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C. Joel Funk

Researcher at United States Department of Agriculture

Publications -  12
Citations -  1349

C. Joel Funk is an academic researcher from United States Department of Agriculture. The author has contributed to research in topics: Innate immune system & Cellular differentiation. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 12 publications receiving 1203 citations. Previous affiliations of C. Joel Funk include Agricultural Research Service.

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Differentiated Human Alveolar Type II Cells Secrete Antiviral IL-29 (IFN-λ1) in Response to Influenza A Infection

TL;DR: The results suggest that IL-29 exerts IFN-β-independent protection in type II cells through direct activation of antiviral genes during IAV infection.
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SARS-CoV replicates in primary human alveolar type II cell cultures but not in type I-like cells.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors isolated human alveolar type II cells and maintained them in a highly differentiated state, which supported SARS-CoV replication as evidenced by RT-PCR detection of viral subgenomic RNA and an increase in virus titer.
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Differentiated Human Alveolar Epithelial Cells and Reversibility of their Phenotype In Vitro

TL;DR: This work used a published method for type II cell isolation and developed primary culture systems for maintenance of differentiated adult human alveolar epithelial cells for in vitro studies to study the expression of the phenotypes.
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Infection of human alveolar macrophages by human coronavirus strain 229E.

TL;DR: AMs are an important target for HCoV-229E, and they can mount a pro-inflammatory innate immune response to infection.