Peter A. Bretscher

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
96 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Peter A. Bretscher is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter A. Bretscher has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Immunology, 17 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Peter A. Bretscher's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (51 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (46 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (24 papers). Peter A. Bretscher is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (51 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (46 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (24 papers). Peter A. Bretscher collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Peter A. Bretscher's co-authors include Melvin Cohn, Juthika N. Menon, Guojian Wei, Helle Bielefeldt‐Ohmann, Christopher R. Parish, Ian A. Ramshaw, Jude E. Uzonna, Nahed Ismail, Gene M. Shearer and Jonas Salk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Peter A. Bretscher

90 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

A Theory of Self-Nonself Discrimination 1970 2026 1988 2007 1970 400 800 1.2k
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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.

  1. A Theory of Self-Nonself Discrimination
    1970 1.3k citations Peter A. Bretscher et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter A. Bretscher Canada 30 3.3k 770 735 585 552 96 4.8k
Arvind Sahu India 33 2.1k 0.6× 680 0.9× 696 0.9× 427 0.7× 307 0.6× 87 3.4k
Kazue Takahashi United States 46 3.9k 1.2× 839 1.1× 1.3k 1.8× 683 1.2× 398 0.7× 130 6.2k
Mi‐Hua Tao Taiwan 36 2.0k 0.6× 1.0k 1.3× 1.8k 2.5× 774 1.3× 342 0.6× 117 5.0k
Gary T. Jennings Switzerland 25 1.6k 0.5× 793 1.0× 1.6k 2.1× 737 1.3× 224 0.4× 36 4.1k
Stanley F. Wolf United States 27 3.3k 1.0× 711 0.9× 1.4k 1.9× 373 0.6× 254 0.5× 51 5.3k
Celso Bianco United States 33 2.6k 0.8× 580 0.8× 932 1.3× 378 0.6× 656 1.2× 77 5.2k
Douglas M. Lublin United States 49 2.8k 0.9× 879 1.1× 2.9k 3.9× 568 1.0× 279 0.5× 82 7.5k
Hugh T. Reyburn Spain 37 3.3k 1.0× 644 0.8× 1.0k 1.4× 250 0.4× 182 0.3× 87 4.5k
Jacques Urbain Belgium 40 5.4k 1.6× 678 0.9× 1.6k 2.2× 249 0.4× 220 0.4× 155 7.2k
Kathryn C. Zoon United States 35 2.6k 0.8× 715 0.9× 2.1k 2.9× 375 0.6× 183 0.3× 101 5.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter A. Bretscher

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All Works

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Thangavelu, Govindarajan, Kiyokazu Kakugawa, Qingyang Wang, et al.. (2024). Internal regulation between constitutively expressed T cell co-inhibitory receptors BTLA and CD5 and tolerance in recent thymic emigrants. Open Biology. 14(10). 240178–240178. 1 indexed citations
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Anderson, Colin C., Elizabeth A. Bonney, Thomas Mueller, et al.. (2023). On antigen‐specific signals, immune class regulation and energetics: Report III from the workshops on foundational concepts of immune regulation. Scandinavian Journal of Immunology. 98(3). e13311–e13311. 1 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Peter A.. (2023). Relapsing/remitting multiple sclerosis: A speculative model and its implications for a novel treatment. Scandinavian Journal of Immunology. 98(5). e13325–e13325.
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Matsushita, Mai, Jonathan Muri, Peter A. Bretscher, et al.. (2021). Differential sensitivity of inflammatory macrophages and alternatively activated macrophages to ferroptosis. European Journal of Immunology. 51(10). 2417–2429. 39 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Peter A., et al.. (2013). Synthesis of Epoxyisoprostanes: Effects in Reducing Secretion of Pro‐inflammatory Cytokines IL‐6 and IL‐12. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(20). 5382–5385. 45 indexed citations
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Ismail, Nahed, Antony Basten, Helen Briscoe, & Peter A. Bretscher. (2005). Increasing the foreignness of an antigen, by coupling a second and foreign antigen to it, increases the T helper type 2 component of the immune response to the first antigen. Immunology. 115(1). 34–41. 18 indexed citations
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Peters, Nathan C., Duane H. Hamilton, & Peter A. Bretscher. (2004). Analysis of cytokine‐producing Th cells from hen egg lysozyme‐immunized mice reveals large numbers specific for “cryptic” peptides and different repertoires among different Th populations. European Journal of Immunology. 35(1). 56–65. 12 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Peter A., Duane H. Hamilton, & Oladele Ogunremi. (2002). What information is needed to design effective vaccination against intracellular pathogens causing chronic disease?. Expert Review of Vaccines. 1(2). 179–192. 7 indexed citations
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Ismail, Nahed & Peter A. Bretscher. (2001). More antigen-dependent CD4+ T cell / CD4+ T cell interactions are required for the primary generation of Th2 than of Th1 cells. European Journal of Immunology. 31(6). 1765–1771. 29 indexed citations
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Uzonna, Jude E., et al.. (2001). Immune Elimination of Leishmania major in Mice: Implications for Immune Memory, Vaccination, and Reactivation Disease. The Journal of Immunology. 167(12). 6967–6974. 156 indexed citations
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Uzonna, Jude E. & Peter A. Bretscher. (2001). Anti-IL-4 antibody therapy causes regression of chronic lesions caused by medium-dose Leishmania major infection in BALB/c mice. European Journal of Immunology. 31(11). 3175–3175.
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Menon, Juthika N. & Peter A. Bretscher. (1998). Parasite dose determines the Th1/Th2 nature of the response toLeishmania major independently of infection route and strain of host or parasite. European Journal of Immunology. 28(12). 4020–4028. 98 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Peter A.. (1994). Prospects for Low Dose BCG Vaccination against Tuberculosis. Immunobiology. 191(4-5). 548–554. 17 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Peter A.. (1991). The regulatory functions of CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell subsets in immune class regulation. Research in Immunology. 142(1). 45–50. 23 indexed citations
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Tucker, M. J. & Peter A. Bretscher. (1982). T cells cooperating in the induction of delayed-type hypersensitivity act via the linked recognition of antigenic determinants.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 155(4). 1037–1049. 57 indexed citations
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Pilarski, L M, Peter A. Bretscher, & Linda L. Baum. (1977). Helper T cells are required for the polyclonal stimulation of cytotoxic T cells by concanavalin A.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 145(5). 1237–1249. 15 indexed citations

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