Terri Pietka

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
51 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Terri Pietka is a scholar working on Physiology, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Terri Pietka has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Physiology, 21 papers in Molecular Biology and 15 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Terri Pietka's work include Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (25 papers), Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (13 papers) and Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (9 papers). Terri Pietka is often cited by papers focused on Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (25 papers), Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (13 papers) and Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (9 papers). Terri Pietka collaborates with scholars based in United States, Czechia and China. Terri Pietka's co-authors include Nada A. Abumrad, Samuel Klein, Bruce W. Patterson, B. Selma Mohammed, Elisa Fabbrini, Faidon Magkos, Adewole L. Okunade, David R. Eyre, Brian N. Finck and Dmitri Samovski and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Terri Pietka

50 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

Intrahepatic fat, not visceral fat, is linked with metabolic complications of obesity

2009 762 citations Elisa Fabbrini, Faidon Magkos et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Nicotinamide mononucleotide increases muscle insulin sensitivity in prediabetic women

2021 259 citations Jun Yoshino, Gary J. Patti et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Terri Pietka United States	27	1.3k	1.2k	1.2k	603	572	51	3.7k
Atsunori Fukuhara Japan	32	1.5k 1.2×	1.4k 1.2×	1.3k 1.1×	566 0.9×	332 0.6×	88	4.1k
Jun Eguchi Japan	29	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	504 0.8×	587 1.0×	68	3.5k
John Li United States	31	1.3k 1.0×	1.7k 1.4×	680 0.6×	552 0.9×	831 1.5×	82	4.0k
John C. McLenithan United States	23	1.4k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	693 1.1×	523 0.9×	39	3.6k
Stéphanie Bonnafous France	25	1.0k 0.8×	1.7k 1.4×	608 0.5×	436 0.7×	408 0.7×	34	3.1k
Christine Rouault France	32	1.1k 0.8×	1.7k 1.4×	1.8k 1.5×	752 1.2×	402 0.7×	62	4.2k
Geoff H. Werstuck Canada	33	1.3k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	500 0.4×	690 1.1×	424 0.7×	81	3.9k
Pascal Peraldi France	28	2.8k 2.1×	1.9k 1.5×	1.8k 1.5×	584 1.0×	755 1.3×	51	5.8k
Katherine Cianflone Canada	35	946 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	657 1.1×	632 1.1×	91	3.9k
Hiroaki Suzuki Japan	34	1.6k 1.2×	603 0.5×	538 0.4×	911 1.5×	544 1.0×	122	3.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Terri Pietka

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Ferguson, Daniel, Mandy M. Chan, Terri Pietka, et al.. (2025). A Critical Role for the Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier in Hepatic Stellate Cell Activation. Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 19(8). 101517–101517. 1 indexed citations

Samovski, Dmitri, Gordon I. Smith, Hector H. Palacios, et al.. (2025). Effect of Marked Weight Loss on Adipose Tissue Biology in People With Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes Care. 48(8). 1342–1351. 3 indexed citations

Shibao, Cyndya A., Vivek S. Peche, Terri Pietka, et al.. (2024). Microvascular insulin resistance with enhanced muscle glucose disposal in CD36 deficiency. Diabetologia. 68(3). 662–675. 3 indexed citations

Pietka, Terri & Rita T. Brookheart. (2024). Measurement of Mitochondrial Respiration in Human and Mouse Skeletal Muscle Fibers by High-Resolution Respirometry. Journal of Visualized Experiments.

