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Vivian Hook

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
59
Citations
10457
World Ranking
12744
National Ranking
5432

Vivian Hook publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Vivian Hook sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 210 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Vivian Hook D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Vivian Hook sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Vivian Hook is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with significant work in the molecular biology, physiology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, cancer research, and cell biology subfields.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, protease and inhibitor mechanisms, mitochondrial function and pathology, S100 proteins and annexins, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, antimicrobial peptides and activities, and peptidase inhibition and analysis.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Cathepsin B in neurodegeneration of Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury, and related brain disorders (2020) published in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics
  • A Clinical-Stage Cysteine Protease Inhibitor blocks SARS-CoV-2 Infection of Human and Monkey Cells (2021) published in ACS Chemical Biology
  • Cathepsin B Gene Knockout Improves Behavioral Deficits and Reduces Pathology in Models of Neurologic Disorders (2022) published in Pharmacological Reviews
  • Potent Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Activity by the Natural Product Gallinamide A and Analogues via Inhibition of Cathepsin L (2021) published in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Multi-omics of human plasma reveals molecular features of dysregulated inflammation and accelerated aging in schizophrenia (2021) published in Molecular Psychiatry

Frequent coauthors of Vivian Hook include Sonia Podvin, Anthony J. O'Donoghue, Michael C. Yoon, Charles Mosier, and William H. Gerwick.

Key publication venues where their work frequently appears are:

  • ACS Chemical Neuroscience
  • ACS Chemical Biology
  • Biochemistry
  • Journal of Huntington's Disease
  • ACS Omega

Best Publications

  • The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight.

    Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman;Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman;Manjula Darshi;Stefan J. Green;Ruben C. Gur

  • Specific caspase interactions and amplification are involved in selective neuronal vulnerability in Huntington's disease

    E Hermel;E Hermel;J Gafni;S S Propp;B R Leavitt

  • Proteases for Processing Proneuropeptides into Peptide Neurotransmitters and Hormones

    Vivian Hook;Lydiane Funkelstein;Douglas Lu;Steven Bark

  • Inhibitors of Cathepsin B Improve Memory and Reduce β-Amyloid in Transgenic Alzheimer Disease Mice Expressing the Wild-type, but Not the Swedish Mutant, β-Secretase Site of the Amyloid Precursor Protein

    Vivian Y. H. Hook;Mark Kindy;Gregory Hook

  • Cathepsin L in secretory vesicles functions as a prohormone-processing enzyme for production of the enkephalin peptide neurotransmitter

    Sukkid Yasothornsrikul;Doron Greenbaum;Katalin F. Medzihradszky;Thomas Toneff

  • Inhibition of cathepsin B reduces β-amyloid production in regulated secretory vesicles of neuronal chromaffin cells: evidence for cathepsin B as a candidate β-secretase of Alzheimer's disease

    Vivian Hook;Thomas Toneff;Matthew Bogyo;Doron Greenbaum

  • Tissue-Specific Proteolysis of Huntingtin (htt) in Human Brain: Evidence of Enhanced Levels of N- and C-Terminal htt Fragments in Huntington's Disease Striatum

    Liane M. Mende-Mueller;Thomas Toneff;Thomas Toneff;Shin-Rong Hwang;Shin-Rong Hwang;Marie-Francoise Chesselet

  • A carboxypeptidase processing enzyme for enkephalin precursors

    Vivian Y. H. Hook;Lee E. Eiden;Michael J. Brownstein

  • Carboxypeptidase B-like converting enzyme activity in secretory granules of rat pituitary

    V Y Hook;Y P Loh

  • Somatostatin inhibits multireceptor stimulation of cyclic AMP formation and corticotropin secretion in mouse pituitary tumor cells.

    Seymour Heisler;Terry D. Reisine;Vivian Y. H. Hook;Julius Axelrod

  • Proteases and the emerging role of protease inhibitors in prohormone processing.

    V. Y. H. Hook;A. V. Azaryan;Shin-Rong Hwang;N. Tezapsidis

  • Corticotropin releasing factor stimulates adrenocorticotropin and β-endorphin release from AtT-20 mouse pituitary tumor cells

    Vivian Y.H. Hook;Seymour Heisler;Steven L. Sabol;Julius Axelrod

  • The cysteine protease inhibitor, E64d, reduces brain amyloid-β and improves memory deficits in Alzheimer's disease animal models by inhibiting cathepsin B, but not BACE1, β-secretase activity.

    Gregory Hook;Vivian Hook;Mark Kindy;Mark Kindy

  • Genetic cathepsin B deficiency reduces β-amyloid in transgenic mice expressing human wild-type amyloid precursor protein

    Vivian Y.H. Hook;Mark Kindy;Thomas Reinheckel;Christoph Peters

  • Human iPSC neurons display activity-dependent neurotransmitter secretion: aberrant catecholamine levels in schizophrenia neurons.

    Vivian Hook;Vivian Hook;Kristen J. Brennand;Yongsung Kim;Thomas Toneff

  • Cathepsin B in Neurodegeneration of Alzheimer’s Disease, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Related Brain Disorders

    Vivian Hook;Vivian Hook;Michael Yoon;Charles Mosier;Gen Ito

  • Cathepsin B is a New Drug Target for Traumatic Brain injury Therapeutics: evidence for e64d as a Promising Lead Drug Candidate

    Gregory Hook;J. Steven Jacobsen;Kenneth Grabstein;Mark Kindy;Mark Kindy

  • Alternative pathways for production of beta-amyloid peptides of Alzheimer's disease.

    Vivian Hook;Israel Schechter;Hans-Ulrich Demuth;Gregory Hook

  • Expansion of the mycobacterial “PUPylome”

    Jeramie Watrous;Kristin Burns;Wei-Ting Liu;Anand Patel

  • MAJOR ROLE OF CATHEPSIN L FOR PRODUCING THE PEPTIDE HORMONES ACTH, β-ENDORPHIN, AND α-MSH, ILLUSTRATED BY PROTEASE GENE KNOCKOUT AND EXPRESSION

    Lydiane Funkelstein;Thomas Toneff;Charles Mosier;Shin-Rong Hwang

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark S. Kindy
Mark S. Kindy University of South Florida
Daniel T. O'Connor
Daniel T. O'Connor University of California, San Diego
Sushil K. Mahata
Sushil K. Mahata University of California, San Diego
Jill L. Wegrzyn
Jill L. Wegrzyn University of Connecticut
Michael G. Ziegler
Michael G. Ziegler University of California, San Diego
Christoph Peters
Christoph Peters University of Freiburg
Thomas Reinheckel
Thomas Reinheckel University of Freiburg
William H. Gerwick
William H. Gerwick University of California, San Diego
William S. Lane
William S. Lane Harvard University
Julius Axelrod
Julius Axelrod National Institutes of Health

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