Yongbo Lu

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
88 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Yongbo Lu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Rheumatology and Oral Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Yongbo Lu has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Molecular Biology, 51 papers in Rheumatology and 24 papers in Oral Surgery. Recurrent topics in Yongbo Lu's work include Bone and Dental Protein Studies (50 papers), dental development and anomalies (39 papers) and Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (24 papers). Yongbo Lu is often cited by papers focused on Bone and Dental Protein Studies (50 papers), dental development and anomalies (39 papers) and Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (24 papers). Yongbo Lu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Yongbo Lu's co-authors include Jian Q. Feng, Yixia Xie, Lynda F. Bonewald, Chunlin Qin, Baozhi Yuan, Shubin Zhang, Héctor F. Ríos, Marc K. Drezner, Sarah L. Dallas and Xiaofang Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Genetics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Yongbo Lu

87 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Loss of DMP1 causes rickets and osteomalacia and identifies a role for osteocytes in mineral metabolism

2006 878 citations Jian Q. Feng, Leanne M. Ward et al. Nature Genetics profile →

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Yixia Xie United States

Masaki Noda Japan

Victoria Shalhoub United States

Sarah L. Dallas United States

Natasha Cherman United States

Monzur Murshed Canada

Amjad Javed United States

Su‐Li Cheng United States

Takenobu Katagiri Japan

A.L.J.J. Bronckers Netherlands

Yixia Xie United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yongbo Lu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yongbo Lu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yongbo Lu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yongbo Lu. Yongbo Lu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lu, Yongbo, Xiaohui Liu, Xingyong Zhang, et al.. (2025). Chemical composition analysis of the proteins of leech extract with anti-pulmonary fibrosis and their effects on metabolomics based on chromatography-mass spectrometry. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. 262. 116868–116868. 1 indexed citations

Li, Jiahe, et al.. (2024). Constitutive expression of spliced X-box binding protein 1 inhibits dentin formation in mice. Frontiers in Physiology. 14. 1319954–1319954. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Yin, Yongbo Lu, Xiaoxi Gong, et al.. (2024). Leech extract alleviates idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis by TGF-β1/Smad3 signaling pathway. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 324. 117737–117737. 5 indexed citations

Shiflett, Lora A., et al.. (2019). Collagen Dynamics During the Process of Osteocyte Embedding and Mineralization. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 7. 178–178. 42 indexed citations

Cross, Stephen, Yinhui Lu, Karl E. Kadler, et al.. (2018). Live imaging of collagen deposition during skin development and repair in a collagen I – GFP fusion transgenic zebrafish line. Developmental Biology. 441(1). 4–11. 41 indexed citations

Zhang, Hua, et al.. (2016). Transgenic expression of dentin phosphoprotein inhibits skeletal development. European Journal of Histochemistry. 60(1). 2587–2587. 9 indexed citations

Zhang, Hua, Priyam Jani, Tian Liang, Yongbo Lu, & Chunlin Qin. (2016). Inactivation of bone morphogenetic protein 1 (Bmp1) and tolloid-like 1 (Tll1) in cells expressing type I collagen leads to dental and periodontal defects in mice. Journal of Molecular Histology. 48(2). 83–98. 13 indexed citations

Jani, Priyam, Monica Prasad Gibson, Chao Liu, et al.. (2015). Transgenic expression of Dspp partially rescued the long bone defects of Dmp1-null mice. Matrix Biology. 52-54. 95–112. 32 indexed citations

Wang, Xiaofang, Jingya Wang, Baozhi Yuan, et al.. (2014). Overexpression of Dmp1 fails to rescue the bone and dentin defects inFam20Cknockout mice. Connective Tissue Research. 55(4). 299–303. 15 indexed citations

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Mammoto, Tadanori, Elisabeth Jiang, Amanda Jiang, et al.. (2013). Twist1 Controls Lung Vascular Permeability and Endotoxin-Induced Pulmonary Edema by Altering Tie2 Expression. PLoS ONE. 8(9). e73407–e73407. 31 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaofang, Shuzhen Wang, Yongbo Lu, et al.. (2012). FAM20C Plays an Essential Role in the Formation of Murine Teeth. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(43). 35934–35942. 59 indexed citations

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Cao, Zhengguo, Yao Sun, Yongbo Lu, et al.. (2012). Protective Roles of DMP1 in High Phosphate Homeostasis. PLoS ONE. 7(8). e42329–e42329. 26 indexed citations

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Zhu, Qinglin, Monica Prasad Gibson, Qilin Liu, et al.. (2012). Proteolytic Processing of Dentin Sialophosphoprotein (DSPP) Is Essential to Dentinogenesis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(36). 30426–30435. 50 indexed citations

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Lu, Yongbo, Yucheng Li, Adriana Cavender, et al.. (2012). Molecular studies on the roles of Runx2 and Twist1 in regulating FGF signaling. Developmental Dynamics. 241(11). 1708–1715. 19 indexed citations

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Lu, Yongbo, Chunlin Qin, Yixia Xie, Lynda F. Bonewald, & Jian Q. Feng. (2008). Studies of the DMP1 57-kDa Functional Domain both in vivo and in vitro. Cells Tissues Organs. 189(1-4). 175–185. 45 indexed citations

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Lu, Yongbo, Ling Ye, Shibin Yu, et al.. (2006). Rescue of odontogenesis in Dmp1-deficient mice by targeted re-expression of DMP1 reveals roles for DMP1 in early odontogenesis and dentin apposition in vivo. Developmental Biology. 303(1). 191–201. 111 indexed citations

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Feng, Jian Q., Leanne M. Ward, Shiguang Liu, et al.. (2006). Loss of DMP1 causes rickets and osteomalacia and identifies a role for osteocytes in mineral metabolism. Nature Genetics. 38(11). 1310–1315. 878 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lu, Yongbo, et al.. (2005). Differential Regulation of Dentin Matrix Protein 1 Expression during Odontogenesis. Cells Tissues Organs. 181(3-4). 241–247. 14 indexed citations

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Bryan, Brad A., et al.. (2003). Evidence for control of nitrogen metabolism by a START-dependent mechanism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 271(1). 72–81. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jianghong, Xiaoyu Tan, Christopher H. Contag, et al.. (2002). Dissection of promoter control modules that direct Bmp4 expression in the epithelium-derived components of hair follicles. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 293(5). 1412–1419. 22 indexed citations

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