Sofie Kessels

736 total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 541 citations indexed

About

Sofie Kessels is a scholar working on Neurology, Molecular Biology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sofie Kessels has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 541 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Neurology, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Sofie Kessels's work include Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (8 papers), Adenosine and Purinergic Signaling (3 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (3 papers). Sofie Kessels is often cited by papers focused on Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (8 papers), Adenosine and Purinergic Signaling (3 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (3 papers). Sofie Kessels collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, France and Netherlands. Sofie Kessels's co-authors include Bert Brône, Dick Terwel, Ilse Dewachter, Hannah Vanrusselt, François Huaux, Julien Couturier, Niels Cremers, Jean‐Noël Octave, Ilie‐Cosmin Stancu and Sophie Smolders and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, International Journal of Molecular Sciences and Progress in Neurobiology.

In The Last Decade

Sofie Kessels

10 papers receiving 537 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.

Aggregated Tau activates NLRP3–ASC inflammasome exacerbating exogenously seeded and non-exogenously seeded Tau pathology in vivo

2019 336 citations Ilie‐Cosmin Stancu, Niels Cremers et al. Acta Neuropathologica profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sofie Kessels Belgium	7	292	283	161	110	96	12	541
Jacopo Di Lucente United States	12	261 0.9×	184 0.7×	187 1.2×	67 0.6×	73 0.8×	21	552
Ruying Fu China	4	159 0.5×	417 1.5×	149 0.9×	195 1.8×	42 0.4×	6	625
Juan García‐Revilla Spain	11	222 0.8×	205 0.7×	161 1.0×	171 1.6×	43 0.4×	18	620
Kenneth T. Farabaugh United States	6	159 0.5×	254 0.9×	68 0.4×	134 1.2×	67 0.7×	6	475
Neelima Gupta Singapore	7	242 0.8×	154 0.5×	88 0.5×	63 0.6×	60 0.6×	7	422
Davis Borucki United States	11	202 0.7×	176 0.6×	54 0.3×	110 1.0×	56 0.6×	13	459
Lily Keane Sweden	9	169 0.6×	146 0.5×	78 0.5×	91 0.8×	41 0.4×	18	378
Zhaoli Hu China	9	243 0.8×	165 0.6×	64 0.4×	50 0.5×	57 0.6×	11	473
Çiğdem Acıoğlu United States	9	122 0.4×	167 0.6×	105 0.7×	78 0.7×	47 0.5×	11	424
Barbara Altendorfer Austria	9	113 0.4×	213 0.8×	158 1.0×	56 0.5×	101 1.1×	15	417

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sofie Kessels

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Janssen, A.J.M., Sofie Kessels, Yanyan Wang, et al.. (2025). APOE deficiency inhibits amyloid-facilitated (A) tau pathology (T) and neurodegeneration (N), halting progressive ATN pathology in a preclinical model. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(10). 4512–4528. 1 indexed citations

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Kessels, Sofie, et al.. (2025). Loss of TRPV4 is insufficient to promote repair in a spinal cord injury contusion model. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 26757–26757.

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Rombaut, Ben, Melissa Schepers, Assia Tiane, et al.. (2024). Early Inhibition of Phosphodiesterase 4B (PDE4B) Instills Cognitive Resilience in APPswe/PS1dE9 Mice. Cells. 13(12). 1000–1000. 3 indexed citations

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Kessels, Sofie, Virginie Bito, Bert Brône, et al.. (2024). New insight into the molecular etiopathogenesis of konzo: Cyanate could be a plausible neurotoxin contributing to konzo, contrary to thiocyanate. NeuroToxicology. 105. 323–333.

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Kessels, Sofie, et al.. (2022). p27kip1 Modulates the Morphology and Phagocytic Activity of Microglia. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(18). 10432–10432. 2 indexed citations

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Kessels, Sofie, Sílvia Pinto, Rudi Vennekens, et al.. (2022). Acute inhibition of transient receptor potential vanilloid‐type 4 cation channel halts cytoskeletal dynamism in microglia. Glia. 70(11). 2157–2168. 14 indexed citations

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Rombaut, Ben, Sofie Kessels, Melissa Schepers, et al.. (2020). PDE inhibition in distinct cell types to reclaim the balance of synaptic plasticity. Theranostics. 11(5). 2080–2097. 20 indexed citations

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Pintelon, Isabel, Ibrahim Hamad, Sofie Kessels, et al.. (2020). Microglial derived extracellular vesicles activate autophagy and mediate multi‐target signaling to maintain cellular homeostasis. Journal of Extracellular Vesicles. 10(1). e12022–e12022. 44 indexed citations

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Stancu, Ilie‐Cosmin, Niels Cremers, Hannah Vanrusselt, et al.. (2019). Aggregated Tau activates NLRP3–ASC inflammasome exacerbating exogenously seeded and non-exogenously seeded Tau pathology in vivo. Acta Neuropathologica. 137(4). 599–617. 336 indexed citations breakdown →

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Smolders, Sophie, Sofie Kessels, Tim Vangansewinkel, et al.. (2019). Microglia: Brain cells on the move. Progress in Neurobiology. 178. 101612–101612. 80 indexed citations

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Kessels, Sofie, Sophie Smolders, Florent Poulhès, et al.. (2017). Magnetofection is superior to other chemical transfection methods in a microglial cell line. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 293. 169–173. 15 indexed citations

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Smolders, Sophie, Nina Swinnen, Sofie Kessels, et al.. (2017). Age‐specific function of α5β1 integrin in microglial migration during early colonization of the developing mouse cortex. Glia. 65(7). 1072–1088. 26 indexed citations

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