Regulatory T cells in cardiovascular diseases

X Meng, J Yang, M Dong, K Zhang, E Tu… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Inflammation is essential in the initial development and progression of many cardiovascular
diseases involving innate and adaptive immune responses. The role of CD4+ CD25+ …

T cells specific for α-myosin drive immunotherapy-related myocarditis

ML Axelrod, WC Meijers, EM Screever, J Qin… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Immune-related adverse events, particularly severe toxicities such as myocarditis, are major
challenges to the utility of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in anticancer therapy. The …

[HTML][HTML] Regulatory T cells in chronic heart failure

Y Lu, N Xia, X Cheng - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Heart failure is a global problem with high hospitalization and mortality rates. Inflammation
and immune dysfunction are involved in this disease. Owing to their unique function …

Infarcted myocardium-primed dendritic cells improve remodeling and cardiac function after myocardial infarction by modulating the regulatory T cell and macrophage …

EH Choo, JH Lee, EH Park, HE Park, NC Jung… - Circulation, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Inflammatory responses play a critical role in left ventricular remodeling after
myocardial infarction (MI). Tolerogenic dendritic cells (tDCs) can modulate immune …

Potential therapeutic value of the STING inhibitors

S Zhang, R Zheng, Y Pan, H Sun - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The stimulator of interferon genes (STING) is a critical protein in the activation of the immune
system in response to DNA. It can participate the inflammatory response process by …

The CXCL10/CXCR3 axis and cardiac inflammation: implications for immunotherapy to treat infectious and noninfectious diseases of the heart

R Altara, Z Mallat, GW Booz… - Journal of immunology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Accumulating evidence reveals involvement of T lymphocytes and adaptive immunity in the
chronic inflammation associated with infectious and noninfectious diseases of the heart …

Autoimmune myocarditis, old dogs and new tricks

T Won, EJ Song, HM Kalinoski, JJ Moslehi… - Circulation …, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
Autoimmunity significantly contributes to the pathogenesis of myocarditis, underscored by its
increased frequency in autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus and …

Immunopathogenesis and immunomodulatory therapy for myocarditis

W He, L Zhou, K Xu, H Li, JJ Wang, C Chen… - Science China Life …, 2023 - Springer
Myocarditis is an inflammatory cardiac disease characterized by the destruction of
myocardial cells, infiltration of interstitial inflammatory cells, and fibrosis, and is becoming a …

Role of dendritic cells in the initiation, progress and modulation of systemic autoimmune diseases

JP Mackern-Oberti, C Llanos, F Vega… - Autoimmunity …, 2015 - Elsevier
Dendritic cells (DCs) play a key role in the activation of the immune response against
pathogens, as well as in the modulation of peripheral tolerance to self-antigens (Ags) …

Functional ambivalence of dendritic cells: tolerogenicity and immunogenicity

JH Nam, JH Lee, SY Choi, NC Jung, JY Song… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Dendritic cells (DCs) are the most potent professional antigen-presenting cells (APCs) and
inducers of T cell-mediated immunity. Although DCs play a central role in promoting …