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Overview

Oliver Pabst is affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Immunology as a key subfield.

The main topics addressed in their research encompass multiple aspects of immune system function and gut health. These topics include:

  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Microscopic Colitis
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Gastrointestinal motility and disorders

Oliver Pabst has published extensively, contributing to various academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
  • Science Immunology
  • World Allergy Organization Journal
  • Immunity
  • The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Among recent published papers attributed to Pabst, notable works include:

  • "Gut-liver axis: barriers and functional circuits," published in 2023 in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
  • "High microbiota reactivity of adult human intestinal IgA requires somatic mutations," 2020, The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • "Gut T cell-independent IgA responses to commensal bacteria require engagement of the TACI receptor on B cells," 2020, Science Immunology
  • "The oxysterol receptor GPR183 in inflammatory bowel diseases," 2020, British Journal of Pharmacology
  • "The immune landscape of IgA induction in the gut," 2021, Seminars in Immunopathology

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Vuk Cerovic
  • Thomas Clavel
  • Lydia Kopplin
  • Johanna Kabbert
  • Fabian T. Hager

The variety of topics and breadth of publication venues indicate a research profile centered on understanding the immunological processes related to gut health and associated diseases, as well as microbial interactions and immune cell functions.

Best Publications

  • Intestinal tolerance requires gut homing and expansion of FoxP3+ regulatory T cells in the lamina propria

    Usriansyah Hadis;Benjamin Wahl;Olga Schulz;Matthias Hardtke-Wolenski

  • Oral tolerance originates in the intestinal immune system and relies on antigen carriage by dendritic cells.

    Tim Worbs;Ulrike Bode;Sheng Yan;Matthias W. Hoffmann

  • Functional specialization of gut CD103^+ dendritic cells in the regulation of tissue-selective T cell homing

    Bengt Johansson-Lindbom;Marcus Svensson;Oliver Pabst;Caroline Palmqvist

  • Oral tolerance to food protein

    O Pabst;A M Mowat

  • Intestinal CD103+, but not CX3CR1+, antigen sampling cells migrate in lymph and serve classical dendritic cell functions

    Olga Schulz;Elin Jaensson;Emma K. Persson;Xiaosun Liu

  • New concepts in the generation and functions of IgA

    Oliver Pabst

  • Small intestinal CD103+ dendritic cells display unique functional properties that are conserved between mice and humans.

    Elin Jaensson;Heli Uronen-Hansson;Oliver Pabst;Bertus Eksteen

  • IgA and the intestinal microbiota: the importance of being specific

    Oliver Pabst;Emma Slack

  • Stromal mesenteric lymph node cells are essential for the generation of gut-homing T cells in vivo

    Swantje I. Hammerschmidt;Manuela Ahrendt;Ulrike Bode;Benjamin Wahl

  • CCR9 is a homing receptor for plasmacytoid dendritic cells to the small intestine.

    Meike Wendland;Niklas Czeloth;Nicolas Mach;Bernard Malissen

  • Chemokine Receptor CCR9 Contributes to the Localization of Plasma Cells to the Small Intestine

    Oliver Pabst;Lars Ohl;Meike Wendland;Marc-André Wurbel

  • Thymic T Cell Development and Progenitor Localization Depend on CCR7

    Ana Misslitz;Oliver Pabst;Gabriele Hintzen;Lars Ohl

  • BALB/c and C57BL/6 Mice Differ in Polyreactive IgA Abundance, which Impacts the Generation of Antigen-Specific IgA and Microbiota Diversity

    Floris Fransen;Elena Zagato;Elisa Mazzini;Bruno Fosso

  • Induction of tolerance to innocuous inhaled antigen relies on a CCR7-dependent dendritic cell-mediated antigen transport to the bronchial lymph node.

    Gabriele Hintzen;Lars Ohl;Maria-Luisa del Rio;Jose-Ignacio Rodriguez-Barbosa

  • Role of serotonin in intestinal inflammation: knockout of serotonin reuptake transporter exacerbates 2,4,6-trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid colitis in mice

    Stephan C. Bischoff;Reiner Mailer;Oliver Pabst;Gisela Weier

  • Cooperating mechanisms of CXCR5 and CCR7 in development and organization of secondary lymphoid organs.

    Lars Ohl;Golo Henning;Stefan Krautwald;Martin Lipp

  • Cryptopatches and isolated lymphoid follicles: dynamic lymphoid tissues dispensable for the generation of intraepithelial lymphocytes

    Oliver Pabst;Heike Herbrand;Tim Worbs;Michaela Friedrichsen

  • Age, microbiota, and T cells shape diverse individual IgA repertoires in the intestine

    Cornelia Lindner;Benjamin Wahl;Lisa Föhse;Sebastian Suerbaum

  • Diversification of memory B cells drives the continuous adaptation of secretory antibodies to gut microbiota

    Cornelia Lindner;Irene Thomsen;Benjamin Wahl;Milas Ugur

  • Adaptation of solitary intestinal lymphoid tissue in response to microbiota and chemokine receptor CCR7 signaling.

    Oliver Pabst;Heike Herbrand;Michaela Friedrichsen;Sarvari Velaga

  • Antigen sampling in the small intestine

    Olga Schulz;Oliver Pabst

  • Age-dependent TLR3 expression of the intestinal epithelium contributes to rotavirus susceptibility.

    Johanna Pott;Silvia Stockinger;Silvia Stockinger;Natalia Torow;Anna Smoczek

Frequent Co-Authors

Reinhold Förster
Reinhold Förster Hannover Medical School
Elisabeth Kremmer
Elisabeth Kremmer Max Planck Society
Werner Müller
Werner Müller University of Manchester
William W. Agace
William W. Agace University of Copenhagen
Mathias W. Hornef
Mathias W. Hornef RWTH Aachen University
Evgeni Ponimaskin
Evgeni Ponimaskin Hannover Medical School
Tim Sparwasser
Tim Sparwasser Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Dirk Bumann
Dirk Bumann University of Basel
Immo Prinz
Immo Prinz Hannover Medical School
Michael Sixt
Michael Sixt Institute of Science and Technology Austria

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