David J. Thornton MD
Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases
150 S Huntington Avenue | (617) 638-8052dathornt@bu.edu
david.thornton@bmc.org
Sections
Infectious Diseases
Biography
Dr. Thornton, MD practices Infectious Disease in West Roxbury, MA. Dr. Thornton graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1997 and has been in practice for 22 years. He completed a residency at Boston University Medical Center.
Education
MD, Stanford University School of Medicine
MS, Stanford University
AB, Harvard College
Publications
Mair I, Bennett AR, Forman R, Othman AA, Logunova L, Smith H, Lowe AE, Bradley JE, Thornton DJ, Else KJ. T. Muris Infection Dynamics of a Fresh, Wild Isolate: Is the Established E Isolate Still Relevant? Parasite Immunol. 2024 Nov; 46(11):e13072. PMID: 39480064.
Published on 3/23/2024Bennett AR, Mair I, Muir A, Smith H, Logunova L, Wolfenden A, Fenn J, Lowe AE, Bradley JE, Else KJ, Thornton DJ. Sex drives colonic mucin sialylation in wild mice. Sci Rep. 2024 Mar 23; 14(1):6954. PMID: 38521809.
Published on 4/1/2023Herrera JA, Dingle LA, Monetero MA, Venkateswaran RV, Blaikley JF, Granato F, Pearson S, Lawless C, Thornton DJ. Morphologically intact airways in lung fibrosis have an abnormal proteome. Respir Res. 2023 Apr 01; 24(1):99. PMID: 37005656.
Published on 2/6/2023Fass D, Thornton DJ. Mucin networks: Dynamic structural assemblies controlling mucus function. Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2023 Apr; 79:102524. PMID: 36753925.
Published on 1/20/2023Funjika E, Colombo SAP, Hayes KS, Tozer MJ, Tyrrell KA, Cai S, Faniyi AA, Shears RK, Dooley M, Alshammari Y, Alhazmi W, Assas M, Almilaibary A, Jackson-Jones LH, Thornton DJ, Worthington JJ, Grencis RK. High-fat diet-induced resistance to helminth infection via alternative induction of type 2 immunity. Mucosal Immunol. 2023 Feb; 16(1):27-38. PMID: 36690078.
Published on 9/16/2022Ehre C, Hansson GC, Thornton DJ, Ostedgaard LS. Mucus aberrant properties in CF: Insights from cells and animal models. J Cyst Fibros. 2023 Mar; 22 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S23-S26. PMID: 36117114.
Published on 4/1/2022Duque-Correa MA, Goulding D, Rodgers FH, Gillis JA, Cormie C, Rawlinson KA, Bancroft AJ, Bennett HM, Lotkowska ME, Reid AJ, Speak AO, Scott P, Redshaw N, Tolley C, McCarthy C, Brandt C, Sharpe C, Ridley C, Moya JG, Carneiro CM, Starborg T, Hayes KS, Holroyd N, Sanders M, Thornton DJ, Grencis RK, Berriman M. Defining the early stages of intestinal colonisation by whipworms. Nat Commun. 2022 Apr 01; 13(1):1725. PMID: 35365634.
Published on 12/2/2021Ramphul M, Welsh KG, May RD, Ghebre MA, Rapley L, Cohen ES, Herath A, Monteiro W, Rousseau K, Thornton DJ, Brightling CE, Gaillard EA. Sputum biomarkers during acute severe asthma attacks in children-a case-control study. Acta Paediatr. 2022 Mar; 111(3):620-627. PMID: 34773288.
Published on 9/28/2021Carpenter J, Wang Y, Gupta R, Li Y, Haridass P, Subramani DB, Reidel B, Morton L, Ridley C, O'Neal WK, Buisine MP, Ehre C, Thornton DJ, Kesimer M. Assembly and organization of the N-terminal region of mucin MUC5AC: Indications for structural and functional distinction from MUC5B. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Sep 28; 118(39). PMID: 34548396.
Published on 3/1/2021Fillmore NR, Elbers DC, La J, Feldman TC, Sung FC, Hall RB, Nguyen V, Link N, Zwolinski R, Dipietro S, Miller SJ, Aleksanyan A, Goryachev SD, Corcoran P, Bergstrom SJ, Parenteau MA, Sprague RS, Thornton DJ, Driver JA, Strymish JM, Evans S, Colonna B, Brophy MT, Do NV. Corrigendum to: An Application to Support COVID-19 Occupational Health and Patient Tracking at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2021 03 01; 28(3):673. PMID: 33306790.