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Harald Neumann

Harald Neumann

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
68
Citations
20189
World Ranking
7687
National Ranking
560

Overview

Harald Neumann is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany. Their research centers on immunology and microbiology as well as neuroscience, with a strong focus on neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms. Their work further explores immune cells in cancer, glycosylation and glycoproteins research, complement system in diseases, immune response and inflammation, galectins and cancer biology, and chemokine receptors and signaling.

Neumann has published extensively in various venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Glia
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Endoscopy
  • Verkehr und Technik/V + T. Verkehr und Technik/V + T digital

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Neumann include:

  • Microglia states and nomenclature: A field at its crossroads, 2022, Neuron
  • Deletion of Alzheimer's disease-associated CD33 results in an inflammatory human microglia phenotype, 2021, Glia
  • Sialylation acts as a checkpoint for innate immune responses in the central nervous system, 2020, Glia
  • Reduced sialylation triggers homeostatic synapse and neuronal loss in middle-aged mice, 2020, Neurobiology of Aging
  • Control of Innate Immunity by Sialic Acids in the Nervous Tissue, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Neumann include:

  • Jannis Wißfeld
  • Christine R. Klaus
  • Huan Liao
  • Mona Mathews
  • Anahita Shahraz

In addition to journal articles, Neumann has published books through DUNCKER UND HUMBLOT eBooks, covering topics with titles such as:

  • Carl Ludwig Sand (2020)
  • Henriette Feuerbach (2022)
  • Johanna die Wahnsinnige - geisteskrank und nekrophil? (2022)
  • Schizophrenie und Gewalttat (2022)

Their subfields of research span immunology, neurology, molecular biology, oncology, and physiology.

Best Publications

  • Integrated Systems Approach Identifies Genetic Nodes and Networks in Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease

    Bin Zhang;Chris Gaiteri;Liviu Gabriel Bodea;Zhi Wang

  • Clearance of apoptotic neurons without inflammation by microglial triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-2.

    Kazuya Takahashi;Christian D.P. Rochford;Harald Neumann

  • Debris clearance by microglia: an essential link between degeneration and regeneration

    H P H Neumann;M. R. Kotter;R J M Franklin

  • Neuronal ‘On’ and ‘Off’ signals control microglia

    Knut Biber;Harald Neumann;Kazuhide Inoue;Hendrikus W.G.M. Boddeke

  • Janus-faced microglia: beneficial and detrimental consequences of microglial phagocytosis

    Amanda Sierra;Oihane Abiega;Anahita Shahraz;Harald Neumann

  • Cytotoxic T lymphocytes in autoimmune and degenerative CNS diseases.

    Harald Neumann;Isabelle M Medana;Jan Bauer;Hans Lassmann

  • Constitutive NF-kappa B activity in neurons.

    Christian Kaltschmidt;Barbara Kaltschmidt;H. Neumann;H. Wekerle

  • Induction of MHC class I genes in neurons

    Harald Neumann;Adolfo Cavalié;Dieter E. Jenne;Hartmut Wekerle

  • TREM2-Transduced Myeloid Precursors Mediate Nervous Tissue Debris Clearance and Facilitate Recovery in an Animal Model of Multiple Sclerosis

    Kazuya Takahashi;Marco Prinz;Massimiliano Stagi;Massimiliano Stagi;Olga Chechneva

  • LPS receptor (CD14): a receptor for phagocytosis of Alzheimer’s amyloid peptide

    Yang Liu;Silke Walter;Massimiliano Stagi;Dmitry Cherny

  • Control of glial immune function by neurons

    Harald Neumann

  • Microglial clearance function in health and disease.

    I. Napoli;H. Neumann

  • Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Class I Gene Expression in Single Neurons of the Central Nervous System: Differential Regulation by Interferon (IFN)-γ and Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF)-α

    H. Neumann;H. Schmidt;A. Cavalié;D. Jenne

  • Tumor necrosis factor inhibits neurite outgrowth and branching of hippocampal neurons by a Rho-dependent mechanism

    Harald Neumann;Rüdiger Schweigreiter;Toshihide Yamashita;Katja Rosenkranz

  • Neurotrophins inhibit major histocompatibility class II inducibility of microglia: Involvement of the p75 neurotrophin receptor

    Harald Neumann;Thomas Misgeld;Kenji Matsumuro;Hartmut Wekerle

  • Transection of Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I-Induced Neurites by Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes

    Isabelle Medana;Marianne A. Martinic;Hartmut Wekerle;Harald Neumann

  • Immune Surveillance in the Injured Nervous System: T-Lymphocytes Invade the Axotomized Mouse Facial Motor Nucleus and Aggregate around Sites of Neuronal Degeneration

    Gennadij Raivich;Leonard L. Jones;Christian U. A. Kloss;Alexander Werner

  • Essential role of the microglial triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-2 (TREM2) for central nervous tissue immune homeostasis.

    Harald Neumann;Kazuya Takahashi

  • Sequential Proteolytic Processing of the Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells-2 (TREM2) Protein by Ectodomain Shedding and γ-Secretase-dependent Intramembranous Cleavage

    Patrick Wunderlich;Konstantin Glebov;Nadja Kemmerling;Nguyen T. Tien

  • Variant TREM2 as Risk Factor for Alzheimer's Disease

    Harald Neumann;Mark J Daly

Frequent Co-Authors

Hartmut Wekerle
Hartmut Wekerle Max Planck Society
Dorothee von Laer
Dorothee von Laer Innsbruck Medical University
Thomas Langmann
Thomas Langmann University of Cologne
Oliver Brüstle
Oliver Brüstle University Hospital Bonn
Jochen Walter
Jochen Walter University of Bonn
Marco Colonna
Marco Colonna Washington University in St. Louis
Markus Kipp
Markus Kipp University of Rostock
Thomas Misgeld
Thomas Misgeld Technical University of Munich
Veit Hornung
Veit Hornung Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Christine Skerka
Christine Skerka Leibniz Association

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