Mary K. Cowman

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
78 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Mary K. Cowman is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mary K. Cowman has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Cell Biology, 37 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mary K. Cowman's work include Proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research (48 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (20 papers) and Fibroblast Growth Factor Research (9 papers). Mary K. Cowman is often cited by papers focused on Proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research (48 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (20 papers) and Fibroblast Growth Factor Research (9 papers). Mary K. Cowman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Japan. Mary K. Cowman's co-authors include Paul W. Noble, Charlotte McKee, Chiara Spagnoli, Shiro Matsuoka, Hyeon Gyu Lee, Eva A. Turley, Abraham Ulman, Margaret B. Penno, Robert M. Strieter and Micki Burdick and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Mary K. Cowman

77 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

Hyaluronan (HA) fragments induce chemokine gene expression in alveolar macrophages. The role of HA size and CD44.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mary K. Cowman United States	38	2.4k	2.1k	584	566	514	78	5.3k
David G. Fernig United Kingdom	51	2.6k 1.1×	6.3k 3.0×	2.3k 4.0×	1.1k 1.9×	802 1.6×	211	12.1k
Marvin L. Tanzer United States	43	1.3k 0.5×	2.1k 1.0×	427 0.7×	1.3k 2.3×	334 0.6×	118	5.8k
S. Raghavan United States	35	760 0.3×	1.3k 0.6×	731 1.3×	190 0.3×	158 0.3×	127	4.8k
Małgorzata Lekka Poland	32	1.9k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	1.5k 2.6×	261 0.5×	241 0.5×	160	4.9k
Daniel I. C. Wang United States	44	659 0.3×	3.9k 1.9×	2.5k 4.2×	801 1.4×	773 1.5×	107	8.0k
Filip Braet Australia	44	962 0.4×	2.7k 1.3×	1.7k 3.0×	694 1.2×	327 0.6×	163	8.0k
Youngro Byun South Korea	49	670 0.3×	3.2k 1.5×	1.6k 2.7×	2.1k 3.8×	410 0.8×	261	7.8k
Gregg B. Fields United States	52	580 0.2×	3.7k 1.8×	480 0.8×	1.3k 2.2×	590 1.1×	157	7.8k
Toshihiro Akaike Japan	49	448 0.2×	3.8k 1.8×	1.6k 2.8×	2.1k 3.7×	1.0k 2.0×	278	8.4k
Yuko Inoue Japan	25	601 0.2×	910 0.4×	275 0.5×	238 0.4×	548 1.1×	124	2.9k

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Kirsch, Thorsten, et al.. (2024). The spatial separation of basic amino acids is similar in RHAMM and hyaluronan binding peptide P15‐1 despite different sequences and conformations. PubMed. 2(3). e70001–e70001. 1 indexed citations

Ahmed, Amer, Graziantonio Lauria, Nunzia Gallo, et al.. (2024). Targeting mitochondria in Cancer therapy: Machine learning analysis of hyaluronic acid-based drug delivery systems. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 283(Pt 4). 137840–137840. 3 indexed citations

Lin, Charles C., et al.. (2024). The Role of Hyaluronan/Receptor for Hyaluronan-Mediated Motility Interactions in the Modulation of Macrophage Polarization and Cartilage Repair. American Journal Of Pathology. 194(6). 1047–1061. 5 indexed citations

Cowman, Mary K. & Eva A. Turley. (2023). Functional organization of extracellular hyaluronan, CD44, and RHAMM. 1(2). 19 indexed citations

Yuan, Han, Xin Ye, Yuhong Fu, et al.. (2022). Selective isolation of hyaluronan by solid phase adsorption to silica. Analytical Biochemistry. 652. 114769–114769. 1 indexed citations

Cowman, Mary K., Jin Ryoun Kim, Haim Ovadia, et al.. (2021). MTADV 5-MER peptide suppresses chronic inflammations as well as autoimmune pathologies and unveils a new potential target-Serum Amyloid A. Journal of Autoimmunity. 124. 102713–102713. 14 indexed citations

Luyt, Leonard G., et al.. (2020). A Hyaluronan-binding Peptide (P15-1) Reduces Inflammatory and Catabolic Events in IL-1β-treated Human Articular Chondrocytes. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 1441–1441. 11 indexed citations

Cowman, Mary K., et al.. (2019). Role of Hyaluronan in Inflammatory Effects on Human Articular Chondrocytes. Inflammation. 42(5). 1808–1820. 20 indexed citations

Tölg, Cornelia, Han Yuan, Sarah Flynn, et al.. (2017). Hyaluronan modulates growth factor induced mammary gland branching in a size dependent manner. Matrix Biology. 63. 117–132. 47 indexed citations

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Ludwig, Taryn, Mary K. Cowman, Gregory D. Jay, & Tannin A. Schmidt. (2015). Effects of concentration and structure on proteoglycan 4 rheology and interaction with hyaluronan. Biorheology. 51(6). 409–422. 14 indexed citations

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Hill, David R., Hyunjin Rho, Sean P. Kessler, et al.. (2013). Human Milk Hyaluronan Enhances Innate Defense of the Intestinal Epithelium. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(40). 29090–29104. 72 indexed citations

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Cowman, Mary K., Michael Hernandez, & Jin Kim. (2012). Macromolecular crowding in biomatrix. 45–66. 1 indexed citations

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Cowman, Mary K., et al.. (2008). Transfer of Inter-α-inhibitor Heavy Chains to Hyaluronan by Surface-linked Hyaluronan-TSG-6 Complexes. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(4). 2320–2331. 21 indexed citations

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Cowman, Mary K. & Shiro Matsuoka. (2005). Experimental approaches to hyaluronan structure. Carbohydrate Research. 340(5). 791–809. 268 indexed citations

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Cowman, Mary K., et al.. (2000). Molecular Dynamics and Kinetics of Monosaccharides in Solution. A Broadband Ultrasonic Relaxation Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 104(19). 4782–4790. 52 indexed citations

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Li, Min, et al.. (1997). Nitric oxide degradation of heparin and heparan sulphate. Biochemical Journal. 324(2). 473–479. 60 indexed citations

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Behrends, R. E., Mary K. Cowman, F. Eggers, et al.. (1997). Ultrasonic Relaxation and Fast Chemical Kinetics of Some Carbohydrate Aqueous Solutions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 119(9). 2182–2186. 45 indexed citations

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Lee, Hyeon Gyu & Mary K. Cowman. (1994). An Agarose Gel Electrophoretic Method for Analysis of Hyaluronan Molecular Weight Distribution. Analytical Biochemistry. 219(2). 278–287. 264 indexed citations

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Cowman, Mary K., et al.. (1987). High-performance gel permeation chromatography of glycosaminoglycans column calibration by gel electrophoresis. Journal of Chromatography A. 402. 149–158. 13 indexed citations

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Cowman, Mary K., et al.. (1984). 1H NMR of glycosaminoglycans and hyaluronic acid oligosaccharides in aqueous solution: The amide proton environment. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 230(1). 203–212. 53 indexed citations

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