Christina N. Como

Varicella zoster virus productively infects human peripheral blood mononuclear cells to modulate expression of immunoinhibitory proteins and blocking PD-L1 enhances virus-specific CD8+ T cell effector function

Dallas Jones, Christina N. Como, Lichen Jing et al. · PLoS Pathogens · 2019 · 50 citations · Full text

Viral Persistence, Molecular Virology, Pd-l1 Expression +15

Formation and function of the meningeal arachnoid barrier around the developing mouse brain

Julia Derk, Christina N. Como, Hannah E. Jones et al. · Developmental Cell · 2023 · 48 citations · Full text

Developmental Biology, Neuroanatomy, Synaptic Transmission +10

Varicella-Zoster Virus Infection of Primary Human Spinal Astrocytes Produces Intracellular Amylin, Amyloid-β, and an Amyloidogenic Extracellular Environment

Andrew N. Bubak, Christina N. Como, Christina Coughlan et al. · The Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2019 · 45 citations · Full text

Interleukin-6 and type 1 interferons inhibit varicella zoster virus replication in human neurons

Christina N. Como, Catherine M. Pearce, Randall J. Cohrs et al. · Virology · 2018 · 26 citations

Human Neurons, Molecular Virology, Neurovirology +9

Varicella zoster virus differentially alters morphology and suppresses proinflammatory cytokines in primary human spinal cord and hippocampal astrocytes

Andrew N. Bubak, Christina N. Como, Anna Blackmon et al. · Journal of Neuroinflammation · 2018 · 17 citations · Full text