Terrence Town

23.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
139 papers, 14.3k citations indexed

About

Terrence Town is a scholar working on Physiology, Neurology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Terrence Town has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 14.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Physiology, 57 papers in Neurology and 47 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Terrence Town's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (68 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (55 papers) and Immune Response and Inflammation (20 papers). Terrence Town is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (68 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (55 papers) and Immune Response and Inflammation (20 papers). Terrence Town collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Mexico. Terrence Town's co-authors include Richard A. Flavell, Jun Tan, Michael Mullan, Jun Tan, Kavon Rezai‐Zadeh, Erol Fikrig, David Gate, Marie‐Victoire Guillot‐Sestier, Lena Alexopoulou and John F. Anderson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Terrence Town

139 papers receiving 14.1k 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.

Oxidized Mitochondrial DNA Activates the NLRP3 Inflammasome during Apoptosis

2012 1.7k citations Altan Rentsendorj, Terrence Town et al. Immunity profile →
Toll-like receptor 3 mediates West Nile virus entry into the brain causing lethal encephalitis

2004 892 citations Tian Wang, Terrence Town et al. profile →
A protective function for interleukin 17A in T cell–mediated intestinal inflammation

2009 632 citations William O’Connor, Masahito Kamanaka et al. profile →
Interchromosomal associations between alternatively expressed loci

2005 543 citations Terrence Town, Richard A. Flavell et al. Nature profile →
Green Tea Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate (EGCG) Modulates Amyloid Precursor Protein Cleavage and Reduces Cerebral Amyloidosis in Alzheimer Transgenic Mice

2005 540 citations Kavon Rezai‐Zadeh, T. Mori et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Control of TH17 cells occurs in the small intestine

2011 505 citations Enric Esplugues, Samuel Huber et al. Nature profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Terrence Town	4.7k	4.5k	4.4k	3.6k	1.3k	139	14.3k
Andrea J. Tenner	3.2k 0.7×	6.0k 1.3×	4.1k 0.9×	4.5k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	156	13.6k
Iain L. Campbell	4.0k 0.9×	6.8k 1.5×	1.6k 0.4×	4.9k 1.4×	1.9k 1.4×	314	17.9k
Ari Waisman	6.0k 1.3×	10.7k 2.4×	2.1k 0.5×	3.4k 0.9×	1.8k 1.4×	286	22.1k
Etty Benveniste	6.0k 1.3×	7.5k 1.7×	1.6k 0.4×	5.2k 1.4×	1.3k 0.9×	233	18.5k
Joseph El Khoury	4.1k 0.9×	4.4k 1.0×	4.2k 1.0×	6.1k 1.7×	1.1k 0.8×	101	13.6k
Davide Ferrari	6.0k 1.3×	4.5k 1.0×	2.1k 0.5×	2.2k 0.6×	1.5k 1.1×	148	17.2k
Jon D. Laman	3.6k 0.8×	7.6k 1.7×	2.1k 0.5×	1.9k 0.5×	1.9k 1.4×	241	15.9k
Horst Bluethmann	6.4k 1.4×	8.1k 1.8×	2.5k 0.6×	2.2k 0.6×	2.0k 1.5×	132	19.6k
Burkhard Becher	6.2k 1.3×	15.3k 3.4×	2.9k 0.7×	7.2k 2.0×	1.5k 1.1×	234	27.0k
Joan W. Berman	3.4k 0.7×	3.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.3×	3.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	173	11.6k

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Meyer, Pierre‐François, Mélissa Savard, Judes Poirier, et al.. (2018). Bi-directional Association of Cerebrospinal Fluid Immune Markers with Stage of Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 63(2). 577–590. 32 indexed citations

Acharya, Dhiraj, Penghua Wang, Amber M. Paul, et al.. (2016). Interleukin-17A Promotes CD8 ⁺ T Cell Cytotoxicity To Facilitate West Nile Virus Clearance. Journal of Virology. 91(1). 61 indexed citations

Paul, Amber M., Dhiraj Acharya, Penghua Wang, et al.. (2016). TLR8 Couples SOCS-1 and Restrains TLR7-Mediated Antiviral Immunity, Exacerbating West Nile Virus Infection in Mice. The Journal of Immunology. 197(11). 4425–4435. 20 indexed citations

