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Overview

Sally A. Huber is affiliated with the University of Vermont in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with a significant focus on Immunology, Epidemiology, Neurology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Genetics. The main thematic areas cover Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases, Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Immune cells in cancer, IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways, Cardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling, and Immune Cell Function and Interaction.

Huber has contributed to multiple recent scholarly articles, including:

  • Innate and adaptive immune cell subsets as risk factors for coronary heart disease in two population-based cohorts (2020, Atherosclerosis)
  • Natural killer cells, gamma delta T cells and classical monocytes are associated with systolic blood pressure in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA) (2021, BMC Cardiovascular Disorders)
  • Nonclassical Monocytes (CD14dimCD16+) Are Associated With Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Progression for Men but Not Women (2021, Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology)
  • Associations of Innate and Adaptive Immune Cell Subsets With Incident Type 2 Diabetes Risk: The MESA Study (2020, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism)
  • Association of immune cell subsets with incident heart failure in two population-based cohorts (2022, ESC Heart Failure)

The frequent collaborators associated with Huber include:

  • Nels C. Olson
  • Margaret F. Doyle
  • Joseph A. Delaney
  • Bruce M. Psaty
  • Colleen M. Sitlani

Huber's work is often published in specialized venues, with recurrent contributions to:

  • Atherosclerosis
  • Leukemia
  • American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology
  • Circulation
  • Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie

The research focuses on investigating immune cell subsets and their relationships to cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, including coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and heart failure. Studies also include evaluation of cellular mechanisms related to blood pressure regulation and atherosclerosis progression.

Huber's scholarly output highlights interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of immunology, cardiology, and metabolic health, with implications for understanding disease pathology and potential biomarkers within population-based cohorts.

Best Publications

  • Interleukin-6 Exacerbates Early Atherosclerosis in Mice

    S. A. Huber;P. Sakkinen;D. Conze;N. Hardin

  • Coxsackievirus B-3 myocarditis in Balb/c mice. Evidence for autoimmunity to myocyte antigens.

    S. A. Huber;P. A. Lodge

  • The role of CD8+ T lymphocytes in coxsackievirus B3-induced myocarditis.

    A Henke;S Huber;A Stelzner;J L Whitton

  • A mutation in the puff region of VP2 attenuates the myocarditic phenotype of an infectious cDNA of the Woodruff variant of coxsackievirus B3.

    K U Knowlton;E S Jeon;N Berkley;R Wessely

  • Differential Th1 and Th2 cell responses in male and female BALB/c mice infected with coxsackievirus group B type 3.

    S A Huber;B Pfaeffle

  • T helper-cell phenotype regulates atherosclerosis in mice under conditions of mild hypercholesterolemia.

    Sally Ann Huber;P. Sakkinen;C. David;M. K. Newell

  • V gamma 1+ T cells suppress and V gamma 4+ T cells promote susceptibility to coxsackievirus B3-induced myocarditis in mice.

    S A Huber;D Graveline;M K Newell;W K Born

  • Reactive oxygen species induce virus-independent MAVS oligomerization in systemic lupus erythematosus.

    Iwona A. Buskiewicz;Theresa Montgomery;Elizabeth C. Yasewicz;Sally A. Huber

  • Different Potentials of γδ T Cell Subsets in Regulating Airway Responsiveness: Vγ1+ Cells, but Not Vγ4+ Cells, Promote Airway Hyperreactivity, Th2 Cytokines, and Airway Inflammation

    Youn-Soo Hahn;Christian Taube;Niyun Jin;Laura Sharp

  • Coxsackievirus-Induced Pancreatitis

    Sally Huber;Arlene I. Ramsingh

  • Enteroviruses and myocarditis: viral pathogenesis through replication, cytokine induction, and immunopathogenicity.

    S A Huber;C J Gauntt;P Sakkinen

  • Coxsackievirus B-3 myocarditis. Identification of different pathogenic mechanisms in DBA/2 and Balb/c mice.

    S. A. Huber;P. A. Lodge

  • Coxsackievirus B-3 myocarditis. Acute and chronic forms of the disease caused by different immunopathogenic mechanisms.

    P. A. Lodge;M. Herzum;J. Olszewski;S. A. Huber

  • Lysis of infected myofibers by coxsackievirus B-3-immune T lymphocytes.

    S. A. Huber;L. P. Job;J. F. Woodruff

  • Coxsackievirus B3 Induces T Regulatory Cells, Which Inhibit Cardiomyopathy in Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Transgenic Mice

    Sally A. Huber;Arthur M. Feldman;Danielle Sartini

  • The Y chromosome as a regulatory element shaping immune cell transcriptomes and susceptibility to autoimmune disease

    Laure K. Case;Emma H. Wall;Julie A. Dragon;Naresha Saligrama

  • Vgamma4(+) T cells promote autoimmune CD8(+) cytolytic T-lymphocyte activation in coxsackievirus B3-induced myocarditis in mice: role for CD4(+) Th1 cells.

    S. A. Huber;D. Sartini;M. Exley

  • Streptococcal M protein peptide with similarity to myosin induces CD4+ T cell-dependent myocarditis in MRL/++ mice and induces partial tolerance against coxsakieviral myocarditis.

    S A Huber;M W Cunningham

  • Local production of IFN-gamma by invariant NKT cells modulates acute Lyme carditis.

    Chris M. Olson;Tonya C. Bates;Hooman Izadi;Justin D. Radolf

  • Augmentation of pathogenesis of coxsackievirus B3 infections in mice by exogenous administration of interleukin-1 and interleukin-2.

    S A Huber;J Polgar;P Schultheiss;P Schwimmbeck

  • Depletion of a gamma delta T cell subset can increase host resistance to a bacterial infection.

    Rebecca L. O’Brien;Xiang Yin;Sally A. Huber;Koichi Ikuta

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Russell P. Tracy
Russell P. Tracy University of Vermont
Rebecca L. O'Brien
Rebecca L. O'Brien National Jewish Health
Alan L. Landay
Alan L. Landay The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
David Lyden
David Lyden Cornell University
Ralph C. Budd
Ralph C. Budd University of Vermont
Willi K. Born
Willi K. Born University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Richard A. Kronmal
Richard A. Kronmal University of Washington
Mark A. Exley
Mark A. Exley Brigham and Women's Hospital
Nancy S. Jenny
Nancy S. Jenny University of Vermont

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