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Hartmut Wekerle

Active 1973–2025

123
Papers
28,787
Citations
99
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Citations

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 2,782 citing papers, 28.3% of this breakdownGermany: 1,240 citing papers, 12.6% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 591 citing papers, 6% of this breakdownChina: 522 citing papers, 5.3% of this breakdownItaly: 466 citing papers, 4.8% of this breakdownCanada: 402 citing papers, 4.1% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 333 citing papers, 3.4% of this breakdownFrance: 321 citing papers, 3.3% of this breakdownAustria: 273 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownAustralia: 272 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownJapan: 256 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownNetherlands: 227 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdown
0%28.3%Other 21.7%

Institutions

Fields

  • Medicine41%
  • Neuroscience21.3%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20.4%
  • Immunology and Microbiology15.5%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.5%
  • Nursing0.4%
  • Other0.9%

Topics

  • Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies7.6%
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms7.5%
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology5.4%
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses4.4%
  • Gut microbiota and health3.8%
  • Immune Response and Inflammation3%
  • Other68.3%

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  1. Gut microbiome of multiple sclerosis patients and paired household healthy controls reveal associations with disease risk and course

    Authors: Xiaoyuan Zhou, Ryan Baumann, Xiaohui Gao, Myra Mendoza, Sneha Singh, Ilana Katz Sand, Zongqi Xia, Laura M. Cox, Tanuja Chitnis, Hongsup Yoon, Laura Moles, Stacy J. Caillier, Adam Santaniello, Gail Ackermann, Adil Harroud, Robin Lincoln, Refujia Gomez, Antonio González Peña, Elise Digga, Daniel Hakim, Yoshiki Vázquez‐Baeza, Karthik Soman, Shannon Warto, Greg Humphrey, Mauricio Farez, Lisa Ann Gerdes, Jorge R. Oksenberg, Scott S. Zamvil, Siddharthan Chandran, Peter Connick, David Otaegui, Tamara Castillo‐Triviño, Stephen L. Hauser, Jeffrey M. Gelfand, Howard L. Weiner, Reinhard Hohlfeld, Hartmut Wekerle, Jennifer Graves, Amit Bar‐Or, Bruce Cree, Jorge Correale, Rob Knight, Sergio E. Baranzini - Cell 2022 cited by 319

  2. Gut microbiota from multiple sclerosis patients enables spontaneous autoimmune encephalomyelitis in mice

    Authors: Kerstin Berer, Lisa Ann Gerdes, Egle Cekanaviciute, Xiaoming Jia, Liang Xiao, Zhongkui Xia, Chuan Liu, Luisa Klotz, Uta Stauffer, Sergio E. Baranzini, Tania Kümpfel, Reinhard Hohlfeld, Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy, Hartmut Wekerle - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2017 cited by 936

  3. Commensal microbiota and myelin autoantigen cooperate to trigger autoimmune demyelination

    Authors: Kerstin Berer, Marsilius Mues, Michail Koutrolos, Zakeya Al Rasbi, Marina Boziki, Caroline Johner, Hartmut Wekerle, Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy - Nature 2011 cited by 1,252

  4. γ-secretase directly sheds the survival receptor BCMA from plasma cells

    Authors: Sarah Laurent, Franziska Hoffmann, Peer‐Hendrik Kuhn, Qingyu Cheng, Yuanyuan Chu, Marc Schmidt‐Supprian, Stefanie M. Hauck, Elisabeth Schuh, Markus Krumbholz, Heike Rübsamen, Johanna Wanngren, Mohsen Khademi, Tomas Olsson, Tobias Alexander, Falk Hiepe, Hans‐Walter Pfister, Frank Weber, Dieter E. Jenne, Hartmut Wekerle, Reinhard Hohlfeld, Stefan F. Lichtenthaler, Edgar Meinl - Nature Communications 2015 cited by 364

  5. Effector T cell interactions with meningeal vascular structures in nascent autoimmune CNS lesions

    Authors: Ingo Bartholomäus, Naoto Kawakami, Francesca Odoardi, Christian Schläger, Djordje Miljković, Joachim W. Ellwart, Wolfgang E. F. Klinkert, Cassandra Flügel‐Koch, Thomas B. Issekutz, Hartmut Wekerle, Alexander Flügel - Nature 2009 cited by 682

