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Klaus Bendtzen

Klaus Bendtzen

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Immunology
Denmark
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Immunology

D-Index
88
Citations
27233
World Ranking
1171
National Ranking
7

Medicine

D-Index
88
Citations
27234
World Ranking
13202
National Ranking
143

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Immunology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Immunology in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Klaus Bendtzen is affiliated with Rigshospitalet in Denmark and has a broad research portfolio primarily in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their published work spans subfields such as molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, immunology, infectious diseases, and epidemiology.

The scientist's research encompasses multiple main topics, including:

  • Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
  • Ion Transport and Channel Regulation
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Immune Response and Inflammation

Bendtzen's frequently published papers include the following titles:

  • Update on the Features and Measurements of Experimental Acute Lung Injury in Animals: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report (2022), American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
  • Mice with a specific deficiency of Pfkfb3 in myeloid cells are protected from hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension (2020), British Journal of Pharmacology
  • Impact of Bacterial Toxins in the Lungs (2020), Toxins
  • Mechanisms of pulmonary endothelial barrier dysfunction in acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome (2024), Chinese Medical Journal - Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
  • Receptor-independent fluid-phase macropinocytosis promotes arterial foam cell formation and atherosclerosis (2022), Science Translational Medicine

Their coauthors most frequently include David Fulton, Yunchao Su, Jürg Hamacher, Alexander D. Verin, and Masuko Ushio-Fukai.

Common publication venues for Bendtzen's research are:

  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Free Radical Biology and Medicine
  • American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
  • Toxins
  • PLoS ONE

Regarding book publications, Bendtzen has contributed to Frontiers Media with a title named Insights in Inflammation: 2022, published in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Cytokine network in congestive heart failure secondary to ischemic or idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.

    Pål Aukrust;Thor Ueland;Egil Lien;Klaus Bendtzen

  • Cytotoxicity of human pI 7 interleukin-1 for pancreatic islets of Langerhans.

    Klaus Bendtzen;Thomas Mandrup-Poulsen;Jørn Nerup;Jens H. Nielsen

  • Individualized monitoring of drug bioavailability and immunogenicity in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with the tumor necrosis factor alpha inhibitor infliximab.

    Klaus Bendtzen;Pierre Geborek;Morten Svenson;Lotta Larsson

  • Individualised therapy is more cost-effective than dose intensification in patients with Crohn’s disease who lose response to anti-TNF treatment: a randomised, controlled trial

    Casper Steenholdt;Jørn Brynskov;Ole Østergaard Thomsen;Lars Kristian Munck

  • Prognostic laboratory markers of joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis

    Elisabet Lindqvist;Kerstin Eberhardt;Klaus Bendtzen;Dick Heinegard

  • Formation of antibodies against infliximab and adalimumab strongly correlates with functional drug levels and clinical responses in rheumatoid arthritis

    T.R.D.J. Radstake;M. Svenson;A.M.M. Eijsbouts;F.H.J. van den Hoogen

  • Interleukin-lβ-Induced Nitric Oxide Production in Isolated Rat Pancreatic Islets Requires Gene Transcription and May Lead to Inhibition of the Krebs Cycle Enzyme Aconitase

    Nils Welsh;Decio L. Eizirik;Klaus Bendtzen;Stellan Sandler

  • Affinity-purified human Interleukin I is cytotoxic to isolated islets of Langerhans

    T. Mandrup-Poulsen;K. Bendtzen;J. Nerup;C. A. Dinarello

  • Clinical importance of neutralising antibodies against interferon beta in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.

    Per Soelberg Sorensen;Christian Ross;Katja Maria Clemmesen;Klaus Bendtzen

  • Cytokines suppress human islet function irrespective of their effects on nitric oxide generation.

    Décio L. Eizirik;Stellan Sandler;Nils Welsh;Marina Cetkovic-Cvrlje

  • Human tumor necrosis factor potentiates human interleukin 1-mediated rat pancreatic beta-cell cytotoxicity.

    T Mandrup-Poulsen;K Bendtzen;C A Dinarello;J Nerup

  • Extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease: epidemiology, diagnosis, and management.

    Signe Larsen;Klaus Bendtzen;Ole Haagen Nielsen

  • Interleukin 1, interleukin 6 and tumor necrosis factor in infection, inflammation and immunity.

    Klaus Bendtzen

  • Immunogenicity of interferon‐β in multiple sclerosis patients: Influence of preparation, dosage, dose frequency, and route of administration

    Christian Ross;Katja Maria Clemmesen;Morten Svenson;Per Soelberg Sørensen

  • Autoantibodies to cytokines - friends or foes?

    Klaus Bendtzen;Morten Svenson;Viggo Jønsson;Erik Hippe

  • Monitoring patients treated with anti-TNF-alpha biopharmaceuticals: assessing serum infliximab and anti-infliximab antibodies.

    M. Svenson;P. Geborek;Tore Saxne;K. Bendtzen

  • Auto‐Antibodies to Tumour Necrosis Factor a in Healthy Humans and Patients with Inflammatory Diseases and Gram‐Negative Bacterial Infections

    A. Fomsgaard;M. Svenson;K. Bendtzen

  • Immunohistological detection of interleukin I-like molecules and tumour necrosis factor in human epidermis before and after UVB-irradiation in vivo.

    Annemette Oxholm;P. Oxholm;B. Staberg;K. Bendtzen

  • Cytokines, autoantibodies and viral antibodies in premorbid and postdiagnostic sera from patients with rheumatoid arthritis: case–control study nested in a cohort of Norwegian blood donors

    Kristian T Jørgensen;Allan Wiik;Merete Pedersen;Chris J Hedegaard

  • T helper cell type 1 (Th1), Th2 and Th17 responses to myelin basic protein and disease activity in multiple sclerosis.

    Chris J Hedegaard;Martin Krakauer;Klaus Bendtzen;Henrik Lund

  • [Clinical importance of neutralising antibodies against interferon-beta in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis].

    Soelberg Sørensen;Nils J Koch-Henriksen;Christian Ross Pedersen;Katja Maria Clemmesen

Frequent Co-Authors

Karsten Buschard
Karsten Buschard Copenhagen University Hospital
Stellan Sandler
Stellan Sandler Uppsala University
Arsalan Kharazmi
Arsalan Kharazmi University of Copenhagen
Claus Henrik Nielsen
Claus Henrik Nielsen Copenhagen University Hospital
Ole Haagen Nielsen
Ole Haagen Nielsen University of Copenhagen
Decio L. Eizirik
Decio L. Eizirik Université Libre de Bruxelles
Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen
Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen University of Copenhagen
Jørgen Holm Petersen
Jørgen Holm Petersen University of Copenhagen
Thomas Mandrup-Poulsen
Thomas Mandrup-Poulsen University of Copenhagen
Pier Luigi Meroni
Pier Luigi Meroni Istituto Auxologico Italiano

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