Huixun Du

550 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 293 citations indexed

About

Huixun Du is a scholar working on Physiology, Immunology and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Huixun Du has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 293 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Physiology, 3 papers in Immunology and 1 paper in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Huixun Du's work include Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation (2 papers), Spaceflight effects on biology (2 papers) and Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence (2 papers). Huixun Du is often cited by papers focused on Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation (2 papers), Spaceflight effects on biology (2 papers) and Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence (2 papers). Huixun Du collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Huixun Du's co-authors include Daniel A. Winer, Juliet M. Bartleson, Manish J. Butte, Sergei Butenko, Wendy F. Liu, Sue Tsai, Xavier Clemente‐Casares, Megan Lee, David Furman and Aijaz Ahmed and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature reviews. Immunology and Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology.

In The Last Decade

Huixun Du

5 papers receiving 289 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Tuning immunity through tissue mechanotransduction

2022 214 citations Huixun Du, Juliet M. Bartleson et al. Nature reviews. Immunology profile →

Peers

Huixun Du

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Ryan Huang United States

Alina Zhuravlev Israel

Ming Yuan China

Jo Sinclair United Kingdom

Milena Armacki Germany

Ismaeel Muhamed United States

Rachel Cinco United States

Gautam Mahajan United States

Nidhi Gera United States

Maria Odenthal-Schnittler Germany

Ryan Huang United States

Huixun Du

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Countries citing papers authored by Huixun Du

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Fields of papers citing papers by Huixun Du

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Huixun Du. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Huixun Du. The network helps show where Huixun Du may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Huixun Du

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Huixun Du. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Huixun Du based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Huixun Du. Huixun Du is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Winer, Daniel A., Huixun Du, JangKeun Kim, et al.. (2025). Astroimmunology: the effects of spaceflight and its associated stressors on the immune system. Nature reviews. Immunology. 26(3). 189–212.

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Du, Huixun, Jacob Rose, Joanna Bons, et al.. (2025). Substrate stiffness dictates unique doxorubicin-induced senescence-associated secretory phenotypes and transcriptomic signatures in human pulmonary fibroblasts. GeroScience. 47(3). 3941–3963. 2 indexed citations

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Maranon, David G., Christopher B. Nelson, Lynn Taylor, et al.. (2024). Telomeric RNA (TERRA) increases in response to spaceflight and high-altitude climbing. Communications Biology. 7(1). 698–698. 7 indexed citations

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Lee, Megan, Huixun Du, Daniel A. Winer, Xavier Clemente‐Casares, & Sue Tsai. (2022). Mechanosensing in macrophages and dendritic cells in steady-state and disease. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 10. 1044729–1044729. 53 indexed citations

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Du, Huixun, Juliet M. Bartleson, Sergei Butenko, et al.. (2022). Tuning immunity through tissue mechanotransduction. Nature reviews. Immunology. 23(3). 174–188. 214 indexed citations breakdown →

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Angel, Cesar J. Lopez, Edward A. Pham, Huixun Du, et al.. (2021). Signatures of immune dysfunction in HIV and HCV infection share features with chronic inflammation in aging and persist after viral reduction or elimination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(14). 17 indexed citations

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