Rohan de Silva

12.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
80 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

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Rohan de Silva is a scholar working on Physiology, Neurology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rohan de Silva has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Physiology, 44 papers in Neurology and 30 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Rohan de Silva's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (52 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (39 papers) and Neurological diseases and metabolism (17 papers). Rohan de Silva is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (52 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (39 papers) and Neurological diseases and metabolism (17 papers). Rohan de Silva collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Japan. Rohan de Silva's co-authors include Andrew J. Lees, Alan Pittman, Janice L. Holton, Tamás Révész, David R. Williams, Peter Davies, Marisol Espinoza, John Hardy, Luc Buée and Tammaryn Lashley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Genetics, Journal of Neuroscience and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Rohan de Silva

78 papers receiving 6.1k citations

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Hyperphosphorylation and aggregation of tau in mice expressing normal human tau isoforms

2003 553 citations Rohan de Silva et al. Journal of Neurochemistry profile →
Characteristics of two distinct clinical phenotypes in pathologically proven progressive supranuclear palsy: Richardson's syndrome and PSP-parkinsonism

2005 517 citations David R. Williams, Rohan de Silva et al. Brain profile →
Tau Protein Hyperphosphorylation and Aggregation in Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Tauopathies, and Possible Neuroprotective Strategies

2016 517 citations Goran Šimić, Mirjana Babić Leko et al. Biomolecules profile →
Lewy- and Alzheimer-type pathologies in Parkinson's disease dementia: which is more important?

2011 441 citations Jana Vandrovcová, Janice L. Holton et al. Brain profile →
Genetic variability in the regulation of gene expression in ten regions of the human brain

2014 410 citations Adaikalavan Ramasamy, Daniah Trabzuni et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rohan de Silva United Kingdom	36	3.3k	2.7k	1.9k	1.5k	1.4k	80	6.2k
Marie‐Christine Chartier‐Harlin France	35	2.8k 0.9×	2.7k 1.0×	2.3k 1.2×	1.8k 1.2×	938 0.7×	88	6.0k
Yuko Saito Japan	44	2.8k 0.9×	2.9k 1.1×	2.0k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	191	6.6k
Jordi Pérez‐Tur Spain	37	3.5k 1.1×	1.7k 0.6×	2.2k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	994 0.7×	91	5.6k
Rita Guerreiro United Kingdom	40	2.6k 0.8×	1.9k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	772 0.5×	1.7k 1.2×	130	5.6k
Tammaryn Lashley United Kingdom	48	4.4k 1.4×	4.7k 1.7×	3.3k 1.7×	1.9k 1.3×	2.1k 1.5×	158	9.1k
Michael Hutton United States	48	5.3k 1.6×	2.6k 1.0×	2.9k 1.5×	1.8k 1.2×	1.9k 1.4×	107	8.2k
Kristel Sleegers Belgium	49	4.2k 1.3×	1.6k 0.6×	2.9k 1.5×	904 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	135	7.4k
Dominique Campion France	45	3.2k 1.0×	1.4k 0.5×	2.7k 1.4×	1.2k 0.8×	813 0.6×	164	6.8k
Parvoneh Poorkaj United States	25	4.4k 1.3×	1.7k 0.6×	2.6k 1.4×	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	36	5.8k
Evelyn Jaros United Kingdom	40	1.7k 0.5×	2.2k 0.8×	2.6k 1.3×	1.4k 1.0×	901 0.6×	77	5.8k

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Leko, Mirjana Babić, Nanet Willumsen, Matea Nikolac Perković, et al.. (2024). Further validation of the association between MAPT haplotype-tagging polymorphisms and Alzheimer’s disease: neuropsychological tests, cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers, and APOE genotype. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 17. 1456670–1456670.

