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Overview

Anuradha Ray is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine, immunology, and microbiology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including immunology, physiology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, infectious diseases, and molecular biology.

Their research primarily focuses on asthma and respiratory diseases, inflammatory pathways involving IL-33, ST2, and innate lymphoid cells (ILC), COVID-19 clinical research, immune cell function and interaction, respiratory support and mechanisms, neonatal respiratory health, and single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Ray, notable publications include:

  • "COVID-19 versus Non-COVID-19 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Comparison of Demographics, Physiologic Parameters, Inflammatory Biomarkers, and Clinical Outcomes" (2021), published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society
  • "Intractable Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Prolonged Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Replication in a Chimeric Antigen Receptor-Modified T-Cell Therapy Recipient: A Case Study" (2021), Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • "Expression of SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 and coincident host response signature varies by asthma inflammatory phenotype" (2020), Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • "Are We Meeting the Promise of Endotypes and Precision Medicine in Asthma?" (2020), Physiological Reviews
  • "Single cell RNA sequencing identifies an early monocyte gene signature in acute respiratory distress syndrome" (2020), JCI Insight

Ray has frequently published in venues including:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • JCI Insight

Collaborations have been an integral part of their work, with regular co-authors including Prabir Ray, Janet Lee, Georgios D. Kitsios, Bryan J. McVerry, and Sally E. Wenzel.

Best Publications

  • Physical association and functional antagonism between the p65 subunit of transcription factor NF-kappa B and the glucocorticoid receptor.

    Anuradha Ray;Karen E. Prefontaine

  • TH17 Cells Mediate Steroid-Resistant Airway Inflammation and Airway Hyperresponsiveness in Mice

    Laura McKinley;John F. Alcorn;Alanna Peterson;Rachel B. DuPont

  • Transcription factor GATA-3 is differentially expressed in murine Th1 and Th2 cells and controls Th2-specific expression of the interleukin-5 gene.

    Dong-Hong Zhang;Lauren Cohn;Prabir Ray;Kim Bottomly

  • A critical role for NF-kappa B in GATA3 expression and TH2 differentiation in allergic airway inflammation.

    Jyoti Das;Chang-Hung Chen;Liyan Yang;Lauren Cohn

  • Neutrophilic Inflammation in Asthma and Association with Disease Severity.

    Anuradha Ray;Jay K. Kolls

  • Repression of the interleukin 6 gene promoter by p53 and the retinoblastoma susceptibility gene product.

    Uma Santhanam;Anuradha Ray;Pravinkumar B. Sehgal

  • Inhibition of allergic inflammation in a murine model of asthma by expression of a dominant-negative mutant of GATA-3.

    Dong-Hong Zhang;Liyan Yang;Lauren Cohn;Lisa Parkyn

  • High IFN-γ and low SLPI mark severe asthma in mice and humans

    Mahesh Raundhal;Christina Morse;Anupriya Khare;Timothy B. Oriss

  • Th2 cells and GATA-3 in asthma: new insights into the regulation of airway inflammation

    Anuradha Ray;Lauren Cohn

  • Essential Role of Nuclear Factor κB in the Induction of Eosinophilia in Allergic Airway Inflammation

    Liyan Yang;Lauren Cohn;Dong-Hong Zhang;Robert Homer

  • On the mechanism for efficient repression of the interleukin-6 promoter by glucocorticoids: enhancer, TATA box, and RNA start site (Inr motif) occlusion.

    A Ray;K S LaForge;P B Sehgal

  • Down-modulation of interleukin-6 gene expression by 17 beta-estradiol in the absence of high affinity DNA binding by the estrogen receptor.

    Anuradha Ray;K. E. Prefontaine;Prabir Ray

  • Rhinovirus stimulation of interleukin-6 in vivo and in vitro. Evidence for nuclear factor kappa B-dependent transcriptional activation.

    Zhou Zhu;Weiliang Tang;Anuradha Ray;Yang Wu;Yang Wu

  • Repression of interleukin‐6 gene expression by 17β‐estradiol:

    Prabir Ray;Samir K Ghosh;Dong-Hong Zhang;Anuradha Ray

  • Tolerance induced by inhaled antigen involves CD4+ T cells expressing membrane-bound TGF-β and FOXP3

    Marina Ostroukhova;Carole Seguin-Devaux;Timothy B. Oriss;Barbara Dixon-McCarthy

  • DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSIVENESS OF THE IL-5 AND IL-4 GENES TO TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA-3

    Dong-Hong Zhang;Liyan Yang;Anuradha Ray

  • Gene expression of the GATA-3 transcription factor is increased in atopic asthma

    Yutaka Nakamura;Omar Ghaffar;Ronald Olivenstein;Rame A. Taha

  • Evolving Concepts of Asthma

    Marc Gauthier;Anuradha Ray;Sally E. Wenzel

  • Activation of the human "beta 2-interferon/hepatocyte-stimulating factor/interleukin 6" promoter by cytokines, viruses, and second messenger agonists.

    Anuradha Ray;Stephen B. Tatter;Lester T. May;Pravinkumar B. Sehgal

  • Interleukin-13 mediates a fundamental pathway for airway epithelial mucus induced by CD4 T cells and interleukin-9.

    Laurie Whittaker;Naiqian Niu;U.-Angela Temann;Amy Stoddard

Frequent Co-Authors

Prabir Ray
Prabir Ray University of Pittsburgh
Sally E. Wenzel
Sally E. Wenzel University of Pittsburgh
Jay K. Kolls
Jay K. Kolls Tulane University
Janet S. Lee
Janet S. Lee University of Pittsburgh
Joseph M. Pilewski
Joseph M. Pilewski University of Pittsburgh
Rama K. Mallampalli
Rama K. Mallampalli The Ohio State University
Claudette M. St. Croix
Claudette M. St. Croix University of Pittsburgh
Valerian E. Kagan
Valerian E. Kagan University of Pittsburgh
Roy L. Silverstein
Roy L. Silverstein Medical College of Wisconsin
John F. Alcorn
John F. Alcorn Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

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