Targeting toll‐like receptors for drug development: a summary of commercial approaches

AJH Gearing - Immunology and cell biology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Toll‐like receptors (TLRs) play a fundamental role in recognizing infectious and noxious
agents as well as products of tissue damage. They are capable of initiating both protective …

Toll-like receptors: balancing host resistance with immune tolerance

C Pasare, R Medzhitov - Current opinion in immunology, 2003 - Elsevier
Recent advances in the field of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) have established their importance
for acute innate immune responses and their fundamental requirement for initiation of CD4+ …

How important are Toll‐like receptors for antimicrobial responses?

S Carpenter, LAJ O'Neill - Cellular microbiology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The innate immune system is the primary line of defence against invading pathogenic
microbes. Toll‐like receptors (TLRs) are a family of membrane receptors which play a pivotal …

Expression and function of Toll-like receptors in T lymphocytes

D Kabelitz - Current opinion in immunology, 2007 - Elsevier
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are widely expressed in the innate immune system. They
recognize conserved microbial ligands such as bacterial lipopolysaccharide, lipopeptides or …

Toll-like receptor function and signaling

T Kaisho, S Akira - Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 2006 - Elsevier
Mammals sense pathogen invasion through pattern-recognition receptors. A group of
transmembrane proteins, Toll-like receptors (TLRs), play critical roles as pattern-recognition …

The pharmacokinetics of Toll-like receptor agonists and the impact on the immune system

AL Engel, GE Holt, H Lu - Expert review of clinical pharmacology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Toll-like receptor (TLR) ligation activates both the innate and adaptive immune systems, and
plays an important role in antiviral and anti-tumor immunity. Therefore, a significant amount …

Advances in Toll-like receptor biology: Modes of activation by diverse stimuli

CE Bryant, NJ Gay, S Heymans, S Sacre… - Critical reviews in …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
As we learn more about the biology of the Toll-like receptors (TLRs), a wide range of
molecules that can activate this fascinating family of pattern recognition receptors emerges …

Potential therapeutic targets for inflammation in toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)-mediated signaling pathways

A Roy, M Srivastava, U Saqib, D Liu, SM Faisal… - International …, 2016 - Elsevier
Inflammation is set off when innate immune cells detect infection or tissue injury. Tight
control of the severity, duration, and location of inflammation is an absolute requirement for …

The future of toll-like receptor therapeutics.

T Parkinson - Current opinion in molecular therapeutics, 2008 - europepmc.org
Since the discovery of human TLRs, manipulating the activity of these receptors to modulate
immune responses for therapeutic purposes has initiated intense activity in the …

Toll-like receptor 4: a promising crossroads in the diagnosis and treatment of several pathologies

MM Garcia, C Goicoechea, M Molina-Álvarez… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) is expressed in a wide variety of cells and is the central
component of the mammalian innate immune system. Since its discovery in 1997, TLR4 has …