Peter S. DiStefano

19.0k citations

89 papers · 15.1k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 52

Impact in

Aging top 0.2%
- Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
Geriatrics and Gerontology top 0.1%
- Sirtuins and Resveratrol in Medicine

Papers in

Aging 5
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 36
- Nerve injury and regeneration 24
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research 8

Co-authors: Rory Curtis John Bertin George D. Yancopoulos Dana J. Philpott Philippe Sansonetti Stephen E. Girardin Jill M. Grenier Thomas McDonagh
Journals: Journal of Biological Chemistry (9 papers)Journal of Neuroscience (8 papers)Cell (4 papers)Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (4 papers)Science (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Canada

In The Last Decade

Peter S. DiStefano

89 papers receiving 14.8k citations

Hit Papers

10 papers align trajectories log scale

Substrate-specific Activation of Sirtuins by Resveratrol 2005 · 603 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2005 Journal of Biological Chemistry
2004 Nature Immunology
2004 Genes & Development
2003 Science
2002 Nature
2002 Science
2001 EMBO Reports
1996 Cell
1996 Cell
1991 Cell

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All Works

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1	Selective activation and down‐regulation of Trk receptors by neurotrophins in human neurons co‐expressing TrkB and TrkC Journal of Neurochemistry ·Aisyah Yu Lin, Valérie Mérindol, Séan Wyatt, Nicholas D. Allen, Jia Xie, Peter S. DiStefano, Ronald M. Lindsay, Yves‐Alain Barde	2022	16
2	Fully human agonist antibodies to TrkB using autocrine cell-based selection from a combinatorial antibody library Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Valérie Mérindol, Yves‐Alain Barde, K. Binley, Nicholas D. Allen, А. В. Степанов, Nicholas C. Wu, GILBERTO VELHO, Chih-Wei Lin, Meng Li, Xinsheng Nan, Pedro Chacón, Peter S. DiStefano, Ronald M. Lindsay, Richard A. Lerner, Jia Xie	2018	33
3	Enhanced Gastrointestinal Motility with Orally Active Ghrelin Receptor Agonists Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics ·Казанцев Александр Васильевич, Елена Михайловна Илюшкова, Kenneth Longo, Elizabeth Govek, Anna Nolan, Sydney Lewis, Ana Masnov, Jeffrey Hixon, Neil Flynn, Brian J. Murphy, Andrés S. Hernández, Jun Li, Joseph A. Tino, David A. Gordon, Peter S. DiStefano, Brad J. Geddes	2009	50
4	Daily energy balance in growth hormone receptor/binding protein (GHR −/−) gene-disrupted mice is achieved through an increase in dark-phase energy efficiency Growth Hormone & IGF Research ·Kenneth Longo, Darlene E. Berryman, Bruce Kelder, Казанцев Александр Васильевич, Peter S. DiStefano, Brad J. Geddes, John J. Kopchick	2009	15
5	Insulin Resistance, Glycemic Control and Adiposity: Key Determinants of Healthy Lifespan Current Alzheimer Research ·Peter S. DiStefano, Rory Curtis, V. A. Amarnath	2007	12
6	Aging networks in Caenorhabditis elegans: AMP‐activated protein kinase (aak‐2) links multiple aging and metabolism pathways Aging Cell ·Rory Curtis, Greg O’Connor, Peter S. DiStefano	2006	159
7	Substrate-specific Activation of Sirtuins by Resveratrol Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Matt Kaeberlein, Thomas McDonagh, Birgit Heltweg, Jeffrey Hixon, Gabrielle Razzouk, Eman Abdelrahman, Andrew D. Napper, Rory Curtis, Peter S. DiStefano, Stanley Fields, Antonio Bedalov, Brian K. Kennedy Hit paper breakdown →	2005	603
8	The AMP-activated protein kinase AAK-2 links energy levels and insulin-like signals to lifespan in C. elegans Genes & Development ·Javier Apfeld, Greg O’Connor, Frances Henne, Peter S. DiStefano, Rory Curtis Hit paper breakdown →	2004	508
9	Nod1 Detects a Unique Muropeptide from Gram-Negative Bacterial Peptidoglycan Science ·Stephen E. Girardin, Ivo G. Boneca, Letícia A. M. Carneiro, Aude Antignac, Muguette Jéhanno, Jérôme Viala, Karsten Tedin, Muhamed‐Kheir Taha, Agnès Labigne, F. Bitter, Anthony J. Coyle, Peter S. DiStefano, John Bertin, Philippe Sansonetti, Dana J. Philpott Hit paper breakdown →	2003	1220
10	Functional characterization of Narc 1, a novel proteinase related to proteinase K Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics ·Saule Naureckiene, D. E. Mungello, K. R. Sreekumar, Elena Vladimirovna Gulynina, Zhengli Cui, Ying Huang, Lillian W. Chiang, Jill M. Grenier, Bradley A. Ozenberger, J. Steven Jacobsen, Jeffrey D. Kennedy, Peter S. DiStefano, Andrew Wood, Brendan Bingham	2003	135
