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Overview

Manfred Nairz is affiliated with Innsbruck Medical University in Austria and has contributed extensively to medical research, focusing primarily on infectious diseases, hematology, nutrition and dietetics, genetics, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics including:

  • Iron Metabolism and Disorders
  • Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
  • Trace Elements in Health
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Manfred Nairz are:

  • "Cardiopulmonary recovery after COVID-19: an observational prospective multicentre trial" (2020), European Respiratory Journal
  • "Iron in infection and immunity" (2020), Molecular Aspects of Medicine
  • "Faecal calprotectin indicates intestinal inflammation in COVID-19" (2020), Gut
  • "Genomic epidemiology of superspreading events in Austria reveals mutational dynamics and transmission properties of SARS-CoV-2" (2020), Science Translational Medicine
  • "Persisting alterations of iron homeostasis in COVID-19 are associated with non-resolving lung pathologies and poor patients' performance: a prospective observational cohort study" (2020), Respiratory Research

Frequent collaborators in the scientist's work include:

  • Günter Weiß
  • Thomas Sonnweber
  • Igor Theurl
  • Philipp Grubwieser
  • Ivan Tancevski

The publication venues where Manfred Nairz has frequently contributed are:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • Scientific Reports
  • Molecular Aspects of Medicine

Manfred Nairz's work in the field of medicine encompasses 101 publications, with significant focus on infectious diseases (28 publications), hematology (27 publications), and nutrition and dietetics (20 publications), among other subfields.

Best Publications

  • Regulation of iron homeostasis in anemia of chronic disease and iron deficiency anemia: diagnostic and therapeutic implications

    Igor Theurl;Elmar Aigner;Milan Theurl;Manfred Nairz

  • The struggle for iron – a metal at the host–pathogen interface

    Manfred Nairz;Andrea Schroll;Thomas Sonnweber;Günter Weiss

  • On-demand erythrocyte disposal and iron recycling requires transient macrophages in the liver

    Igor Theurl;Ingo Hilgendorf;Ingo Hilgendorf;Manfred Nairz;Piotr Tymoszuk

  • Cardiopulmonary recovery after COVID-19: an observational prospective multicentre trial

    Thomas Sonnweber;Sabina Sahanic;Alex Pizzini;Anna Luger

  • Interleukin-3 amplifies acute inflammation and is a potential therapeutic target in sepsis

    Georg F. Weber;Georg F. Weber;Benjamin G. Chousterman;Shun He;Ashley M. Fenn

  • Arachidonic Acid Metabolites in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases.

    Thomas Sonnweber;Alex Pizzini;Manfred Nairz;Günter Weiss

  • Autocrine formation of hepcidin induces iron retention in human monocytes

    Igor Theurl;Milan Theurl;Markus Seifert;Sabine Mair

  • Iron at the interface of immunity and infection

    Manfred Nairz;David Haschka;Egon Demetz;Günter Weiss

  • Iron in infection and immunity.

    Manfred Nairz;Günter Weiss

  • Faecal calprotectin indicates intestinal inflammation in COVID-19.

    Maria Effenberger;Felix Grabherr;Lisa Mayr;Julian Schwaerzler

  • Erythropoietin Contrastingly Affects Bacterial Infection and Experimental Colitis by Inhibiting Nuclear Factor-κB-Inducible Immune Pathways

    Manfred Nairz;Andrea Schroll;Alexander R Moschen;Thomas Sonnweber

  • The co-ordinated regulation of iron homeostasis in murine macrophages limits the availability of iron for intracellular Salmonella typhimurium.

    Manfred Nairz;Igor Theurl;Susanne Ludwiczek;Milan Theurl

  • Genomic epidemiology of superspreading events in Austria reveals mutational dynamics and transmission properties of SARS-CoV-2.

    Alexandra Popa;Jakob-Wendelin Genger;Michael D. Nicholson;Thomas Penz

  • Pharmacologic inhibition of hepcidin expression reverses anemia of chronic inflammation in rats

    Igor Theurl;Andrea Schroll;Thomas Sonnweber;Manfred Nairz

  • Nitric oxide-mediated regulation of ferroportin-1 controls macrophage iron homeostasis and immune function in Salmonella infection.

    Manfred Nairz;Ulrike Schleicher;Andrea Schroll;Thomas Sonnweber

  • Momelotinib inhibits ACVR1/ALK2, decreases hepcidin production, and ameliorates anemia of chronic disease in rodents.

    Malte Asshoff;Verena Petzer;Matthew R. Warr;David Haschka

  • Absence of functional Hfe protects mice from invasive Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium infection via induction of lipocalin-2

    Manfred Nairz;Igor Theurl;Andrea Schroll;Milan Theurl

  • Endothelial cells produce bone morphogenetic protein 6 required for iron homeostasis in mice

    Susanna Canali;Kimberly B. Zumbrennen-Bullough;Amanda B. Core;Chia-Yu Wang

  • The infarcted myocardium solicits GM-CSF for the detrimental oversupply of inflammatory leukocytes.

    Atsushi Anzai;Jennifer L. Choi;Shun He;Ashley M. Fenn

  • The pleiotropic effects of erythropoietin in infection and inflammation

    Manfred Nairz;Thomas Sonnweber;Andrea Schroll;Igor Theurl

Frequent Co-Authors

Günter Weiss
Günter Weiss Innsbruck Medical University
Filip K. Swirski
Filip K. Swirski Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ferric C. Fang
Ferric C. Fang University of Washington
Matthias Nahrendorf
Matthias Nahrendorf Harvard University
Ralph Weissleder
Ralph Weissleder Harvard University
Peter Libby
Peter Libby Brigham and Women's Hospital
Herbert Tilg
Herbert Tilg Innsbruck Medical University
Charles C. Hong
Charles C. Hong University of Maryland, Baltimore
Martina U. Muckenthaler
Martina U. Muckenthaler Heidelberg University
Christoph Bock
Christoph Bock Austrian Academy of Sciences

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