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Domenico Del Turco

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Neuroscience

D-Index
36
Citations
8444
World Ranking
8912
National Ranking
747

Domenico Del Turco publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Domenico Del Turco sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 63 publications — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Domenico Del Turco D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Domenico Del Turco sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 36 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Domenico Del Turco is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a notable focus on cellular and molecular neuroscience as well as molecular biology and neurology. Their work includes significant contributions to physiology and developmental neuroscience.

The scientist's main research topics cover several areas within neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments. They also investigate neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, phagocytosis and immune regulation, and broader neurological disease mechanisms and treatments.

Domenico Del Turco has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Thomas Deller
  • Mandy H. Paul
  • Jessica Wagner
  • Karoline Degenhardt
  • Angelos Skodras

Their recent publications include:

  • Medin co-aggregates with vascular amyloid-β in Alzheimer's disease, 2022, Nature
  • The actin-modulating protein synaptopodin mediates long-term survival of dendritic spines, 2020, eLife
  • Medin aggregation causes cerebrovascular dysfunction in aging wild-type mice, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Hypoxia induced deregulation of sphingolipids in colon cancer is a prognostic marker for patient outcome, 2023, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease
  • Neuropathic and cAMP-induced pain behavior is ameliorated in mice lacking CNGB1, 2020, Neuropharmacology

Their work has appeared in various scientific venues, reflecting interdisciplinary interests, including:

  • Nature
  • eLife
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease
  • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Best Publications

  • Hereditary Early-Onset Parkinson's Disease Caused by Mutations in PINK1

    Eriza Maria Valente;Patrick M. Abou-Sleiman;Viviana Caputo;Miratul M K Muqit

  • Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Transfer of Genetic Information between the Hematopoietic System and the Brain in Response to Inflammation

    Kirsten Ridder;Sascha Keller;Maria Dams;Anne-Kathleen Rupp

  • Mitochondrial dysfunction, peroxidation damage and changes in glutathione metabolism in PARK6

    Hans-Hermann Hoepken;Suzana Gispert;Blas Morales;Oliver Wingerter

  • AnkyrinG is required to maintain axo-dendritic polarity in vivo

    Jürgen-Markus Sobotzik;Jana Maria Sie;Chrisoula Politi;Domenico Del Turco

  • Transgenic mice expressing mutant A53T human alpha-synuclein show neuronal dysfunction in the absence of aggregate formation

    Suzana Gispert;Domenico Del Turco;Lisa Garrett;Amy Chen

  • Precortical Phase of Alzheimer's Disease (AD)-Related Tau Cytoskeletal Pathology.

    Katharina Stratmann;Helmut Heinsen;Horst-Werner Korf;Domenico Del Turco

  • Induction of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in plaque-associated glial cells of aged APP23 transgenic mice.

    Guido J. Burbach;Rainer Hellweg;Carola A. Haas;Domenico Del Turco

  • Degeneration of the cerebellum in Huntington's disease (HD): possible relevance for the clinical picture and potential gateway to pathological mechanisms of the disease process.

    Udo Rüb;Franziska Hoche;Ewout R. Brunt;Helmut Heinsen

  • NADPH Oxidase-4 Maintains Neuropathic Pain after Peripheral Nerve Injury

    Wiebke Kallenborn-Gerhardt;Katrin Schröder;Domenico Del Turco;Ruirui Lu

  • Reduced inflammatory hyperalgesia with preservation of acute thermal nociception in mice lacking cGMP-dependent protein kinase I

    Irmgard Tegeder;Domenico Del Turco;Achim Schmidtko;Matthias Sausbier

  • Medin co-aggregates with vascular amyloid-β in Alzheimer’s disease

    Unknown

  • Dentate granule cells in reeler mutants and VLDLR and ApoER2 knockout mice.

    Alexander Drakew;Thomas Deller;Thomas Deller;Bernd Heimrich;Bernd Heimrich;Carl Gebhardt;Carl Gebhardt

  • Thyroid hormone controls cone opsin expression in the retina of adult rodents

    Anika Glaschke;Jessica Weiland;Domenico Del Turco;Marianne Steiner

  • IκB kinase 2 determines oligodendrocyte loss by non-cell-autonomous activation of NF-κB in the central nervous system

    Jenni Raasch;Jenni Raasch;Nicolas Zeller;Geert Van Loo;Geert Van Loo;Doron Merkler;Doron Merkler

  • Organotypic Entorhino-Hippocampal Slice Cultures—A Tool to Study the Molecular and Cellular Regulation of Axonal Regeneration and Collateral Sprouting In Vitro

    Domenico Del Turco;Thomas Deller

  • A role for synaptopodin and the spine apparatus in hippocampal synaptic plasticity.

    Thomas Deller;Carlos Bas Orth;Domenico Del Turco;Andreas Vlachos

  • OAT2 catalyses efflux of glutamate and uptake of orotic acid

    Christian Fork;Tim Bauer;Stefan Golz;Andreas Geerts

  • Regeneration of entorhinal fibers in mouse slice cultures is age dependent and can be stimulated by NT-4, GDNF, and modulators of G-proteins and protein kinase C.

    Peter Prang;Domenico Del Turco;Josef P. Kapfhammer

  • The Brainstem Tau Cytoskeletal Pathology of Alzheimer's Disease: A Brief Historical Overview and Description of its Anatomical Distribution Pattern, Evolutional Features, Pathogenetic and Clinical Relevance

    Udo Rüb;Katharina Stratmann;Helmut Heinsen;Helmut Heinsen;Domenico Del Turco

  • Quantification of layer-specific gene expression in the hippocampus: effective use of laser microdissection in combination with quantitative RT-PCR.

    Guido J. Burbach;Doris Dehn;Domenico Del Turco;Thomas Deller

  • Regulation of the spatial code for BDNF mRNA isoforms in the rat hippocampus following pilocarpine-treatment: A systematic analysis using laser microdissection and quantitative real-time PCR

    Gabriele Baj;Domenico Del Turco;Jessica Schlaudraff;Lucio Torelli

  • Lamina-specific distribution of Synaptopodin, an actin-associated molecule essential for the spine apparatus, in identified principal cell dendrites of the mouse hippocampus.

    Carlos Bas Orth;Andreas Vlachos;Domenico Del Turco;Guido J. Burbach

  • Coincident enrichment of phosphorylated IκBα, activated IKK, and phosphorylated p65 in the axon initial segment of neurons

    Christian Schultz;Hans-Georg König;Domenico Del Turco;Chrisoula Politi

  • Extracellular vesicle-mediated transfer of genetic information between the hematopoietic system and the brain in response to inflammation

    Kirsten Ridder;Sascha Keller;Maria Dams;Anne-kathleen Rupp

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Deller
Thomas Deller Goethe University Frankfurt
Gerd Geisslinger
Gerd Geisslinger Goethe University Frankfurt
Helmut Heinsen
Helmut Heinsen University of Würzburg
Horst-Werner Korf
Horst-Werner Korf Goethe University Frankfurt
Andreas Vlachos
Andreas Vlachos University of Freiburg
Udo Rüb
Udo Rüb Goethe University Frankfurt
Matthias Staufenbiel
Matthias Staufenbiel University of Tübingen
Philipp J. Kahle
Philipp J. Kahle University of Tübingen
Christian Schultz
Christian Schultz Heidelberg University
Robert L. Nussbaum
Robert L. Nussbaum University of California, San Francisco

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National Institutes of Health

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