Challenges, progress, and prospects of developing therapies to treat autoimmune diseases

L Fugger, LT Jensen, J Rossjohn - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Autoimmune diseases are a result of the immune system being misdirected toward its host
and have major and increasing unmet clinical needs. In general, present therapies are …

Ketogenic diet and neuroinflammation

S Koh, N Dupuis, S Auvin - Epilepsy Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet (KD) is an established treatment for drug-
resistant epilepsy with a proven efficacy. The KD is being explored for Febrile Infection …

Caloric restriction reprograms the single-cell transcriptional landscape of Rattus norvegicus aging

S Ma, S Sun, L Geng, M Song, W Wang, Y Ye, Q Ji… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Aging causes a functional decline in tissues throughout the body that may be delayed by
caloric restriction (CR). However, the cellular profiles and signatures of aging, as well as …

Dietary approaches to cancer therapy

M Tajan, KH Vousden - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
The concept that dietary changes could improve the response to cancer therapy is extremely
attractive to many patients, who are highly motivated to take control of at least some aspect …

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors and their novel ligands as candidates for the treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

A Fougerat, A Montagner, N Loiseau, H Guillou… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a major health issue worldwide, frequently
associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes. Steatosis is the initial stage of the disease …

Deconstructing mechanisms of diet-microbiome-immune interactions

M Alexander, PJ Turnbaugh - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
Emerging evidence suggests that the effect of dietary intake on human health and disease is
linked to both the immune system and the microbiota. Yet, we lack an integrated mechanistic …

Systemic immunometabolism: challenges and opportunities

A Lercher, H Baazim, A Bergthaler - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
Over the past 10 years, the field of immunometabolism made great strides to unveil the
crucial role of intracellular metabolism in regulating immune cell function. Emerging insights …

Dietary regulation of immunity

AH Lee, VD Dixit - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
Integrated immunometabolic responses link dietary intake, energy utilization, and storage to
immune regulation of tissue function and is therefore essential for the maintenance and …

Hexokinase inhibition using D-Mannoheptulose enhances oncolytic newcastle disease virus-mediated killing of breast cancer cells

AG Al-Ziaydi, AM Al-Shammari, MI Hamzah… - Cancer Cell …, 2020 - Springer
Background Most cancer cells exhibit increased glycolysis and use this metabolic pathway
cell growth and proliferation. Targeting cancer cells' metabolism is a promising strategy in …

Monocyte recruitment, specification, and function in atherosclerosis

KW Kim, S Ivanov, JW Williams - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Atherosclerotic lesions progress through the continued recruitment of circulating blood
monocytes that differentiate into macrophages within plaque. Lesion-associated …