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Overview

Douglas S. Robinson is affiliated with University College Hospital in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on fields within medicine, with particular attention to physiology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, immunology and allergy, otorhinolaryngology, and epidemiology.

The scientist's work covers various topics related to respiratory health and disease management. Key areas of specialization include:

  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Respiratory and cough-related research
  • Allergic rhinitis and sensitization
  • Sinusitis and nasal conditions
  • Inhalation and respiratory drug delivery
  • IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways
  • Gut microbiota and health

Among their recent publications are these papers:

  • Composite type-2 biomarker strategy versus a symptom-risk-based algorithm to adjust corticosteroid dose in patients with severe asthma: a multicentre, single-blind, parallel group, randomised controlled trial, 2020, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • Exacerbation Profile and Risk Factors in a Type-2-Low Enriched Severe Asthma Cohort: A Clinical Trial to Assess Asthma Exacerbation Phenotypes, 2022, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Relationship between inflammatory status and microbial composition in severe asthma and during exacerbation, 2022, Allergy
  • Factors affecting adherence with treatment advice in a clinical trial of patients with severe asthma, 2021, European Respiratory Journal
  • A Randomized Trial of a Composite T2-Biomarker Strategy Adjusting Corticosteroid Treatment in Severe Asthma: A Post Hoc Analysis by Sex, 2023, The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice

Their frequent collaborators include researchers such as Rekha Chaudhuri, Liam G. Heaney, Peter Bradding, Ratko Djukanović, and Christopher E. Brightling. These partnerships have contributed to the development of studies in respiratory and allergic conditions.

Douglas S. Robinson has published multiple works in notable venues within the respiratory and allergy research community. These include:

  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • Allergy
  • European Respiratory Journal
  • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice

Their academic contributions span 34 publications in medicine, with focused subfields including 10 in physiology, 9 in pulmonary and respiratory medicine, 3 in immunology and allergy, 3 in otorhinolaryngology, and 2 in epidemiology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to respiratory health research.

Best Publications

  • Predominant TH2-like bronchoalveolar T-lymphocyte population in atopic asthma

    D. S. Robinson;Q. Hamid;Sun Ying;A. Tsicopoulos

  • Relation of CD4+CD25+ regulatory T-cell suppression of allergen-driven T-cell activation to atopic status and expression of allergic disease.

    Eleanor M Ling;Eleanor M Ling;Trevor Smith;X Dao Nguyen;Carol Pridgeon

  • Thymic stromal lymphopoietin expression is increased in asthmatic airways and correlates with expression of Th2-attracting chemokines and disease severity.

    Sun Ying;Brian O’Connor;Jonathan Ratoff;Qiu Meng

  • Anti-IL-5 treatment reduces deposition of ECM proteins in the bronchial subepithelial basement membrane of mild atopic asthmatics

    Patrick Flood-Page;Andrew Menzies-Gow;Simon Phipps;Sun Ying

  • Eosinophil's Role Remains Uncertain as Anti–Interleukin-5 only Partially Depletes Numbers in Asthmatic Airway

    Patrick T. Flood-Page;Andrew N. Menzies-Gow;A. Barry Kay;Douglas S. Robinson

  • IGIF Does Not Drive Th1 Development but Synergizes with IL-12 for Interferon-γ Production and Activates IRAK and NFκB

    Douglas Robinson;Kazuko Shibuya;Alice Mui;Francesca Zonin

  • A study to evaluate safety and efficacy of mepolizumab in patients with moderate persistent asthma.

    Patrick Flood-Page;Cheri Swenson;Isidore Faiferman;John Matthews

  • Activation of CD4+ T cells, increased TH2-type cytokine mRNA expression, and eosinophil recruitment in bronchoalveolar lavage after allergen inhalation challenge in patients with atopic asthma

    D. Robinson;Qutayba Hamid;A. Bentley;Sun Ying

  • The role of T lymphocytes in the pathogenesis of asthma

    Mark Larché;Douglas S. Robinson;A.Barry Kay

  • Reversing the defective induction of IL-10-secreting regulatory T cells in glucocorticoid-resistant asthma patients.

    Emmanuel Xystrakis;Siddharth Kusumakar;Sandra Boswell;Emma Peek

  • Resolution of airway inflammation and hyperreactivity after in vivo transfer of CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells is interleukin 10 dependent.

    Jennifer Kearley;Jane E. Barker;Douglas S. Robinson;Clare M. Lloyd

  • Enhanced expression of eotaxin and CCR3 mRNA and protein in atopic asthma. Association with airway hyperresponsiveness and predominant co-localization of eotaxin mRNA to bronchial epithelial and endothelial cells.

    Sun Ying;Douglas S. Robinson;Qiu Meng;James Rottman

  • Eosinophil chemotactic chemokines (eotaxin, eotaxin-2, RANTES, monocyte chemoattractant protein-3 (MCP-3), and MCP-4), and C-C chemokine receptor 3 expression in bronchial biopsies from atopic and nonatopic (Intrinsic) asthmatics

    Sun Ying;Qiu Meng;K. Zeibecoglou;D. S. Robinson

  • Expression of IL-4 and IL-5 mRNA and protein product by CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, eosinophils, and mast cells in bronchial biopsies obtained from atopic and nonatopic (intrinsic) asthmatics.

    S Ying;M Humbert;J Barkans;C J Corrigan

  • IL-4 and IL-5 mRNA and protein in bronchial biopsies from patients with atopic and nonatopic asthma: evidence against "intrinsic" asthma being a distinct immunopathologic entity.

    M Humbert;S R Durham;S Ying;P Kimmitt

  • Identification of T lymphocytes, macrophages, and activated eosinophils in the bronchial mucosa in intrinsic asthma. Relationship to symptoms and bronchial responsiveness.

    A. M. Bentley;G. Menz;Chr. Storz;D. S. Robinson

  • The immunopathology of extrinsic (atopic) and intrinsic (non-atopic) asthma: more similarities than differences.

    Marc Humbert;Günter Menz;Sun Ying;Christopher J Corrigan

  • The chemokine receptor CCR8 is preferentially expressed in Th2 but not Th1 cells.

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  • Increases in Activated T Lymphocytes, Eosinophils, and Cytokine mRNA Expression for Interleukin-5 and Granulocyte/Macrophage Colony-stimulating Factor in Bronchial Biopsies after Allergen Inhalation Challenge in Atopic Asthmatics

    A. M. Bentley;Qiu Meng;D. S. Robinson;Q. Hamid

  • A role for eosinophils in airway remodelling in asthma

    A. Barry Kay;Simon Phipps;Simon Phipps;Douglas S. Robinson;Douglas S. Robinson

  • Tregs and allergic disease

    Douglas S. Robinson;Mark Larché;Stephen R. Durham

  • Prednisolone Treatment in Asthma Is Associated with Modulation of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Cell Interleukin-4, Interleukin-5, and Interferon-γ Cytokine Gene Expression

    D. Robinson;Q. Hamid;Sun Ying;A. Bentley

Frequent Co-Authors

Sun Ying
Sun Ying Capital Medical University
A. B. Kay
A. B. Kay Imperial College London
Clare M. Lloyd
Clare M. Lloyd Imperial College London
Qutayba Hamid
Qutayba Hamid University of Sharjah
Stephen R. Durham
Stephen R. Durham Imperial College London
Christopher Corrigan
Christopher Corrigan King's College London
Anne O'Garra
Anne O'Garra The Francis Crick Institute
Mark Larché
Mark Larché McMaster University
Simon Phipps
Simon Phipps University of Queensland
Kian Fan Chung
Kian Fan Chung Imperial College London

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