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Austria
2023

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Immunology

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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Immunology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Immunology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Dietmar Fuchs is affiliated with Innsbruck Medical University in Austria and has conducted extensive research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their scholarly work spans various subfields including Infectious Diseases, Virology, Biological Psychiatry, Emergency Medicine, and Neurology.

The researcher's work prominently addresses several main topics, including:

  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • HIV-related health complications and treatments
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

Dietmar Fuchs has contributed to publications in various scientific venues. Some of the frequent journals and publishers for their work include:

  • Pteridines
  • UNC Libraries
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Antioxidants
  • International Journal of Tryptophan Research

Among the most recent publications are:

  • "Inflammation-Induced Tryptophan Breakdown is Related With Anemia, Fatigue, and Depression in Cancer," published in 2020 in Frontiers in Immunology
  • "CSF Biomarkers in Patients With COVID-19 and Neurologic Symptoms," published in 2020 in Neurology
  • "The Immunopathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease Is Related to the Composition of Gut Microbiota," published in 2021 in Nutrients
  • "Physiology and Inflammation Driven Pathophysiology of Iron Homeostasis-Mechanistic Insights into Anemia of Inflammation and Its Treatment," published in 2021 in Nutrients
  • "Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 activation in mature cDC1 promotes tolerogenic education of inflammatory cDC2 via metabolic communication," published in 2022 in Immunity

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Johanna M. Gostner
  • Magnus Gisslén
  • Henrik Zetterberg
  • Richard W. Price
  • Katharina Kurz

Best Publications

  • Immune response-associated production of neopterin. Release from macrophages primarily under control of interferon-gamma.

    C Huber;J R Batchelor;D Fuchs;A Hausen

  • Neopterin as a Marker for Immune System Activation

    C. Murr;B. Widner;B. Wirleitner;D. Fuchs

  • Neopterin as a marker for activated cell-mediated immunity: Application in HIV infection

    Dietmar Fuchs;Arno Hausen;Gilbert Reibnegger;Ernst R. Werner

  • Prognostic value of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase expression in colorectal cancer: effect on tumor-infiltrating T cells.

    Gerald Brandacher;Alexander Perathoner;Ruth Ladurner;Ruth Ladurner;Stefan Schneeberger

  • Monitoring tryptophan metabolism in chronic immune activation.

    Katharina Schröcksnadel;Barbara Wirleitner;Christiana Winkler;Dietmar Fuchs

  • Interferon-alpha–induced changes in tryptophan metabolism: relationship to depression and paroxetine treatment

    Lucile Capuron;Gabriele Neurauter;Dominique L Musselman;David H Lawson

  • Simultaneous measurement of serum tryptophan and kynurenine by HPLC.

    Bernhard Widner;Ernst R. Werner;Harald Schennach;Helmut Wachter

  • Neopterin as marker for activation of cellular immunity: immunologic basis and clinical application.

    Helmut Wachter;Dietmar Fuchs;Arno Hausen;Gilbert Reibnegger

  • Plasma Concentration of the Neurofilament Light Protein (NFL) is a Biomarker of CNS Injury in HIV Infection: A Cross-Sectional Study

    Magnus Gisslén;Richard W. Price;Ulf Andreasson;Niklas Norgren

  • Translational regulation via iron-responsive elements by the nitric oxide/NO-synthase pathway

    G Weiss;B Goossen;W Doppler;D Fuchs

  • Antioxidants, inflammation and cardiovascular disease.

    Harald Mangge;Kathrin Becker;Dietmar Fuchs;Johanna M Gostner

  • Soluble receptors for tumour necrosis factor in clinical laboratory diagnosis

    Antonio Diez‐Ruiz;Gernot P. Tilz;Robert Zangerle;Gabriele Baier‐Bitterlich

  • The role of neopterin as a monitor of cellular immune activation in transplantation, inflammatory, infectious, and malignant diseases.

    Dietmar Fuchs;Günter Weiss;Gilbert Reibnegger;Helmut Wachter

  • Chronic Low-Grade Inflammation in Elderly Persons Is Associated with Altered Tryptophan and Tyrosine Metabolism: Role in Neuropsychiatric Symptoms

    Lucile Capuron;Sebastian Schroecksnadel;Catherine Féart;Agnès Aubert

  • Tryptophan degradation and immune activation in Alzheimer's disease

    B. Widner;F. Leblhuber;J. Walli;G. P. Tilz

  • HIV inhibits CD4+ T-cell proliferation by inducing indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase in plasmacytoid dendritic cells.

    Adriano Boasso;Jean-Philippe Herbeuval;Jean-Philippe Herbeuval;Andrew W. Hardy;Stephanie A. Anderson

  • Autoimmune psychosis: an international consensus on an approach to the diagnosis and management of psychosis of suspected autoimmune origin.

    Thomas A Pollak;Belinda R Lennox;Sabine Müller;Michael E Benros

  • HIV-1 Viral Escape in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Subjects on Suppressive Antiretroviral Treatment

    Arvid Edén;Dietmar Fuchs;Lars Hagberg;Staffan Nilsson

  • Tetrahydrobiopterin-dependent formation of nitrite and nitrate in murine fibroblasts.

    G Werner-Felmayer;E R Werner;D Fuchs;A Hausen

  • Tetrahydrobiopterin biosynthetic activities in human macrophages, fibroblasts, THP-1, and T 24 cells. GTP-cyclohydrolase I is stimulated by interferon-gamma, and 6-pyruvoyl tetrahydropterin synthase and sepiapterin reductase are constitutively present.

    E R Werner;G Werner-Felmayer;D Fuchs;A Hausen

  • Pteridine biosynthesis in human endothelial cells. Impact on nitric oxide-mediated formation of cyclic GMP

    G Werner-Felmayer;E R Werner;D Fuchs;A Hausen

Frequent Co-Authors

Gilbert Reibnegger
Gilbert Reibnegger Medical University of Graz
Helmut Wachter
Helmut Wachter University of Innsbruck
Ernst R. Werner
Ernst R. Werner Innsbruck Medical University
Magnus Gisslén
Magnus Gisslén Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Günter Weiss
Günter Weiss Innsbruck Medical University
Gabriele Werner-Felmayer
Gabriele Werner-Felmayer Innsbruck Medical University
Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik Zetterberg University of Gothenburg
Lars Hagberg
Lars Hagberg Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Richard W. Price
Richard W. Price University of California, San Francisco
Serena Spudich
Serena Spudich Yale University

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