Food components and dietary habits: keys for a healthy gut microbiota composition

E Rinninella, M Cintoni, P Raoul, LR Lopetuso… - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
The gut microbiota is a changing ecosystem, containing trillions of bacteria, continuously
shaped by many factors, such as dietary habits, seasonality, lifestyle, stress, antibiotics use …

Oral delivery of natural active small molecules by polymeric nanoparticles for the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases

M Zu, Y Ma, B Cannup, D Xie, Y Jung, J Zhang… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
The incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is rapidly rising throughout the world.
Although tremendous efforts have been made, limited therapeutics are available for IBD …

Bioorthogonal PROTAC prodrugs enabled by on-target activation

M Chang, F Gao, D Pontigon, G Gnawali… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Although proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) have become promising therapeutic
modalities, important concerns exist about the potential toxicity of the approach owing to …

Effector T helper cell subsets in inflammatory bowel diseases

T Imam, S Park, MH Kaplan, MR Olson - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The gastrointestinal tract is a site of high immune challenge, as it must maintain a delicate
balance between tolerating luminal contents and generating an immune response toward …

[HTML][HTML] Gut immune maturation depends on colonization with a host-specific microbiota

H Chung, SJ Pamp, JA Hill, NK Surana, SM Edelman… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Gut microbial induction of host immune maturation exemplifies host-microbe mutualism. We
colonized germ-free (GF) mice with mouse microbiota (MMb) or human microbiota (HMb) to …

Selective in vivo metabolic cell-labeling-mediated cancer targeting

H Wang, R Wang, K Cai, H He, Y Liu, J Yen… - Nature chemical …, 2017 - nature.com
Distinguishing cancer cells from normal cells through surface receptors is vital for cancer
diagnosis and targeted therapy. Metabolic glycoengineering of unnatural sugars provides a …

Intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes: sentinels of the mucosal barrier

D Olivares-Villagómez, L Van Kaer - Trends in immunology, 2018 - cell.com
Intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) are a large and diverse population of lymphoid
cells that reside between the intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) that form the intestinal mucosal …

Revisiting inflammatory bowel disease: pathology, treatments, challenges and emerging therapeutics including drug leads from natural products

K Yeshi, R Ruscher, L Hunter, NL Daly… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic and life-long disease characterized by
gastrointestinal tract inflammation. It is caused by the interplay of the host's genetic …

Points of control in inflammation

C Nathan - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Inflammation is a complex set of interactions among soluble factors and cells that can arise
in any tissue in response to traumatic, infectious, post-ischaemic, toxic or autoimmune injury …

OPGL is a key regulator of osteoclastogenesis, lymphocyte development and lymph-node organogenesis

YY Kong, H Yoshida, I Sarosi, HL Tan, E Timms… - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
The tumour-necrosis-factor-family molecule osteoprotegerin ligand (OPGL; also known as
TRANCE, RANKL and ODF) has been identified as a potential osteoclast differentiation …