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Jörg H W Distler is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on medical sciences, with substantial contributions in pathology and forensic medicine, molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, immunology, and dermatology.

The scientist has produced a significant body of work in the field of systemic sclerosis and related diseases, respiratory and interstitial lung diseases, dermatologic treatments, inflammatory myopathies and dermatomyositis, mast cells and histamine research, connective tissue growth factors, and peptidase inhibition and analysis.

Recent papers include:

  • Plasma Hsp90 levels in patients with systemic sclerosis and relation to lung and skin involvement: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • The identification and management of interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis: evidence-based European consensus statements (2020, The Lancet Rheumatology)
  • Predictors of progression in systemic sclerosis patients with interstitial lung disease (2020, European Respiratory Journal)
  • The complement system drives local inflammatory tissue priming by metabolic reprogramming of synovial fibroblasts (2021, Immunity)
  • Disentangling inflammatory from fibrotic disease activity by fibroblast activation protein imaging (2020, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jörg H W Distler include:

  • Georg Schett
  • Andrea-Hermina Györfi
  • Christina Bergmann
  • Oliver Distler
  • Alexandru-Emil Matei

Their work has been frequently published in venues such as:

  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Lara D. Veeken
  • Arthritis & Rheumatology
  • The Lancet Rheumatology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Plasma Hsp90 levels in patients with systemic sclerosis and relation to lung and skin involvement: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study.

    Hana Štorkánová;Sabína Oreská;Maja Špiritović;Barbora Heřmánková

  • Update of EULAR recommendations for the treatment of systemic sclerosis

    Otylia Kowal-Bielecka;Jaap Fransen;Jerome Avouac;Mike Becker;Mike Becker

  • Activation of canonical Wnt signalling is required for TGF-β-mediated fibrosis

    Alfiya Akhmetshina;Katrin Palumbo;Clara Dees;Christina Bergmann

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Mapping and predicting mortality from systemic sclerosis

    Muriel Elhai;Christophe Meune;Marouane Boubaya;Jérôme Avouac

  • MicroRNA-29, a key regulator of collagen expression in systemic sclerosis.

    Britta Maurer;Joanna Stanczyk;Astrid Jüngel;Alfiya Akhmetshina

  • Effects and safety of rituximab in systemic sclerosis: an analysis from the European Scleroderma Trial and Research (EUSTAR) group

    Suzana Jordan;Jörg H W Distler;Britta Maurer;Dörte Huscher

  • Imatinib mesylate reduces production of extracellular matrix and prevents development of experimental dermal fibrosis

    Jörg H. W. Distler;Astrid Jüngel;Lars C. Huber;Ursula Schulze-Horsel

  • Shared and distinct mechanisms of fibrosis

    Jörg H. W. Distler;Andrea-Hermina Györfi;Meera Ramanujam;Michael L. Whitfield

  • Orphan nuclear receptor NR4A1 regulates transforming growth factor-β signaling and fibrosis

    Katrin Palumbo-Zerr;Pawel Zerr;Alfiya Distler;Judith Fliehr

  • Uncontrolled Expression of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Its Receptors Leads to Insufficient Skin Angiogenesis in Patients With Systemic Sclerosis

    Oliver Distler;Jörg H. W. Distler;Annette Scheid;Till Acker

  • The potential of adiponectin in driving arthritis.

    Angela Ehling;Angela Ehling;Andreas Schäffler;Hans H Herfarth;Ingo H. Tarner

  • Activation of STAT3 integrates common profibrotic pathways to promote fibroblast activation and tissue fibrosis

    Debomita Chakraborty;Barbora Šumová;Barbora Šumová;Tatjana Mallano;Chih-Wei Chen

  • Microparticles as regulators of inflammation: novel players of cellular crosstalk in the rheumatic diseases.

    Jörg H. W. Distler;Jörg H. W. Distler;David S. Pisetsky;Lars C. Huber;Joachim R. Kalden

  • The induction of matrix metalloproteinase and cytokine expression in synovial fibroblasts stimulated with immune cell microparticles

    Jörg H. W. Distler;Astrid Jüngel;Lars C. Huber;Christian A. Seemayer

  • Autophagy regulates TNFα-mediated joint destruction in experimental arthritis

    Neng-Yu Lin;Christian Beyer;Andreas Giessl;Trayana Kireva

  • Evidence of innate lymphoid cell redundancy in humans

    Frédéric Vély;Vincent Barlogis;Blandine Vallentin;Bénédicte Neven

  • Treatment with imatinib prevents fibrosis in different preclinical models of systemic sclerosis and induces regression of established fibrosis

    Alfiya Akhmetshina;Paulius Venalis;Paulius Venalis;Clara Dees;Nicole Busch

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver Distler
Oliver Distler University of Zurich
Georg Schett
Georg Schett University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Jochen Zwerina
Jochen Zwerina University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Gabriela Riemekasten
Gabriela Riemekasten University of Lübeck
Yannick Allanore
Yannick Allanore Université Paris Cité
Christopher P. Denton
Christopher P. Denton University College London
Beat A. Michel
Beat A. Michel University of Zurich
Marco Matucci-Cerinic
Marco Matucci-Cerinic University of Florence
Ulf Müller-Ladner
Ulf Müller-Ladner University of Giessen
Paolo Airò
Paolo Airò University of Brescia

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