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Dirk Werling is affiliated with the Royal Veterinary College in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses on areas within immunology, microbiology, and medicine, with significant contributions to agricultural and biological sciences. Their expertise spans several subfields including immunology, molecular biology, animal science and zoology, infectious diseases, and epidemiology.

The main topics of Dirk Werling's research include:

  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • Coccidia and coccidiosis research
  • Immune Response and Inflammation
  • Animal Nutrition and Physiology
  • Veterinary Medicine and Infectious Diseases
  • Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows

Dirk Werling has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed papers, with recent publications including:

  • Poultry Coccidiosis: Design and Interpretation of Vaccine Studies, 2020, Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Human-relevant near-organ neuromodulation of the immune system via the splenic nerve, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Use of Precision-Cut Tissue Slices as a Translational Model to Study Host-Pathogen Interaction, 2021, Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Global transcriptomic profiles of circulating leucocytes in early lactation cows with clinical or subclinical mastitis, 2021, Molecular Biology Reports
  • Bovine Neutrophils Release Extracellular Traps and Cooperate With Macrophages in Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis clearance In Vitro, 2021, Frontiers in Immunology

Publication venues frequently featuring their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Journal of Comparative Pathology
  • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Dirk Werling often collaborates with several researchers, most frequently co-authoring works with:

  • Amanda J. Gibson
  • Angela Holder
  • Sam Willcocks
  • Bernardo Villarreal-Ramos
  • Damer P. Blake

Best Publications

  • TOLL-like receptors linking innate and adaptive immune response.

    Dirk Werling;Thomas W. Jungi

  • Expression and function of Toll-like receptor 4 in the endometrial cells of the uterus.

    Shan Herath;Deborah P. Fischer;Dirk Werling;Erin J. Williams

  • Variation matters: TLR structure and species-specific pathogen recognition.

    Dirk Werling;Oliver C. Jann;Victoria Offord;Elizabeth J. Glass

  • Involvement of caveolae in the uptake of respiratory syncytial virus antigen by dendritic cells

    Dirk Werling;Jayne C. Hope;Paul Chaplin;Robert A. Collins

  • Caveolae and caveolin in immune cells: distribution and functions

    James Harris;Dirk Werling;Jayne C Hope;Geraldine Taylor

  • Differential production of cytokines, reactive oxygen and nitrogen by bovine macrophages and dendritic cells stimulated with Toll‐like receptor agonists

    Dirk Werling;Jayne C Hope;Chris J Howard;Thomas W Jungi

  • Radiation hybrid mapping of all 10 characterized bovine Toll-like receptors

    K McGuire;M Jones;D Werling;J L Williams

  • Effect of a prolonged low-dose lipopolysaccharide infusion on feed intake and metabolism in heifers.

    Martine Steiger;Markus Senn;Gertraut Altreuther;Dirk Werling

  • Gammadelta T cells present antigen to CD4+ alphabeta T cells.

    R A Collins;D Werling;S E Duggan;A P Bland

  • Polymorphisms in the TLR4 and TLR5 gene are significantly associated with inflammatory bowel disease in German shepherd dogs

    Aarti Kathrani;Arthur House;Brian Catchpole;Angela Murphy

  • Expression of TOLL-like receptors (TLR) by bovine antigen-presenting cells-potential role in pathogen discrimination?

    Dirk Werling;Jenny Piercy;Tracey J. Coffey

  • Toll-like receptors in domestic animals

    Thomas W. Jungi;Katja Farhat;Iwan A. Burgener;Dirk Werling

  • Poultry Coccidiosis: Design and Interpretation of Vaccine Studies.

    Francesca Soutter;Dirk Werling;Fiona M Tomley;Damer P Blake

  • Characterisation of the acute phase response of heifers to a prolonged low dose infusion of lipopolysaccharide

    D Werling;F Sutter;M Arnold;G Kun

  • Evaluation of mucosal bacteria and histopathology, clinical disease activity and expression of Toll-like receptors in German shepherd dogs with chronic enteropathies.

    K Allenspach;A House;K Smith;F M McNeill

  • Macrophage sub-populations and the lipoxin A4 receptor implicate active inflammation during equine tendon repair.

    Stephanie Georgina Dakin;Dirk Werling;Andrew Hibbert;Dilkush Robert Ephrem Abayasekara

  • Binding and entry of respiratory syncytial virus into host cells and initiation of the innate immune response

    James Harris;Dirk Werling

  • c-Myc activation by Theileria parasites promotes survival of infected B-lymphocytes.

    Frédéric Dessauge;Sophia Hilaly;Martin Baumgartner;Martin Baumgartner;Brigitte Blumen

  • c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase/c-Jun signaling promotes survival and metastasis of B lymphocytes transformed by Theileria.

    Regina Lizundia;Marie Chaussepied;Michel Huerre;Dirk Werling

  • Anti-apolipoprotein A-1 IgG in patients with myocardial infarction promotes inflammation through TLR2/CD14 complex.

    S. Pagano;N. Satta;D. Werling;V. Offord

  • Molecular cloning and characterization of Toll-like receptors 1-10 in sheep

    Jung Su Chang;George C. Russell;Oliver Jann;Elizabeth J. Glass

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth Glass
Elizabeth Glass University of Edinburgh
Chris J. Howard
Chris J. Howard Newbury College
Jayne Hope
Jayne Hope University of Edinburgh
Geraldine Taylor
Geraldine Taylor Jenner Institute
Gordon Langsley
Gordon Langsley Université Paris Cité
Joe Brownlie
Joe Brownlie Royal Veterinary College
Cynthia L. Baldwin
Cynthia L. Baldwin University of Massachusetts Amherst
Barbara Wieland
Barbara Wieland Institute of Virology and Immunology
Linda K. Dixon
Linda K. Dixon The Pirbright Institute

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