Christine McDonald

13.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Christine McDonald is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christine McDonald has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Immunology and 18 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Christine McDonald's work include Inflammatory Bowel Disease (13 papers), Gut microbiota and health (11 papers) and Immune Response and Inflammation (11 papers). Christine McDonald is often cited by papers focused on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (13 papers), Gut microbiota and health (11 papers) and Immune Response and Inflammation (11 papers). Christine McDonald collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Christine McDonald's co-authors include Gabriel Núñez, Naohiro Inohara, Mathias Chamaillard, Craig R. Homer, Kourtney P. Nickerson, Yun‐Gi Kim, Thirumala‐Devi Kanneganti, Nancy A. Rebert, Amy L. Richmond and Jean–Paul Achkar and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Christine McDonald

69 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

NOD-LRR PROTEINS: Role in Host-Microbial Interactions and Inflammatory Disease

2005 768 citations Naohiro Inohara, Christine McDonald et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christine McDonald United States	35	2.2k	1.9k	931	754	646	71	5.0k
Jack B. Cowland Denmark	40	2.4k 1.1×	3.1k 1.6×	782 0.8×	567 0.8×	595 0.9×	80	7.5k
Subhadeep Chakrabarti Canada	27	2.2k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	422 0.5×	474 0.6×	651 1.0×	40	4.4k
Joel D. Schilling United States	38	2.5k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	2.6k 2.7×	389 0.5×	452 0.7×	91	6.5k
Shruti Sharma United States	36	3.0k 1.4×	3.0k 1.5×	778 0.8×	237 0.3×	617 1.0×	140	6.3k
Anthony Rongvaux United States	32	2.7k 1.3×	3.2k 1.6×	925 1.0×	593 0.8×	473 0.7×	51	6.5k
Javier A. Carrero United States	32	1.5k 0.7×	3.1k 1.6×	1.0k 1.1×	1.1k 1.5×	179 0.3×	47	5.6k
Jorge Henao‐Mejia United States	26	4.5k 2.0×	1.8k 1.0×	1.6k 1.8×	609 0.8×	1.1k 1.7×	56	6.9k
Maya Saleh Canada	41	3.9k 1.8×	2.6k 1.4×	918 1.0×	506 0.7×	258 0.4×	80	6.0k
Min Zheng China	34	2.9k 1.3×	1.9k 1.0×	1.3k 1.4×	275 0.4×	214 0.3×	107	5.5k
Irina A. Udalova United Kingdom	43	1.9k 0.9×	3.9k 2.0×	1.0k 1.1×	545 0.7×	381 0.6×	93	6.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Christine McDonald

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christine McDonald

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christine McDonald

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Cooper, Kevin D., et al.. (2024). Control of Dermatomyositis Skin Disease Activity Lags Behind Control of Muscles Disease Activity During the Early Treatment Stages of Classic Dermatomyositis: A Retrospective, Single-Centre Study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(3). e357–e357. 1 indexed citations

Roychowdhury, Sanjoy, Emily S. Cross, Seth R. Bauer, et al.. (2024). Immunometabolic chaos in septic shock. Journal of Leukocyte Biology. 117(2). 1 indexed citations

Peters, Diane E., Lukáš Tenora, Xiaolei Zhu, et al.. (2023). A gut-restricted glutamate carboxypeptidase II inhibitor reduces monocytic inflammation and improves preclinical colitis. Science Translational Medicine. 15(708). eabn7491–eabn7491. 9 indexed citations

Johnson, Jessica A., Amy S. Nowacki, Jeffrey D. McBride, et al.. (2023). Abnormal thrombosis and neutrophil activation increase hospital-acquired sacral pressure injuries and morbidity in COVID-19 patients. Frontiers in Immunology. 14. 1031336–1031336.

