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Michael D. Gunn

Michael D. Gunn

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Immunology

D-Index
54
Citations
18005
World Ranking
3837
National Ranking
1759

Overview

Michael D. Gunn is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research focuses mainly on medicine, with significant contributions to immunology and microbiology.

The scientist's work spans several specialized subfields including immunology, oncology, molecular biology, epidemiology, and infectious diseases. Central topics of their research encompass immune cells in cancer, immune cell function and interaction, immunotherapy and immune responses, T-cell and B-cell immunology, CAR-T cell therapy research, glioma diagnosis and treatment, and neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms.

Frequently appearing in publications, Michael D. Gunn has contributed multiple papers to reputable venues such as:

  • The Journal of Immunology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science Translational Medicine
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Cancer Research

The scientist often collaborates with coauthors including Vincent M. D'Anniballe, Jessica Waibl Polania, William H. Tomaszewski, Peter E. Fecci, and John H. Sampson, each with multiple joint publications.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Michael D. Gunn include:

  • CD8+ T cells maintain killing of MHC-I-negative tumor cells through the NKG2D-NKG2DL axis, 2023, Nature Cancer
  • Nonclassical Monocytes Sense Hypoxia, Regulate Pulmonary Vascular Remodeling, and Promote Pulmonary Hypertension, 2020, The Journal of Immunology
  • Epidemiology of age-dependent prevalence of Bovine Herpes Virus Type 1 (BoHV-1) in dairy herds with and without vaccination, 2020, Veterinary Research
  • Neuronal CaMKK2 promotes immunosuppression and checkpoint blockade resistance in glioblastoma, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Ultrasensitive point-of-care immunoassay for secreted glycoprotein detects Ebola infection earlier than PCR, 2021, Science Translational Medicine

Best Publications

  • Mice Lacking Expression of Secondary Lymphoid Organ Chemokine Have Defects in Lymphocyte Homing and Dendritic Cell Localization

    Michael D. Gunn;Shigeru Kyuwa;Carmen Tam;Terutaka Kakiuchi

  • A chemokine expressed in lymphoid high endothelial venules promotes the adhesion and chemotaxis of naive T lymphocytes

    Michael D. Gunn;Kirsten Tangemann;Carmen Tam;Jason G. Cyster

  • An essential role for Prox1 in the induction of the lymphatic endothelial cell phenotype

    Jeffrey T. Wigle;Jeffrey T. Wigle;Natasha Harvey;Michael Detmar;Irina Lagutina

  • A B-cell-homing chemokine made in lymphoid follicles activates Burkitt's lymphoma receptor-1.

    Michael D. Gunn;Vu N. Ngo;K. Mark Ansel;Eric H. Ekland

  • Cd11c+B220+Gr-1+ Cells in Mouse Lymph Nodes and Spleen Display Characteristics of Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells

    Hideki Nakano;Manabu Yanagita;Michael Dee Gunn

  • Brain immunology and immunotherapy in brain tumours

    John H. Sampson;Michael D. Gunn;Peter E. Fecci;David M. Ashley

  • Lymphotoxin alpha/beta and tumor necrosis factor are required for stromal cell expression of homing chemokines in B and T cell areas of the spleen.

    Vu N. Ngo;Heinrich Korner;Michael D. Gunn;Kerstin N. Schmidt

  • Sequestration of T cells in bone marrow in the setting of glioblastoma and other intracranial tumors.

    Pakawat Chongsathidkiet;Christina Jackson;Shohei Koyama;Franziska Loebel

  • The Cc Chemokine Thymus-Derived Chemotactic Agent 4 (Tca-4, Secondary Lymphoid Tissue Chemokine, 6ckine, Exodus-2) Triggers Lymphocyte Function–Associated Antigen 1–Mediated Arrest of Rolling T Lymphocytes in Peripheral Lymph Node High Endothelial Venules

    Jens V. Stein;Antal Rot;Yi Luo;Manjunath Narasimhaswamy

  • Tetanus toxoid and CCL3 improve dendritic cell vaccines in mice and glioblastoma patients

    Duane A. Mitchell;Kristen A. Batich;Michael D. Gunn;Min-Nung Huang

  • CCR2+ monocyte-derived dendritic cells and exudate macrophages produce influenza-induced pulmonary immune pathology and mortality.

    Kaifeng Lisa Lin;Yasushi Suzuki;Hideki Nakano;Elizabeth Ramsburg

  • Blood-derived inflammatory dendritic cells in lymph nodes stimulate acute T helper type 1 immune responses

    Hideki Nakano;Hideki Nakano;Kaifeng Lisa Lin;Manabu Yanagita;Manabu Yanagita;Chantal Charbonneau

  • The cholesterol metabolite 27 hydroxycholesterol facilitates breast cancer metastasis through its actions on immune cells.

    Amy E. Baek;Yen Rei A. Yu;Sisi He;Suzanne E. Wardell

  • A Protocol for the Comprehensive Flow Cytometric Analysis of Immune Cells in Normal and Inflamed Murine Non-Lymphoid Tissues.

    Yen Rei A. Yu;Emily G. O'Koren;Danielle F. Hotten;Matthew J. Kan

  • Mast cell-derived tumor necrosis factor induces hypertrophy of draining lymph nodes during infection.

    James B McLachlan;Justin P Hart;Salvatore V Pizzo;Christopher P Shelburne

  • A truncated form of fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 inhibits signal transduction by multiple types of fibroblast growth factor receptor.

    H Ueno;M Gunn;K Dell;A Tseng

  • NLRP3 inflammasome induces chemotactic immune cell migration to the CNS in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

    Makoto Inoue;Kristi L. Williams;Michael D. Gunn;Mari L. Shinohara

  • Autotaxin, an ectoenzyme that produces lysophosphatidic acid, promotes the entry of lymphocytes into secondary lymphoid organs.

    Hidenobu Kanda;Rebecca Newton;Rebecca Newton;Russell Klein;Russell Klein;Yuka Morita;Yuka Morita

  • Sulfotransferases of Two Specificities Function in the Reconstitution of High Endothelial Cell Ligands for L-selectin

    Annette Bistrup;Sunil Bhakta;Jin Kyu Lee;Yevgeniy Y. Belov

  • Gene duplications at the chemokine locus on mouse chromosome 4 : multiple strain-specific haplotypes and the deletion of secondary lymphoid-organ chemokine and EBI-1 ligand chemokine genes in the plt mutation

    Hideki Nakano;Michael D. Gunn

  • Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 is sufficient for the chemotaxis of monocytes and lymphocytes in transgenic mice but requires an additional stimulus for inflammatory activation.

    M D Gunn;N A Nelken;X Liao;L T Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

John H. Sampson
John H. Sampson Duke University
Paul W. Noble
Paul W. Noble Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Herman F. Staats
Herman F. Staats Duke University
Lewis T. Williams
Lewis T. Williams University of California, San Francisco
Smita Nair
Smita Nair Duke University
Donald N. Cook
Donald N. Cook National Institutes of Health
Soman N. Abraham
Soman N. Abraham Duke University
Elizabeth R. Hauser
Elizabeth R. Hauser Duke University
Steven D. Rosen
Steven D. Rosen University of California, San Francisco
Ashutosh Chilkoti
Ashutosh Chilkoti Duke University

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