Yaping Chu

11.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
70 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

Yaping Chu is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yaping Chu has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 34 papers in Neurology and 17 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Yaping Chu's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (29 papers), Nerve injury and regeneration (29 papers) and Neurological disorders and treatments (16 papers). Yaping Chu is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (29 papers), Nerve injury and regeneration (29 papers) and Neurological disorders and treatments (16 papers). Yaping Chu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Yaping Chu's co-authors include Jeffrey H. Kordower, C. Warren Olanow, Thomas B. Freeman, Robert A. Hauser, Hemraj B. Dodiya, Raymond T. Bartus, Patrick Aebischer, Glenda M. Halliday, Thomas G. Beach and Charles H. Adler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yaping Chu

70 papers receiving 8.0k 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.

Lewy body–like pathology in long-term embryonic nigral transplants in Parkinson's disease

2008 1.2k citations Jeffrey H. Kordower, Yaping Chu et al. Nature Medicine profile →
Neurodegeneration Prevented by Lentiviral Vector Delivery of GDNF in Primate Models of Parkinson's Disease

2000 1.0k citations Jeffrey H. Kordower, Marina E. Emborg et al. profile →
Disease duration and the integrity of the nigrostriatal system in Parkinson’s disease

2013 892 citations Jeffrey H. Kordower, C. Warren Olanow et al. Brain profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yaping Chu United States	39	4.1k	4.1k	2.8k	1.7k	1.2k	70	8.2k
Un Jung Kang United States	54	3.4k 0.8×	4.6k 1.1×	2.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	875 0.7×	127	8.1k
Bernard L. Schneider Switzerland	54	3.2k 0.8×	2.9k 0.7×	3.5k 1.2×	1.7k 1.0×	976 0.8×	150	8.9k
Bastian Hengerer Germany	39	3.7k 0.9×	1.9k 0.5×	2.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	936 0.8×	107	7.2k
Clifford W. Shults United States	43	4.1k 1.0×	4.0k 1.0×	3.5k 1.2×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	87	8.0k
Georg Auburger Germany	53	6.1k 1.5×	4.4k 1.1×	6.5k 2.3×	1.1k 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	194	11.1k
Vladimir L. Buchman United Kingdom	44	3.1k 0.7×	3.9k 1.0×	3.1k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	785 0.6×	142	8.1k
Jeffrey H. Kordower United States	46	4.6k 1.1×	1.8k 0.5×	2.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	914 0.7×	109	7.5k
Francesca Cicchetti Canada	47	3.3k 0.8×	2.4k 0.6×	2.7k 1.0×	898 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	138	6.4k
Caterina Bendotti Italy	54	2.7k 0.7×	3.6k 0.9×	3.3k 1.2×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	181	8.4k
Thomas Arzberger Germany	46	2.2k 0.5×	4.3k 1.1×	3.6k 1.3×	3.3k 1.9×	1.7k 1.3×	116	9.7k

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Betts, Dean H., et al.. (2025). Proximity proteomics reveals unique and shared pathological features between multiple system atrophy and Parkinson’s disease. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 13(1). 65–65. 1 indexed citations

Killinger, Bryan A., et al.. (2023). Distribution of phosphorylated alpha-synuclein in non-diseased brain implicates olfactory bulb mitral cells in synucleinopathy pathogenesis. npj Parkinson s Disease. 9(1). 43–43. 10 indexed citations

Chu, Yaping & Jeffrey H. Kordower. (2023). Post‐Mortem Studies of Neurturin Gene Therapy for Parkinson's Disease: Two Subjects with 10 Years CERE120 Delivery. Movement Disorders. 38(9). 1728–1736. 11 indexed citations

Chu, Yaping, Warren D. Hirst, Howard J. Federoff, et al.. (2023). Nigrostriatal tau pathology in parkinsonism and Parkinson’s disease. Brain. 147(2). 444–457. 61 indexed citations

Emerich, Dwaine F., Jeffrey H. Kordower, Yaping Chu, et al.. (2019). Widespread Striatal Delivery of GDNF from Encapsulated Cells Prevents the Anatomical and Functional Consequences of Excitotoxicity. Neural Plasticity. 2019. 1–9. 14 indexed citations

