Rune Enger

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Rune Enger is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rune Enger has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 14 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Rune Enger's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (11 papers), Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus (10 papers) and Ion Transport and Channel Regulation (8 papers). Rune Enger is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (11 papers), Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus (10 papers) and Ion Transport and Channel Regulation (8 papers). Rune Enger collaborates with scholars based in Norway, United States and Sweden. Rune Enger's co-authors include Erlend A. Nagelhus, Wannan Tang, Per Kristian Eide, Hans‐Arne Hansson, Ole Petter Ottersen, Rolf Sprengel, Vidar R. Jensen, P. Johannes Helm, Md Mahdi Hasan‐Olive and Kjell Heuser and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Rune Enger

29 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Sleep cycle-dependent vascular dynamics in male mice and the predicted effects on perivascular cerebrospinal fluid flow and solute transport

2023 82 citations Laura Bojarskaite, Alexandra Vallet et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rune Enger Norway	20	712	387	300	261	198	30	1.2k
Alexander S. Thrane Norway	12	865 1.2×	389 1.0×	451 1.5×	310 1.2×	225 1.1×	17	1.6k
Hironaka Igarashi Japan	21	412 0.6×	429 1.1×	290 1.0×	357 1.4×	109 0.6×	95	1.5k
Evan McConnell United States	6	600 0.8×	274 0.7×	397 1.3×	370 1.4×	203 1.0×	7	1.2k
Simon Sanggaard United States	9	795 1.1×	196 0.5×	269 0.9×	436 1.7×	93 0.5×	12	1.3k
Witold Libionka Poland	12	591 0.8×	257 0.7×	388 1.3×	382 1.5×	180 0.9×	34	1.5k
Helen Wei United States	12	851 1.2×	161 0.4×	278 0.9×	539 2.1×	128 0.6×	23	1.7k
Patrick S. Hosford United Kingdom	22	411 0.6×	362 0.9×	314 1.0×	167 0.6×	165 0.8×	35	1.5k
André Obenaus United States	17	941 1.3×	446 1.2×	160 0.5×	192 0.7×	293 1.5×	36	1.5k
Emi Hitomi United States	10	741 1.0×	160 0.4×	215 0.7×	608 2.3×	100 0.5×	16	1.3k
W. Christopher Risher United States	15	764 1.1×	504 1.3×	414 1.4×	131 0.5×	202 1.0×	21	1.4k

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Faivre, Anna, et al.. (2025). In vivo expression of VCAM1 precedes nephron loss following kidney tubular necrosis. Science Advances. 11(43). eadz5358–eadz5358.

Enger, Rune, et al.. (2025). Evidence for cellular and solute passage between the brain and skull bone marrow across meninges: A systematic review. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism. 45(4). 581–599. 2 indexed citations

Enger, Rune & Kjell Heuser. (2024). Astrocytes as critical players of the fine balance between inhibition and excitation in the brain: spreading depolarization as a mechanism to curb epileptic activity. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 1360297–1360297. 2 indexed citations

Thorén, Anna, Eugenio Gutiérrez‐Jiménez, Knut Sindre Åbjørsbråten, et al.. (2023). Deletion of aquaporin‐4 improves capillary blood flow distribution in brain edema. Glia. 71(11). 2559–2572. 5 indexed citations

Bojarskaite, Laura, Alexandra Vallet, Daniel M. Bjørnstad, et al.. (2023). Sleep cycle-dependent vascular dynamics in male mice and the predicted effects on perivascular cerebrospinal fluid flow and solute transport. Nature Communications. 14(1). 953–953. 82 indexed citations breakdown →

Jensen, Vidar R., et al.. (2023). BubbleDrive, a low-volume incubation chamber for acute brain slices. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 20005–20005. 1 indexed citations

Åbjørsbråten, Knut Sindre, Céline Cunen, Daniel M. Bjørnstad, et al.. (2022). Impaired astrocytic Ca2+ signaling in awake-behaving Alzheimer’s disease transgenic mice. eLife. 11. 31 indexed citations

Enger, Rune, et al.. (2022). Validating a computational framework for ionic electrodiffusion with cortical spreading depression as a case study. eNeuro. 9(2). ENEURO.0408–21.2022. 6 indexed citations

Hagen, Espen, Anna R. Chambers, Gaute T. Einevoll, et al.. (2021). RippleNet: a Recurrent Neural Network for Sharp Wave Ripple (SPW-R) Detection. Neuroinformatics. 19(3). 493–514. 14 indexed citations

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Heuser, Kjell & Rune Enger. (2021). Astrocytic Ca2+ Signaling in Epilepsy. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 15. 695380–695380. 19 indexed citations

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Bjørnstad, Daniel M., Knut Sindre Åbjørsbråten, Céline Cunen, et al.. (2021). Begonia—A Two-Photon Imaging Analysis Pipeline for Astrocytic Ca2+ Signals. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 15. 681066–681066. 15 indexed citations

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Bojarskaite, Laura, Daniel M. Bjørnstad, Klas H. Pettersen, et al.. (2020). Astrocytic Ca2+ signaling is reduced during sleep and is involved in the regulation of slow wave sleep. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3240–3240. 143 indexed citations

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Eide, Per Kristian, Md Mahdi Hasan‐Olive, Hans‐Arne Hansson, & Rune Enger. (2020). Increased occurrence of pathological mitochondria in astrocytic perivascular endfoot processes and neurons of idiopathic intracranial hypertension. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 99(2). 467–480. 24 indexed citations

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Enger, Rune. (2017). Automated gold particle quantification of immunogold labeled micrographs. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 286. 31–37. 14 indexed citations

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Enger, Rune, Wannan Tang, Gry Fluge Vindedal, et al.. (2015). Dynamics of Ionic Shifts in Cortical Spreading Depression. Cerebral Cortex. 25(11). 4469–4476. 123 indexed citations

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Heuser, Kjell, Wannan Tang, Vidar R. Jensen, et al.. (2015). Augmentation of Ca2+ signaling in astrocytic endfeet in the latent phase of temporal lobe epilepsy. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 9. 49–49. 20 indexed citations

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Tang, Wannan, Vidar R. Jensen, Rune Enger, et al.. (2015). Stimulation-Evoked Ca²⁺Signals in Astrocytic Processes at Hippocampal CA3–CA1 Synapses of Adult Mice Are Modulated by Glutamate and ATP. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(7). 3016–3021. 50 indexed citations

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Haj‐Yasein, Nadia Nabil, Gry Fluge Vindedal, Rune Enger, et al.. (2011). Deletion of aquaporin‐4 changes the perivascular glial protein scaffold without disrupting the brain endothelial barrier. Glia. 60(3). 432–440. 41 indexed citations

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Thrane, Alexander S., Phillip M. Rappold, Takumi Fujita, et al.. (2010). Critical role of aquaporin-4 (AQP4) in astrocytic Ca ²⁺ signaling events elicited by cerebral edema. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(2). 846–851. 214 indexed citations

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Helm, P. Johannes, et al.. (2008). Water entry into astrocytes during brain edema formation. Glia. 56(8). 895–902. 52 indexed citations

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