Orso Bugiani

12.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
176 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

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Orso Bugiani is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Orso Bugiani has authored 176 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Molecular Biology, 57 papers in Physiology and 50 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Orso Bugiani's work include Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (73 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (49 papers) and Neurological diseases and metabolism (46 papers). Orso Bugiani is often cited by papers focused on Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (73 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (49 papers) and Neurological diseases and metabolism (46 papers). Orso Bugiani collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and France. Orso Bugiani's co-authors include Fabrizio Tagliavini, Giorgio Giaccone, Mario Salmona, Gianluigi Forloni, Blas Frangione, Bernardino Ghetti, Nadia Angeretti, Roberto Chiesa, Martin R. Farlow and Enrico Monzani and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Orso Bugiani

170 papers receiving 7.9k 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.

Neurotoxicity of a prion protein fragment

1993 797 citations Gianluigi Forloni, Nadia Angeretti et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Orso Bugiani Italy	50	5.7k	3.3k	3.3k	1.9k	1.4k	176	8.1k
Giorgio Giaccone Italy	47	4.6k 0.8×	2.4k 0.7×	3.3k 1.0×	1.0k 0.5×	1.6k 1.1×	180	7.3k
Efrat Levy United States	45	3.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.3×	3.9k 1.2×	407 0.2×	789 0.6×	105	7.5k
Carsten Korth Germany	39	3.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	1.2k 0.4×	710 0.4×	356 0.3×	121	5.0k
Catherine Bergeron Canada	31	2.0k 0.3×	1.1k 0.3×	2.5k 0.8×	300 0.2×	1.4k 1.0×	58	5.6k
Tristan Bolmont Switzerland	15	2.5k 0.4×	1.9k 0.6×	3.6k 1.1×	256 0.1×	559 0.4×	20	5.2k
Michael D. Geschwind United States	41	3.7k 0.7×	1.5k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	446 0.2×	3.1k 2.2×	132	7.4k
Elisabetta Polazzi Italy	24	2.4k 0.4×	3.1k 0.9×	1.2k 0.4×	288 0.2×	890 0.6×	41	7.1k
Leslie Crews United States	49	3.1k 0.5×	1.7k 0.5×	3.2k 1.0×	189 0.1×	2.4k 1.7×	90	8.8k
Emiliano Peña‐Altamira Italy	16	2.0k 0.4×	2.4k 0.7×	993 0.3×	254 0.1×	859 0.6×	24	5.9k
Ian Murray United States	28	1.8k 0.3×	809 0.2×	2.2k 0.7×	458 0.2×	2.2k 1.5×	80	5.2k

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Iaccarino, Leonardo, Rosa Maria Moresco, Luca Presotto, et al.. (2017). An In Vivo 11C-(R)-PK11195 PET and In Vitro Pathology Study of Microglia Activation in Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. Molecular Neurobiology. 55(4). 2856–2868. 22 indexed citations

Binelli, S., Laura Canafoglia, V. Scaioli, et al.. (2010). Myoclonus in Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease: Polygraphic and video‐electroencephalography assessment of 109 patients. Movement Disorders. 25(16). 2818–2827. 18 indexed citations

Gıovagnolı, Anna Rıta, Alessandra Erbetta, Fabiola Reati, & Orso Bugiani. (2008). Differential neuropsychological patterns of frontal variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease in a study of diagnostic concordance. Neuropsychologia. 46(5). 1495–1504. 48 indexed citations

Giaccone, Giorgio, Michela Mangieri, Raffaella Capobianco, et al.. (2007). Tauopathy in human and experimental variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Neurobiology of Aging. 29(12). 1864–1873. 44 indexed citations

Visani, Elisa, V. Scaioli, Giorgio Giaccone, et al.. (2005). FVEPs in Creutzfeldt–Jacob disease: waveforms and interaction with the periodic EEG pattern assessed by single sweep analysis. Clinical Neurophysiology. 116(4). 895–904. 4 indexed citations

