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Bastian Opitz

- Verified email at charite.de - Cited by 8958

Bertram Opitz

- Verified email at mhb-fontane.de - Cited by 5687

Innate immune recognition in infectious and noninfectious diseases of the lung

B Opitz, V van Laak, J Eitel, N Suttorp - American journal of …, 2010 - atsjournals.org
… Human NLRP1 has also been shown to respond to B. anthracis infection (98), although the
exact function of human NLRP1 in B. anthracis infection needs to be further characterized. …

Recognition of Streptococcus pneumoniae by the innate immune system

U Koppe, N Suttorp, B Opitz - Cellular microbiology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Streptococcus pneumoniae is both a frequent colonizer of the upper respiratory tract and a
leading cause of life‐threatening infections such as pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis. The …

Memory function and the hippocampus

B Opitz - The hippocampus in clinical neuroscience, 2014 - karger.com
There has been a long tradition in memory research of adopting the view of a vital role of the
medial temporal lobe and especially the hippocampus in declarative memory. Despite the …

Differential requirement for the activation of the inflammasome for processing and release of IL-1β in monocytes and macrophages

…, MF Nold, LAB Joosten, B Opitz… - Blood, The Journal …, 2009 - ashpublications.org
… ) Mean ( ± SEM) TNF-α levels in supernatants from LPS (10 ng/mL)–stimulated PBMCs in
the absence or absence of the TLR4 antagonist B quintana (100 ng/mL) indicated by aTLR4 (…

Differential contribution of frontal and temporal cortices to auditory change detection: fMRI and ERP results

B Opitz, T Rinne, A Mecklinger, DY Von Cramon… - Neuroimage, 2002 - Elsevier
The present study addresses the functional role of the temporal and frontal lobes in auditory
change detection. Prior event-related potential (ERP) research suggested that the mismatch …

Search for a Dark Matter annihilation signal from the Galactic Center halo with HESS

…, S Ohm, JF Olive, E de Oña Wilhelmi, B Opitz… - Physical Review Letters, 2011 - APS
A search for a very-high-energy (VHE;≥ 100 GeV) γ-ray signal from self-annihilating particle
dark matter (DM) is performed towards a region of projected distance r∼ 45–150 pc from …

[HTML][HTML] Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain proteins are innate immune receptors for internalized Streptococcus pneumoniae

B Opitz, A Püschel, B Schmeck, AC Hocke… - Journal of Biological …, 2004 - ASBMB
Streptococcus pneumoniae, the major cause of community-acquired pneumonia and bacterial
meningitis, has been shown to transiently invade epithelial and endothelial cells. Innate …

Prefrontal cortex involvement in preattentive auditory deviance detection:: neuroimaging and electrophysiological evidence

CF Doeller, B Opitz, A Mecklinger, C Krick, W Reith… - Neuroimage, 2003 - Elsevier
Previous electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies suggest that the mismatch negativity
(MMN) is generated by a temporofrontal network subserving preattentive auditory change …

IFNβ induction by influenza A virus is mediated by RIG‐I which is regulated by the viral NS1 protein

B Opitz, A Rejaibi, B Dauber, J Eckhard… - Cellular …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Influenza A virus causes epidemics of respiratory diseases in humans leading to thousands
of death annually. One of its major virulence factors, the non‐structural protein 1 (NS1), …

Segregating semantic and syntactic aspects of processing in the human brain: an fMRI investigation of different word types

AD Friederici, B Opitz, DY Von Cramon - Cerebral cortex, 2000 - academic.oup.com
The processing of single words that varied in their semantic (concrete/abstract word) and
syntactic (content/function word) status was investigated under different task demands (…