Samorezov, Sergey, et al.. (2022). A 3D‐printable device allowing fast and reproducible longitudinal preparation of mouse intestines. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(2). 189–196. 2 indexed citations

Scheraga, R.G., Susamma Abraham, L. Grove, et al.. (2020). TRPV4 Protects the Lung from Bacterial Pneumonia via MAPK Molecular Pathway Switching. The Journal of Immunology. 204(5). 1310–1321. 49 indexed citations

Farabaugh, Kenneth T., Dawid Krokowski, Bo‐Jhih Guan, et al.. (2020). PACT-mediated PKR activation acts as a hyperosmotic stress intensity sensor weakening osmoadaptation and enhancing inflammation. eLife. 9. 20 indexed citations

McDonald, Christine, et al.. (2019). How diet and the microbiome shape health or contribute to disease: A mini-review of current models and clinical studies. Experimental Biology and Medicine. 244(6). 484–493. 12 indexed citations

Nickerson, Kourtney P., Craig R. Homer, Sean P. Kessler, et al.. (2014). The Dietary Polysaccharide Maltodextrin Promotes Salmonella Survival and Mucosal Colonization in Mice. PLoS ONE. 9(7). e101789–e101789. 53 indexed citations

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Thapaliya, Samjhana, Ashok Runkana, Megan R. McMullen, et al.. (2014). Alcohol-induced autophagy contributes to loss in skeletal muscle mass. Autophagy. 10(4). 677–690. 132 indexed citations

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Tang, Hui, et al.. (2013). Synergistic interaction between C5a and NOD2 signaling in the regulation of chemokine expression in RAW 264.7 macrophages. Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology. 4(8). 30–37. 13 indexed citations

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Hill, David R., Hyunjin Rho, Sean P. Kessler, et al.. (2013). Human Milk Hyaluronan Enhances Innate Defense of the Intestinal Epithelium. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(40). 29090–29104. 72 indexed citations

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Richmond, Amy L., Amrita Kabi, Craig R. Homer, et al.. (2012). The Nucleotide Synthesis Enzyme CAD Inhibits NOD2 Antibacterial Function in Human Intestinal Epithelial Cells. Gastroenterology. 142(7). 1483–1492.e6. 26 indexed citations

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Homer, Craig R., Amy L. Richmond, Nancy A. Rebert, Jean–Paul Achkar, & Christine McDonald. (2010). ATG16L1 and NOD2 Interact in an Autophagy-Dependent Antibacterial Pathway Implicated in Crohn's Disease Pathogenesis. Gastroenterology. 139(5). 1630–1641.e2. 291 indexed citations

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Marina–García, Noemí, Luigi Franchi, Yun‐Gi Kim, et al.. (2008). Pannexin-1-Mediated Intracellular Delivery of Muramyl Dipeptide Induces Caspase-1 Activation via Cryopyrin/NLRP3 Independently of Nod2. The Journal of Immunology. 180(6). 4050–4057. 137 indexed citations

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Park, Jong‐Hwan, Yun‐Gi Kim, Christine McDonald, et al.. (2007). RICK/RIP2 Mediates Innate Immune Responses Induced through Nod1 and Nod2 but Not TLRs. The Journal of Immunology. 178(4). 2380–2386. 425 indexed citations

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Franchi, Luigi, Christine McDonald, Thirumala‐Devi Kanneganti, Amal O. Amer, & Gabriel Núñez. (2006). Nucleotide-Binding Oligomerization Domain-Like Receptors: Intracellular Pattern Recognition Molecules for Pathogen Detection and Host Defense. The Journal of Immunology. 177(6). 3507–3513. 107 indexed citations

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McDonald, Christine, et al.. (2004). Induction of Genes Involved in Cell Cycle Progression by Interleukin-4. Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research. 24(12). 729–738. 8 indexed citations

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Marley, S. B., et al.. (2001). Peripheral blood progenitor cell mobilisation alters myeloid, but not erythroid, progenitor cell self-renewal kinetics. Bone Marrow Transplantation. 27(3). 241–248. 4 indexed citations

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Gupta, Tapas K. Das, A Bybee, Fiona J. Cooke, et al.. (1999). CD34⁺‐selected peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation in patients with multiple myeloma: tumour cell contamination and outcome. British Journal of Haematology. 104(1). 166–177. 30 indexed citations

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