Becker, Katelyn, et al.. (2018). Detecting Alpha Synuclein Seeding Activity in Formaldehyde-Fixed MSA Patient Tissue by PMCA. Molecular Neurobiology. 55(11). 8728–8737. 39 indexed citations

Hu, Xia, Zhao‐Lan Hu, Zheng Li, et al.. (2017). Sortilin Fragments Deposit at Senile Plaques in Human Cerebrum. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. 11. 45–45. 26 indexed citations

Kordower, Jeffrey H., Ángel Viñuela, Yaping Chu, Ole Isacson, & D. Eugene Redmond. (2016). Parkinsonian monkeys with prior levodopa‐induced dyskinesias followed by fetal dopamine precursor grafts do not display graft‐induced dyskinesias. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 525(3). 498–512. 8 indexed citations

Bartus, Raymond T., Jeffrey H. Kordower, Eugene M. Johnson, et al.. (2015). Post-mortem assessment of the short and long-term effects of the trophic factor neurturin in patients with α-synucleinopathies. Neurobiology of Disease. 78. 162–171. 63 indexed citations

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Chu, Yaping & Jeffrey H. Kordower. (2015). The Prion Hypothesis of Parkinson’s Disease. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. 15(5). 28–28. 53 indexed citations

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Yang, Ling-Yu, Yaping Chu, David Tweedie, et al.. (2015). Post-trauma administration of the pifithrin-α oxygen analog improves histological and functional outcomes after experimental traumatic brain injury. Experimental Neurology. 269. 56–66. 33 indexed citations

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Nilsson, Nathalie, Gürdal Şahin, Yaping Chu, et al.. (2013). Continuous DOPA synthesis from a single AAV: dosing and efficacy in models of Parkinson's disease. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 2157–2157. 16 indexed citations

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Cicchetti, Francesca, Samuel Saporta, Robert A. Hauser, et al.. (2009). Neural transplants in patients with Huntington's disease undergo disease-like neuronal degeneration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(30). 12483–12488. 142 indexed citations

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Kordower, Jeffrey H., Yaping Chu, Robert A. Hauser, Thomas B. Freeman, & C. Warren Olanow. (2008). Lewy body–like pathology in long-term embryonic nigral transplants in Parkinson's disease. Nature Medicine. 14(5). 504–506. 1240 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pilitsis, Julie G., Yaping Chu, Jeffrey H. Kordower, et al.. (2008). POSTMORTEM STUDY OF DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION OF THE ANTERIOR THALAMUS. Neurosurgery. 62(2). E530–E532. 28 indexed citations

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Kordower, Jeffrey H., Yaping Chu, Robert A. Hauser, C. Warren Olanow, & Thomas B. Freeman. (2008). Transplanted dopaminergic neurons develop PD pathologic changes: A second case report. Movement Disorders. 23(16). 2303–2306. 204 indexed citations

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Emerich, Dwaine F., Christopher G. Thanos, Moses Goddard, et al.. (2006). Extensive neuroprotection by choroid plexus transplants in excitotoxin lesioned monkeys. Neurobiology of Disease. 23(2). 471–480. 70 indexed citations

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Chu, Yaping & Jeffrey H. Kordower. (2006). Age-associated increases of α-synuclein in monkeys and humans are associated with nigrostriatal dopamine depletion: Is this the target for Parkinson's disease?. Neurobiology of Disease. 25(1). 134–149. 333 indexed citations

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Emborg, Marina E., Dong Ah Shin, Ben Roitberg, et al.. (2001). Systemic Administration of the Immunophilin Ligand GPI 1046 in MPTP-Treated Monkeys. Experimental Neurology. 168(1). 171–182. 44 indexed citations

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Carpenter, Melissa K., Christian Winkler, Rosemary A. Fricker, et al.. (1997). Generation and Transplantation of EGF-Responsive Neural Stem Cells Derived from GFAP–hNGF Transgenic Mice. Experimental Neurology. 148(1). 187–204. 26 indexed citations

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