Chemokines and chemokine receptors: positioning cells for host defense and immunity

JW Griffith, CL Sokol, AD Luster - Annual review of immunology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Chemokines are chemo tactic cyto kines that control the migratory patterns and positioning
of all immune cells. Although chemokines were initially appreciated as important mediators …

CCR4 and its ligands: from bench to bedside

O Yoshie, K Matsushima - International immunology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Chemokines and chemokine receptors orchestrate cell migration and homing in the body.
Humans have at least 44 chemokines that are further classified into four subfamilies based …

Distinct functions of tissue-resident and circulating memory Th2 cells in allergic airway disease

RA Rahimi, K Nepal, M Cetinbas, RI Sadreyev… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - rupress.org
Memory CD4+ T helper type 2 (Th2) cells drive allergic asthma, yet the mechanisms
whereby tissue-resident memory Th2 (Th2 Trm) cells and circulating memory Th2 cells …

Lung dendritic cells imprint T cell lung homing and promote lung immunity through the chemokine receptor CCR4

Z Mikhak, JP Strassner, AD Luster - Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2013 - rupress.org
T cell trafficking into the lung is critical for lung immunity, but the mechanisms that mediate T
cell lung homing are not well understood. Here, we show that lung dendritic cells (DCs) …

Asthma: the importance of dysregulated barrier immunity

BN Lambrecht, H Hammad - European journal of immunology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic asthma is an inflammatory disease of the airway wall that leads to bronchial smooth
muscle hyperreactivity and airway obstruction, caused by inflammation, goblet cell …

[HTML][HTML] Regulatory T cells in allergy and asthma

E Martín-Orozco, M Norte-Muñoz… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The immune system's correct functioning requires a sophisticated balance between
responses to continuous microbial challenges and tolerance to harmless antigens, such as …

Regulatory T cells and their roles in immune dysregulation and allergy

L Pellerin, JA Jenks, P Bégin, R Bacchetta… - Immunologic …, 2014 - Springer
The main function of the immune system is to fight off potential infections, but also to
maintain its activity below a level that would trigger self-reactivity. Regulatory T cells (Tregs) …

[HTML][HTML] What does elevated TARC/CCL17 expression tell us about eosinophilic disorders?

J Catherine, F Roufosse - Seminars in Immunopathology, 2021 - Springer
Eosinophilic disorders encompass a large spectrum of heterogeneous diseases sharing the
presence of elevated numbers of eosinophils in blood and/or tissues. Among these …

[HTML][HTML] The role of T cells and macrophages in asthma pathogenesis: a new perspective on mutual crosstalk

X Zhu, J Cui, L Yi, J Qin, W Tulake, F Teng… - Mediators of …, 2020 - hindawi.com
Asthma is associated with innate and adaptive immunity mediated by immune cells. T cell or
macrophage dysfunction plays a particularly significant role in asthma pathogenesis …

IL‐4/CCL22/CCR4 axis controls regulatory T‐cell migration that suppresses inflammatory bone loss in murine experimental periodontitis

AC Araujo‐Pires, AE Vieira… - Journal of Bone and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Inflammatory bone resorption is a hallmark of periodontitis, and Tregs and Th2 cells are
independently associated with disease progression attenuation. In this study, we employed …