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Antoine Blancher

Antoine Blancher

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
50
Citations
8556
World Ranking
17680
National Ranking
774

Overview

Antoine Blancher is affiliated with Paul Sabatier University in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with a specific focus on Immunology, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Immunology and Allergy, and Physiology.

Their work addresses key topics including SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, interferon and immune responses, Immune Response and Inflammation, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, T-cell and B-cell Immunology, Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, as well as Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization.

Blancher has contributed to several recent scientific publications. These include:

  • The MHC class I MICA gene is a histocompatibility antigen in kidney transplantation (2022, Nature Medicine)
  • Epigenomic profiling of primate lymphoblastoid cell lines reveals the evolutionary patterns of epigenetic activities in gene regulatory architectures (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Monocytes are the main source of STING-mediated IFN-α production (2022, EBioMedicine)
  • Optimal Maturation of the SIV-Specific CD8+ T Cell Response after Primary Infection Is Associated with Natural Control of SIV: ANRS SIC Study (2020, Cell Reports)
  • Novel T cell interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) using spike recombinant protein for COVID19 vaccine response and Nucleocapsid for SARS-Cov2 response (2022, Clinical Immunology)

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Nicolas Congy-Jolivet, Chloé Bost, P.A. Apoil, Yves Renaudineau, and Florence Abravanel. These collaborations have contributed to work published in various scientific journals such as Clinical Immunology, EBioMedicine, Nature Medicine, Nature Communications, and Cell Reports.

Best Publications

  • Immunomodulatory effect of human adipose tissue-derived adult stem cells: comparison with bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells.

    Bénédicte Puissant;Corinne Barreau;Philippe Bourin;Cyril Clavel

  • The olfactory receptor gene repertoire in primates and mouse: evidence for reduction of the functional fraction in primates.

    Sylvie Rouquier;Antoine Blancher;Dominique Giorgi

  • Gibbon genome and the fast karyotype evolution of small apes

    Lucia Carbone;R. Alan Harris;Sante Gnerre;Krishna R. Veeramah;Krishna R. Veeramah

  • A Natural History of FUT2 Polymorphism in Humans

    Anna Ferrer-Admetlla;Martin Sikora;Hafid Laayouni;Anna Esteve

  • Incidence and predictive factors for infectious disease after rituximab therapy in kidney-transplant patients

    N. Kamar;O. Milioto;B. Puissant-Lubrano;L. Esposito

  • ABO research in the modern era of genomics.

    Fumiichiro Yamamoto;Emili Cid;Miyako Yamamoto;Antoine Blancher

  • Evolutionary dynamics of the human ABO gene

    Francesc Calafell;Francis Roubinet;Anna Ramírez-Soriano;Naruya Saitou

  • A Single Point Mutation Reverses the Donor Specificity of Human Blood Group B-synthesizing Galactosyltransferase

    Sandra L. Marcus;Robert Polakowski;Nina O.L. Seto;Eeva Leinala

  • Human fibroblasts share immunosuppressive properties with bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells.

    Sandrine Cappellesso-Fleury;Bénédicte Puissant-Lubrano;Bénédicte Puissant-Lubrano;Pol-André Apoil;Pol-André Apoil;Matthias Titeux

  • Evolution of fucosyltransferase genes in vertebrates.

    Marieta Costache;Marieta Costache;Pol-André Apoil;Anne Cailleau;Anders Elmgren

  • FOXP3 mRNA levels are decreased in peripheral blood CD4+ lymphocytes from HIV-positive patients.

    Pol André Apoil;Bénédicte Puissant;Francis Roubinet;Michel Abbal

  • Definition of the human immunoglobulin variable lambda (IGLV) gene subgroups

    Paul Chuchana;Antoine Blancher;Frédérique Brockly;Daniel Alexandre

  • Comparative genomics of the human, macaque and mouse major histocompatibility complex.

    Takashi Shiina;Antoine Blancher;Hidetoshi Inoko;Jerzy K. Kulski;Jerzy K. Kulski

  • Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Phylogeny of 4 Populations of the Widely Distributed Cynomolgus Macaque (Macaca fascicularis fascicularis)

    Antoine Blancher;Maxime Bonhomme;Brigitte Crouau-Roy;Keiji Terao

  • Origin and number of founders in an introduced insular primate: estimation from nuclear genetic data

    Maxime Bonhomme;Antoine Blancher;S. Cuartero;Lounes Chikhi

  • Assessing Natural Introgression in 2 Biomedical Model Species, the Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta) and the Long-Tailed Macaque (Macaca fascicularis)

    Maxime Bonhomme;Sergi Cuartero;Antoine Blancher;Brigitte Crouau-Roy

  • Nomenclature report on the major histocompatibility complex genes and alleles of Great Ape, Old and New World monkey species.

    Natasja G. de Groot;Nel Otting;James Robinson;Antoine Blancher

  • Copy number variation analysis in the great apes reveals species-specific patterns of structural variation

    Elodie Gazave;Fleur Darré;Carlos Morcillo-Suarez;Natalia Petit-Marty

  • Study of Cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis) MhcDRB (Mafa-DRB) polymorphism in two populations.

    Antoine Blancher;Pierre Tisseyre;Marianne Dutaur;Pol-André Apoil

  • Long-term evolution of the CAZY glycosyltransferase 6 (ABO) gene family from fishes to mammals—a birth-and-death evolution model

    Anne-Laure Turcot-Dubois;Béatrice Le Moullac-Vaidye;Stéphanie Despiau;Francis Roubinet

Frequent Co-Authors

Naruya Saitou
Naruya Saitou National Institute of Genetics
Takashi Shiina
Takashi Shiina Tokai University
Nassim Kamar
Nassim Kamar Paul Sabatier University
Yves Colin
Yves Colin Université Paris Cité
Tomas Marques-Bonet
Tomas Marques-Bonet Pompeu Fabra University
Jacques Izopet
Jacques Izopet Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Jean-Pierre Cartron
Jean-Pierre Cartron Université Paris Cité
Jaume Bertranpetit
Jaume Bertranpetit Pompeu Fabra University
Jerzy K. Kulski
Jerzy K. Kulski University of Western Australia
Christophe Pasquier
Christophe Pasquier Grenoble Alpes University

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