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Overview

Shida Yousefi is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and has an extensive publication record in the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology. Their research spans several subfields including Immunology, Molecular Biology, Surgery, Physiology, and Rheumatology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms
  • Eosinophilic Esophagitis
  • Eosinophilic Disorders and Syndromes
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Inflammasome and immune disorders
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy

Shida Yousefi has authored several notable papers published in reputable venues. Some of their recent works include:

  • "Patients with COVID-19: in the dark-NETs of neutrophils" (2021) published in Cell Death and Differentiation
  • "In vivo evidence for extracellular DNA trap formation" (2020) published in Cell Death and Disease
  • "Eosinophils from A to Z" (2023) published in Allergy
  • "The GM-CSF-IRF5 signaling axis in eosinophils promotes antitumor immunity through activation of type 1 T cell responses" (2020) published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • "The Enigma of Eosinophil Degranulation" (2021) published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Their frequent publication venues include Allergy, Frontiers in Immunology, Cells, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and Frontiers in Oncology.

Shida Yousefi collaborates regularly with several co-authors, the most frequent being Hans-Uwe Simon, Darko Stojkov, Dagmar Simon, Aref Hosseini, and А. В. Караулов.

Best Publications

  • Calpain-mediated cleavage of Atg5 switches autophagy to apoptosis.

    Shida Yousefi;Remo Perozzo;Inès Schmid;Andrew Ziemiecki

  • Catapult-like release of mitochondrial DNA by eosinophils contributes to antibacterial defense

    Shida Yousefi;Jeffrey A. Gold;Nicola Andina;James J. Lee

  • Viable neutrophils release mitochondrial DNA to form neutrophil extracellular traps

    S Yousefi;C Mihalache;E Kozlowski;I Schmid

  • Direct demonstration of delayed eosinophil apoptosis as a mechanism causing tissue eosinophilia.

    Hu Simon;S Yousefi;C Schranz;A Schapowal

  • To NET or not to NET:current opinions and state of the science regarding the formation of neutrophil extracellular traps

    Sebastian Boeltz;Poorya Amini;Hans Joachim Anders;Felipe Andrade

  • Induction of genes mediating interferon-dependent extracellular trap formation during neutrophil differentiation.

    Sibylla Martinelli;Mirjana Urosevic;Arezoo Daryadel;Patrick Antony Oberholzer

  • Caspase-8 is activated by cathepsin D initiating neutrophil apoptosis during the resolution of inflammation

    Sébastien Conus;Remo Perozzo;Thomas Reinheckel;Christoph Peters

  • Use of an Anti–Interleukin-5 Antibody in the Hypereosinophilic Syndrome with Eosinophilic Dermatitis

    Sabine-Gisela Plötz;Hans-Uwe Simon;Ulf Darsow;Dagmar Simon

  • Patients with COVID-19: in the dark-NETs of neutrophils.

    Maximilian Ackermann;Hans Joachim Anders;Rostyslav Bilyy;Gary L. Bowlin

  • Requirement of Lyn and Syk tyrosine kinases for the prevention of apoptosis by cytokines in human eosinophils.

    Shida Yousefi;Daniel C. Hoessli;Kurt Blaser;Gordon B. Mills

  • Eosinophil and neutrophil extracellular DNA traps in human allergic asthmatic airways

    Ryszard Dworski;Hans-Uwe Simon;Aimee Hoskins;Shida Yousefi

  • Regulation of the innate immune system by autophagy: monocytes, macrophages, dendritic cells and antigen presentation.

    Nina Germic;Ziva Frangez;Shida Yousefi;Hans-Uwe Simon

  • Protein-tyrosine phosphorylation regulates apoptosis in human eosinophils and neutrophils.

    Shida Yousefi;Douglas R. Green;Kurt Blaser;Hans-Uwe Simon

  • Siglec-9 transduces apoptotic and nonapoptotic death signals into neutrophils depending on the proinflammatory cytokine environment.

    Stephan von Gunten;Shida Yousefi;Michael Seitz;Stephan M. Jakob

  • Inflammation-associated Cell Cycle–independent Block of Apoptosis by Survivin in Terminally Differentiated Neutrophils

    Frank Altznauer;Sibylla Martinelli;Shida Yousefi;Christine Thürig

  • Death receptors bind SHP-1 and block cytokine-induced anti-apoptotic signaling in neutrophils

    Isabelle Daigle;Shida Yousefi;Marco Colonna;Douglas R Green

  • IL-8 is expressed by human peripheral blood eosinophils. Evidence for increased secretion in asthma.

    S Yousefi;S Hemmann;M Weber;C Hölzer

  • Autophagy is required for self-renewal and differentiation of adult human stem cells.

    Souzan Salemi;Shida Yousefi;Mihai A Constantinescu;Martin F Fey

  • Down-Regulation of Autophagy-Related Protein 5 (ATG5) Contributes to the Pathogenesis of Early-Stage Cutaneous Melanoma

    He Liu;Zhaoyue He;Thomas von Rütte;Shida Yousefi

  • NADPH oxidase-independent formation of extracellular DNA traps by basophils

    Md. Mahbubul Morshed;Ruslan Hlushchuk;Dagmar Simon;Andrew F. Walls

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Uwe Simon
Hans-Uwe Simon University of Bern
Dagmar Simon
Dagmar Simon University of Bern
Kurt Blaser
Kurt Blaser University of Zurich
Martin F. Fey
Martin F. Fey University of Bern
James W. Dennis
James W. Dennis Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Paul R. Cooper
Paul R. Cooper University of Otago
Thomas Brunner
Thomas Brunner University of Konstanz
Cassian Sitaru
Cassian Sitaru University of Freiburg
Angela Franciska Haczku
Angela Franciska Haczku University of California, Davis
Leonardo Scapozza
Leonardo Scapozza University of Geneva

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