R Virtanen
Impact in
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- Anesthesia and Sedative Agents
- Small Animals top 1%
- Veterinary Pharmacology and Anesthesia
Papers in
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- Anesthesia and Sedative Agents 8
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- Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling 5
- Co-authors
- Juha‐Matti Savola (4 shared papers)Veijo Saano (1 shared paper)E Iisalo (7 shared papers)Mika Scheinin (4 shared papers)Ewen MacDonald (6 shared papers)J Kanto (3 shared papers)Antero Kallio (1 shared paper)Riku Aantaa (1 shared paper)
In The Last Decade
R Virtanen
26 papers receiving 961 citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 99
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine 321
- Small Animals 370
- Equine 69
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 289
- Developmental Neuroscience 55
Countries citing papers authored by R Virtanen
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside R Virtanen, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pharmacological profiles of medetomidine and its antagonist, atipamezole. | 1989 | 235 |
| 2 | Highly selective and specific antagonism of central and peripheral alpha 2-adrenoceptors by atipamezole. | 1989 | 156 |
| 3 | 2007 | 84 | |
| 4 | 1991 | 69 | |
| 5 | 1993 | 67 | |
| 6 | Protean agonism at alpha2A-adrenoceptors. | 1998 | 62 |
| 7 | 1982 | 40 | |
| 8 | Effects of acute administration of medetomidine on the behaviour, temperature and turnover rates of brain biogenic amines in rodents and reversal of these effects by atipamezole. | 1989 | 35 |
| 9 | 1981 | 34 | |
| 10 | 1980 | 31 | |
| 11 | 1985 | 28 | |
| 12 | Evaluation of anaesthetic potency of medetomidine-ketamine combination in rats, guinea-pigs and rabbits. | 1989 | 27 |
| 13 | Dexmedetomidine-induced ocular hypotension in rabbits with normal or elevated intraocular pressures. | 1992 | 26 |
| 14 | Pharmacology of detomidine and other alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonists in the brain. | 1986 | 23 |
| 15 | 1980 | 23 | |
| 16 | Effect of single and repeated doses of activated charcoal on the pharmacokinetics of doxepin. | 1985 | 21 |
| 17 | Therapeutic applications of drugs acting on alpha-adrenoceptors. | 1988 | 19 |
| 18 | 1982 | 17 | |
| 19 | 1982 | 10 | |
| 20 | 1996 | 10 |
About R Virtanen
R Virtanen is a scholar working on Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Molecular Biology, Small Animals, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Surgery, having authored 26 papers that have together received 1.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Anesthesia and Sedative Agents (8 papers), Veterinary Pharmacology and Anesthesia (6 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (5 papers), Eicosanoids and Hypertension Pharmacology (4 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (4 papers), Anesthesia and Pain Management (3 papers), Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research (3 papers) and Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (321 citations), Small Animals (370 citations), Equine (69 citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (289 citations) and Developmental Neuroscience (55 citations). R Virtanen has collaborated with scholars based in Finland, Sweden and Cyprus. Frequent co-authors include Juha‐Matti Savola, Veijo Saano, E Iisalo, Mika Scheinin, Ewen MacDonald, J Kanto, Antero Kallio, Riku Aantaa, Antti Haapalinna and Siegfried Wurster. Their work appears in journals such as Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Planta Medica and Wound Repair and Regeneration.
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