| Extracellular ATP triggers IL-1 beta release by activating the purinergic P2Z receptor of human macrophages | Journal of Immunology | 1997 | 437 |
| Purinergic modulation of interleukin-1 beta release from microglial cells stimulated with bacterial endotoxin | Journal of Experimental Medicine | 1997 | 412 |
| An apportionment of human DNA diversity | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1997 | 371 |
| One-wound laparoscopic cholecystectomy | British Journal of Surgery | 1997 | 268 |
| ATP-mediated cytotoxicity in microglial cells | Neuropharmacology | 1997 | 257 |
| Address and message sequences for the nociceptin receptor: a structure-activity study of nociceptin-(1-13)-peptide amide | Journal of Medicinal Chemistry | 1997 | 214 |
| Inflammatory cells in the bronchial glands of smokers with chronic bronchitis | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 1997 | 197 |
| Chaotic complex spreading sequences for asynchronous DS-CDMA. I. System modeling and results | IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part 1: Regular Papers | 1997 | 193 |
| Spontaneous cell fusion in macrophage cultures expressing high levels of the P2Z/P2X7 receptor | Journal of Cell Biology | 1997 | 152 |
| Retrospective analysis of factors related to clinical outcome of guided tissue regeneration procedures in intrabony defects | Journal of Clinical Periodontology | 1997 | 149 |
| The control of microvascular permeability and blood pressure by neutral endopeptidase | Nature Medicine | 1997 | 139 |
| Chronobiological patterns of onset of acute cerebrovascular diseases | Thrombosis Research | 1997 | 128 |
| Undiagnosed sleep-disordered breathing among male nondippers with essential hypertension | Journal of Hypertension | 1997 | 118 |
| Fatigue crack initiation and propagation phases near notches in metals with low notch sensitivity | International Journal of Fatigue | 1997 | 118 |
| Modafinil: an antinarcoleptic drug with a different neurochemical profile to d-amphetamine and dopamine uptake blockers | Biological Psychiatry | 1997 | 112 |
| Clinical and histological evaluation of thermal injury thresholds in human teeth: a preliminary study | Journal of Oral Rehabilitation | 1997 | 110 |
| Quantitative ethnopharmacological study of the Campidano Valley and Urzulei district, Sardinia, Italy | Journal of Ethnopharmacology | 1997 | 102 |
| GOK: a gene at 11p15 involved in rhabdomyosarcoma and rhabdoid tumor development | Cancer Research | 1997 | 101 |
| Cardiovascular phenotype of a mouse strain with disruption of bradykinin B2-receptor gene | Circulation | 1997 | 99 |
| The antinarcoleptic drug modafinil increases glutamate release in thalamic areas and hippocampus | NeuroReport | 1997 | 94 |
| Urodynamic effects of intravesical resiniferatoxin in humans: preliminary results in stable and unstable detrusor | Journal of Urology | 1997 | 92 |
| Estimating mean pulmonary wedge pressure in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation from transthoracic Doppler indexes of mitral and pulmonary venous flow velocity | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 1997 | 90 |
| Luigi Galvani and animal electricity: two centuries after the foundation of electrophysiology | Trends in Neurosciences | 1997 | 90 |
| A moderate transfusion regimen may reduce iron loading in beta-thalassemia major without producing excessive expansion of erythropoiesis | Transfusion | 1997 | 90 |
| Healing response of gingival recession defects following guided tissue regeneration procedures in smokers and non-smokers | Journal of Clinical Periodontology | 1997 | 89 |
