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3409
National Ranking
1584

Overview

Donald N. Cook is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, their work spans subfields such as Immunology, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Immunology and Allergy.

The scientist's research topics include asthma and respiratory diseases, immune cell function and interaction, immunotherapy and immune responses, adenosine and purinergic signaling, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, T-cell and B-cell immunology, and allergic rhinitis and sensitization.

They have published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • The Journal of Immunology
  • JCI Insight
  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • UNC Libraries
  • American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology

Recent publications by Donald N. Cook include:

  • "Cell shape sensing licenses dendritic cells for homeostatic migration to lymph nodes," 2024, Nature Immunology
  • "CD11b+ lung dendritic cells at different stages of maturation induce Th17 or Th2 differentiation," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "UDP-glucose and P2Y14 receptor amplify allergen-induced airway eosinophilia," 2021, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • "Glucocorticoids and Androgens Protect From Gastric Metaplasia by Suppressing Group 2 Innate Lymphoid Cell Activation," 2021, Gastroenterology
  • "Cholesterol-25-hydroxylase promotes efferocytosis and resolution of lung inflammation," 2020, JCI Insight

Donald N. Cook has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Hideki Nakano
  • Gregory S. Whitehead
  • Keiko Nakano
  • Kenneth A. Jacobson
  • Kwan-Young Jung

Best Publications

  • Control of microglial neurotoxicity by the fractalkine receptor

    Astrid E. Cardona;Erik P. Pioro;Margaret E. Sasse;Volodymyr Kostenko

  • Toll-like receptors in the pathogenesis of human disease.

    Donald N Cook;David S Pisetsky;David A Schwartz

  • Requirement of Mip-1α for an Inflammatory Response to Viral Infection

    Donald N. Cook;Melinda A. Beck;Thomas M. Coffman;Suzanne L. Kirby

  • CCR6 Mediates Dendritic Cell Localization, Lymphocyte Homeostasis, and Immune Responses in Mucosal Tissue

    Donald N Cook;Dina M Prosser;Reinhold Forster;Jiwen Zhang

  • Allergic sensitization through the airway primes Th17-dependent neutrophilia and airway hyperresponsiveness.

    Rhonda H. Wilson;Gregory S. Whitehead;Hideki Nakano;Meghan E. Free

  • Molecular identification and characterization of the platelet ADP receptor targeted by thienopyridine antithrombotic drugs.

    Carolyn J. Foster;Dina M. Prosser;Jacqueline M. Agans;Ying Zhai

  • Depletion of host Langerhans cells before transplantation of donor alloreactive T cells prevents skin graft-versus-host disease

    Miriam Merad;Petra Hoffmann;Petra Hoffmann;Erik Ranheim;Sarah Slaymaker

  • Blood-derived inflammatory dendritic cells in lymph nodes stimulate acute T helper type 1 immune responses

    Hideki Nakano;Hideki Nakano;Kaifeng Lisa Lin;Manabu Yanagita;Manabu Yanagita;Chantal Charbonneau

  • Wound Healing in MIP-1α−/− and MCP-1−/− Mice

    Quentin E.H. Low;Iulia A. Drugea;Lisa A. Duffner;Daniel G. Quinn

  • The chemokine receptor D6 limits the inflammatory response in vivo

    Thomas Jamieson;Donald N Cook;Robert J B Nibbs;Antal Rot

  • CCL5-CCR5 interaction provides antiapoptotic signals for macrophage survival during viral infection.

    Jeffrey W Tyner;Osamu Uchida;Naohiro Kajiwara;Edy Y Kim

  • The role of MIP-1 alpha in inflammation and hematopoiesis.

    Donald N. Cook

  • Aberrant in Vivo T Helper Type 2 Cell Response and Impaired Eosinophil Recruitment in Cc Chemokine Receptor 8 Knockout Mice

    Stephen W. Chensue;Nicholas W. Lukacs;Tong Yuan Yang;Xiaozhou Shang

  • IL-35 production by inducible costimulator (ICOS)–positive regulatory T cells reverses established IL-17–dependent allergic airways disease

    Gregory S. Whitehead;Rhonda H. Wilson;Keiko Nakano;Lauranell H. Burch

  • The role of Toll-like receptor 4 in environmental airway injury in mice.

    John W. Hollingsworth;Donald N. Cook;David M. Brass;Julia K. L. Walker

  • Pulmonary CD103(+) dendritic cells prime Th2 responses to inhaled allergens.

    H Nakano;M E Free;G S Whitehead;S Maruoka

  • Differential Expression of CC Chemokines and the CCR5 Receptor in the Pancreas Is Associated with Progression to Type I Diabetes

    Mark J. Cameron;Mark J. Cameron;Guillermo A. Arreaza;Marsha Grattan;Craig Meagher;Craig Meagher

  • Retinoic Acid-Related Orphan Receptors (RORs): Regulatory Functions in Immunity, Development, Circadian Rhythm, and Metabolism.

    Donald N. Cook;Hong Soon Kang;Anton M. Jetten

  • T-lymphocyte production of macrophage inflammatory protein-1α is critical to the recruitment of CD8+ T cells to the liver, lung, and spleen during graft-versus-host disease

    Jonathan S. Serody;Susan E. Burkett;Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari;Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari;Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari;Judith Ng-Cashin

  • Requirement for the chemokine receptor CCR6 in allergic pulmonary inflammation.

    Nicholas W. Lukacs;Dina M. Prosser;Maria Wiekowski;Sergio A. Lira

  • Protection against inflammation- and autoantibody-caused fetal loss by the chemokine decoy receptor D6

    Yeny Martinez de la Torre;Chiara Buracchi;Elena M. Borroni;Jana Dupor

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergio A. Lira
Sergio A. Lira Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
David A. Schwartz
David A. Schwartz University of Colorado Denver
Jonathan S. Serody
Jonathan S. Serody University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael B. Fessler
Michael B. Fessler National Institutes of Health
Nicholas W. Lukacs
Nicholas W. Lukacs University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael D. Gunn
Michael D. Gunn Duke University
Darryl C. Zeldin
Darryl C. Zeldin National Institutes of Health
Oliver Smithies
Oliver Smithies University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elizabeth R. Hauser
Elizabeth R. Hauser Duke University
Carl D. Bortner
Carl D. Bortner National Institutes of Health

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