Sarah Nicolas

903 total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 585 citations indexed

About

Sarah Nicolas is a scholar working on Physiology, Behavioral Neuroscience and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Nicolas has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 585 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Physiology, 6 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience and 6 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Sarah Nicolas's work include Stress Responses and Cortisol (6 papers), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (6 papers) and Tryptophan and brain disorders (5 papers). Sarah Nicolas is often cited by papers focused on Stress Responses and Cortisol (6 papers), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (6 papers) and Tryptophan and brain disorders (5 papers). Sarah Nicolas collaborates with scholars based in France, Ireland and United Kingdom. Sarah Nicolas's co-authors include Joëlle Chabry, Catherine Heurteaux, Agnès Petit-Paitel, Alice Guyon, Yvonne M. Nolan, Julie Cazareth, Nicolas Glaichenhaus, Olivia F. O’Leary, John F. Cryan and Fabrice Bartoloméi and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Brain and Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Nicolas

17 papers receiving 582 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.

Microbiota from Alzheimer’s patients induce deficits in cognition and hippocampal neurogenesis

2023 128 citations Stefanie Grabrucker, Moira Marizzoni et al. Brain profile →

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Katherine B. LeClair United States

Micaël Carrier Canada

Manon Lebel Canada

Amy E.B. Packard United States

Christel Vanbesien-Mailliot France

Maude Bordeleau Canada

Simone N. De Luca Australia

Mark C Flynn United States

Francesca Salani Italy

Katherine B. LeClair United States

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sarah Nicolas

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Nicolas

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18 of 18 papers shown

Nicolas, Sarah, et al.. (2025). Exercise mitigates the effects of a cafeteria diet on antidepressant-like behavior associated with plasma and microbial metabolites in adult male rats. 1(5). 52–66.

Nicolas, Sarah, Aonghus Lavelle, Thomaz F. S. Bastiaanssen, et al.. (2024). Exercise mitigates a gut microbiota-mediated reduction in adult hippocampal neurogenesis and associated behaviours in rats. Translational Psychiatry. 14(1). 195–195. 21 indexed citations

Dolla, Guillaume, Sarah Nicolas, Alexandre Bourgeois, et al.. (2024). Ectodomain shedding of PLA2R1 is mediated by the metalloproteases ADAM10 and ADAM17. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(7). 107480–107480. 5 indexed citations

Nicolas, Sarah, et al.. (2024). Ageing, Cognitive Decline, and Effects of Physical Exercise: Complexities, and Considerations from Animal Models. PubMed. 9(1-2). 43–73. 6 indexed citations

Nicolas, Sarah, et al.. (2024). Do microbes play a role in Alzheimer's disease?. Microbial Biotechnology. 17(4). e14462–e14462. 5 indexed citations

Grabrucker, Stefanie, Moira Marizzoni, Edina Silajdžić, et al.. (2023). Microbiota from Alzheimer’s patients induce deficits in cognition and hippocampal neurogenesis. Brain. 146(12). 4916–4934. 128 indexed citations breakdown →

Guyot, Mélanie, Thomas Simon, Douglas Daoudlarian, et al.. (2023). Environmental signals perceived by the brain abate pro-metastatic monocytes by dampening glucocorticoids receptor signaling. Cancer Cell International. 23(1). 15–15. 1 indexed citations

Nicolas, Sarah, et al.. (2023). Outrunning a bad diet: Interactions between exercise and a Western-style diet for adolescent mental health, metabolism and microbes. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 149. 105147–105147. 17 indexed citations

Nicolas, Sarah, Cara M. Hueston, Siobhain M. O’Mahony, et al.. (2021). Prior maternal separation stress alters the dendritic complexity of new hippocampal neurons and neuroinflammation in response to an inflammatory stressor in juvenile female rats. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 99. 327–338. 15 indexed citations

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Nicolas, Sarah, Nathalie Rochet, Nadine Gautier, Joëlle Chabry, & Didier F. Pisani. (2019). The adiponectin receptor agonist AdipoRon normalizes glucose metabolism and prevents obesity but not growth retardation induced by glucocorticoids in young mice. Metabolism. 103. 154027–154027. 13 indexed citations

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Nicolas, Sarah, Delphine Debayle, Catherine Béchade, et al.. (2018). Adiporon, an adiponectin receptor agonist acts as an antidepressant and metabolic regulator in a mouse model of depression. Translational Psychiatry. 8(1). 159–159. 59 indexed citations

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Nicolas, Sarah, et al.. (2018). L’adiponectine. médecine/sciences. 34(5). 417–423. 10 indexed citations

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Nicolas, Sarah, Julie Cazareth, Alice Guyon, et al.. (2017). Globular Adiponectin Limits Microglia Pro-Inflammatory Phenotype through an AdipoR1/NF-κB Signaling Pathway. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 11. 352–352. 51 indexed citations

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Chabry, Joëlle, Sarah Nicolas, Julie Cazareth, et al.. (2015). Enriched environment decreases microglia and brain macrophages inflammatory phenotypes through adiponectin-dependent mechanisms: Relevance to depressive-like behavior. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 50. 275–287. 77 indexed citations

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Nicolas, Sarah, J. Veyssière, Carine Gandin, et al.. (2015). Neurogenesis-independent antidepressant-like effects of enriched environment is dependent on adiponectin. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 57. 72–83. 60 indexed citations

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Caspar‐Bauguil, Sylvie, C. Kolditz, Corinne Lefort, et al.. (2015). Fatty acids from fat cell lipolysis do not activate an inflammatory response but are stored as triacylglycerols in adipose tissue macrophages. Diabetologia. 58(11). 2627–2636. 32 indexed citations

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Cayre, M., Jordane Malaterre, Sophie Scotto‐Lomassese, et al.. (2005). A role for nitric oxide in sensory‐induced neurogenesis in an adult insect brain. European Journal of Neuroscience. 21(11). 2893–2902. 28 indexed citations

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Bartoloméi, Fabrice, et al.. (1997). Changes in the mRNAs encoding subtypes I, II and III sodium channel alpha subunits following kainate-induced seizures in rat brain. Journal of Neurocytology. 26(10). 667–678. 57 indexed citations

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