Immune cells in the epithelial immune microenvironment of psoriasis: emerging therapeutic targets

L Li, J Lu, J Liu, J Wu, X Zhang, Y Meng, X Wu… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Psoriasis is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease characterized by erroneous
metabolism of keratinocytes. The development of psoriasis is closely related to abnormal …

Granzymes in health and diseases: the good, the bad and the ugly

L Cigalotto, D Martinvalet - Frontiers in Immunology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Granzymes are a family of serine proteases, composed of five human members: GA, B, H, M
and K. They were first discovered in the 1980s within cytotoxic granules released during NK …

Upregulation of CX3CR1 expression in circulating T cells of systemic lupus erythematosus patients as a reflection of autoimmune status through characterization of …

Q Li, Z Yuan, A Bahabayi, Z Zhang, X Zeng… - International …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective This study investigated CX3CR1 expression in human peripheral blood T
lymphocytes and their subsets, exploring changes in SLE patients and its diagnostic …

Neutrophil-mediated hypoxia drives pathogenic CD8 T cell responses in cutaneous leishmaniasis

EA Fowler, CF Amorim, K Mostacada… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania parasites exhibits a wide range of clinical
manifestations. Although parasites influence disease severity, cytolytic CD8 T cell responses …

The Multifaceted Functionality of Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Gastrointestinal Cancers: A Potential Therapeutic Target?

FJ Hansen, P David, GF Weber - Cancers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Gastrointestinal (GI) tumors pose a significant global health burden, necessitating the
exploration of novel therapeutic approaches. Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) play a …

Deciphering the Complex Immunopathogenesis of Alopecia Areata

I Šutić Udović, N Hlača, LP Massari, I Brajac… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Alopecia areata (AA) is an autoimmune-mediated disorder in which the proximal hair follicle
(HF) attack results in non-scarring partial to total scalp or body hair loss. Despite the growing …

Granzyme B promotes matrix metalloproteinase‐1 (MMP‐1) release from gingival fibroblasts in a PAR1‐and Erk1/2‐dependent manner: A novel role in periodontal …

M Ben‐Eltriki, AR Ahmadi, Y Nakao… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To gain insights into how proteases signal to connective tissues cells in the
periodontium. Background The connective tissue degradation observed in periodontitis is …

Associations between type 1 diabetes and autoimmune skin diseases: Mendelian randomization analysis

J Liu, Y Xu, Y Liu, Y Zhu, X Li - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Background Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) may be associated with various autoimmune
diseases, but the causal relationship between T1DM and autoimmune skin diseases is not …

Pathogenic CD8 T cell responses are driven by neutrophil-mediated hypoxia in cutaneous leishmaniasis

EA Fowler, CF Amorim, K Mostacada, A Yan… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania parasites exhibits a wide range of clinical
manifestations. Although parasites influence disease severity, cytolytic CD8 T cell responses …

T cell exhaustion dynamics in systemic autoimmune disease

CN Turner, J Camilo Sanchez Arcila, N Huerta… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Unlike in infection and cancer, T cell exhaustion in autoimmune disease has not been
clearly defined. Here we set out to understand inhibitory protein (PD-1, Tim3, CTLA4, Lag3) …