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10598
World Ranking
3891
National Ranking
341

Overview

Martin K. Church is affiliated with Southampton General Hospital in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions in subfields such as rheumatology, genetics, pathology and forensic medicine, immunology, and physiology.

Their work spans several main topics including urticaria and related conditions, coagulation, bradykinin, polyphosphates, and angioedema, autoimmune bullous skin diseases, asthma and respiratory diseases, mast cells and histamine, dermatology and skin diseases, as well as allergic rhinitis and sensitization.

Martin K. Church has published extensively in a number of venues, notably:

  • Allergy
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
  • Allergy Asthma and Immunology Research
  • Clinical & Experimental Allergy

Recent publications demonstrate a focus on urticaria and related immunological aspects. These include:

  • The international EAACI/GA²LEN/EuroGuiDerm/APAAACI guideline for the definition, classification, diagnosis, and management of urticaria (2021), published in Allergy
  • Predictors of treatment response in chronic spontaneous urticaria (2021), published in Allergy
  • The role of eosinophils in chronic spontaneous urticaria (2020), published in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Total IgE as a Marker for Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria (2021), published in Allergy Asthma and Immunology Research
  • Interleukin-17 is a potential player and treatment target in severe chronic spontaneous urticaria (2020), published in Clinical & Experimental Allergy

Frequent collaborators of Martin K. Church include Marcus Maurer, Pavel Kolkhir, Torsten Zuberbier, Sabine Altrichter, and Emek Kocatürk, reflecting coauthorship in several works related to urticaria and allergy research.

Best Publications

  • The human mast cell

    Martin K. Church;Francesca Levi-Schaffer

  • Heterogeneity of human mast cells based on cytokine content.

    P Bradding;Y Okayama;P H Howarth;M K Church

  • Human skin mast cells: their dispersion, purification, and secretory characterization.

    R C Benyon;M A Lowman;M K Church

  • Early and late-phase bronchoconstriction after allergen challenge of nonanesthetized guinea pigs. I: The association of disordered airway physiology to leukocyte infiltration

    Penny A. Hutson;Martin K. Church;Timothy P. Clay;Peter Miller

  • Human mast cell heterogeneity: histamine release from mast cells dispersed from skin, lung, adenoids, tonsils, and colon in response to IgE-dependent and nonimmunologic stimuli

    Lowman Ma;Rees Ph;Benyon Rc;Church Mk

  • Inhibition of IgE-dependent histamine release from human dispersed lung mast cells by anti-allergic drugs and salbutamol.

    Martin K. Church;Jun Hiroi

  • Complement Peptides C3a- and C5a-Induced Mediator Release from Dissociated Human Skin Mast Cells

    Suhad G. El-Lati;Clemens A. Dahinden;Martin K. Church

  • Characterization of neuropeptide-induced histamine release from human dispersed skin mast cells.

    M. A. Lowman;R. C. Benyon;M. K. Church

  • Influence of albuterol, cromolyn sodium and ipratropium bromide on the airway and circulating mediator responses to allergen bronchial provocation in asthma

    Peter H. Howarth;Stephen R. Durham;Tak H. Lee;A. Barry Kay

  • Role of nasal interleukin-8 in neutrophil recruitment and activation in children with virus-induced asthma.

    L M Teran;S L Johnston;J M Schröder;M K Church

  • Adenosine inhibits and potentiates IgE-dependent histamine release from human lung mast cells by an A2-purinoceptor mediated mechanism

    Philip J. Hughes;Stephen T. Holgate;Martin K. Church

  • Raised parenchymal interleukin‐6 levels correlate with improved outcome after traumatic brain injury

    Craig D Winter;Ashley K Pringle;Geraldine F Clough;Martin K Church

  • Differential release of histamine and eicosanoids from human skin mast cells activated by IgE-dependent and non-immunological stimuli

    R. Christopher Benyon;Clive Robinson;Martin K. Church

  • Anaphylactic- and calcium-dependent generation of prostaglandin D2 (PGD2), thromboxane B2, and other cyclooxygenase products of arachidonic acid by dispersed human lung cells and relationship to histamine release.

    S T Holgate;G B Burns;C Robinson;M K Church

  • Immunohistochemical identification of mast cells in formaldehyde-fixed tissue using monoclonal antibodies specific for tryptase.

    Andrew F. Walls;David B. Jones;Julie H. Williams;Martin K. Church

  • Release of mast-cell-derived mediators after endobronchial adenosine challenge in asthma.

    Riccardo Polosa;Wai H. Ng;Nunzio Crimi;Carlo Vancheri

  • IgE-dependent expression of mRNA for IL-4 and IL-5 in human lung mast cells.

    Y Okayama;C Petit-Frére;O Kassel;A Semper

  • Tear and conjunctival changes during the allergen-induced early- and late-phase responses.

    Annette S. Bacon;Poonam Ahluwalia;Anne-Marie Irani;Lawrence B. Schwartz

  • Dendritic cells in normal and asthmatic airways : expression of the α subunit of the high affinity immunoglobulin E receptor (FcεRI-α)

    J. M. Tunon-De-Lara;A. E. Redington;P. Bradding;M. K. Church

  • NF-κB and TNF-α: A Positive Autocrine Loop in Human Lung Mast Cells?

    William R. Coward;Yoshimichi Okayama;Hironori Sagara;Susan J. Wilson

  • Human mast cells express stem cell factor

    Shaoli Zhang;David F. Anderson;Peter Bradding;William R. Coward

  • Interaction of neuropeptides with human mast cells.

    Church Mk;Lowman Ma;Robinson C;Holgate St

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen T. Holgate
Stephen T. Holgate University of Southampton
Yoshimichi Okayama
Yoshimichi Okayama Nihon University
Peter H. Howarth
Peter H. Howarth University of Southampton
Andrew F. Walls
Andrew F. Walls University of Southampton
Johannes Ring
Johannes Ring Technical University of Munich
Lawrence M. Lichtenstein
Lawrence M. Lichtenstein Johns Hopkins University
Janis K. Shute
Janis K. Shute University of Portsmouth
Judah A. Denburg
Judah A. Denburg McMaster University
Peter Bradding
Peter Bradding University of Leicester
Gerald J. Gleich
Gerald J. Gleich University of Utah

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