Minerva Contreras

777 total citations
15 papers, 382 citations indexed

About

Minerva Contreras is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Minerva Contreras has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 382 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 3 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Minerva Contreras's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (5 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (4 papers) and Signaling Pathways in Disease (3 papers). Minerva Contreras is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (5 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (4 papers) and Signaling Pathways in Disease (3 papers). Minerva Contreras collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Minerva Contreras's co-authors include Laura Sancho, Nicola J. Allen, Martin F. Schneider, Erick O. Hernández‐Ochoa, Thomas A. Blanpied, Tiansheng Shen, Henry N. Higgs, Sai Sachin Divakaruni, Mary Kay Lobo and Ramesh Chandra and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Minerva Contreras

13 papers receiving 378 citations

Peers

Minerva Contreras

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Mikhail Melnik United States

Lina A. Matschke Germany

Filipe Nascimento United Kingdom

Hanna Silberberg United States

Maria Stefania Brignone Italy

Allison M. Burns Switzerland

Akiko Sumitomo United States

Claudia De Sanctis Italy

Anikó Gál Hungary

Ryan M. Welchko United States

Mikhail Melnik United States

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141 ×1.0

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93 ×1.6

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106 ×1.9

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56 ×1.3

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Countries citing papers authored by Minerva Contreras

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Minerva Contreras

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15 of 15 papers shown

Contreras, Minerva, Laura Sancho, Isabel H. Salas, et al.. (2025). Astrocyte glypican 5 regulates synapse maturation and stabilization. Cell Reports. 44(3). 115374–115374. 1 indexed citations

Sancho, Laura, et al.. (2025). Astrocyte CCN1 stabilizes neural circuits in the adult brain. Nature. 649(8098). 948–958.

Cazares, Christian, Minerva Contreras, Jillybeth Burgado, et al.. (2024). A trainee-informed model for undergraduate neuroscience research programs serving marginalized students. Nature Neuroscience. 27(11). 2047–2052.

Labarta-Bajo, Lara, et al.. (2023). Protocol for the purification and transcriptomic analysis of mouse astrocytes using GFAT. STAR Protocols. 4(4). 102599–102599. 1 indexed citations

Contreras, Minerva, et al.. (2021). Voltage sensor movements of Ca _V 1.1 during an action potential in skeletal muscle fibers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(40). 10 indexed citations

Contreras, Minerva, et al.. (2021). Voltage sensor movements of CaV1.1 during an action potential in skeletal muscle fibers. The Journal of General Physiology. 154(9). 2 indexed citations

Pulimood, Nisha S., et al.. (2021). Phosphorylation of CREB at Serine 142 and 143 Is Essential for Visual Cortex Plasticity. eNeuro. 8(5). ENEURO.0217–21.2021. 7 indexed citations

Sancho, Laura, Minerva Contreras, & Nicola J. Allen. (2020). Glia as sculptors of synaptic plasticity. Neuroscience Research. 167. 17–29. 99 indexed citations

Richard, Élodie M., D.L. Polla, Muhammad Zaman Khan Assir, et al.. (2019). Bi-allelic Variants in METTL5 Cause Autosomal-Recessive Intellectual Disability and Microcephaly. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 105(4). 869–878. 69 indexed citations

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Divakaruni, Sai Sachin, Ramesh Chandra, Tara A. LeGates, et al.. (2018). Long-Term Potentiation Requires a Rapid Burst of Dendritic Mitochondrial Fission during Induction. Neuron. 100(4). 860–875.e7. 92 indexed citations

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Hernández‐Ochoa, Erick O., Patrick Robison, Minerva Contreras, et al.. (2012). Elevated extracellular glucose and uncontrolled type 1 diabetes enhance NFAT5 signaling and disrupt the transverse tubular network in mouse skeletal muscle. Experimental Biology and Medicine. 237(9). 1068–1083. 20 indexed citations

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Shen, Tiansheng, Yewei Liu, Minerva Contreras, et al.. (2010). DNA binding sites target nuclear NFATc1 to heterochromatin regions in adult skeletal muscle fibers. Histochemistry and Cell Biology. 134(4). 387–402. 17 indexed citations

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Liu, Yewei, Minerva Contreras, Tiansheng Shen, William R. Randall, & Martin F. Schneider. (2009). α‐Adrenergic signalling activates protein kinase D and causes nuclear efflux of the transcriptional repressor HDAC5 in cultured adult mouse soleus skeletal muscle fibres. The Journal of Physiology. 587(5). 1101–1115. 18 indexed citations

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Hernández‐Ochoa, Erick O., Benjamin L. Prosser, Nathan T. Wright, et al.. (2009). Augmentation of Ca_v1 channel current and action potential duration after uptake of S100A1 in sympathetic ganglion neurons. American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology. 297(4). C955–C970. 19 indexed citations

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Hernández‐Ochoa, Erick O., Minerva Contreras, Zoltán Cseresnyés, & Martin F. Schneider. (2006). Ca2+ signal summation and NFATc1 nuclear translocation in sympathetic ganglion neurons during repetitive action potentials. Cell Calcium. 41(6). 559–571. 27 indexed citations

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