S. Armando Villalta

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

S. Armando Villalta is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Rehabilitation. According to data from OpenAlex, S. Armando Villalta has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Immunology and 9 papers in Rehabilitation. Recurrent topics in S. Armando Villalta's work include Muscle Physiology and Disorders (16 papers), Exercise and Physiological Responses (9 papers) and Virus-based gene therapy research (4 papers). S. Armando Villalta is often cited by papers focused on Muscle Physiology and Disorders (16 papers), Exercise and Physiological Responses (9 papers) and Virus-based gene therapy research (4 papers). S. Armando Villalta collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Russia. S. Armando Villalta's co-authors include James G. Tidball, Bo Deng, Michelle Wehling‐Henricks, Paul J. Wolters, Huan X. Nguyen, Tomomi Gotoh, Ying Wang, Jon Mallen‐St. Clair, George H. Caughey and Chiara Rinaldi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

S. Armando Villalta

35 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Regulatory interactions between muscle and the immune system during muscle regeneration

2010 863 citations James G. Tidball, S. Armando Villalta profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
S. Armando Villalta United States	23	2.3k	981	899	879	683	35	3.9k
Ludovic Arnold France	12	1.6k 0.7×	620 0.6×	767 0.9×	479 0.5×	612 0.9×	12	2.8k
Michelle Wehling‐Henricks United States	23	1.8k 0.8×	714 0.7×	296 0.3×	755 0.9×	370 0.5×	32	2.5k
Eusebio Perdiguero Spain	29	4.2k 1.8×	663 0.7×	319 0.4×	1.7k 1.9×	760 1.1×	47	5.9k
Alexander Birbrair United States	35	2.0k 0.9×	228 0.2×	653 0.7×	468 0.5×	458 0.7×	154	4.8k
Anne Plonquet France	25	1.1k 0.5×	428 0.4×	956 1.1×	342 0.4×	430 0.6×	40	3.1k
Yao‐Hua Song United States	34	2.3k 1.0×	294 0.3×	441 0.5×	569 0.6×	1.5k 2.3×	75	5.1k
Lan Zhou United States	30	1.6k 0.7×	366 0.4×	265 0.3×	537 0.6×	508 0.7×	66	3.0k
LeBris S. Quinn United States	32	1.5k 0.7×	869 0.9×	627 0.7×	1.5k 1.7×	371 0.5×	56	3.3k
Naoki Yamamoto Japan	26	2.0k 0.9×	202 0.2×	286 0.3×	620 0.7×	805 1.2×	158	3.9k
Bénédicte Chazaud France	44	5.3k 2.3×	1.6k 1.6×	1.5k 1.7×	1.7k 1.9×	1.9k 2.8×	112	8.6k

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Ma, Feiyang, Irina Kramerova, Raquel Jiménez, et al.. (2025). Macrophage-derived Spp1 promotes intramuscular fat in dystrophic muscle. JCI Insight. 10(13). 2 indexed citations

Brimble, Mark A., Jane Owens, Laurence O. Whiteley, et al.. (2024). Single cell and TCR analysis of immune cells from AAV gene therapy-dosed Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients. Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical Development. 32(4). 101349–101349. 4 indexed citations

Fotio, Yannick, Alex Mabou Tagne, Faizy Ahmed, et al.. (2024). NAAA-regulated lipid signaling in monocytes controls the induction of hyperalgesic priming in mice. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1705–1705. 7 indexed citations

Evans, Katrina, Kerrigan Blake, Morgan Coburn, et al.. (2023). Microglia promote anti-tumour immunity and suppress breast cancer brain metastasis. Nature Cell Biology. 25(12). 1848–1859. 30 indexed citations

Stec, Michael J., Qi Su, Christina Adler, et al.. (2023). A cellular and molecular spatial atlas of dystrophic muscle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(29). e2221249120–e2221249120. 19 indexed citations

