Melvyn P. Heyes

10.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
144 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Melvyn P. Heyes is a scholar working on Biological Psychiatry, Virology and Behavioral Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Melvyn P. Heyes has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Biological Psychiatry, 34 papers in Virology and 32 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Melvyn P. Heyes's work include Tryptophan and brain disorders (60 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (34 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (32 papers). Melvyn P. Heyes is often cited by papers focused on Tryptophan and brain disorders (60 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (34 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (32 papers). Melvyn P. Heyes collaborates with scholars based in United States, Czechia and Japan. Melvyn P. Heyes's co-authors include Sanford P. Markey, Kuniaki Saito, Kuniaki Saito, Bonnie J. Quearry, Cristian L. Achim, Clayton A. Wiley, Eugene O. Major, Andrew A. Lackner, Sheldon Milstien and Paul F. Morrison and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Melvyn P. Heyes

144 papers receiving 7.6k 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.

Quinolinic acid in cerebrospinal fluid and serum in HIV‐1 Infection: Relationship to clinical and neurological status

1991 479 citations Melvyn P. Heyes, Bruce J. Brew et al. Annals of Neurology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melvyn P. Heyes United States	50	3.5k	2.1k	1.5k	1.4k	1.4k	144	7.8k
Simon Scharpé Belgium	59	3.4k 1.0×	2.6k 1.2×	2.3k 1.5×	645 0.4×	163 0.1×	190	11.7k
Mikhail V. Pletnikov United States	47	1.1k 0.3×	366 0.2×	2.6k 1.7×	896 0.6×	965 0.7×	148	7.6k
Osamu Takikawa Japan	51	4.8k 1.4×	2.3k 1.1×	2.0k 1.3×	850 0.6×	174 0.1×	127	8.7k
Cristian L. Achim United States	40	833 0.2×	360 0.2×	1.5k 1.0×	2.0k 1.4×	3.5k 2.4×	124	6.8k
Markus Schwarz Germany	64	5.8k 1.7×	3.1k 1.5×	2.7k 1.7×	1.5k 1.0×	89 0.1×	230	12.3k
Annadora J. Bruce‐Keller United States	54	825 0.2×	428 0.2×	3.9k 2.6×	2.3k 1.6×	1.0k 0.7×	111	10.3k
Johann Steiner Germany	55	4.2k 1.2×	2.0k 1.0×	2.5k 1.7×	2.1k 1.4×	58 0.0×	253	10.4k
Paul C. Guest Brazil	50	2.4k 0.7×	895 0.4×	3.2k 2.1×	802 0.6×	64 0.0×	322	8.5k
Steven J. Henriksen United States	47	315 0.1×	602 0.3×	2.0k 1.3×	851 0.6×	893 0.6×	119	7.7k
Hans‐Gert Bernstein Germany	51	3.0k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	3.1k 2.0×	1.9k 1.3×	53 0.0×	254	10.3k

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Gunther, Erik C., David J. Stone, Robert Gerwien, Patrícia Meira Bento, & Melvyn P. Heyes. (2003). Prediction of clinical drug efficacy by classification of drug-induced genomic expression profiles in vitro. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(16). 9608–9613. 148 indexed citations

Kita, Tomoyuki, Melvyn P. Heyes, Paul F. Morrison, & S. P. Markey. (1999). Labeled Kynurenine Pharmacokinetic Modeling Studies in Gerbils. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 467. 315–320. 2 indexed citations

Heyes, Melvyn P., et al.. (1998). Sources of the neurotoxin quinolinic acid in the brain of HIV-1-infected patients and retrovirus-infected macaques. The FASEB Journal. 12(10). 881–896. 124 indexed citations

Blight, Andrew R., E. Carwile LeRoy, & Melvyn P. Heyes. (1997). Quinolinic Acid Accumulation in Injured Spinal Cord: Time Course, Distribution, and Species Differences between Rat and Guinea Pig. Journal of Neurotrauma. 14(2). 89–98. 35 indexed citations

Heyes, Melvyn P., et al.. (1997). Species Heterogeneity Between Gerbils and Rats: Quinolinate Production by Microglia and Astrocytes and Accumulations in Response to Ischemic Brain Injury and Systemic Immune Activation. Journal of Neurochemistry. 69(4). 1519–1529. 75 indexed citations

