Drug Development Strategies for Malaria: With the Hope for New Antimalarial Drug Discovery—An Update

SK Pandey, U Anand, WA Siddiqui… - Advances in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Malaria continued to be a deadly situation for the people of tropical and subtropical
countries. Although there has been a marked reduction in new cases as well as mortality …

[HTML][HTML] Regulatory T cells in parasite infections: susceptibility, specificity and specialisation

CM McManus, RM Maizels - Trends in Parasitology, 2023 - cell.com
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are essential to control immune system responses to innocuous
self-specificities, intestinal and environmental antigens. However, they may also interfere …

[HTML][HTML] Cytolytic circumsporozoite-specific memory CD4+ T cell clones are expanded during Plasmodium falciparum infection

R Furtado, M Paul, J Zhang, J Sung, P Karell… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Clinical immunity against Plasmodium falciparum infection develops in residents of malaria
endemic regions, manifesting in reduced clinical symptoms during infection and in …

IL-15 Complex–Induced IL-10 Enhances Plasmodium-specific CD4+ T Follicular Helper Differentiation and Antibody Production

M Bravo, T Dileepan, M Dolan, J Hildebrand… - The Journal of …, 2024 - journals.aai.org
Malaria, which results from infection with Plasmodium parasites, remains a major public
health problem. Although humans do not develop long-lived, sterilizing immunity, protection …

[HTML][HTML] Excretory/secretory proteins inhibit host immune responses by downregulating the TLR4/NF-κB/MAPKs signaling pathway: A possible mechanism of immune …

Z Wen, Y Zhang, J Feng, K Aimulajiang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Haemonchus contortus is an important parasitic nematode of ruminants. Previous studies
showed that H. contortus escape the immunity through complex mechanisms, including …

Clinical Significance of Soluble LAG-3 (sLAG-3) in Patients With Cervical Cancer Determined via Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay With Monoclonal Antibodies

Y Li, W Wang, J Tian, Y Zhou, Y Shen… - … in Cancer Research …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The tumor microenvironment and tumor immunity have become the focus of
research on tumor diagnosis and treatment. Lymphocyte activation gene-3 (LAG-3, CD223) …

T cell help in the autoreactive germinal center

EH Akama‐Garren, MC Carroll - Scandinavian journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The germinal center serves as a site of B cell selection and affinity maturation, critical
processes for productive adaptive immunity. In autoimmune disease tolerance is broken in …

[HTML][HTML] Characteristics of splenic PD-1+ γδT cells in Plasmodium yoelii nigeriensis infection

D Chen, F Mo, M Liu, L Liu, J Xing, W Xiao, Y Gong… - Immunologic …, 2024 - Springer
Although the functions of programmed death-1 (PD-1) on αβ T cells have been extensively
reported, a role for PD-1 in regulating γδT cell function is only beginning to emerge. Here …

Deciphering the Plasmodium falciparum malaria-specific CD4+ T-cell response: ex vivo detection of high frequencies of PD-1+TIGIT+ EXP1-specific CD4+ T cells …

S Schulte, J Heide, C Ackermann… - Clinical and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Relatively little is known about the ex vivo frequency and phenotype of the Plasmodium
falciparum-specific CD4+ T-cell response in humans. The exported protein 1 (EXP1) is …

Malaria and Autoimmunity

A Ohayon, N Lavine, N Mahroum - Infection and Autoimmunity, 2024 - Elsevier
Malaria is a vector-borne parasitic disease. In 2020, there were 241 million cases of malaria
and 627,000 deaths worldwide. The first connection between Malaria and autoimmunity was …