Ornella Rossetto

14.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
141 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Ornella Rossetto is a scholar working on Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ornella Rossetto has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Neurology, 59 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 46 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ornella Rossetto's work include Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders (116 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (56 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (43 papers). Ornella Rossetto is often cited by papers focused on Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders (116 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (56 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (43 papers). Ornella Rossetto collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Germany. Ornella Rossetto's co-authors include Cesare Montecucco, Giampietro Schiavo, Marco Pirazzini, Bibhuti R. DasGupta, Fabio Benfenati, Bernard Poulain, Patrizia Polverino de Laureto, Roberto Eleopra, Clifford C. Shone and Matteo Caleo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ornella Rossetto

135 papers receiving 9.8k 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.

Tetanus and botulinum-B neurotoxins block neurotransmitter release by proteolytic cleavage of synaptobrevin

1992 1.4k citations Giampietro Schiavo, Bernard Poulain et al. profile →
Botulinum Neurotoxins: Biology, Pharmacology, and Toxicology

2017 519 citations Marco Pirazzini, Ornella Rossetto et al. profile →
Botulinum neurotoxins: genetic, structural and mechanistic insights

2014 440 citations Ornella Rossetto, Marco Pirazzini et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ornella Rossetto Italy	52	6.6k	4.2k	3.3k	2.4k	1.5k	141	10.1k
Thomas Binz Germany	48	5.2k 0.8×	3.8k 0.9×	3.9k 1.2×	3.9k 1.6×	1.0k 0.7×	106	9.2k
Bibhuti R. DasGupta United States	34	4.5k 0.7×	2.4k 0.6×	2.5k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	529 0.4×	124	6.4k
John W. Griffin United States	72	7.8k 1.2×	8.4k 2.0×	4.2k 1.3×	2.0k 0.9×	3.7k 2.5×	209	18.6k
Bernard Poulain France	35	2.2k 0.3×	2.1k 0.5×	2.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	497 0.3×	91	4.9k
Brian L. Pike United States	19	5.1k 0.8×	2.9k 0.7×	2.8k 0.9×	673 0.3×	1.9k 1.3×	30	8.6k
Mitsunori Yamada Japan	46	3.0k 0.5×	3.7k 0.9×	3.6k 1.1×	528 0.2×	791 0.5×	151	7.4k
Juan Blasi Spain	34	1.9k 0.3×	1.9k 0.5×	2.6k 0.8×	2.2k 0.9×	723 0.5×	114	5.3k
Gudrun Ahnert‐Hilger Germany	47	1.5k 0.2×	2.7k 0.6×	3.7k 1.1×	1.8k 0.7×	627 0.4×	153	7.1k
Lance L. Simpson United States	35	3.2k 0.5×	1.8k 0.4×	1.2k 0.4×	493 0.2×	487 0.3×	134	4.6k
Norman Latov United States	53	5.7k 0.9×	4.0k 1.0×	1.9k 0.6×	523 0.2×	1.1k 0.7×	192	9.2k

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Virag, Davor, et al.. (2025). Experimental Parkinsonism induced by tetanus toxin injected into basal ganglia. British Journal of Pharmacology. 182(18). 4400–4418.

Fabris, F, Ivica Matak, Matteo Caleo, et al.. (2023). Facial neuromuscular junctions and brainstem nuclei are the target of tetanus neurotoxin in cephalic tetanus. JCI Insight. 8(11). 4 indexed citations

Negro, Samuele, Aram Megighian, Florigio Lista, et al.. (2022). Latrotoxin-Induced Neuromuscular Junction Degeneration Reveals Urocortin 2 as a Critical Contributor to Motor Axon Terminal Regeneration. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(3). 1186–1186. 4 indexed citations

Fabris, F, Ivica Matak, Thomas Binz, et al.. (2022). Detection of VAMP Proteolysis by Tetanus and Botulinum Neurotoxin Type B In Vivo with a Cleavage-Specific Antibody. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(8). 4355–4355. 8 indexed citations

