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Josef Anrather is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant emphasis on Neurology, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Physiology.

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

  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • S100 Proteins and Annexins
  • Barrier Structure and Function Studies
  • Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Research
  • Acute Ischemic Stroke Management

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Anrather include Costantino Iadecola, Lidia García-Bonilla, Giuseppe Faraco, Antoine Anfray, and Sung Ji Ahn.

Josef Anrather has published extensively in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Hypertension, Nature Neuroscience, Stroke, and Cell.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Immune responses to stroke: mechanisms, modulation, and therapeutic potential, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Effects of COVID-19 on the Nervous System, 2020, Cell
  • Endothelium-Macrophage Crosstalk Mediates Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in Hypertension, 2020, Hypertension
  • Analysis of brain and blood single-cell transcriptomics in acute and subacute phases after experimental stroke, 2024, Nature Immunology
  • Tau induces PSD95-neuronal NOS uncoupling and neurovascular dysfunction independent of neurodegeneration, 2020, Nature Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • The immunology of stroke: from mechanisms to translation

    Costantino Iadecola;Josef Anrather

  • Carbon monoxide generated by heme oxygenase 1 suppresses endothelial cell apoptosis.

    Sophie Brouard;Leo E. Otterbein;Josef Anrather;Edda Tobiasch

  • Commensal microbiota affects ischemic stroke outcome by regulating intestinal γδ T cells.

    Corinne Benakis;David Brea;Silvia Caballero;Giuseppe Faraco

  • Inflammation and Stroke: An Overview

    Josef Anrather;Costantino Iadecola

  • Expression of heme oxygenase-1 can determine cardiac xenograft survival

    M. P. Soares;Y. Lin;J. Anrather;E. Csizmadia

  • Immune responses to stroke: mechanisms, modulation, and therapeutic potential.

    Costantino Iadecola;Marion S. Buckwalter;Josef Anrather

  • Identification and Characterization of CD39/Vascular ATP Diphosphohydrolase

    Elzbieta Kaczmarek;Katarzyna Koziak;Jean Sévigny;Jonathan B. Siegel

  • Effects of COVID-19 on the Nervous System.

    Costantino Iadecola;Josef Anrather;Hooman Kamel

  • NF-κB regulates phagocytic NADPH oxidase by inducing the expression of gp91phox

    Josef Anrather;Gianfranco Racchumi;Costantino Iadecola

  • Stroke research at a crossroad: asking the brain for directions

    Costantino Iadecola;Josef Anrather

  • Prostaglandin E2 EP1 receptors: downstream effectors of COX-2 neurotoxicity.

    Takayuki Kawano;Josef Anrather;Ping Zhou;Laibaik Park

  • Immune interventions in stroke

    Ying Fu;Qiang Liu;Josef Anrather;Fu-Dong Shi

  • Nox2-derived radicals contribute to neurovascular and behavioral dysfunction in mice overexpressing the amyloid precursor protein.

    Laibaik Park;Ping Zhou;Rose Pitstick;Carmen Capone

  • Nox2-derived reactive oxygen species mediate neurovascular dysregulation in the aging mouse brain.

    Laibaik Park;Josef Anrather;Helene Girouard;Ping Zhou

  • TNF-α Gene Expression in Macrophages: Regulation by NF-κB Is Independent of c-Jun or C/EBPβ

    Hongtao Liu;Prodromos Sidiropoulos;Guobin Song;Lisa J. Pagliari

  • The role of microglia and myeloid immune cells in acute cerebral ischemia

    Corinne Benakis;Lidia Garcia-Bonilla;Costantino Iadecola;Josef Anrather

  • Regulation of NF-kappaB RelA phosphorylation and transcriptional activity by p21(ras) and protein kinase Czeta in primary endothelial cells.

    Josef Anrather;Vilmos Csizmadia;Miguel P. Soares;Hans Winkler

  • Angiotensin II Impairs Neurovascular Coupling in Neocortex Through NADPH Oxidase–Derived Radicals

    Ken Kazama;Josef Anrather;Ping Zhou;Helene Girouard

  • NADPH Oxidase-Derived Reactive Oxygen Species Mediate the Cerebrovascular Dysfunction Induced by the Amyloid β Peptide

    Laibaik Park;Josef Anrather;Ping Zhou;Kelly Frys

  • NMDA receptor activation increases free radical production through nitric oxide and NOX2.

    Helene Girouard;Gang Wang;Eduardo F. Gallo;Josef Anrather

Frequent Co-Authors

Costantino Iadecola
Costantino Iadecola Cornell University
Miguel P. Soares
Miguel P. Soares Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Virginia M. Pickel
Virginia M. Pickel Cornell University
Fritz H. Bach
Fritz H. Bach Harvard Medical School
Simon C. Robson
Simon C. Robson Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Robin L. Davisson
Robin L. Davisson Cornell University
George A. Carlson
George A. Carlson University of California, San Francisco
Teresa A. Milner
Teresa A. Milner Cornell University
Sunghee Cho
Sunghee Cho Cornell University
June Chan
June Chan Cornell University

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