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  • AhR signaling in skin-resident CD207 cells is involved in UV-B-induced amelioration of neuroinflammation.

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    Authors: Nadine Mykicki, Johannes A Eble, Heike Weighardt, Elena Gonnelli, Maria Schneeweiß, Charlotte Esser, Carsten Weishaupt, Maryam Rezaei, Irmgard Förster, Nicholas Schwab, Heinz Wiendl, Björn E Clausen, Sven G Meuth, Karin Loser

  • Ablation of CCL17-positive hippocampal neurons induces inflammation-dependent epilepsy.

    Epilepsia

    Authors: Judith Eberhard, Lukas Henning, Lorenz Fülle, Konrad Knöpper, Jana Böhringer, Frederike J Graelmann, Lea Hänschke, Julia Kenzler, Frederic Brosseron, Michael T Heneka, Ana I Domingos, Stefanie Eyerich, Matthias Lochner, Heike Weighardt, Peter Bedner, Christian Steinhäuser, Irmgard Förster

  • Topical application of a CCL22-binding aptamer suppresses contact allergy.

    Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids

    Authors: Anna Jonczyk, Marlene Gottschalk, Matthew S J Mangan, Yasmin Majlesain, Manja W Thiem, Lea-Corinna Burbaum, Heike Weighardt, Eicke Latz, Günter Mayer, Irmgard Förster

  • Dysregulation of stress erythropoiesis and enhanced susceptibility to Salmonella Typhimurium infection in AhR-deficient mice.

    The Journal of infectious diseases

    Authors: Michelle Mayer, Sevgi Can Cengiz-Dartenne, Manja Thiem, Philip Hatzfeld, Adrian Semeniuk, Nancy Wang, Richard A Strugnell, Irmgard Förster, Heike Weighardt

  • Differential cell type-specific function of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor and its repressor in diet-induced obesity and fibrosis.

    Molecular metabolism

    Authors: Frederike J Graelmann, Fabian Gondorf, Yasmin Majlesain, Birte Niemann, Katarina Klepac, Dominic Gosejacob, Marlene Gottschalk, Michelle Mayer, Irina Iriady, Philip Hatzfeld, Sophie K Lindenberg, Klaus Wunderling, Christoph Thiele, Zeinab Abdullah, Wei He, Karsten Hiller, Kristian Händler, Marc D Beyer, Thomas Ulas, Alexander Pfeifer, Charlotte Esser, Heike Weighardt, Irmgard Förster, Laia Reverte-Salisa

  • The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) repressor limits expression of antimicrobial genes but not AHR-dependent genes in intestinal eosinophils.

    Journal of leukocyte biology

    Authors: Heike Weighardt, Michael Shapiro, Michelle Mayer, Irmgard Förster, Brigitta Stockinger, Nicola Laura Diny

  • The GM-CSF/CCL17 pathway in obesity-associated osteoarthritic pain and disease in mice.

    Osteoarthritis and cartilage

    Authors: Heonsu Shin, Varun Prasad, Tanya Lupancu, Shveta Malik, Adrian Achuthan, Mark Biondo, Bronwyn A Kingwell, Manja Thiem, Marlene Gottschalk, Heike Weighardt, Irmgard Förster, Richard de Steiger, John A Hamilton, Kevin M-C Lee

  • CCL17 Protects Against Viral Myocarditis by Suppressing the Recruitment of Regulatory T Cells.

    Journal of the American Heart Association

    Authors: Guoshuai Feng, Cuige Zhu, Chieh-Yu Lin, Andrea Bredemeyer, Irmgard Förster, Daniel Kreisel, Kory J Lavine

  • MotiQ: an open-source toolbox to quantify the cell motility and morphology of microglia.

    Molecular biology of the cell

    Authors: Jan N Hansen, Matthias Brückner, Marie J Pietrowski, Jan F Jikeli, Monika Plescher, Hannes Beckert, Mareike Schnaars, Lorenz Fülle, Katharina Reitmeier, Thomas Langmann, Irmgard Förster, Delphine Boche, Gabor C Petzold, Annett Halle

  • CCL17 Aggravates Myocardial Injury by Suppressing Recruitment of Regulatory T Cells.

    Circulation

    Authors: Guoshuai Feng, Geetika Bajpai, Pan Ma, Andrew Koenig, Andrea Bredemeyer, Inessa Lokshina, Lulu Lai, Irmgard Förster, Florian Leuschner, Daniel Kreisel, Kory J Lavine