🏆 Finalist — NIH Data Sharing Index (“S-Index”) Challenge

Pragney Deme

Tulane University

ORCID: 0000-0001-9117-891X

Also affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Agricultural and Biological SciencesChemistryBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyNeuroscienceNursing

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

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Papers

Driven by 14 papers. Top paper: “Restoring the Multiple Sclerosis Associated Imbalance of Gut Indole Metabolites Promotes Remyelination and Suppresses Neuroinflammation”.

Restoring the Multiple Sclerosis Associated Imbalance of Gut Indole Metabolites Promotes Remyelination and Suppresses Neuroinflammation

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.10.27.620437

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0.363DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Saumitra Sen Singh, Judy Lee, Asmita Dhukhwa, Fatemeh Siavoshi, Deepika Joshi +20 more

High-Fat Diet and Short-Term Unpredictable Stress Increase Long-Chain Ceramides Without Enhancing Behavioral Despair

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences(2022)10.3389/fmolb.2022.859760

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10 citations

Lizmarie Tirado‐Castro, Cristina Suárez, Dariangelly Pacheco-Cruz, Wilfred Fonseca‐Ferrer, Pragney Deme +4 more

Association of Plasma Eicosanoid Levels With Immune, Viral, and Cognitive Outcomes in People With HIV

Neurology(2022)10.1212/wnl.0000000000200945

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7 citations

Mohammed Moniruzzaman, David Moore, Robert K. Heaton, R. Ellis, Scott L. Letendre +2 more

Inhibiting tau-induced elevated nSMase2 activity and ceramides is therapeutic in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model

Translational Neurodegeneration(2023)10.1186/s40035-023-00383-9

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24 citations

Benjamin J. Bell, Medhinee M. Malvankar, Pragney Deme, Carlos Nogueras‐Ortiz, Erden Eren +12 more

Inhibition of neutral sphingomyelinase 2 impairs HIV-1 envelope formation and substantially delays or eliminates viral rebound

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2023)10.1073/pnas.2219543120

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18 citations

Abdül Waheed, Pragney Deme, Şehmus Tohumeken, Rana Rais, Matthew D. Smith +7 more

Neuronal deletion of nSMase2 reduces the production of Aβ and directly protects neurons

Neurobiology of Disease(2023)10.1016/j.nbd.2023.105987

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7 citations

Pragney Deme, Seung Wan Yoo, Sujasha Gupta, Rana Rais, Barbara S. Slusher +2 more

Key regulator PNPLA8 drives phospholipid reprogramming induced proliferation and migration in triple-negative breast cancer

Breast Cancer Research(2023)10.1186/s13058-023-01742-0

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9 citations

Pragney Deme, Keerti Boyapati, Britt S. R. Claes, Annet A. M. Duivenvoorden, Ron M. A. Heeren +4 more

Inhibiting tau-induced elevated nSMase2 activity and ceramides is therapeutic in murine Alzheimer’s disease

Research Square(2023)10.21203/rs.3.rs-3131295/v1

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4 citations

Benjamin J. Bell, Medhinee M. Malvankar, Pragney Deme, Carlos Nogueras‐Ortiz, Erden Eren +12 more

A neurodegenerative cellular stress response linked to dark microglia and toxic lipid secretion

Neuron(2024)10.1016/j.neuron.2024.11.018

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73 citations

Leen Aljayousi, Hye-Jin Park, Mohammadparsa Khakpour, Jack Mechler, Siaresh Aziz +19 more

Etomoxir repurposed as a promiscuous fatty acid mimetic chemoproteomic probe

iScience(2024)10.1016/j.isci.2024.110642

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22 citations

Danielle M. Smith, Ye Jin Lee, Danfeng Cai, Jahangir Hossain, Tamara J. O’Connor +6 more

A randomized feasibility trial of the modified Atkins diet in older adults with mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease

Frontiers in Endocrinology(2024)10.3389/fendo.2024.1182519

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12 citations

Pragney Deme, Joshua Betz, Jason Brandt, Norman J. Haughey, Mackenzie C. Cervenka +1 more

Insulin acts on astrocytes to shift their substrate preference to fatty acids

iScience(2025)10.1016/j.isci.2024.111642

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7 citations

Pragney Deme, Sujasha Gupta, Seung Wan Yoo, Saja S. Khuder, Ahmet Höke +4 more

Bioenergetic adaptations to HIV infection. Could modulation of energy substrate utilization improve brain health in people living with HIV-1?

Experimental Neurology(2020)10.1016/j.expneurol.2020.113181

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11 citations

Camilo Rojas, Barbara S. Slusher, Raina Rais, Zahra Afghah, Jonathan D. Geiger +2 more

PeakClimber: A software tool for the accurate quantification of complex HPLC chromatograms

Journal of Chromatography B(2025)10.1016/j.jchromb.2025.124721

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2 citations

Pragney Deme, Norman J. Haughey, Steven Farber, William B. Ludington, Joshua T. Derrick