Vasant Jayasankar

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Vasant Jayasankar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Vasant Jayasankar has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 6 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Vasant Jayasankar's work include Signaling Pathways in Disease (4 papers), Liver physiology and pathology (3 papers) and Viral Infections and Immunology Research (3 papers). Vasant Jayasankar is often cited by papers focused on Signaling Pathways in Disease (4 papers), Liver physiology and pathology (3 papers) and Viral Infections and Immunology Research (3 papers). Vasant Jayasankar collaborates with scholars based in United States. Vasant Jayasankar's co-authors include Y. Joseph Woo, Timothy J. Pirolli, Timothy J. Gardner, Lawrence T. Bish, Mark F. Berry, H. Lee Sweeney, Kevin Morine, Jeffrey Burdick, Dennis E. Discher and Adam J. Engler and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology.

In The Last Decade

Vasant Jayasankar

16 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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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.

Mesenchymal stem cell injection after myocardial infarction improves myocardial compliance

2006 546 citations Mark F. Berry, Adam J. Engler et al. American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vasant Jayasankar United States	13	692	369	338	270	236	16	1.3k
Timothy J. Pirolli United States	13	744 1.1×	326 0.9×	361 1.1×	259 1.0×	226 1.0×	28	1.3k
Mark F. Berry United States	11	684 1.0×	204 0.6×	253 0.7×	234 0.9×	188 0.8×	21	1.1k
Ryo Suzuki Japan	23	583 0.8×	544 1.5×	448 1.3×	190 0.7×	296 1.3×	143	1.7k
Farhad Forudi United States	17	724 1.0×	800 2.2×	544 1.6×	256 0.9×	548 2.3×	25	2.0k
Soichiro Fujiyama Japan	11	628 0.9×	941 2.6×	609 1.8×	273 1.0×	692 2.9×	12	1.8k
Koji Iwanaga Japan	11	617 0.9×	840 2.3×	712 2.1×	202 0.7×	316 1.3×	23	1.7k
Akihito Muto United States	19	825 1.2×	418 1.1×	191 0.6×	372 1.4×	60 0.3×	60	1.4k
Osamu Iba Japan	10	527 0.8×	629 1.7×	308 0.9×	248 0.9×	537 2.3×	11	1.2k
Leping Shen United States	15	520 0.8×	680 1.8×	351 1.0×	267 1.0×	517 2.2×	19	1.4k
Jana Burchfield United States	15	684 1.0×	1.5k 4.2×	801 2.4×	318 1.2×	303 1.3×	17	2.7k

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16 of 16 papers shown

Jayasankar, Vasant, et al.. (2017). VENTRICULAR PAPILLARY FIBROELASTOMA PRESENTING AS PERIPHERAL ARTERY DISEASE. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 69(11). 2446–2446. 1 indexed citations

Berry, Mark F., Adam J. Engler, Y. Joseph Woo, et al.. (2006). Mesenchymal stem cell injection after myocardial infarction improves myocardial compliance. American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 290(6). H2196–H2203. 546 indexed citations breakdown →

Jayasankar, Vasant, Y. Joseph Woo, Timothy J. Pirolli, et al.. (2005). Induction of Angiogenesis and Inhibition of Apoptosis by Hepatocyte Growth Factor Effectively Treats Postischemic Heart Failure. Journal of Cardiac Surgery. 20(1). 93–101. 66 indexed citations

Woo, Y. Joseph, Todd Grand, Mark F. Berry, et al.. (2005). Stromal cell-derived factor and granulocyte-monocyte colony-stimulating factor form a combined neovasculogenic therapy for ischemic cardiomyopathy. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 130(2). 321–329. 40 indexed citations

Jayasankar, Vasant, Lawrence T. Bish, Timothy J. Pirolli, et al.. (2004). Local myocardial overexpression of growth hormone attenuates postinfarction remodeling and preserves cardiac function. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 77(6). 2122–2129. 17 indexed citations

Berry, Mark F., Timothy J. Pirolli, Vasant Jayasankar, et al.. (2004). Targeted overexpression of leukemia inhibitory factor to preserve myocardium in a rat model of postinfarction heart failure. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 128(6). 866–875. 16 indexed citations

Jayasankar, Vasant, Timothy J. Pirolli, Lawrence T. Bish, et al.. (2004). Targeted overexpression of growth hormone by adenoviral gene transfer preserves myocardial function and ventricular geometry in ischemic cardiomyopathy. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 36(4). 531–538. 15 indexed citations

Woo, Y. Joseph, Matthew Taylor, Jeffrey Е. Cohen, et al.. (2004). Ethyl pyruvate preserves cardiac function and attenuates oxidative injury after prolonged myocardial ischemia. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 127(5). 1262–1269. 80 indexed citations

Berry, Mark F., Y. Joseph Woo, Timothy J. Pirolli, et al.. (2004). Administration of a tumor necrosis factor inhibitor at the time of myocardial infarction attenuates subsequent ventricular remodeling. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 23(9). 1061–1068. 45 indexed citations

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Jayasankar, Vasant, Y. Joseph Woo, Lawrence T. Bish, et al.. (2004). Inhibition of Matrix Metalloproteinase Activity by TIMP-1 Gene Transfer Effectively Treats Ischemic Cardiomyopathy. Circulation. 110(11_suppl_1). II180–6. 43 indexed citations

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Berry, Mark F., Timothy J. Pirolli, Vasant Jayasankar, et al.. (2004). Apelin Has In Vivo Inotropic Effects on Normal and Failing Hearts. Circulation. 110(11_suppl_1). II187–93. 232 indexed citations

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Jayasankar, Vasant, Timothy J. Pirolli, Lawrence T. Bish, et al.. (2003). Treatment of experimental heart failure with hepatocyte growth factor. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 41(6). 544–544. 1 indexed citations

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Chatterjee, Subhasis, Lawrence T. Bish, Vasant Jayasankar, et al.. (2003). Blocking the development of postischemic cardiomyopathy with viral gene transfer of the apoptosis repressor with caspase recruitment domain. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 125(6). 1461–1469. 36 indexed citations

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Jayasankar, Vasant, Y. Joseph Woo, Lawrence T. Bish, et al.. (2003). Gene Transfer of Hepatocyte Growth Factor Attenuates Postinfarction Heart Failure. Circulation. 108(10_suppl_1). II230–6. 93 indexed citations

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Chatterjee, Subhasis, Allan Stewart, Lawrence T. Bish, et al.. (2002). Viral Gene Transfer of the Antiapoptotic Factor Bcl-2 Protects Against Chronic Postischemic Heart Failure. Circulation. 106(12_suppl_1). I212–7. 82 indexed citations

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Gruber, Scott A., et al.. (1997). Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of 15-Deoxyspergualin in a Canine Renal Allograft Model of Local Immunosuppression. Journal of Surgical Research. 71(2). 137–144. 5 indexed citations

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