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Matthias Nahrendorf

Matthias Nahrendorf

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Medicine

D-Index
125
Citations
57357
World Ranking
3100
National Ranking
1711

Overview

Matthias Nahrendorf is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with specific subfields including Immunology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, Neurology, and Epidemiology.

The main topics in Matthias Nahrendorf's work encompass immune cells in cancer, cardiac fibrosis and remodeling, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, adipokines, inflammation and metabolic diseases, tryptophan and brain disorders, and cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias.

Matthias Nahrendorf has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Single-nucleus profiling of human dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (2022), published in Nature
  • Astrocytic interleukin-3 programs microglia and limits Alzheimer's disease (2021), published in Nature
  • Increased stem cell proliferation in atherosclerosis accelerates clonal hematopoiesis (2021), published in Cell
  • Ibrutinib-Mediated Atrial Fibrillation Attributable to Inhibition of C-Terminal Src Kinase (2020), published in Circulation
  • Brain motor and fear circuits regulate leukocytes during acute stress (2022), published in Nature

The most frequent co-authors collaborating with Matthias Nahrendorf include Filip K. Świrski, Yoshiko Iwamoto, Maximilian J. Schloss, Maarten Hulsmans, and David Rohde.

Their research has been published repeatedly in venues such as JACC Basic to Translational Science, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Circulation, Nature Cardiovascular Research, and the European Heart Journal.

Best Publications

  • The healing myocardium sequentially mobilizes two monocyte subsets with divergent and complementary functions

    Matthias Nahrendorf;Filip K. Swirski;Elena Aikawa;Lars Stangenberg

  • Identification of splenic reservoir monocytes and their deployment to inflammatory sites

    Filip K. Swirski;Matthias Nahrendorf;Martin Etzrodt;Martin Etzrodt;Moritz Wildgruber

  • Molecularly self-assembled nucleic acid nanoparticles for targeted in vivo siRNA delivery

    Hyukjin Lee;Abigail K. R. Lytton-Jean;Yi Chen;Kevin T. Love

  • Leukocyte Behavior in Atherosclerosis, Myocardial Infarction, and Heart Failure

    Filip K. Swirski;Matthias Nahrendorf

  • Myocardial infarction accelerates atherosclerosis

    Partha Dutta;Gabriel Courties;Ying Wei;Florian Leuschner;Florian Leuschner

  • Local proliferation dominates lesional macrophage accumulation in atherosclerosis

    Clinton S Robbins;Ingo Hilgendorf;Georg F Weber;Igor Theurl

  • Macrophages facilitate electrical conduction in the heart

    Maarten Hulsmans;Sebastian Clauss;Sebastian Clauss;Ling Xiao;Aaron D. Aguirre

  • Monocytes: Protagonists of Infarct Inflammation and Repair After Myocardial Infarction

    Matthias Nahrendorf;Mikael J. Pittet;Filip K. Swirski

  • Therapeutic siRNA silencing in inflammatory monocytes in mice

    Florian Leuschner;Partha Dutta;Rostic Gorbatov;Tatiana I Novobrantseva

  • Imaging macrophages with nanoparticles

    Ralph Weissleder;Matthias Nahrendorf;Mikael J. Pittet

  • Chronic variable stress activates hematopoietic stem cells

    Timo Heidt;Hendrik B Sager;Gabriel Courties;Partha Dutta

  • Osteogenesis Associates With Inflammation in Early-Stage Atherosclerosis Evaluated by Molecular Imaging In Vivo

    Elena Aikawa;Matthias Nahrendorf;Jose-Luiz Figueiredo;Filip K. Swirski

  • Origins of tumor-associated macrophages and neutrophils

    Virna Cortez-Retamozo;Martin Etzrodt;Andita Newton;Philipp J. Rauch

  • Cardioimmunology: the immune system in cardiac homeostasis and disease

    Filip K Swirski;Matthias Nahrendorf

  • In vivo endothelial siRNA delivery using polymeric nanoparticles with low molecular weight

    James E. Dahlman;Carmen Barnes;Omar F. Khan;Aude Thiriot

  • Modified mRNA directs the fate of heart progenitor cells and induces vascular regeneration after myocardial infarction.

    Lior Zangi;Kathy O Lui;Kathy O Lui;Alexander von Gise;Alexander von Gise;Qing Ma;Qing Ma

  • Relation between resting amygdalar activity and cardiovascular events: a longitudinal and cohort study

    Ahmed Tawakol;Amorina Ishai;Richard Ap Takx;Amparo L Figueroa

  • Nanoparticle PET-CT Imaging of Macrophages in Inflammatory Atherosclerosis

    Matthias Nahrendorf;Hanwen Zhang;Sheena Hembrador;Peter Panizzi

  • Noninvasive Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 Imaging Identifies Inflammatory Activation of Cells in Atherosclerosis

    Matthias Nahrendorf;Farouc A. Jaffer;Kimberly A. Kelly;David E. Sosnovik

  • Molecularly self-assembled nucleic acid nanoparticles for targeted in vivo siRNA delivery

    Alfica Sehgal;William Querbes;Christopher S. Zurenko;Muthusamy Jayaraman

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralph Weissleder
Ralph Weissleder Harvard University
Filip K. Swirski
Filip K. Swirski Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Peter Libby
Peter Libby Brigham and Women's Hospital
Mikael J. Pittet
Mikael J. Pittet University of Geneva
Elena Aikawa
Elena Aikawa Brigham and Women's Hospital
Zahi A. Fayad
Zahi A. Fayad Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Georg Ertl
Georg Ertl University of Würzburg
Galina K. Sukhova
Galina K. Sukhova Harvard Medical School

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