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Steven J. Ackerman is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on medicine, supported by work in immunology and microbiology.

The scientist's subfields of study include surgery, immunology, rheumatology, physiology, and molecular biology. Their main areas of research revolve around eosinophilic esophagitis, eosinophilic disorders and syndromes, asthma and respiratory diseases, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, neonatal respiratory health research, galectins and cancer biology, and invertebrate immune response mechanisms.

Steven J. Ackerman has contributed to numerous publications in prominent journals. Frequent publication venues encompass the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology with 10 publications, Mayo Clinic Proceedings with 2, American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology with 2, International Journal of Molecular Sciences with 2, and Journal of Leukocyte Biology with 2.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Eosinophils in Health and Disease: A State-of-the-Art Review (2021) in Mayo Clinic Proceedings
  • Contributions of Eosinophils to Human Health and Disease (2020) in Annual Review of Pathology Mechanisms of Disease
  • Charcot-Leyden crystal protein/galectin-10 interacts with cationic ribonucleases and is required for eosinophil granulogenesis (2020) in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Noninvasive biomarkers identify eosinophilic esophagitis: A prospective longitudinal study in children (2021) in Allergy
  • Esophageal remodeling in eosinophilic esophagitis: Relationships to luminal captured biomarkers of inflammation and periostin (2022) in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Steven J. Ackerman has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Glenn T. Furuta, Michael E. Wechsler, Amy D. Klion, Milica Grozdanović, and Calies Menard-Katcher.

Best Publications

  • Defining a link with asthma in mice congenitally deficient in eosinophils.

    James J. Lee;Dawn Dimina;Mi Mi P. Macias;Sergei I. Ochkur

  • Eosinophil granule proteins: form and function.

    K. Ravi Acharya;Steven J. Ackerman

  • Dermal deposition of eosinophil-granule major basic protein in atopic dermatitis. Comparison with onchocerciasis

    Kristin M. Leiferman;Steven J. Ackerman;Hugh A. Sampson;Heidi S. Haugen

  • ACTIVATION OF BASOPHIL AND MAST CELL HISTAMINE RELEASE BY EOSINOPHIL GRANULE MAJOR BASIC PROTEIN

    M C O'Donnell;S J Ackerman;G J Gleich;L L Thomas

  • Biochemical and functional similarities between human eosinophil-derived neurotoxin and eosinophil cationic protein: Homology with ribonuclease

    Gerald J. Gleich;David A. Loegering;Michael P. Bell;James L. Checkel

  • Deposits of eosinophil granule proteins in cardiac tissues of patients with eosinophilic endomyocardial disease.

    Po Chun Tai;Christopher J F Spry;Eckhardt G J Olsen;Steven J. Ackerman

  • Stimulation of basophil and rat mast cell histamine release by eosinophil granule-derived cationic proteins.

    Lynne M. Zheutlin;Steven J. Ackerman;Gerald J. Gleich;Larry L. Thomas

  • Eosinophils in Health and Disease: A State-of-the-Art Review

    Michael E. Wechsler;Ariel Munitz;Steven J. Ackerman;Matthew G. Drake

  • Purification of human eosinophil-derived neurotoxin

    David T. Durack;Steven J. Ackerman;David A. Loegering;Gerald J. Gleich

  • The oesophageal string test: a novel, minimally invasive method measures mucosal inflammation in eosinophilic oesophagitis

    Glenn T. Furuta;Amir F. Kagalwalla;James J. Lee;Preeth Alumkal

  • Heterogeneity of human peripheral blood eosinophil-type colonies: evidence for a common basophil-eosinophil progenitor.

    Judah A. Denburg;Sylvia Telizyn;Hans Messner;Bing Lim;Bing Lim;Bing Lim

  • Expression of mRNA for the GATA-binding proteins in human eosinophils and basophils: potential role in gene transcription

    Leonard I. Zon;Yuji Yamaguchi;Karen Yee;Edward A. Albee

  • Increased numbers of hypodense eosinophils in the blood of patients with bronchial asthma.

    Takeshi Fukuda;Sandra L. Dunnette;Charles E. Reed;Steven J. Ackerman

  • Distinctive cationic proteins of the human eosinophil granule: major basic protein, eosinophil cationic protein, and eosinophil-derived neurotoxin.

    Steven J. Ackerman;D. A. Loegering;P. Venge;I. Olsson

  • Contributions of Eosinophils to Human Health and Disease

    Amy D. Klion;Steven J. Ackerman;Bruce S. Bochner

  • Molecular cloning of the human eosinophil-derived neurotoxin: a member of the ribonuclease gene family.

    Helene F. Rosenberg;Daniel G. Tenen;Steven J. Ackerman

  • Human eosinophil cationic protein. Molecular cloning of a cytotoxin and helminthotoxin with ribonuclease activity.

    H F Rosenberg;S J Ackerman;D G Tenen

  • Comparative toxicity of purified human eosinophil granule cationic proteins for schistosomula of Schistosoma mansoni.

    Steven J. Ackerman;Gerald J. Gleich;David A. Loegering;Brian A. Richardson

  • Eosinophilic esophagitis: epithelial mesenchymal transition contributes to esophageal remodeling and reverses with treatment.

    Amir F. Kagalwalla;Amir F. Kagalwalla;Noorain Akhtar;Samantha A. Woodruff;Samantha A. Woodruff;Bryan A. Rea

  • Crystal structure of human Charcot-Leyden crystal protein, an eosinophil lysophospholipase, identifies it as a new member of the carbohydrate-binding family of galectins.

    Demetrios D Leonidas;Boris L Elbert;Zeqi Zhou;Hakon Leffler

  • Relationships Between Eosinophilic Inflammation, Tissue Remodeling, and Fibrosis in Eosinophilic Esophagitis

    Seema S. Aceves;Steven J. Ackerman

  • Eosinophils alter colonic epithelial barrier function: role for major basic protein.

    Glenn T. Furuta;Edward E. S. Nieuwenhuis;Jorn Karhausen;Gerald Gleich

  • Recruited alveolar macrophages, in response to airway epithelial-derived monocyte chemoattractant protein 1/CCl2, regulate airway inflammation and remodeling in allergic asthma.

    Yong Gyu Lee;Jong Jin Jeong;Sharmilee Nyenhuis;Evgeny Berdyshev

  • Esophageal microbiome in eosinophilic esophagitis.

    J. Kirk Harris;Rui Fang;Brandie D. Wagner;Brandie D. Wagner;Ha Na Choe

  • Adverse effects of phenobarbital on corticosteroid metabolism in patients with bronchial asthma.

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Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald J. Gleich
Gerald J. Gleich University of Utah
Glenn T. Furuta
Glenn T. Furuta University of Colorado Denver
Mark J. Hilsenroth
Mark J. Hilsenroth Adelphi University
Ann M. Dvorak
Ann M. Dvorak Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Daniel G. Tenen
Daniel G. Tenen National University of Singapore
Peter F. Weller
Peter F. Weller Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Viswanathan Natarajan
Viswanathan Natarajan University of Illinois at Chicago
James J. Lee
James J. Lee Mayo Clinic
John W. Christman
John W. Christman The Ohio State University
Bruce S. Bochner
Bruce S. Bochner Northwestern University

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