Hromádková, Lenka, Chae Kim, Tracy Haldiman, et al.. (2023). Evolving prion-like tau conformers differentially alter postsynaptic proteins in neurons inoculated with distinct isolates of Alzheimer’s disease tau. Cell & Bioscience. 13(1). 174–174. 2 indexed citations

Silva, Rohan de, et al.. (2023). The contribution of DNA methylation to the (dys)function of oligodendroglia in neurodegeneration. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 11(1). 8 indexed citations

Kim, Chae, Tracy Haldiman, Lenka Hromádková, et al.. (2022). Distinct populations of highly potent TAU seed conformers in rapidly progressing Alzheimer’s disease. Science Translational Medicine. 14(626). eabg0253–eabg0253. 33 indexed citations

Setó‐Salvia, Núria, Noemí Esteras, Rohan de Silva, et al.. (2021). Elevated 4R‐tau in astrocytes from asymptomatic carriers of the MAPT 10+16 intronic mutation. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. 26(4). 1327–1331. 7 indexed citations

Lashley, Tammaryn, Maria‐Armineh Tossounian, Sew‐Yeu Peak‐Chew, et al.. (2021). Extensive Anti-CoA Immunostaining in Alzheimer’s Disease and Covalent Modification of Tau by a Key Cellular Metabolite Coenzyme A. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 15. 739425–739425. 10 indexed citations

Šimić, Goran, Mirjana Babić Leko, Selina Wray, et al.. (2016). Tau Protein Hyperphosphorylation and Aggregation in Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Tauopathies, and Possible Neuroprotective Strategies. Biomolecules. 6(1). 6–6. 517 indexed citations breakdown →

Šimić, Goran, Mirjana Babić Leko, Selina Wray, et al.. (2016). Monoaminergic neuropathology in Alzheimer’s disease. Progress in Neurobiology. 151. 101–138. 227 indexed citations

Ferrari, Raffaele, Mina Ryten, Roberto Simone, et al.. (2014). Assessment of common variability and expression quantitative trait loci for genome-wide associations for progressive supranuclear palsy. Neurobiology of Aging. 35(6). 1514.e1–1514.e12. 29 indexed citations

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Majounie, Elisa, William Cross, Allissa Dillman, et al.. (2013). Variation in tau isoform expression in different brain regions and disease states. Neurobiology of Aging. 34(7). 1922.e7–1922.e12. 50 indexed citations

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Suh, Jaehong, Doo Soon Im, Gyeong Joon Moon, et al.. (2010). Hypoxic ischemia and proteasome dysfunction alter tau isoform ratio by inhibiting exon 10 splicing. Journal of Neurochemistry. 114(1). 160–170. 11 indexed citations

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Silva, Rohan de, Stéphane Haı̈k, Marc Verny, et al.. (2009). Tau-positive grains are constant in centenarians’ hippocampus. Neurobiology of Aging. 32(7). 1296–1303. 18 indexed citations

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Vandrovcová, Jana, Alan Pittman, Patrick M. Abou‐Sleiman, et al.. (2008). Association of MAPT haplotype-tagging SNPs with sporadic Parkinson's disease. Neurobiology of Aging. 30(9). 1477–1482. 41 indexed citations

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Williams, David R., Janice L. Holton, Catherine Strand, et al.. (2007). Pathological tau burden and distribution distinguishes progressive supranuclear palsy-parkinsonism from Richardson's syndrome. Brain. 130(6). 1566–1576. 303 indexed citations

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Williams, David R., Alan Pittman, Tamás Révész, Andrew J. Lees, & Rohan de Silva. (2007). Genetic variation at the tau locus and clinical syndromes associated with progressive supranuclear palsy. Movement Disorders. 22(6). 895–897. 19 indexed citations

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Williams, David R., Rohan de Silva, Dominic Paviour, et al.. (2005). Characteristics of two distinct clinical phenotypes in pathologically proven progressive supranuclear palsy: Richardson's syndrome and PSP-parkinsonism. Brain. 128(6). 1247–1258. 517 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hope, Andrew, Tammaryn Lashley, Andrew J. Lees, & Rohan de Silva. (2004). Failure in heat-shock protein expression in response to UBB+1 protein in progressive supranuclear palsy in humans. Neuroscience Letters. 359(1-2). 94–98. 5 indexed citations

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Iseki, Eizo, Takashi Togo, Kyoko Suzuki, et al.. (2003). Dementia with Lewy bodies from the perspective of tauopathy. Acta Neuropathologica. 105(3). 265–270. 61 indexed citations

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Silva, Rohan de & Matthew J. Farrer. (2002). Tau neurotoxicity without the lesions: a fly challenges a tangled web. Trends in Neurosciences. 25(7). 327–329. 17 indexed citations

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Bandopadhyay, Rina, Rohan de Silva, Naheed L. Khan, et al.. (2001). No pathogenic mutations in the synphilin-1 gene in Parkinson's disease. Neuroscience Letters. 307(2). 125–127. 13 indexed citations

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