Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Medicine
Department of Immunology
Anderson, R
BSc(Hons)(Glasgow) MSc PhD(Witwatersrand) - Professor and Head
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 319 2425
Fax number: 012 323 0732
E-mail address: ronald.anderson@up.ac.za
Research Interests:
Tuberculosis: Development of novel anti-tuberculosis chemotherapeutic agents
Pharmacological regulation of phagocyte activation in chronic inflammatory disorders
Oxidative stress
HIV-1 mucosal pathogenesis
HIV-1 drug resistance/clinical trials/efficacy of novel antiretrovirals
Investigation of the interactions of pneumolysin with human neutrophils in vitro
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Steel HC, Tintinger GR, Anderson R: 2008. Comparison of the Anti-inflammatory Activities of Imidazole Antimycotics in Relation to Molecular Structure. Chemical Biology & Drug Design, 72 (3) / Sep, pp 225-228.
Anderson R, Tintinger GR, Steel HC, Theron AJ: 2008. Pharmacological control of neutrophil-mediated inflammation: Strategies targeting calcium handling by activated polymorphonuclear leukocytes. Drug Design, Development and Therapy, 2, pp 95-104, Full Text
Fickl H, Theron AJ, Anderson R, Mitchell TJ, Feldman C: 2008. Palladium attenuates the pro-inflammatory interactions of C5a, interleukin-8 and pneumolysin with human neutrophils. Journal of Immunotoxicology, 4 (3), pp 247-252.
Smit E, Pretorius E, Anderson R, Oommen J, Potjo M: 2008. Differentiation of human monocytes in vitro following exposure to canova in the absence of cytokines. Ultrastructural Pathology, 32 / Feb, pp 147-152.
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