Young, Courtney S., Feiyang Ma, Philip L. Felgner, et al.. (2023). Innate and adaptive AAV-mediated immune responses in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical Development. 30. 90–102. 12 indexed citations

Britson, Kyla A., Jonathan P. Ling, Kerstin E. Braunstein, et al.. (2022). Loss of TDP-43 function and rimmed vacuoles persist after T cell depletion in a xenograft model of sporadic inclusion body myositis. Science Translational Medicine. 14(628). eabi9196–eabi9196. 34 indexed citations

Goyal, Namita, Steven A. Greenberg, Vivian Li, et al.. (2022). Correlations of disease severity outcome measures in inclusion body myositis. Neuromuscular Disorders. 32(10). 800–805. 6 indexed citations

Dragan, Morgan, Peng Sun, Zeyu Chen, et al.. (2021). Epidermis-Intrinsic Transcription Factor Ovol1 Coordinately Regulates Barrier Maintenance and Neutrophil Accumulation in Psoriasis-Like Inflammation. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 142(3). 583–593.e5. 13 indexed citations

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Mohammadi, M. Rezaa, Shiri Li, Rui Cao, et al.. (2021). Exosome loaded immunomodulatory biomaterials alleviate local immune response in immunocompetent diabetic mice post islet xenotransplantation. Communications Biology. 4(1). 685–685. 39 indexed citations

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Gibbs, Devin, Yimin Wang, Jeffrey J. Widrick, et al.. (2019). The SINE Compound KPT-350 Blocks Dystrophic Pathologies in DMD Zebrafish and Mice. Molecular Therapy. 28(1). 189–201. 20 indexed citations

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Kastenschmidt, Jenna M., et al.. (2019). QuantiMus: A Machine Learning-Based Approach for High Precision Analysis of Skeletal Muscle Morphology. Frontiers in Physiology. 10. 1416–1416. 24 indexed citations

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Kastenschmidt, Jenna M., et al.. (2018). Circulatory Kv1.3+ cells in patients with sIBM (P3.437). Neurology. 90(15_supplement). 1 indexed citations

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Morita, Shuhei, S. Armando Villalta, Hannah C. Feldman, et al.. (2017). Targeting ABL-IRE1α Signaling Spares ER-Stressed Pancreatic β Cells to Reverse Autoimmune Diabetes. Cell Metabolism. 25(4). 883–897.e8. 139 indexed citations

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Kastenschmidt, Jenna M., et al.. (2017). Characterization of the Inflammatory Response in Dystrophic Muscle Using Flow Cytometry. Methods in molecular biology. 1687. 43–56. 10 indexed citations

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Villalta, S. Armando, Amy S. Rosenberg, & Jeffrey A. Bluestone. (2015). The immune system in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Friend or foe. PubMed. 3(1). e1010966–e1010966. 59 indexed citations

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Deng, Bo, Michelle Wehling‐Henricks, S. Armando Villalta, Ying Wang, & James G. Tidball. (2012). IL-10 Triggers Changes in Macrophage Phenotype That Promote Muscle Growth and Regeneration. The Journal of Immunology. 189(7). 3669–3680. 375 indexed citations

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Villalta, S. Armando, et al.. (2010). Interleukin-10 reduces the pathology of mdx muscular dystrophy by deactivating M1 macrophages and modulating macrophage phenotype. Human Molecular Genetics. 20(4). 790–805. 235 indexed citations

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Olsen, Joanna S., et al.. (2008). Mast Cell IL-6 Improves Survival from Klebsiella Pneumonia and Sepsis by Enhancing Neutrophil Killing. The Journal of Immunology. 181(8). 5598–5605. 125 indexed citations

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Acharyya, Swarnali, S. Armando Villalta, Nadine Bakkar, et al.. (2007). Interplay of IKK/NF-κB signaling in macrophages and myofibers promotes muscle degeneration in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 117(4). 889–901. 366 indexed citations

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