  6. Broader Epstein–Barr virus–specific T cell receptor repertoire in patients with multiple sclerosis

    Authors: Tilman Schneider‐Hohendorf, Lisa Ann Gerdes, Béatrice Pignolet, Rachel M. Gittelman, Patrick Ostkamp, Florian Rubelt, Catarina Raposo, Björn Tackenberg, Marianne Riepenhausen, Claudia Janoschka, Christian Wünsch, Florence Bucciarelli, Andrea Flierl‐Hecht, Eduardo Beltrán, Tania Kümpfel, Katja Anslinger, Catharina C. Groß, Heidi Chapman, Ian M. Kaplan, David Brassat, Hartmut Wekerle, Martin Kerschensteiner, Luisa Klotz, Jan D. Lünemann, Reinhard Hohlfeld, Roland Liblau, Heinz Wiendl, Nicholas Schwab - The Journal of Experimental Medicine 2022 cited by 85

  7. MHC class II–dependent B cell APC function is required for induction of CNS autoimmunity independent of myelin-specific antibodies

    Authors: Nicolas Molnarfi, Ulf Schulze‐Topphoff, Martin S. Weber, Juan C. Patarroyo, Thomas Prod’homme, Michel Varrin‐Doyer, Aparna Shetty, Christopher Linington, Anthony Slavin, Juan Hidalgo, Dieter E. Jenne, Hartmut Wekerle, Raymond A. Sobel, Claude C.A. Bernard, Mark J. Shlomchik, Scott S. Zamvil - The Journal of Experimental Medicine 2013 cited by 415

  8. MicroRNA profiling of multiple sclerosis lesions identifies modulators of the regulatory protein CD47

    Authors: Andreas Junker, Markus Krumbholz, Sylvia Eisele, Hema Mohan, Florian Augstein, Robert A. Bittner, Hans Lassmann, Hartmut Wekerle, Reinhard Hohlfeld, Edgar Meinl - Brain 2009 cited by 592

  9. T cells become licensed in the lung to enter the central nervous system

    Authors: Francesca Odoardi, Christopher Sie, Kristina Streyl, Vijay K. Ulaganathan, Christian Schläger, Dmitri Lodygin, Klaus Heckelsmiller, Wilfried Nietfeld, Joachim W. Ellwart, Wolfgang E. F. Klinkert, Claudio Lottaz, Mikhail Nosov, Volker Brinkmann, Rainer Spang, Hans Lehrach, Martin Vingron, Hartmut Wekerle, Cassandra Flügel‐Koch, Alexander Flügel - Nature 2012 cited by 438

  10. Distinct oligoclonal band antibodies in multiple sclerosis recognize ubiquitous self-proteins

    Authors: Simone M. Brändle, Birgit Obermeier, Makbule Şenel, Jessica Bruder, Reinhard Mentele, Mohsen Khademi, Tomas Olsson, Hayrettin Tumani, Wolfgang Kristoferitsch, Friedrich Lottspeich, Hartmut Wekerle, Reinhard Hohlfeld, Klaus Dornmair - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016 cited by 190

  11. Treg cells mediate recovery from EAE by controlling effector T cell proliferation and motility in the CNS

    Authors: Michail Koutrolos, Kerstin Berer, Naoto Kawakami, Hartmut Wekerle, Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy - Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2014 cited by 129

  12. Activated Human T Cells, B Cells, and Monocytes Produce Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor In Vitro and in Inflammatory Brain Lesions: A Neuroprotective Role of Inflammation?

