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Overview

Dirk Foell is affiliated with the University of Münster in Germany and has a significant body of research primarily focused on medicine, immunology, and microbiology. Their work spans several important subfields including hematology, immunology, molecular biology, surgery, and rheumatology.

Their research covers a range of main topics, with a concentration on autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, inflammasome and immune disorders, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, Kawasaki disease and coronary complications, immunodeficiency and autoimmune disorders, immune cell function and interaction, and IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways.

Dirk Foell has authored or co-authored numerous papers published in reputable venues. Recent publications include:

  • Initial presenting manifestations in 16,486 patients with inborn errors of immunity include infections and noninfectious manifestations (2021) in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • The 2021 EULAR/American College of Rheumatology points to consider for diagnosis, management and monitoring of the interleukin-1 mediated autoinflammatory diseases: cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes, tumour necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome, mevalonate kinase deficiency, and deficiency of the interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (2022) in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Independent risk factors for myasthenic crisis and disease exacerbation in a retrospective cohort of myasthenia gravis patients (2022) in Journal of Neuroinflammation
  • EULAR/PReS recommendations for the diagnosis and management of Still's disease, comprising systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis and adult-onset Still's disease (2024) in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Differential regulation of JAK/STAT-signaling in patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease (2020) in World Journal of Gastroenterology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Dirk Foell include:

  • Christoph Kessel
  • Helmut Wittkowski
  • Claas Hinze
  • Gerd Horneff
  • Kirsten Minden

The most common publication venues where Dirk Foell's work appears are:

  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Pediatric Rheumatology
  • Arthritis & Rheumatology
  • Lara D. Veeken
  • Frontiers in Immunology

Best Publications

  • Mrp8 and Mrp14 are endogenous activators of Toll-like receptor 4, promoting lethal, endotoxin-induced shock

    Thomas Vogl;Klaus Tenbrock;Stephan Ludwig;Nadja Leukert

  • Activated STING in a Vascular and Pulmonary Syndrome

    Y. Liu;A.A. Jesus;B. Marrero;D. Yang

  • S100 proteins expressed in phagocytes: a novel group of damage-associated molecular pattern molecules

    Dirk Foell;Helmut Wittkowski;Thomas Vogl;Johannes Roth

  • The endogenous Toll-like receptor 4 agonist S100A8/S100A9 (calprotectin) as innate amplifier of infection, autoimmunity, and cancer

    Jan M. Ehrchen;Cord Sunderkötter;Dirk Foell;Thomas Vogl

  • Proinflammatory S100 proteins regulate the accumulation of myeloid-derived suppressor cells.

    Pratima Sinha;Chinonyerem Okoro;Dirk Foell;Hudson H. Freeze

  • Classification criteria for autoinflammatory recurrent fevers

    Marco Gattorno;Michael Hofer;Silvia Federici;Federica Vanoni

  • JAK1/2 inhibition with baricitinib in the treatment of autoinflammatory interferonopathies

    Gina A. Montealegre Sanchez;Adam L Reinhardt;Suzanne Ramsey;Helmut Wittkowski

  • Mechanisms of disease: a 'DAMP' view of inflammatory arthritis.

    Dirk Foell;Helmut Wittkowski;Johannes Roth

  • Proinflammatory S100 proteins in arthritis and autoimmune disease.

    Dirk Foell;Johannes Roth

  • Phagocyte-specific calcium-binding S100 proteins as clinical laboratory markers of inflammation.

    Dirk Foell;Michael Frosch;Clemens Sorg;Johannes Roth

  • Neutrophil derived human S100A12 (EN-RAGE) is strongly expressed during chronic active inflammatory bowel disease.

    D Foell;T Kucharzik;M Kraft;T Vogl

  • Myeloid-related proteins 8 and 14 induce a specific inflammatory response in human microvascular endothelial cells.

    Dorothee Viemann;Anke Strey;Annette Janning;Kerstin Jurk

  • Interleukin-18 diagnostically distinguishes and pathogenically promotes human and murine macrophage activation syndrome

    Eric S. Weiss;Charlotte Girard-Guyonvarc’h;Dirk Holzinger;Dirk Holzinger;Adriana A. de Jesus

  • The Toll-like receptor 4 ligands Mrp8 and Mrp14 are crucial in the development of autoreactive CD8+ T cells

    Karin Loser;Thomas Vogl;Maik Voskort;Aloys Lueken

  • RAGE, carboxylated glycans and S100A8/A9 play essential roles in colitis-associated carcinogenesis

    Olga Turovskaya;Dirk Foell;Pratima Sinha;Thomas Vogl

  • Treating juvenile idiopathic arthritis to target: recommendations of an international task force

    Angelo Ravelli;Alessandro Consolaro;Gerd Horneff;Ronald M Laxer

  • Expression of the pro-inflammatory protein S100A12 (EN-RAGE) in rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis

    D Foell;D Kane;B Bresnihan;T Vogl

  • Synovial histopathology of psoriatic arthritis, both oligo- and polyarticular, resembles spondyloarthropathy more than it does rheumatoid arthritis

    Elli Kruithof;Dominique Lp Baeten;Leen De Rycke;Bernard Vandooren

  • Faecal S100A12 as a non-invasive marker distinguishing inflammatory bowel disease from irritable bowel syndrome

    Thomas Kaiser;Jost Langhorst;Helmut Wittkowski;Karsten Becker

  • Monitoring disease activity by stool analyses: from occult blood to molecular markers of intestinal inflammation and damage

    Dirk Foell;Helmut Wittkowski;Johannes Roth

Frequent Co-Authors

Johannes Roth
Johannes Roth University of Münster
Clemens Sorg
Clemens Sorg University of Münster
Thomas J. Vogl
Thomas J. Vogl Goethe University Frankfurt
Alberto Martini
Alberto Martini University of Genoa
Nico M Wulffraat
Nico M Wulffraat Utrecht University
Lucy R. Wedderburn
Lucy R. Wedderburn University College London
Marco Gattorno
Marco Gattorno Istituto Giannina Gaslini
Nicolino Ruperto
Nicolino Ruperto Istituto Giannina Gaslini
Daniel J. Lovell
Daniel J. Lovell Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Seza Ozen
Seza Ozen Hacettepe University

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