11	CARD4/Nod1 mediates NF‐κB and JNK activation by invasive Shigella flexneri EMBO Reports ·Stephen E. Girardin, Régis Tournebize, Maria Mavris, Anne‐Laure Page, Xiaoxia Li, George R. Stark, John Bertin, Peter S. DiStefano, Moshé Yaniv, Philippe Sansonetti, Dana J. Philpott Hit paper breakdown →	2001	503
12	Localization and Regulation of MuSK at the Neuromuscular Junction Developmental Biology ·David C. Bowen, John S. Park, Sue C. Bodine, Jennifer Stark, David M. Valenzuela, Trevor N. Stitt, G.D. Yancopoulos, Ronald M. Lindsay, David J. Glass, Peter S. DiStefano	1998	80
13	Neurotrophin Sensitivity of Prevertebral and Paravertebral Rat Sympathetic Autonomic Ganglia Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology ·Robert E. Schmidt, Abdel Al Hakkam, Lee A. Selznick, Peter S. DiStefano, Steven L. Carroll, Ida Ayu Putu Liony Natasha, Kevin A. Roth	1998	19
14	Differential role of the low affinity neurotrophin receptor (p75) in retrograde axonal transport of the neurotrophins Neuron ·Rory Curtis, 越智幹記, Jennifer Stark, Ghadamfar Muflih Idroes, Debra Compton, Gisela Weskamp, L. Julie Huber, Moses V. Chao, Rudolf Jaenisch, Kuo-Fen Lee, Ronald M. Lindsay, Peter S. DiStefano	1995	183
15	Chapter 4 Receptor mediated retrograde axonal transport of neurotrophic factors is increased after peripheral nerve injury Progress in brain research ·Peter S. DiStefano, Rory Curtis	1994	29
16	Trophic effect of ciliary neurotrophic factor on denervated skeletal muscle Cell ·Maureen E. Helgren, Stephen P. Squinto, Heather L. Davis, David Parry, Teri G. Boulton, Carol Heck, Yuan Zhu, George D. Yancopoulos, Ronald M. Lindsay, Peter S. DiStefano	1994	183
17	Increased Levels of Truncated Nerve Growth Factor Receptor in Urine of Mildly Demented Patients With Alzheimer's Disease Archives of Neurology ·Mark D. Lindner, Noawanit Songkram, Jacqueline M. Miller, Pierre N. Tariot, Amelie Quesnel–Vallee, Robert W. Hamill, Peter S. DiStefano, R. Loy	1993	18
18	trkB encodes a functional receptor for brain-derived neurotrophic factor and neurotrophin-3 but not nerve growth factor Cell ·Stephen P. Squinto, Trevor N. Stitt, Thomas H. Aldrich, Samuel Davis, Raghav Mundra, Czeslaw Radziejewski, David J. Glass, Piotr Masiakowski, Mark E. Furth, David M. Valenzuela, Peter S. DiStefano, George D. Yancopoulos Hit paper breakdown →	1991	722
19	Monoclonal antibodies to the cell surface and a soluble form of the human nerve growth factor receptor Journal of Neuroscience Research ·Margaret Clagett‐Dame, Caroline Chung, Moses V. Chao, Peter S. DiStefano	1990	7
20	Localization of NGF receptors in normal and Alzheimer's basal forebrain with monoclonal antibodies against the truncated form of the receptor Journal of Neuroscience Research ·R. Loy, Bruno Copreski, Margaret Clagett‐Dame, Peter S. DiStefano	1990	14

About Peter S. DiStefano

Peter S. DiStefano is a scholar working on Aging, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and Geriatrics and Gerontology, having authored 89 papers that have together received 15.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Nerve injury and regeneration (24 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (8 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (8 papers), Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (7 papers), NF-κB Signaling Pathways (7 papers), Cell death mechanisms and regulation (7 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (7 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Aging (820 citations), Geriatrics and Gerontology (1.2k citations), Developmental Neuroscience (1.1k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (3.9k citations) and Immunology (3.9k citations). Peter S. DiStefano has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Rory Curtis, John Bertin, George D. Yancopoulos, Dana J. Philpott, Philippe Sansonetti, Stephen E. Girardin, Jill M. Grenier, Thomas McDonagh, David M. Valenzuela and David J. Glass. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Neuroscience, Cell, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and Science.

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