Kurt Blaser

Research.com Recognitions

• 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Switzerland Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Immunology in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Immune Responses in Healthy and Allergic Individuals Are Characterized by a Fine Balance between Allergen-specific T Regulatory 1 and T Helper 2 Cells

  Miibeccel Akdis;Johan Verhagen;Alison Taylor;Fariba Karamloo

  1452
  Citations

• Role of interleukin 10 in specific immunotherapy.

  Cezmi A. Akdis;Thorsten Blesken;Mübeccel Akdis;Brunello Wüthrich

  1300
  Citations

• IL-10 and TGF-beta cooperate in the regulatory T cell response to mucosal allergens in normal immunity and specific immunotherapy.

  Marek Jutel;Mübeccel Akdis;Ferah Budak;Carmen Aebischer-Casaulta

  1212
  Citations

• Allergic and nonallergic asthmatics have distinct patterns of T-cell activation and cytokine production in peripheral blood and bronchoalveolar lavage.

  Christoph Walker;Erhard Bode;Liesbeth Boer;Trevor T. Hansel

  1123
  Citations

• Mechanisms of immune suppression by interleukin‐10 and transforming growth factor‐β: the role of T regulatory cells

  Alison Taylor;Johan Verhagen;Kurt Blaser;Mübeccel Akdis

  926
  Citations

• An improved immunomagnetic procedure for the isolation of highly purified human blood eosinophils

  T. T. Hansel;I. J. M. De Vries;T. Iff;S. Rihs

  925
  Citations

• Idiopathic eosinophilic esophagitis is associated with a TH2-type allergic inflammatory response

  Alex Straumann;Madeleine Bauer;Barbra Fischer;Kurt Blaser

  744
  Citations

• Histamine regulates T-cell and antibody responses by differential expression of H1 and H2 receptors

  Marek Jutel;Takeshi Watanabe;Sven Klunker;Mübeccel Akdis

  712
  Citations

• Glucocorticoids upregulate FOXP3 expression and regulatory T cells in asthma

  Christian Karagiannidis;Mübeccel Akdis;Päivi Holopainen;Niina J. Woolley

  694
  Citations

• Activated T cells and eosinophilia in bronchoalveolar lavages from subjects with asthma correlated with disease severity.

  Christoph Walker;Martin K. Kaegi;Peter Braun;Kurt Blaser

  683
  Citations

• Direct demonstration of delayed eosinophil apoptosis as a mechanism causing tissue eosinophilia.

  Hu Simon;S Yousefi;C Schranz;A Schapowal

  659
  Citations

• Abnormal clones of T cells producing interleukin-5 in idiopathic eosinophilia.

  Hans-Uwe Simon;Sabine Gisela Plötz;Reinhard Dummer;Kurt Blaser

  596
  Citations

• Microarrayed allergen molecules: diagnostic gatekeepers for allergy treatment.

  Reinhard Hiller;Sylvia Laffer;Christian Harwanegg;Martin Huber

  591
  Citations

• T cell-mediated Fas-induced keratinocyte apoptosis plays a key pathogenetic role in eczematous dermatitis.

  Axel Trautmann;Mübeccel Akdis;Daniela Kleemann;Frank Altznauer

  573
  Citations

• Successful immunotherapy with T-cell epitope peptides of bee venom phospholipase A2 induces specific T-cell anergy in patients allergic to bee venom

  Ulrich Müller;Cezmi A. Akdis;Michael Fricker;Mübeccel Akdis

  565
  Citations

• T cell subsets and their soluble products regulate eosinophilia in allergic and nonallergic asthma.

  C. Walker;J.-C. Virchow;P. L. B. Bruijnzeel;K. Blaser

  551
  Citations

• Molecular Mechanisms Underlying FOXP3 Induction in Human T Cells

  Pierre-Yves Mantel;Nadia Ouaked;Beate Rückert;Christian Karagiannidis

  545
  Citations

• Mechanisms of interleukin-10-mediated immune suppression.

  Cezmi A. Akdis;Kurt Blaser

  524
  Citations

• T regulatory cells in allergy: Novel concepts in the pathogenesis, prevention, and treatment of allergic diseases

  Mübeccel Akdis;Kurt Blaser;Cezmi A. Akdis

  480
  Citations

• Passive smoking exposure in adults and chronic respiratory symptoms (SAPALDIA Study). Swiss Study on Air Pollution and Lung Diseases in Adults, SAPALDIA Team.

  P Leuenberger;J Schwartz;U Ackermann-Liebrich;K Blaser

  428
  Citations