Thomas Brunner

17.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
171 papers, 13.8k citations indexed

About

Thomas Brunner is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Brunner has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 13.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Immunology, 77 papers in Molecular Biology and 31 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Brunner's work include Cell death mechanisms and regulation (44 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (30 papers) and Immune Response and Inflammation (25 papers). Thomas Brunner is often cited by papers focused on Cell death mechanisms and regulation (44 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (30 papers) and Immune Response and Inflammation (25 papers). Thomas Brunner collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Thomas Brunner's co-authors include Douglas R. Green, Thomas A. Ferguson, Thomas S. Griffith, C. A. Dahinden, Shailaja Kasibhatla, Artin Mahboubi, Fernando Echeverri, Stephan C. Bischoff, Nadia Corazza and Clemens A. Dahinden and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Brunner

169 papers receiving 13.5k citations

Hit Papers

Fas Ligand-Induced Apopto... 1992 2026 2003 2014 1995 1995 2006 1998 1992 500 1000 1.5k
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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. Fas Ligand-Induced Apoptosis as a Mechanism of Immune Privilege
    1995 1.7k citations Thomas Brunner, Douglas R. Green et al. profile →
  2. Cell-autonomous Fas (CD95)/Fas-ligand interaction mediates activation-induced apoptosis in T-cell hybridomas
    1995 1.2k citations Thomas Brunner, Douglas R. Green et al. profile →
  3. Calpain-mediated cleavage of Atg5 switches autophagy to apoptosis
    2006 1.1k citations Thomas Brunner et al. profile →
  4. DNA Damaging Agents Induce Expression of Fas Ligand and Subsequent Apoptosis in T Lymphocytes via the Activation of NF-κB and AP-1
    1998 627 citations Thomas Brunner, Douglas R. Green et al. profile →
  5. RANTES and macrophage inflammatory protein 1 alpha induce the migration and activation of normal human eosinophil granulocytes.
    1992 535 citations Thomas Brunner et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine profile →
  6. Induction of human IgE synthesis in B cells by mast cells and basophils
    1993 513 citations Thomas Brunner, Clemens A. Dahinden et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Thomas Brunner 5.9k 5.8k 2.1k 1.9k 1.6k 171 13.8k
Masato Tanaka 7.5k 1.3× 6.2k 1.1× 1.7k 0.8× 1.3k 0.7× 1.3k 0.8× 203 14.8k
Maripat Corr 7.0k 1.2× 5.1k 0.9× 1.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 177 14.4k
Edwin R. Chilvers 4.8k 0.8× 4.1k 0.7× 1.3k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 1.4k 0.9× 218 12.1k
David R. Greaves 7.1k 1.2× 7.1k 1.2× 3.5k 1.7× 2.0k 1.0× 1.2k 0.7× 183 16.9k
Irmgard Förster 8.3k 1.4× 4.2k 0.7× 2.6k 1.2× 1.6k 0.8× 1.9k 1.2× 117 14.8k
Michael A. Palladino 7.8k 1.3× 7.4k 1.3× 3.5k 1.7× 1.6k 0.9× 1.7k 1.0× 218 18.4k
Bernd Arnold 6.6k 1.1× 4.5k 0.8× 2.0k 0.9× 1.2k 0.6× 1.2k 0.8× 167 15.1k
Teizo Yoshimura 8.6k 1.5× 5.4k 0.9× 4.8k 2.3× 1.7k 0.9× 1.6k 1.0× 318 17.8k
Brian J. Nickoloff 9.1k 1.5× 5.3k 0.9× 4.4k 2.1× 1.7k 0.9× 1.4k 0.8× 239 19.0k
John Westwick 3.9k 0.7× 6.0k 1.0× 3.0k 1.4× 969 0.5× 1.3k 0.8× 239 13.8k

