Immune checkpoint proteins: exploring their therapeutic potential to regulate atherosclerosis

AC Foks, J Kuiper - British Journal of Pharmacology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The immune system provides a large variety of immune checkpoint proteins, which involve
both costimulatory and inhibitory proteins. Costimulatory proteins can promote cell survival …

Exploring immune checkpoints as potential therapeutic targets in atherosclerosis

PJH Kusters, E Lutgens… - Cardiovascular research, 2018 - academic.oup.com
In the past decades, the inflammatory nature of atherosclerosis has been well-recognized
and despite the development of therapeutic strategies targeted at its classical risk factors …

2016 Jeffrey M. Hoeg award lecture: immune checkpoints in atherosclerosis: toward immunotherapy for atheroprotection

E Rouwet, E Lutgens - Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Innate and adaptive immune effector mechanisms, in conjunction with hyperlipidemia, are
important drivers of atherosclerosis. The interaction between the different immune cells and …

[HTML][HTML] Costimulatory and Coinhibitory Immune Checkpoints in Atherosclerosis: Therapeutic Targets in Atherosclerosis?

K Nitz, J Herrmann, A Lerman, E Lutgens - JACC: Basic to Translational …, 2024 - Elsevier
The benefits of current state-of-the-art treatments to combat atherosclerotic cardiovascular
disease (ASCVD) have stagnated. Treatments are mostly based on controlling …

Immune checkpoint molecules. Possible future therapeutic implications in autoimmune diseases

C Huang, HX Zhu, Y Yao, ZH Bian, YJ Zheng, L Li… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
During host immune response, an initial and sufficient activation is required to avoid
infection and cancer, yet an excessive activation bears the risk of autoimmune reactivity and …

[HTML][HTML] The role of immune checkpoints in cardiovascular disease

LI Yousif, AA Tanja, RA de Boer, AJ Teske… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) are monoclonal antibodies which bind to immune
checkpoints (IC) and their ligands to prevent inhibition of T-cell activation by tumor cells …

Immune checkpoint inhibition alters the inflammatory cell composition of human coronary artery atherosclerosis

JL Newman, JR Stone - Cardiovascular Pathology, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) has emerged as a promising new approach
to treat malignancy. Such therapies can result in autoimmune-related complications such as …

Immune Checkpoint Therapies and Atherosclerosis: Mechanisms and Clinical Implications: JACC State-of-the-Art Review

JT Vuong, AF Stein-Merlob, A Nayeri, T Sallam… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - jacc.org
Immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy has revolutionized the treatment of advanced
malignancies in recent years. Numerous reports have detailed the myriad of possible …

[HTML][HTML] Taming immune and inflammatory responses to treat atherosclerosis

P Libby, GK Hansson - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2018 - jacc.org
Writ large, we can divide immune and inflammatory responses into the primitive innate
immune response and the evolutionarily more recent adaptive immune response. Innate …

Targeting cytokines and immune checkpoints in atherosclerosis with monoclonal antibodies

E Lutgens, J Joffre, B van Os, H Ait-Oufella - Atherosclerosis, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past fifteen years, treatments using monoclonal antibodies specifically targeting
cytokines have been developed to treat chronic inflammatory diseases, including …