Mariana Brizuela

428 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 286 citations indexed

About

Mariana Brizuela is a scholar working on Neurology, Physiology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Mariana Brizuela has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 286 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Neurology, 4 papers in Physiology and 3 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Mariana Brizuela's work include Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (4 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (3 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (3 papers). Mariana Brizuela is often cited by papers focused on Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (4 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (3 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (3 papers). Mariana Brizuela collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and China. Mariana Brizuela's co-authors include Catherine A. Blizzard, Tracey C. Dickson, JA Chuckowree, Edgar Dawkins, Stuart M. Brierley, Joel Castro, Kaylene M. Young, Youichirou Ootsuka, Sonia Garcia‐Caraballo and Kouki K Touhara and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Mariana Brizuela

13 papers receiving 285 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.

Gut enterochromaffin cells drive visceral pain and anxiety

2023 95 citations James R. Bayrer, Joel Castro et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mariana Brizuela Australia	9	83	80	71	47	46	14	286
Albert Orock United States	12	115 1.4×	97 1.2×	19 0.3×	59 1.3×	45 1.0×	17	313
Sara Mancinelli Italy	8	150 1.8×	61 0.8×	20 0.3×	39 0.8×	19 0.4×	11	386
Melina Ellis Australia	10	122 1.5×	76 0.9×	17 0.2×	108 2.3×	166 3.6×	26	436
Jorge Ojeda Chile	9	111 1.3×	34 0.4×	38 0.5×	38 0.8×	12 0.3×	15	216
Çiğdem Acıoğlu United States	9	122 1.5×	105 1.3×	59 0.8×	62 1.3×	4 0.1×	11	424
Mieko Otsuka Japan	9	120 1.4×	78 1.0×	129 1.8×	66 1.4×	19 0.4×	22	348
Silvia Honda Takada Brazil	12	178 2.1×	56 0.7×	27 0.4×	36 0.8×	15 0.3×	25	433
Maximilian Frosch Germany	6	288 3.5×	146 1.8×	26 0.4×	31 0.7×	27 0.6×	12	532
Ann‐Charlott Ericson Sweden	10	87 1.0×	142 1.8×	19 0.3×	102 2.2×	76 1.7×	17	375
Sean Phillips United States	8	91 1.1×	54 0.7×	24 0.3×	55 1.2×	37 0.8×	13	327

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mariana Brizuela

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14 of 14 papers shown

Brizuela, Mariana & Stuart M. Brierley. (2026). Nature-derived products and peptides: emerging insights into the mechanisms of visceral pain. Australian Journal of Chemistry. 79(2).

Touhara, Kouki K, Nathan D. Rossen, Fei Deng, et al.. (2025). Topological segregation of stress sensors along the gut crypt–villus axis. Nature. 640(8059). 732–742. 11 indexed citations

Bayrer, James R., Joel Castro, Archana Venkataraman, et al.. (2023). Gut enterochromaffin cells drive visceral pain and anxiety. Nature. 616(7955). 137–142. 95 indexed citations breakdown →

Brizuela, Mariana, Joel Castro, Andrea M. Harrington, & Stuart M. Brierley. (2021). Pruritogenic mechanisms and gut sensation: putting the “irritant” into irritable bowel syndrome. American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. 320(6). G1131–G1141. 8 indexed citations

Brizuela, Mariana, et al.. (2020). Alpha2-adrenergic receptor agonists prevent emotional hyperthermia. Brain Research. 1732. 146678–146678. 4 indexed citations

Brizuela, Mariana & Youichirou Ootsuka. (2020). Inhibition of the dorsomedial hypothalamus substantially decreases brown adipose tissue sympathetic discharge induced by activation of the lateral habenula. Autonomic Neuroscience. 230. 102745–102745. 3 indexed citations

Brizuela, Mariana, et al.. (2019). Activating dopamine D2 receptors reduces brown adipose tissue thermogenesis induced by psychological stress and by activation of the lateral habenula. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 19512–19512. 12 indexed citations

Jiang, Tongcui, Mariana Brizuela, Edgar Dawkins, et al.. (2019). Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis mutant TDP-43 may cause synaptic dysfunction through altered dendritic spine function. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 12(5). 28 indexed citations

Brizuela, Mariana, et al.. (2018). Reduced Excitability and Increased Neurite Complexity of Cortical Interneurons in a Familial Mouse Model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 12. 328–328. 19 indexed citations

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Chuckowree, JA, et al.. (2018). The Microtubule-Modulating Drug Epothilone D Alters Dendritic Spine Morphology in a Mouse Model of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 12. 223–223. 17 indexed citations

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Brizuela, Mariana, et al.. (2018). Neurons in ventral tegmental area tonically inhibit sympathetic outflow to brown adipose tissue: possible mediation of thermogenic signals from lateral habenula. American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 316(1). R6–R12. 6 indexed citations

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Brizuela, Mariana, Catherine A. Blizzard, JA Chuckowree, et al.. (2017). Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Leads to Decreased Inhibition and a Differential Response of Calretinin Positive Interneurons in the Injured Cortex. Journal of Neurotrauma. 34(17). 2504–2517. 18 indexed citations

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Brizuela, Mariana, Catherine A. Blizzard, JA Chuckowree, et al.. (2015). The microtubule-stabilizing drug Epothilone D increases axonal sprouting following transection injury in vitro. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 66(Pt B). 129–140. 31 indexed citations

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Brizuela, Mariana, Hong Huang, Clare M. Smith, et al.. (2014). Treatment of Erythrocytes with the 2-Cys Peroxiredoxin Inhibitor, Conoidin A, Prevents the Growth of Plasmodium falciparum and Enhances Parasite Sensitivity to Chloroquine. PLoS ONE. 9(4). e92411–e92411. 34 indexed citations

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