Valerie Varner

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — United States

Immunology and Microbiology · Life Sciences

10h-index578citations19works0.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Immune Cell Function and Interaction(10), HIV Research and Treatment(8), Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research(6), T-cell and B-cell Immunology(5), Parvovirus B19 Infection Studies(3)

Publications19 total

Anti-IL-15 treatment reduces acute lentivirus inflammation and signaling in the brain
Cell Reports Medicine·2026Open Access
Natural Killer Cells Regulate Acute SIV Replication, Dissemination, and Inflammation, but Do Not Impact Independent Transmission Events
Journal of Virology·2022· 12 citedOpen Access
Increased IL-6 expression precedes reliable viral detection in the rhesus macaque brain during acute SIV infection
JCI Insight·2021· 17 citedOpen Access
Probiotic supplementation reduces inflammatory profiles but does not prevent oral immune perturbations during SIV infection
Scientific Reports·2021· 10 citedOpen Access
Systemic and mucosal mobilization of granulocyte subsets during lentiviral infection
Immunology·2021· 9 citedOpen Access
Systemic and mucosal mobilization of granulocyte subsets during lentivirus infection
2021Open Access
Probiotic Supplementation Reduces Inflammatory Profiles But Does Not Prevent Oral Immune Perturbations During SIV Infection
2020· 2 citedOpen Access
Characterization of Rhesus Macaque Liver-Resident CD49a+ NK Cells During Retrovirus Infections
Frontiers in Immunology·2020· 7 citedOpen Access
Characterization of systemic, mucosal and lymphoid granulocyte subsets in rhesus macaques
The Journal of Immunology·2020
Functional Perturbation of Mucosal Group 3 Innate Lymphoid and Natural Killer Cells in Simian-Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Simian Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Infant Rhesus Macaques
Journal of Virology·2019· 12 citedOpen Access
Natural history of postnatal rhesus cytomegalovirus shedding by dams and acquisition by infant rhesus monkeys
PLoS ONE·2018· 14 citedOpen Access
Tracking KLRC2 (NKG2C)+ memory-like NK cells in SIV+ and rhCMV+ rhesus macaques
PLoS Pathogens·2018· 47 citedOpen Access
Progressive lentivirus infection induces natural killer cell receptor-expressing B cells in the gastrointestinal tract
AIDS·2018· 13 citedOpen Access
Hepatic immunopathology during occult hepacivirus re-infection
Virology·2017· 8 citedOpen Access
Acute Liver Damage Associated with Innate Immune Activation in a Small Nonhuman Primate Model of Hepacivirus Infection
Journal of Virology·2016· 16 citedOpen Access
Maternal CD4 <sup>+</sup> T cells protect against severe congenital cytomegalovirus disease in a novel nonhuman primate model of placental cytomegalovirus transmission
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2015· 110 citedOpen Access
Antigen-specific NK cell memory in rhesus macaques
Nature Immunology·2015· 279 citedOpen Access
Postnatal Acquisition of Primary Rhesus Cytomegalovirus Infection is Associated With Prolonged Virus Shedding and Impaired CD4+ T Lymphocyte Function
The Journal of Infectious Diseases·2014· 22 citedOpen Access
Epitope specificity appears to be an important determinant of in vivo killing ability of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-specific CD8+ T cells (105.43)
The Journal of Immunology·2012

Frequent Co-authors

R. Keith Reeves(14), Cordelia Manickam(12), Rhianna Jones(12), Daniel R. Ram(10), Brady Hueber(10), Kyle Kroll(10), Spandan V. Shah(6), Scott Smith(6), Amitinder Kaur(3), Sallie R. Permar(3), Amanda J. Martinot(3), Griffin Woolley(3), Stéphanie Jost(2), Dan H. Barouch(2), Hannah L. Itell(2), Raja Mohan Gopalakrishnan(2), Caitlin M. Davis(2), Michelle A. Lifton(2), Christine M. Fennessey(2), Courtney A. Broedlow(2)