Peter Shrager

7.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Peter Shrager is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Shrager has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 39 papers in Molecular Biology and 27 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Peter Shrager's work include Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (27 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (27 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (25 papers). Peter Shrager is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (27 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (27 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (25 papers). Peter Shrager collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Israel. Peter Shrager's co-authors include Matthew N. Rasband, S. Rock Levinson, James S. Trimmer, Elior Peles, Xiaorong Xu, Andrew W. Custer, Steven Einheber, James L. Salzer, Shing Yan Chiu and Sebastian Poliak and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Peter Shrager

75 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

Neuregulin-1 Type III Determines the Ensheathment Fate of Axons

2005 562 citations Jack Rosenbluth, Steven Einheber et al. Neuron profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Shrager United States	41	3.8k	3.0k	1.5k	971	609	77	6.0k
Cary Lai United States	43	2.9k 0.8×	4.5k 1.5×	1.6k 1.1×	849 0.9×	881 1.4×	71	8.4k
Shing Yan Chiu United States	41	3.8k 1.0×	3.3k 1.1×	894 0.6×	435 0.4×	480 0.8×	73	5.8k
Robert G. Kalb United States	49	4.2k 1.1×	4.0k 1.4×	1.0k 0.7×	1.5k 1.6×	925 1.5×	112	8.4k
Hermann Rohrer Germany	51	3.8k 1.0×	4.8k 1.6×	1.7k 1.1×	821 0.8×	399 0.7×	137	7.8k
Haruo Okado Japan	36	2.1k 0.6×	2.8k 0.9×	643 0.4×	501 0.5×	490 0.8×	95	5.2k
Kuo-Fen Lee United States	26	2.2k 0.6×	2.8k 0.9×	861 0.6×	664 0.7×	674 1.1×	29	6.4k
Annette Koulakoff France	34	2.4k 0.6×	3.2k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	788 0.8×	886 1.5×	51	5.7k
Gerald D. Fischbach United States	40	3.4k 0.9×	3.9k 1.3×	572 0.4×	697 0.7×	402 0.7×	65	6.6k
Andrés Buonanno United States	45	3.1k 0.8×	4.3k 1.4×	507 0.3×	604 0.6×	487 0.8×	95	6.5k
Tomoaki Shirao Japan	45	2.7k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	908 0.6×	1.7k 1.8×	1.1k 1.8×	135	5.4k

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Syc‐Mazurek, Stephanie B., et al.. (2025). MKK4 and MKK7 control degeneration of retinal ganglion cell somas and axons after glaucoma-relevant injury. Cell Death Discovery. 11(1). 557–557.

Syc‐Mazurek, Stephanie B., Kimberly A. Fernandes, Michael P. Wilson, Peter Shrager, & Richard T. Libby. (2017). Together JUN and DDIT3 (CHOP) control retinal ganglion cell death after axonal injury. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 12(1). 71–71. 52 indexed citations

Shrager, Peter, et al.. (2016). Fractionation Spares Mice From Radiation-Induced Reductions in Weight Gain But Does Not Prevent Late Oligodendrocyte Lineage Side Effects. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 96(2). 449–457. 8 indexed citations

Carbajal, Kevin, Yevgeniya A. Mironova, Amanda K. Huber, et al.. (2015). Th Cell Diversity in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis and Multiple Sclerosis. The Journal of Immunology. 195(6). 2552–2559. 58 indexed citations

Fernandes, Kimberly A., Jeffrey M. Harder, Simon W. M. John, Peter Shrager, & Richard T. Libby. (2014). DLK-dependent signaling is important for somal but not axonal degeneration of retinal ganglion cells following axonal injury. Neurobiology of Disease. 69. 108–116. 71 indexed citations

Einheber, Steven, Xiaosong Meng, Isabel Lam, et al.. (2012). The 4.1B cytoskeletal protein regulates the domain organization and sheath thickness of myelinated axons. Glia. 61(2). 240–253. 43 indexed citations

Ferguson, Cole, et al.. (2011). Congenital CNS Hypomyelination in theFig4Null Mouse Is Rescued by Neuronal Expression of the PI(3,5)P₂PhosphataseFig4. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(48). 17736–17751. 39 indexed citations

Lee, Hakjoo, et al.. (2010). Oligodendrocyte-Myelin Glycoprotein and Nogo Negatively Regulate Activity-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(37). 12432–12445. 118 indexed citations

Feinberg, Konstantin, Yael Eshed‐Eisenbach, Shahar Frechter, et al.. (2010). A Glial Signal Consisting of Gliomedin and NrCAM Clusters Axonal Na+ Channels during the Formation of Nodes of Ranvier. Neuron. 65(4). 490–502. 163 indexed citations

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Hedstrom, Kristian L., Xiaorong Xu, Yasuhiro Ogawa, et al.. (2007). Neurofascin assembles a specialized extracellular matrix at the axon initial segment. The Journal of Cell Biology. 178(5). 875–886. 209 indexed citations

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Harroch, Sheila, Monica Palmeri, Jack Rosenbluth, et al.. (2000). No Obvious Abnormality in Mice Deficient in Receptor Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase β. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 20(20). 7706–7715. 92 indexed citations

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Messing, Albee, Shing Yan Chiu, S. Rock Levinson, et al.. (1997). Sodium channel distribution in axons of hypomyelinated and MAG null mutant mice. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 50(2). 321–336. 3 indexed citations

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Novaković, Sanja D., et al.. (1995). Na⁺ channel aggregation in remyelinating mouse sciatic axons following transection. Glia. 15(2). 188–194. 13 indexed citations

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Shrager, Peter. (1993). Axonal coding of action potentials in demyelinated nerve fibers. Brain Research. 619(1-2). 278–290. 20 indexed citations

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Shrager, Peter, et al.. (1991). Channel reconstitution in liposomes and planar bilayers with HPLC-purified MIP26 of bovine lens. The Journal of Membrane Biology. 124(1). 21–32. 28 indexed citations

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Shrager, Peter. (1989). Sodium channels in single demyelinated mammalian axons. Brain Research. 483(1). 149–154. 74 indexed citations

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Shrager, Peter, et al.. (1983). The periaxonal space of crayfish giant axons.. The Journal of General Physiology. 82(2). 221–244. 22 indexed citations

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Shrager, Peter, et al.. (1981). Block and inactivation of sodium channels in nerve by amino acid derivatives. II. Dependence on temperature and drug concentration. Biophysical Journal. 35(1). 45–57. 8 indexed citations

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Starkus, John G. & Peter Shrager. (1978). Modification of slow sodium inactivation in nerve after internal perfusion with trypsin. American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology. 235(5). C238–C244. 47 indexed citations

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Jaimovich, Enrique, R. A. Venosa, Peter Shrager, & P. Horowicz. (1976). Density and distribution of tetrodotoxin receptors in normal and detubulated frog sartorius muscle.. The Journal of General Physiology. 67(4). 399–416. 80 indexed citations

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