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Turkey
2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
60
Citations
11130
World Ranking
3883
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Turkey Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Turkey Leader Award

Overview

Ertugrul Kilic is affiliated with Istanbul Medipol University in Turkey. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience, medicine, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a notable focus on neurology, molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, physiology, and endocrine and autonomic systems.

The scientist's work is concentrated on several main topics, including neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, circadian rhythm and melatonin, extracellular vesicles in disease, phosphodiesterase function and regulation, olfactory and sensory function studies, microRNA in disease regulation, and nerve injury and regeneration.

Frequent publication outlets for their research include:

  • Experimental Neurology
  • TURKISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
  • Molecular Neurobiology
  • Research Square
  • Translational Stroke Research

Ertugrul Kilic has collaborated often with a group of co-authors, such as Mustafa Çağlar Beker, Dirk M. Hermann, Thorsten R. Doeppner, Ahmet B. Çağlayan, and Kazım Şahin.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Ertugrul Kilic include:

  • Adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells reduce autophagy in stroke mice by extracellular vesicle transfer of miR-25, 2020, Journal of Extracellular Vesicles
  • Extracellular vesicles from hypoxia-preconditioned microglia promote angiogenesis and repress apoptosis in stroke mice via the TGF-β/Smad2/3 pathway, 2021, Cell Death and Disease
  • Stroke induces disease-specific myeloid cells in the brain parenchyma and pia, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Extracellular Vesicles Derived from Neural Progenitor Cells--a Preclinical Evaluation for Stroke Treatment in Mice, 2020, Translational Stroke Research
  • Lithium modulates miR-1906 levels of mesenchymal stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles contributing to poststroke neuroprotection by toll-like receptor 4 regulation, 2020, Stem Cells Translational Medicine

Best Publications

  • Human synapsin 1 gene promoter confers highly neuron-specific long-term transgene expression from an adenoviral vector in the adult rat brain depending on the transduced area.

    S Kügler;E Kilic;M Bähr

  • Delayed post-ischaemic neuroprotection following systemic neural stem cell transplantation involves multiple mechanisms

    Marco Bacigaluppi;Stefano Pluchino;Luca Peruzzotti Jametti;Ertugrul Kilic

  • VEGF overexpression induces post-ischaemic neuroprotection, but facilitates haemodynamic steal phenomena.

    Yaoming Wang;Ertugrul Kilic;Ülkan Kilic;Bruno Weber

  • The phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase/Akt pathway mediates VEGF’s neuroprotective activity and induces blood brain barrier permeability after focal cerebral ischemia

    Ertugrul Kilic;Ülkan Kilic;Yaoming Wang;Claudio L. Bassetti

  • Brain-derived erythropoietin protects from focal cerebral ischemia by dual activation of ERK-1/-2 and Akt pathways

    Ertugrul Kilic;Ülkan Kilic;Jorge Soliz;Claudio L. Bassetti

  • Pharmacological utility of melatonin in reducing oxidative cellular and molecular damage.

    Russel J Reiter;Dun-Xian Tan;Eloisa Gitto;Rosa M Sainz

  • When melatonin gets on your nerves: its beneficial actions in experimental models of stroke.

    Russel J. Reiter;Dun Xian Tan;Josefa Leon;Ülkan Kilic

  • Intravenous TAT-GDNF Is Protective After Focal Cerebral Ischemia in Mice

    Ülkan Kilic;Ertugrul Kilic;Gunnar P.H. Dietz;Mathias Bähr

  • Intravenous TAT-Bcl-Xl is protective after middle cerebral artery occlusion in mice.

    Ertugrul Kilic;Gunnar P. H. Dietz;Dirk M. Hermann;Mathias Bähr

  • Human vascular endothelial growth factor protects axotomized retinal ganglion cells in vivo by activating ERK-1/2 and Akt pathways

    Ülkan Kilic;Ertugrul Kilic;Anne Järve;Zeyun Guo

  • Pinealectomy Aggravates and Melatonin Administration Attenuates Brain Damage in Focal Ischemia

    E Kilic;Y G Ozdemir;H Bolay;H Keleştimur

  • Melatonin suppresses cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity via activation of Nrf-2/HO-1 pathway.

    Ulkan Kilic;Ertugrul Kilic;Zeynep Tuzcu;Mehmet Tuzcu

  • Inhibition of multidrug resistance transporter-1 facilitates neuroprotective therapies after focal cerebral ischemia.

    Annett Spudich;Ertugrul Kilic;Hongyi Xing;Ülkan Kilic

  • Aggravation of ischemic brain injury by prion protein deficiency: role of ERK-1/-2 and STAT-1.

    Annett Spudich;Rico Frigg;Ertugrul Kilic;Ülkan Kilic

  • Post-acute delivery of erythropoietin induces stroke recovery by promoting perilesional tissue remodelling and contralesional pyramidal tract plasticity.

    Raluca Reitmeir;Ertugrul Kilic;Ülkan Kilic;Marco Bacigaluppi

  • TLR-4 deficiency protects against focal cerebral ischemia and axotomy-induced neurodegeneration.

    Ulkan Kilic;Ertugrul Kilic;Ertugrul Kilic;Christian M. Matter;Claudio L. Bassetti

  • Erythropoietin protects from axotomy-induced degeneration of retinal ganglion cells by activating ERK-1/-2.

    Ülkan Kilic;Ertugrul Kilic;Jorge Soliz;Claudio I. Bassetti

  • Extracellular vesicles from hypoxia-preconditioned microglia promote angiogenesis and repress apoptosis in stroke mice via the TGF-β/Smad2/3 pathway.

    Lin Zhang;Wei Wei;Xiaoyu Ai;Ertugrul Kilic

  • Signal transduction pathways involved in melatonin-induced neuroprotection after focal cerebral ischemia in mice

    Ülkan Kilic;Ertugrul Kilic;Russel J. Reiter;Claudio L. Bassetti

  • Delayed melatonin administration promotes neuronal survival, neurogenesis and motor recovery, and attenuates hyperactivity and anxiety after mild focal cerebral ischemia in mice.

    Ertugrul Kilic;Ülkan Kilic;Marco Bacigaluppi;Zeyun Guo

  • Inhibition of neuronal apoptosis in vitro and in vivo using TAT-mediated protein transduction.

    Gunnar P.H. Dietz;Ertugrul Kilic;Mathias Bähr

  • Relationship between metabolic dysfunctions, gene responses and delayed cell death after mild focal cerebral ischemia in mice.

    D.M Hermann;E Kilic;R Hata;K.-A Hossmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudio L. Bassetti
Claudio L. Bassetti University of Bern
Mathias Bähr
Mathias Bähr University of Göttingen
Stefan Isenmann
Stefan Isenmann Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Nurhan Sahin
Nurhan Sahin Fırat University
Jean-Marc Fritschy
Jean-Marc Fritschy University of Zurich
Martin E. Schwab
Martin E. Schwab University of Zurich
Isabelle M. Mansuy
Isabelle M. Mansuy University of Zurich
Paul Lingor
Paul Lingor Technical University of Munich
Herman van der Putten
Herman van der Putten Novartis (Switzerland)
Esther Werth
Esther Werth University of Zurich

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