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Mir-Farzin Mashreghi

Deputy Scientific Director, Head of Systems Rheumatology
Verified email at drfz.de
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Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies

A Cossarizza, HD Chang, A Radbruch… - European journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The third edition of Flow Cytometry Guidelines provides the key aspects to consider when
performing flow cytometry experiments and includes comprehensive sections describing …

The role of the miR‐148/‐152 family in physiology and disease

M Friedrich, K Pracht, MF Mashreghi… - European journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenously encoded∼ 22 nt small non‐coding RNAs. They
function as key players of many cellular processes by base pairing with target mRNAs and …

Impaired humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-2 BNT162b2 vaccine in kidney transplant recipients and dialysis patients

H Rincon-Arevalo, M Choi, AL Stefanski, F Halleck… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Patients with kidney failure are at increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, making effective
vaccinations a critical need. It is not known how well mRNA vaccines induce B and plasma …

Immunological memory in rheumatic inflammation—a roadblock to tolerance induction

P Maschmeyer, HD Chang, Q Cheng… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Why do we still have no cure for chronic inflammatory diseases? One reason could be that
current therapies are based on the assumption that chronic inflammation is driven by …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 in severe COVID-19 induces a TGF-β-dominated chronic immune response that does not target itself

M Ferreira-Gomes, A Kruglov, P Durek… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The pathogenesis of severe COVID-19 reflects an inefficient immune reaction to SARS-CoV-
2. Here we analyze, at the single cell level, plasmablasts egressed into the blood to study …

The microRNA miR-182 is induced by IL-2 and promotes clonal expansion of activated helper T lymphocytes

AB Stittrich, C Haftmann, E Sgouroudis, AA Kühl… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
After being activated by antigen, helper T lymphocytes switch from a resting state to clonal
expansion. This switch requires inactivation of the transcription factor Foxo1, a suppressor of …

Peptide-specific recognition of human cytomegalovirus strains controls adaptive natural killer cells

Q Hammer, T Rückert, EM Borst, J Dunst… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are innate lymphocytes that lack antigen-specific rearranged
receptors, a hallmark of adaptive lymphocytes. In some people infected with human …

ICOS maintains the T follicular helper cell phenotype by down-regulating Krüppel-like factor 2

JP Weber, F Fuhrmann, RK Feist, A Lahmann… - Journal of Experimental …, 2015 - rupress.org
The co-stimulators ICOS (inducible T cell co-stimulator) and CD28 are both important for T
follicular helper (TFH) cells, yet their individual contributions are unclear. Here, we show that …

[HTML][HTML] Clonal expansion and epigenetic inheritance of long-lasting NK cell memory

T Rückert, CA Lareau, MF Mashreghi, LS Ludwig… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Clonal expansion of cells with somatically diversified receptors and their long-term
maintenance as memory cells is a hallmark of adaptive immunity. Here, we studied …

IL-17 and GM-CSF expression are antagonistically regulated by human T helper cells

R Noster, R Riedel, MF Mashreghi… - Science translational …, 2014 - science.org
Although T helper 17 (TH17) cells have been acknowledged as crucial mediators of
autoimmune tissue damage, the effector cytokines responsible for their pathogenicity still …