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Steve N. Georas is affiliated with the University of Rochester Medical Center in the United States. Their research focuses on medicine, with a specialization in pulmonary and respiratory medicine, physiology, immunology, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and molecular biology.

Their work primarily addresses topics related to asthma and respiratory diseases, respiratory and cough-related research, air quality and health impacts, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) research, immune cell function and interaction, and the environmental impacts of energy and pollution.

Steve N. Georas has authored several research papers, including:

  • Lung megakaryocytes are immune modulatory cells, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • JAK inhibitors for asthma, 2021, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • The Precision Interventions for Severe and/or Exacerbation-Prone (PrecISE) Asthma Network: An overview of Network organization, procedures, and interventions, 2021, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • PrecISE: Precision Medicine in Severe Asthma: An adaptive platform trial with biomarker ascertainment, 2021, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Diesel exhaust particle exposure reduces expression of the epithelial tight junction protein Tricellulin, 2020, Particle and Fibre Toxicology

Their frequent co-authors include Sophia Eliseeva, Janelle Veazey, Sandhya Khurana, Timothy Smyth, and Daniel P. Croft.

Common publication venues where their work appears include:

  • CHEST Journal
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Scientific Reports
  • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice
  • UNC Libraries

Best Publications

  • Tight junction defects in patients with atopic dermatitis.

    Anna De Benedetto;Nicholas M. Rafaels;Laura Y. McGirt;Andrei I. Ivanov

  • Disruption of Nrf2 enhances susceptibility to severe airway inflammation and asthma in mice.

    Tirumalai Rangasamy;Jia Guo;Wayne A. Mitzner;Jessica Roman

  • Epithelial barrier function: At the front line of asthma immunology and allergic airway inflammation

    Steve N. Georas;Fariba Rezaee

  • Activation of Eotaxin Gene Transcription by NF-κB and STAT6 in Human Airway Epithelial Cells

    Satoshi Matsukura;Cristiana Stellato;James R. Plitt;Carol Bickel

  • AMP-activated kinase regulates cytoplasmic HuR.

    Wengong Wang;Jinshui Fan;Xiaoling Yang;Stefanie Fürer-Galban

  • Interleukin-13 upregulates eotaxin expression in airway epithelial cells by a STAT6-dependent mechanism.

    Satoshi Matsukura;Cristiana Stellato;Steve N. Georas;Vincenzo Casolaro

  • Eosinophil transendothelial migration induced by cytokines. I. Role of endothelial and eosinophil adhesion molecules in IL-1 beta-induced transendothelial migration.

    Motohiro Ebisawa;Bruce S. Bochner;Steve N. Georas;Robert P. Schleimer

  • T-helper cell type-2 regulation in allergic disease.

    S. N. Georas;J. Guo;U. De Fanis;V. Casolaro

  • A work group report on ultrafine particles (American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology): Why ambient ultrafine and engineered nanoparticles should receive special attention for possible adverse health outcomes in human subjects

    Ning Li;Steve Georas;Neil Alexis;Patricia Fritz

  • Interleukin-4 and interleukin-13 cause barrier dysfunction in human airway epithelial cells

    Bahman Saatian;Fariba Rezaee;Samantha Desando;Jason Emo

  • Breaking Barriers. New Insights into Airway Epithelial Barrier Function in Health and Disease

    Fariba Rezaee;Steve N. Georas

  • Activation of Epidermal Toll-Like Receptor 2 Enhances Tight Junction Function: Implications for Atopic Dermatitis and Skin Barrier Repair

    I-Hsin Kuo;Amanda Carpenter-Mendini;Takeshi Yoshida;Laura Y. McGirt

  • The autotaxin-LPA axis emerges as a novel regulator of lymphocyte homing and inflammation.

    Sara Knowlden;Steve N. Georas

  • Activation of Eotaxin Gene Transcription by NF-κB and STAT6 in Human Airway Epithelial Cells

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  • Disruption of the Transcription Factor Nrf2 Promotes Pro-Oxidative Dendritic Cells That Stimulate Th2-Like Immunoresponsiveness upon Activation by Ambient Particulate Matter

    Marc A. Williams;Tirumalai Rangasamy;Stephen M. Bauer;Smruti Killedar

  • Polymorphic nucleotides within the human IL-4 promoter that mediate overexpression of the gene.

    Zhimin Song;Vincenzo Casolaro;Rongbing Chen;Steve N. Georas

  • Altered adhesion molecule expression and endothelial cell activation accompany the recruitment of human granulocytes to the lung after segmental antigen challenge.

    S. N. Georas;M. C. Liu;W. Newman;L. D. Beall

  • Future Research Directions in Asthma. An NHLBI Working Group Report.

    Bruce D. Levy;Patricia J. Noel;Michelle M. Freemer;Michelle M. Cloutier

  • Cutaneous Injection of Human Subjects with Macrophage Inflammatory Protein-1α Induces Significant Recruitment of Neutrophils and Monocytes

    Sang Chin Lee;Mary E. Brummet;Syed Shahabuddin;Thasia G. Woodworth

  • Lung megakaryocytes are immune modulatory cells.

    Daphne N. Pariser;Zachary T. Hilt;Sara K. Ture;Sara K. Blick-Nitko

  • Transcriptional regulation of lysophosphatidic acid-induced interleukin-8 expression and secretion by p38 MAPK and JNK in human bronchial epithelial cells

    Bahman Saatian;Yutong Zhao;Donghong He;Steve N. Georas

  • Inhibition of NF-AT-dependent transcription by NF-kappa B: implications for differential gene expression in T helper cell subsets

    Vincenzo Casolaro;Steve N. Georas;Zhimin Song;Ira D. Zubkoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincenzo Casolaro
Vincenzo Casolaro University of Salerno
Lisa A. Beck
Lisa A. Beck University of Rochester Medical Center
Kathleen C. Barnes
Kathleen C. Barnes University of Colorado Denver
Robert P. Schleimer
Robert P. Schleimer Northwestern University
Andrei I. Ivanov
Andrei I. Ivanov Cleveland Clinic
Cristiana Stellato
Cristiana Stellato University of Salerno
Rubin M. Tuder
Rubin M. Tuder University of Colorado Denver
Masayuki Yamamoto
Masayuki Yamamoto Tohoku University
Shyam Biswal
Shyam Biswal Johns Hopkins University
David Q. Rich
David Q. Rich University of Rochester Medical Center

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