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Overview

Katalin Mikecz is affiliated with Rush University Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, as well as immunology and microbiology. Their work bridges several subfields including molecular biology, immunology, rheumatology, oncology, and radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging.

The main topics of Mikecz's research encompass protein tyrosine phosphatases, galectins and cancer biology, rheumatoid arthritis research and therapies, systemic lupus erythematosus research, cytokine signaling pathways and interactions, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, and immune cell function and interaction.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Mikecz include Adrienn Markovics, Tibor T. Glant, Dániel M. Tóth, Roy Carambula, and Daniel H. Zimmerman.

Mikecz has published multiple scientific articles in a variety of journals. Their recent papers include:

  • Restoring the Balance between Pro-Inflammatory and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis: New Insights from Animal Models, 2021, Biomedicines
  • Regulation of autoimmune arthritis by the SHP-1 tyrosine phosphatase, 2020, Arthritis Research & Therapy
  • Vaccination by Two DerG LEAPS Conjugates Incorporating Distinct Proteoglycan (PG, Aggrecan) Epitopes Provides Therapy by Different Immune Mechanisms in a Mouse Model of Rheumatoid Arthritis, 2021, Vaccines
  • THEMIS increases TCR signaling in CD4 + CD8 + thymocytes by inhibiting the activity of the tyrosine phosphatase SHP1, 2023, Science Signaling
  • GRB2 promotes thymocyte positive selection by facilitating THEMIS-mediated inactivation of SHP1, 2023, The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Among the venues where Mikecz frequently publishes are Arthritis Research & Therapy, Biomedicines, Science Signaling, Vaccines, and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

Best Publications

  • Impaired cumulus mucification and female sterility in tumor necrosis factor-induced protein-6 deficient mice

    Csaba Fülöp;Sándor Szántó;Durba Mukhopadhyay;Tamás Bárdos

  • Genetics of rheumatoid arthritis - A comprehensive review

    Júlia Kurkó;Timea Besenyei;Judit Laki;Tibor T. Glant

  • Proteoglycan-induced arthritis in BALB/c mice. Clinical features and histopathology.

    T T Glant;K Mikecz;A Arzoumanian;A Arzoumanian;A R Poole

  • Anti-CD44 treatment abrogates tissue oedema and leukocyte infiltration in murine arthritis.

    Katalin Mikecz;Frank R. Brennan;Jonathan H. Kim;Tibor T. Glant

  • Immunity to cartilage proteoglycans in balb/c mice with progressive polyarthritis and ankylosing spondylitis induced by injection of human cartilage proteoglycan

    K Mikecz;T T Glant;A R Poole

  • Chondrocyte matrix metalloproteinase-8 : up-regulation of neutrophil collagenase by interleukin-1 beta in human cartilage from knee and ankle joints

    S Chubinskaya;K Huch;K Mikecz;G Cs-Szabo

  • IL-4 and IL-12 Regulate Proteoglycan-Induced Arthritis Through Stat-Dependent Mechanisms

    Alison Finnegan;Michael J. Grusby;Charles D. Kaplan;Shannon K. O’Neill

  • Cutting edge: regulation of T cell activation threshold by CD28 costimulation through targeting Cbl-b for ubiquitination.

    Jian Zhang;Tamás Bárdos;Dongdong Li;István Gál

  • Proteoglycan (aggrecan)-induced arthritis in BALB/c mice is a Th1-type disease regulated by Th2 cytokines.

    Alison Finnegan;Katalin Mikecz;Ping Tao;Tibor T. Glant

  • Proteoglycan-induced arthritis: immune regulation, cellular mechanisms, and genetics.

    Tibor T. Glant;Alison Finnegan;Katalin Mikecz

  • Anti-Inflammatory and Chondroprotective Effect of TSG-6 (Tumor Necrosis Factor-α-Stimulated Gene-6) in Murine Models of Experimental Arthritis

    Tamás Bárdos;Rajesh V. Kamath;Katalin Mikecz;Tibor T. Glant

  • Fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 is principally responsible for fibroblast growth factor 2-induced catabolic activities in human articular chondrocytes

    Dongyao Yan;Di Chen;Simon M. Cool;Simon M. Cool;Andre J. van Wijnen;Andre J. van Wijnen

  • Inhibition of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase-mediated tryptophan catabolism accelerates collagen-induced arthritis in mice

    Sándor Szántó;Sándor Szántó;Tamás Koreny;Katalin Mikecz;Tibor T Glant

  • Effects of soluble metals on human peri-implant cells.

    Nadim James Hallab;Shelley Anderson;Marco Caicedo;Amee Brasher

  • Cutting Edge: Cbl-b: One of the Key Molecules Tuning CD28- and CTLA-4-Mediated T Cell Costimulation

    Dongdong Li;István Gál;Csaba Vermes;Maria Luisa Alegre

  • Modulation of hyaluronan receptor (CD44) function in vivo in a murine model of rheumatoid arthritis.

    Katalin Mikecz;Kathryn Dennis;Mei Shi;Jonathan H. Kim

  • A triple assay technique for the evaluation of metal-induced, delayed-type hypersensitivity responses in patients with or receiving total joint arthroplasty.

    Nadim J. Hallab;Katalin Mikecz;Joshua J. Jacobs

  • Critical Roles of Glycosaminoglycan Side Chains of Cartilage Proteoglycan (Aggrecan) in Antigen Recognition and Presentation

    Tibor T. Glant;Edit I. Buzás;Alison Finnegan;Gabriela Negroiu

  • Synovial fluid from patients with early osteoarthritis modulates fibroblast-like synoviocyte responses to toll-like receptor 4 and toll-like receptor 2 ligands via soluble CD14.

    Anjali Nair;Veero Kanda;Charles Bush-Joseph;Nikhil Verma

  • Cartilage-specific constitutive expression of TSG-6 protein (product of tumor necrosis factor α–stimulated gene 6) provides a chondroprotective, but not antiinflammatory, effect in antigen-induced arthritis

    Tibor T. Glant;Rajesh V. Kamath;Tamás Bárdos;István Gál

  • Epigenetics in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis.

    Tibor T Glant;Katalin Mikecz;Tibor A Rauch

Frequent Co-Authors

Tibor T. Glant
Tibor T. Glant Rush University Medical Center
Alison Finnegan
Alison Finnegan Rush University Medical Center
Edit I. Buzás
Edit I. Buzás Semmelweis University
Zoltán Szekanecz
Zoltán Szekanecz University of Debrecen
Anthony J. Day
Anthony J. Day University of Manchester
Joshua J. Jacobs
Joshua J. Jacobs Rush University Medical Center
Anna Plaas
Anna Plaas Rush University Medical Center
John D. Sandy
John D. Sandy Rush University Medical Center
Klaus E. Kuettner
Klaus E. Kuettner Rush University Medical Center
Vincent C. Hascall
Vincent C. Hascall Cleveland Clinic

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