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Overview

Jay Rappaport is affiliated with Tulane University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a particular emphasis on subfields including Infectious Diseases, Neurology, Immunology, Molecular Biology, and Emergency Medicine.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, notably:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • HIV-related health complications and treatments
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Immune cells in cancer

Jay Rappaport has contributed publications to multiple scientific venues, predominantly in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Circulation Research
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Viruses

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Nicholas J. Maness
  • Robert V. Blair
  • Kasi Russell-Lodrigue
  • Nadia Golden
  • Chad J. Roy

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Rappaport include:

  • "Adjuvanting a subunit COVID-19 vaccine to induce protective immunity" (2021, Nature)
  • "SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and research gaps: Understanding SARS-CoV-2 interaction with the ACE2 receptor and implications for therapy" (2020, Theranostics)
  • "A smartphone-read ultrasensitive and quantitative saliva test for COVID-19" (2021, Science Advances)
  • "Neuropathology and virus in brain of SARS-CoV-2 infected non-human primates" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "Acute Respiratory Distress in Aged, SARS-CoV-2-Infected African Green Monkeys but Not Rhesus Macaques" (2020, American Journal Of Pathology)

Best Publications

  • CNS invasion by CD14+/CD16+ peripheral blood-derived monocytes in HIV dementia: perivascular accumulation and reservoir of HIV infection

    Tracy Fischer-Smith;Sidney Croul;Andrij E. Sverstiuk;Christelle Capini

  • Inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 expression by a hairpin ribozyme.

    Joshua O. Ojwang;Arnold Hampel;David J. Looney;Flossie Wong-Staal

  • New Class I and II HLA Alleles Strongly Associated with Opposite Patterns of Progression to AIDS

    Houria Hendel;Sophie Caillat-Zucman;Helene Lebuanec;Mary Carrington

  • Adjuvanting a subunit COVID-19 vaccine to induce protective immunity.

    Prabhu S. Arunachalam;Alexandra C. Walls;Nadia Golden;Caroline Atyeo

  • SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and research gaps: Understanding SARS-CoV-2 interaction with the ACE2 receptor and implications for therapy

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  • Interferon α and Tat involvement in the immunosuppression of uninfected T cells and C-C chemokine decline in AIDS

    Daniel Zagury;Abderrahim Lachgar;Vida Chams;Lat S. Fall

  • Human herpes virus-6 increases HIV-1 expression in co-infected T cells via nuclear factors binding to the HIV-1 enhancer.

    B Ensoli;P Lusso;F Schachter;S F Josephs

  • A smartphone-read ultrasensitive and quantitative saliva test for COVID-19.

    Bo Ning;Tao Yu;Shengwei Zhang;Zhen Huang;Zhen Huang

  • Trans-activation of the JC virus late promoter by the tat protein of type 1 human immunodeficiency virus in glial cells

    Hiroomi Tada;Jay Rappaport;Monir Lashgari;Shohreh Amini

  • Molecular pathway involved in HIV-1-induced CNS pathology: role of viral regulatory protein, Tat.

    J Rappaport;J Joseph;S Croul;G Alexander

  • HIV-1 Accessory Protein Vpr: Relevance in the pathogenesis of HIV and potential for therapeutic intervention

    Michael Kogan;Jay Rappaport

  • Transport of phosphorothioate oligonucleotides in kidney: implications for molecular therapy.

    Jay Rappaport;Basil Hanss;Jeffrey B. Kopp;Terry D. Copeland

  • Detection of HIV-1 Tat and JCV capsid protein, VP1, in AIDS brain with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy

    Luis Del Valle;Sidney Croul;Susan Morgello;Shohreh Amini

  • Monocyte/macrophage trafficking in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome encephalitis: lessons from human and nonhuman primate studies.

    Tracy Fischer-Smith;Christie Bell;Sidney Croul;Mark Lewis

  • Macrophage/microglial accumulation and proliferating cell nuclear antigen expression in the central nervous system in human immunodeficiency virus encephalopathy.

    Tracy Fischer-Smith;Sidney Croul;Sidney Croul;Aderonke Adeniyi;Katarzyna Rybicka

  • Activation of the Oxidative Stress Pathway by HIV-1 Vpr Leads to Induction of Hypoxia-inducible Factor 1α Expression

    Satish L. Deshmane;Ruma Mukerjee;Shongshan Fan;Luis Del Valle

  • SARS-CoV-2 Infects Endothelial Cells In Vivo and In Vitro .

    Fengming Liu;Kun Han;Robert Blair;Kornelia Kenst

  • Acute Respiratory Distress in Aged, SARS-CoV-2-Infected African Green Monkeys but Not Rhesus Macaques.

    Robert V. Blair;Monica Vaccari;Lara A. Doyle-Meyers;Chad J. Roy

  • CD163/CD16 coexpression by circulating monocytes/macrophages in HIV: potential biomarkers for HIV infection and AIDS progression.

    Tracy Fischer-Smith;Ellen M. Tedaldi;Jay Rappaport

  • Negative-strand RNA transcripts are produced in human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected cells and patients by a novel promoter downregulated by Tat.

    N L Michael;M T Vahey;L d'Arcy;P K Ehrenberg

  • Evolving paradigms in the pathogenesis of HIV-1-associated dementia.

    Tracy Fischer-Smith;Jay Rappaport

  • Associations of MHC Ancestral Haplotypes with Resistance/Susceptibility to AIDS Disease Development

    Pedro O. Flores-Villanueva;Houria Hendel;Sophie Caillat-Zucman;Jay Rappaport

  • Distinctive effects of CCR5, CCR2, and SDF1 genetic polymorphisms in AIDS progression.

    Houria Hendel;N. Henon;Helene Lebuanec;Abderrahim Lachgar

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-François Zagury
Jean-François Zagury heSam Université
Kamel Khalili
Kamel Khalili Temple University
Shohreh Amini
Shohreh Amini Temple University
Susan Morgello
Susan Morgello Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Mark G. Lewis
Mark G. Lewis Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Fumihiko Matsuda
Fumihiko Matsuda Kyoto University
Luis Del Valle
Luis Del Valle Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans
Krzysztof Reiss
Krzysztof Reiss Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans
Simon Heath
Simon Heath Pompeu Fabra University
Stephen J. O'Brien
Stephen J. O'Brien Nova Southeastern University

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