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All Works

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El‐Mesery, Mohamed, et al.. (2024). Non-canonical functions of BCL-2 family members in energy metabolism and necrotic cell death regulation. Cell Cycle. 23(21-24). 931–948.
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Lambrecht, R, Valentina C. Sladky, Truong San Phan, et al.. (2023). Non-canonical BIM-regulated energy metabolism determines drug-induced liver necrosis. Cell Death and Differentiation. 31(1). 119–131. 8 indexed citations
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Renzulli, Pietro, et al.. (2023). Glucocorticoids are differentially synthesized along the murine and human respiratory tree. Allergy. 78(9). 2428–2440. 6 indexed citations
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Grob, Leonie, et al.. (2023). Human lung carcinomas synthesize immunoregulatory glucocorticoids. Genes and Immunity. 24(1). 52–56. 3 indexed citations
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Butera, Alessio, Lena Smirnova, Elisa Ferrando‐May, et al.. (2023). Deconvoluting gene and environment interactions to develop an “epigenetic score meter” of disease. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 15(9). e18208–e18208. 7 indexed citations
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Phan, Truong San, Pascale Zwicky, Sarah Mundt, et al.. (2021). Keratinocytes control skin immune homeostasis through de novo–synthesized glucocorticoids. Science Advances. 7(5). 36 indexed citations
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Bogomolovas, Julius, Jennifer R. Fleming, Barbara Franke, et al.. (2021). Titin kinase ubiquitination aligns autophagy receptors with mechanical signals in the sarcomere. EMBO Reports. 22(10). e48018–e48018. 31 indexed citations
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Seiwert, Nina, Daniel Heylmann, Markus Christmann, et al.. (2021). Natural Merosesquiterpenes Activate the DNA Damage Response via DNA Strand Break Formation and Trigger Apoptotic Cell Death in p53-Wild-Type and Mutant Colorectal Cancer. Cancers. 13(13). 3282–3282. 10 indexed citations
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Huang, Juan, Truong San Phan, Christian Schmidt, et al.. (2019). The orphan nuclear receptor LRH-1/NR5a2 critically regulates T cell functions. Science Advances. 5(7). eaav9732–eaav9732. 18 indexed citations
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Haimovici, A, Magali Humbert, Elena Federzoni, et al.. (2017). PU.1 supports TRAIL-induced cell death by inhibiting NF-κB-mediated cell survival and inducing DR5 expression. Cell Death and Differentiation. 24(5). 866–877. 20 indexed citations
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Kassahn, Daniela, et al.. (2011). Local glucocorticoid production in the mouse lung is induced by immune cell stimulation. Allergy. 67(2). 227–234. 56 indexed citations
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Bandi, Nora, Mathias Gugger, Marlène Arnold, et al.. (2009). miR-15a and miR-16 Are Implicated in Cell Cycle Regulation in a Rb-Dependent Manner and Are Frequently Deleted or Down-regulated in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer. Cancer Research. 69(13). 5553–5559. 312 indexed citations
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Herold, Susanne, Werner von Wulffen, Lidija Cakarova, et al.. (2008). Lung epithelial apoptosis in influenza virus pneumonia: the role of macrophage-expressed TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 205(13). 3065–3077. 298 indexed citations
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Zeisler, Harald, et al.. (2005). Akupunktur zur Behandlung postmenopausaler Beschwerden: Ein Erfahrungsbericht. Journal für Kardiologie (Krause & Pachernegg GmbH). 12(1). 25–26. 1 indexed citations
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Yada, Shinichiro, Noriaki Takamura, Kyoko Inagaki‐Ohara, et al.. (2005). The Role of p53 and Fas in a Model of Acute Murine Graft-versus-Host Disease. The Journal of Immunology. 174(3). 1291–1297. 9 indexed citations
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Saurer, Leslie, Nadia Corazza, Sabine Jakob, et al.. (2003). Sensitizing antigen-specific CD8+ T cells for accelerated suicide causes immune incompetence. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 111(8). 1191–1199. 16 indexed citations
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Vallan, Claudio, et al.. (2001). Accumulation and Activation-Induced Release of Preformed Fas (CD95) Ligand During the Pathogenesis of Experimental Graft-Versus-Host Disease. The Journal of Immunology. 167(5). 2936–2941. 29 indexed citations
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Brunner, Thomas & Clemens A. Dahinden. (1993). Regulation of basophil effector functions by cytokines. 5. 175–180. 1 indexed citations

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