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Overview

Thomas Krieg is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany. Their work primarily focuses on the field of medicine, with significant contributions to pathology and forensic medicine, dermatology, immunology, molecular biology, and cell biology.

The scientist's research centers principally on systemic sclerosis and related diseases, dermatologic treatments and research, mast cells and histamine, as well as autoimmune bullous skin diseases. Additional topics include skin and cellular biology research, inflammatory myopathies and dermatomyositis, and connective tissue disorders research.

Thomas Krieg has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication venues include the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, Journal of Scleroderma and Related Disorders, Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, Nature Reviews Rheumatology, and the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Pathophysiology of systemic sclerosis (scleroderma), 2022, The Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences
  • Systemic sclerosis in adults. Part I: Clinical features and pathogenesis, 2022, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
  • Systemic sclerosis and the COVID-19 pandemic: World Scleroderma Foundation preliminary advice for patient management, 2020, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Primary systemic sclerosis heart involvement: A systematic literature review and preliminary data-driven, consensus-based WSF/HFA definition, 2021, Journal of Scleroderma and Related Disorders
  • The impact of COVID-19 on rare and complex connective tissue diseases: the experience of ERN ReCONNET, 2021, Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Thomas Krieg collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Pia Moinzadeh, Christopher P. Denton, Nicolas Hunzelmann, Alexander Kreuter, and Marco Matucci-Cerinic.

Best Publications

  • Scleroderma (systemic sclerosis): classification, subsets and pathogenesis.

    LeRoy Ec;Black C;Fleischmajer R;Jablonska S

  • Keratinocyte–Fibroblast Interactions in Wound Healing

    Sabine Werner;Thomas Krieg;Hans Smola

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  • The function of KGF in morphogenesis of epithelium and reepithelialization of wounds

    Sabine Werner;Hans Smola;Xiang Liao;Michael T. Longaker

  • Impaired mechanical stability, migration and contractile capacity in vimentin-deficient fibroblasts

    Beate Eckes;Dagmar Dogic;Emma Colucci-Guyon;Ning Wang

  • TNF-mediated inflammatory skin disease in mice with epidermis-specific deletion of IKK2

    Manolis Pasparakis;Gilles Courtois;Martin Hafner;Martin Hafner;Marc Schmidt-Supprian;Marc Schmidt-Supprian

  • E‐cadherin is essential for in vivo epidermal barrier function by regulating tight junctions

    Judith A Tunggal;Iris Helfrich;Annika Schmitz;Heinz Schwarz

  • Mast cells are key promoters of contact allergy that mediate the adjuvant effects of haptens.

    Anne Dudeck;Jan Dudeck;Julia Scholten;Anke Petzold

  • CCR2 recruits an inflammatory macrophage subpopulation critical for angiogenesis in tissue repair

    Sebastian Willenborg;Tina Lucas;Geert van Loo;Geert van Loo;Johanna A. Knipper

  • Impaired wound healing in embryonic and adult mice lacking vimentin

    B. Eckes;E. Colucci-Guyon;H. Smola;S. Nodder

  • Expression and Proteolysis of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor is Increased in Chronic Wounds

    Gereon Lauer;Stephan Sollberg;Melanie Cole;Ingo Flamme

  • Interrelation of immunity and tissue repair or regeneration.

    Sabine A. Eming;Matthias Hammerschmidt;Thomas Krieg;Axel Roers

  • T cell-specific inactivation of the interleukin 10 gene in mice results in enhanced T cell responses but normal innate responses to lipopolysaccharide or skin irritation.

    Axel Roers;Lisa Siewe;Elke Strittmatter;Martina Deckert

  • Integrin α2-Deficient Mice Develop Normally, Are Fertile, but Display Partially Defective Platelet Interaction with Collagen

    Olaf Holtkötter;Bernhard Nieswandt;Neil Smyth;Werner Müller

  • Interleukin-4 Receptor α Signaling in Myeloid Cells Controls Collagen Fibril Assembly in Skin Repair.

    Johanna A. Knipper;Sebastian Willenborg;Jürgen Brinckmann;Wilhelm Bloch

  • Inhibition of skin development by overexpression of transforming growth factor beta 1 in the epidermis of transgenic mice

    Klaus Sellheyer;Jackie R. Bickenbach;Joseph A. Rothnagel;Donnie Bundman

  • Fibroblast-matrix interactions in wound healing and fibrosis.

    Beate Eckes;Paola Zigrino;Daniela Kessler;Olaf Holtkötter

  • Overview of pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis

    D. J. Abraham;T. Krieg;J. Distler;O. Distler

  • Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 enhances gene expression and synthesis of matrix metalloproteinase-1 in human fibroblasts by an autocrine IL-1 alpha loop.

    Toshiyuki Yamamoto;Beate Eckes;Cornelia Mauch;Karin Hartmann

  • Transcriptional control of high molecular weight keratin gene expression in multistage mouse skin carcinogenesis.

    Dennis R. Roop;Thomas M. Krieg;Thomas Mehrel;Christina K. Cheng

Frequent Co-Authors

Beate Eckes
Beate Eckes University of Cologne
Karin Hartmann
Karin Hartmann University Hospital of Basel
Jeffrey M. Davidson
Jeffrey M. Davidson Vanderbilt University
Christopher P. Denton
Christopher P. Denton University College London
Werner Müller
Werner Müller University of Manchester
Axel Roers
Axel Roers University Hospital Heidelberg
Wilhelm Bloch
Wilhelm Bloch German Sport University Cologne
Rupert Timpl
Rupert Timpl Max Planck Society
Monique Aumailley
Monique Aumailley University of Cologne

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