Kim, Yeawon, Chuang Li, Chenjian Gu, et al.. (2023). MANF stimulates autophagy and restores mitochondrial homeostasis to treat autosomal dominant tubulointerstitial kidney disease in mice. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6493–6493. 30 indexed citations

Singer, Jason, Trevor M. Shew, Daniel Ferguson, et al.. (2022). Monoacylglycerol O‐acyltransferase 1 lowers adipocyte differentiation capacity in vitro but does not affect adiposity in mice. Obesity. 30(11). 2122–2133. 6 indexed citations

Cifarelli, Vincenza, Ondřej Kuda, Kui Yang, et al.. (2022). Cardiac immune cell infiltration associates with abnormal lipid metabolism. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 9. 948332–948332. 4 indexed citations

Jácome-Sosa, Miriam, Zhi‐Feng Miao, Vivek S. Peche, et al.. (2021). CD36 maintains the gastric mucosa and associates with gastric disease. Communications Biology. 4(1). 1247–1247. 13 indexed citations

Zou, Wei, Nidhi Rohatgi, Jonathan R. Brestoff, et al.. (2020). Myeloid-specific Asxl2 deletion limits diet-induced obesity by regulating energy expenditure. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 130(5). 2644–2656. 13 indexed citations

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Boudoures, Anna L., Andrea Drury, Suzanne M. Scheaffer, et al.. (2019). A maternal high-fat, high-sucrose diet induces transgenerational cardiac mitochondrial dysfunction independently of maternal mitochondrial inheritance. American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 316(5). H1202–H1210. 42 indexed citations

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Liss, Kim, Kyle S. McCommis, Kari T. Chambers, et al.. (2018). The impact of diet‐induced hepatic steatosis in a murine model of hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury. Liver Transplantation. 24(7). 908–921. 28 indexed citations

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Xie, Yan, Vincenza Cifarelli, Terri Pietka, et al.. (2017). Cd36 knockout mice are protected against lithogenic diet-induced gallstones. Journal of Lipid Research. 58(8). 1692–1701. 16 indexed citations

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Cifarelli, Vincenza, Stoyan Ivanov, Yan Xie, et al.. (2016). CD36 Deficiency Impairs the Small Intestinal Barrier and Induces Subclinical Inflammation in Mice. Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 3(1). 82–98. 49 indexed citations

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Craft, Clarissa S., Terri Pietka, Timothy Schappe, et al.. (2014). The Extracellular Matrix Protein MAGP1 Supports Thermogenesis and Protects Against Obesity and Diabetes Through Regulation of TGF-β. Diabetes. 63(6). 1920–1932. 53 indexed citations

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Moussa, Ahmed, et al.. (2013). The Whole Genome Expression Analysis using Two Microarray Technologies to Identify Gene Networks That Mediate the Myocardial Phenotype of CD36 Deficiency. Bioinformation. 9(17). 849–852. 4 indexed citations

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Kuda, Ondřej, Terri Pietka, Zuzana Demianová, et al.. (2013). Sulfo-N-succinimidyl Oleate (SSO) Inhibits Fatty Acid Uptake and Signaling for Intracellular Calcium via Binding CD36 Lysine 164. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(22). 15547–15555. 154 indexed citations

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Fabbrini, Elisa, Faidon Magkos, B. Selma Mohammed, et al.. (2009). Intrahepatic fat, not visceral fat, is linked with metabolic complications of obesity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(36). 15430–15435. 762 indexed citations breakdown →

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Matsui, Yoshito, Jiann-Jiu Wu, Mary Ann Weis, Terri Pietka, & David R. Eyre. (2003). Matrix deposition of tryptophan-containing allelic variants of type IX collagen in developing human cartilage. Matrix Biology. 22(2). 123–129. 18 indexed citations

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Eyre, David R., Jiann-Jiu Wu, Russell J. Fernandes, Terri Pietka, & Mary Ann Weis. (2002). Recent developments in cartilage research: matrix biology of the collagen II/IX/XI heterofibril network. Biochemical Society Transactions. 30(6). 894–900. 14 indexed citations

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Eyre, David R., Jiann-Jiu Wu, Russell J. Fernandes, Terri Pietka, & Mary Ann Weis. (2001). Recent developments in cartilage research: matrix biology of the collagen II/IX/XI heterofibril network. Biochemical Society Transactions. 30(6). 893–893. 69 indexed citations

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