti, et al.. (2004). Reversible transdifferentiation of secretory epithelial cells into adipocytes in the mammary gland. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(48). 16801–16806. 120 indexed citations

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Murano, Incoronata, Manrico Morroni, Maria Cristina Zingaretti, et al.. (2004). Morphology of ferret subcutaneous adipose tissue after 6-month daily supplementation with oral beta-carotene. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease. 1740(2). 305–312. 19 indexed citations

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Cinti, Saverio, Raffaella Cancello, Maria Cristina Zingaretti, et al.. (2002). CL316,243 and Cold Stress Induce Heterogeneous Expression of UCP1 mRNA and Protein in Rodent Brown Adipocytes. Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry. 50(1). 21–31. 65 indexed citations

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Rossmeisl, Martin, Giorgio Barbatelli, Pavel Flachs, et al.. (2002). Expression of the uncoupling protein 1 from the aP2 gene promoter stimulates mitochondrial biogenesis in unilocular adipocytes in vivo. European Journal of Biochemistry. 269(1). 19–28. 66 indexed citations

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Cancello, Raffaella, Maria Cristina Zingaretti, Riccardo Sarzani, Daniel Ricquier, & Saverio Cinti. (1998). Leptin and UCP1 Genes are Reciprocally Regulated in Brown Adipose Tissue. Endocrinology. 139(11). 4747–4747. 61 indexed citations

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