2026 Florencia Labombarda: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	35	9218	8513	20	19	60	4535

Overview

Florencia Labombarda is affiliated with the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and neuroscience, with a marked emphasis on spinal cord injury and neural recovery.

The main fields of study associated with their work include:

Medicine
Neuroscience

The subfields within neuroscience and medicine where they have contributed include:

Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Developmental Neuroscience
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Neurology
Behavioral Neuroscience

Labombarda's research topics cover:

Spinal Cord Injury Research
Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
Nerve injury and regeneration
Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
Phytoestrogen effects and research
Stress Responses and Cortisol
Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations

The scientist has been published in several academic venues, with multiple publications in:

Journal of Neuroendocrinology
eNeuro
Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
Molecular Neurobiology
Neural Regeneration Research

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Labombarda include:

"Combination of Defined CatWalk Gait Parameters for Predictive Locomotion Recovery in Experimental Spinal Cord Injury Rat Models," 2021, eNeuro
"Spinal Cord Injury Leads to Hippocampal Glial Alterations and Neural Stem Cell Inactivation," 2020, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
"IGF1 Gene Therapy Reversed Cognitive Deficits and Restored Hippocampal Alterations After Chronic Spinal Cord Injury," 2021, Molecular Neurobiology
"The phytoestrogen genistein improves hippocampal neurogenesis and cognitive impairment and decreases neuroinflammation in an animal model of metabolic syndrome," 2024, Journal of Neuroendocrinology
"Beneficial effects of the phytoestrogen genistein on hippocampal impairments of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR)," 2023, Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Labombarda frequently collaborates with several researchers, among them:

Ignacio Jure
Alejandro F. De Nicola
Santiago Ronchetti
Julián Del Core
Paulina Roig

Their work addresses mechanisms underlying spinal cord injury recovery, neuroinflammation, and the role of phytoestrogens in neural health. The research outcomes contribute to understanding both the cellular and behavioral aspects of nervous system injury and repair.

Best Publications

Revisiting the roles of progesterone and allopregnanolone in the nervous system: Resurgence of the progesterone receptors

M. Schumacher;C. Mattern;A. Ghoumari;J.P. Oudinet

400
Citations
Local synthesis and dual actions of progesterone in the nervous system: neuroprotection and myelination

Michael Schumacher;Rachida Guennoun;Françoise Robert;Claude Carelli

301
Citations
Steroid synthesis and metabolism in the nervous system: Trophic and protective effects

Schumacher M;Akwa Y;Guennoun R;Robert F

255
Citations
Progesterone and allopregnanolone in the central nervous system: response to injury and implication for neuroprotection.

R. Guennoun;F. Labombarda;M.C. Gonzalez Deniselle;P. Liere

245
Citations
Progesterone neuroprotection in traumatic CNS injury and motoneuron degeneration.

Alejandro F. De Nicola;Alejandro F. De Nicola;Florencia Labombarda;Florencia Labombarda;Maria Claudia Gonzalez Deniselle;Maria Claudia Gonzalez Deniselle;Susana L. Gonzalez;Susana L. Gonzalez

209
Citations
Progesterone up-regulates neuronal brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression in the injured spinal cord.

S.L González;F Labombarda;F Labombarda;M.C González Deniselle;M.C González Deniselle;R Guennoun

157
Citations
Effects of injury and progesterone treatment on progesterone receptor and progesterone binding protein 25-Dx expression in the rat spinal cord.

F. Labombarda;S. L. Gonzalez;M. C. Gonzalez Deniselle;G. P. Vinson

153
Citations
Distribution of membrane progesterone receptor alpha in the male mouse and rat brain and its regulation after traumatic brain injury

D. Meffre;F. Labombarda;F. Labombarda;B. Delespierre;A. Chastre

151
Citations
Effects of progesterone on oligodendrocyte progenitors, oligodendrocyte transcription factors, and myelin proteins following spinal cord injury.

Florencia Labombarda;Florencia Labombarda;Susana L. González;Susana L. González;Analia Lima;Paulina Roig

146
Citations
Progesterone receptors: a key for neuroprotection in experimental stroke.

Ailing Liu;Isabelle Margaill;Shaodong Zhang;Florencia Labombarda

143
Citations
Progesterone neuroprotection in spinal cord trauma involves up-regulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in motoneurons☆

Susana L. Gonzalez;Florencia Labombarda;Maria Claudia Gonzalez Deniselle;Analia Mougel

136
Citations
Progesterone attenuates astro- and microgliosis and enhances oligodendrocyte differentiation following spinal cord injury.

Florencia Labombarda;Susana González;Susana González;Analia Lima;Paulina Roig

136
Citations
Progesterone treatment of spinal cord injury: Effects on receptors, neurotrophins, and myelination.

Alejandro F. De Nicola;Susana L. Gonzalez;Susana L. Gonzalez;Florencia Labombarda;Florencia Labombarda;Maria Claudia González Deniselle;Maria Claudia González Deniselle

135
Citations
Injury Elicited Increase in Spinal Cord Neurosteroid Content Analyzed by Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry

F. Labombarda;A. Pianos;P. Liere;B. Eychenne

132
Citations
Cellular Basis for Progesterone Neuroprotection in the Injured Spinal Cord

Florencia Labombarda;Susana L. Gonzalez;Maria Claudia Gonzalez Deniselle;Rachida Guennoun

128
Citations
Basis of progesterone protection in spinal cord neurodegeneration

Maria Claudia Gonzalez Deniselle;Juan José Lopez Costa;Susana L. Gonzalez;Florencia Labombarda

113
Citations
Progesterone modulates brain-derived neurotrophic factor and choline acetyltransferase in degenerating Wobbler motoneurons.

Maria Claudia Gonzalez Deniselle;Laura Garay;Susana Gonzalez;Flavia Saravia

110
Citations
Membrane progesterone receptors localization in the mouse spinal cord.

F. Labombarda;D. Meffre;B. Delespierre;S. Krivokapic-Blondiaux

105
Citations
Progesterone increases the expression of myelin basic protein and the number of cells showing NG2 immunostaining in the lesioned spinal cord.

Florencia Labombarda;Susana Gonzalez;Maria Claudia Gonzalez Deniselle;Laura Garay

104
Citations
The membrane-associated progesterone-binding protein 25-Dx: Expression, cellular localization and up-regulation after brain and spinal cord injuries

R. Guennoun;D. Meffre;F. Labombarda;S.L. Gonzalez

102
Citations