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Overview

Jürgen Knop is affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany and has contributed to the field of medicine with a focus on multiple subfields including endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, epidemiology, neurology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and surgery.

Their research covers a range of topics such as pituitary gland disorders and treatments, neuroendocrine tumor research advances, myasthenia gravis and thymoma, cardiac, anesthesia and surgical outcomes, cardiovascular syncope and autonomic disorders, and electrolyte and hormonal disorders.

Knop's recent scholarly output includes the following papers:

  • Radiolabeling Molecular Biomarkers of Invasive Pituitary Neuroendocrine Tumors: A Systematic Review, 2025, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Wake-up-Tetraparese: Fallbericht aus der zentralen Notaufnahme, 2025, Notfall + Rettungsmedizin
  • Radiolabeling molecular biomarkers of invasive pituitary adenomas: a narrative review, 2025, Pituitary

Their frequent co-authors are Shivashankar Khanapur, Eric Suero Molina, Matthew McCord, Vanessa Smith, and Michael P. Catalino.

Publication venues where Knop's work has appeared include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Notfall + Rettungsmedizin
  • Pituitary

Best Publications

  • Induction of Interleukin 10–Producing, Nonproliferating Cd4+ T Cells with Regulatory Properties by Repetitive Stimulation with Allogeneic Immature Human Dendritic Cells

    Helmut Jonuleit;Edgar Schmitt;Gerold Schuler;Jürgen Knop

  • Identification and functional characterization of human CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells with regulatory properties isolated from peripheral blood

    Helmut Jonuleit;Edgar Schmitt;Michael Stassen;Andrea Tuettenberg

  • Induction of tolerance by IL-10-treated dendritic cells.

    K Steinbrink;M Wölfl;H Jonuleit;J Knop

  • Pro‐inflammatory cytokines and prostaglandins induce maturation of potent immunostimulatory dendritic cells under fetal calf serum‐free conditions

    Helmut Jonuleit;Ulrich Kühn;Gabriele Müller;Kerstin Steinbrink

  • Infectious Tolerance: Human CD25+ Regulatory T Cells Convey Suppressor Activity to Conventional CD4+ T Helper Cells

    Helmut Jonuleit;Edgar Schmitt;Hacer Kakirman;Michael Stassen

  • Interleukin-10-treated human dendritic cells induce a melanoma-antigen-specific anergy in CD8(+) T cells resulting in a failure to lyse tumor cells.

    Kerstin Steinbrink;Helmut Jonuleit;Helmut Jonuleit;Gabriele Müller;Gabriele Müller;Gerold Schuler;Gerold Schuler

  • CD4(+) and CD8(+) anergic T cells induced by interleukin-10-treated human dendritic cells display antigen-specific suppressor activity.

    Kerstin Steinbrink;Edith Graulich;Sebastian Kubsch;Jürgen Knop

  • Dendritic cells as mediators of tumor‐induced tolerance in metastatic melanoma

    Alexander H. Enk;Helmut Jonuleit;Joachim Saloga;Jürgen Knop

  • Induction of CD4+/CD25+ regulatory T cells by targeting of antigens to immature dendritic cells

    Karsten Mahnke;Yingjie Qian;Juergen Knop;Alexander H Enk

  • A comparison of two types of dendritic cell as adjuvants for the induction of melanoma-specific T-cell responses in humans following intranodal injection.

    Helmut Jonuleit;Andrea Giesecke‐Tuettenberg;Thomas Tüting;Beatrice Thurner‐Schuler

  • Production of functional IL-18 by different subtypes of murine and human dendritic cells (DC): DC- derived IL-18 enhances IL-12-dependent Th1 development

    Sabine Stoll;Helmut Jonuleit;Edgar Schmitt;Gabriele Müller

  • Production of IL-18 (IFN-gamma-inducing factor) messenger RNA and functional protein by murine keratinocytes.

    S Stoll;G Müller;M Kurimoto;J Saloga

  • Insect venom immunotherapy induces interleukin-10 production and a Th2-to-Th1 shift, and changes surface marker expression in venom-allergic subjects.

    Iris Bellinghausen;Gudrun Metz;Alexander H. Enk;Steffen Christmann

  • Depletion of CD25(+) CD4(+) T cells and treatment with tyrosinase-related protein 2-transduced dendritic cells enhance the interferon alpha-induced, CD8(+) T-cell-dependent immune defense of B16 melanoma.

    Julia Steitz;Jürgen Brück;Julia Lenz;Jürgen Knop

  • Mage-3 and influenza-matrix peptide-specific cytotoxic T cells are inducible in terminal stage HLA-A2.1+ melanoma patients by mature monocyte-derived dendritic cells.

    B Schuler-Thurner;D Dieckmann;P Keikavoussi;A Bender

  • Induction of hapten-specific tolerance by interleukin 10 in vivo.

    A H Enk;J Saloga;D Becker;M Mohamadzadeh

  • Human CD4+CD25+ T cells derived from the majority of atopic donors are able to suppress TH1 and TH2 cytokine production

    Iris Bellinghausen;Bettina Klostermann;Jürgen Knop;Joachim Saloga

  • Human CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells: proteome analysis identifies galectin-10 as a novel marker essential for their anergy and suppressive function.

    Jan Kubach;Petra Lutter;Tobias Bopp;Sabine Stoll

  • A TNF-alpha promoter polymorphism is associated with juvenile onset psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis

    Thomas Höhler;Anke Kruger;Peter M. Schneider;Rudolfe E. Schopf

  • Human CD25+ regulatory T cells: two subsets defined by the integrins α4β7 or α4β1 confer distinct suppressive properties upon CD4+ T helper cells

    Michael Stassen;Sabine Fondel;Tobias Bopp;Christoph Richter

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander Enk
Alexander Enk Heidelberg University
Helmut Jonuleit
Helmut Jonuleit Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Mansour Mohamadzadeh
Mansour Mohamadzadeh The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Edgar Schmitt
Edgar Schmitt Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Thomas Tüting
Thomas Tüting Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Gerold Schuler
Gerold Schuler University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Marcus Maurer
Marcus Maurer Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Alexander Kapp
Alexander Kapp Hannover Medical School
Hiroichi Nagai
Hiroichi Nagai Gifu Pharmaceutical University
Tobias Bopp
Tobias Bopp Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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