In vitro models for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Emerging platforms and their applications

MJ Ramos, L Bandiera, F Menolascina, JA Fallowfield - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) represents a global healthcare challenge,
affecting 1 in 4 adults, and death rates are predicted to rise inexorably. The progressive form …

Mitochondrial dysfunction in macrophages promotes inflammation and suppresses repair after myocardial infarction

S Cai, M Zhao, B Zhou, A Yoshii… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Innate immune cells play important roles in tissue injury and repair following acute
myocardial infarction (MI). Although reprogramming of macrophage metabolism has been …

STING agonism reprograms tumor-associated macrophages and overcomes resistance to PARP inhibition in BRCA1-deficient models of breast cancer

Q Wang, JS Bergholz, L Ding, Z Lin, SK Kabraji… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
PARP inhibitors (PARPi) have drastically changed the treatment landscape of advanced
ovarian tumors with BRCA mutations. However, the impact of this class of inhibitors in …

RNA m6A methylation orchestrates cancer growth and metastasis via macrophage reprogramming

H Yin, X Zhang, P Yang, X Zhang, Y Peng, D Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is a reversible mRNA modification that has been shown
to play important roles in various biological processes. However, the roles of m6A …

Redox lipid reprogramming commands susceptibility of macrophages and microglia to ferroptotic death

AA Kapralov, Q Yang, HH Dar, YY Tyurina… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
Ferroptotic death is the penalty for losing control over three processes—iron metabolism,
lipid peroxidation and thiol regulation—that are common in the pro-inflammatory …

Adipocyte-derived lactate is a signalling metabolite that potentiates adipose macrophage inflammation via targeting PHD2

T Feng, X Zhao, P Gu, W Yang, C Wang, Q Guo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Adipose tissue macrophage (ATM) inflammation is involved with meta-inflammation and
pathology of metabolic complications. Here we report that in adipocytes, elevated lactate …

Dnmt3a-mutated clonal hematopoiesis promotes osteoporosis

PG Kim, A Niroula, V Shkolnik, M McConkey… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - rupress.org
Osteoporosis is caused by an imbalance of osteoclasts and osteoblasts, occurring in close
proximity to hematopoietic cells in the bone marrow. Recurrent somatic mutations that lead …

HDAC6 mediates an aggresome-like mechanism for NLRP3 and pyrin inflammasome activation

VG Magupalli, R Negro, Y Tian, AV Hauenstein… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Canonical inflammasomes are multicomponent protein complexes that
play key roles in immune surveillance of infections and danger by activating caspase-1 …

Targeting focal adhesion kinase renders pancreatic cancers responsive to checkpoint immunotherapy

H Jiang, S Hegde, BL Knolhoff, Y Zhu, JM Herndon… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Single-agent immunotherapy has achieved limited clinical benefit to date in patients with
pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). This may be a result of the presence of a …

M1 macrophage-derived nanovesicles potentiate the anticancer efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors

YW Choo, M Kang, HY Kim, J Han, S Kang, JR Lee… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Cancer immunotherapy modulates immune cells to induce antitumor immune responses.
Tumors employ immune checkpoints to evade immune cell attacks. Immune checkpoint …