Gate, David, Moise Danielpour, Serguei Bannykh, & Terrence Town. (2015). Characterization of Cancer Stem Cells and Primary Cilia in Medulloblastoma. CNS & Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets. 14(5). 600–611. 13 indexed citations

Mori, T., Kavon Rezai‐Zadeh, Naoki Koyama, et al.. (2012). Tannic Acid Is a Natural β-Secretase Inhibitor That Prevents Cognitive Impairment and Mitigates Alzheimer-like Pathology in Transgenic Mice. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(9). 6912–6927. 140 indexed citations

Zhu, Yuyan, Huayan Hou, Kavon Rezai‐Zadeh, et al.. (2011). CD45 Deficiency Drives Amyloid-β Peptide Oligomers and Neuronal Loss in Alzheimer's Disease Mice. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(4). 1355–1365. 70 indexed citations

Esplugues, Enric, Samuel Huber, Nicola Gagliani, et al.. (2011). Control of TH17 cells occurs in the small intestine. Nature. 475(7357). 514–518. 505 indexed citations breakdown →

Gate, David, et al.. (2010). Macrophages in Alzheimer’s disease: the blood-borne identity. Journal of Neural Transmission. 117(8). 961–970. 95 indexed citations

Bai, Fengwei, Terrence Town, Feng Qian, et al.. (2009). IL-10 Signaling Blockade Controls Murine West Nile Virus Infection. PLoS Pathogens. 5(10). e1000610–e1000610. 75 indexed citations

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Town, Terrence, Fengwei Bai, Tian Wang, et al.. (2009). Toll-like Receptor 7 Mitigates Lethal West Nile Encephalitis via Interleukin 23-Dependent Immune Cell Infiltration and Homing. Immunity. 30(2). 242–253. 172 indexed citations

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Nikolic, William V., Huayan Hou, Terrence Town, et al.. (2008). Peripherally Administered Human Umbilical Cord Blood Cells Reduce Parenchymal and Vascular β -Amyloid Deposits in Alzheimer Mice. Stem Cells and Development. 17(3). 423–440. 89 indexed citations

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Wang, Shuhui, Thomas Welte, Maureen A. McGargill, et al.. (2008). Drak2 Contributes to West Nile Virus Entry into the Brain and Lethal Encephalitis. The Journal of Immunology. 181(3). 2084–2091. 53 indexed citations

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Rezai‐Zadeh, Kavon, R. Douglas Shytle, Yun Bai, et al.. (2008). Flavonoid‐mediated presenilin‐1 phosphorylation reduces Alzheimer's disease β‐amyloid production. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. 13(3). 574–588. 123 indexed citations

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Giunta, Brian, Francisco Arnalich, William V. Nikolic, et al.. (2008). Inflammaging as a prodrome to Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 5(1). 51–51. 241 indexed citations

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Arjona‐Sánchez, Álvaro, Michel Ledizet, Karen Anthony, et al.. (2007). West Nile Virus Envelope Protein Inhibits dsRNA-Induced Innate Immune Responses. The Journal of Immunology. 179(12). 8403–8409. 63 indexed citations

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Deane, Jonathan A., Prapaporn Pisitkun, Lionel Feigenbaum, et al.. (2007). Control of Toll-like Receptor 7 Expression Is Essential to Restrict Autoimmunity and Dendritic Cell Proliferation. Immunity. 27(5). 801–810. 457 indexed citations

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Town, Terrence, et al.. (2006). Microglia Recognize Double-Stranded RNA via TLR3. The Journal of Immunology. 176(6). 3804–3812. 158 indexed citations

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Townsend, Kirk, Martina Vendrame, Jared Ehrhart, et al.. (2004). CD45 isoform RB as a molecular target to oppose lipopolysaccharide-induced microglial activation in mice. Neuroscience Letters. 362(1). 26–30. 18 indexed citations

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Town, Terrence, Robert M. Crescentini, Yajuan Wu, et al.. (2002). p35/Cdk5 pathway mediates soluble amyloid‐β peptide‐induced tau phosphorylation in vitro. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 69(3). 362–372. 81 indexed citations

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Paris, Daniel, Terrence Town, James Humphrey, Kiyoko Yokota, & Michael Mullan. (2000). Cholesterol Modulates Vascular Reactivity to Endothelin-1 by Stimulating a Pro-inflammatory Pathway. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 274(2). 553–558. 12 indexed citations

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