    Authors: Martin Kerschensteiner, Eike Gallmeier, Lüder Behrens, Vivian Vargas Leal, Thomas Misgeld, Wolfgang E. F. Klinkert, Roland Kolbeck, Edmund Hoppe, R L Oropeza-Wekerle, Ilse Bartke, Christine Stadelmann, Hans Lassmann, Hartmut Wekerle, Reinhard Hohlfeld - The Journal of Experimental Medicine 1999 cited by 1,024

  13. The search for the target antigens of multiple sclerosis, part 1: autoreactive CD4+ T lymphocytes as pathogenic effectors and therapeutic targets

    Authors: Reinhard Hohlfeld, Klaus Dornmair, Edgar Meinl, Hartmut Wekerle - The Lancet Neurology 2015 cited by 198

  14. Spontaneous relapsing-remitting EAE in the SJL/J mouse: MOG-reactive transgenic T cells recruit endogenous MOG-specific B cells

    Authors: Bernadette Pöllinger, Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy, Kerstin Berer, Hans Lassmann, Michael R. Bösl, Robert R. Dunn, Helena S. Domingues, Andreas Holz, Florian C. Kurschus, Hartmut Wekerle - The Journal of Experimental Medicine 2009 cited by 291

  15. Matching of oligoclonal immunoglobulin transcriptomes and proteomes of cerebrospinal fluid in multiple sclerosis

    Authors: Birgit Obermeier, Reinhard Mentele, Joachim Malotka, Josef Kellermann, Tania Kümpfel, Hartmut Wekerle, Friedrich Lottspeich, Reinhard Hohlfeld, Klaus Dornmair - Nature Medicine 2008 cited by 290

  16. Neurotrophins inhibit major histocompatibility class II inducibility of microglia: Involvement of the p75 neurotrophin receptor

    Authors: Harald Neumann, Thomas Misgeld, Kenji Matsumuro, Hartmut Wekerle - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1998 cited by 283

  17. Extracellular Matrix in Multiple Sclerosis Lesions: Fibrillar Collagens, Biglycan and Decorin are Upregulated and Associated with Infiltrating Immune Cells

    Authors: Hema Mohan, Markus Krumbholz, Rakhi Sharma, Sylvia Eisele, Andreas Junker, Michael Sixt, Jia Newcombe, Hartmut Wekerle, Reinhard Hohlfeld, Hans Lassmann, Edgar Meinl - Brain Pathology 2010 cited by 160

  18. BAFF is produced by astrocytes and up-regulated in multiple sclerosis lesions and primary central nervous system lymphoma

    Authors: Markus Krumbholz, Diethilde Theil, Tobias Derfuß, Andreas Rosenwald, Frank Schrader, Camelia‐Maria Monoranu, Susan L. Kalled, Donna M. Hess, Barbara Serafini, Francesca Aloisi, Hartmut Wekerle, Reinhard Hohlfeld, Edgar Meinl - The Journal of Experimental Medicine 2005 cited by 483

  19. B Lymphocytes Producing Demyelinating Autoantibodies: Development and Function in Gene-targeted Transgenic Mice

    Authors: Tobias Litzenburger, Reinhard Fässler, Jan Bauer, Hans Lassmann, Christopher Linington, Hartmut Wekerle, Antonio Iglesias - The Journal of Experimental Medicine 1998 cited by 257

  20. From classic to spontaneous and humanized models of multiple sclerosis: Impact on understanding pathogenesis and drug development

    Authors: Avraham Ben‐Nun, Nathali Kaushansky, Naoto Kawakami, Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy, Kerstin Berer, Roland Liblau, Reinhard Hohlfeld, Hartmut Wekerle - Journal of Autoimmunity 2014 cited by 159

  21. The rapid isolation of clonable antigen‐specific T lymphocyte lines capable of mediating autoimmune encephalomyelitis

    Authors: Avraham Ben‐Nun, Hartmut Wekerle, Irun R. Cohen - European Journal of Immunology 1981 cited by 918

  22. Functional and Pathogenic Differences of Th1 and Th17 Cells in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis

    Authors: Helena S. Domingues, Marsilius Mues, Hans Lassmann, Hartmut Wekerle, Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy - PLoS ONE 2010 cited by 222

  23. Brain Autoimmunity and Intestinal Microbiota: 100 Trillion Game Changers

    Authors: Hartmut Wekerle - Trends in Immunology 2017 cited by 102

  24. Multiple sclerosis: Brain-infiltrating CD8 + T cells persist as clonal expansions in the cerebrospinal fluid and blood

    Authors: Christian Skulina, Stephan Schmidt, Klaus Dornmair, Holger Babbe, Axel Roers, Klaus Rajewsky, Hartmut Wekerle, Reinhard Hohlfeld, Norbert Goebels - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2004 cited by 346