Yuan He

10.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
60 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Yuan He is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Nephrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuan He has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Immunology and 11 papers in Nephrology. Recurrent topics in Yuan He's work include Inflammasome and immune disorders (18 papers), Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide (7 papers) and interferon and immune responses (5 papers). Yuan He is often cited by papers focused on Inflammasome and immune disorders (18 papers), Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide (7 papers) and interferon and immune responses (5 papers). Yuan He collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Israel. Yuan He's co-authors include Gabriel Núñez, Hideki Hara, Yanhui Duan, Nathan Kelley, Devon Jeltema, Dahai Yang, Benny Motro, Melody Yue Zeng, Raúl Muñoz-Planillo and Qin Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Yuan He

56 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

The NLRP3 Inflammasome: An Overview of Mechanisms of Ac... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2019 2016 2016 2015 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. The NLRP3 Inflammasome: An Overview of Mechanisms of Activation and Regulation
    2019 2.6k citations Nathan Kelley, Yanhui Duan et al. profile →
  2. Mechanism and Regulation of NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation
    2016 2.2k citations Yuan He, Gabriel Núñez et al. profile →
  3. NEK7 is an essential mediator of NLRP3 activation downstream of potassium efflux
    2016 979 citations Yuan He, Melody Yue Zeng et al. Nature profile →
  4. Caspase-11 Requires the Pannexin-1 Channel and the Purinergic P2X7 Pore to Mediate Pyroptosis and Endotoxic Shock
    2015 496 citations Dahai Yang, Yuan He et al. Immunity profile →

Peers

Yuan He
Amir S. Yazdi Germany
Yi Zhang China
Daniel A. Muruve Canada
David Brough United Kingdom
Wei Wei China
Hajime Kono Japan
Franz Bauernfeind Germany
Gloria López‐Castejón United Kingdom
Hui Zhang China
Huan Yang United States
Amir S. Yazdi Germany
Yuan He
Citations per year, relative to Yuan He Yuan He (= 1×) peers Amir S. Yazdi

Countries citing papers authored by Yuan He

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yuan He

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuan He

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yuan He. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yuan He 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 Yuan He. Yuan He is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Xu, Jie, Lingzhi Zhang, Yanhui Duan, et al.. (2025). NEK7 phosphorylation amplifies NLRP3 inflammasome activation downstream of potassium efflux and gasdermin D. Science Immunology. 10(103). eadl2993–eadl2993. 11 indexed citations
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Su, Yuting, et al.. (2025). Activation of the conserved Hippo kinases by inflammasome-triggered proteolytic cleavage controls programmed cell death in macrophages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(5). e2418613122–e2418613122. 2 indexed citations
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Wu, Tingni, Shiqing Chen, Qin Yang, et al.. (2023). Vaccarin alleviates cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury via decreasing NOX4-derived ROS. Heliyon. 9(11). e21231–e21231. 11 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaoning, Siting Li, Yuan He, et al.. (2023). Effects of cardiac function alterations on the risk of postoperative thrombotic complications in patients receiving endovascular aortic repair. Frontiers in Physiology. 13. 1114110–1114110.
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Kelley, Nathan & Yuan He. (2023). Assessment of NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation and NLRP3-NEK7 Complex Assembly. Methods in molecular biology. 2641. 17–26.
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Wang, Jing & Yuan He. (2022). Diagnostic role of NPY methylation in patients with colorectal cancer. JUSTC. 52(6). 2–2. 1 indexed citations
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Suo, Xiao-Guo, Fang Wang, Xiaoyan He, et al.. (2022). Targeted inhibition of TGF-β type I receptor by AZ12601011 protects against kidney fibrosis. European Journal of Pharmacology. 929. 175116–175116. 8 indexed citations
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Chen, Shiqing, Yaru Yang, Yuan He, et al.. (2022). The protective effect of rabeprazole on cisplatin-induced apoptosis and necroptosis of renal proximal tubular cells. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 612. 91–98. 8 indexed citations
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Zhang, Menglei, Fangyue Zhou, Yuan He, et al.. (2021). Predicting Lymph Node Involvement in Borderline Ovarian Tumors with a Quantitative Model and Nomogram: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Cancer Management and Research. Volume 13. 1529–1539. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Chao, Ying Chen, Yuan He, et al.. (2021). The Programmed Cell Death of Macrophages, Endothelial Cells, and Tubular Epithelial Cells in Sepsis-AKI. Frontiers in Medicine. 8. 796724–796724. 53 indexed citations
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Wang, Fang, Jianan Wang, Xiaoyan He, et al.. (2021). Stratifin promotes renal dysfunction in ischemic and nephrotoxic AKI mouse models via enhancing RIPK3-mediated necroptosis. Acta Pharmacologica Sinica. 43(2). 330–341. 19 indexed citations
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Hou, Baohua, Yahui Zhang, Peiyu Liang, et al.. (2020). Inhibition of the NLRP3-inflammasome prevents cognitive deficits in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis mice via the alteration of astrocyte phenotype. Cell Death and Disease. 11(5). 377–377. 148 indexed citations
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He, Yuan, Yanhui Duan, & Nathan Kelley. (2020). Role of the NLRP3 inflammasome in neurodegenerative diseases and therapeutic implications. Neural Regeneration Research. 15(7). 1249–1249. 37 indexed citations
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Li, Xiaoqing, Xuyin Zhang, Yuan He, et al.. (2019). Analysis of the reproductive outcomes and the size of the unicornuate uterus measured by magnetic resonance imaging and their relationship. Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 299(5). 1321–1330. 6 indexed citations
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He, Dan, Mingming Zhao, Congying Wu, et al.. (2017). Apolipoprotein A-1 mimetic peptide 4F promotes endothelial repairing and compromises reendothelialization impaired by oxidized HDL through SR-B1. Redox Biology. 15. 228–242. 35 indexed citations
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He, Yuan, Melody Yue Zeng, Dahai Yang, Benny Motro, & Gabriel Núñez. (2016). NEK7 is an essential mediator of NLRP3 activation downstream of potassium efflux. Nature. 530(7590). 354–357. 979 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yang, Dahai, Yuan He, Raúl Muñoz-Planillo, Qin Liu, & Gabriel Núñez. (2015). Caspase-11 Requires the Pannexin-1 Channel and the Purinergic P2X7 Pore to Mediate Pyroptosis and Endotoxic Shock. Immunity. 43(5). 923–932. 496 indexed citations breakdown →
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Suzuki, Shiho, Luigi Franchi, Yuan He, et al.. (2014). Shigella Type III Secretion Protein MxiI Is Recognized by Naip2 to Induce Nlrc4 Inflammasome Activation Independently of Pkcδ. PLoS Pathogens. 10(2). e1003926–e1003926. 88 indexed citations
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He, Yuan, et al.. (2005). Guidelines for the design of multiscale simulation codes. 1 indexed citations
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He, Yuan, Joshua R. Gray, Richard C. Alkire, & Richard D. Braatz. (2004). Predictor-corrector methods for dynamically coupling multiscale simulation codes. 10179–10183. 1 indexed citations

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