Old and new calcineurin inhibitors in lupus nephritis

C Ponticelli, F Reggiani, G Moroni - Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2021 - mdpi.com
Calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs) are drugs that inhibit calcineurin, a key phosphatase that
dephosphorylates a transcription factor called the nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) …

The immune suppressive function of transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) in human diseases

J Sheng, W Chen, HJ Zhu - Growth factors, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) functions as an immune suppressor by influencing
immune cells' development, differentiation, tolerance induction and homeostasis. In human …

Understanding and modulating immunity with cell reprogramming

CF Pires, FF Rosa, I Kurochkin, CF Pereira - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cell reprogramming concepts have been classically developed in the fields of
developmental and stem cell biology and are currently being explored for regenerative …

A novel self-assembled epitope peptide nanoemulsion vaccine targeting nasal mucosal epithelial cell for reinvigorating CD8+ T cell immune activity and inhibiting …

Y Yang, S Ge, Z Song, A Zhao, L Zhao, Z Hu… - International journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Epitope peptides are not suitable for nasal administration immunity due to their poor
immunogenicity and low delivery efficiency. Here, we reported an intranasal self-assembled …

Therapeutic antitumor efficacy of B cells loaded with tumor-derived autophagasomes vaccine (DRibbles)

H Ren, S Zhao, W Li, H Dong, M Zhou… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Tumor-derived autophagosomes (DRibble) selectively capture tumor-specific antigens and
induce a dramatic T-cell activation and expansion when injected into lymph nodes of naive …

Engineered fusokine GIFT4 licenses the ability of B cells to trigger a tumoricidal T-cell response

J Deng, S Yuan, A Pennati, J Murphy, JH Wu… - Cancer research, 2014 - AACR
Engineered chimeric cytokines can generate gain-of-function activity in immune cells. Here,
we report potent antitumor activity for a novel fusion cytokine generated by N-terminal …

Emerging concepts regarding pro-and anti tumor properties of B cells in tumor immunity

Y Qin, F Lu, K Lyu, AE Chang, Q Li - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Controversial views regarding the roles of B cells in tumor immunity have existed for several
decades. However, more recent studies have focused on its positive properties in antitumor …

Maltose-binding protein fusion allows for high level bacterial expression and purification of bioactive mammalian cytokine derivatives

A Pennati, J Deng, J Galipeau - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Fusokines are chimeric proteins generated by the physical coupling of cytokines in a single
polypeptide, resulting in proteins with highly pleiotropic activity and the potential to treat …

[HTML][HTML] Co-expression of CD40L with CD70 or OX40L increases B-cell viability and antitumor efficacy

CA Shin, HW Cho, AR Shin, HJ Sohn, HI Cho, TG Kim - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Activated B-cells are a promising alternative source of antigen-presenting cells. They can
generally be obtained in sufficient numbers for clinical use, but in most instances produce …

[HTML][HTML] WT1 多肽乳佐剂疫苗的免疫增强效应及其对急性髓系白血病抗肿瘤效应研究

叶演, 张泽珑, 朱宝行, 刘姝琳, 宋振, 袁庆鹏, 杨赟… - 2024 - aammt.tmmu.edu.cn
目的评价Wilm 瘤基因1 (Wilms' tumor gene1, WT1) 多肽联合AddaVax TM
乳佐剂疫苗的稳定性, 安全性, 免疫增强效应及其对急性髓系白血病抗肿瘤效应. 方法用MALDI …