Zanetti, Giulia, Andrea Mattarei, Florigio Lista, et al.. (2021). Novel Small Molecule Inhibitors That Prevent the Neuroparalysis of Tetanus Neurotoxin. Pharmaceuticals. 14(11). 1134–1134. 3 indexed citations

Zanetti, Giulia, Elisa Duregotti, C. Locatelli, et al.. (2018). Variability in venom composition of European viper subspecies limits the cross-effectiveness of antivenoms. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 9818–9818. 29 indexed citations

Pirazzini, Marco, Domenico Azarnia Tehran, Giulia Zanetti, Ornella Rossetto, & Cesare Montecucco. (2017). Hsp90 and Thioredoxin-Thioredoxin Reductase enable the catalytic activity of Clostridial neurotoxins inside nerve terminals. Toxicon. 147. 32–37. 22 indexed citations

Pirazzini, Marco, et al.. (2017). High Conservation of Tetanus and Botulinum Neurotoxins Cleavage Sites on Human SNARE Proteins Suggests That These Pathogens Exerted Little or No Evolutionary Pressure on Humans. Toxins. 9(12). 404–404. 7 indexed citations

Zanetti, Giulia, Stefan Sikorra, Andreas Rummel, et al.. (2017). Botulinum neurotoxin C mutants reveal different effects of syntaxin or SNAP-25 proteolysis on neuromuscular transmission. PLoS Pathogens. 13(8). e1006567–e1006567. 26 indexed citations

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Zanetti, Giulia, Domenico Azarnia Tehran, Marco Pirazzini, et al.. (2015). Inhibition of botulinum neurotoxins interchain disulfide bond reduction prevents the peripheral neuroparalysis of botulism. Biochemical Pharmacology. 98(3). 522–530. 28 indexed citations

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Pirazzini, Marco, et al.. (2015). On the translocation of botulinum and tetanus neurotoxins across the membrane of acidic intracellular compartments. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1858(3). 467–474. 67 indexed citations

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Eleopra, Roberto, Cesare Montecucco, Grazia Devigili, et al.. (2012). Botulinum neurotoxin serotype D is poorly effective in humans: An in vivo electrophysiological study. Clinical Neurophysiology. 124(5). 999–1004. 34 indexed citations

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Mainardi, Marco, et al.. (2012). Tetanus neurotoxin–induced epilepsy in mouse visual cortex. Epilepsia. 53(7). e132–6. 30 indexed citations

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Bozzi, Yuri, Cristina Richichi, Alessandro Viegi, et al.. (2005). Antiepileptic Effects of Botulinum Neurotoxin E. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(8). 1943–1951. 80 indexed citations

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Luvisetto, Siro, Ornella Rossetto, Cesare Montecucco, & Flaminia Pavone. (2003). Toxicity of botulinum neurotoxins in central nervous system of mice. Toxicon. 41(4). 475–481. 39 indexed citations

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Gouraud, Sabine S., Giuseppe Calamita, Ornella Rossetto, et al.. (2001). Functional involvement of the SNARE machinery in cAMP-induced aquaporin-2 targeting to the apical plasma membrane in renal epithelial cells. 57. 1 indexed citations

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Rossetto, Ornella, Luisa Gorza, Giampietro Schiavo, et al.. (1996). VAMP/synaptobrevin isoforms 1 and 2 are widely and differentially expressed in nonneuronal tissues.. The Journal of Cell Biology. 132(1). 167–179. 113 indexed citations

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Deloye, Florence, et al.. (1996). Molecular mechanisms of tetanus and botulinum neurotoxins. UCL Discovery (University College London).

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Rossetto, Ornella, Florence Deloye, Bernard Poulain, et al.. (1995). The metallo-proteinase activity of tetanus and botulism neurotoxins. Journal of Physiology-Paris. 89(1). 43–50. 31 indexed citations

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Montecucco, Carlomaurizio, Emanuele Papini, Giampietro Schiavo, Elisabetta Padovan, & Ornella Rossetto. (1992). Ion channel and membrane translocation of diphtheria toxin. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 105(1-3). 101–111. 16 indexed citations

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