Thomas Rau

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
78 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Thomas Rau is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Rau has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 14 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Thomas Rau's work include Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (9 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (7 papers) and Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics (7 papers). Thomas Rau is often cited by papers focused on Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (9 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (7 papers) and Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics (7 papers). Thomas Rau collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Italy. Thomas Rau's co-authors include Klaus Pantel, Sabine Riethdorf, Volkmar Müller, Thomas Eschenhagen, F. Jänicke, Brigitte Rack, Herbert A. Fritsche, Christian Schindlbeck, Massimo Cristofanilli and Wolfgang Janni and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Rau

77 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells in Peripheral Blood of Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Validation Study of the CellSearch System

2007 1.1k citations Sabine Riethdorf, Volkmar Müller et al. Clinical Cancer Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Rau Germany	34	1.8k	1.3k	1.2k	794	703	78	4.9k
Daniela Grimm Germany	55	674 0.4×	2.0k 1.5×	734 0.6×	816 1.0×	877 1.2×	248	8.8k
Johannes Haybaeck Austria	46	1.1k 0.6×	2.9k 2.2×	1.3k 1.1×	735 0.9×	142 0.2×	256	6.9k
Roy Zent United States	51	960 0.5×	4.1k 3.1×	867 0.7×	345 0.4×	333 0.5×	190	9.0k
Ulrike Stein Germany	50	2.4k 1.3×	4.1k 3.1×	1.3k 1.1×	358 0.5×	232 0.3×	222	7.6k
Henri H. Versteeg Netherlands	37	872 0.5×	1.7k 1.3×	706 0.6×	237 0.3×	1.0k 1.5×	129	7.1k
Weiming Xu China	33	793 0.4×	3.1k 2.3×	753 0.6×	250 0.3×	290 0.4×	105	6.3k
J. Steven Alexander United States	43	1.3k 0.7×	3.4k 2.6×	477 0.4×	304 0.4×	1.3k 1.8×	182	7.5k
Mitch A. Phelps United States	38	1.4k 0.8×	3.0k 2.3×	967 0.8×	242 0.3×	122 0.2×	199	6.9k
Yasushi Shintani Japan	41	2.9k 1.6×	2.9k 2.2×	728 0.6×	234 0.3×	305 0.4×	310	8.1k
Xiaojun Liu China	33	3.3k 1.8×	3.5k 2.6×	1.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.5×	328 0.5×	235	7.3k

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Brooks, Diane M., et al.. (2017). Multiple mild traumatic brain injury in the rat produces persistent pathological alterations in the brain. Experimental Neurology. 297. 62–72. 16 indexed citations

Primeßnig, Uwe, Alexander Höll, Susanne Pfeiffer, et al.. (2016). Novel Pathomechanisms of Cardiomyocyte Dysfunction in a Model of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction. European Journal of Heart Failure. 18(8). 987–997. 52 indexed citations

Rau, Thomas, John A. Ziemniak, & David J. Poulsen. (2015). The neuroprotective potential of low-dose methamphetamine in preclinical models of stroke and traumatic brain injury. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 64. 231–236. 22 indexed citations

Rau, Thomas, Frank Edelmann, Finn Waagstein, et al.. (2012). Impact of the β1-Adrenoceptor Arg389Gly Polymorphism on Heart-Rate Responses to Bisoprolol and Carvedilol in Heart-Failure Patients. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 92(1). 21–28. 35 indexed citations

Lü, Qing, Mark S. Wainwright, Valerie A. Harris, et al.. (2012). Increased NADPH oxidase-derived superoxide is involved in the neuronal cell death induced by hypoxia–ischemia in neonatal hippocampal slice cultures. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 53(5). 1139–1151. 48 indexed citations

Rau, Thomas, Qing Lü, Shruti Sharma, et al.. (2012). Oxygen Glucose Deprivation in Rat Hippocampal Slice Cultures Results in Alterations in Carnitine Homeostasis and Mitochondrial Dysfunction. PLoS ONE. 7(9). e40881–e40881. 30 indexed citations

Schaaf, Sebastian, Aya Shibamiya, Marco Mewe, et al.. (2011). Human Engineered Heart Tissue as a Versatile Tool in Basic Research and Preclinical Toxicology. PLoS ONE. 6(10). e26397–e26397. 250 indexed citations

Riethdorf, Sabine, Volkmar Müller, Liling Zhang, et al.. (2010). Detection and HER2 Expression of Circulating Tumor Cells: Prospective Monitoring in Breast Cancer Patients Treated in the Neoadjuvant GeparQuattro Trial. Clinical Cancer Research. 16(9). 2634–2645. 398 indexed citations

Schneider, Carsten, Kai Jaquet, Stephan Geidel, et al.. (2009). Transplantation of Bone Marrow-Derived Stem Cells Improves Myocardial Diastolic Function: Strain Rate Imaging in a Model of Hibernating Myocardium. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. 22(10). 1180–1189. 18 indexed citations

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Köllermann, Jens, Steffen Weikert, Martin Schostak, et al.. (2008). Prognostic Significance of Disseminated Tumor Cells in the Bone Marrow of Prostate Cancer Patients Treated With Neoadjuvant Hormone Treatment. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 26(30). 4928–4933. 62 indexed citations

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Johnsen, Steven A., Cenap Güngör, Sabine Riethdorf, et al.. (2008). Regulation of Estrogen-Dependent Transcription by the LIM Cofactors CLIM and RLIM in Breast Cancer. Cancer Research. 69(1). 128–136. 52 indexed citations

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Rau, Thomas, et al.. (2007). P2Y₁₂ polymorphisms and antiplatelet effects of aspirin in patients with coronary artery disease. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 65(4). 540–547. 25 indexed citations

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Sharma, Shruti, Neetu Sud, Dean A. Wiseman, et al.. (2007). Altered carnitine homeostasis is associated with decreased mitochondrial function and altered nitric oxide signaling in lambs with pulmonary hypertension. American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. 294(1). L46–L56. 81 indexed citations

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Schmitz, Fabian, Georg Langebartels, Thomas Rau, et al.. (2006). Obesity is associated with a slower response to initial phenprocoumon therapy whereas CYP2C9 genotypes are not. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 62(9). 713–720. 16 indexed citations

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Wuttke, H, Thomas Rau, & Thomas Eschenhagen. (2004). Genpolymorphismen in Arzneimittel-abbauenden Enzymen. DMW - Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift. 129(15). 831–835. 7 indexed citations

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El‐Armouche, Ali, et al.. (2003). 24-h Langendorff-perfused neonatal rat heart used to study the impact of adenoviral gene transfer. American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 285(2). H907–H914. 14 indexed citations

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Hinz, Burkhard, Daniel Auge, Thomas Rau, et al.. (2003). Simultaneous determination of aceclofenac and three of its metabolites in human plasma by high‐performance liquid chromatography. Biomedical Chromatography. 17(4). 268–275. 76 indexed citations

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Rau, Thomas, R. Heide, Klaus von Bergmann, et al.. (2002). Effect of the CYP2D6 genotype on metoprolol metabolism persists during long-term treatment. Pharmacogenetics. 12(6). 465–472. 105 indexed citations

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Rau, Thomas, et al.. (2001). Constitutive Expression and Localization of COX-1 and COX-2 in Rabbit Iris and Ciliary Body. Experimental Eye Research. 72(6). 611–621. 31 indexed citations

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Rau, Thomas, et al.. (1998). Stenting of Nonacute Total Coronary Occlusions: Predictors of Late Angiographic Outcome. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 31(2). 275–280. 27 indexed citations

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