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Benedita Rocha

Benedita Rocha

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Microbiology

D-Index
51
Citations
14016
World Ranking
4281
National Ranking
256

Overview

Benedita Rocha is affiliated with Inserm in France and has contributed to multiple fields of study, primarily focusing on social sciences, immunology, law, education, sociology, political science, and genetics. Their research spans a variety of topics including Brazilian legal issues, public health in Brazil, immune cell function and interaction, T-cell and B-cell immunology, immunotherapy, and immune responses.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Benedita Rocha are:

  • ALIENAÇÃO PARENTAL E DOLO ESPECÍFICO: A FUNÇÃO FINALÍSTICA DO ART. 2º DA LEI Nº 12.318/2010 COMO CRITÉRIO DE TIPICIDADE, 2025, Revista Ibero-Americana de Humanidades, Ciências e Educação
  • A CONSTITUCIONALIDADE DA LEI Nº 12.318/2010 À LUZ DO CONTROLE DE FATOS E PROGNOSES LEGISLATIVOS: ENTRE A DEFERÊNCIA JUDICIAL E A VEDAÇÃO DO RETROCESSO SOCIAL, 2025, Revista Ibero-Americana de Humanidades, Ciências e Educação
  • Microbiota stimulation generates LCMV-specific memory CD8+ T cells in SPF mice and determines their TCR repertoire during LCMV infection, 2020, Molecular Immunology

Benedita Rocha has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Revista Ibero-Americana de Humanidades, Ciências e Educação
  • Molecular Immunology
  • European Journal of Immunology
  • Hematology Transfusion and Cell Therapy
  • Psicologia Argumento

Their frequent collaborators include António A. Freitas, Pedro Gonçalves, Sary El Daker, Florence Vasseur, and Nicolas Serafini.

The main areas of their scientific inquiry are interdisciplinary, combining social sciences with biological sciences such as immunology. This includes detailed examination of immune cell functions, mechanisms of immune responses and vaccinations, as well as legal frameworks relevant to Brazilian society.

Best Publications

  • Differential Requirements for Survival and Proliferation of CD8 Naïve or Memory T Cells

    Corinne Tanchot;François A. Lemonnier;François A. Lemonnier;Beatrice Pérarnau;Beatrice Pérarnau;Antonio A. Freitas;Antonio A. Freitas

  • Peripheral Selection of the T Cell Repertoire

    B Rocha;H von Boehmer

  • A role for CD40 expression on CD8+ T cells in the generation of CD8+ T cell memory.

    Christine Bourgeois;Benedita Rocha;Corinne Tanchot

  • Response of naïve and memory CD8+ T cells to antigen stimulation in vivo.

    Henrique Veiga-Fernandes;Ulrich Walter;Christine Bourgeois;Angela McLean

  • Population Biology of Lymphocytes: The Flight for Survival

    Antonio A. Freitas;Benedita Rocha

  • A thymic pathway of mouse natural killer cell development characterized by expression of GATA-3 and CD127.

    Christian A J Vosshenrich;Marcos E García-Ojeda;Sandrine I Samson-Villéger;Valerie Pasqualetto

  • Peripheral T lymphocytes: expansion potential and homeostatic regulation of pool sizes and CD4/CD8 ratios in vivo.

    Benedita Rocha;Nicole Dautigny;Nicole Dautigny;Pablo Pereira

  • The V beta repertoire of mouse gut homodimeric alpha CD8+ intraepithelial T cell receptor alpha/beta + lymphocytes reveals a major extrathymic pathway of T cell differentiation.

    Benedita Rocha;Pierre Vassalli;Delphine Guy-Grand

  • Alternatively spliced NKp30 isoforms affect the prognosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors

    Nicolas F. Delahaye;Sylvie Rusakiewicz;Sylvie Rusakiewicz;Isabelle Martins;Cédric Ménard;Cédric Ménard

  • Lymphocyte lifespans: homeostasis, selection and competition

    António A Freitas;Benedita B Rocha

  • Thymic and extrathymic origins of gut intraepithelial lymphocyte populations in mice.

    B Rocha;P Vassalli;D Guy-Grand

  • Anergy and exhaustion are independent mechanisms of peripheral T cell tolerance.

    Benedita Rocha;Alf Grandien;Antonio A. Freitas

  • T cell development in mice lacking the CD3-zeta/eta gene.

    M Malissen;A Gillet;B Rocha;J Trucy

  • Clonal anergy blocks in vivo growth of mature T cells and can be reversed in the absence of antigen.

    B Rocha;C Tanchot;H Von Boehmer

  • The peripheral T cell repertoire: independent homeostatic regulation of virgin and activated CD8+ T cell pools

    Corinne Tanchot;Benedita Rocha

  • Lymphocyte population kinetics in the mouse.

    Antonio A. Freitas;Benedita Rocha;Antonio A. Coutinho

  • The extrathymic T-cell development pathway.

    Benedita Rocha;Pierre Vassalli;Delphine Guy-Grand

  • Selection of intraepithelial lymphocytes with CD8 alpha/alpha co-receptors by self-antigen in the murine gut.

    B Rocha;H von Boehmer;D Guy-Grand

  • An unusual lineage of alpha/beta T cells that contains autoreactive cells.

    H von Boehmer;J Kirberg;B Rocha

  • Accumulation of bromodeoxyuridine‐labeled cells in central and peripheral lymphoid organs: minimal estimates of prodution and turnover rates of mature lymphocytes

    Benedita Rocha;Claude Penit;Christophe Baron;Florence Vasseur

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio A. Freitas
Antonio A. Freitas Institut Pasteur
Delphine Guy-Grand
Delphine Guy-Grand Grenoble Alpes University
James P. Di Santo
James P. Di Santo Institut Pasteur
Alain Fischer
Alain Fischer Collège de France
Antonio Coutinho
Antonio Coutinho Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Eric Vivier
Eric Vivier Aix-Marseille University
Harald von Boehmer
Harald von Boehmer Harvard University
Marina Cavazzana-Calvo
Marina Cavazzana-Calvo Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital
Peter van Endert
Peter van Endert Université Paris Cité
H. von Boehmer
H. von Boehmer Harvard Medical School

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