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64
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2939
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Overview

Michael F. Gurish is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in the United States and has contributed to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Immunology and Microbiology, and Medicine. Their research spans multiple specialized subfields including Cancer Research, Immunology, and Oncology.

Their scholarly work emphasizes topics such as NF-κB signaling pathways, immune response and inflammation, and cytokine signaling pathways and interactions. These areas reflect a focus on understanding molecular and cellular mechanisms relevant to immune modulation and disease processes.

Among their recent publications is a paper titled CUX1 and IκBζ (NFKBIZ) mediate the synergistic inflammatory response to TNF and IL-17A in stromal fibroblasts, published in 2020 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This publication has been cited 81 times, indicating engagement within the scientific community.

Michael F. Gurish frequently collaborates with colleagues including Kamil Slowikowski, Hung N. Nguyen, Erika H. Noss, Daimon P. Simmons, and Fumitaka Mizoguchi. Their work appears predominantly in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, where they have contributed at least one publication.

Best Publications

  • Pathologically expanded peripheral T helper cell subset drives B cells in rheumatoid arthritis

    Deepak A. Rao;Michael F. Gurish;Jennifer L. Marshall;Kamil Slowikowski

  • Mast Cells: A Cellular Link Between Autoantibodies and Inflammatory Arthritis

    David M. Lee;Daniel S. Friend;Michael F. Gurish;Christophe Benoist

  • Heparin is essential for the storage of specific granule proteases in mast cells

    Donald E. Humphries;Guang W. Wong;Daniel S. Friend;Michael F. Gurish

  • Developmental checkpoints of the basophil/mast cell lineages in adult murine hematopoiesis

    Yojiro Arinobu;Hiromi Iwasaki;Hiromi Iwasaki;Michael F. Gurish;Shin Ichi Mizuno

  • Developmental origin and functional specialization of mast cell subsets.

    Michael F. Gurish;K. Frank Austen

  • Cooperative and antagonistic interplay between PU.1 and GATA-2 in the specification of myeloid cell fates.

    Jonathan C Walsh;Rodney P DeKoter;Hyun Jun Lee;Erica D Smith

  • Intestinal Mast Cell Progenitors Require CD49dβ7 (α4β7 Integrin) for Tissue-specific Homing

    Michael F. Gurish;Hong Tao;J. Pablo Abonia;Anu Arya

  • Mast cells that reside at different locations in the jejunum of mice infected with Trichinella spiralis exhibit sequential changes in their granule ultrastructure and chymase phenotype.

    D S Friend;N Ghildyal;K F Austen;M F Gurish

  • The Diverse Roles of Mast Cells

    Michael F. Gurish;K. Frank Austen

  • Mast cells are an essential hematopoietic component for polyp development

    Elias Gounaris;Susan E. Erdman;Clifford Restaino;Michael F. Gurish

  • PD-1hiCXCR5– T peripheral helper cells promote B cell responses in lupus via MAF and IL-21

    Alexandra V. Bocharnikov;Joshua Keegan;Vanessa S. Wacleche;Ye Cao

  • Identification of eosinophil lineage- committed progenitors in the murine bone marrow

    Hiromi Iwasaki;Shin Ichi Mizuno;Robin Mayfield;Hirokazu Shigematsu

  • IgE enhances parasite clearance and regulates mast cell responses in mice infected with Trichinella spiralis.

    Michael F. Gurish;Paul J. Bryce;Hong Tao;Alison B. Kisselgof

  • Differential expression of secretory granule proteases in mouse mast cells exposed to interleukin 3 and c-kit ligand.

    M F Gurish;N Ghildyal;H P McNeil;K F Austen

  • Genetic Inversion in Mast Cell-Deficient Wsh Mice Interrupts Corin and Manifests as Hematopoietic and Cardiac Aberrancy

    Peter A. Nigrovic;Peter A. Nigrovic;Daniel H.D. Gray;Tatiana Jones;Jenny Hallgren

  • Mast cells: Ontogeny, homing, and recruitment of a unique innate effector cell

    Michael F. Gurish;Joshua A. Boyce

  • Mechanical Skin Injury Promotes Food Anaphylaxis by Driving Intestinal Mast Cell Expansion.

    Juan-Manuel Leyva-Castillo;Claire Galand;Christy Kam;Oliver Burton

  • Mast cells regulate homeostatic intestinal epithelial migration and barrier function by a chymase/Mcpt4-dependent mechanism

    Katherine R. Groschwitz;Richard Ahrens;Heather Osterfeld;Michael F. Gurish

  • GATA-binding transcription factors in mast cells regulate the promoter of the mast cell carboxypeptidase A gene.

    L I Zon;M F Gurish;R L Stevens;C Mather

  • Mouse mast cell tryptase mMCP-6 is a critical link between adaptive and innate immunity in the chronic phase of Trichinella spiralis infection

    Kichul Shin;Gerald F. M. Watts;Hans C. Oettgen;Daniel S. Friend

  • T-Regulatory Cells Shift from a Protective Anti-Inflammatory to a Cancer-Promoting Proinflammatory Phenotype in Polyposis

    Elias Gounaris;Nichole R. Blatner;Kristen Dennis;Fay Magnusson

  • Mast cells contribute to autoimmune inflammatory arthritis via their tryptase•heparin complexes

    Kichul Shin;Peter A. Nigrovic;James Crish;Eric Boilard

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard L. Stevens
Richard L. Stevens Brigham and Women's Hospital
Daniel S. Friend
Daniel S. Friend Brigham and Women's Hospital
K. Frank Austen
K. Frank Austen Brigham and Women's Hospital
Joshua A. Boyce
Joshua A. Boyce Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peter A. Nigrovic
Peter A. Nigrovic Boston Children's Hospital
Hans C. Oettgen
Hans C. Oettgen Boston Children's Hospital
Gunnar Pejler
Gunnar Pejler Uppsala University
Michael B. Brenner
Michael B. Brenner Harvard Medical School
Soumya Raychaudhuri
Soumya Raychaudhuri Brigham and Women's Hospital
Koichi Akashi
Koichi Akashi Kyushu University

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