Vogelgesang, Scott A., Melvyn P. Heyes, Sterling G. West, et al.. (1996). Quinolinic acid in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and neuropsychiatric manifestations.. PubMed. 23(5). 850–5. 32 indexed citations

Brouwers, Pim, Charles DeCarli, Melvyn P. Heyes, et al.. (1996). Neurobehavioral Manifestations of Symptomatic HIV-1 Disease in Children: Can Nutritional Factors Play a Role?. Journal of Nutrition. 126(10 Suppl). 2651S–2662S. 8 indexed citations

Basile, Anthony S., Kuniaki Saito, Christopher O. Record, et al.. (1995). The relationship between plasma and brain quinolinic acid levels and the severity of hepatic encephalopathy. Gastroenterology. 108(3). 818–823. 30 indexed citations

Robinson, Michael B., Keri J Hopkins, Mark L. Batshaw, et al.. (1995). Evidence of excitotoxicity in the brain of the ornithine carbamoyltransferase deficient sparse fur mouse. Developmental Brain Research. 90(1-2). 35–44. 35 indexed citations

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Demitrack, Mark A., Melvyn P. Heyes, Margaret Altemus, Teresa A. Pigott, & Philip W. Gold. (1995). Cerebrospinal fluid levels of kynurenine pathway metabolites in patients with eating disorders: Relation to clinical and biochemical variable. Biological Psychiatry. 37(8). 512–520. 29 indexed citations

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Heyes, Melvyn P., Kuniaki Saito, Orrin Devinsky, & N. Suzan Nadi. (1994). Kynurenine Pathway Metabolites in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Serum in Complex Partial Seizures. Epilepsia. 35(2). 251–257. 45 indexed citations

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Saito, Kuniaki, et al.. (1993). Mechanism of Delayed Increases in Kynurenine Pathway Metabolism in Damaged Brain Regions Following Transient Cerebral Ischemia. Journal of Neurochemistry. 60(1). 180–192. 147 indexed citations

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Silver, Richard M., Edwin A. Smith, Bonnie J. Quearry, et al.. (1992). Tryptophan metabolism via the kynurenine pathway in patients with the eosinophilia–Myalgia syndrome. Arthritis & Rheumatism. 35(9). 1097–1105. 30 indexed citations

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Saito, Kuniaki, Sanford P. Markey, & Melvyn P. Heyes. (1992). Effects of immune activation on quinolinic acid and neuroactive kynurenines in the mouse. Neuroscience. 51(1). 25–39. 175 indexed citations

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Halperin, John & Melvyn P. Heyes. (1992). Neuroactive kynurenines in Lyme borreliasis. Neurology. 42(1). 43–43. 103 indexed citations

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Heyes, Melvyn P., Bruce J. Brew, Alex Martin, et al.. (1991). Quinolinic acid in cerebrospinal fluid and serum in HIV‐1 Infection: Relationship to clinical and neurological status. Annals of Neurology. 29(2). 202–209. 479 indexed citations breakdown →

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Heyes, Melvyn P., Bonnie J. Quearry, & Sanford P. Markey. (1989). Systemic endotoxin increasesl-tryptophan, 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid, 3-hydroxykynurenine and quinolinic acid content of mouse cerebral cortex. Brain Research. 491(1). 173–179. 69 indexed citations

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Heyes, Melvyn P. & Bonnie J. Quearry. (1988). Quantification of 3-hydroxykynurenine in brain by high-performance liquid chromatography and electrochemical detection. Journal of Chromatography B Biomedical Sciences and Applications. 428(2). 340–344. 68 indexed citations

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Heyes, Melvyn P. & Sanford P. Markey. (1988). (18O)quinolinic acid: Its esterification without back exchange for use as internal standard in the quantification of brain and CSF quinolinic acid. Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 15(5). 291–293. 46 indexed citations

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Heyes, Melvyn P., Stephen T. Garnett, & G. Coates. (1983). Rapid identification of correctly located intracerebroventricular cannula in the rat. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 8(4). 381–384. 2 indexed citations

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