Takao, Masaki, Bernardino Ghetti, Jill R. Murrell, et al.. (2001). Ectopic White Matter Neurons, a Developmental Abnormality That May Be Caused by thePSEN1S169L Mutation in a Case of Familial AD with Myoclonus and Seizures. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology. 60(12). 1137–1152. 39 indexed citations

Tagliavini, Fabrizio, Patricia Lievens, Christine Tranchant, et al.. (2001). A 7-kDa Prion Protein (PrP) Fragment, an Integral Component of the PrP Region Required for Infectivity, Is the Major Amyloid Protein in Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker Disease A117V. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(8). 6009–6015. 107 indexed citations

Bugiani, Orso, Giorgio Giaccone, Pedro Piccardo, et al.. (2000). Neuropathology of Gerstmann-Str�ussler-Scheinker disease. Microscopy Research and Technique. 50(1). 10–15. 45 indexed citations

Tagliavini, Fabrizio, Gianluigi Forloni, Laura Colombo, et al.. (2000). Tetracycline affects abnormal properties of synthetic PrP peptides and PrPSc in vitro11Edited by J. Karn. Journal of Molecular Biology. 300(5). 1309–1322. 130 indexed citations

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Forloni, Gianluigi, Mario Salmona, Orso Bugiani, & Fabrizio Tagliavini. (2000). Comment on: Neurotoxicity of prion peptide 106–126 not confirmed, by Beat Kunz, Erika Sandmeier, Philipp Christen. FEBS Letters. 466(1). 205–206. 6 indexed citations

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Fabrizi, Cinzia, G Venturini, Mario Salmona, et al.. (1999). Activation of microglial cells by PrP and β-amyloid fragments raises intracellular calcium through L-type voltage sensitive calcium channels. Brain Research. 818(1). 168–170. 93 indexed citations

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Florio, Tullio, Stefano Thellung, C. Amico, et al.. (1998). Prion protein fragment 106-126 induces apoptotic cell death and impairment of L-type voltage-sensitive calcium channel activity in the GH3 cell line. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 54(3). 341–352. 73 indexed citations

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Budka, Herbert, Adriano Aguzzi, Paul Brown, et al.. (1996). Tissue handling in suspected Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and other human spongiform encephalopathies (prion diseases). UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Ghetti, Bernardino, Fabrizio Tagliavini, Giorgio Giaccone, et al.. (1994). Familial Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease with neurofibrillary tangles. Molecular Neurobiology. 8(1). 41–48. 53 indexed citations

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Franceschetti, Silvana, Orso Bugiani, Ferruccio Panzica, & G. Avanzini. (1992). Synaptic and nonsynaptic determinants of excitability changes in aluminum-intoxicated rabbit CA1 pyramidal neurons studied in vitro. Elsevier eBooks. 8. 313–320. 1 indexed citations

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Bugiani, Orso, Giorgio Giaccone, Blas Frangione, Bernardino Ghetti, & Fabrizio Tagliavini. (1989). Alzheimer patients: preamyloid deposits are more widely distributed than senile plaques throughout the central nervous system. Neuroscience Letters. 103(3). 263–268. 50 indexed citations

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Tabaton, Massimo, et al.. (1981). Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the city and district of Genoa: estimated mortalityrate in the six year period 1974–1979. Neurological Sciences. 2(2). 189–192. 4 indexed citations

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Mancardi, Gianluigi, Orso Bugiani, A. Primavera, et al.. (1979). Early myoclonus and quasiperiodic EEG changes in non-familial Alzheimer's disease. The Italian Journal of Neurological Sciences. 1(2). 181–187. 2 indexed citations

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Abbruzzese, M., Raffaele Gatti, S. Ratto, & Orso Bugiani. (1978). Hereditary sensory neuropathy with anhidrosis. A new family with a study of the sensory conduction velocity.. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 33(5). 413–8. 6 indexed citations

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Bugiani, Orso, et al.. (1967). [A complex abiotrophy: from hereditary ataxia to acropathia ulcero-mutilans].. PubMed. 22(2). 238–9. 1 indexed citations

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